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The Corpse Wrote Shorthand

A bank accountant gets out of prison after 5 years for a crime he didn't commit and starts hunting for the real criminal who framed him.

Will Crawford, found guilty of embezzling $100,000 of his bank’s securities, is released from jail five years later, determined to reestablish his family’s good standing. With the help of a local newspaper reporter, Will questions every bank employee who was possibly involved, including the mother of his assistant, now dead, whose diary contains revealing facts.

After serving a 5-year sentence for fraud, a bank accountant begins his own investigation to discover the real perpetrator of the crime for which he was convicted.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.

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“The Corpse Wrote Shorthand.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, December 19, 1975.

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