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The Most Necessary Evil

Lieutenant Detective Crane looks into how a man died under strange circumstances when his wife tells the story of how they got rich and powerful in ways that seem fishy.

Dora Blake knows something is coming up when she discovers her husband Eddie has paid all their bills in cash. She becomes furious when Eddie won’t tell her where all the money is coming from. When Eddie is found murdered, she turns to his best friend for help and utterly refuses to believe his story of another woman.

Detective Lieutenant Crane investigates into the mysterious death of a man after his wife narrates the story of their suspicious rise in wealth and stature.

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 Most Necessary Evil.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, October 23, 1981.

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