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Two Motives for Murder

A rookie stockbroker believes he's in deep water after losing $100,000 worth of bonds that were put in his care. However, his real problems start when his supervisor asks him to join him on his boat to talk things over.

One hundred thousand dollars worth of ATL stock is missing from a firm owned by Burton Wall, who insinuates that one of his employees, Bill Davis, has stolen it. Wall invites Davis for an afternoon cruise on his yacht, drugs him and has him pushed overboard into shark-infested waters, claiming afterward that Davis was distraught because he was guilty of the theft and wanted to commit suicide. Unfortunately for Wall, Davis is rescued by a passing tanker.

A young broker thinks he's in trouble when $100,000 in bonds entrusted to him comes up missing. But his troubles really begin when his boss invites him out on his yacht to discuss the matter.

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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“Two Motives for Murder.” CBS Radio Mystery Theater. Radio broadcast, June 17, 1977.

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