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Death's Old Sweet Song

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A dying elderly man gets murdered with a poker while trapped in a sealed room as organ music plays outside. Next, someone finds Simon Prentice stabbed in the back with a skinny blade while the same organ music plays. The woman they think did these killings ends up locked inside the room with her dead uncle's body!

Inner Sanctum Mystery, also known as Inner Sanctum, is a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941, to October 5, 1952. It was created by producer Himan Brown and was based on the imprint given to the mystery novels of Simon & Schuster. In all, 526 episodes were broadcast.See also

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