The Sealed Book, “The Accusing Corpse,” originally broadcast April 29, 1945, is Program #7 of the Mutual Broadcasting System mystery anthology. Hosted by Philip Clarke, the episode was written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan and reworks their earlier 1944 The Mysterious Traveler story.

At wealthy stockbroker Philip Drake’s country home, his wife Vivian prepares to leave after only three months of marriage. When her brother Roger is drawn into the escalating domestic conflict, private motives, uncertain evidence, and a corpse turn the situation into a tense murder mystery.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:47 Original Broadcast
30:38 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Death Rings Down the Curtain,” episode 16, originally broadcast on Mutual on July 1, 1945. Hosted by Philip Clarke, this supernatural mystery was written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan and directed by Jock MacGregor.

Wealthy invalid Martha Richards summons her nephew Gerald and her actress niece Millie to her darkened home as decisions about her fortune loom. When Martha’s attorney arrives with estate business to settle, uneasy questions of inheritance, identity, and performance turn the household into a chilling contest of nerves.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:53 Original Broadcast
30:32 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “To Have and to Hold,” episode 22, originally broadcast on August 12, 1945. Hosted by Philip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book, this Mutual Broadcasting System/WOR mystery was written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan and produced and directed by Jock MacGregor.

College student Jane Bradley arrives unexpectedly at the isolated Bradley Estate in New England, where her Aunt Olivia and unseen Uncle Christopher have lived apart from the world for decades. A taxi driver’s troubling observations, a dimly lit mansion, and Olivia’s account of an old romance draw Jane into a gothic tale of devotion, secrecy, and unease.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:47 Original Broadcast
30:42 Closing

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The Sealed Book, “Stranger in the House,” originally broadcast May 6, 1945, is episode 8 of the Mutual Broadcasting System’s supernatural mystery series. Hosted by Philip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book, the story was written by Robert Arthur Jr. and David Kogan and directed by Jock MacGregor.

Jane and Roger Barton move into isolated Wickford Manor despite Jane’s unease about the old house. As Roger becomes increasingly fascinated by an unseen presence, Jane searches for answers in the manor’s troubling past. A tense haunted-house tale set amid shadowed rooms, dying embers, and secrets that refuse to stay buried.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:41 Original Broadcast
30:35 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Beware of Tomorrow,” originally broadcast July 29, 1945, as episode 20. Written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan, and produced and directed by Jock MacGregor for the Mutual Broadcasting System, this robot-themed science-fiction chiller was adapted from an earlier 1944 broadcast of the same script on The Mysterious Traveler.

Dr. Richard Dale answers a troubling summons from his former mentor, Professor Clark, at an isolated New England mansion. With a wary sheriff and unsettling rumors surrounding Clark’s secret laboratory, Dale encounters strange apparatus, a nervous assistant, and an extraordinary artificial man called Alpha—raising uneasy questions about invention and control.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
30:42 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Murderer Unknown,” episode 23, originally broadcast August 19, 1945. Phillip Clarke appears as the Keeper of the Book.

A prosperous but unscrupulous businessman, whose dealings have harmed others, begins receiving black-bordered letters threatening his life. As the warnings intensify, wealth and influence offer little comfort in this compact story of menace and reckoning, written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
30:29 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Broadway Here I Come,” originally broadcast on Mutual on June 17, 1945. This is episode 14 of the supernatural mystery anthology, hosted by Phillip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book.

In a small California cabaret, dancers Kitty Williams and Eddy Davis share dreams of Broadway while Kitty’s wealthy, ailing husband George watches from the sidelines. Written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan and directed by Jock MacGregor, this dark tale explores ambition, loyalty, and the dangerous price of treating a theatrical future as something money can buy.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:41 Original Broadcast
30:36 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “King of the World,” episode 2, originally broadcast on March 25, 1945. Hosted by Philip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book, this Mutual Broadcasting System mystery-terror tale was written by Robert Arthur, Jr. and David Kogan and produced and directed by Jock MacGregor.

Fleeing criminal Duke Farson finds shelter in a remote professor’s laboratory, where an experimental serum promises protection from death itself. Certain he can turn the discovery into power, Farson takes control of the formula—but the professor’s work holds dangers beyond anything he expects. Adapted from a 1943 episode of The Mysterious Traveler, this is a tense journey into ambition, fear, and the terrible price of seeming invulnerability.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:41 Original Broadcast
30:32 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Design for Death,” originally broadcast on June 3, 1945. Episode 12 of the Mutual Broadcasting System mystery-horror anthology is introduced by recurring narrator Philip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book.

Fugitives Carl and Dora Evans, posing as brother and sister, flee through the Maine woods toward the Canadian border after their car is wrecked. They find shelter with Mordred Vance, an isolated elderly recluse whose house, hidden money, and ominous organ music make their refuge increasingly uneasy. The story was written by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan and adapted from their 1944 Mysterious Traveler episode of the same title.

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00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:50 Original Broadcast
30:44 Closing

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The Sealed Book presents “Devil Island,” episode 4, originally broadcast April 8, 1945. Framed by Philip Clarke as the Keeper of the Book, this Mutual Broadcasting System mystery-horror drama was written by Robert A. Arthur Jr. and David Kogan and produced and directed by Jock MacGregor.

Anne Drake journeys by motorboat to the bleak New England island her family has owned for generations, hoping to meet the father she has never known. But inside the weather-beaten mansion above the cliffs, unsettling incidents and old family fears leave her questioning whether the danger lies in the isolated house—or within the Drake bloodline.

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Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:49 Original Broadcast
30:31 Closing

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