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Suspense "The Diary Of Sophronia Winters" August 17, 1944

A great horror tale about a new bride, a madman, and an hotel with 125 deserted rooms! The story was previously produced on "Suspense" on April 27, 1943 and subsequently on August 10, 1958. + A most handsome man is following Sophronia Winters. When they meet she feels like she's known him all of her life, and they fall in love. Before long, they decide to marry and be alone together. Soon after their marriage the cracks in their relationship begin to appear...

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "Your Grade Is A" - August 16, 1976

Molly Butler is found dead of Carbon Monoxide poisoning. The police think that it was either suicide or accidental. But Molly's best friend, Judith Kent, has other thoughts after she reads in Molly's diary that Silas Butler wrote a mystery story for his Creative Writing class about a murder using CO that was undetectable.

The Mercury Theatre on the Air - "Abraham Lincoln" (August 15, 1938)

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "The Haliday Prediction" - August 12, 1976

It seems that every prediction Cash Haliday makes in his Friday newspaper column comes true. Does he have uncanny insight, some sort of ESP, or as his secretary/girlfriend thinks, do things come true because he predicts them.

Suspense "The Fountain Plays" August 10, 1943

A delightfully British little murder. The story was subsequently produced on "Suspense" on November 23, 1944. + The Fountain Plays stars British actor Edmund Gwenn as Mr Archibald Spiller as the conservative John Bull who has lately had a bit of luck. Mr Spiller lives on a country estate with a cook and a manservant and in the garden a fountain. Of all these little luxuries it is the fountain that pleases him the most an interesting sort of hobby for such a man a fountain, perhaps more interesting than even Mr Spiller himself realized at the beginning of that memorable evening…

Suspense "The Man Who Knew How" August 10, 1944

An interesting story about a man who knows the name of a secret chemical that can kill without a trace. + Charles Laughton as Mr Pender law abiding citizen of suburban London who meets a man on the night train and gets in to a conversation on fictional murderers in books and real life murderers. Pender tells the man that he knows how to commit a murder in an undetectable way by using a potent formula which alone would not kill but would be fatal if the person was to take a hot bath a few hours or even days after taking the potion. It is remarkable how many people have been found dead in their bath of late.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "Overnight to Freedom" - August 9, 1976

During WWII an American POW from a German prison camp and with the help of some friendly advice, makes his attempt at escaping across Germany into occupied France. There, he tries to make contact with the French Underground. But who can he trust?

The Mercury Theatre on the Air - "Three Short Stories: I’m a Fool, The Open Window, and My Little Boy" (August 8, 1938)

Richard Diamond Private Detective "Lynn Knight Wants Protection" (August 6, 1949)

Lynn Knight hires Diamond to prevent her from being murdered. She's a former nightclub photographer and there's a good reason someone wants Lynn killed! Dick Powell sings, "Everywhere You Go" after solving the case. + Trouble was Richard Diamond’s silent partner and he sends him everything from divorce labels to some marked city morgue, DOA, dead on arrival. One night last week old man trouble was sitting curled up on a doorstep watching two thugs hiding in the shadows of a building, trouble had a big smile because he was cooking up a king size mess for Richard Diamond…

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - "Lovers and Killers" - August 5, 1976

A young lothario is on trial for killing a woman's husband when he catches them together after an evening at a singles bar. A reluctant juror must make up his mind about the suspect's guilt based on a number of criteria.