Suspense - Radio’s Outstanding Theater of Thrills

Originally Aired: May 22, 1947 In Suspense #246, “Night Comes Riding,” Mildred Anderson endures a loveless, oppressive marriage, haunted by the mysterious death of her nephew. When a soft-spoken stranger named Duncan Shaw appears, offering comfort and kindness, she sees a chance at escape—and perhaps at love. But Duncan has secrets of his own, and a buried vendetta against her husband. As the shad...

Originally Aired: May 15, 1947 In Suspense #245, “Death at Live Oak,” down-on-his-luck David Sutherland meets a mysterious woman who mistakes him for her estranged husband—and suddenly finds himself the centerpiece of a deadly scheme. When the husband turns out to be his doppelgänger, a chilling plan unfolds: impersonate him, kill him in a faked plane crash, and take his identity. But even the bes...

Originally Aired: May 8, 1947 In Suspense #244, “Dead Ernest,” Dennis Bowers is struck by a car and presumed dead. But Bowers suffers from catalepsy—a condition that mimics death—and he carries a letter and bracelet warning against embalming. When both go missing, his body is taken to the morgue with no one the wiser. As kids melt his ID bracelet for scrap and a secondhand shop sells his blood-sta...

Originally Aired: May 1, 1947 In Suspense #243, “Lady in Distress,” Evelyn Harris picks up a drifter on a stormy roadside—only to discover he's an escaped convict with a vendetta against her husband, police officer Ralph Harris. But Evelyn’s not so innocent herself. As she manipulates her dangerous passenger into carrying out her own deadly plan, the stakes spiral toward an explosive finale in a d...

Originally Aired: April 24, 1947 In Suspense #242, “Win, Place and Murder,” down-on-his-luck private eye Chris Draper stumbles into a deadly horse-betting racket when a mysterious client named Pilsen pays him to retrieve a black bag. But Pilsen is no ordinary accountant—he’s just murdered a bookie and is on the run with the payroll. As Draper navigates crooked cops, jealous lovers, and one unforge...

Originally Aired: April 17, 1947 In Suspense #241, “Green-Eyed Monster,” Michael Dawson seems like the perfect grieving widower—until he remarries, and his second wife begins to stir old obsessions. Haunted by jealousy and guilt, Michael spirals into paranoia, suspecting Judy of being a serial killer. But when she turns up dead in the same trunk where he once hid his first wife’s body, the twist c...

Originally Aired: April 10, 1947 In Suspense #240, “Community Property,” George Mason’s marriage is a powder keg of resentment, jealousy, and greed. When his ailing uncle promises him a $500,000 inheritance, George finally sees a future without his bitter wife Lois—and begins planning a way to cut her out entirely. Under California’s community property laws, divorce would mean splitting the windfa...

Originally Aired: April 3, 1947 In Suspense #239, “The Swift Rise of Eddie Albright,” elevator operator Eddie dreams of success and romance, but a white lie to impress a manicurist snowballs into a deadly misadventure. When Eddie recognizes a fugitive gangster from his days running the penthouse car, he tries to play hero—only to find himself framed, stripped of his uniform, and mistaken for the v...

Originally Aired: August 12, 1942 In Suspense #9, “Suspicion,” respectable Englishman Hubert Mummery starts to feel unwell after breakfast—and can’t shake a creeping unease. His new young wife, Ethel, seems fine. The new housekeeper, Sutton, is all kindness. But then a neighbor mentions a notorious poisoner, Carolyn Andrews, still at large and possibly posing as a domestic servant. When Mummery fi...

Originally Aired: March 13, 1947 In Suspense #236, “You Take Ballistics,” Homicide Lieutenant Ed Harvey arrests Clarence Coleman for the murder of a bookie—but the case nearly collapses when ballistics reveals that Coleman’s gun doesn’t match the murder slug. While others are ready to let Coleman walk, Harvey’s instincts scream otherwise. When a cheap book of cigarette papers in Coleman’s suit spa...

Originally Aired: August 21, 1943 In Suspense #54, “Sorry, Wrong Number,” bedridden and increasingly frantic, Mrs. Elbert Stevenson tries to reach her husband’s office—only to overhear a chilling phone conversation between two men planning a murder at 11:15 that night. As she desperately tries to get help from uncaring operators, indifferent police, and even a nurses’ registry, her calls descend i...

Originally Aired: March 6, 1947 In Suspense #235, “Elwood,” mild-mannered gas station attendant Elwood Parsons lives quietly with his mother and sister—until the town is shaken by a series of strangulations. As suspicion falls on outsiders and local eccentrics, Elwood spirals inward, obsessed with stolen trinkets and a fantasy world built on respect and recognition he never received. His twisted l...

Originally Aired: June 1, 1943 In Suspense #44, “Banquo’s Chair,” retired criminal investigator Sir William Brent lures an arrogant suspect back to the scene of the crime—an old Victorian mansion where an heiress was strangled two years earlier. Though the case went cold due to the suspect’s airtight alibi, Brent believes a ghost may succeed where logic failed. With two dinner guests as witnesses,...

Originally Aired: May 18, 1943 In Suspense #42, “The ABC Murders,” a timid hosiery salesman named Alexander Bonaparte Cust believes he may be going mad—or worse, that he’s responsible for a string of killings. Each murder follows the alphabet: Andover, Bexhill, Churston. But the real twist lies in the typewritten notes sent to the police and the railway guide left at each scene. As the case unfold...

Originally Aired: March 23, 1943 In Suspense #34, “The Customers Like Murder,” mystery writer Gerald Hockstone gets more than he bargained for when he’s mistaken for a doctor and kidnapped by two gangsters hiding out in the English countryside. Alongside his quick-witted secretary, Patricia, Hockstone is dragged into a bizarre blackmail plot involving the kidnapping of the Lord Chief Justice. With...

Originally Aired: February 23, 1943 In Suspense #30, “Will You Walk Into My Parlor?” an English garden party turns sinister when American visitor Philip Lester’s fiancée insists on visiting the fortune teller’s tent. But the turbaned “seer” is no mystic—he’s a Scotland Yard inspector investigating a string of poison murders tied to a mysterious woman. When Mary Sherwood enters the tent, the inspec...

Originally Aired: March 2, 1943 In Suspense #31, “The Night Reveals,” fire insurance investigator Harry Jordan begins to suspect his wife Marie of sneaking out at night—coinciding eerily with a series of arson fires across the city. As inconsistencies in her alibis mount, Harry uncovers chilling clues: matchbooks hidden in her purse, suspicious newspaper clippings, and a scorched family locket fou...

Originally Aired: February 9, 1943 In Suspense #28, “The Hangman Won’t Wait,” a young woman named Helen Barton awakens in a prison cell with no memory—only to discover she’s been convicted of murder and scheduled for execution at dawn. Dr. Gideon Fell is called to investigate and slowly unravels a web of deceit, emotional trauma, and circumstantial evidence. With mere minutes to spare, Fell uncove...

Originally Aired: February 27, 1947 In Suspense #234, “Three Faces at Midnight,” Brooklyn bruiser Sylvester "Muscles" Walters stumbles into a “job” that lands him in the middle of a political blackmail plot involving a governor, a suitcase stuffed with cash, and a setup that smells like week-old fish. Muscles must impersonate a man named John to frame a crooked official, while a mysterious woman f...

Originally Aired: February 20, 1947 In Suspense #233, “Always Room at the Top,” Helen Brandt is a sharp, determined advertising artist who claws her way into a top position after the sudden death of her predecessor in a mysterious fall from a skyscraper. But Helen's ascent is shadowed by whispers, hauntings, and a tightly wound secretary named Marie who knows far too much. When Helen discovers tha...

Originally Aired: February 13, 1947 In Suspense #232, “The Thirteenth Sound,” Mrs. Sally Skinner is the perfect widow: poised, respected, and seemingly heartbroken after her husband's mysterious shooting. But behind her calm demeanor is a cold-blooded killer—whose perfect murder begins to unravel not from evidence, but from a sound. At the coroner's inquest and again during a concert, a specific n...

Originally Aired: February 6, 1947 In Suspense #231, “End of the Road,” automobile salesman Speed Evans falls for a mysterious, alluring woman named Sylvia—who happens to be married to a wealthy, limping older man named Ganlon. As Speed becomes entangled in a reckless affair, he’s drawn into Sylvia’s haunting past, where childhood trauma and a deadly mine explosion shape a dark destiny. Sylvia’s f...

Originally Aired: January 30, 1947 In Suspense #230, “Three Blind Mice,” embittered publisher Arthur Lockwood hatches a ruthless scheme to reclaim control of his firm—and the affections of a colleague—by exploiting a partner’s terminal illness and framing another for murder. With timing, trickery, and a tampered suicide, Lockwood clears his path to power. But when his new bride turns out to be far...

Originally Aired: January 23, 1947 In Suspense #229, “One Way Street,” young ex-convict George returns to the slums of London after a stint in prison, only to find his crooked Uncle Burt has married a kindly widow, Edna. But George suspects the union is a ruse for Burt to inherit her money—and when he finds rat poison stored ominously beside her medicine, the line between suspicion and complicity...

Originally Aired: January 16, 1947 In Suspense #228, “Overture in Two Keys,” the young and intense Mark Allen arrives to study music under a once-great conductor now nearly deaf. But when Mark begins an affair with his teacher’s wife, their passion turns into a deadly plan. After a tragic car accident leaves the husband dead, Mark and Franzie believe they’ve escaped justice—until Mark, now on the...