Showing results by publisher "Nathan and Evan Inc" in Suspense

A story about a bumbling, small town assistant police chief who's not as dumb as he seems to be. A wanted man is captured and later found hanging in his cell. The program has a surprise ending.

The setting for murder can be anywhere. Perhaps it seems more at home in a dark alley or on an isolated dark road or yet in the dingy backroom of a cheap honky-tonk. But once murder is in the mind of someone and the dark plan evolved, the setting can be anywhere. It can even take place in a well lighted, well appointed apartment in the expensive part of the city where laughter is mixed with the pleasant talk of four people. 

It was past midnight when Jerry Coonan left the cocktail bar with a tall blond in a mink coat. On the way out, he gave the high sign to Red Stafford and Shorty Burton sitting idly at the bar, waiting for the tip off, and as he guided her out the front door, he could see them get off their stools and prepare to leave. Jerry chuckled softly to himself; the blond was dumb and rich. The diamond pendant around her neck ought to bring $10,000 at least, and he’d mentally appraised the square cut emerald on her hand, $5,000 more...

Sam Spade dictates a letter through Effie to John M. Lawless, a known gangster who hired Sam Spade yesterday. The subject was Joe Moralis. Flashback to when San Francisco was recovering from VJ Day and crime was practically at a standstill because the number-one competitor in the west coast mob had just been wiped out in a hit-and-run accident and Lawless was on trial for the same. Nothing about the trial made any sense. Lawless was taking the rap for his best friend Joe Moralis and what made even less sense was that the lawyer defending him was Joe’s brother.

Two members of a movie crew arrive at a ghost town to shoot a picture. Two desperate criminals have arrived there ahead of the movie crew, but the Hollywood types think the two crooks are a practical joke.

A comedy/gangster story about two boxes. One box contains an ermine coat, the other has a bomb. Which is which? 

Lou has collected for the Red Cross and built a TV. The men discuss sailing and girls. Lou wrote a song and wants to sing.

A man is lucky enough to be the one millionth visitor to the Los Angeles airport...or is he? The lucky guy seems to be very interested in that free trip to Brazil, and for a very interesting reason! Al Jessant dreamed up a publicity stunt for the bureau of better business promotion whereby the one-millionth person to walk through the gate at the airport would be photographed for the newspapers and receive various prizes including a flight to anywhere in the world. A woman was just about to walk through when a man in a rush pushes in front of her.

Maude Haskin was living in fear that her husband was going to kill her, but in the papers the headlines stated it was her husband, Harry Haskins, who had been murdered a week ago last Wednesday with an ice pick

A very hot day finds strange predictions of the future starting to come true.

Dr. Ferrari knew what kind of woman Nora was the moment he laid eyes on her. She was very beautiful and equally utterly heartless. She was the kind of a woman who wants everything, gives nothing, and still thinks she’s a passionate bargain for any man completely unconscious of the fact that her only motivation in life is to humiliate, dominate, and finally destroy any man she can get her hands on. But that didn’t matter because she had three million dollars, and Dr. Ferrari had already made up his mind if his plans worked out that he was going to kill her....

A man and his strangely silent son are on the run from the police.

"Case History of Edgar Lowndes" is a story in which psychiatry is called upon to deal with a sick mind, which has unknowingly been tempted thrice by murder. Thomas Mitchell stars as the millionaire tycoon Edgar Lowndes and Donald Crisp as the psychiatrist Dr. Erinson. A railroad magnate visits a psychiatrist with complaints of headaches and bad dreams....

Peter Lorre is typecast as The Maestro, a prizefight manager planning revenge on his star fighter by scalding him to death in the steamroom!

"The Beast Must Die" is a powerful story of vengeance and retribution. Herbert Marshall plays the part of Felix Laine, a writer by profession of detective novels, who was planning to kill a man. He didn’t know his name, where he lived, or what he looked like, but he knew that he was going to find him and kill him. He recorded all of the details in a diary, which was either the best murder novel he had ever written, or an incriminating document.

A man who has just finished writing a symphony hears the exact same symphony on the radio. He had just set down the last note on paper - he was happy and weary and full of peace. There was a radio near the couch. He sat down and turned it on and felt great horror as he heard the music playing on the radio, the music that he had just set down on paper. Then as the music finished, the announcer said, you have just been listening to Eulogy for Orchestra Opus 42 by Henri Lefevre. But who was Henri Lefevre?

A man driving across country (with a beautiful hitchhiker) is shot at everywhere he goes. "Death Went Along for the Ride" is a suspense play that tells of fear, suspicion, and dangerous adventure on a long highway from California to New York. 

A story about two ham radio fanatics who are working on a secret defense weapon and talking to each other by shortwave. One of them is killed while talking to the other on the air. Is the other one a suspect?

A man and his wife sit beside the fire in their country cottage. They are Professor Craft and his wife Cynthia. The cottage is rather isolated three miles from the nearest house - no electricity, central heating, or telephone. Professor Craft is convinced that his wife is having an affair with a young doctor from the village, so he devises a plan to rid himself of them both.

A haunted balcony in an Italian villa encourages a madman to try a second murder.