From the very beginning of its two-decade run on radio, Suspense was tops in thriller entertainment! Its first year on the air brought together stories from such outstanding masters of the genre as John Dickson Carr, Dashiell Hammett, and Edgar Allan Poe!
Tune in to 20 tense classics from Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills - starring Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Susan Hayward, Richard Dix, Lou Merrill, Agnes Moorehead, Frank Readick, Alice Frost, and more.
Episodes The Cave of Ali Baba 08-19-42; The Kettler Method 09-16-42; One Hundred in the Dark 09-30-42; The Devil in the Summer House 11-03-42; Will You Make a Bet with Death? 11-10-42; Menace in Wax 11-17-42; The Bride Vanishes 11-24-42; Two Sharp Knives 12-22-42; Nothing Up My Sleeve 01-05-43; The Pit and the Pendulum 01-12-43; The Devil's Saint 01-19-43; In Fear and Trembling 02-16-43; The Customers Like Murder 03-23-43; The Dead Sleep Lightly 03-30-43; Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble 04-06-43; Fear Paints a Picture 04-13-43; The Moment of Darkness 04-20-43; The Diary of Saphronia Winters 04-27-43; Death Flies Blind 05-04-43; Mr. Makham, Antique Dealer 05-11-43.
John Dickson Carr was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1906. It Walks by Night, his first published detective novel, featuring the Frenchman Henri Bencolin, was published in 1930. Apart from Dr Fell, whose first appearance was in Hag's Nook in 1933, Carr's other series detectives (published under the nom de plume of Carter Dickson) were the barrister Sir Henry Merrivale, who debuted in The Plague Court Murders (1934).