Murray Burnett

[eerie music]

Our mystery drama, The House of the Voodoo Queen, was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Murray Burnett and stars Jordan Charney and Joan Loring.

It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and Anheuser-Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser.

I'll be back shortly with act one.

I look upon it as a monstrous denial of the human spirit and the destruction of love.

Our mystery drama, Lifeblood, was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Murray Burnett and stars John Beale and Marion Seldes.

I'll be back shortly with Act One.

The Bible has it that the Lord created Eve from one of Adam's ribs.

There's no better way of capturing it.

The guy who wrote the screenplay of Casablanca was written as a play named Murray Burnett.

His wife's family were Jewish and they lived in Vienna.

Right after the Nazis rolled into Vienna, he himself went to Vienna to try to help his wife's family get out.

This is the dagger of the assassin, the dagger that finds its own victim and never fails to kill.

[dramatic music] Our mystery drama, The Dagger of Al Mohades, was adapted from the Arthur Conan Doyle classic, especially for the Mystery Theater by Murray Burnett, and stars John Lithgow and Patricia Elliot.

I'll be back shortly with act one.

[dramatic music] Today, I bring you a story of hatred deeper than the ocean depths, a story that started in India and finished in England.

Full Voyage.

Written for suspense by Murray Burnett.

I looked at my watch.

It was 6.16 Friday evening.

Now, what's the difference? We're not going anywhere.

Suspense.

You've been listening to Bon Voyage, written for suspense by Murray Burnett.

In a moment, the names of our players and a word about next week's story of Suspense.

Suffice it to say that we neither need nor want the services of Sherlock Holmes.

Our mystery drama, The Vanishing Herd, was adapted especially for the Mystery Theater by Murray Burnett from the A. Conan Doyle classic and stars John Beale.

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Unfortunately, the crime of kidnapping seems never to go out of fashion.

For this professor raising the dead, well, we've got five days before he even comes to town to sit and think about it.

Our mystery drama, The Dead Come Alive, was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Murray Burnett and stars Marion Seldes and Ralph Bell.

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The Holy Bible gives us only one instance of the dead being brought to life.

Step outside that door and you step into terror.

Our mystery drama, The Adventure of the Red-Headed League, was adapted from the A. Conan Doyle classic, especially for the Mystery Theater by Murray Burnett, and stars Kevin McCarthy.

I'll be back shortly with Act One.

Act One Recently, the left-handed people of the world have been voicing some legitimate complaints.

That you'll find out, Watson, when you solve the riddle of the Musgrave Ritual.

Our mystery drama, The Musgrave Ritual, was adapted from the Arthur Conan Doyle classic, especially for the Mystery Theater, by Murray Burnett, and stars Gordon Gould.

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We tend to think of Sherlock Holmes as always having been famous.