Old Time Radio Mystery Specials
Aug 14, 2026 · 33 min · 17 segments
Release Date: Semptember 15, 2013 A woman visits a peaceful Maine town, only to find herself prime suspect in a rival’s murder. Original Air Date: December 2, 1946 Support the show monthly…
Ah, you're here.
Good.
Take the easy chair by the window.
Comfortable? Good.
The book is on this shelf.
Yes, here it is.
There flew out the match.
A very absorbing story of death and mystery on a small island.
Let's look at it under the reading lamp.
It was an evening early in May, and the waters around the Cape, just off the coast of Massachusetts, were buried under a fog as thick and as massive as any you'd want to see.
Moving cautiously, a small boat makes its way slowly toward one of the islands off the Cape.
In the boat, there are Elisha McCumber and Ann Waldron.
Well, this is something.
I'm glad we're almost there.
Yeah? You been scared, Miss Walden? Oh,
not scared, Elisha, but if I hadn't bumped into you in New Bedford, I'd have spent the night there.
Not even Noah himself could have persuaded me to take a boat ride in this fog.
What's new on the island?
Oh, nothing much.
Unless you're counting a mysterious stranger.
Mysterious? Calls himself David Hyland.
Nobody knows what's in it.
He don't talk.
Maybe he's an ex-sailor with a sweetheart in every port.
Ah, you're here.
Good.
Take the easy chair by the window.
Comfortable? Good.
The book is on this shelf.
Yes, here it is.
There flew out the match.
A very absorbing story of death and mystery on a small island.
Let's look at it under the reading lamp.
It was an evening early in May, and the waters around the Cape, just off the coast of Massachusetts, were buried under a fog as thick and as massive as any you'd want to see.
Moving cautiously, a small boat makes its way slowly toward one of the islands off the Cape.
In the boat, there are Elisha McCumber and Ann Waldron.
Well, this is something.
I'm glad we're almost there.
Yeah? You been scared, Miss Walden? Oh,
not scared, Elisha, but if I hadn't bumped into you in New Bedford, I'd have spent the night there.
Not even Noah himself could have persuaded me to take a boat ride in this fog.
What's new on the island?
Oh, nothing much.
Unless you're counting a mysterious stranger.
Mysterious? Calls himself David Hyland.
Nobody knows what's in it.
He don't talk.
Maybe he's an ex-sailor with a sweetheart in every port.
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