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The
Sealed Book
(Old Radio Show)
Design for Death
This episode of The Sealed Book
is set deep in the woods, where husband and wife, Carl and Dora Evans,
stand looking at the remains of their car. It is a total wreck. The
pair are on the run from the police and had been hoping to make the
Canadian border before nightfall. Carl was driving too fast though, and
he misjudged a corner, so it looks as if they will be spending the
night in the woods. When you are stranded in the middle of the
woods music is the last thing that anyone expects to hear, so they are
justifiably surprised when they hear an organ playing. Then Carl
notices a path leading up to house set farther into the woods, and he
suggests that they pretend to be brother and sister and beg a room for
the night.
The house belongs to a man named Mordred Vance and
he is as surprised to find visitors on his doorstep as his visitors
were to hear his music drifting through the woods, but he is more than
happy to offer them shelter. Especially when Dora feigns a sprained
ankle.
Vance appears to be a real recluse. He lives like a
hermit, has no radio, and does not read newspapers; so it seem
unlikely that he could discover that his guests are on the run.
Realizing this, Carl is keen to stay as long as possible and he urges
his wife to play up on her ankle some more. Dora does so and within a
week Vance is so taken with her that he asks her to marry him. He also
tells her that he is a very wealthy man and shows her his emergency
fund of $50,000.
Dora tells him that she needs time to think
about it, but Carl is doing enough thinking for both of them and he
tells her to accept Vance’s proposal at once. It will be a short
engagement anyway, because he plans to wait until Vance is asleep and
then kill him. That way they can stay as long as they want and take the
money with them when they leave. Talk about being ungrateful! Vance is
not as nice as he appears to be though. He has a secret and by the time
Carl and Dora find out what that secret is it is too late for all
concerned.
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