
Suspense Radio Shows - Devil in the Summer House
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Suspense Now let's see. Suspect, suspectant, suspend. Ah, here we are. Suspense. The condition of mental uncertainty, usually accompanied by apprehension or anxiety. Fear of something which is about to occur, as do not keep me any longer in suspense.
For our story of suspense tonight, we invite you to enjoy The Devil in the Summer House by John Dixon Carr. Somewhere along the Hudson, perhaps not far from Tarrytown, there is a modest house in its own ground. Behind it in a spacious garden stands a summer house of
evil memory. More than 25 years ago a man shot himself, or at least died in that summer house. They found Major Kenyon with a scorched bullet hole in his head and the weapon beside him. But we are in the present now. The lattice summer house has grown heavy with vines and only the other evening two men came into that
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