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ABC Murders, OTR style

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Boomcoach 19 Mar 09 at 2:42 p.m. GMT

I was looking through the Old Time Radio shows on Internet Archive and noticed that the show "Suspense" had done a version of "The ABC Murders" in 1943.

At 30 minutes running time, only the bare bones of the plot remain, with nary a trace of our favorite Belgiun, but it was interesting to see how it was done.  In the end, a quite listenable show, and amusing from a Christie-phile standpoint.

Here is the link to the Suspense main page.  BTW, Internet Archive is a free site, this is not any sort of ad for anything.

http://www.archive.org/details/SUSPENSE

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GKCfan 19 Mar 09 at 4:02 p.m. GMT

I heard this on a local radio station years ago.  It's interesting that Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester were involved in Christie before "Witness for the Prosecution" (although I knew that Laughton played Poirot on stage in Alibi).  Interesting how they made Cust the detective and gave him a love interest, too.

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