OTR Halloween Day 17: Murder by Experts

I blogged about the series Murder by Experts in a Radio Recap entry. This series aired on Mutual from June 1949 to December 1951. As I noted in the earlier blog entry it won a big award the Edgars but it was nowhere near the top of the pile in radio mystery drama at the time.

Still, Murder by Experts has a few things to recommend it. It wasn't a horror program, but I can certainly select a fine creepy tale for you - it's the first episode of the series, "Summer Heat" from June 13, 1949. The story concerns a young man who blacks out while celebrating graduation then finds himself with a corpse on his hands. It was so good it wound up dramatized on the Alfred Hitchcock Hour (although an hour is too long for such a simple premise). You can hear "Summer Heat" at the Internet Archive.