Suspense: The Burning Court (1942)

Suspense: Old-Time Radio Suspense and Mystery · Oct 25, 2026 · 29m

Ted Stevens, a young publisher's employee, finds a photograph in a manuscript that shows a famous 17th-century poisoner, Marie Dobre, who looks exactly like his wife, Marie. Shaken, he confronts her, and their evening is interrupted by his friend Mark DePaul, who asks for help after his uncle Miles dies under suspicious circumstances. Ted agrees to help secretly open the family crypt, but the coffin is found empty. Captain Brennan and the writer Gordon Cross then gather the household and begin piecing together who could have been in the dead man's room that night. This is the…