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The Stool Pigeon
Originally Aired: September 20, 1955
Suspense #616, "The Stool Pigeon," the stifling heat of Devil's Island provides the oppressive backdrop for a deadly game of suspicion and betrayal. Four libres—prisoners free to roam the island but never leave it—gather in Canot's hut to race cockroaches and pass another miserable day. Exil, the narrator and embezzler, joins the volatile knife-wielding Canot, habitual criminal Makil, and the imposing Thibaut, a syndicate murderer who rules the prisoners through physical presence and grudging fairness. When their friend Emile is captured attempting escape…
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