Suspense: Menace in Wax (1942)

Suspense: Old-Time Radio Suspense and Mystery · Nov 5, 2026 · 28m

In London in March 1941, a reporter named Rogers from the Daily Record visits Madame Tussaud's wax works after a night watchman named Pearson phones his paper with suspicions. Rogers meets Pearson in the Chamber of Horrors, where a woman calling herself Susie Du Bois joins him, and the pair begin to suspect that a card game played by wax figures is a coded message. Rogers takes the message to Colonel Warrender at the War Office, who reads it as a warning about a secret factory. The episode, from the Suspense series, is broadcast on Columbia with a cast led by its narrator and actors of…