Henry Carter Hull

After an evening with a movie star, a magazine editor is found murdered   Shirley Kolp finds the movie star sleeping in the park. Even before he speaks a word, she recognizes Gavin More-a Hollywood A-lister reduced to spending the night on a New York park bench. Feeling compassionate, she invites him to come up to her apartment and get out of the rain-for a cup of coffee and a place to sleep, nothing more. Gavin has just bedded down when the door...

The House, first published in 1947 (along with A Composition for Four Hands in the two-novel compendium Duet of Death), is a gothic mystery narrated by Isobel Stone, a young woman just shy of her 21st birthday. Isobel returns to her family home, a rambling, grotesque mansion, after spending 15 of her 21 years living away in boarding schools. Her father, mentally and physically ill, is found burned to death in his car soon after her return, and Isobel...

An inept couple murder for profit, and then run when the net closes in on them.

Taking its name from a popular series of mystery novels, Inner Sanctum Mysteries debuted over NBC's Blue Network in January 1941. It featured one of the most memorable and atmospheric openings in radio history: an organist hit a dissonant chord, a doorknob turned, and the famous "creaking door" slowly began to open. Every week, Inner Sanctum Mysteries told stories of ghosts, murderers, and lunatics. Produced in New York, the cast usually consisted...

A mad killer is on the prowl, and there's a dead body in the trunk. This is a good shocker with surprise ending. The script was previously used on Inner Sanctum on September 18, 1945. Linda Dixon is driving north in to the mountains in her six year old car that has motor troubles. She is already feeling a little nervous when she hears a siren in the distance. She knows that the State Prison is in the vicinity and turns on the radio to hear the message...

Taking its name from a popular series of mystery novels, Inner Sanctum Mysteries debuted over NBC's Blue Network in January 1941. It featured one of the most memorable and atmospheric openings in radio history: an organist hit a dissonant chord, a doorknob turned, and the famous "creaking door" slowly began to open. Every week, Inner Sanctum Mysteries told stories of ghosts, murderers, and lunatics. Produced in New York, the cast usually consisted...

The Edge of Death tells the tale of the night when Satan played a game of murder along a deserted strip of Manhattan waterfront. For his sport he chose two friends, for his victim a woman and the weapon he suggested he had long ago placed in the hands of another murderer, Rasputin.

Every week, Inner Sanctum Mysteries told a story of ghosts, murderers, and lunatics. Taking its name from a popular series of mystery novels, Inner Sanctum Mysteries debuted over NBC radio's Blue Network in January 1941 and featured one of the most memorable and atmospheric openings in radio history as an organist hit a dissonant chord, a doorknob turned, and a creaking door slowly began to open. Inner Sanctum Mysteries was produced in New York, the...

A strange woman who foretells the future and can't be killed foretells a hanging death for a beautiful girl. The door was open, and Karen Marley walked into the strangest apartment she'd ever seen. A sweet sickening odour overwhelmed her as she looked around. It was rare incense burning in a hollow skull stood on the mantelpiece. She looked closely; the skull was human. She felt someone's eyes upon her, staring watching every move she made...