Friday Night Noir - Suspense (The A.B.C. Murders) & Suspense (Sorry, Wrong Number)

Podcast: Vintage Classic Radio · Vintage Classic Radio

Opublikowano: 2026-08-20

This week on Friday Night Noir, two broadcasts from the same landmark month of CBS's Suspense — aired one week apart in May 1943, at the moment the series was establishing itself as the finest anthology drama on American radio. We begin with "The A.B.C. Murders," broadcast 18 May 1943, an adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1936 Hercule Poirot novel. A killer stalking England alphabetically — Andover, then Bexhill, then Churston, each victim announced in advance by a taunting letter signed only "A.B.C." — gives Christie's plot a ticking-clock urgency that suits the half-hour radio format extraordinarily well. Then, exactl...