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Inner Sanctum, is a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941, to October 5, 1952. It was created by producer Himan Brown and was based on the imprint given to the mystery novels of Simon & Schuster.
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00:06good evening friends of the inner bankson this is your host inviting you through the
00:13squeaking door for another episode in the evening
00:19ah you feeling silly well why don't you just lie down right there and warm yourself on our
00:25bed of cold
00:30oh dear we feel a little sad this evening our pet vampire hubert is straight off the premises
00:37poor hubert he's sort of stupid hearted bats you know why hubert's so dumb he doesn't know his
00:45grave from a hold on the ground now if you should find him crawling around your place don't let him
00:51annoy you after all vampires can be an awful pain of the neck all right so it isn't funny
00:59what do you want
01:10tonight's inner sanctum mystery tempo in blood was written by ed adamson and stars mason adams in the role of
01:18chick with everett swoon as sanders
01:24all right folks
01:25suppose you hang around for a while
01:28and when the show's over i'll have
01:30hubert cut you down
01:35now let's get to our story
01:38the thin pale-faced young man sits before the battered upright piano
01:42for a moment he just slips there his eyes staring vacantly his hands squeezed together in a tight clasp
01:52the hands unfold and then slowly spun steadily the velvet fingers reach for the keep
02:01i think i got it now
02:05yes i think
02:06that's the way it began
02:08yes now i got it
02:10i got it
02:15i was playing at the silver crest
02:18two by four chin bell over at eight four
02:21i came to hear she sent her pondered out in a black and white
02:24yeah really that's a joint jumper
02:27i really jumped
02:30he was sitting in the booth right across the camera
02:33he looked like he was playing hockey from the cemetery
02:36that guy the one i'm telling you about
02:38he just sat there looking doing nothing but just looking at me
02:41look at it brings me just a square along me
02:45why did he keep looking at me in that creepy way
02:49he's got an extent of my skin like the itch
02:51the itch or so much i stopped on
02:54and i stopped right in the middle and i walked over to him
03:01what's the matter mister don't you like my music
03:05does it make any difference
03:07yeah sort of
03:08did i appear appreciative
03:11sorry i should have
03:12you see i've been following your career very closely for the past few months
03:17why
03:18to learn all i can about you
03:20study you
03:21sit down jake
03:27i didn't like the way he was looking at me
03:29all the time he was talking
03:32he kept looking at me like he was burning a hole through my head
03:35my name is eric sanders
03:37so what's that to me
03:39i find your music far more stimulating than i appear to
03:42the mad temple is extremely compatible with my thinking
03:46yeah
03:47what kind of thinking
03:49thought from murder
03:50what you see chick murder is my profession
03:53i'm a criminologist of sorts
03:55a student of murder
03:57you'll know there's a striking similarity between your music and murder
04:02yeah
04:03the way i kill beethoven and bar
04:06underlying the mad scramble of notes there's a definite plan
04:10a plot that builds and builds to a wild climax
04:15most people can't see the reason to it
04:17but i can chick
04:20and that's the way it should be with the perfect murderer
04:23a crime with no apparent reason
04:25there must be no relationship whatsoever between the murderer
04:29and the murdery
04:32murdery
04:32i don't dig it
04:34there's a theory
04:35that the human race is divided into two classes
04:38the murderers
04:40those bent on killing
04:41and the murdery
04:43those bent on being killed
04:46fortunately i find myself among the first class
04:50you're a killer huh
04:51yes but
04:52a special and unique kind
04:54you see
04:56i intend to commit the perfect murder
05:00that right
05:01who are you gonna knock off
05:03oh but uh
05:04that's a secret
05:05no
05:07not to you chick
05:09because you're the one
05:10i'm going to murder
05:13i figured the guy was a screwball
05:15i had holes in his head
05:16i brushed him off
05:18i forgot about him
05:21i'm back at the silver crescent
05:22and i'm hammering it out
05:24with a beer
05:24and a special crowd
05:25i'm going like 60
05:27and then
05:28that's the temple chick
05:31that's the temple
05:32for murder
05:33what are you doing here
05:34i just stopped him to remind you
05:37it can happen anytime
05:40anytime
05:46that guy was going to get me
05:48he was really getting me
05:49and that got worse
05:51next night he shows up again
05:53and the next
05:54and the next
05:56hello chick
05:58now look will you stop playing games with me
06:00it's not a game chick
06:02you're going to die
06:04just as i said you would
06:05will you stop it
06:06and get out of here
06:07go on get out
06:08i selected you
06:09because you're a murdery
06:11it's written all over you
06:13the perfect victim
06:14for a perfect murder
06:16there's nothing you can do
06:18to prevent it
06:18oh
06:19you'll see what i can do
06:20you can't run away from me
06:22i'll find you
06:23wherever you go
06:24i'll go to the cops
06:25i'll tell them about you
06:26they'll take care of you
06:27that's what cops are for
06:28they'll take care of you
06:29go to the police
06:30go ahead chick
06:32you go to the police
06:34they'll think you're crazy
06:44i could just make out the green light
06:46to the station house
06:47ahead in the fog
06:48and then i stop
06:51sure i tell the cops
06:52the guy comes up to me
06:54and says i'm going to murder you
06:55what are your number one
06:56on my kill parade
06:58and what would the cops think
06:59they think i drag on
07:01the wrong kind of smoke
07:02that's what they think
07:04so i turn around
07:06and i walk back
07:08get to the corner
07:09i step off the curb
07:11and two lights jump
07:12i try to get back
07:24are you all right
07:26what what is this
07:28who are you
07:29my name's Rita
07:30Rita Corday
07:31you're in my apartment
07:32you were stuck by my car
07:34i'm also sorry
07:35where is he
07:36what
07:36he's here isn't he
07:38oh i don't know
07:39what you're talking about
07:39you're lying
07:40you tried to kill me
07:41what
07:41he had you do it
07:43it didn't work
07:43so you brought me here
07:44to finish it off
07:45but you're not going to do it
07:46i'm not going to die
07:47you're not going to kill me
07:49you're not going to
07:49please lie back
07:50you're not going to do that to me
07:52listen to me please
07:54i want to help you chick
07:56there you know my name
07:57you were lying
07:58just like i said
07:59you were in with him
07:59you're going to kill me
08:00wait wait wait
08:02of course i know your name
08:03chick dennison
08:03i looked through the papers
08:04in your pocket
08:05and you listened to me
08:06and tried to understand
08:08you weren't hurt badly
08:09but you've had a shock
08:10and you're imagining things
08:12i brought you here
08:13to help you
08:14no one is going to
08:15do you any harm
08:16you're safe
08:17do you understand that
08:20safe
08:21perfectly
08:23he
08:23he isn't here
08:25you
08:27you're not helping
08:28unless i haven't
08:28the slightest idea
08:29what you mean
08:30i told you
08:30i'm going to help you
08:32i'm going to take care
08:33of you chick
08:35you're going to stay here
08:36until everything
08:37everything is all right
08:44rita took good care of me
08:45in a couple of days
08:46i was feeling all right
08:48and then i started to figure
08:50he'd never find me here
08:52as long as i was here
08:53i was okay
08:56rita had a piano
08:58i had nothing to do all day
08:59but just sit and play
09:01i was okay
09:02but i wasn't telling rita
09:04not while eric sanders
09:06is still out to get the
09:11hello
09:13hello rita
09:14you're late
09:15ten minutes
09:17i told you baby
09:18i hate to wait for you
09:19even just ten minutes
09:21i stopped in a store
09:23around the corner
09:23i bought you
09:24just ten minutes
09:25go ahead
09:26open the pack
09:26okay
09:30rita
09:30what's the matter
09:31where did you get it
09:32i told you
09:33in a store
09:33around the corner
09:34look at it
09:35the fine
09:36art of murder
09:38by eric sanders
09:39chick i didn't buy that book
09:41it was another one
09:41i must have gotten
09:42the wrong package
09:43they made a mistake
09:44it wasn't a mistake
09:44i gotta get out of here
09:45what's the matter
09:46with you chick
09:46what's wrong
09:47i'm gonna get me
09:47i've gotta get away from here
09:48i've gotta get away
09:54i walked and i walked
09:56i walked and i walked
09:56i didn't know where to go
09:57then i saw i was down
09:59by the water
09:59i stopped and i
10:01was there looking at the river
10:03trying to figure something off
10:06i pulled out a cigarette
10:08then when i fought
10:09for my match
10:10like chick
10:11i told you chick
10:14it was no use
10:15running away
10:16i told you i'd find you
10:18i was waiting here for you
10:20i followed you
10:22from her house
10:23you sent that book
10:24i told you i had a plan
10:26now look
10:26you're gonna leave me alone
10:28no chick
10:29up until you're dead
10:31why did that have to be me
10:33i told you why
10:34you were born to be murdered
10:36and i was born to do the murdering
10:39there's nothing you can do to prevent it
10:41i'm gonna make you stop
10:42i'm going to have to beat the life
10:44you're gonna stop
10:46do you hear me
10:47you're gonna leave me alone
10:48you're gonna stop
10:48stop
10:51you
10:51you
10:52you can't kill me
10:54and you can't make me
10:56stop killing you
10:57no matter
10:58how hard you try
11:00you just
11:01what's a flint
11:03to be that way
11:04no
11:04you'll see
11:06you'll see
11:10i pounded into him
11:12i beat him
11:12until my hand was sore
11:15then i stopped
11:17he sagged to the ground
11:20i was gonna kick him in the face
11:22right in that smirking face
11:24but i couldn't
11:26i don't know why
11:27i wanted to
11:29but i couldn't
11:30then he looked up at me
11:32you
11:34you can't do it
11:35can you change
11:37just as i told you
11:39you're the murdery
11:42and i'm the murderer
11:44you're the one
11:47who's going to die
11:55you know
11:57i'd like to feel sorry
11:59for our hefty honest friend chick
12:01but uh
12:01i just can't
12:03why surely his music teacher
12:05must have warned him
12:06that the
12:07boogie woogie
12:08would get him
12:09if he didn't watch us
12:11you know chick started out
12:13by being in the groove
12:14now it looks like
12:16he's headed for a rut
12:17about six feet deep
12:21yes sir
12:22that sanders fellow
12:24really digs him
12:25well now
12:27sit back
12:29and let's hear
12:30the low notes
12:31and the rest of
12:32chick denson's story
12:39i keep playing this number
12:40over and over again
12:41i don't know why
12:44i thought maybe
12:45it'd help me forget
12:46but it doesn't
12:48nothing helps me to forget
12:51i had to make up
12:53my mind to do it
12:54i had to kill
13:07well chick
13:08nice of you to visit me
13:10i didn't
13:11get inside
13:12sand
13:13oh
13:14a gun
13:15get in there
13:16certainly
13:20what's this about
13:21i'm going to kill you
13:23you made it this way
13:25you made it either you or me
13:26so now it's going to be
13:28you
13:28all right chick
13:30here i am
13:31back against the wall
13:33go ahead
13:34shoot
13:34if you can
13:36but you can't
13:37can you
13:38you can't pull that trigger
13:41you hate me
13:43yet you can't kill me
13:44and i
13:45i have absolutely
13:48no feelings about you
13:49and yet i'm going to
13:51murder you eventually
13:52i'm going to murder you
13:54in a perfect
13:55undetectable fashion
13:58what are you waiting
13:58for chick
14:00go ahead
14:01shoot
14:02go ahead
14:06you're laughing at me
14:08i had to do it
14:09i just had to
14:10he stopped laughing
14:13i squeezed again
14:14then i got out of there
14:16fast
14:23i went back to
14:24rita's place
14:25she was lying
14:25i sat down at the piano
14:27and banged on the iron
14:28i wanted to forget
14:30everything
14:30you just keep playing
14:32i killed it
14:34all right
14:35so i killed him
14:36but i had to do it
14:37you can't
14:38see that
14:38can't
14:40can't
14:41i kept punching
14:43away at the keys
14:44and all of a sudden
14:45i feel something
14:47in the room
14:47like a cold wind
14:49coming in
14:49when you open the door
14:51hello chick
14:52it was him
14:54sanders
14:54he was standing
14:56in the doorway
14:57he was standing
14:58there as big as life
14:59you thought you
15:00could kill me
15:01but you couldn't
15:02could you
15:02you're dead
15:03i shot you
15:04you're dead
15:05oh no
15:06you couldn't
15:06kill me chick
15:07you couldn't
15:08really kill anybody
15:09i told you
15:10it wasn't
15:11in your nature
15:12but i shot you
15:13i fired the gun
15:13you're dead
15:14yes you fired
15:15the gun
15:15but think
15:17maybe it was
15:18too dark
15:19in that room
15:19the lights
15:21were low
15:21you never
15:22fired a gun
15:23before
15:23did you chick
15:25maybe your
15:26hand was
15:26unsteady
15:27there are many
15:29maybes
15:29in murder
15:31you've got to
15:31have a plan
15:32when you kill
15:33a sure
15:34definite plan
15:36like i have
15:37for you chick
15:37a plan
15:39for the perfect
15:40murder
15:41don't come near me
15:42stay away
15:42don't come near me
15:43no chick
15:44it's not now
15:45not at this moment
15:47but the time
15:48is getting closer
15:50that's what i came
15:51to tell you
15:53the time
15:54for you
15:55is getting
15:56closer
16:06maybe i could have
16:07helped you
16:08before chick
16:08if you'd already
16:09told me
16:09about him
16:10i don't know
16:11why i didn't
16:11tell you
16:12maybe
16:14maybe i didn't
16:15trust you
16:16you do now
16:16don't you
16:17oh sure
16:17sure baby
16:19all right then
16:19listen to me
16:20we'll drive back
16:21to town and you'll
16:22go to the police
16:22oh no
16:23you can't keep
16:24running away
16:24i can't go to
16:25the police
16:26don't you see
16:27it's too late
16:28for that
16:28i tried to kill
16:29sandy
16:29they'll grab me
16:30for that right
16:31off
16:31it's gotta be
16:31this way
16:32we'll hide up
16:33in the woods
16:34i know a little
16:35place a hotel
16:35he won't find
16:37me there
16:48hey
16:48see that rita
16:50you have to
16:50play that again
16:51what's the matter
16:52with it
16:53nothing
16:53i'm just tired
16:54of hearing
16:54it
16:54i like it
16:55it suits me
16:56it's got me sick
16:58i'm sick of being
16:59cooped up in my room
17:00i want to get outside
17:01even if it's just
17:02for three minutes
17:03you're not leaving
17:04this hotel
17:05i told you
17:06you're not showing
17:06your face outside
17:07until i say so
17:09you
17:11rita
17:11what
17:12where do you think
17:13you're going
17:13i'm going outside
17:14i told you
17:15i'm sick of this
17:17i went to the window
17:18and i waited
17:19but rita didn't come out
17:22she was up to something
17:24i went down to the hall
17:25and stopped at the head
17:26of the stairs
17:27there she was
17:27at the payphone
17:28down in the lobby
17:29i could hear
17:30what she was saying
17:31yes
17:32it's three miles
17:33off the main road
17:35the star hotel
17:37then i'll expect you
17:38by 10 to 9
17:40yes
17:41you'll be here
17:42i'll see the back
17:44she hung up
17:45and walked outside
17:46i got down
17:47to the phone fast
17:52hello please
17:53i was uh just disconnected
17:55i'm sorry sir
17:56that was through the side
17:589-9-7-0
17:59yeah
17:59just in a moment
18:04hello
18:07this was his voice
18:09standing
18:10rita called him
18:11rita
18:12she was in with him
18:13she was coming to get me
18:14the both of them
18:15they were going to get me
18:16but it wasn't going
18:17to be that way
18:18i knew the woods
18:20around the hotel
18:21i knew every inch of them
18:22and now i knew
18:23what i was going to do
18:24with rita
18:32where are we going
18:33jake
18:33what's the difference
18:34you wanted to get outside
18:36now we're out
18:37it's so dark
18:38in these woods
18:39the moon's out
18:40there's a
18:41clearing a few yards ahead
18:43see
18:44plenty of light
18:46it's getting late
18:47we have to get back
18:48don't you think
18:49you know something rita
18:51what
18:52you act like you had
18:53an appointment
18:54back at the hotel
18:56appointment
18:57yeah
18:59you act like you
19:00expected
19:01somebody
19:03here's what i wanted
19:04to show you
19:05i dropped
19:06this rock
19:07in that
19:08pool of mud
19:11now watch
19:13disappear
19:17quicksand
19:18is that
19:20what you wanted
19:21to show me
19:21what happened
19:22to that rock
19:23rita
19:25is going to
19:25happen to you
19:27jake
19:27i know you're
19:28in with sanders
19:28to kill me
19:29i heard you
19:30on the telephone
19:30no jake
19:31i didn't call him
19:32believe me
19:32you're a liar
19:33you're a
19:33lovely liar
19:34i checked on
19:35i was trying
19:35to help you
19:36jake
19:36help me
19:37to a fast
19:38funeral
19:38well now
19:39it's your funeral
19:40he says i can't
19:41kill
19:41well you'll see rita
19:43you'll see
19:43i can kill you
19:44please don't listen to me
19:45you're going on
19:46you're going on
19:46you're like
19:46that rock
19:47just like that
19:48please
19:49i might be
19:50just like that
19:51rock
19:52please
19:54listen to me
19:55i was only trying
19:57to get
19:57help you
19:58please
20:00pull me
20:00out of here
20:02please
20:02please
20:03i stepped back
20:05and i watched
20:05the sand
20:06while i were up
20:12the woods
20:13the woods were quiet
20:13again
20:14i turned around
20:16and then i saw him
20:17standing there in the moonlight
20:19you
20:20you killed her
20:21he didn't look the same
20:23as he looked before
20:24i could see it in his eyes
20:25he didn't sound the same
20:26his voice gave him away
20:28he was afraid
20:29afraid of me
20:30you killed her
20:31you said i couldn't kill
20:33but now you know i can
20:34i planned her
20:35to murder sand
20:36as i planned it perfectly
20:37i killed her
20:38and now i can kill you
20:39don't come in
20:40don't come in
20:41i chased him
20:42through the bushes
20:43i followed him
20:44in the moonlight
20:44and then
20:45they disappeared
20:46into the shadows
20:46go ahead
20:48run
20:48run
20:49but it won't do you
20:50any good
20:50sand
20:51i'm going to get you
20:52i'm going to get you
20:53when you leave this
20:54wicked
21:00i headed back
21:01to town
21:01he's hot
21:03there were no lights on
21:04but i knew he was in there
21:05hiding in the dark
21:07i got into a window
21:08went upstairs
21:09and opened the door
21:10to his bedroom
21:12a moonlight was coming in
21:13it was shining on the bed
21:15right on the bed
21:17where he was sitting
21:17you
21:18i told you
21:19sand
21:20you couldn't get away from me
21:21no
21:21don't come near me
21:22sand
21:22you're going to die
21:23and no one will ever find out
21:25who did it
21:25a perfect man
21:26no
21:27no don't i
21:27don't
21:28a perfect man
21:29planned murder
21:31sand
21:32my hands
21:34closed around
21:34it
21:35all tight
21:35tight
21:38and then the life
21:40dropped out of him
21:42i let him fall back
21:43on the bed
21:45and when i looked at him
21:48something funny happened
21:50he
21:50he wasn't there
21:52i felt dizzy
21:53i rubbed my eyes
21:54i looked again
21:57and something came from behind me
21:59an arm
22:00swung around my neck
22:01all right you
22:02don't move
22:03i tried to get out of the grip
22:04the arm tighten me
22:05i said don't try to
22:06don't go
22:09something hard and heavy
22:10pounding on my head
22:11and slammed up against my brain
22:13and then i faded
22:15when i came out of it
22:17i heard a voice
22:17i was keeping a watch
22:19in the house
22:20like you told me
22:21inspector
22:21i saw this character
22:23sneak into a side window
22:24he was choking the devil
22:25out of that pillar
22:26there on the bed
22:27and like i told you
22:28on the phone
22:29he was talking to himself
22:30a mile a minute
22:31that crazy kind of talk
22:32well robinson
22:33he's our man
22:34all right
22:35yeah sure inspector
22:36but what bothers me
22:38is if he did knock
22:39eric sanders off
22:40three days ago
22:40why in that deuce
22:41did he come back here again
22:42i don't know
22:43you got me
22:44but it's a good thing
22:45for us he did
22:46we were up a blind alley
22:47in this case
22:48from the way things looked
22:50sanders death
22:51was a perfect murder
22:54before the trial started
22:56they sent a doctor
22:57in the scene
22:58one of those
22:59mind specialists
23:01he spent hours with me
23:03he told me
23:03why i bothered
23:04to go back again
23:05to sanders house
23:05the first time
23:07you went to sanders house
23:09chick
23:09you actually murdered him
23:11with your gun
23:12but in your mind
23:14you couldn't kill him
23:16in your mind
23:17he was still alive
23:19but doc i saw him
23:20he talked to me
23:21i heard his voice
23:22those were hallucinations
23:24chick
23:24yeah
23:25what
23:26what about the telephone call
23:28reader man
23:28i talked to him
23:29right after she did
23:30reader corday
23:31was calling in a doctor
23:33to look at you
23:34she thought you
23:35were mentally sick
23:36when you heard
23:37the doctor's voice
23:38on the phone
23:39you believed it was
23:41sanders
23:41because you wanted
23:43to believe that
23:44really
23:46she was trying to help me
23:49like she said
23:51yes
23:52and after you killed her
23:54you felt you could kill
23:55sanders
23:57that's why you went
23:58back to his house
23:59to fulfill the murder
24:01in your mind
24:03that's all there is to it
24:04chick
24:06that's all there is to it
24:09that's what the doc said
24:11but there's more
24:13the court said
24:14i was an uncomplaced
24:16something
24:16it means you're crazy
24:18that put me away
24:19in this place
24:19here i got nothing
24:21to do but think
24:23i asked for a piano
24:24i brought this one
24:26in this morning
24:28the doc said
24:28it was hallucinations
24:30but i saw him
24:31i really saw him
24:32and i heard his voice
24:33the doc said
24:34it couldn't have been
24:35sanders
24:35but i tell you
24:36i saw him
24:36i saw him
24:37in my own eyes
24:38the doc said
24:39sanders was already
24:40dead
24:40all right
24:41and if it wasn't
24:41sanders
24:42i saw him
24:42who was
24:43who was
24:47i'm trying not to think
24:50that's why i'm playing now
24:51maybe if i play long enough
24:53i'll forget about what i'm thinking
24:55i'll keep playing
24:57that's all
24:57i'll just keep playing
25:07good night
25:08pleasant dreams
25:11thanks
25:13i'll be with you
25:141988
25:16you
25:17you
25:17i'll be with you
25:19Set your
25:20i'll be with you
25:22thank you
25:22you
25:22i VERY
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