Another journey into the realm of the strange and terrifying.

I hope you will enjoy the trip that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little.

So settle back.

Get a good grip on your nerves.

Where are we going?

You'll find out when we get there.

Well, greetings, everybody.

Welcome back to the show.

Here we are kicking off the month of October of 2020.

And I want to get you started this month with CBS Radio's rendition of the Sherlock Holmes

Classic, A Study in Scarlet.

This was episode number 623 of CBS Radio Mystery Theater, and it stars our usuals,

Kevin McCarthy as Sherlock Holmes, and Court Benson as Dr. Watson. This one first aired March 25th of 1977. Sit back and enjoy from CBS Radio,

A Study in Scarlet.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.

Come here. Welcome. I'm E.G. Marshall. It's no secret that compulsive gamblers are every bit as sick as alcoholics or drug addicts. Gambling is a fever that consumes them as surely as whiskey or heroin. However, even the most habitual

and devoted of gamblers might well hesitate when the gamble literally means his life or death.

Come on, man. Choose. I'm giving you more of a chance and you gave Lucy now you've got a 50-50 chance

now one capsule is harmless on my word of honor the other means death now I'm giving you a

choice for chance you might even have the pleasure of watching me die.

Our mystery drama, A Study in Scarlet,

was adapted from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle classic,

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