Would you hand me that please? Thank you. Now let's see, survey, survive,

Susanna, suspect. Ah, here we are.

Suspense. Meaning held in doubt, expressing doubt, the state of being uncertain, undecided or insecure.

State of anxious expectation or waiting for information such as

to keep one in suspense therefore delay acquainting him with what he is eager to know.

Suspense!

An hour of suspense now, a full 60 minutes at this time, and with the distinguished actor

director Robert Montgomery as your host.

Tonight our star is Howard Duff, famous wherever radio is heard as Sam Spade detected.

And as Spade he will appear in The Candy Tooth, a suspense play produced edited and directed

by William Fear.

This is Robert Montgomery.

My pleasure and privilege it is to be here during this hour each week as a sort of guide, philosopher, and fiend,

a necessary before and after the facts of crime and punishments which calculatedly fill our minutes with suspense.

This evening before we chat a little about the private life of America's favorite private eye,

let me on behalf of Mr. Spear and all of us, thank you sincerely for your wonderful letters and telegrams expressing appreciation and interest in this new full hour presentation.

It's wonderful fun to have 60 minutes to play with in radio drama.

In our new double strength king size format, we plan to bring you radio plays based on complete

novels and on theatrical productions and pictures.

Many of the best writers of this literature,

James M. Kane, Dachel Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Graham Green,

Eric Ambler, and Agatha Christie

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