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I love reading your feedback.

You might not realize that you can leave comments on Spotify.

And quite a few comments recently have encouraged me to read more murder mysteries.

So tonight, I will be reading

The Broadcast Murder by Grenville Robbins.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

The Oxford voice from the wireless loudspeaker to which I had been listening suddenly stopped

in the middle of a word. There was silence for a second, and then a terrifying yell rang through

the room. It came from the loud speaker. I jumped up and gaped at it

and froze in astonishment. Help, gasped the voice. The lights have gone out. Someone's trying

to strangle me, I. There was another terrible shriek, an agonizing gurgle, and then all was silence.

There seemed no doubt whatever that the announcer, whoever he was, was either unconscious or dead,

and the whole thing had not taken more than a second.

He had been strangled, alone, and with no one to save him,

while hundreds of thousands of people who

were unable to help him had been listening to every sound. While I was still gaping at the loud

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