‘THE CASE OF THE MURDERED MISER’ (on CD)

49 minutes

Synopsis:   A clever radio mystery combining the creations of Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol) and Erle Stanley Gardner.  A courtroom melodrama that poses the question: What if Ebneezer Scrooge was murdered, found strangled in his bed with a bell cord knotted around his neck and a stake of holly driven through his heart?   And what if the man charged with the crime was his own employee, Bob Crachit?  Appearances by a youthful cub reporter, Charles Dickens, and that most famous of English barristers, Sir Percy Mason.