Suspense | Ep104 | "The Man Who Knew How"

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Audio Credit: The Old Time Radio Researchers Group is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

[@blaqkdymondinc]

Binge listening during June 2020 pandemic. Having fun listening to these plays

[@jamesmcnevin7500]

So, who was the murderer? I have listened to it five times and I am a bit confused.

[@TrainerInTraining]

Smith/Buckley was indeed the killer. While overhearing the cops speak of what a good investigator he was and how someone killed him with a sandbag, Pender thought he killed the wrong person and fainted. He went home and Charles gave him a hot bath (within the 2 week "danger zone" mentioned earlier in the episode) and died... so it was Smith/Buckley who poisoned his drink earlier in the show

[@tomcurran8470]

Or, maybe there was no killer.

[@rachellee.9389]

I love that Hans Conreid was a regular on Suspense. He was a fave of mine.

[@otrarchive]

I learned recently that he was the voice of Captain Hook on Peter Pan!

[@rachellee.9389]

@@otrarchive I can totally hear him as Cap'n Hook! He did great accents, too. Uncle Tanoose was my first experience of Conreid and I was 'hooked.'

[@jasonhurd4379]

I'm fond of his two appearances on I Love Lucy, as the English tutor Mr Livermore, and then as second-hand furniture man Dan Jenkins.

[@rachellee.9389]

@@jasonhurd4379 I always remember 'swell and lousy'. I try to use 'swell' whenever I can as a tribute to Uncle Toonoose.

[@jeffreyberkin-ez3uh]

Great actors in this one. Charles Laughton, Hans Conried, Ian Wolfe, and I think I heard Joseph Kearns and John McIntire as well 😊

[@gotinogaden]

I am about to listen the story, but judging from the comments, the plot here is very different than the original story by Dorothy Sayers, in which Pender's growing paranoia takes complete hold over him and he kills Buckley because of it, only to learn (at the end of the story) that Buckley was a crime-journalist with a morbid sense of humour, nothing more than a prankster who would described the perfect way to poison someone without leaving traces, by the use of "sulphate of thanatol" (a fictional compound).

[@IImitateVince]

What happened at the end???
They never said who the killer was

[@RepentfollowJesus]

The killer was the one he suspected. Then he thought he was wrong. Then he died knowing he wasn't wrong because he had been poisoned by him and died in a hot bath knowing the man poisoned his drink when he was getting the book.

[@IImitateVince]

@@RepentfollowJesus thank you. It was kinda confusing a little bit

[@topramen7431]

Starts at 1:40

[@jeremybear573]

Bravo!

[@RepentfollowJesus]

A very interesting one.

[@dbsommers1]

Nice twist.