Halloween Spooktacular 2017 - CBSRMT: 'Murders in the Rue Morgue'

CBS Radio Mystery Theater

(4.3 stars; 3 reviews)

Let's return to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater for today's Spooktacular entry. Plenty of famous authors had their works adapted for the show during CBSRMT's run and Edgar Allan Poe was certainly in the mix.

Murders in the Rue Morgue is considered by many as the first modern mystery story and the tale very possibly inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to create the legendary Sherlock Holmes. This is also a classic "locked room" mystery, with some spooky elements, as two women have been found brutally murdered yet there's no clear indication of how the perpetrator could have possibly entered a secured room on the building's fourth floor.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.