Nick Carter, Master Detective - Murder in the Night

Old Time Radio Mysteries

Nick and Patsy are spending a short vacation at the home of Walter Summers, Sheriff of a small county in upper New York State. Their vacation there had been peaceful, until the sheriff receives a certain telephone call from the local milkman, Jed Peter, who says "Sheriff, I'm at the Parsons place. You know out on the edge of town". Sheriff says "Yes, I know. What's the matter?" Jed says "Well, I stopped in here a while back to deliver the Parsons their milk, like I always do, and when I got here I found his wife Laura tied up to a chair. I asked her what had happened. She couldn't talk much, but she said something about a man killing her husband and tying her up. I looked for him and sure enough, I found him. Mr. Parsons is dead. He was shot through the head. You better get out here right away!" Sheriff says "Mr. Parsons has been murdered?" Jed says "Yeah sheriff, and Laura Parsons is in pretty bad shape. You better hurry up!" Sheriff says "Alright, Jed, I'll be right over soon as I can. Now, don't touch a thing and don't let nobody else touch anything". Jed says "I won't". Nick wakes up and says "Hey, what's all that about Walt?" Sheriff says "Oh, I woke you up didn't I? I'm sorry. Well, to be honest, I ain't sorry because I had to wake you up, anyhow". Nick says "So early in the morning? It can't be more than 6:00 o'clock". Sheriff says "It's a quarter to 6:00, but murderers don't care what time it is". Nick says "Murderer? Don't tell me somebody killed somebody way up here in the country?" Sheriff says "Yes, darn it. It's the first time in my sixteen years of being Sheriff, I ever had a murder in this county. I'm sure glad you're here, Nick".