FX: Soup slurping noise, dishes crashing, guests

FIVE-MINUTE MYSTERY! chatting and laughing under dialogue.

SGT. BARKER: Okay Mrs. Brown. Go sit down in the dining
MUSIC: Mysterious music. room and I will just have a look around.
ANNOUNCER: And now… Another five-minute mystery! Hmmm… an orderly person, isn’t she.
MUSIC: Mysterious music. Stacked dishes after each course, silverware
FX: Party background sounds. all polished to perfection. Wait what is this?
ANNOUNCER: An birthday party is going on at the Brown One silver spoon that has turned black. Just
household around the corner. One of the when I thought this was a heart attack case …
guests, George Taylor, pauses while eating his this is plain cold murder! (Calling out) Mrs
dessert, saying … Brown?
GEORGE: Mm, best lemon pie I’ve ever tasted Mary! MARY: Yes Sargent Barker?
MARY: Oh really? SGT. BARKER: I’m sorry to interrupt your little party, Mrs.
GEORGE: I wish my mother could do as well. It doesn’t Brown, but I’m sure your guests wont mind.
look like Sam is appreciating it too much. FX: Guests mutter and whisper to each other.
MARY: Goodness dear, is my cooking that bad? Sam, MARY: Ah… I don’t understand?
your head is practically in your plate. I guess SGT BARKER: Oh you will. Mrs. Brown you are under arrest
he has fallen asleep everyone. I’m so sorry – for the murder of your husband.
GEORGE: (chuckles) that’s all right! NARRATOR: Do you know why Sargent Barker accused
MARY: Sam, Sam, Sit up! I better shake him. Sam. Mrs. Brown of murder? In a few moments we
SAM! will hear the solution. But first, a word from
GEORGE: Great Guns! He’s dead! our sponsor.
FX: Muttering of guests and cops. MUSIC: Boppy swing music theme.
SGT. BARKER: How do you do? I’m Sergeant Barker, the NARRATOR: And now, back to our story.
homicide division. Where’s the body? GEORGE: Sgt. Barker, how do you know it was a
GEORGE: In the dining room at the table. We didn’t homicide?
move him. SGT BARKER: Well, Mrs Brown took careful plans to wash
SGT. BARKER: Hmm, you might as well be confortable folks. the soup pan and soup dishes before she
This might take a while. Hmmm. Dead all served the rest of the meals.
right, peaceful too. Who’s Mrs. Sam Brown? GEORGE: Ahh… yes I can see that.
MARY: I am. SGT. BARKER: But she forgot one thing – to wash the silver
SGT. BARKER: Mind telling me what happened here? Start soupspoons. What she didn’t realise was that
from the beginning. an hour later, by the end of dinner, the spoon
MARY: Okay, well we had the soup instead of the her husband had used to eat his soup would
main course. Which he enjoyed and then by give her away. She didn’t know that the
the time we got to dessert and coffee, he was, poison would make silver turn black. Mrs.
he was …(starts to cry) dead. Brown almost committed the perfect murder,
but she forgot to wash one spoon!
MUSIC: Final music theme.