Cabin B-13
OST addicts of the "queer" story will remember the one about the girl, visiting Paris with her mother, who went out on an errand and upon return(continued on next page)
__o-o--_- re esé . (continued from previous page) ing to her hotel found that her mother had vanished; the explanation being that the mother had died of bubonic plague and the hotel staff was in the hush-hush conspiracy against the girl. Likewise the thriller from 4YA, "Cabin B-13" (one of the "Appointment with Fear" series), had a logical explanation, but while it lasted it was certainly chilling in its brief horror. The newly-wed girl. comes aboard the liner with her husband, enters the ill-fated cabin, leaves it for a walk on deck, and returns to
find neither husband nor cabin, The authorities suspect that she is insane. The suggestion of the macabre was well done, with the emphasis not on supernatural agency, but on the psychological angle. Of course the explanation was simple, if a plot by a husband to murder his wife for her money can be so. described, but since a previous mention of the "Paris" incident has prepared the reader for such a denouement, and since suspense was maintained up till the last few words, the climax was fittingly
dramatic, and did not leave the listener with that sad "let-down" feeling. which the final scenes of so many radio plays depressingly provide.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 304, 20 April 1945, Page 8
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236Cabin B-13 New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 304, 20 April 1945, Page 8
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