The Mark of Cain

At the elegant Trowbridge townhouse, young Avice moves restlessly between windows, her heart set on the return of the uncle who raised her. The house, with its cool marble corridors and white‑draped chandeliers, feels both comforting and oppressive as the clock ticks past the promised hour. Aware that her place in the family is shifting—especially with the attractive housekeeper Mrs. Black soon to be Mrs. Rowland—Avice’s anxiety sharpens the quiet evening.

When Judge Leslie Hoyt arrives, his genial greeting quickly gives way to concern, and the polite conversation with Mrs. Black masks an undercurrent of unease. The unexplained delay of Uncle Rowland, a man who never missed a dinner, becomes the spark for a mystery that draws both the household and the local police into its web. Listeners will be drawn into the tension of a late‑summer night, wondering whether the missing uncle is simply delayed or something far more troubling lies ahead.