About this episode
A dinner party turns into a psychological game when a sapphire goes missing and the host plunges the guests into darkness to retrieve it.
An elegant dinner. Seven guests. One vanished sapphire—and a host who’s willing to plunge everyone into total darkness to get it back. In this classic episode of Suspense , a seemingly charming New York supper turns into a psychological game of nerves when Mrs. Rita Kildare locks the doors, snuffs the lights, and counts to one hundred—daring the thief among her friends to return what was stolen… unseen. But when the lights come back on, the mystery is far from over...
Topics covered
- dinner
- mystery
- suspense
- psychological game
Keywords
- sapphire
- darkness
- New York
- Mrs. Rita Kildare
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Suspense
Places: New York
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