Fragile-Contents Death

Originally Aired: February 1, 1951 Suspense #414, "Fragile-Contents Death," Postmaster Jordan receives a chilling anonymous phone call that transforms an ordinary morning into a desperate race against time. The caller warns that a time bomb has been mailed to someone in town, set to detonate at 2:30 that afternoon—just five hours away. The deadly package will also explode if opened. When Jordan presses for details about who sent it or who the intended victim is, the caller abruptly hangs up, leaving him with almost nothing to work with. Jordan immediately assembles his staff—Fox, Stuart, Williams, and Hartley—to devise a plan. The bomb could be anywhere: in carrier packages, on delivery trucks already making rounds, sitting in substations, or even already delivered to an unsuspecting resident. With thousands of parcels to sort through and the clock ticking relentlessly toward 2:30, Jordan and his team must organize a massive search operation while hoping against hope that the mysterious caller will phone back with more information. The team faces an overwhelming task with precious little time and virtually no clues.