Murder in G Flat

Originally Aired: April 5, 1951 Suspense #423, "Murder in G Flat," stars Jack Benny as Hercules Remington, a mild-mannered piano tuner who finds himself in police custody after making an extraordinary discovery. When Hercules accidentally switches identical brown bags with a mysterious bald-headed man on the subway, he expects to find his tuning tools when he arrives at the Lippinridge School of Music. Instead, he discovers twenty-five thousand dollars in crisp ten-dollar bills. Bringing the windfall home to his wife Martha and his freeloading Uncle Herman, Hercules faces an immediate dilemma: should he turn the money over to the police, as the sensible Martha insists, or keep it as found treasure? As Hercules tells his story to a skeptical police lieutenant on a Sunday night, the stakes become increasingly clear. His innocent subway mix-up has entangled him in something far more dangerous than he imagined, and his failure to contact Martha since that fateful morning only deepens the mystery. The seemingly simple case of mistaken baggage spirals into a web of treachery and greed that will test Hercules's honesty and survival.