Steve Gardiner | The Candle of Darkness | Mystery Thiller | Radio Drama

A classic Steve Gardiner radio drama

Looking for his old friend Jimmy Morton, Steve Gardiner arrives in a small Scottish seaside resort. But he's picked the wrong time for a reunion. The sleepy town is being terrorized by a homicidal maniac dubbed 'the Kind Man', and panic stalks the streets.

Stepping off the train after dark, Steve is almost lynched by a terrified crowd, and at the gloomy Morton house he finds Jimmy and his father Wilfred behaving strangely. Then, waking in the night, he hears a voice whispering verses in his ear...

Jimmy's heard the voice too. He claims it belongs to a dead man: Francis Lennox. A local poet and his close friend, they were in the same prison camp in Korea - but only Jimmy made it home. But what really happened there, and could it be linked to the killings?

Can the Kind Man be caught before he strikes again?