Vamp Till Dead

Originally Aired: January 11, 1951

Suspense #411, "Vamp Till Dead," stars Ginger Rogers as Amy Watkins, a secretary who travels from New York to work for the brooding writer Paul Gentry at his isolated estate. From the moment she arrives, Amy finds herself drawn into an unsettling atmosphere. Gentry openly tells her that people believe he murdered his wife Isabel, whose body was found with a broken neck in the guest cottage nearly a year ago. The cook, Jenny, a former English teacher devoted to Gentry, fills Amy in on the details of that fateful night when Isabel fled the house after an argument and was found dead at the piano the next morning. Despite the warnings and dark rumors, Amy feels a strange attraction to her mercurial employer.

As Amy settles into her demanding job taking dictation, she discovers an eerie connection to the dead woman. Both Jenny and Gentry remark on Amy's striking resemblance to Isabel, and when a local newspaperman who tried to have Gentry indicted visits the house, tensions escalate. Amy finds herself slipping into Isabel's role in ways that seem to both fascinate and enrage the volatile writer, setting the stage for a dangerous confrontation.