 Miss Aggie is the central character on an immensely popular radio soap opera. The actress playing her collapses in the recording studio, and it s revealed that the water jug she drank from was poisoned. The actress survives and seems to be recovering. Her producers try to stifle the police investigation into the crime, claiming the actress poisoned herself to garner the sympathy vote from fans -- her contract was expiring, and she was about to be written out of the show ("Pow! Double pneumonia and she s off the air for a month and when she comes back nobody will remember what she sounded like."), Unfortunately, the killer comes back -- this time with a gun -- and Miss Aggie s departure is indeed permanent. When a hospital attendant is arrested for robbing the body of the actress s prize bracelet, it s revealed that she had left a dying clue for Ellery.