Category: Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen: The Green Gorillas (EP4366)

Today’s Mystery:

Ellery Queen teams up with a teenage boy to infiltrate a street gang.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 12, 1947

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Originating in New York

Starring: Lawrence Dobkin; Charlotte Keane; Bill Smith; Ed Latimer; Mandel Kramer

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Armchair Detective: Jose Ferrer

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Ellery Queen: The Adventure of the Wounded Lieutenant (EP4360)

Today’s Mystery:

A former police detective is disabled while serving overseas and his battallion members are killed after a native waiter reports their planned attack. But how did the spy know?

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 18, 1943

Originating in New York from the Office of War Information, taken from the network broadcast of a 30 minute episode

Starring: Sydney Smith as Ellery Queen, Marian Shockley, Santos Ortega, Ted de Corsia

Armchair Detectives: Virginia Fields and Ed Sullivan

Website Referenced: Ellery Queen, A Website of Deduction

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Ellery Queen: The Adventure of the Income Tax Robbery (EP4354)

Carleton Young
Today’s Mystery:

A private detective turns to Ellery for help when his income tax blank is stolen, along with sensitive information that could expose his wealthy clients to blackmail.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 12, 1942

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Originating in New York

Starring: Carleton Young as Ellery Queen; Marian Shockley; Ted De Corsia; Santos Ortega; Maurice Tarplin

Armchair Detectives: Manda Hedrom and Mayor Howard W. Jackson of Baltimore (Over the phone, not heard on broadcast)

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EP1684: Ellery Queen: Nikki Porter, Suspect

Charles Tingwell

A man is found murdered in Nikki’s compartment and she’s suspected of murder.

Original Air Date: November 19, 1954

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EP1678: The Ford Theatre: The Adventure of a Bad Boy

Hugh Marlowe

Ellery Queen investigates the attempted poisoning of a cantankerous woman and the most obvious suspect is her eight-year-old nephew.

Original Air Date: January 4, 1948

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EP1672: Ellery Queen: One Diamond

Howard Culver

The owner of a large diamond invites Ellery to his home under false pretenses.

Original Air Date: May 6, 1948

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EP1666: Ellery Queen: The Three Frogs

Howard Culver

Nikki hides a young gang member, trying to help him.

Original Air Date: April 29, 1948

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EP1660: Ellery Queen: The Armchair Detective

Lawrence DobkinWhen an armchair detective is murdered on Ellery’s radio show, he has to find out who did it.

Original Air Date: March 18, 1948

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EP1654: Ellery Queen: The Man in the Street

Lawrence Dobkin

Ellery sets out to capture two conmen who have swindled 10,000 people and ensure they’re captured before they’re murdered.

Original Air Date: December 11, 1947

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EP1648: Ellery Queen: The Saga of Ruffy Rux

Lawrence Dobkin

Ruffy Rux, a gangster, kills a friend of Ellery’s.

Original Air Date: November 27, 1947

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EP1642: Ellery Queen: The Case of the Number Thirty-One

Lawrence Dobkin
Ellery Queen looks into the death of a butler whose death appears tied into a diamond smuggling matter.

Original Air Date: September 7, 1947

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EP1636: Ellery Queen: The Adventure of the Message in Red

Three seemingly unconnected women are slain by the same killer.

Original Air Date: November 7, 1945

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EP1630: Ellery Queen: Nick the Knife

Ellery investigates a series of knifing attacks in New York City parks.

Original Air Date: August 1, 1945

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EP1624: Ellery Queen: The Foul Tip

A cowboy movie star is murdered at a ballpark.

Original Air Date: July 15, 1944

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EP1618: Ellery Queen: The Adventure of Dead Man’s Cavern

While vacationing in the mountains, Ellery and friends stumble upon a mysterious death tied to a murderer’s ghost.

Original Air Date: April 15, 1944

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