Category: Mystery Special

EP2852s: Twelve Players: The Lady and the Letters

Jack Moyles

A private eye is hired by the wife of a racketeer to recover some letter she’s being blackmailed with.

Original Air Date: August 18, 1945

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EP2738s: Nero Wolfe: Dear Dead Lady (Herb Ellis Special)

Wolfe is hired to help a man protect a woman he’s in love with from a man he believes will threaten her. The case turns into a murder case and three rivals end up all accusing each other.

Original Air Date:November 3, 1950

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EP2702s:Campbell’s Playhouse: There’s Always A Woman

Orson Welles
Orson Welles

A private detective (Orson Welles) decides to give up on his one-man agency and go back to his job with the DA, but his wife is determined to make the agency work and finds herself investigating a murder case that makes life difficult for her husband.

Original Air Date: December 17, 1939

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EP2654s: The Crime Club: Mister Smith’s Hat

An alcoholic who was an embarrassment to his well-to-do family is murdered.

Original Air Date: January 23, 1947

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EP2612s: Roy Rogers Show: The House I Live In

Lon Clark

A friend is murdered when about to reveal who the town’s racket boss is. Roy sets out to catch his friend’s killer and uncover the identity of the town’s boss.

Original Air Date: November 18, 1954

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EP2606s: Mayor of the Town: Enemy Agents

Lionel Barrymore

A man asks the Mayor to look after a cane that he’s been told holds the secret to an Axis spy ring and then is killed. The Mayor suspects foul play.

Original Air Date: December 9, 1942

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EP2552s: Suspense: Two Sharp Knives

A man is detained in a small town jail on a murder warrant and is then murdered.

Original Air Date: December 22, 1942

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EP2504s: The Bob Hope Show with Guest Star Jack Webb

Jack Webb

Sergeant Friday has to solve a murder while breaking in a new partner…Detective Bob Hope.

Original Air Date: February 4, 1953

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EP2438s: Suspense: Frightened City

Frank Lovejoy

A soldier returns from Korea to find his brother-in-law’s been murdered and no one in town will talk about it.

Original Air Date: November 10, 1952

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EP2402s: Studio One: Anthony Adverse

Bud Collyer

A young adventurer is sent to the New World to find out why his Guardian’s debtors haven’t been paying. He discovers they’ve been missing for a year.

Original Air Date: October 14, 1947

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EP2354s: Murder Clinic: Gulfstream Green

An opera singer asks a model to impersonate her so she can have a few moments of peace. The model is murdered and it’s up to Deputy Parr to solve the case.

Original Air Date: October 13, 1942

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EP2300s: Cloud Nine: Visiting Famous Radio Detectives

A man travels via Cloud Nine to an office building where all the world’s famous radio detectives work and is mistaken for Sam Spade and hired to find a woman’s murderer if she’s killed.

Original Air Date: July 21, 1950

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EP2252s: Suspense: Library Book

Myrna Loy
A librarian learns of a book missing a page and her investigation leads her to a kidnapping.

Original Air Date: September 20, 1945

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EP2204s: Lux Radio Theatre: The High Wall

Van Heflin

A man confesses to murdering his wife, but can’t remember the details and is mentally incompetent due a medical condition. A doctor (Janet Leight) tries to treat him to get to the truth.

Original Air Date: November 7, 1949

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EP2150s: Suspense: The Cave of Ali Baba

There’s a traitor in a society of masked criminals.

Original Air Date: August 19, 1942

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