Category: Lady Sleuths

The Chase: The Amusement Park (EP4700s)

 

Today’s Mystery:

A woman operating a shooting gallery game at an amusement park suspects that the death of an elderly watchman for the carnival is tied to a firebug who has been operating in town.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 14, 1952

Originating from New York

Starring: Adelaide Klein as Cathy; Bill Lipton; Patrick Campbell; Sydney Smith; Walter Black

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Hot Copy: Smooth as Silk (EP4660)

Betty Lou Gerson
Today’s Mystery:

Anne investigates the sale of black market nylons.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 7, 1944

Originating from Chicago

Starring: Betty Lou Gerson as Anne Rogers; Virginia Paine as Spritely Poole

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Hot Copy: Death Studies the Angles (EP4654)

Betty Lou Gerson
Today’s Mystery:

The anti-vice candidate for mayor dies suddenly. The coroner says it was heart failure, but Anne think he was murdered.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 27, 1944

Originating from Chicago

Starring: Betty Lou Gerson as Anne Rogers, Virginia Payne as Spritely Poole

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Meet Miss Sherlock: Wilmer and the Widow (EP3988)

Today’s Mystery:

Jane’s client for Peter Blossom is a beautiful widow who’s accused of murdering her wealthy husband.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 12, 1946

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Meet Miss Sherlock: Case of the Deadman’s Chest (EP3982)

Today’ s Mystery:

A buyer for a department store acquires a chest and everyone wants it.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 7, 1946

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Sara’s Private Capers: Sara’s ‘Sonnets of Fu Yen’ Caper (EP3946)

Sara Berner

Today’s Mystery:

A police stenographer decides to investigate an incomplete report on a stolen rare book.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 15, 1950

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EP3844: Defense Attorney: George Bauman

Martha takes up the defense of a man who claims self-defense in the shooting of a man who held up his bar … and who was his wife’s ex-husband.

Original Air Date: August 28, 1952

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EP3200s: Lux Radio Theater: The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

William Powell

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings on at a race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

Original Air Date: June 19, 1939

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EP3197: Air Mail Mystery: Episodes 12 and 13

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Fitz repairs the plane in mid-air and then parachutes down below as the search for Jimmy Gifford and the perpetrators of the air mail robbery comes to a head.

Original Air Date: 1932

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EP3196: Air Mail Mystery: Episodes 10 and 11

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Fitz and Gifford pursue a suspect in the murder of the radio operator and then encounter a mysterious new pilot.

Original Air Date: 1932

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EP3190: Air Mail Mystery: Episodes 8 and 9

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Irene Delroy confronts Powers about why he arrived at the scene of the latest crash so quickly.

Original Air Date: 1932

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EP3184: The Air Mail Mystery, Episodes 5 and 6

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Irene Delroy begins to question some suspicious characters while Andy Andrews makes another attempt to complete a flight where he’s gone three times before, not knowing he’s carrying currency in the mail.

Original Air Date: 1932

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EP3178: Air Mail Mystery: Episodes 3 and 4

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Irene Delroy travels to the scene of the latest crash.

Original Air Date: 1932

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EP3172: Air Mail Mystery: Episodes 1 and 2

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Justice Department investigator Irene Delroy begins an investigation into a series of plane crashes where thousands of dollars in government cash and securities disappeared from U.S. mail shipments.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1932

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EP3166: Defense Attorney: Basketball Fix

Marty hired to defend a college basketball player by a man who expects to be murdered and for the basketball player to be blamed.

Original Air Date: July 17, 1952

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