Category: Lady Sleuths

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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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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EP2450s: Police Woman: The Case of the Scheming Bridegroom

Betty Garde

A woman is interested in marrying a man from a personals ad but fears he’s a murderer, Lt. Mary Sullivan investigates.

Original Air Date June 29, 1947

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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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