Category: Mystery Special

EP0550s: Murder Clinic: A Scrap of Lace

A charming young woman is murdered and Madam Rosika Storey is called in to find out who did it and save a prominent family from scandal.

Original Air Date: September 22, 1942

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EP0525s: Columbia Workshop: Murder in Studio One

Ruth Gordon

A female detective tries to solve a murder in a radio studio in the series 26 by Corwin.

Original Air Date: October 12, 1941

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EP0500s: Lux Radio Theater: To the Ends of the Earth

Dick Powell

Narcotics Commissioner Michael Barrows (Dick Powell) witnesses a Japanese sea captain throwing 100 slaves overboard to cover up a narcotics ring. Barrows is determined to get justice and sets out on a globe trotting adventure to break the ring and capture the murderous captain.

Original Air Date: May 23, 1949

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EP0450s: WW2 Special: Suspense: Menace in Wax and You Were Wonderful

Lena Horne

This Suspense doublebill features two episodes of CBS’ signature anthology series.

First, a reporter is summoned to a wax museum and finds a code that could spell trouble for a war plant in Great Britain.

Original Air Date: November 17, 1942

Then, the great Lena Horne plays a talented singer who finds herself embroiled in intrigue in Brazil and employed by rough characters with hidden motives.

Original Air Date: November 9, 1944

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EP0400s: Screen Director’s Playhouse: D.O.A.

Edmond O'Brien

A man (Edmund O’Brien) is poisoned and spends his last days trying to find the man who murdered him.

Original Air Date: June 21, 1951

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EP0350s: Screen Guild Theatre: The Mask of Demetrios

Peter Lorre

A mystery writer (Peter Lorre) tries to unravel the truth about Demetrios, an international criminal of legendary proportion. In the course of this search, he garners the interest of another mystery man (Sidney Greenstreet).

Original Air Date: April 16, 1945

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EP0300s: Mercury Theatre on the Air: The Man Who Was Thursday

Orson Welles

In G.K. Chesterton’s classic, Gabriel Syme (Orson Welles) is a police detective infiltrating the anarchist counsel of Europe.

Original Air Date: September 5, 1938

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EP0271: Lux Radio Theater: After the Thin Man

William Powell

Returning from investigating the “Thin Man” case, Nick Charles again hopes to retire, but finds himself drawn into another mystery when his wife’s cousin is approved of murdering her no good husband.

Original Air Date: June 17, 1940

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EP0266: Lux Radio Theater: The Thin Man

William Powell

Nick Charles, a retired private detective is drawn back to detection with the insistence of his wife, Nora, when a former client is suspected of several murders.

Original Air Date: June 8, 1936

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EP0261: Screen Director’s Playhouse: Chicago Deadline

Alan Ladd

A reporter (Alan Ladd) finds a woman dead of TB and is determined to find out why she died.

Original Air Date: March 24, 1950

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EP0200s Suspense: The Khandi Tooth Caper

 Howard Duff

In this made-for-radio sequel to the Maltese Falcon, Casper Guttman (Joseph Kearns) returns, but this time he’s seeking a piece of dental work.

Original Air Date: January 10, 1948

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EP0150s: Suspense: The One Way Ride to Nowhere

A psychologist is found dead on a roller coaster after a ride, but he wasn’t on board when the roller coaster left.

Original Air Date: January 6, 1944

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EP0100s: Screen Guild Theater: The Maltese Falcon

 

In this 1943 adaptation of the original hardboiled detective story: Miles Archer, the partner of Sam Spade (played by Humphrey Bogart) is killed while shadowing someone for a client ( Mary Astor.) When the man Archer was shadowing is killed, the police suspect Spade. Spade must find Archer’s killer and to do it he has to match wits against dangerous international criminals (Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet.)

Original Air Date: September 20, 1943

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EP0034: Mercury Theater on the Air: The Immortal Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes (played by Orson Welles) seeks to reclaim letters being used as blackmail and foil the plans of Professor Moriarity.

Original Air Date: September 25, 1938

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