Category: OTR Detective

AWR0105: Suspense: The Story of Markham’s Death (Kirk Douglas Celebration)

Amazing World of Radio

A mystery writer with writer’s block discovers a lost Edgar Allan Poe manuscript while visiting London and decides to rewrite it to bring back his career.

Original Air Date: October 2, 1947

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EP3105: Box 13: The Dowager and Dan Holiday

A wealthy elderly woman asks Dan to pretend to be her fiancee so she can protect her grandson from marrying a gold digger.

Original Air Date: March 12, 1948

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EP3104s: The Whistler: Danger is a Beautiful Blonde (Jack Webb Centennial)

An engineer is picked up by a beautiful woman and finds himself in the middle of a murder.

Original Air Date: May 8, 1949

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EP3104: Dragnet: The Big Fraud (Jack Webb Centennial)

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate when two impersonate police offers and shake down a visiting businessman.

Original Air Date: October 27, 1953

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EP3103: Pete Kelly’s Blues: Gus Trudeau (Jack Webb Centennial)

Jack Webb

An old friend of Kelly’s is suspected of murdering a local Kansas City mobster.

Original Air Date: July 4, 1951

Bonus Audio from the Howard Miller Show from August 8, 1955

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EP3102: Dragnet: Production 7 (aka. The Attempted City Hall Bombing) (Jack Webb Centennial)

Jack Webb

Friday and Romero are called in to stop a man who claims to have a bomb and is threatening to blow up city hall unless his brother is released.

Original Air Date: July 21, 1949

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EP3101: Jeff Regan: The Man in the Door (Jack Webb Centennial)

Jack Webb

The Lyon sends Regan down to get a potential client to sign a contract. The client falls dead at Regan’s feet before he can sign it.

Original Air Date: August 28, 1948

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EP3100: Johnny Madero: The Fatal Auction (Jack Webb Centennial)

Johnny Madero is persuaded to bid on a mystery box at an auction by a beautiful woman  who disappeared after he won the auction.

Original AIr Date: June 26, 1947

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EP3099: Pat Novak for Hire: Shirt Mix-Up at the Laundry (Jack Webb Centennial)

Novak gets the wrong shirts from the laundry and when he tries to trade for the right shirt, he finds himself accused of murder.

Original Air Date: May 7, 1949

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EP3098: Dragnet: The Big Revision

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a $200,000 house burglary.

Original Air Date: May 10, 1955

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EP3097: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Earl Chadwick Matter

Edmond O'Brien

Johnny flies to England on a report that an insured, who was declared dead, may be alive.

Original Air Date: May 23, 1950

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EP3096: Mystery is My Hobby: Mister Michaels, Murder Suspect

A woman meets Barton Drake on a train and tells him that she fears her mystery writer husband is going to murder her.

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EP3095: Man Called X: Stolen Diamonds

George Raft

A jeweler comes to Ken and reveals that he’s received two priceless industrial diamonds that are going to be sent to the Nazis if the Man Called X can’t stop him.

Original Air Date: November 25, 1944

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EP3094: It’s a Crime, Mr. Collins: Clue of the Ivory Thread

A man tries to hire Greg to find a dead man. The potential client is then followed by another man who claims the first to be a mental patient.

Original Air Date: September 30, 1957
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EP3093: Box 13: The Professor and the Puzzle

An old friend of Dan’s ask him to find out why his fiancĂ©e left him and became engaged to a much older man after her uncle died.

Original Air Date: March 5, 1948

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