Category: Rare Detectives

ABC, Hot Copy, Lady Sleuths, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rare Detectives

Hot Copy: Smooth as Silk (EP4660)

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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)

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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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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rare Detectives

Martin Kane: October 29, 1953 (EP4576)

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Mark Stevens

Today’s Mystery:

Martin Kane is hired by a man accused of robbery and murder to find the gun and the real killer.

Original Release Date: October 29, 1953

Originating in New York

Starring: Mark Stevens at Martin Kane; King Calder as Lieutenant Gray

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CBS, Operation Danger, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rare Detectives

Operation Danger (EP4570)

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Today’s Mystery:

A captain in the army counter-intelligence department teams up with a British intelligence agent to track down the source of diamonds to finance a new Nazi plan.

Audition Date: June 25, 1950

Originating in Hollywood

Starring: Howard Culver as Captain Ethan Allen Rogers; Joan Banks; Ben Wright; Paul Frees; Theodore Von Eltz; Fritz Feld; Rick Vallen

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Crime Fighters, Mutual, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rare Detectives

Crime Fighters: A New England Detective (EP4148)

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Raymond Edward Johnson
Today’s Mystery:

A New England detective is also a parole officer for a young man who was convicted of theft. Does the ex-convict really want to go straight and will he actually be allowed to?

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 9, 1950

Originated in New York

Starred: Raymond Edward Johsnon, Alan Stevenson, Ian Martin, Abby Lewis, and Rock Rogers

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ABC, Michael Piper, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rare Detectives

Michael Piper, Detective: The Erie Basin Murder (EP3994)

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Santos Ortega

Today’s Mystery:

A stabbing follows a contentious auction.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 6, 1942

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CBS, Lady Sleuths, Meet Miss Sherlock, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rare Detectives

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

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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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Lady Sleuths, NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rare Detectives, Sara's Private Caper

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

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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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OTR Detective, Podcast, Rare Detectives, This is O'Shea

EP3850: This is O’Shea: Hong Kong

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Brandon O’Shea witnesses the kidnapping of a refugee from Shanghai at the Hong Kong Airport.

Audition Date: October 1, 1952

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Mutual, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rare Detectives, Sqaud Room

Squad Room: Body Found in a Plastic Bag (EP356)

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The police investigate when dismembered body parts are found in a plastic bag.

Original Air Date: 1955

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Boy Detective, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rare Detectives, Syndicated

EP3558: Billy Swift, Boy Detective: Young Mountaineer Mysteriously Shot

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Billy is asked to clear a young girl’s sweetheart of murder while visiting a secluded area where outsiders are looked down upon.

Original Air Date: October 29, 1938

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EP3554: Squad Room: February 3, 1954

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A woman confessed to killing her abusive husband and then Lt. Douglas investigates a robbery gone bad that left a woman dead by the side of the road.

Original Air Date: February 3, 1954

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Mutual, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural, Rare Detectives, Top Secrets of the FBI

EP3548: Top Secrets of the FBI: The Case of the Vest Pocket Broadcasting Station

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The FBI plans to catch a heroin ring using a brand new recording device that can be carried in a pocket.

Audition Date: 1947

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CBS, O'Hara, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rare Detectives

EP3292: O’Hara: Lost Boy

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While visiting Macau, O’Hara tries to help a little boy from Tokyo find his father who failed to meet his boat.

Original Air Date: October 29, 1956

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CBS, O'Hara, OTR Detective, Podcast, Rare Detectives

EP3286: O’Hara: The Judas Face

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Someone is calling around Hong Kong looking for a woman who identifies herself as Mrs. Calhoun whenever she has a few drinks.

Original Air Date: July 22, 1951

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