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Today’s Mystery:
A typist for a murder mystery writer is murdered in his home.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 26, 1949
Originating from New York City
Starring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon; Frank Butler as Sergeant Dave Arnold
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Adam! Who knew Karl Swenson was Axel Norstaad on the Perry Mason episode of “Case of the Tarnished Trademark?” Danish furniture builder Alex Norstaad would have been an awesome disguise for Mr. Chameleon, although admittedly hard to work into a Mr Chameleon plot. Although they managed to put an itinerant rope ladder salesman in another show, so mysterious, inquisitive Ikea executive might not have been too much of a stretch to get some guilty murderess to confess her dastardly crime. That episode of Perry Mason with Karl Swenson featured Marie Windsor as a blonde, always a menacing and dangerous ingénue and definitely one of my favorites. Morgan Woodward, the man with the mirror sunglasses in “Cool Hand Luke” was also in that episode. But I digress
What I actually wanted to mention was that Mr Chameleon had access to the same level of resources available to Mr Phelps on Mission Impossible. Sometimes, when Cinnamon, Willy and Roland Hand were not enough, Mr Phelps would round up the Hartford Repertory Company to serve as submarine crewmen or railroad workmen. Mr Chameleon managed to get a film crew out on the street with about 8 hours notice so he could strut around as Enrique Salazi to stampede the guilty wife into a confession.