Tag: Blackmail

Carleton Young
Today’s Mystery:

A private detective turns to Ellery for help when his income tax blank is stolen, along with sensitive information that could expose his wealthy clients to blackmail.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 12, 1942

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Originating in New York

Starring: Carleton Young as Ellery Queen; Marian Shockley; Ted De Corsia; Santos Ortega; Maurice Tarplin

Armchair Detectives: Manda Hedrom and Mayor Howard W. Jackson of Baltimore (Over the phone, not heard on broadcast)

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NBC, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural, Tales of the Texas Rangers

EP3626: Tales of the Texas Rangers: Candy Man

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A candy-loving killer blackmails a short-term prisoner to help him break jail.

Original Air Date: September 16, 1950

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Casey Crime Photographer, CBS, OTR Detective, Podcast

EP3615: Casey, Crime Photographer: Holiday

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132 Stats Cotsworth

Casey and Ann’s plan for a Thanksgiving holiday is disrupted by a reformed safe cracker whose being asked to crack a safe for $10,000 or else.

Original Air Date: November 25, 1948

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CBS, Mystery Special, OTR Detective, Podcast, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Old Time Radio

EP3542s: Mercury Theater of the Air: The Immortal Sherlock Holmes

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Sherlock Holmes tries to recover blackmail letters leading to a confrontation with the Napoleon of Crime-Professor Moriarty.

Original Air Date: September 25, 1938

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Video Theater

Video Theater 207: Man with a Camera: Turntable

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Mike thinks the pictures he took of a crooked gambling syndicate operator will help a reform candidate win. He’s shocked to find his photos have been used in composites to blackmail the reform candidate.

Season 1, Episode 5

Original Air Date: November 7, 1958

Mystery is My Hobby, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

EP3468: Mystery is My Hobby: Death Buys Flowers

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An elderly elevator operator’s plan to get “honest” money by helping a rich man foil a blackmail scheme goes wrong when the rich man is murdered by poison.

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OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated, The Fat Man

EP3346: The Fat Man: Murder Takes a Ham (AU)

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Brad is hired by an up and coming politician who’s being blackmailed with a compromising picture, and the woman he says is blackmailing him.
Original Air Date: November 4, 1954
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OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated, The Fat Man

EP3298: The Fat Man: Murder Squares the Triangle (AU)

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A woman who claims a private detective is trying to blackmail her by threatening to tell her husband she has a non-existent lover.

Original Air Date: August 19, 1954

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Box 13, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

EP3291: Box 13: Round Robin

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Dan is told to go to a hotel and register as John Johnson and finds himself drawn into a web of blackmail and lies.

Original Air Date: 1948

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Mystery is My Hobby, OTR Detective, Podcast, Syndicated

EP3270: Mystery is My Hobby: Andrew Bradford Runs for Governor

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An Independent Candidate for Governor is murdered after an escaped convict ex-friend tries to blackmail him.

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Forgotten Detectives, Mutual, OTR Detective, Podcast, Procedural, Treasury Agent

EP3254: Treasury Agent: Lady in Red

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Larry Haines

Treasury Agent Joe Lincoln tries to find a way to break a female blackmailer.
Original Air Date: Possibly November 9, 1958

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Amazing World of Radio, Podcast

AWR0136: Lux Radio Theater: The Scarlet Pimpernel (Olivia De Havilland Tribute)

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The wife (Olivia De Havilland) of a foppish English nobleman (Leslie Howard) is blackmailed to help the revolutionary government of France apprehend their arch-foe, the Scarlet Pimpernel, little knowing that her husband is the Pimpernel.
Original Air Date: December 12, 1938