Tag: murder

EP2831: Rocky Jordan: An Air of Death

Jack Moyles

Rocky narrowly avoids deaths when he finds a man in a local bathhouse murdered by cyanide gas.

Original Air Date: January 29, 1950

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Video Theater 156: Philip Marlowe: The Ugly Duckling

Philip Marlowe is hired to pay off a woman’s husband’s mistress and finds himself the prime suspect when the mistress is murdered.

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Original Air Date: October 6, 1959

EP2820: Blackie: The Harry Walker Killing

Richard Kollmar

Blackie tries to find who killed a man close to his home, while the killer tries to track down the man’s wife, who he believes witnessed the murder.

Original Air Date: June 23, 1948

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EP2814: Boston Blackie: John Davis Is Murdered . . . Twice

Richard Kollmar

A man who an escaped killer promised to kill is murdered, but Blackie doesn’t think the killer murdered the man.

Original Air Date: Unknown but May 12, 1948 or later

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EP2813: Rocky Jordan: Smoke Screen

Jack Moyles

A young woman and her father ask Rocky to provide an alibi for the father. Rocky refuses and the woman’s gunned down while leaving the Tambourine.

Original Air Date: January 8, 1950

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EP2805: Ellery Queen: The Armchair Detective (Listener’s Choice Standard Division #18)

Lawrence DobkinWhen an armchair detective is murdered on Ellery’s radio show, he has to find out who did it.

Original Air Date: March 18, 1948

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EP2796: Boston Blackie: The Junk Cars Insurance Scam Murder

Richard Kollmar

Blackie tries to solve the murder of a man who refused to go along with a car insurance racket.

Original Air Date: April 21, 1948

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EP2790: Boston Blackie: A Murder at the Circus

Richard Kollmar
Blackie investigates the murder of a circus magician.

Original Air Date: April 14, 1948

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EP2788: Stand by for Crime: Naomi Needs an Operation

Glenn Langan
A desperate man promises to tell Chuck about a racket, but only if Chuck promises to broadcast so that he’s murdered within 48 hours.

Original Air Date: 1952

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EP2785: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Oldest Gag Matter

Mandel Kramer

Johnny goes into investigate the death of an insured man. The police think it was a suicide, but every potential suspect in a potential murder investigation insists that it’s not suicide.

Original Air Date: August 12, 1962

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EP2784: Boston Blackie: Photographer Clyde Winston Murdered

Richard Kollmar

Blackie looks into the murder of a photographer.

Original Air Date: April 7, 1948

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EP2769: Mister Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons: The Shrieking Prisoner Murder Case, Parts Three and Four

So lost, I'm fading

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A woman is determined to thwart Mister Keen’s investigation of the murder of her nephew.

Original Air Dates: June 24 and 25, 1954

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EP2766: Boston Blackie: The William Larson Extortion Murder Case

Richard Kollmar

A wealthy man who provides for his niece, nephew, and late father’s elderly servant (and lords it over them) is apparently murdered by men who were extorting him.

Original Air Date: March 17, 1948
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EP2763: Mister Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons: The Shrieking Prisoner Murder Case, Parts One and Two

So lost, I'm fading

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A woman asks Mister Keen to find out who murdered her husband while he was visiting their eccentric aunt.
Original Air Dates: June 21 and June 23, 1954

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EP2761: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Weather or Not Matter

Mandel Kramer

Earle Poorman calls Johnny to Florida because he fears that a wealthy elderly widower is going to be murdered by his stepchildren.

Original Air Date: July 15, 1962

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