Tag: murder

EP2245: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Deadly Debt Matter

Bob Bailey

When an insured person sees a man who he helped convict of murder living in the same town as him, Johnny is called in to provide protection.

Original Air Date: August 28, 1960
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EP2238: Boston Blackie: The Green Line Trucking Murder

Richard Kollmar

After re-assuring a woman her truck driver husband is fine, Blackie sets out to solve his murder when he turns up dead.

Original Air Date: July 16, 1946

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EP2237: Richard Diamond: The Misplaced Laundry Case

Dick Powell

Diamond gets the wrong person’s dry cleaning and is threatened at gun, beaten, and involved in a murder case because of it.

Original Air Date: September 6, 1950

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AWR0022: Screen Guild Theater: The Maltese Falcon (Summer of Bogart)

Amazing World of Radio

In this 1943 adaptation of the original hard-boiled detective story: Miles Archer, the partner of Sam Spade (played by Humphrey Bogart) is killed while shadowing someone for a client (Mary Astor.) When the man Archer was shadowing is killed, the police suspect Spade. Spade must find Archer’s killer and to do it he has to match wits against dangerous international criminals (Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet.)

Original Air Date: September 20, 1943
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EP2226: Boston Blackie: The Uncle Frank Wilson Murder

Richard Kollmar

A man murders his uncle for his money and then uses Blackie’s aunt as his alibi.

Original Air Date: July 2, 1946

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EP2220: Boston Blackie: The Joe Garland Murder

Richard Kollmar
A wealthy gambler is murdered while Blackie is in the other room. The murderer leaves behind a fortune in jewels in order to steal a piece of flagstone.

Original Air Date: June 25, 1946

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EP2217: Night Beat: Wanna Buy a Story?

Frank Lovejoy

A young woman offers to sell Randy a story about the murder of an infamous mobster and the identity of the killer.

Original Air Date: September 18, 1950

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EP2216: Dragnet: The Big Whiff

Jack Webb

A woman without identification is found murdered by chloroform.

Original Air Date: June 5, 1952

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EP2206: Suspense: Murder Goes For a Swim

Warren William

While enjoying a weekend at a New York estate, Michael Lanyard discovers the body of a beauty contestant in the swimming pool and the signs point to it being a murder.

Original Air Date: July 20, 1943

In this sneak preview of the The Lone Wolf Strikes, Michael Lanyard tries to return stolen jewels to their rightful owner as well as find out if an accident was really a murder. From the Good News of 1940.

Original Air Date: February 22, 1940

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EP2190: Boston Blackie: The Paul Blaine Murder

Richard Kollmar

A pawnbroker asks Blackie for help with returning a stolen diamond and is then murdered.

Original Air Date: May 21, 1946

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EP2188: Jeff Regan: The British Are Coming

Regan is hired by the owner of a British-themed haberdasher (men’s clothing store) who wants to witness him kill a man and state that it was in self-defense.

Original Air Date: September 3, 1950

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EP2175: Night Beat: The Devil’s Bible

Frank Lovejoy

Randy discovers that a man who tried to take a $50,000 medieval satanic book from a bookstore was blamed for the murder of the last owner and his body positively identified.

Original Air Date: July 24, 1950

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EP2172: Boston Blackie: The Frances Fielding Murder

Richard Kollmar

A psychiatrist friend of Blackie’s finds himself the prime suspect in the murder of a young woman and a target for blackmail.

Original Air Date: April 30, 1946
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EP2164: Inspector Thorne: The Empty Ashtray Murder Case

Staats Cotsworth

A wealthy, never-married woman is murdered and suspicion falls on her family.

 

Original Air Date: September 20, 1951

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EP2161: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Fatal Switch Matter

Bob Bailey

Johnny investigates the death of a young inventor.

Original Air Date: May 1, 1960

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