Are you ready for a mystery? Get ready to unleash your inner sleuth. Every day Monday-Saturday, we feature a different detective audio drama from the Golden Age of Radio. Our current mystery-solving line-up of radio detectives includes The Adventures of the Falcon, Dr. Tim, Detective, Dangerous As… read more
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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to New York to protect a friend, a reporter on the trail of a big story, who has already had multiple attempts on his …
Today's Mystery:Mr. Chameleon is called in to investigate a series of bizarre murders committed in a phony funeral home.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 25, 1949
Originating from New York CityStarring: Karl Swenson as …
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Portugal to find a young woman who'd been in the U.S. illegally and find out why she intentionally had herself …
Today's 1st Mystery: A visit to the carnival is soured by the presence of an old-school seller of snake oil. It's made even worse when Dr. Tim has to …
Today's Mystery:A businessman who drove his rival out of business wants Waring to prove he didn't kill him and suggests suicide.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 12, 1950
Originating from New York
Starring: Les …
Today's Mystery:Friday and Romero search for two missing girls.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 2, 1950
Originating from HollywoodStarring: …
Today's Mystery:It turns out a murdered penny arcade owner was the long-thought-dead husband of a silent movie queen. That's the first of many lies Johnny has to sort through to find the truth.
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Today's Mystery:Mr. Chameleon investigates the murder of a young actress who was forbidden by her aunt and uncle to marry her older, scandal-plagued …
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Norway to impersonate a captured courier who was about to collect a payoff from a gang that dealt in stolen …
Today's Mystery:Johnny Dollar goes to Venice, California to investigate the murder of a penny arcade operator who named a silent movie star as his …
Today's Mystery:A racketeer hires The Falcon to protect him in a forest cabin, but is killed before Waring arrives from New York.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 5, 1950
Originating from New YorkStarring: Les …
Today's Mystery:Having gotten key information, Joe Friday and Ben Romero join an interdepartment task force to bring down the top narcotics dealer.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 19, 1950
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Today's Mystery:Johnny and the wife of the man he's pursuing find themselves stranded on an isolated island by fugitive embezzler.
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Today's Mystery:A philandering portrait painter is murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 11, 1949
Originating from New York CityStarring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon
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Today's Mystery:Steve is sent to locate a phantom ship that's smuggling supplies to guerillas in the Philippines and attacking local fishing boats.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny wakes up in Barbados after being knocked out, and finds himself no closer to apprehending the junior partner of a New York investment firm who is accused of embezzling $120,000.
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Today's Mystery:A man is murdered soon after his business partner was killed, and the contingency beneficiary hires Mike to prove who hired the killer.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 29, 1950
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Today's Mystery:The year is 1913 and international tensions run thick. Sherlock Holmes's brother, Mycroft, calls him out of retirement to secure the …
Today's Mystery:Friday goes undercover in a narcotics gang to get to the get a drug kingpin.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 12, 1950
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Today's Mystery:In New Orleans, a nasty informant has promised to take Johnny to an embezzler who made off with $120,000.
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Today's Mystery:An attractive young shoplifter, who lives in a boarding house without a basement, is stabbed to death on a busy street.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 4, 1949
Originating from New York City
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Germany to find a displaced person who may be able to identify a nazi war criminal.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny is sent on the trail of a partner in a Wall Street investment firm, who jumped bail after being charged with embezzling $120,000.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: October 15 and 16, 1956
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Today's Mystery:The manager of a jewelry concern calls in The Falcon when he's accused of stealing thousands in jewels.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 22, 1950
Originating from New York
Starring: Les Damon as the …
Once again, we take a look at an old time radio script that was recycled. In this case, the script was a pilot for a new radio series, The McCoy, and …
Today's Mystery:Joe Friday arrests an old army buddy for armed robbery.Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 5, 1950
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Today's Mystery:Johnny gets into Primrose Camp, where he suspects two robbers are hiding out with $100,000 and finds the owners living in fear and being pushed around by a phony nephew.
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Today's Mystery:A woman wearing a fortune in jewels is murdered after leaving a night club.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 27, 1949
Originated from New York CityStarring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon
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Today's Mystery:Steve is sent to break up a black market founded on jewel thefts that is destabilizing the Mediterranean. To fight them, Steve plans to steal a necklace before the thief can
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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to Arizona in search of a gang of robbers who stole a $100,000 payroll and have already committed murder.
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Today's Mystery:A woman hires The Falcon to protect her from a racketeer who wants to kill her, but she isn't telling him the whole story.
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:Episode 18:A police captain takes in a night at the fights and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation when the …
Todays Mystery:Friday and Romero search for a trigger-happy gang of hold-up men.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 29, 1949
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Today's Mystery: Johnny searches a quaint Swiss ski resort for $100,000 ski resort while trying to avoid being the next person murdered.
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Today's Mystery: A man is found in rags in the Bowery but Chameleon finds evidence that the well-groomed man doesn't belong there.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:April 20, 1949
Originated from New York City
Starred: Karl …
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Tokyo to get to the bottom of the kidnapping of a prominent scientist by Americans claiming to be with the U.S. government.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 18, 1953
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Today's Mystery:Johnny goes to Zurich on the trail of $100,000 in stolen, uncut diamonds.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: October 1 and 2, 1956
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Today's Mystery:A woman hires Mike Waring to find a hit-and-run driver.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 1, 1950
Originating from New York
Starring: Les Damon as the Falcon; Ken Lynch as Sergeant Corbett; Mandel …
Todays Mystery: A boy disappears before Christmas with his present - a .22 rifle.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, 1949
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Today's Mystery:After getting beat up outside of Meg's place, Johnny is even more determined to find out who's threatening to burn her out.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: September 26, 27, and 28, 1956
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Today's Mystery:Two business partners send letters to the police alleging that the other is going to kill them. They're found dead in their office, …
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to the Belgian congo to resolve a family dispute between two women that's threatened the U.S. access to a strategic …
Today's Mystery:Johnny goes to a small New England seaside town where the feisty owner of a rundown cafe has been threatened with having her place burnt down.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: September 24 and 25, 1956
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Today's Mystery:The Falcon is hired to find out who tried to kill an ex-crook.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 24, 1950
Originating from New York
Starring: Les Damon as The Falcon
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Today's Mystery:An organist is found murdered in her apartment, and the police can figure out the killer got in.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny digs through a string of lies and conflicting accounts in trying to solve the murder of a wealthy young executive.
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Today's Mystery:A bride is found murdered on the day of her wedding.Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 6, 1949
Originating from New York City
Starring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Greece, where he's to follow the trail of phony documents in hopes of finding a kidnapped American scientist.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny is called in when a young business executive's window is shattered by a bullet while he's driving.
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Today's Mystery:A boxing champ trying to defend his title calls in the Falcon with suspicions that his opponent is concealing a gambling operation around the fights.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 10, 1950
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Today's Mystery:The commuter train to Roseville becomes the setting for a deadly game of cat and mouse, passengers grapple with the terror of a serial killer at large. With every twist and turn of the conversation, the …
Today's Mystery:Friday and his partner Romero race against the clock to recover $8,000 worth of stolen Chinese jade. The only lead? A vicious …
Today's Mystery:Johnny's investigation of a deceased friend and colleague who embezzled $80,000 leads him to Panama.
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Today's Mystery:A man is found murdered in an empty house with a handprint on the ceiling.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 30, 1949
Originating from New York CityStarring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Mexico to follow a clue to a dangerous international killer.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 28, 1953
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Today's Mystery: In a swirl of old memories and new shock, Johnny is summoned to unravel the sordid unraveling of a once-trusted friend. Ed Morgan, …
Today's Mystery:After collecting the ransom from kidnapping a racketeer, four crooks have a falling-out that leads to murder.
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Today's Mystery: Friday and Smith search for a juvenile gang that's been committing burglaries, robberies, and rapes.
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Today's Mystery: Johnny plan sto go to Egypt for the opening of the tomb of Kamashek
.Original Radio Broadcast Dates:September 5,6, and 7, 1956
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Today's Mystery:A man is poisoned after a dinner prepared by his daughter and his wife, who are about the same age.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 23, 1949
Originating from New York CityStarring: Karl Swenson as …
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Burma to the famous "Road to Mandalay" in order to stop a gang of robbers who are intercepting strategic supplies being sent by the U.S. to its allies in the Pacific.
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Today's Mystery:The uncle of a wealthy heir calls Johnny in to protect his nephew, who wants to go on an expedition to Egypt to unearth the tomb of an Egyptian Pharaoh.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: September 3 and 4, …
Today's Mystery:The leader of a gang of robbers hires The Falcon to find his girlfriend, who disappeared with $80,000 that they stole from a payroll.
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Todays Mystery:An elderly woman with an acrimonious relationship with her daughter-in-law is found murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November …
Today's Mystery:The investigation into a stolen pearl necklace becomes a murder.Original Radio Broadcast Dates: August 29, 30, and 31, 1956
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Today's Mystery:A grocery store owner is found dead in a fire, but he had been shot to death.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 16, 1949
Originating from New York CityStarring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to London to root out a phony passport racket. His only clue? A seven-year-old newspaper.
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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to a small Ohio town where a jewel thief is ready to hand over a stolen pearl necklace ... for a price.
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Today's Mystery:A song writer, whose business manager is embezzling from him, is murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 23, 1950
Originating from New York
Starring: Les Damon as the Falcon; Ralph Bell; Larry Haines
Today's Mystery:Friday and Smith look for a man who has committed a series of bar robberies and killed several of the victims.
Original Television Broadcast Date: October 8, 1954 based on a Radio Play from November 10, …
Today's Mystery:Johnny investigates the murder of an insured in a resort town.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: August 15, 16, and 17, 1956
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Today's Mystery:Two people are found murdered inside an elevator car.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 9, 1949
Originated from New York CityStarring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to New Guinea, hoping to discover through talking with a notorious smuggler the identity and location of a Mr. Big in a gun-smuggling operation.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 7, …
Today's Mystery:An investigation to the disappearance of a missing insured Denver businessman leads Johnny to a resort town.
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Today's Mystery:The Falcon is hired to find an unassuming bookkeeper who stole $30,000 from a dress company.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 14, …
Todays Mystery:A criminal is acquitted, leaves LA, and returns. Friday and Ed Jacobs think he’s up to his old tricks.
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Today's Mystery:In Caracas, Johnny has to try to save an insured oil man from being killed, but has to find his way through a web of lies by everyone in the house, including the insured.
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Today's Mystery:The older husband of an unhappy younger woman is murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 2, 1949
Originating from New York City
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Steve goes to Trieste, Italy to meet someone on a street car with information about the location of a report on foreign knowledge of US atomic secrets.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 31, 1952
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Today's Mystery:Johnny is sent to Venezuela to investigate why a wealthy oil man keeps changing his insurance beneficiary. The insured refuses to tell him anything, but gets Johnny to stay and save his life.
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An eighty-four-year-old Scottish lord who, because of being born on February 29, has been waiting 63 years for the inheritance he should have …
Marlowe is hired on New Year’s Eve to locate a missing fiancée, who disappeared on the same day that a dangerous convict broke out of prison
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Today's Mystery: A young adventurer is sent to the New World to find out why his guardian’s debtors haven’t been paying. He discovers that they’ve been missing for a year.
Original Air Date: October 14, 1947Originating …
A dying prisoner sends Johnny searching for $100,000 in stolen jewels that were never recovered; murder follows.
Original Air Dates: October 3-7, 1955
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Today's Mystery: In G.K. Chesterton’s classic, Gabriel Syme (Orson Welles) is a police detective infiltrating the anarchist council of Europe.
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Today's Mystery: A psychiatrist tries to unravel the mystery of a man who believes he murdered another psychiatrist. Will she find out the truth or become his next victim?
Original Air Date: January 25, 1951
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Today's Mystery: Ellery Queen investigates the attempted poisoning of a cantankerous woman. The most obvious suspect is her eight-year-old nephew.
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Today's Mystery: While dressed as Santa, Simon is mistaken for a man who made off with an expensive necklace. Simon spends Christmas Eve trying to catch a thief and a murderer.
Original Air Date: December 24, 1950
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Today's Mystery: A private detective (Orson Welles) decides to give up on his one-man agency and go back to his job with the DA, but his wife is determined to make the agency work and finds herself investigating a …
Today's Mystery:Friday and Smith search for a statue of the child Jesus stolen from a church on Christmas Eve.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December …
Today's Mystery:Johnny is in a quaint Michigan town on Christmas Eve and has to find a witness to a murder before a hired killer does.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: December 21, 22, and 23, 1955
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Today's Mystery:Mr. Chameleon reopens the case of a woman convicted of murdering her mother-in-law with poisoned candy. He is determined to get her freed in time for Christmas.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 22, …
Today's Mystery: The son of a lecturing professor is missing from a boarding school in Stockholm and Steve needs to find him in order to break up an …
Today's Mystery:Johnny suspects that a mobster murdered his business partner and has to find the only witness before the mobster does.
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Today's Mystery:A Los Angeles mobster comes to New York searching for a woman who stole $75,000. Murder follows.
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Simon helps a wet-behind-the-ears farmer-turned-private-detective after he appears to have committed murder.
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Todays Mystery: Friday and Romero suspect an inside job in a series of truck hijackings.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 1, 1949
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Today's Mystery: Johnny continues his investigation in Niciragua into the disappearance of a man and boat insured for a combined $400,000
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: August 1,2, and 3, 1956
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Today's Mystery:Chameleon is called in to investigate when a playboy is found murdered, with a note indicating that if he dies unexpectedly, someone …
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Turkey to investigate sabotage on a road project that the U.S. is subsidizing and providing expertise for.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny goes to Nicaragua to investigate the disappearance of a wealthy insured man aboard his insured yacht.
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Today's Mystery:The Falcon is hired by a woman who's afraid that her fiancé is earning his money in the rackets.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 1, 1948
Originating from New York
Starring: Les Tremayne as The …
Today's Mystery:Simon and Louie get lost in Westchester County and stop for a hamburger, only to find a corpse after leaving.
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Today's Mystery: Friday and Romero search for a serial killer who breaks into the homes of women and murders them with a red brick.
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Today's Mystery:After a shooting outside of city hall, Johnny is more puzzled about the murder of a corrupt police chief in a wide open town with …
Today's Mystery:A young man emerges from a room holding a smoking gun. Inside the room is the body of a conman who'd been pretending to be a nobleman.
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Vienna to investigate a shooting in which U.S. soldiers have been implicated in an attack on a mine across the border …
Today's Mystery: Johnny is sent to a small midwestern town where a corrupt police chief has been murdered, and his widow has filed a claim for …
Today's Mystery: A man whose about to be executed asks the Falcon to prevent his brother from murdering his cheating wife.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 27, 1945
Originated from New YorkStarred: James Meighan as …
The Australian Commonwealth Investigation Branch (CIB) seeks a gang of counterfeiters that are passing forged 10 pound notes.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: Mid-1950s
Originating from Sydney, Australia
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Today's Mystery: Friday and Romero have to find out why a man shot down a traffic cop.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 17, 1949
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Today's Mystery: After being knocked out, Johnny takes a helicoper to board a cruise ship that contains the stolen diamond.
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Today's Mystery:A man is murdered within a few minutes of being married.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 9, 1948
Originating from New York CityStarred: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Nice, Italy to find out who is behind a ring blackmailing American citizens by threatening relatives living in foreign countries.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 3, 1952
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Today's Mystery:Johnny is sent to Capetown by a nervous insurance company to help protect a diamond owned by an eccentric and careless playboy.
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Today's Mystery:While on vacation in Mexico, the Falcon finds himself tangling with a racketeer.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 13, 1945
Originated from New YorkStarring: James Meighan as the Falcon
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Diamond is hired by a man who insists he was framed for passing counterfeit bills.
Original Rebroadcast Date: September 13, 1953
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Todays Mystery:The daughter of the vice-president of a bank is kidnapped.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 10, 1949
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Today's Mystery:Johnny learns that someone involved in the murder of a farmer's disabled wife has faced a murder charge before.
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Today's Mystery:Two private detectives are found shot by the police in a way that looks like they killed each other in a duel.
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Stockholm to investigate a leak from a project the U.S. is participating in. He finds the head of the project murdered, …
Today's Mystery:Johnny goes to a small Vermont town where an anonymously written note implicates a husband in the murder of his disabled, and …
Today's Mystery: Sam Spade's search for the murderer in his partner puts him in the midst of intrigue among four dangerous characters, all trying to gain possession of an enameled jeweled falcon.
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Today's Mystery:Riley calls George in to help out a speechless boy who may have witnessed a murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 20, 1950
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Todays Mystery:A man reports his wife missing, but investigators suspect murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 3, 1949
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Today's Mystery:Johnny continues his investigation into the death of three men insured for up to a million dollars each
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Today's Mystery:The matron of an orphanage was murdered after writing a letter indicating that someone looked like one of the orphans.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 26, 1949
Originated in: New York City
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Today's Mystery:Steve is sent to Bavaria to infiltrate a sanitarium, where an American journalist who is wanted for trumped-up charges behind the Iron Curtain is being held incommunicado.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny is sent to Nevada, where three retired investment bankers were killed at a cave-in in a mine in which they'd invested. A local …
Today's Mystery:Sam receives a summons and a $100 retainer from a reclusive silent film star.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 30, 1948
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Today's Mystery:Richard Diamond is hired to play bodyguard to a seal.
Original Air Date: February 5, 1950
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Todays Mystery:Friday and Romero have caught two teenagers breaking into their car. Can they use them to find the mastermind behind hundreds of car burglaries?
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 1, 1949
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Today's Mystery: Johnny continues to investigate the case of a doctor and his wife whom the insurance company fears might need a payout soon.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: June 27, 28, and 29, 1956
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Today's Mystery:A mob boss's henchman is murdered and the body spirited away before the police can examine it.
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Turkey to intercept a thief before he sells a sensitive file before to the highest bidder.
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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to California to investigate when an insurance agent received a note indicating they'd have to pay off on a policy …
Today's Mystery:A nervous man sets Spade on the case of a man who is about to be executed at San Quentin.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 27, 1951
Today is Guy Fawkes Day and we celebrate with two different Guy-Fawkes-related Sherlock Holmes adventures.
First, in The Fifth of November, a man …
Today's Mystery:Friday and Romero hunt for a gang of blitz robbers, while an army buddy of Friday's enters the police academy.
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Today's Mystery:Did a wealthy businessman fake his death to gain the attention of a missing daughter? Johnny doesn't believe it.
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Today's Mystery:A retired sea captain is murdered right after giving his niece a copy of a will leaving her everything he owns
.Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 5, 1949
Originated in: New York City
Starring: Karl …
Today's Mystery:Steve Mitchell is sent to Havana to meet an informant and break up a smuggling racket. He soon finds himself investigating the murder of the informant.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 5, 1952
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Today's Mystery:A news report states that a wealthy businessman is dead, but the report is erroneous. An insurance company suspects an attempt to …
Today's Mystery:Sam goes to a rural county to investigate the theft of $53,000 from a bank where an ex-client works.
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The episode begins with a look at a story of the Prophet Daniel that many think is the first detective story. From "Can You Imagine That?"
Original Radio Braodcast Date: 1940
A woman and her daughter are brutally killed …
Todays Mystery:Friday and Romero investigate a series of nightly jewelry thefts.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 18, 1949
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Today's Mystery:A comedian is taking threats on his life more seriously after there was an attempt on his life.Original Radio Broadcast Dates: June …
Today's Mystery:A fashion model is murdered in her apartment. The only witness? Her pet parrot.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 29, 1948
Originated in: New York CityStarred: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon
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Today's Mystery:Steve parachutes into Brazil in pursuit of a party of lepidopterists, one of whom has a sensitive document that belongs to the US and has been auctioned off to the highest bidder.
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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to Ensenada, Mexico to investigate threats against a beloved TV comedy star who's not beloved by anyone who works with him.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: June 11 and 12, 1956
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Today's Mystery:Sam is hired to investigate the collapse of a civic auditorium, for which his client is being blamed.
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Nero Wolfe's dentist and Archie both receive a mysterious call from a woman, leading to a ride in the country to do away with them.
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Todays Mystery:Friday and Romero hunt for a murderer who strangles and then disfigures his victims.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 11, 1949
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Today's Mystery: After multiple attempts on the life of a bowery derelict who is insured for $50,000, Johnny is suspicious of the beneficiary.
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Today's Mystery:A publicity agent is murdered after harassing the wife of a wealthy Oklahoma oil man.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 15, 1948
Originated in: New York CityStarred: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Indonesia to get the help of an embittered ex-Navy officer to identify and stop a dangerous gun runner.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny is sent to investigate a suspicious insurance policy issued to a derelict.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: June 4 and 5, 1956
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Today's Mystery:A sixteen-year-old girl hires Spade to find her brother, a notorious criminal.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 6, 1951
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Today's Mystery:Archie and a cabbie are attacked by a car after the cabbie buys a book to sit on. Wolfe discovers the book is a first edition …
Todays Mystery:An informant is murdered but leaves behind clues to a narcotics ring operating in the city.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny finds more evidence of shady goings on at a Nevada ranch owned by an elderly woman.
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Today's Mystery:A man is murdered after going to meet his long-lost cousin.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 1, 1948
Originated in: New York CityStarred: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Austria to obtain a dummy newspaper that has information on foreign agents.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 8, …
Today's Mystery:Johnny goes to Nevada when a local banker becomes concerned about an insured trust for her granddaughter.
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Today's Mystery:A wealthy man hires Sam to find out why an even more wealthy neighbor is trying to ruin him
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Today's Mystery:An FBI undercover man infilitrates a Nazi spy ring that could send the secret of Process 97 to the Nazis.
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Todays Mystery:A mother in Utah reports her adult daughter missing.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 28, 1949
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Today's Mystery:A case of mistaken identity leads Johnny to deliver a necklace from a racketeer to an insurance beneficiary.
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Today's Mystery:A man is killed after falling from the window of a swanky night club, and Mr. Chameleon suspects murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 17, 1948
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Port Said in Egypt to retrieve a stolen signed treaty that was taken from a courier who was beaten and left for dead.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny travels to Miami to find out why a widow waited two years to file a claim on her late husband's life insurance.
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Today's Mystery:Steve is hired to protect a valuable necklace.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 23, 1951
Originated from Hollywood
Starred Steven …
Todays Mystery: Friday and Romero have less than half an hour to stop a man who's thratening to blow up City Hall unless the police release his …
Today's Mystery:Johnny is dealing with death threats as well as a medium who convinced an heiress client to change her insurance beneficiary.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: May 16, 17, and 18, 1956
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Today's Mystery:A ruthless businessman is poisoned, and his two associates, who were at the same table, were knocked out.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 10, 1948
Originated in: New York City
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Darwin, Australia, because a man who offered the U.S. information on the location of a World War II traitor has been murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 10, 1952
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Today's Mystery: Johnny's sent to New York to investigate when an insured heiress wants to change her beneficiary to a shady medium.
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Today's Mystery:A man hires Spade after receiving an ominous warning that his life is in peril from a dangerous red-headed woman.
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Todays Mystery:Friday and Romero search for a man who robs and beats up innocent citizens while impersonating a police officer.
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Today's Mystery:The murder of a lunchroom owner has raised the stakes in Johnny's investigation
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: May 9, 10, and 11, 1956
Today's Mystery:A friend of Mr. Chameleon's is murdered while dressed in costume as him.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 3, 1948
Originated in: New York City
Starred: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Dakar in West Africa in search of a supposedly dead Nazi sea captain who was a key part of the Fuhrer's escape plan.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 3, 1951
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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to Los Angeles to investigate a fur robbery committed by a juvenile gang.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates:May 7 and 8, 1956
Today's Mystery:Sam tries to help a retired teacher who lost $1,000 to an old con game.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 9, 1951
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Todays Mystery:Friday and Romero investigate the brutal murder of a twenty-one-year-old woman in a vacant lot.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 7, …
Today's Mystery:An investment broker has returned and Johnny's job is over. Or is it?
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: May 2, 3, and 4, 1956
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Today's Mystery: An international playboy is poisoned.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 27, 1948
Originated in: New York CityStarred: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon
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Today's Mystery:Steve is sent to the South China Sea to use a notorious smuggler Captain Jaeger to break a smuggling racket.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny goes to Los Angeles to investigate the disappearance of a bonded stock broker and finds that everyone who knows him is indifferent to his fate.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: April 30 and May 1, …
Today's Mystery:Sam is hired to look into the disappearance and likely death of a crab fisherman.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 2, 1951
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Today's First Episode:Ken travels to Italy to follow a composer, to find why that composer's friend was murdered in New York City.
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Todays Mystery:A police officer is shot and killed in a bar robbery gone wrong.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 24, 1949
Originated from Hollywood
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Today's Mystery:The autopsy indicates a deceased insured man was murdered and the evidence points to his widow.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: April …
Today's Mystery:A woman's sister is murdered after she hears the voice of her dead seven-year-old son.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 20, 1948
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to a South American country where an American is wanted for killing the leader of the Fascist Party in order to prevent the election of an anti-US Government.
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Today's Mystery: A young woman claims her insured father was murdered by a woman he met and married through a lonely hearts club.
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Today's Mystery:A newspaper editor hires Spade to go undercover as a tenant at an apartment building where someone appears to have captured a shooting on their camera
.Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 23, 1951
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Today's Mystery:A man wakes up in an insane asylum with no idea how he got there.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 6, 1946
Originated from Hollywood
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Todays Mystery:A man described as having a face like a werewolf is robbing and mutilating women in the wee hours on the streets of Los Angeles.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny is still doubting a doctor's story even after being pistol-whipped by the man the doctor alleged threatened to kill him.
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Today's Mystery:A blind derelict is found murdered near a strange house that feeds the homeless. Mr. Chameleon finds that he was neither blind nor a derelict, and that's just the start of the mystery.
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Rome to find out why someone tried to bribe a student into smuggling a recording cylinder to Europe that contained a …
Today's Mystery: Johnny's called to Providence to investigate when a local insurance agent reports a suspicious application. A doctor with few responsibilities has applied for $80,000 in additional life insurance, and …
Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a soap opera queen to find her husband, and discover why he's so distraught over a telegram from Mexico City.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 16, 1951
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Today's First Story: Basil Rathbone sets up an office as a radio detective, with Kenny Delmar as his bumbling sidekick.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: …
Today's Mystery:Friday and Romero search for two tough robbers who shot two police officers at a café.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 10, 1949
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Today's Mystery:Johnny's predecessor in guarding in a show dog died under mysterious circumstances. Can Johnny avoid his fate?
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Today's Mystery:A woman is found strangled in her room after telling her much-older husband that she wants a divorce.
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Today's Mystery:Steve investigates a series of explosions targeting treaty negotiations in Japan.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 19, 1951
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Today's Mystery:Harry Branson summons Johnny on a mystery case that's strictly for the dogs.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: April 9 and 10, 1956
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Today's Mystery: Sam is hired by a gambler to find out if an ex-Jockey cheated him and two tough friends out of $1500 by promising them a chance to profit on "a sure thing."
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 9, 1951
Today's Mystery: A man convicted of extortion decides McCormick information on a robbery to avoid an indefinite prison sentence.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:September 15, 1957
Originated from: New YorkStarring: Nat …
Today's Mystery: Despite a sense of foreboding, Johnny proceeds with his efforts to serve a subpeona on an underworld figure.
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Today's Mystery: Vance investigates an impossible murder. A gangster was killed in a house surrounded by mud but no footprints were found inside.
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Trinidad in search of a scientist who has discovered an important microbe but failed to report on time.
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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to San Francisco to find a notorious criminal to protect him until the company can cancel his insurance policy.
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Today's Mystery:Sam is hired to find a sea captain, and then finds himself in the middle of desperate characters fighting over a string of pearls.
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Today's Mystery:A postmaster (Victor Perrin) gets a tip that there's a time bomb among the day's packages.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 22, 1956
Stars: Victor Perin, Herb Ellis, Frank Gershwin, Vivi Janis, Helen …
Today's Mystery: A woman's lover alleges that she was killed by her husband.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 24, 1957Originated from: New …
Today's Mystery:Johnny has to overcome heartbreak as he tries to solve the murder of the father of the woman he had fallen in love with while on …
Today's Mystery:An actor is found murdered on a ferry boat wearing a pair of argyle socks that doesn't match the rest of his outfit.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 27, 1950
Originated in: New York CityStarred: …
Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to a U.S.-occupied town in West Germany to find the source of an epidemic that's making everyone sick.
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Today's Mystery: Johnny meets a beautiful woman while on vacation and falls for her. Her insured father dies and Johnny is assigned to investigate.
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Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a man who received a threat after scheduling a ski weekend with a bunch of volatile guests.
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In this episode of Voice of the Army, Jimmy Stewart narrates the story of an ill-fated plane in the Pacific Theater during World War II...and a legend that goes along with it.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 1, 1949
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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 …
Today's Mystery:The only witness who could have told Johnny about the explosion of a yacht owned by an infamous international figure died before …
Today's Mystery:A boxer's manager is killed during a prize fight.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 20, 1950
Originated in: New York City
Starred: Jackson Beck as Philo Vance, George Petrie as District Attorney Markham
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Rotterdam, Netherlands on a tip from a female track athlete who claims to have seen a Nazi war criminal at a china shop. The problem? The china shop has disappeared and everyone claims it …
Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to San Diego to investigate a $460,000 claim on a Yacht and finds the local adjuster has been fatally wounded.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: March 19 and 20, 1956
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Today's Mystery :A mysterious woman comes to Sam Spade's apartment dressed as a harem girl, tries to poison Spade, and accidentally kills herself.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 19, 1951
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Today's Mystery:A couple are held up by a teenage boy at a drive in theater.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 14, 1952
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Today's Mystery:Johnny is convinced that there was fraud in the fire that burned down a school in a small town, but everyone's afraid to talk.
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Today's Mystery:A homeless woman is found murdered in full evening dress.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 13, 1950
Originated in: New York City
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Today's Mystery:Steve is called in to a Balkan country to stop an American who is running an illegal radio station broadcasting anti-American propaganda.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 28, 1951
Originated in …
Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to a small Colorado town to investigate reports that a new school building is structurally unsound. Johnny arrives to …
Today's Mystery:A foreign correspondent, whom Sam was hired to bodyguard, is murdered while giving a lecture.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January …
Today's Mystery:An elderly store owner is beaten and robbed.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:September 7, 1952
Originiated from Hollywood
Starred: Joel …
Today's Mystery:Johnny has a clue to the identity of a dead woman: her purse, with a recently-fired gun inside of it.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: …
Today's Mystery:Vance and Markham investigate the murder of a man after they hear the murder over the phone.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 6, 1950
Originated in: New York CityStarred: Jackson Beck as Philo Vance, …
Today's Mystery:On the French Riviera, the life of a key scientist, who wants to defect, depends on Steve solving the murder of a famous writer
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Today's Mystery:While in Virginia on an easy case, Johnny is asked for help by a young woman asks Johnny who then dies suddenly.
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Today's Mystery:Spade is called in by the producer of a true crime radio program to find a witness who claims to know who committed an unsolved …
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Today's Mystery:Blackie agrees to be a technical adviser on a crime film and …
Originally Released 3,500 days after the Podcast Launched (January 12, 2018)
Today's Mystery: Johnny investigates the death of an ill woman who made a sudden change in her will.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 2, 1961
Originally Released 2,500 days after the Podcast Launched (August 30, 2016)
Today's Mystery: Guthrie looks for the master planner behind a bank …
Originally Released 2,000 days after the Podcast Launched (April 18, 2015)
Today's Mystery:Friday and Romero investigate the distribution and sale of …
Originally Released 1,501 days after the Podcast Launched (December 5, 2013)Today's Mystery:A wealthy woman comes to Nick because she has a problem with her doctor - who is a witch doctor.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: …
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Today's Mystery:Frank is brought in when a freight company belonging to a …
Originally released 500 days after the podcast Launched (March 26, 2011)
Today's Mystery:While Sherlock Holmes is retired on his bee farm, he is asked …
Today's Mystery:A mother and her son find an unidentified woman dead in the woods.Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 31, 1952
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Today's Mystery: Johnny is convinced that a struggling businessman, who disappeared after a boat caught fire and sunk, is alive
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Today's Mystery:Philo investigates the murder of a carnival concessions operator.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 30, 1950
Originated in: New York City
Starred: Jackson Beck as Philo Vance, George Petrie as District …
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to the Middle East to find out how sensitive diplomatic information disappeared from an official's home, and finds himself investigating the official's wife's murder.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny goes to Miami to find out if an insured man died in a boat fire, and, if so, whether it was an accident, murder, or suicide.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: February 27 and 28, 1956
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Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a 9 year-old who claims to have been robbed of a toy panda
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 29, 1950
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Today's Mystery: A middle-aged husband and wife are found dead with their son surviving as the witness.Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 24, 1952
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Today's Mystery: The insurance company presses the case against a building owner they're convicted had his own building set on fire.
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Today's Mystery: A man who created a fake money-making machine was murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 23, 1950
Originated in: New York CityStarred: Jackson Beck as Philo Vance, George Petrie as District Attorney …
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to the Balkans to recapture a stolen top-secret file from an official of a Balkan Country who offers to return it...for a …
Today's Mystery: Johnny's sent to San Francisco to investigate a fire at a building owned by a ruthless financier.
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Today's Mystery: A friend of Sam's asks him to find out why a street musician was nearly brained to death.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 15, …
Today's Mystery:A man shows up at his best friend's house to find blood on the floor and a stranger claimed to have been hired to take care of the house.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 17, 1952
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Today's Mystery: Johnny continues his investigation into the killing of a county attorney by his daughter. Was it really an accident or something else? A lot of townspeople don't like him asking.
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Today's Mystery: A dying chemistry Professor requests a manicure even though he'd been fatally wounded.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:May 16, 1950
Originated in: New York City
tarred: Jackson Beck as Philo Vance, George …
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Java to make himself a target for someone who's stolen half of a top-secret formula...and killed the person who had it.
Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to a small Virginia town to investigate the death of his district attorney in what's been called an accidental shooting …
Today's Mystery:Sam is summoned to a ghost town by an elderly man, who believes Sam is a California Marshal, to help him fight an outlaw.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny is called in to find a missing insured retired businessman who spends all his time fishing.Original Radio Broadcast Date: June …
Today's Mystery:Sam is sent to a town in New Jersey where an insured man has filed a claim for an accident that occurred when his house burned down.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 26, 1958
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Today's Mystery: Johnny closes in on a doctor who is accused of faking his wife's death to collect her insurance.
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Today's Mystery:A woman shows up in Hartford claiming to be an insured woman who died in Los Angeles two years previously.
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Today's Mystery:George is hired by a wealthy man who is suspicious because his bid to buy a broken-down railroad for a million dollars was refused.
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Today's Mystery: A chauffeur of a rich man whose partner died in a suspicious "accident" asks George to take care of the envelope plunging George into the middle of the case.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:May 28, 1951
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Today's Mystery:George goes to a small town where gossip says a man has murdered his missing wife.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 6, 1950
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Today's Mystery:Sam Spade (Edward G. Robinson) tries to solve the murder of his partner and gets drawn into the intrigue over a mysterious …
Today's Mystery:Jace Pearson suspects foul play in a fatal train crash.Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 10, 1952
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Today's Mystery: Accusations fly and suspects point fingers at each other as Johnny's investigation into who sabotaged a plane and caused the death of ten passengers continues.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: February 1, …
Today's Mystery: Vance investigates a series of murders committed by a whistling killer who tries to extort money from his wealthy victims.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 9, 1950
Originated in: New York City
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Today's Mystery:Steven goes to Panama to take up the case of an old friend who was murdered while looking for stolen dynamite. Steve's only clue? A …
Today's Mystery:Johnny goes to Mexico to investigate a plane crash where three of the victims were insured with travel life insurance.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: January 30 and 31, 1956
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Today's Mystery:The owner of an investment firm hires Spade to shadow one of her clients whom she says may be involved in a racket.
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A Texas Rangers Captain is assigned to form a group of special forces to stop rustlers stealing cattle and taking them across the Rio Grande.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:June 13, 1954
Guest Host: Andrew Rhynes of the …
Today's Mystery:Jace searches for a man who robbed a bank.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 3, 1952
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Starred: Joel McCrea …
Today's Mystery:Johnny's investigation into the death of a racehorse leads him to investigate the owner's finances and the disappearance of the horse's trainer.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: January 25, 26, and 27, …
Today's Mystery:A man falls from a roof, leaving behind a suicide note. Vance suspects murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 2, 1950
Originated in: New York City
Starred: Jackson Beck as Philo Vance, George Petrie as …
Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to Macao to locate a hospital chart that could lead to a US ally being defeated for re-election.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny goes to California to investigate a $65,000 claim on a racehorse who was injured and had to be destroyed.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: January 23 and 24, 1956
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Today's Mystery:A man named Tom Turkey shows up in Sam's office and says he's afraid someone's going to kill him.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: …
Today's Mystery:Jace is called in when an elderly town character is shot down in a store stick-up.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 27, 1952
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Today's Mystery:Johnny nearly killed getting a missing insured violin out of a New Jersey swamp, but is it actually genuine?
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Today's Mystery:Multiple beauty contest contestants are found murdered with their shoes missing.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 27, 1949
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to a South American country to find out who killed a man with papers identifying him as Steve Mitchell.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny goes to New Jersey to investigate the disappearance of a has-been musician and his insured $30,000 violin.
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Today's Mystery:Sam explains to a confused Effie how he's still alive.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 17, 1950
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Today's Mystery:Jace Pearson tracks down a robber who robbed and killed a newspaper delivery driver.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 20, 1952
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Today's Mystery:A woman's life hangs in the balance. What can she tell Johnny and the police about the man who shot her?
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Today's Mystery: Vance investigates the murder of a man at a low-stakes poker game.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 20, 1949
Originated in: New York City
Starred: Jackson Beck as Philo Vance, George Petrie as …
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to London to intercept someone who is trying to sell a U.S. Intelligence secret.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 3, …
Today's Mystery:Johnny gets a tip from a convict he sent up on a $75,000 robbery.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: January 16 and 17, 1956
Originated …
Today's Mystery: Sam stays the night at a farmhouse where a beautiful woman pleads for his help.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 3, 1950
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Today's Mystery:Jace Pearson sets out to find out who killed a deputy in a jail riot.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 13, 1952
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Today's Mystery: Johnny begins to dig into the past of a man presumed burned to death in a car.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: January 4, 5, and 6, …
Today's Mystery:The president of a railroad is found dead on the rails of one of his trains.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 23, 1947
Originated in: New York City
Starred: Jackson Beck as Philo Vance, George Petrie …
Today's Mystery:Steve sets out to recover stolen plans the Nazis had for an improved buzz bomb before they can be sold to the highest bidder.
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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to Los Angeles to investigate the apparent death of an insured man in a burning car.
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Sam is hired by a woman to help her fiancé, who has been charged with armed robbery.Rehearsal of Program that Aired May 28, 1950
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Today's Mystery:An elderly man disappears after an argument with his daughter.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 6, 1952
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Today's Mystery:An accountant who embezzled $5,000 continues to refuse to tell Johnny what he did with the money, but contemplates a far more drastic …
Today's Mystery:A best-selling writer who is writing a novel that could ruin a woman's life is murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 16, …
Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Europe to clear the U.S. of having stolen a cutlass that's a powerful national symbol. The problem? A U.S. Navy …
Today's Mystery:Johnny quickly discovers who embezzled nearly $5,000 from a New York fashion firm, but where's the money?
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Today's Mystery:Sam is hired to serve as an alibi for a Mexican man but all bets are off when his daughter is shot right in front of him.
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Today's Mystery:A desperate ex-con agrees to murder a woman for $1,000 and Jace has to stop him.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 29, 1952
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Today's Mystery:Johnny is convinced that an insurance policy was set up fraudulently, but can he prove it before the beneficiary is able to go to …
Today's Mystery:Philo Vance investigates the case of a man who threw his bath brush out the window before being found murdered in his shower/bathtub.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 25, 1950
Originated in: New York …
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Malaysia to find an ex-Nazi fugitive who is stirring up rebellion and disrupting rubber production.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 3, 1951
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Today's Mystery:Johnny goes to Tucson to investigate the suspicious case of a man insured for $50,000 who died from malnutrition and could not have …
Today's Mystery:A private eye from Chicago who lost his license pushes his way into Sam's office and talks him into taking a case...dressed as a giant rabbit.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 4, 1949
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Today's Mystery:Jayce searches for the murderer of an elderly cattle rancher who stole a sheriff's gun and beat him with it.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny arrives at Dolly Cronin's old estate after someone attacked him to steal the necklace, while Mrs. Cronin takes ill
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Today's Mystery:Philo Vance returns from a trip to find a golden key in the mail, and a dead body in his office - with the same key.
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Cairo to search for a missing government official whose accusation could bring down a U.S.-friendly Middle Eastern …
Today's Mystery:Johnny is called in when a has-been star plans a party on a train full of friends and acquaintances and wants to bring out jewels …
Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a waiter who leaves a photo in a sandwich and tells him to find the woman in it.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 6, 1949
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Today's Mystery: A mystery writer (Brian Donlevy) and his wife (Lucille Ball) move into a basement apartment in the East Village one night. In the morning, they find a body in their garden.'
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Today's Mystery: A man claims his spare tire was stolen out of the back of his car and accuses a Sherrif's Deputy of failing to file his report.
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Today's Mystery: After an unsatisfactory coroner's inquest, Johnny continues his investigation into the death of a Montana rancher.
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Today's Mystery: Philo Vance is called to investigate a series of thefts perpetrated by a female gang.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 11, 1950
Originated in: New York City
Starred: Jackson Beck as Philo Vance, George …
Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to Quebec to recover a report on new arctic warfare equipment that had been in the possession of a murdered scientist.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 20, 1951
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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to a small town in Montana to investigate the death of an insured rancher.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: November 28 …
Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a tribal chief to locate an engineer who didn't show up for a meeting.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 25, …
Today's Mystery:The Rangers pursue a robber who stabbed a victim and kidnapped a local woman.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 8, 1952
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Today's Mystery:After an attempt on the life of a Broadway star, Johnny's investigation intensifies. But is it getting too personal?
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Today's Mystery: Vance is kidnapped so a mimic can impersonate him.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 4, 1950
Originated in: New York City
Starred: Jackson Beck as Philo Vance, George Petrie as District Attorney …
Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Madrid, Spain to find a prominent scientist who disappeared while defecting to the United States.
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Today's Mystery: Johnny is called after an insured theater actress received a threatening note.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: November 21 and 22, …
Today's Mystery:Sam is hired to break up a romance between the daughter of a wealthy man and a disreputable night club owner.
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Today's Mystery: Jace investigates the murder of a shopkeeper who was killed during a going out of business sale.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:June …
Today's Mystery:Johnny continues on the search for a missing insurance beneficiary whose life continues to elude him.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: …
Today's Mystery:A man murders his business partner in Africa to claim sole ownership of a cache of ivory. He's then found dead in a locked room.
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Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to Haiti to find out if some missing scientists are alive and to recover their research on submarine warfare.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 6, 1951
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Today's Mystery: Johnny is hired to search for the beneficiary of an impoverished insured who left her a $1500 life insurance policy.
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Today's Mystery: Sam is hired by a wealthy businessman who fears that he'll be attacked by a former employee whom he sent to prison.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 7, 1949
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Today's Mystery: The Rangers join a statewide manhunt for an escaped felon who killed a police officer.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 25, 1952
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Today's Mystery:Johnny's search for the stolen diamonds sends him to the casbah.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: November 9, 10 and 11, 1955
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Today's Mystery:An informant is murdered right before Markham and Vance can question him about who killed a mobster.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 21, 1950
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Today's Mystery: Steve has to intercept the leading citizen of an Eastern European country before he walks into a trap set by a false friend.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 30, 1950
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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to Algiers to investigate the theft of diamonds after a courier died.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates:November 7 and 8, …
Today's Mystery: Sam is hired by the operator of a gambling den to return a necklace to its owner, but Sam finds out she already has it.
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Today's Mystery:Jace Pearson is called in when a body is found burned inside a locked business.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 18, 1952
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Today's Mystery: A talented dancer is murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 14, 1950
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Today's Mystery: A talented dancer is murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 14, 1950
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Richmond to find out why a foreign agent stole a Civil War map.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 16, 1950
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Today's Mystery: While on a case in New Orleans, Johnny meets an old bootlegger who just wants to give a quiet life. Johnny is put on the case when …
Today's Mystery:
A wealthy woman tries to get Sam to frame a private school teacher theft.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:July 10, 1949
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Today's Mystery:Pat uses Jean as a decoy to capture a jewel robber who murdered a wealthy man.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 3, 1955
Greg uses Gail as a decoy to capture a jewel robber who murdered a wealthy man
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Today's Mystery:The Rangers hunt for an violent escaped mental patient.Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 11, 1952
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Today's Mystery :The search for an embezzler in Mexico heats up after a bellboy who was providing Johnny information is murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: October 26-28, 1955
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Today's Mystery:A wealthy practical joker who suspected his assistant of embezzlement is murdered.Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 7, 1950
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Berlin to stop a kidnapping and extortion racket that kidnaps German citizens and threatens to hand them over to the Eastern Bloc if their relatives don't pay a ransom.
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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to Mexico to search for an embezzler.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: October 24 and 25, 1955
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Today's Mystery: Sam is hired by a woman who fears she'll be murdered by a romantic rival.Original Radio Broadcast
Date: June 19, 1949
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Today's Mystery: Jack Carson calls in Sam Spade for protection after receiving a threatening telegram.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 5, 1947
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Today's Mystery: Two young women rob a theater and beat the manager.Original Radio Broadcast Date:May 4, 1952
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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to Denver to question a man who was identified by a man of a deceased insured man who died seven years ago. The man in Denver is eager to help...too eager
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Today's Mystery: A racketeer is the prime suspect in a murder but he has an alibi-Vance and Markham.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:February 14, 1950
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to a South American country where the President of a US ally is accused of plotting war against a neighbor with the assistance of the U.S.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 2, 1950
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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to Baltimore to investigate a credible report of a dead insured man whose policy was paid out, being seen alive in …
Today's Mystery: Sam is hired by a wealthy woman to recover stolen uninsured jewels.Original Radio Broadcast
Date:June 5, 1949
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Today's mystery:A reporter responds to the ad of a mother who wants someone to clear her son of the murder of a police officer twelve years before.
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Today's Mystery:A young mother sends her ten-year-old son to get water, but when he returns with a farmer, she's gone.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny begins the search for a cook that was presumed dead in the wreck of the Molly K, but who Johnny suspects is both alive and …
Today's Mystery:A racketeer's thug, whose name is Chick, is murdered, and chicken blood is found on his body. This leads Markham to conclude that chicken blood flowed through the murdered hood's veins.
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to North Indo-China (modern-day Vietnam) to retrieve an American clerk who'd been framed as a spy and then captured by guerillas.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 25, 1950
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Today's Mystery: Johnny investigates the suspicious sinking of a cargo freighter
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Sam is called out to Belvedere Island to protect an artist who fears for his life.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 1, 1949
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As he investigates the murder of a young advertising executive (Gene Tierney), a police detective (Dana Andrews) begins to fall in love with the …
Today's Mystery:A homemaker claims someone is trying to kill her.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 20, 1952
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Today's Mystery:Johnny's search for $100,000 in stolen jewels continues.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: October 5-7, 1955
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Today's Mystery:A political boss is murdered before a big election.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 31, 1950
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Munich to intercept a stolen formula that's traveling by way of an inventive new route - the Memory Chain.
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Today's Mystery: A dying prisoner in Ossing gives Johnny a clue to solving a long-unsolved jewel burglary.
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Today's Mystery: Sam is hired by a psychologist to extract a confession from a young widow who's ex-mother-in-law suspects she murdered her son.
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Today's Mystery: Jace is called in when two fishing buddies hear shots and there's evidence of foul play but no body.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny goes to Hong Kong to investigate a $200,000 arson claim.
Original Audition Date: August 29, 1955
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Today's Mystery:Wealthy men who own rare music boxes are being murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 24, 1950
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Tokyo to investigate a sabotage operation for which an old flame is the prime suspect.
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Today's Mystery: A stabbing follows a contentious auction.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 6, 1942
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Today's Mystery: Sam is hired by an eccentric wealthy woman living in a large house who claims that she's receiving threatening letters, but she claims they disappeared.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 10, 1949
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Today's Mystery:Jace looks for a soldier who deserted a troop train, beat up an elderly rancher, and stole his car.
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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to Wisconsin to investigate the murder of a troubled insurance man.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 10, 1954
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Today's Mystery:A woman comes to Vance after seeing her husband walking down the street talking - even though he's been dead for ten months.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 17, 1950
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Today's Mystery:Steve has to put a stop to an organization that's killing American tourists overseas and stealing their identities in order to smuggle their agents across the border.
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Today's Mystery: Jane gets a client for Peter Blossom, a beautiful widow who's accused of murdering her wealthy husband.
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Today's Mystery: Sam receives a love letter from a woman he doesn't know asking her to escape from her insane uncle.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 27, 1949
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Today's Mystery:Jace investigates the case of a robber who is assaulting young couples at night and who has already committed one murder.
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Today's Mystery:Johnny goes to Michigan to investigate an explosion onboard a ship, and to find the respectable man who is suspected of planting the bomb.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 3, 1954
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Today's Mystery: A gangleader comes to Vance for help go legitimate and is then found murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:January 10, 1950
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Steve goes to Latin America to retrieve a foreign agent who is willing to give the US vital secrets if they can protect him from the …
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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Today's Mystery:Sam's attempts to relax and read by a Western novel are interrupted by the drama surrounding a beautiful actress who is one of Sam's …
Today's Mystery: Jace is called in to investigate the disappearance of four calves from a small farm.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 16, 1952
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Today's Mystery: Johnny travels to South Bend, Indiana to recover a stolden radioactive gold isotope before it kills someone.
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Today's Mystery: A chorus girl goes to Philo Vance after receiving a death threat if she doesn't hand over $5,000.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 3, 1950
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Today's Mystery: Steve goes to Istanbul where a seal and his trainer are at the center of a murder case involving an agent investigating a spy ring.
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Doctor Tim is called in to find out what's behind a series of food poisonings.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 24, 1950
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Sam is hired to protect a wealthy young woman who claims her life is endangered by her mentally unstable brother and their scheming psychiatrist stepfather.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:December 12, 1948
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Today's Mystery:A couple moving to Texas from Iowa are killed, and their 12-year-old son is shot in a car-jacking gone wrong.
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Today's Mystery:An insured young woman dies by falling off a bridge. The police and Johnny believe it was murder.
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Today's Mystery:A doppelganger for Philo Vance collapses dead at the DA's office after being killed by a gang whose leader tolerates no mistakes.
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Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to the Balkans to find out what's behind a series of murders at an allegedly cursed chromite mine.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 6, 1950
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Today's 1st Mystery:A woman has an unexplained case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in winter.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 27, 1950
Today's 2nd Mystery:Dr. Tim, Jill, and Sandy find a sick child at a forest cabin.
Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a gumball magnate to find out who has been breaking his machines, leaving the money, and stealing the gumballs.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 28, 1948
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Today's Mystery:Jace searches for an icepick-wielding burglar who steals food from his victims first.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 2, 1952
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Today's Mystery:Johnny is called to Sumatra by an oil man, who wants him to protect a test oil well, in exchange for which the oil man will …
Today's Mystery: Philo Vance investigates a series of robberies in Chinatown that have led to one murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 20, 1949
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Today's Mystery:Steve is sent on a chase across Great Britain and Ireland to try and locate stolen microfilm.
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Today's 1st Mystery:Dr. Tim searches for a missing man with tuberculosis.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 13, 1950
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Today's Mystery: Sam refers a divorce case to a hotel house detective, but Sam because involved when the supposed subject of the investigation ends …
Today's Mystery: Sherlock Holmes and Watson race to save a luxury liner from being blown up.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 28, 1947
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Today's Mystery: Candy goes on vacation at a dude ranch at the Valley of the Moon after Christmas and quickly runs into murder.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:December 17, 1949
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The daughter of Irene Adler has a favor to ask of Sherlock Holmes that involves attempted burglary.
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Today's Mystery:A king hires Sherlock Holmes to get a compromising picture back from “the woman.”
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 10, 1945
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Today’s Mystery:A female scientist wants Dr. Watson and his wife to invest in her invention, a metal that facilitates human teleportation.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 21, 1945
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Today's Mystery: Sherlock Holmes’s brother Mycroft calls on Holmes to help find stolen top secret papers relating to submarine plans.
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The characters on Richard Diamond take a week off from mysteries to perform a modern version of the Christmas Carol.
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Today's Mystery: Jace sets out to find out why a beloved small doctor was murdered on Christmas Day.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 23, 1951
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Today's Mystery: Johnny goes to Detroit to make a deal for the return of a stolen painting.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 6, 1954
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Today's Mystery:Philo Vance is called to investigate the report of a man strangled by a grey glove in mid-air.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: Decemmber 13, 1949
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Today's Mystery:Steve goes to Bombay to get in touch with the key witness who got an American businessman convicted of gunrunning.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:August 23, 1950
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Today's 1st Mystery: Dr. Tim, Jill, and Sammy have to find a man who was bitten by a rabid Maltese Cat.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 27, 1950
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Sam is hired to attend and keep peace at a combined Halloween and celebrity engagement party.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 31, 1948
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George Burns and Sam Spade explain to a police lieutenant how Gracie got them thrown into jail for murder.
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Jace searches for a teenager who has stolen several cars and stabbed the owner in his latest theft.
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Johnny goes to Manila to investigate a $75,000 safe burglary.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 29, 1954
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A woman warns Vance that her fiancé will be murdered, and Vance is present when he's murdered at a party.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:December 6, 1949
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Steve goes to Paris to locate the murderer of a legendary detective before the killer can add key diplomats to his list of victims.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 16, 1955
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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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Sam goes to get a good night's sleep and instead gets dragged into a murder case by a neighbor.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:October 24, 1948
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Married to Murder - The Whistler (09-25-44)
A woman marries an artist right after he murders his girlfriend for the thrill of living with a killer. She has plans for even greater thrills!
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A farmer accuses his farm hand of murdering his wife.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 17, 1952
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Johnny investigates the shooting of an insured man.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 22, 1954
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A man is murdered in a thunderstorm while talking to his niece.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 29, 1949
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Steve goes to Africa to bring back an enemy agent who is stirring up anti-American sentiment.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 9, 1950
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On the road back from Gundagai, Steve encounters a woman who claims her car was stolen and her sister kidnapped.
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Sam is hired by a man to prevent his wealthy stepdaughter from marrying a gangster.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 3, 1948
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Jace searches for a prisoner who escaped from jail and hitched a ride with a local rancher.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 10, 1952
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Johnny investigates a series of beatings and delivery truck robberies.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 15, 1954
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A woman comes to Philo Vance claiming that a man came to her in a dream, and then in real life, to give her $500 and a car, and then …
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Steve goes to Vienna to find a female Nazi war criminal who was believed dead, but is in possession of top-secret documents showing U.S. Troop movements in Europe.
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Larry is hired to make a deal for the return of a stolen diamond.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1952
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Sam is hired by a fellow detective to protect him from a released convict he'd sent to prison.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 26, 1948
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A boxer is poisoned before a big fight.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 3, 1952
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Johnny goes to a small town to investigate when he gets word that an insured actress who supposedly died in a fire may have been murdered.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 18, 1954
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Vance investigates how a businessman could have been murdered by a man who'd broken into his safe with the combination when only the …
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Steve goes to Indochina to capture a guerilla leader.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 26, 1950
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A mysterious man walks into Larry's offices and hires him watch a stone with the word, "Victoria" on it. When they meet for Larry return the stone, his client is stabbed.
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Sam is hired by the young wife of a wealthy man to find out why he's withdrawn $100,000 from his account.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 19, 1948
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Regan drives sixty miles to Calabasas to pick up a package, and has to deal with a turkey shoot where everyone is pretending to be pilgrims.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 20, 1948
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Jace Pearson and Clay Morgan are called in to catch two cattle rustlers.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 27, 1952
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Johnny goes to San Juan, Puerto Rico to investigate the murder of an insured parimutuel track owner.
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Philo Vance is hired by a woman to find out if a man claiming to be an immortal 400-year-old is telling the truth.
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Steve goes to Istanbul to find a missing radio reporter and his reel of tape which provides a clue to something hot that could effect …
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The owner of a travel agency asks Larry for help with a corpse in her apartment. When they get there, the body is gone.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1950 or 1951
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Sam is hired by a man who was declared dead to prove he's alive.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:September 21, 1948
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A small-town doctor stumbles downtown and dies after being severely beaten in his home. Jace has to find out who did it.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: January 20, 1952
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Johnny goes to Dallas to investigate a series of fires of insured properties that are being lit every Tuesday.
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An office manager is suspected of murder after being found over his boss's body. He immediately runs to Vance and offers him $10,000 …
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Steve goes behind the Iron Curtain to deliver an antidote to and rescue a man who's been brainwashed into confessing to being a Naval Intelligence agent.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 31, 1950
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Larry helps out a woman being followed by two men and then gets drawn into her problems.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1950
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Sam is hired by a wealthy man to locate a stolen gun. He does so and brings the gun back to find it was used to kill his client.
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Randy encounters a troubled man trying to steal a gun.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 9, 1950
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Jace is called in when a con man swindles a widow out of her entire live savings.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 13, 1952
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Johnny investigates the theft of jewels from the wealthy widow of a baron.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 18, 1954
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The murder of a ship's steward - who was also a diamond smuggler - sets off a string of violence and intrigue that Vance has to …
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Steve goes to Rangoon to investigate the murder of an American correspondent who was reporting on a racket involving political …
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Larry is hired to guard a shady character.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1950
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San overhead a thug taking a rap for a mob boss threaten the life of boss in 1945. Afer being released from prison, the thug calls Sam to prove his innocence after finding the boss murdered in his …
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A petty robber is found by the side of the road near death, and provides a clue to the identity of his killers.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: January 6, 1952
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Johnny investigates the murder of a small-town police chief.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 4, 1954
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Philo Vance is called out west to investigate the murder of a dude ranch guest.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 4, 1949
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Today's Mystery: Steve is sent to Saudi Arabia to find out how 100,000 barrels of oil disappeared between the oil fields and the refinery.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 17, 1950
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Larry is hired by a nationally infamous character to stop her downstairs neighbor from blackmailing her.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1950
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Sam is hired to deliver a valuable cup on a train to Los Angeles.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 22, 1948
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A blind former police captain finds himself in the middle of an investigation of murder and blackmail.
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Jace investigates the killing of a young narcotics addict.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: December 30, 1951
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Johnny searches for the murderer of a writer who wrote two great novels twenty years ago before beginning a life of degradation.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:April 27, 1954
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At midnight, three different robberies are committed, in three different parts of the city, by a man in a checkered suit.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 13, 1949
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Steve goes to Stockholm to find the son of scientist so he can break up a spy ring surrounding a lecture circuit.
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Larry is hired to find out which of four models and a photographer stole a valuable clock from a wealthy eccentric mushroom grower.
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Sam is hired by a wealthy widow to find her estranged stepdaughter.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 15, 1948
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Jace investigates the murder of an oil worker who was thrown from a train.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 16, 1951
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Johnny investigates the murder of an insured Los Angeles-area criminal.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 20, 1954
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A wealthy man is found murdered and his safe robbed, and his butler has disappeared.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 6, 1949
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Steve travels to Paris to save International talks from breaking down by finding a missing delegate representing countries in the …
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Larry is hired to solve a murder by a voice over the phone before it happened.
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Sam is hired by a man who fears his sister is about to marry a man who had three wives die in mysterious accidents.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:August 8, 1948
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Jace investigates the case of a woman killed by a truck explosion.
Original Radio Broadcast Dates: December 9, 1951
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Johnny goes to South Carolina to investigate an arson at a paper factory.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 13, 1954
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Two men show up to claim the fortune of a wealthy dead man, but one claims the other is an imposter. Murder follows.
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Steve goes to Alaska to find two missing scientists, one of whom is an ex-Nazi.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 24, 1950
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Three recently released criminals are out to settle a score with Larry Kent and they start out with an attempt to kill him in Sydney.
Original Radio Broadcast: 1949 or 1950
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Sam is called in by a lawyer who is killed right in front of Sam.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 1, 1948
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A mother and her four-month-old daughter are shot to death.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 2, 1951
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Johnny goes to Venezuela to investigate the sabotage of an insured hydro electric dam project after the sabotage turns deadly.
Original Radio Broadcast Date:April 6, 1954
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A woman is found murdered at her piano in her home.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 23, 1949
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Steve goes to Ecuador to look into crashes by a small cargo airline that are apparently caused by UFOs.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 17, 1950
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A man wanted for murdering his business partner hides in Larry Kent's office and asks Larry to prove his innocence.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1949 or 1950
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Sam is hired by an inventor who believes a wealthy industrialist has ripped off his invention.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 25, …
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Jace investigates the murder of a gas station owner.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 25, 1951
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Johnny travels to Portland, Oregon to investigate the theft of a lumber company payroll. The company owner has offered a suspect: his …
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A local crime boss commits murder and disappears and both the police and his rivals shows up at his girlfriend's house in hopes of …
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Steve goes to Trinidad to help another agent recover some sunken military secrets.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 10, 1950
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A wealthy woman hires Larry to recover a valuable diamond.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1949 or 1950
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Sam is hired to find a missing investigative reporter who had been writing exposes of major criminals.
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Jace investigates the brutal murder of a ranch hand on a trail.
Original Air Date: November 18, 1951
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Based on an anonymous note, Johnny goes to a small Pennsylvania town to investigate the murder of an insured woman.
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A wealthy eccentric man disappears while going fishing.
Original Air Date: August 9, 1949
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Steve is sent to Cairo where an old friend, a Sheik, who controls valuable uranium mines is threatening not to renew the lease held …
Larry goes to a fashion show and meets a beautiful model who asks him for a simple favor - dispose of the body of a murder victim that inconveniently …
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A woman with amnesia hires Sam to help with the murdered body she found.
Original Air Date: July 11, 1948
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A woman comes home in a panic and reports that her date was murdered.
Original Air Date: November 11, 1951
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Johnny goes to Berlin to investigate the killing of a consulting engineer who had just increased his insurance.
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A mobster is murdered. His partner is the prime suspect, but he has an airtight alibi.
Original Air Date: August 2, 1949
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Steve goes to Switzerland to reclaim a forced confession that could destabilize a Central European government.
Original Air Date: March 20, 1950
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Larry Kent stops a man who was pursuing a beautiful blonde woman. She repays him by bashing him over the head with her purse, knocking him …
Sam is hired to guard the presents at a loveless wedding, one of which is a priceless diamond with a reputation for bringing bad luck.
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In the Case of the Crooked Wheel, the owner of a casino has Michael Shayne come to investigate an apparent case of fraud at his casino.
Original Air Date: 1947
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A motorist is murdered by two "Good Samaritans" who help him get his car started and then decide to rob and kill him.
Original Air Date: November 4, 1951
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Johnny travels to a terrorist hot zone in Malaysia, where the life of an insured couple may be at risk, with the wife already having disappeared.
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The police think the killer of a photographer died in a car wreck, but Vance disagrees.
Original Air Date: July 26, 1949
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Steve goes to San Diego to recover a stolen recorded wire of an international conference.
Original Air Date: March 6, 1950
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A British actor hires Larry Kent and immediately tries to kill him before being murdered himself.
Original Air Date: 1949
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Sam is hired by an old flame whose bail bondsman husband is in trouble.
Original Air Date: June 27, 1948
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Sam Spade is called in to protect Mister First Nighter from being killed.
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The Murder of a Salesman sets Ranger Jace Pearson on the trail of a hobo.
Original Air Date: October 28, 1951
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Johnny is called in to investigate when an insured auto manufacturer reports three failed road tests, one leading to death.
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A woman comes into Vance's office, but leaves when he calls her by name. Murder follows.
Original Air Date: July 19, 1949
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Steve goes to Macao to bring back a fellow agent. Things get complicated when Steve finds a dead man in the agent's hotel and the agent is wanted for murder.
Original Air Date: February 27, 1950
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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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Sam investigates a case with two dying statements, one of which was false.
Original Air Date: June 20, 1948
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A street-smart dancer with regrets tries to clear the name of a naive sailor from her hometown.
Original Air Date: May 20, 1946
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Jace searches for a missing young woman after her ex-boyfriend is found murdered at a house where she had been babysitting.
Original Air Date: October 21, 1951
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Johnny goes to Chicago to investigate the murder of an insurance man who was killed after listing his car for sale in a classified newspaper ad.
Original Air Date: February 23, 1954
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An actress with a past faces blackmail ahead of an opportunity to make it big in Hollywood. Murder follows.
Original Air Date: July 12, 1949
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Steve goes to Athens to retrieve radar plans stolen from the U.S. but finds himself dealing with multiple groups trying to profit from them.
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Martha takes up the defense of a man who claims self-defense in the shooting of a man who held up his bar ... and who was his wife's ex-husband.
Original Air Date: August 28, 1952
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Sam is hired by a woman to protect her from her recently paroled husband.
Original Air Date: January 25, 1948
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A corrupt constable kills the local sheriff and is in charge of investigating the murder. However, his plan faces a major obstacle when Ranger Jayce Pearson is called in.
Original Air Date: October 14, 1951
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Johnny travels to Beverly Hills to find a valuable uncut diamond that has been stolen.
Original Air Date: February 16, 1954
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Two extortioners kidnap Vance to ensure they can collect their money; Their victim turns up dead after Vance is released.
Original Air Date: July 5, …
Steve goes to Tangiers undercover as a soldier of fortune who bore an uncanny resemblance to Steve. Steve has to find out who killed his doppleganger …
Holmes is called in to investigate the theft of several cadavers from a hospital.
Original Air Date: May 19, 1932
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Sam leaves an hour before a photo shoot in answer to a call from a printer and has to explain one hour later when he shows back at the office beaten and bruised.
Original Air Date: January 4, 1948
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Jace is called in to investigate the killing of an eighty-year-old man in a wheelchair.
Original AIr Date: October 7, 1951
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Johnny travels to the French Riviera to investigate when a heavily insured man is killed underwater with a harpoon.
Original Air Date: February 9, 1954
A race car driver dies on the track, but Vance doesn't think it's an accident.
Original Air Date: June 28, 1949
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Steve goes to Panama to complete the mission of a friend, who was killed trying to locate a cache of Japanese weapons from World War II.
Original Air Date: February 6, 1950
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A woman is poisoned in her "dream house" after eating a piece of cake.
Original Air Date: January 31, 1951
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Sam is hired by a doctor whose jealous wife is ruining his practice and has threatened to use a gun.
Original Air Date: November 9, 1947
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A murdered body is found inside a closed-up mine.
Original Air Date: September 30, 1951
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Johnny goes undercover on a share-the-ride trip with a robber and killer in hopes of reclaiming the stolen money.
Original Air Date: February 2, 1954
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A woman brings a thug to Vance's office who beats Vance up to stop Vance from taking a case for a wealthy man.
Original Air Date: June 21, 1949
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Steve goes to Zurich in search of a stolen Defense Department file.
Original Air Date: August 20, 1949
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A wealthy semi-retired cantankerous old man who thinks everyone is stealing from him is murdered.
Original Air Date: January 17, 1951
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Sam is hired by the butler of a wealthy man who has been shot at.
Original Air: October 5, 1947
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n The Professor Goes to the Museum, Cosmo Jones has a crazy scheme to catch an art thief. From Nightcap Yarns. Original Air Date: March 27, 1939
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Jace investigates the murder of a liquor store owner.
Original Air Date: May 27, 1952
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Johnny goes to the midwest to cut a deal with a thief who stole a jewel from a wealthy small-town family.
Original Air Date: January 26, 1954
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A murder occurs after a woman who runs an illegal gambling joints breaks her engagement.
Original Air Date: June 14, 1949
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Steve travels to Lisbon to stop a refugee smuggling racket after a friend was killed attempting the same mission.
Original Air Date: August 13, 1949
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A man is murdered after he claims that his engagement to the woman who funded his education was a joke.
Original Air Date: September 27, 1950
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A woman hires Sam Spade to get back a valuable foreign car that was stolen from her after she'd stolen it from someone else.
Original Air Date: June …
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Inspector Peter Black closes in on a gang of knife-wielding boys.
Original Air Date: August 14, 1951
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Peter Chambers delivers ransom money and becomes a target for murder.
Original Air Date: April 20, 1954
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Inspector Black is called to a hotel room where a man is out on a ledge, saying he can’t deal with his guilt over a …
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Peter Chambers disarms a woman with a gun and then finds himself trying to escape being framed for murder.
Original Air Date: April 6, 1954
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Jace investigates a murder at a square dance.
Original Air Date: May 20, 1951
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Johnny is called in by a man to investigate the disappearance of his younger wife.
Original Air Date: January 12, 1954
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A millionaire is killed by a car and evidence points to murder.
Original Air Date: June 7, 1949
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Steve goes to Paris to find out who's killing off millionaires who have created a join venture that will help the developing world.
Original Air Date: August 6, 1949
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A panicked young woman comes to Chameleon's office claiming her Guardian's been murdered. When Chameleon and Dave go to her home, there's no body and the Guardian is alive.
Original Air Date: September 20, 1950
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Sam is hired by a woman who believes her sister is marrying a Bluebeard.
Original Air Date: June 8, 1947
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Jace investigates the murder of a sharecropper.
Original Air Date: May 13, 1951
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Johnny is called in to investigate an airplane crash that killed thirteen people.
Original Air Date: January 5, 1954
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Philo Vance discovers the body of a murdered young man based on the red feet of a duck.
'Original Air Date: May 31, 1949
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After another agent disappears, Steve goes to Nigeria to take his place and locate a tribal chieftain to negotiate for valuable Manganese deposits.
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A shady prince is murdered the day after marrying a wealthy heiress.
Original Air Date: September 13, 1950
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A man is poisoned at Effie's mother's birthday party. Then Effie's mother is kidnapped by hoods demanding a duck.
Original Air Date: February 2, 1947
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The best friend of a political boss believes the boss is innocent of murdering a senator's son, but he's one of the few who do.
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A small-town doctor is found shot dead in his pajamas.
Original Air Date: May 6, 1951
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A good friend of Johnny's dies in an accident. A year later, his accounts come up $80,000 short. Johnny is called in to find it.
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A racketeer with many enemies and an organ grinder with no enemies are both murdered.
Original Air Date: April 24, 1949
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Steve travels to Saigon to investigate the sabotage of two vessels carrying U.S. relief supplies.
Original Air Date: July 16, 1949
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The owner of a fashion shop is found murdered.
Original Air Date: September 6, 1950
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Sam Spade finds himself in a jail cell on a murder charge after receiving a murder from a man he believed dead--Casper Gutman.
Original Air Date: January 10, 1948 based on radio episodes from November 24 and December 1, …
An entire family is poisoned from botulism.
Original Air Date: April 22, 1951
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A man Johnny sent to prison fourteen years ago, but doesn't remember, threatens to kill him and everyone who sent him to prison.
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A blackmailing singer is murdered and Vance provides an alibi to two different suspects.
Original Air Date: May 17, 1949
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Steve Mitchell goes to Sicily to investigate the theft of relief supplies.
Original Air Date: July 9, 1949
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A woman is murdered after going to a pawn shop to verify if her engagement ring was real.
Original Air Date: May 10, 1950
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Sam is hired by a psychiatrist who's being blackmailed. The psychiatrist is then murdered.
Original Air Date: August 2, 1946
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A woman's complaint that her husband was murdered and inconsistencies in the stories of local law enforcement send two Rangers down to an oil boom town to investigate.
Original Air Date: April 15, 1951
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Johnny goes to Beirut, Lebanon to investigate the sinking of an insured yacht in calm waters.
Original Air Date: December 15, 1953
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A man who is cruel to everyone in his life shows up at police headquarters, announces he's been murdered, and drops dead.
Original Air Date: May 10, …
Ken goes to a country in the southern hemisphere to prevent a revolution.
Original Air Date: May 27, 1952
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A beautiful woman with a bad habit of ruining other peoples' lives is murdered.
Original Air Date: May 3, 1950
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Sam is hired to locate the murderer of a wealthy steamship line-owner...and the collector's coin he carried.
Original Air Date: July 12, 1946
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An aircraft plant worker is murdered after receiving orders calling him up for military service.
Original Air Date: April 8, 1951
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Johnny goes to Newport, California to investigate the murder of an insured man.
Original Air Date: December 8, 1953
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In the middle of trying a man for murdering a young political reformer, District Attorney Markham has doubts about his case and asks Vance to …
In Athens, Pegon is given a counterfeit Byzantine Bible which holds the key to a missing $10 million fortune that could provide for Greek war orphans.
The boyfriend of a wealthy married woman is found murdered outside the home of a notorious receiver of stolen property.
Original Air Date: April 19, …
Private Investigator Sam Spade gets caught up in intrigue over a mysterious object while trying to solve his partner's murder.
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Jace is called in to protect an elderly black man who confessed to murdering his employer. Jace begins to doubt whether the man is actually guilty.
Original Air Date: April 1, 1951
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Johnny investigates arson at a club dedicated to playing Monopoly.
Original Air Date: December 1, 1953
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A band of thieves are robbing private residences. When one of them kills an injured comrade to stop them from talking, Vance goes to work.
Original Air Date: April 26, 1949
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Ken goes behind the Iron Curtain into Czechoslovakia to rescue a resistance leader working as slave labor in a uranium mine.
Original Air Date: May 13, 1952
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A woman is found murdered at the home of her ex-husband after losing custody of her child.
Original Air Date: April 12, 1950
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A great reporter who became an alcoholic is killed after telling Casey about his tell-all memoir.
Original Air Date: January 20, 1954
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An elderly constable is murdered by a fugitive cop killer.
Original Air Date: March 25, 1951
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Johnny is called in to investigate the smuggling of illegal diamonds that are undercutting legitimate diamond traders and driving them out of business.
Original Air Date: November 24, 1953
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The girlfriend of an ex-racketeer is murdered.
Original Air Date: April 19, 1949
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Ken goes to Afghanistan to prevent the Soviets from acquiring the hydrogen bomb.
Original Air Date: May 6, 1952
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An inventor is found dead in a room completely covered with dust...except for the gun.
Original Air Date: April 5, 1950
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Casey investigates the murder of a driver by a hitchhiker.
Original Air Date: January 13, 1954
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An adoptive father is robbed and shot at his used car dealership.
Original Air Date: March 18, 1951
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Johnny investigates the murder of an insured New York City policeman.
Original Air Date: November 17, 1953
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Two daughters of a wealthy man are murdered...and District Attorney Markham doesn't want Vance to investigate.
Original Air Date: April 12, 1949
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After the murder of a man bringing medical supplies to those strung with cholera in Malaysia the Man Called X travels there to bring medicine and …
A maid is murdered after tendering her resignation and announcing she'd marry the master of the house.
Original Air Date: December 21, 1949
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An upholsterer found murdered in his own locked shop.
Original Air Date: November 16, 1950
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The seeing-eye dog of a missing blind man shows up beaten in a small town. Jace sets out to find the owner.
Original Air Date: March 11, 1951
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Johnny is called in to investigate when a boy is nearly killed and ends up paralyzed as a result of a racket dealing in fake polio treatments.
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A hated movie actor is killed on the set of a Western film.
Original Air Date: April 5, 1949
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Ken travels to Wyoming to find out if a scientist who was rumored to have collaborated with the Nazis is behind an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease …
A divorced photographer is found murdered.
Original Air Date: September 28, 1949
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An elderly woman calls to report that a mysterious boarder was found stabbed in her own room.
Original Air Date: November 9, 1951
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A London police sergeant (Claude Rains) casts suspicions on a newspaper reporter (Vincent Price) as the perpetrator of a series of murders.
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Two truckers are trapped and killed by hijackers and their cargo of car radios.
Original Air Date; February 25, 1951
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Johnny investigates the murder of an insured ex-racketeer whose testimony led to the extradition of a mob boss to Sicilly.
Original Air Date: November …
A wealthy heiress is murdered after showing up at Vance's office and offering him money to not solve her murder if she is killed.
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The Man Called X tries to help a young man pull off an Easter miracle with the delivery of a new tractor.
Original Air Date: April 15, 1952
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A tough judge is murdered in a museum.
Original Air Date: September 21, 1949
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Casey goes undercover to investigate the numbers racket.
Original Air Date: June 15, 1950
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An estranged son of a recently deceased rancher comes home and is murdered.
Original Air Date: February 18, 1951
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Johnny has to figure out whether jewels found by police in pipes were stolen from an insured company.
Original Air Date: September 1, 1953
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Philo Vance investigates the murder of a stockbroker.
Original Air Date: March 22, 1949
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Ken Thurston goes to Africa to investigate the source of an uprising and discovers that a supply of cobalt might be at stake.
Original Air Date: March 18, 1952
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Mr. Chameleon's investigation of the death of a male professional dancer centers on a dancing school.
Original Air Date: January 12, 1949
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While Logan's convinced a failed playwright committed suicide, Casey is sure it was murder.
Original Air Date: May 4, 1950
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Ranger Pearson investigates the murder of a popular English teacher.
Original Air Date: February 11, 1951
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Johnny is called in to help protected an insured mob lawyer whose had a falling out with his boss.
Original Air Date: October 27, 1953
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Philo Vance is called in to investigate the murder of a multi-millionaire in a secure house that no one would have been able to enter.
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The Man Called X goes to Lisbon to stop an ex-Nazi Scientists with biological weapons and a plan to kill the leaders of NATO.
Original Air Date: March …
Two murders by chloroform are tied to a high-end jeweler.
Original AIr Date: September 29, 1948
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A wealthy book store owner appears to have been kidnapped from his home.
Original Air Date: April 13, 1950
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A logging foreman finds the paymaster and decides to steal the payroll. Will Jayce Pearson be able to uncover the crime?
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Johnny is called in to investigate when suspicion arises that a valuable painting is a forgery.
Original Air Date: October 20, 1953
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An aging star of a Broadway show that's losing money is murdered.
Original Air Date: March 8, 1949
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Ken suspects that a man murdered in Japan was a scientist whose last known location was Alaska and was developing a robotics technology.
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Mr. Chameleon is convinced that a socialite couple are involved in a gambling racket and some way connected to the murder of a young woman from a …
Casey and Ann look into a case of arson and murder.
Original Air Date: April 6, 1950
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Jace Pearson investigates the murder of a rancher killed over his alfalfa crop.
Original Air Date: January 21, 1951
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Johnny tries to see what he can do to remedy the nervous breakdown of the star of an insured television program.
Original Air Date: October 13, 1953
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The head of a charity racket is found murdered in his office.
Original Air Date: March 1, 1949
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The Man Called X travels to Venezuela to investigate sabotage and fulfill the dream of a friend to establish a trade route to the. United States and …
One of two witnesses committed by a man in a gray suit is murdered while waiting for a theater intermission.
Original Air Date: September 15, 1948
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Why did several gangsters try to kill Casey and who is the woman who tipped off to the attempt on his life?
Original Air Date: March 2, 1950
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A rancher's stepson reports his father was murdered by a professional gambler.
Original Air Date: January 14, 1951
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Johnny investigates the murder of an insured with a girlfriend on the side.
Original Air Date: October 6, 1953
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Philo Vance investigates the murder of a ruthless fashion designer.
Original Air Date: November 4, 1948
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Ken goes to Egypt in hopes of obtaining a ha'penny stamp that contained a coded detailed report on Soviet activity on the back.
Original Air Date: February 19, 1952
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A convicted gangster promises revenge against Chameleon, escapes custody, and kidnaps a policewoman.
Original Air Date: September 8, 1948
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The boyfriend of a married woman who's husband was convicted of hitting his wife buys a gun in advance of the husband's release. When the husband is shot, suspicion falls on the boyfriend.
Original Air Date: January 19, …
A dead woman is found without identification sowed up in a duffel bag and dropped at a trail beside railroad tracks.
Original Air Date: January 7, 1951
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Johnny investigates a fire where an insured young man was was killed. The police suspect murder and Johnny learns the young man had possession of a …
A dentist is threatened with death by an extortion and is then murdered.
Original Air Date: October 28, 1948
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Ken travels to Italy to investigate the murder of a U.S. aid official and get to the bottom of Soviet attempts to discredit the U.S. Aid efforts.
Original Air Date: February 12, 1952
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Three men tied to a beautiful woman have been murdered over the last several months and at the scene of each murder, a bloody dollar bill is found.
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An upholsterer is discovered murdered in his own locked shop and Captain Logan is stumped.
Original Air Date: November 17, 1949
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A man kills his brother and frames a sharecropper. Will Ranger Pearson be able to get to the truth?
Original AIr Date: December 31, 1950
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An insured woman is murdered just before she was supposed to meet with her divorce attorney and the private eye who found evidence her husband was …
A womanizing airline pilot is murdered before take off.
Original Air Date:October 21, 1948
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A scientist wearing Ken's overcoat is murdered. Ken travels to Japan to recover the scientist's work into counteracting the effects of atomic radiation.
Original Air Date: February 5, 1952
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An acquaintance of Mr. Chameleon pleads for him to try and prevent his brother's murder. However, before Chameleon can come over for dinner, the brother is murdered and suspicion falls on the late brother's wife.
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A murderer is killing successful men with a hammer during thunderstorms.
Original Air Date: November 10, 1949
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A reporter tries to track down a gang that specializes in wholesale murder.
Original Air Date: March 9, 1941
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Jace Pearson investigates the murder of a ranch hand.
Original Air Date: December 17, 1950
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Johnny investigates an arson at a plastics factory.
Original Air Date: September 8, 1953
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A guardian who is swindling an heiress in his business affairs is murdered.
Original Air Date: October 14, 1948
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An old friend of Ken's contacts him to say he's been caught up in a dirty racket and is then murdered.
Original Air Date: January 29, 1952
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A wealthy woman fears she'll be murdered and asks the police to send Mr. Chameleon. Chameleon arrives to find her dead of an apparent heart attack. …
One mob boss orders a coffin for another one who isn't ill or injured, setting off fears of a gang war.
Original AIr Date: October 20, 1949
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A woman is found murdered in the back of a drunk driver's car. The driver insists he has no idea who the woman is.
Original Air Date: August 25. 1949
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Johnny investigates the murder of an insured man with a criminal record.
Original Air Date: August 25,1953
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An ugly bronze statue acquired by a museum gathers a lot of interest...and leads to murder.
Original Air Date: October 7, 1948
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Ken goes to Casablanca to investigate Soviet spying on U.S. construction.
Original Air Date: January 22, 1952
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The disabled husband of a famous fashion designer is poisoned.
Original Air Date: August 4, 1948
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A stranger is murdered in the office of a wealthy stamp collector.
Original Air Date: August 11, 1949
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A shopkeeper's wife is murdered in a robbery.
Original Air Date; December 10, 1950
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A young insured woman is believed to be the latest victim of a serial killer.
Original Air Date: August 18, 1953
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A hated magician is found murdered in a locked room.
Original Air Date: March 20, 1947
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Ken goes to Europe find out who's undermining pro-Democracy radio broadcasts being sent behind the Iron Curtain.
Original Air Date: January 15, 1952
A woman looks into some strange noises in her high class rooming house and is murdered.
Original Air Date: July 28, 1948
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Casey takes a payoff to a mob figure to expose a criminal operation and several crooked politicians but finds himself framed for murder.
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A man is found murdered in a hotel room.
Original Air Date: December 3, 1950
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Johnny is called in when an insured actress is robbed of her jewels.
Original Air Date: August 11, 1953
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The owner of a dance studio is murdered.
Original Air Date: March 13, 1947
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The Man Called X goes undercover as a co-pilot on a flight with three scientists, one of whom has stolen a valuable element from the Los Alamos …
A woman is assumed to have committed suicide, but Mr. Chameleon discovers she was killed by a rare Rhodesian poison she couldn't possibly have …
A piano player is shot to death and Casey suspects the owner of the night club he worked at who had designs on the dead man's wife.
Original Air Date: May 19, 1949
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A Sheriff gets a call from a ranch threatening suicide. He arrives at the ranch the call was made from to find the owner hung to death. The Sheriff calls in Ranger Jace Pearson because he suspects murder.
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Johnny goes to Haiti to investigate danger to an insured man who claims to be under attack from voodoo.
Original Air Date: August 4, 1953
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A woman comes to the DA asking him to investigate a threat to her soda fountain clerk's boyfriend's life, then changes her mind. When Vance visits the boyfriend, he founds him murdered with a syrup pump.
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Ken goes to Lima to find out whether the death of an American geologist is tied to the discovery of oil.
Original AIr Date: January 1, 1952
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Regan is hired by the creator of a detective comic strip who fears he's going to be murdered.
Original Air Date: July 16, 1950
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An intelligent but insane killer is killing and robbing racketeers.
Original Air Date: May 5, 1949
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A storekeeper is murdered after having an argument with his recently paroled nephew.
Original Air Date: November 12, 1950
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Johnny is called in to investigate the case of an insured man who died after falling off a clff.
Original Air Date: July 28, 1953
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Philo Vance investigates the murder of a horse trainer.
Original Air Date: February 27, 1947
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The Man Called X goes to Chicago to investigate the disappearance of a bureau agent and a "rumor factory" manufacturing false information to undermine service member and civilian morale.
Original Air Date: October 1, 1951
A "friendly credit" dentist hires Regan to see if a $100,000 malpractice lawsuit against him is valid.
Original Air Date: May 26, 1950
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Ethelbert is taking a correspondence course to become a private detective and gets Casey and Ann to take him to the scene of a crime where he identifies an unidentified body.
Original Air Date: March 10, 1949
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Jace hunts down an escaped prisoner.
Original Air Date: November 5, 1950
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Johnny goes to Los Angeles to investigate the shooting death of an insured young woman.
Original Air Date: July 21, 1953
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A noted astronomer is murdered.
Original Air Date: February 20, 1947
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Ken flies to Indonesia to find out who's behind the murder of three American oilmen.
Original Air Date: July 13, 1951
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A beautiful woman with a shady story hires International to protect her from a jealous man.
Original AIr Date: May 19, 1950
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A racketeer is murdered in Casey's old neighborhood and the suspect is an old friend of Casey's turned bad.
Original Air Date: January 20, 1949
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Jace investigates the shooting murder a woman and her four-month-old baby in her home.
Original Air Date: October 29, 1950
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Johnny investigates the murder of a foreman/labor leader who was killed by a firebomb.
Original Air Date: July 14, 1953
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Philo Vance investigates the murder of a sanitarium guard.
Original Air Date: February 13, 1947
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With Ken Thurston out of action, Joe Kendall has to go to Algiers to find out who was behind a plane crash that killed a British statesman about to …
A man wants Regan to clear his daughter of murder, but his wife doesn't want Regan to investigate.
Original Air Date: May 12, 1950
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A shady lawyer's philanthropist wife is murdered and Casey suspects the lawyer planned it.
Original Air Date: March 25, 1948
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A man and his wife arrive at his parents’ ranchhouse to find them both murdered.
Original Air Date: October 15, 1950
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Johnny goes to Las Vegas to locate a socialite's missing diamond.
Original Air Date: June 30, 1953
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While on vacation, Vance investigates the killing of a lumber company owner who was found dead under a tree trunk.
Original Air Date: February 6, 1947
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The Man Called X pursues two men who have access to America's plans to respond to a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.
Original Air Date: June 29, 1951
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A man wants International to prove his insomniac wife didn't commit suicide but was murdered.
Original Air Date: May 3, 1950
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A washed-up prize fighter is found murdered in a park.
Original Air Date: March 18, 1948
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A bored British businessman gets more excitement than he bargained for when he becomes wanted by the police for a murder he didn't commit and caught …
A police office is gunned down on New Year’s Eve.
Original Air Date: March 8, 1951
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Johnny travels to Mexico to prevent a once-promising but now brain-damaged boxer from being killed in a fight set up by his corrupt manager.
Original Air Date: March 12, 1961
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A champion boxer who was expected to throw a fight doesn’t and then is murdered and Blackie is arrested.
Original Air Date: October 18, 1945
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A fight manager and gym owner friend of Diamond’s is found dead in the river with three people witnessing him jump to his death, but Diamond doesn’t believe it.
Original Air Date: August 2, 1950
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A priest hires International to find a missing prized fighter.
Rehersal of show that aired November 2, 1949
Original Podcast Release Date: August 17, 2010
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Nick and Nora are hired to help a boxer find his beloved missing dog and his girlfriend before the big fight.
Original Air Date: July 6, 1948
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Two killings set the Texas Rangers on the trail of a ring scheduling narcotics across the border.
Original Air Date: October 8, 1950
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Johnny is called in to find out who tried to shoot an insured wealthy businessman who doesn't want the incident investigated.
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The girlfriend of a heavyweight challenger contacts the police asking for protection because she fears her boyfriend will be murdered.
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The Man Called X crashes a plane in the Middle East and meets a mysterious young girl who’s decided she no longer wants to live in the world.
Original Air Date: December 23, 1950
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Regan is hired to find out who is sending unwanted packages to a young woman.
Original Air Date: December 21, 1949
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A man who gives new dollar bills to homeless men in the worst part of town is mugged on Christmas Day.
Original Air Date: December 25, 1947
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Two men, pretending to be charity Santas, hold up a bank on Christmas Eve.
Original Air Date: December 24, 1950
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Johnny is invited to meet the prime suspect in the murder of an insured gangster.
Original Air Date: June 16, 1953
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Vance investigates the murder of a top fashion model.
Original Air Date: December 26, 1946
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The Man Called X goes to Vienna to investigate the death of a newspaper reporter and a feud between his two children...one of whom is connected to the Communist Party.
Original Air Date: June 22, 1951
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Regan's hired by a songwriter who fears his nightclub singer/wife will be murdered.
Original Air Date: April 19, 1950
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Casey and Ann go to a large fog-bound estate after Ann receives an anonymous letter warning of a jewel robbery.
Original Air Date: March 11, 1948
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Ranger Jace Pearson and another ranger go undercover to uproot the corruption in an oil boomtown. They'll start out by solving the murder of a …
Johnny seeks to determine whether an owner of an insured race horse was justified in shooting him.
Original Air Date: June 9, 1953
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A newspaperwoman is murdered while on her way to interview Philo Vance.
Original Air Date: December 19, 1946
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The Man Called X goes to a remote village along the Amazon where the production of rubber is being threatened by unrest among the local population …
A man hires International to prove he murdered his wife three years ago
Original Air Date: April 5, 1950
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A tough-talking passenger makes a cabbie driving by a theater three times after which it's robbed.
Original Air Date: March 4, 1948
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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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Johnny goes to Toledo to investigate a series of high price shopliftings. Original Air Date: June 2, 1953 When making your travel plans, remember …
A man asks Philo Vance to find his wife, who was supposed to be on a gambling ship. Original Air Date: December 12, 1946 Support the show on a one-time basis at Read more ...
The Man Called X goes to India to stop a series of black market thefts of grain from warehouses. Original Air Date: June 8, 1951 Support th Read more ...
Regan is hired to impersonate a Hollywood producer and keep a big star’s old army buddy away from him until after the star finishes shooting his …
The son of a good cop on the gambling squad tries to shake down local gamblers and when his dad does a raid anyway, he’s left beat up. Origin Read more ... Check out my wisdom profile at http://wisdom.greatdetectives.net
A safe cracker fakes his own death in the Texas City disaster. Will Ranger Pearson be able to find him out to commit one last job. Original Air Date: September 9, 1950 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at …
Johnny goes to Detroit to investigate the disappearance of a wealthy insured man. Original Air Date: May 26, 1953 When making your travel plans, …
Philo Vance is called in when the lead actress in a Broadway play is threatened with death unless she skips a specific performance. Original AIr Date: December 5, 1946 S Read more ...
Bill Pringle goes behind the iron curtain to Romania to rescue an American businessman being held by the Communist Government for a show trial. Original Air Dat Read more ...
Regan is hired by the wife of a worm farmer who claims her husband was cheated by someone who sold him 500,000 worms. Original Air Date: March 15, …
132 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.
A corrupt constable kills the local sheriff and gets charged with investigating the murder. However, his plans faces a major obstacle when Ranger Jayce Pearson is called in. Original AIr Date: September 2 1950 Become …
Johnny investigates a woman ripping off insurance companies by writing bad checks. Original Air Date: May 19, 1953 When making your travel plans, …
Vance and Markham are warned that a beautiful lady gangster is going to be moving in on the city’s rackets. Original Air Date: November 28, 1946 …
With the Man Called X out of commission, his friend, Jim Kendall, travels to Hong Kong to investigate an effort to smuggle medical supplies from Hong Kong to mainland Communist China. Support the show monthly at …
Regan is hired to locate a woman’s stolen blue giraffe. Original Air Date: February 22, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net …
Casey investigates the murder f a male witch living in a strange superstitious community. Original Air Date: February 19, 1948 Support the show month Read more ...
Ranger Pearson investigates modern-day rustlers who stole a heard of Cattle and murdered a rancher. Original Air Date: August 26, 1950 Become one of …
An insured stolen fur coat is found on the body of a woman who was shot. Original Air Date: May 12, 1953 When making your travel plans, remember …
Philo Vance investigates the shooting of the manager of a series of four touring circus acts. Original AIr Date: May 20, 1948 Support the show monthly at
The Man Called X travels to Haiti to investigate the murder of government officials by Zombies. Original Air Date: May 18, 1951 Support the Read more ...
Regan is hired by a gallery owner to look for a cat-hating artist. Original Air Date: January 25, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at …
Casey and Ann find a key in the snow and then become witnesses in a murder case against a racketeer who will not stop at nothing to prevent them from tes Read more ...
A man’s young niece dies and he begins to suspect that the beautiful stepmother poisoned her and he’s afraid his young nephew might be next.
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Ranger Pearson investigates a bank robbery gone wrong that left a bank teller, one of the robbers, and a five year old boy and his father dead. …
Johnny investigates a man found with a broken neck in a gym. Original Air Date: May 5, 1953 When making your travel plans, remember …
A fisherman who runs a rayon business is found murdered in his pool. Original Air Date: November 14, 1946 Support the show monthly at
Ken’s awakened at five o’clock in the morning by Pegon who calls to say he’s in San Francisco with a man who was believed dead. Read more ...
Regan’s hired by a wrestler to clear him of murdering his opponent. Original Air Date: January 11, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at …
A woman known for having many lovers and playing loud music is murdered. Original Air Date: February 5, 1948 Support the show monthly at
A rancher is killed and his home is burned to the ground. Original Air Date: August 12, 1950 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at …
Johnny goes to St. Petersburg to investigate the death of an ex-bootlegger. Original Air Date: April 28, 1953 When making your travel plans, remember
Two drama critics are murdered and poetic clues are left behind. Original Air Date: November 7, 1947 Learn more and save half price on annual membership plans at Read more ...
The Man Called X gotes to Monte Carlo to find out why a young American official got involved with a married woman…and then in a duel in which he wa …
A violinist hires Regan and International to find out why his fiancée broke off their engagement. Original Air Date: January 4, 1950 Support the show …
A young photographer tells Casey that his apartment was burglarized by a professional and all that was stolen was his sixteen-month-old son’s piggy …
Ranger Pearson investigates the murder of an entire family on their ranch and has few clues to work with. Original Air Date: August 5, 1950 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net …
Johnny goes to San Francisco to investigate a payroll robbery. When making your travel plans, remember. Original Air Date: April 21, 1953 …
Three different women confess to murdering a man after he gave a lecture. All three fired bullets into the man but the police can’t figure out who …
An Israeli friend of Ken’s tips off to gun smuggling from Turkey to Syria and is then murdered. Original Air Date: April 28, 1951 Lea Read more ...
The police and the mob are looking for a key mob witness, and Regan joins the fray when $1,000 is dangled before the Lyon. Orignal Air Date: …
Three ex-convicts who were recruited by a noted prison reformer have gone back to crime and have died before they could be questioned. Casey goes …
Jayce has to hunt down two vicious fugitive brothers from Oklahoma. Original Air Date: July 29, 1950 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at …
A woman shows up in Hartford claiming to be the wife on a Doctor in Los Angeles who reported her dead to collect the insurance. Original Air Date: …
A man is put into an ambulance with minor injuries after a car accident and when he’s pulled out, he’s dead of a knife wound in his side. Original …
Ken fears that the murder of a crusading reporter is tied to a terrorist Puerto Rican nationalist party. Original Air Date: April 21, 1951 Read more ...
A green-eyed dancer hires Regan to find her husband (who works as a department-store Santa) and prove he’s dead so she can collect the insurance. …
A woman begins to doubt that her father really miraculously recovered after being treated by a shady doctor and tells Casey and Ann that she think …
Jace Pearson investigates the killing of a New York driver by a hitchhiker. Original Air Date: July 22, 1950 Become one of our monthly patreon …
A famous actor has been declared dead and his widow received an insurance payout. However, a nurse claims to have seen the actor alive and Johnny's called in to investigate.
Original Air Date: April 7, 1953
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A cantankerous husband is found murdered in a wax display. Original Air Date: August 9, 1945 Support the show monthly at
The Man Called X has to find out who’s leaking information from a top-secret government project in New Mexico. Original Air Date: April 14, Read more ...
Regan is hired to deliver $5,000. Regan gets suspicious and follows the recipient home only to see him murdered. Original Air Date: October 12, …
Casey and Ann interview an ex-circus strongwoman who captured two burglars who made the mistake of trying to rob her hope chest. What was in the chest?
The Murder of a Salesman sets Ranger Jace Pearson on the trail of a hobo. Original Air Date: July 15, 1950 Become one of our monthly patreon …
Johnny needs to find out where an embezzler put more than $4,000 he stole. Original Air Date: March 31, 1953 When making your travel plans, remember …
A wealthy man calls Vance in claiming a twenty-year-old woman is pretending to be his daughter that drowned nine years previously. Original Air Date: …
The Man Called X goes to India to safeguard efforts to prevent a famine in India and overcome propaganda against those efforts. Original Air Date: Read more ...
The Lyon wants Regan to horn in on the investigation of some insured stolen jewels. Original Air Date: October 5, 1950 Support the show monthly at …
Casey and Ann begin in New York by looking into an arson/murder and the related kidnapping of a college professor. Original Air Date: January 1, 1 …
Ranger Jace Pearson’s called in when an entire family was murdered on their farm. Audition Date: April 19, 1950 Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Read more ...
Johnny investigates the “accidental” deaths of three men working on an oil operation. Original Air Date: March 24, 1953 When making your travel …
Philo Vance investigates the murder of the owner of a curio shop. Original Air Date: April 29, 1943 Support the show monthly at
The Man Called X goes to Ireland to stay in a full of suspicious characters in hopes of recovering stolen papers. Original AIr Date: March 31, 195 …
Bill Lance is hired to deliver a rare necklace to Paris. Original Air Date: October 19, 1947 Support the show monthly at Read more ...
A practical joker is killed at the house of a famous sculptor. Original AIr Date: December 18, 1947 Support the show monthly at …
The police investigate when dismembered body parts are found in a plastic bag. Original Air Date: 1955 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters …
Johnny goes to a private island to investigate the attempted theft of a $250,000 necklace belonging to the owner of the island. Original Air Date: …
” 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, 1 Read more ...
Ken and Pegon travel to Ecuador to bring back a witness who could help provide testimony to deport the most dangerous foreign agent in the U.S. Or …
A fashion model friend of BIll’s calls for help and then drops dead in the middle of a show before she can tell him what’s the matter. Original Air Read more ...
A wealthy man changes his will to benefit charity in order to pressure his daughter to not marry a man he doesn’t approve of. He’s then kille Read more ...
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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 Become one of our monthly patreon …
An insured young woman is killed by falling off a bridge. The police and Johnny believe it was murder. Original Air Date: March 6, 1956 When making …
A man finds his prize-winning bull killed and is then murdered himself. Original Air Date: November 7, 1952 Support the show monthly at …
The Man Called X goes to the Netherlands to find out why a respected leader of a political party signed a Communist-drafted “peace plea.” Read more …
Bill Lance is called to a country estate at the request of the owner who fears that a relative who escaped from insane asylum will come and kill someone. Original Air Date: S Read more ...
Two men show up with two priceless emeralds. Casey and Ann can tell they’re not telling the truth about where they found them. Original Air Read more ...
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Clark Kent investigates when a research scientist is found dead behind a locked room from poisoning. …
The FBI plans to catch a heroin ring using a brand new recording device that can be carried in a pocket. Audition Date: 1947 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show …
Johnny goes to Wyoming to investigate the case of an insured man who fell to his death from a hotel room and it could be an accident, homicide, or …
Mister Keen investigates when a gossip columnist is murdered on the air before he can release some juicy gossip. Original Air Date: October 24, 1952 …
The Man Called X travels to a dude ranch outside of Helena, Montana to uncover a plot to smuggle foreign agents into the U.S. Original Air Date: M Read more ...
Marlowe is hired to guard a valuable shipment of silk, but everyone thinks he knows something about an item called the blue burgonet. Original Air Date: October 31, 1948 Read more ...
A fellow photographer (with a wife and sick child) is murdered at the scene of a fire. Original Air Date: November 20, 1947 Support the sho Read more ...
Sherlock Holmes tries to recover blackmail letters leading to a confrontation with the Napoleon of Crime-Professor Moriarty. Original Air Date: …
A federal agent searches for the source of counterfeit money. Original Air Date: May 28, 1952 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at
Johnny takes over an investigation of a book store arson after the previous insurance investigator was killed in an apparent hit and run, that Johnny suspects was murder. Original Air Date: February 20, 1953 When making …
Mister Keen investigates the murder of a man in an airport phone booth. Original Air Date: March 22, 1951 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at …
When Pegon’s arrested for smuggling opium, he claims innocence. Ken goes to Guadalajara to find out who planted it on him.
Original Air Date: March 3, 1951
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Marlowe’s hired to protect the lead in a Technicolor production of Robin Hood from his identical twin brother: a skilled archer with mental …
Casey and Ann look into the murder of the star of an awful play. Original Air Date: November 13, 1947 Support the show monthly at
A special agent working undercover as a waiter during World War II stumbles onto a scheme for a second Pearl Harbor. Original Air Date: May 21, 1952 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at …
Johnny goes to Chicago to investigate a man whose life was recently insured for $50,000 and who died…of malnutrition. Original Air Date: February 6, …
While on vacation at Stonehenge, Holmes and Watson investigate the murder of a Presbyterian Minister. Original Air Date: March 15, 1933 Support Read …
The Man Called X travels to Tehran to meet a contact on a plane who has details for the Soviet plans for Iran. Original Air Date February 24, 1951 Read more ...
A trapeze performer hires Marlowe to protect a circus from dangerous gamblers his partners owe money to. Original Air Date: July 1, 1947 Support the …
Casey helps a beautiful blonde in a quest to raise money for charity but finds himself on the spot when she disappears with $10,000 in donations. …
A USPS special agent investigates fraudulent mail severely ill people living rural areas that their cancer can be cured by worthless powders. …
Johnny is called in to investigate a sketchy application to ensure a $1,000 a week radio singer who for some reason spends her off days working at a burlesque house for $75 a week. Original Air Date: January 30, 1953 …
A mystery writer dies after calling to leave a message telling Barton Drake to look at his manuscript. Support the show monthly at
The Man called X goes to North Korea behind enemy lines to rescue a respected analyst. Original Air Date: February 17, 1951 Support the sho Read more ...
Randy investigates when a convicted murder insists the crime he was convicted of was committed by a wealthy and influential oil man. Original Air Date: March 7, 1952 Read more ...
Casey tells a story of his Irish great grandfather to explain why he always requires a receipt for any payment made on Halloween. Original Air Dat Read more ...
A fan of Mike Shayne’s work is killed with poison in her coffee. Original Air Date: November 12, 1946 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at …
An American agent partners with the French surete to find a stolen masterpiece. Original Air Date: May 7, 1952 Become one of our monthly patreon …
Johnny is called to a small unincorporated town to investigate the murder of a friend. Original Air Date: January 23, 1953 When making your travel …
A wealthy woman invites Bart down for help with a difficult decision. Bart arrives to find her dead. Support the show monthly at
The Man Called X goes to West Germany to investigate sabotage at a coal mine that threats the European economy.
Original Air Date: February 10, 1951
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An ex-con pays Brad $200 to make sure he’s not killed as was predicted by a fortune teller. Original Air Date: August 11, 1955 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis …
A rodeo cowboy asks Casey’s help to find a young woman in distress. Original Air Date: October 23, 1947 Support the show monthly at < Read more ...
America’s reputation is threatened when CARE packages to Italy are intercepted and delivered empty. Original Air Date: April 23, 1952 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support …
Johnny is sent to Hollywood because an agent fears his starlet client is going to be murdered. Johnny finds she’s already been strangled to death. …
A dancer writes a letter home to his mother about a counterfeiting ring and then disappears. Support the show monthly at patre Read more ...
The Man Called X goes to India after reports of a submarine flying a U.S. flag committing piracy. Original Air Date: February 13, 1951 Supp Read more ...
i A nightclub photographer takes a picture to be used as proof of grounds for divorce. Brad intercepts the picture but finds a picture of a dead man in the background. Original Air Date: August 4, 1955 Support the show …
A young man wants to break into the news photographer business and after asking for Casey’s advice, he snaps a picture of a murder. Original Read more ...
A special investigator is called in when a military officer is murdered and severely burned. Original Air Date: April 16, 1952 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the …
Johnny looks for the beneficiary on a life insurance policy who the insured only met once. Original Air Date: January 9, 1953 When making your travel …
A hated publisher is murdered and Inspector Danton contains quick confessions…too many of them in fact. Support the show monthly at
A true-crime radio program lays out the facts in the murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles and offers a $5,000 reward for her murderer’ Read more ...
Ken travels aboard the Orient Express in search of an international criminal. Original Air Date: January 27, 1951 Support the show monthly Read more ...
Brad is offered half of a thousand dollar bill to go up into an apartment and finds a corpse with a matador’s sword through his chest. Original Air …
A gambler is found murdered in his apartment after marrying a wealthy woman. Original Air Date: October 9, 1947 Support the show monthly at Read more ...
Having arrested the number two Drug kingpin in the West, Friday and Smith join with a coalition of state, local, and federal law enforcement to bring down the Read more ...
Joe Friday goes undercover in a quest for a West Coast drug kingpin. Original Air Date: January 12, 1950 Support the show monthly at
Nick and Scubby follow a clue to find the head of the baby kidnapping ring, but find themselves in a trap. Original Air Dates: April 26 and 27, 1944 …
Nick, Patsy, and Scubby are tied up with guns pointed at them as the gang of kidnappers prepares to execute them. Original Air Dates: April 24 and 25, 1944 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support …
Shots are fired but the shooter gets away as Nick closes in on the baby stealing ring. Original Air Dates: April 19 and 21, 1944 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time …
A woman comes to Nick reporting that a man she left her baby with has stolen the baby. Nick recognized it as part of a baby-selling racket. Original …
A San Francisco police inspector arrives at a scene of an apparent suicide that he suspects could be murder. Original Air Date: December 3, 1950 …
A federal agent goes undercover as a lecturer at a campus in hopes of breaking up a dope-pedalling ring. Original Air Date: April 9, 1952 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net …
A convicted felon in need of a stake to start a new life offers Johnny half of a $10,000 reward to help solve a years old robbery. Original Air …
Bart and Inspector Danton investigate the death of a member of an all-female diving troupe. Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at …
Ken goes to Japan to stop a Communist plot to introduce a new group of Kamikaze terrorists. Original Air Date: January 20, 1951 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time …
A wealthy man calls in Brad when a disgruntled business associate threatens to kill him. Original Air Date: July 21, 1955 Support the show monthly at …
A man wrongfully convicted of killing his unfaithful wife is released when it’s discovered that she’s alive. She’s then murdered. < Read more ...
A special agent has got top secret microfilm, but is on his own to figure out how to get them to the U.S. consulate. Become one of our monthly …
A reliable witness states that she met a dead man who supposedly died and the insurance company paid off on his life insurance. Original Air Date: …
A wealthy party girl calls Bart because she thinks she murdered her father but isn’t sure. Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at …
Ken goes to Cuba to find the source of a sabotage guidebook.
Original Air Date: January 13, 1951
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The Fat Man’s hired by a wealthy man who’s been receiving threatening phone calls. Original Air Date: July 14, 1955 Support the show monthly at …
Casey, Ann, and Captain Logan decide to try to solve a series of murders in a cave near a small town. Original Air Date: September 25, 1947
A U.S. special agent is killed in Vienna in the Soviet zone before he can reveal what he knows about a smuggling operation. Original Air Date: March 26, 1952 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at …
Johnny investigates an arson where the insurance company suspects the ruthless owner, but the owner pointed the finger at a disgruntled employee who’d just been released from prison. Original Air Date: December 12, 1952 …
A spiritualist’s assistant is buried in sand for hours as part of a trick and then found shot to death. Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at …
The Man Called X goes to Uruguay in search of the engraving plates developed by the Nazis that make the most perfect counterfeit money. Original Air Date: January 6, 1951 Support the show monthly at …
The owner of a jewelry store hires Brady because he suspects his cashier is stealing from the till. The only reason he doesn’t go to the police? The …
While shopping with Ann, Casey spots a shoplifter. He takes the shoplifter to the store detective who explains why he’s going to let him off. < Read more ...
A reporter friend of a special agent disappears in Eastern Europe and the agent goes behind the Iron Curtain to retrieve him. Original Air Date: March 19, 1952 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at …
While filling in for a friend, Johnny is called to a doctor’s office where he’s met by a doctor who insists that the jealous husband of a patient has threatened to kill him. Original Air Date: December 5, 1952 When …
A hated drama critic is murdered. Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, …
The Man Called X travels to the Belgian Congo to stop an uprising that threatens a Uranium mining operation. Original AIr Date: December 30, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show …
A wealthy woman calls to offer Brad a $500 job. When he arrives, she’s changed her mind. Brad spots a body in her bedroom. Original Air Date: June 30, 1955 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support …
Casey and Ann meet an elderly woman at a cemetery where she visits her own burial plot everyday. She offers to take them home to meet her best friendR Read more ...
A Special Agent travels to the Philippines to stop the shipment of stolen American weapons to Marxist guerillas. Original Air Date: February 17, 1952 …
Johnny goes to Hong Kong to investigate a suspicious claim from a company Johnny believes got away with a phony claim on a case where the investigator was sent home in a casket. Audition Date: November 24, 1952 When …
Inspector Danton investigates the suspicious deaths of two deaf men with Barton Drake just to observe. Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at …
The Man Called X goes to Austraia to find out how the secerts of U.S. Atomic research is finding its hands into the hands of an enemy power. Original Air Date: December 16, 1950 Support the show monthly at …
The Fat Man is hired to work security at a party. Some guests try to steal a gun and Brad finds himself in the middle of several potential murders. Original Air Date: June 23, 1955 Support the show monthly at …
A man who owed a professional gambler friend of Casey’s money is found murdered but Casey’s friend swears he’s innocent. Origina Read more ...
A special agent is called in when an entire warehouse of blood bound for Korea was stolen. Original Air Date: February 10, 1952 Become one of our …
Johnny is brought in when the terminally ill when the wealthy matriarch of a family is murdered by poison. Original Air Date: July 2, 1952 When …
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. Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support …
Ken goes to Beirut to stop weapons smuggiling that threatens to destablize the Middle East. Original AIr Date: December 9, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time …
A banker hires Brad to help him pay off someone who sent a letter threatening his wife. Original Air Date: May 19, 1955 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at …
A bank robber and his moll hide out with a crooked hide-out operator. Original Air Date: August 28, 1947 Support the show monthly at
An investigator for the Civil Aviation Administration gets a call warning of a bomb on a plane. Original Air Date: February 3, 1952 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the …
A lawyer friend of Johnny’s is killed in an apparent hit and run. Original Air Date: January 5, 1952 Get twelve free meals from America’s Read more ...
Inspector Danton believes a painter drank poison to commit suicide, but Barton Drake believes a splotch of purple paint across his latest pa Read more ...
Ken travels to Guatamala where a newly developed airborne form of cholera has been stolen. Original Air Date: December 2, 1950 Support the show …
An elderly woman is scared for her life because she believes her late husband’s heart attack was induced by the appearance of a member of his old …
With Casey out of town, Ann and Captain Logan investigate when a waitress complains her boyfriend gave her a phony engagement ring and they find the ring Read more ...
A secret agent searches for two missing weapons designer who may have been kidnapped…or defected. Original Air Date: January 20, 1952 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support …
While in San Francisco investigating the murder of an insured woman, Johnny receives a call from the prime suspect asking for a meeting. Original Air …
A pro Tennis player is found 175 feet from a hotel room with every bone in his body broken. Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at …
A friend of Ken’s disappeared from Virginia home with the secret to a deciphering machine and Ken sets out to find him. Original Air Date: November 25, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net …
While out on the town, a woman asks Brad’s help to help prevent her husband being murdered…and then changes her mind. Original Air Date: May 5, 1955 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the …
A gunman lets a woman caught in the office during a safe robbery go free and she refuses to identify him out of gratitude. Original Air Date: Augu Read more ...
A husband returns early from an out of town trip to find his wife missing and a former romantic rival murdered in his home. Original Air Date: February 18, 1951 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net …
A Federal Agent tries to find out how a wealthy merchant is smuggling jewels into the country. Original AIr Date: January 13, 1952 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the …
Johnny goes to Colorado to investigate the death of an insured man who appeared to have died in a car accident, but may have been dead before the …
A disabled woman calls police when her twin sister locks herself in a room. The police find her dead in a locked room with a poisoned glass. Bart …
The Man Called X goes to Tibet to thwart a Communist plot to take control. Original Air Date: November 18, 1950 Support the show monthly at …
Brad is hired by the mother of a man convicted of murder nine years ago to find the real killer. Original Air Date: April 28, 1955 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time …
Couples have been murdered at Lover’s Lane by a killer who leaves a card behind saying, “I’m death.” Original Air Date: Au Read more ...
An immigration agent goes undercover to break a ring that’s smuggling illegal aliens cross the Southern Border.
Original Air Date: January 6, 1952
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Johnny investigates a $48,000 payroll robbery that’s left one guard dead and another hospitalized. Original Air Date: December 8, 1951 Give your mom …
Drake and Danot investigate the poisoning of multiple women. Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time …
Ken travels to Burma when a telegraph operator is shot in Rangoon to prevent him from sending a message. Original AIr Date: November 11, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a …
A man asks Brad to confront his wife with her music teacher lover. They arrive to find the music teacher murdered.’ Original Air Date: April 21, 1955 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the …
A rising theater starlet is threatened by her mobster ex-boyfriend and then found murdered in her hotel room. Original Air Date: July 31, 1947 Read …
An ATF agent tries to investigate a ring that’s illegally selling confiscated German guns. Original Air Date: December 23, 1951 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the …
Johnny goes to a small town after an anonymous tip comes in indicating that the death of an insured who was thrown from a horse might not have been an accident. Read more ...
A man kills his business partner but claims he mistook him for a prowler. Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a …
A famed scientist has disappeared and a music box sent in the mail sends Ken Thurston beyond the Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia. Original Air Date: November 3, 1950 Support the show monthly at …
A young man comes into the Fat Man’s office with a gun and demands that Brad not take the case of a man looking for his missing daughter, so Brad takes the case. Original Air Date: April 14, 1955 This episode brought to …
Casey is determined to bring a phony spiritualist to justice who swindled an old friend out of his life savings and drove him to his death. Origin …
A Department of Defense Agent enlists the help of a mother of a soldier killed in action to capture the gang that conned her out of her life savings. …
Johnny investigates a policy holder who has received death threats and the policy holder is shot and killed moments after Johnny leaves him. Original …
Barton Drake and Noah Danton are called in by a small-town constable to investigate a murder of an old man involving a ghost. Support the show …
The Man Called X travels aboard a cattle boat to the Greek Island of Xenophon in hope of recovering stolen radioactive isotopes. Original Air Date: …
The eldest daughter of a deceased wealthy man calls Brad in because she believes a member of the household murdered her father. Original Air Date: …
Casey tries to help a young man who created a hoax to make himself look like a hero to impress a girl. Original Air Date: July 17, 1947 Sup Read more …
A CIA special agent sets out to find Japanese gold stolen by air pirates.
Original Air Date; December 9, 1951
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Johnny goes to Jamaica to investigate the death of an insured, only to find the police have already declared the death a murder. Original Air Date: …
Barton Drake goes hunting in hopes of catching a murderer.
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The Man Called X travels to Indonesia to board a freighter in hopes of catching the head of an international espionage ring. October Air Date: October 20, 1950 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net …
A woman calls Brad in to prove her fiancé innocent of the murder of his old flame. Original Air Date: March 31, 1955 Support the show monthly at …
A serial killing is going after rich, uninhibited women. Original Air Date: July 10, 1947 Support the show monthly at
A Treasury Agent goes undercover to try and find proof that a racketeer is evading taxes and then ends up a real spot when he finds out how he’s doing it. Original Air Date: December 2, 1951 Become one of our monthly …
Johnny takes a tip on a robbery case on the condition he not tell the police. Original Air Date: October 27, 1951
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The wife of an infamous playboy dies of an apparent suicide. Barton Drake suspects murder. Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at …
A woman dies on a train after handing Mr. X a box of custom cigarettes, sending Mister X to Ankara on the trail of a killer and atomic secrets. Original Air Date: October 13, 1950 Support the show monthly at …
A woman call Brad and hires him to find out whose been watching her house. Brad arrives to find the house burned down and his client in the hospital. Original Air Date: March 10, 1955 Support the show monthly at …
A criminal is acquitted and he accuses a police officer of coercing his confession. Original Air Date: July 3, 1947 Support the show monthly a Read …
A federal agent sets out to trap a printer and engraver who is suspected of counterfeiting. Original Air Date: November 25, 1951 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the …
Johnny goes to New Orleans to investigate potential insurance fraud in the death of an insured man aboard ship.
Original Air Date: October 13, 1951
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Barton Drake and Inspector Danton get word that a polo-playing playboy could be murdered, and go to a rich man’s house for the weekend to try and …
Ken and Pegon go to Sicily to take on the mafia. The only clue they have is the last words of a dying circus performer. Original Air Date: September 26, 1948 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net …
Brad picks up a young woman hitchhiking and agrees to search for her missing father. Original Air Date: March 3, 1955 Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at …
A woman meets Casey in a bar and offers him information on the killing of a jockey…in exchange for $10,000. Original Air Date: May 22, 1947
A Narcotics Bureau special agent travels to Turkey to find a source of heroin coming to the U.S. Original Air Date: November 18, 1951 Become one of our monthly patreon supporters at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support …
When a private detective working for Johnny is murdered, Johnny ends up being drawn into the investigation in order to protect the insurance case he and the murdered detective were investigating. Original AIr …
Barton Drake matches wits with a child-killing bank-robber whose holding a police officer hostage at a snow-bound rural home. Support the show …
Ken and Pegon travel to Madgascar to help rescue an atomic physicist on the verge of a great story from an unscrupulous gangster. Original Air Date: …
A woman for the country hires Brad to find her missing brother who disappeared and took all the money out of their joint checking account. Original Air Date: February 10, 1955 Support the show monthly at …
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