Ellery Queen's radioplays - page 2

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This might be some polished scene from an adventure of radio's gentlemen detective, Ellery Queen, for both Ellery and Nikki seemed to be in character as this photograph was taken. But it isn't. Good pals in life, as well as on the air, they were photographed while enjoying an outing on Mark Warnow's yacht. - ED (Picture by Walter Seigal) (from Radio Guide 40-01-05)

Show goes from 60 to 30 minutes. Arthur Allen takes over as Doc Prouty

37* "The Old Soldiers"
02-25-40: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives: unknown

38* "The Whistling Clown"
         03-03-40 :30:00*
       Guest Armchair Detectives: two armchair detectives chosen from the
        radio audience and Columbia network listeners in general

       A circus clown is found hanged in his dressing room.
        "Noisy Clown Shows Up in Mystery Plot"

39* "The Three Fishbowls"
          03-10-40 :30:00*
          Guest Armchair Detectives: two armchair detectives chosen from the
         radio audience and Columbia network listeners in general

          A Chinese antiquity dealer gives fishbowls to three of his
          customers. Soon after the display case is stolen...

40* "The Silver Ball"
           03-17-40 :30:00*
           Repeated as "The Glass Ball" on 03-23-44 and 03-25-44
           Guest Armchair Detectives: two armchair detectives chosen from the
           radio audience and Columbia network listeners in general

41* "The Wizard's Cat"
        03-24-40 :30:00*
          Guest Armchair Detectives: two armchair detectives chosen from the
         radio audience and Columbia network listeners in general

          A Wall Street wizard gets poisoned on a train

42* "The Emperior's Dice"
          03-31-40 :30:00*
          Repeated 08-31-44 and 09-02-44
          Reworked and printed in EQMM, April '51 and collected in
          The Calendar of Crime (1952)
          Guest Armchair Detectives: two armchair detectives chosen from the
         radio audience and Columbia network listeners in general

          While visiting an old house Ellery uses his extraordinary talents
          to solve the apparent ten-year-old murder of a millionaire
        collector of gambling implements.

Show moves to 9:00 PM

43* "The Forgotten Men"
           04-07-40 :30:00*
           Guest Armchair Detectives: two armchair detectives chosen from the
         radio audience and Columbia network listeners in general

          Manfred B. Lee and Frederic Dannay sympathized with the homeless and
          other margins of society. No one, no matter how down-and-out should be
          forgotten.

44* "The Yellow Pigeon"
        04-14-40 :30:00*
          Guest Armchair Detectives: unknown

          A man is being informed on by a stool pigeon. It seems his
          luck has totally ran out as soon thereafter he's murdered by a
        poisoned cigarette.

45* "The Poker Club"
         04-21-40 :30:00*
         Repeated as "The Deadly Game" on 04-22-43 and 04-24-43
         Guest Armchair Detectives: unknown

         After a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar a game of
         poker is played... murder soon followed.

Final episode to feature Doc Prouty