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Season 2
68* "The Song of Death"
01-08-42 (West) or 01-10-42 (East): 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Frank Buck (explorer)
and
Dorothy McGuire (actress)
(East): Frederick Chase Taylor
(radio's Colonel Stoopnagle)and
Neysa McMein
(illustrator/poster artist)
69* "The
Invisible Clue"
01-15-42 or 01-17-42: 30:00*
Script printed in Adventures in Radio (1945)
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Charles Herbert (radio producer/composer)
and Mark Warnow (radio
orchestra conductor)
(East): Meyer Davis
(orchestra leader) and Ham Fisher (cartoonist)
70* "The Patient Murderer"
01-22-42 or 01-24-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Aubrey Waller Cook (pianist) and
Bea Wain (radio singer)
(East): Lois January
(actress) and George Jessel (comedian)
71* "The 52nd Card"
01-29-42 or 01-31-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): A.Finn and M.Kingsley
(East): Gypsy Rose Lee
(stripper) and Norman Corwin (radio writer).
72* "The Imaginary Man"
02-05-42 or 02-07-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Mel Ott (baseball star) and Hank Warden
(actor)
(East): Frank Forrest
(singer) and Lucille Manners (singer)
73* "The St.Valentine's Knot"
02-12-42 or 02-14-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective
(West): Lady Hardwicke (wife of actor Sir Cedric
Hardwicke) and Mary Lewis
(Metropolitan Opera soprano)
(East): D.Fritsch and Parks Johnson
(host radio's Vox Pop series)
74* "George Washington's Dollar"
02-19-42 or 02-21-42: 30:00*
Adapted as The President's Half Disme
in EQMM, February '47 and collected
in The Calendar of Crime (1952)
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Mr. and Mrs Parks Johnson (of radio's
Vox Pop series)
(East): Gilda Gray
(actress) and Joe Howard (musician)
75* "The Old Witch"
02-26-42 or 02-28-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Vicki Baum
(novelist) and
Howard Dietz (theatrical producer)
(East): Heinie Dorner
(tenor) and E.B.Locker
76* "The Missing Tumbler"
03-05-42 or 03-07-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Bill Stern (sportscaster)
and
Blue Barron (orchestra
leader)
(East): Aubrey Waller Cook
(pianist) and Mayor Harter (via phone)
 77* "The Income Tax Robbery"
03-12-42 or 06-14-42: 30:00*
Printed as The Ides of Michael
Magoon in
The Calendar of Crime
(1952) and reprinted as
Filled in for
Murder in Adventure Magazine,
June 1959
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): George Jessel
(comedian) and Mayor
E.J.Reilly (via phone)
(East): M.Hedstrom
and Mayor Howard W. Jackson
(via phone)
Mike Brady, a private
detective asks Ellery Queen for help. He helps out
wealthy families who have
a kleptomanic problem...
(visit to the LoC 4/27/2005)
78* "The Out-of-order Telephone"
03-19-42 or 03-21-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): G.F.Donahoe and M.S.McDermott
(East): F.E.Conaty
and G.S.Miller
79* "The Servant Problem"
03-26-42 or 03-28-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Jim Ameche
(radio actor) and
John Allen
(radio newscaster)
(East): Leo G.
Carroll (actor) and Judith Evelyn (actress)
80* "The Black Syndicate"
04-02-42 or 04-04-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Mayor A.Rossi (via phone) and
Lois
Wilson (actress)
(East): Judge
S.McDevitt and Selena Royle (actress)
On April 1. Lee visited the studios during rehearsals for this program and
met with Kaye
Brinker, a young actress, who would become his second wife
81* "Ellery Queen, Swindler"
04-09-42 or 04-11-42: 30:00*
Script printed in Rogues Gallery
(1945)
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Bill Johnson (bandleader) and
Allen Prescott
(radio comedian)
(East): Arthur
Murray (dance instructor) and Marian Anderson (singer)
A 'respectable' jeweler, Adolf Humperdinck cheats one of his employees out
of $
4,000. Ellery, with the help of M.Jallet, works out a
jewel-switching
maneuver to retrieve the young man's money.
82* "The Superstitious Client"
04-16-42 or 04-18-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): L.Brophy and Mayor Z.Leymel
(via phone)
(East): Mrs.Octavus
Roy Cohen (wife of author) and Mayor R. Perkins
83* "The Millionaires'Club"
04-23-42 or 04-25-42 :30:00*
Repeated as
"The Inner Circle" 12-28-44 and 12-30-44
Adapted as
"The Inner Circle" EQMM, January 1947 and
collected in
Calendar of
Crime, 1952
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Bernardine Flynn (radio announcer/
actress) and
Otto Soglow (cartoonist)
(East): L.Brophy
and Ward Greene (author)
84* "The Living Corpse"
04-30-42 or 05-02-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): N.W.Lathan and
Mayor
E.J.Reilly (via phone)
(East): Ed
Gardner (Duffy's Tavern star) and Shirley Booth (actress)
85* "The Missing Child"
05-07-42 or 05-09-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Shep Fields (orchestra leader) and
Mrs.Joy Lyons
(East): Lawrence
E. Spivak (publisher) and Bea Wain (radio singer)
86* "The Green Hat"
05-14-42 or 05-16-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): a 'jury' of servicemen
(East): a
so-called 'blue ribbon jury',
jurymen which convicted a real killer to
the electric
chair at Sing-Sing, will switch from fact to fiction as the guest
armchairs
detectives. Program was advertised with a warning "Attention
Colored
Folks".
87* "The Three Iou's"
05-21-42 or 05-23-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): R.Porterfield and
Earl Young
(radio newscaster)
(East): Alice
Marble (radio sportscaster) and Mayor E.J.Reilly (via phone)
88* "The Old Men"
05-28-42 or 05-30-42: 30:00*
Adapted as "As
Simple as ABC" in EQMM, May 1951 and collected as
"The Gettysburg
Bugle" in The Calendar of Crime (1952)
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Joan
Caulfield (actress) and
Emery Deutsch
(bandleader)
(East): D.Lind
and Judge J.T.Mahoney
89* "The Dog Fires"
06-04-42 or 06-06-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Joan Edwards (singer/actress) and
J.Scheeter
(East): Warren
Hull (actor/radio announcer) and Joana Leschin (concert
pianist)
90* "The June Bride"
06-11-42 or 06-13-42: 30:00*
Adapted as "The Medical
Finger" in EQMM, June '51 and collected
in The Calendar of Crime (1952)
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Lois January (actress) and Lem Ward
(painter/woodcarver)
(East): C.
Agar and Jack McManus
Seven minutes
after a wedding ceremony the very wealthy bride drops dead.
Main suspect
appears to be the violent-tempered former boyfriend who had
threatened to kill the
woman. Ellery is attending
91* "The Golf Murder"
06-18-42 or 06-20-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Alphonso d'Artega (band leader) and
Kay Lorraine
(vocalist)
(East): Joan
Edwards (singer/actress) and Conrad Thibault (singer)
92* "The Midnight Visitor"
06-25-42 or 06-27-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West):
George and Dorothy
Kilgallen
(journalists)
(East): E.Allardice
and A.Simon
93* "The Air Raid Warden"
07-02-42 or 07-04-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Benay Venuta (singer/actress) and
D.Mich
(East): Clyde
Barrie (baritone) and Dick Stabile (bandleader)
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