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94* "The World Series Crime"
10-08-42 or 10-10-42: 30:00*
repeated on 09-30-43 or 10-02-43
Guest Armchair
Detectives (West): unknown
(East): George McManus (comic strip artist),
Benay Venuta
(singer/actress),
other newspaper announced in newspaper Pierre
Huss, Benay Venuta.
Republished
as a 1985 booklet by Gogaku Shunjusha (Japan)
The star player of the Eagles, Sparky is in a batting slump due to
his stolen bat. Ellery Queen may be the only person who can
save the World Series for the Eagles.
Ellery succeeds just in time for the
home run that leads the Eagles
to victory, showcasing OWI's slogan for the
day: "You can always
trust your Uncle Sam!"
(The Ellerys of the Airwaves
- Francis M.Nevins EQMM 2005)
95* "Mr. X"
10-15-42 or 10-17-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West):
G.Parsons and Harriet
Van Horne
(newspaper columnist)
(East):
A.Ames and G.Parsons
96* "The Polish Refugee"
10-22-42 or 10-24-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective
(West): unknown
(East): R.Day
Jr. and Oscar Serlin (theatrical producer)
97* "The Witch's Broom"
10-29-42 or 10-31-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): P.C.Mason and
Marine Sergeant
W.P.Berkley
(East): Flora
Robson (actress) and John Van Druten (playwright)
98* "The Fatal Letter"
11-05-42 or 11-07-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Sergeant Vance and Sergeant L.White
(United States Marine Corp)
(East): Jerry
Lester (comedian) and Lucille Manners (singer)
99* "The Poet's Triangle"
11-12-42 or 11-14-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Lanny
Ross (singer) and D.London
(East): Les Brown (bandleader)
and Eleanor Lynn
(comedy broadway actress)
Ann Corio announced
as armchair detective
A love triangle between a poet Justine Prince, his wife and his secretary
Joan
Bentley. Talking in
verses Justin concludes that "Joan is dead" The soon
discover than Joan
is indead dead by poisoning. No suicide. Justine's father
in law is a
retired scientist in chemistry but too old and too sick.
(The story
itself plugs Queen's newest anthology 'Sporting Blood')
(visit to the LoC 4/27/2005)
100* "The Bald-headed Ghost"
11-19-42 or 11-21-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective
(West): unknown
(East): Eva
Gabor (actress) and Dr.R.A.Button
Bert Lytelll announced as armchair detective
101* "The Three Mothers" aka
"The Dead Man's Chest"
11-26-42 or 11-28-42: 30:00*
Repeated as "Queen Solomon" 01-22-47
Guest
Armchair Detectives (West): Bernard Geis (publisher) and C.Marr
(one of his
cover girls)
(East): unknown
102* "The Man in the Taxi"
12-03-42 or 12-05-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): L.Guy and M.Hayes
(East): Sally
Rand (fan dancer) and Barry Wood (singer/musician)
103* "The Gymnasium Murder"
12-10-42 or 12-12-42: 30:00* Repeated on 8-21-46
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Irving Caesar (Broadway composer)
and Lady
Hardwicke (wife of actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
(East): pre-empted
by a football game
104* "The Yellow Ledger" aka
"Ellery Queen's Greatest Case"
12-17-42 or 12-19-42: 30:00*
Adapted as
"The Black Ledger" in This Week , 01-26-52 and
collected in
Q.B.I.,
1955)
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Walter B. Gibson (author and creator
of the
Shadow) and Choo Choo Johnson (hobo musician)
(East): L.Sullivan
and Hank Worden (actor)
Spy story
In some cases an agent's entire list of performers eventually ask to
get on "prestige" shows like Information, Please as guest experts, on
Ellery Queen as guest armchair detectives, on Battle of the
Sexes as guest stooges, on Take It or Leave It as guest ringers. They'll be
a guest on anything as long as it's before a mike. It's getting so that the
shows themselves are becoming tougher and tougher to crash because many
name-guests experts have turned out to be just guest dopes.
(42-12-19 The Billboard)
105* "The Red and Green Boxes"
12-24-42 or 12-26-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective
(West): A.Ames and Captain Don Saxon
(East): Ann
Corio (stripper/actress) and P.Schoenstein
106* "The Man who was Murdered by Installments"
12-31-42 or 01-02-42: 30:00*
Repeated on 04-22-48 as "Murder
by Installments"
Guest Armchair Detective
(West): V.Carol and H.Thompson
(East):
Walter Compton and Peggy Wood (actress)
Dexter Prill a very wealthy old man
has two nephews and a neice. Two of
his greedy relatives have been cut out of the
will, leaving
all of his thirty
million dollars to one of the rest. Which relative's worries are over? Or
have
they just begun? The old man is shot twice, but only in the arm and leg.
107* "The Singing Rat"
01-07-43 or 01-09-43: 30:00*
Written by Frederic Dannay & Manfred B.Lee
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Ann
Corio (vaudeville actress)
Alfred D.McKelv(r)ey(manufacturer)
Bruce Kamman (producer, director), Charles Paul (organ)
(East): Jean
Holloway (radio writer) and Frank Luther (radio announcer)
A stool pigeon
sets up racketeer Musso. Clue to the secret of
murder
is a hollow cigarette.
108* "Mr. Short and Mr.Long"
01-14-43 or 01-16-43: 30:00*
Script printed in the The
Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (1944)
as "The Disappearence of
Mr.James Phillimore"
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): John G.Chapman (New York Daily
news
drama critic) and C.G.Kimball
(East): Joan
Edwards (singer/actress) and Ben Yost
(of the
'Ben
Yost Singers')
Newspapers announced: Wynn Murray (singer/actress) and Ben Yost
Both Dannay and Lee were fans of Sherlock Holmes. Douglas Green
states that it was only natural that the cousins would give Ellery a
case Holmes had failed to solve. This is Ellery's solution to the unfinished
case of Mr. James Phillimore, who, stepping back into his own house
to get his umbrella, was never seen in this world.
109* "The Fairy Tale Murder"
aka "Little Red Riding Hood"
01-21-43 or 01-23-43: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): William Fawcett (magazine publisher)
and
I.Thirer
(East): B.Briskam
and P.Schoenstein
Nikki, able assistant to Ellery
Queen, plays a triple role in The Adventure of
the Fairy Tale Murder, Besides being herself, Nikki
impersonates Little Red
Riding Hood and a frightened old woman. It will happen in the
course of
solving a poison murder, which involves three big, bad wolves,
keeping the
fairy tale touch.
110* "Tom, Dick and Harry"
01-28-43 or 01-30-43: 30:00*
Script printed
in
EQMM, 7/43 and reprinted in the Saint's Choice
Vol.7: Radio Thrillers
(1946) as 'The
Murdered Ship'
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Helen Barton (visitor from San Diego)
and Harry
Conover (Modelling agency owner)
(East): Bob
Allen (singer) and F.Mercer
111* "The Secret Enemy"
02-04-43 or 02-06-43: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): T.Dugan and J.Hogan
(East): Harry
Conover (Modelling agency owner) and Candy Jones
(model)
112* "The Broken Statues"
02-11-43 or 02-13-43: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): S.A.McCabe and Captain Don Saxon
(East): Joan
Edwards (actress) and Abe Lyman (bandleader)
Takes Queen in
search of someone who deliberately keeps smashing the
poor attempts of a tyro sculptor.
113* "The Two Swordsmen"
02-18-43 or 02-20-43: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Private M.Kaplan and J.M.Ross
(East): Herb Shriner (radio comedian) and
Betty Bruce (dancer)
A poisoned sword, a duke and a queen make it
sound like a story out of
the age of chivalry but it is a modern mystery.
114* "The One-legged man"
02-25-43 or 02-27-43: 30:00*
Script printed in
EQMM,
11/43
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): J.Crowley and C.Hughes
(East):
Sara Ann McCabe (singer in "Show Time") and Wilbur Evans (noted
baritone).
Ellery Queen's second assignment from Washington as
Special
Investigator for the United States
Government takes him to a Long Island
war plant. There he encounters a serious
sabotage plot and murder.
When Knowles Entriken,
who directed the Ellery Queen broadcasts
received a sudden call for an important assignement for the West Coast
office of Ruthrauff & Ryan, the cast came up with a clever going-away gift,
a handsome picnic basket filled with sandwiches, canned goods, and thermos
coffee, just in case Knowles
couldn't get into the diner of the transcontinental trains.
(43-02-27 The Billboard)
115* "Number Thirteen Dream Street"
03-04-43 or 03-06-43: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Nanette
Fabray (actress) and
Luanna Walter
(actress)
(East): Ed Sullivan (newspaper columnist)
and Nancy Kelly (actress)
116* "The Incredible Murder"
03-11-43 or 03-13-43: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): J.A.Knight and
Helen
Twelvetrees (actress)
(East): William
Prince (actor) John Shuttleworth (fictitious radio host)
Announced: John Shuttleworth (editor of
True Detective magazine) and
Madge Evans, (screen star, guest
detectives)
117* "The Boy Detectives" aka: "The
Great Nut Mystery"
03-18-43 or 03-20-43: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Jerry
Lester (radio personality) and
H.Mueller
(East): Frank
Forest (tenor) and M.Reich
Ellery Queen is joined by two special assistants Jimmy Doyle
and Sammy
Berg, two messengers, get on the trail of desperate
criminals with Ellery to
solve a baffling case which arises in the simple
surroundings of Nuttlely's
Nut Store.
118* "The Circus Train"
03-25-43 or 03-27-43: 30:00*
Written by Frederic Dannay & Manfred B.Lee
Bruce
Kamman (producer, director), Charles Paul (organ)
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Bob Bruce (radio actor) and G.I.Giles
(East):
George R.Crowley (Super-intendant New York, New Haven and
Harvard
Railroad Police Force) and Francis Beverley Kelley
(Ringling
Brothers- Barnum and Bailey circus
radio director).
A circus owner is killed
with three $10,000 bills removed from the body.
 119* "The Human Weapon"
04-01-43 or 04-03-43: 30:00*
Repeated 03-04-48
Adapted in an episode of the
Dumont tv-series
the Adventures of Ellery Queen
11/23/50
Guest Armchair Detective
(West):
Alphonso d'Artega (band leader) and
N.Bodanya
(East): Jerry
Lester (comedian) and B.O'Neill
Insane man seeks his
wife's life.
120* "The Three Musketeers"
04-08-43 or 04-10-43: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Doris
McFerrin (magazine editor) and Leonard
Sillman
(Broadway producer)
(East): Lois
January (actress) and Crockett Johnson
(cartoonist)
Trails lottery murder.
121* "Pharaoh Jones' Last Case"
04-15-43 or 04-17-43: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Dorothy
Arzner (movie director) and
Bill
Johnson (orchestra leader)
(East): Brenda
Forbes (actress) and F.Sammis
Story of a forgotten manuscript.
122* "The Deadly Game"
04-22-43 or 04-24-43: 30:00*
Guest
Armchair Detectives (West): William Juengst
(columnist) and
Natalie Shafer
(actress)
(East): John
L. Nanovic (pulpmagazine editor) and Virginia Gilmore (actress)
Death
follows a poker session.
123* "The Three Gifts"
04-29-43 or 05-01-43: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): J.Fox and C.Post
(East): Gloria
Gilbert (tap dancer)
and Jimmy Jemail (newspaper
gossip columnist)
Crime intrudes in the placid life of little old Jonathan Caylilff,
whose one
desire is to bring happiness to three people he has never seen.
124* "The Eye Print"
05-06-43 or 05-08-43: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West):
Lee Dixon and Celeste
Holm (actress)
(East): Joan Caulfield (actress)
and Richard
Widmark (actor)
125* "The Barbaric Murder"
05-13-43 or 05-15-43: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): A.Connolly and
Bretaigne
Windust (stage and movie director)
(East): Kathryn
Cravens (radio commentator)
and Alexander
Kirkland (movie actor)
126* "The Fortune Teller"
05-20-43 or 05-22-43: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Patricia Peardon (radio actress) and
Mayor E J..Reilly
(East): K.Hughes
and M.May
127* "The Death Trap"
05-27-43 or 05-29-43: 30:00*
Repeated as "The Death House" 01-29-48
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Ruth McDevitt (radio actress) and
L.Rollins
(East): Paula
Lawrence (from the Cole Porter Musical "Something for
the
Boys") and Guy Lombardo (bandleader)
128* "The Killer who was going to Die"
06-03-43 or 06-05-43: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): R.Burton and J.Bellows
(East):
Nellie Revell (radio personality) and Ben Yost
(from the "Ben Yost
Singers)
On June 6. 1943 the Fred Allen show had "Ellery
Queen" as guest. This was Carleton Young and Fred Allen
was armchair detective (along
with a couple of him comedy characters).
Texaco Star Theater 9:30 - 10:00pm
- CBS
129* "Crime, Inc"
06-10-43 or 06-12-43: 30:00*
Condensed
as
"The Crime Corporation"in Story Digest, November 1946
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Guy
Lombardo (bandleader) and
Arleen Whelan
(actress)
(East): Mia
Slavenska (ballerina) and D.Thimor
130* "The Man with the Red Beard"
06-17-43 or 06-19-43: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Virginia Field (actress) and
Norman Tokar
(radio actor)
(East): Gypsy
Rose Lee (stripper) and Joe Besser (comedian)
Ellery Queen demonstrates his versatility as a detective by
solving his
puzzler without even leaving his apartment.
131* "Sergeant Velie's Revenge"
06-24-43 or 06-26-43: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Christine Ayers (showgirl) and
William Fawcett
(magazine publisher)
(East): Virginia
Field (Broadway actress) and Norman Tokar (radio actor
Henry
in The Aldrich Family)
132* "The Hidden Crime"
07-01-43 or 07-03-43: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective
(West): J. Deering and A.B. Hecht
(East): James
Montgomery Flagg (magazine illustrator) and
Harriet
Von Horne (newspaper columnist)
Announced in newspapers: James Montgomery Flagg and
Sherman
Billingsley (Stork Club Owner)
Beginning of a 13 episode summer repeat
series. During August Carleton Young was replaced by Sydney Smith and during
September Marian Shockley was replaced by Helen Lewis
133* "The Double Triangle"
07-08-43 or 07-10-43: 30:00* Repeat of
4-28-40
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Harry
Von Zell (actor) and
Fred Warring (bandleader)
(East):
Phil Baker (radio comedian) and Donna Dae (singer)
Irate husband begs
protection against himself.
134* "The Man who could Double the Size of Diamonds"
07-15-43 or 07-17-43: 30:00* Repeat of
5-05-40
Script printed in EQMM,
5/43
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): M.Davis and W.Doble
(East):
Joan Edwards (singer/actress) and R.Mealand
Newspaper announced Raymond Paige (bandleader) as guest
Ellery not only solves the murder of a scientist who claims to have
discovered
a
chemical progress for making diamonds grow, at the same time
he
untangles the impossible theft of four such stones from a
locked and
guarded vault.
135* "The Fire Bug"
07-22-43 or 07-24-43: 30:00* Repeat of
5-12-40
Script printed in EQMM,
3/43
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Jerry
Wayne (actor) and
Private J.Fink.
Jerry Wayne couldn't attend a press agent
replaced him.
(East): Janet Blair (actress)
and Paula Stone (actress)
A series of
suspicious blazes in Ellery neighborhood,each of which
destroyed a building owned by
the same man.
136* "The Honeymoon House"
07-29-43 or 07-31-43: 30:00* Repeat
of 5-19-40
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Virginia Gilmore (actress) and
F.Hornaday
(East):
Ann Corio (stripper/actress) and Paul Lavalle (orchestra
conductor)
Script printed in The Case Book of Ellery
Queen (1945)
Love
rivalries among the offspring of munitions manufacturers
lead to a bride's murder on
her wedding night..
137* "The Mouse's Blood"
08-05-43 or 05-07-43: 30:00* Repeat of
5-26-40
Script printed in EQMM
9/42 and reprinted in
The Fireside Mystery
Book (1947)
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Ann Corio (stripper/actress) and
Jay C.Flippen
(actor)
(East): M.Davis and Mary Small (actress)
Ellery happens
to be outside the house where a blackmailer is stabbed to
death by one of four
athletes who were to have made the
payoffs to him
that night. (? see title below)
138* "The Four Murderers"
08-12-43 or 08-14-43: 30:00* Repeat of
6-02-40
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Paul Lavalle (orchestra conductor) and
Paula Stone
(actress)
(East): Jay
Jostyn (actor Mr. District
Attorney) and Danton Walker
(newspaper columnist)
139* "The Good Samaritan"
08-19-43 or 08-21-43: 30:00* Repeat of
6-09-40
Basis for movie
"A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen" 1942
Script printed in EQMM 11-42
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Jan Kiepura (opera singer) and
Danton Walker
(newspaper columnist)
(East): Ralph
Edwards (radio personality) and Rajah Raboid (stage
magician)
Ellery hunts the elusive Robin
Hood who's
been sending stolen $100 bills
to the needy tenants in a certain
tenement.
140* "The Mysterious Traveler"
08-26-43 or 08-28-43: 30:00* Repeat of
6-16-40
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Otto
Preminger (movie director) and
Rajah Raboid
(stage magician)
(East): F.B.
Beddow and C.C. Conell
Announced guest: Jan Kiepura
141* "The Dark Cloud"
09-02-43 or 09-04-43: 30:00* Repeat of
6-23-40
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Ezra MacIntosh (radio producer/
director) and
I.T.Miller
(East): Christine
Ayers (showgirl) and Spike Jones (bandleader)
142* "The Blind Bullet"
09-09-43 or 09-11-43: 30:00* Repeat of
6-30-40
Script printed
in EQMM, 9/43
Guest Armchair Detectives (West):
Candy Jones (model) and
Spike
Jones (bandleader)
(East):
Richard Coogan (radio actor) and Julie Stevens (radio actress)
both
from "Abie's Irish Rose"
A
ruthless tycoon feels threatened as he received a precise minute and day
of his death.
The magnate turns to Ellery to protect him from this
anonymous
enemy.
Later recycled as premise
for 'The King is Dead' (1952)
143* "The Fallen Gladiator"
09-16-43 or 09-18-43: 30:00* Repeat of
7-07-40
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Jack Dolph (author) and Dave
Rubinoff
(violinist)
(East): Don
Dunphy (sports announcer) and Jerry
Wayne (actor)
Story of the prize ring.
144* "The Treasure Hunt"
09-23-43 or 09-25-43: 30:00* Repeat of
7-21-40
Script printed in EQMM spring
'42
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Jackie Kelk (radio actor) and Mary
Small
(vocalist)
(East):
'Senator' Ed Ford, Harry
Hershfield (caricaturist) and Joe Laurie Jr.
(3 of the 4
joke's experts on radio's Can you top this?)
One of the retired general's house guests stole a rope
of pearls from his
daughters's
bedroom. Ellery sets out to find it and devises a treasure-
hunting
game as a psychological trap for the thief.
Plot gimmick from The American
Gun Mystery (1934)
145* "The World Series Crime"
09-30-43 or 10-02-43: 30:00* Repeat
of 10-08-42
Written by Frederic Dannay & Manfred B.Lee
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Don Duphy (sports announcer) and
Al Schacht
(baseball coach)
(East): Ken Sears
(baseballplayer) and Art Flynn (editor 'Sporting News'),
Joe
Gordon (baseball player) was unable to join.
A newspaper
announced Walter Lanier 'Red' Barber (sportscaster)
come Oct 2.
Republished
as a 1985 booklet by Gogaku Shunjusha (Japan)
The star player of the Eagles, Sparky is in a batting slump due to
his stolen bat.Ellery Queen
may be the only person who can
save the World Series for the
Eagles.
Ellery succeeds just in time for the home run that leads
the Eagles
to victory, showcasing OWI's slogan for the
day: "You can always
trust your Uncle Sam!"
(The Ellerys of the Airwaves
- Francis M.Nevins EQMM 2005)
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