161* "The Scarecrow and the Snowman"
01-20-44 or 01-22-44: 30:00*
Condensed from
'The Dying Scarecrow"
01-07-40
Guest Armchair Detectives (West)
Jeanne Cagney (actress),
Peter
Cusack
(East):
Bill O'Connor (radio announcer) , Gloria Swanson (actress)
Printed by Crippen & Landru as a
tribute to Ellery Queen
Used as basis for EQ appearance in the Crackajack
Funnies comic #42162* "The
Family Ghost"
01-27-44 or 01-29-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Marc
Connely (playwright) and
Martha
Scott (actress)
(East):
Howard W. Blakeslee (science editor) and Mrs.Blakeslee
163* "The Murder on the Air"
02-03-44 or 02-05-44: 30:00*
Condensed from
"The Flying Needle" 08-06-39
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Eddie
Mayehoff (comedian) and
Bea Wain
(actress)
(East): Edith Head
(costume designer) and Agatha
Christie (writer)
164* "The Problem Child"
02-10-44 or 02-12-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): P. Lawrence and John Shuttleworth
(fictitious
radio host)
(East): Ben
Grauer (radio announcer) and J.Tucker
165* "The Squirrel Woman"
02-17-44 or 02-19-44: 30:00*
Condensed from
"The Thirteenth Clue" 08-20-39
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Brenda Forbes (radio actress) and
Candy
Jones (model)
(East):
Admiral Y.Sterling and Benay Venuta (singer/actress)
166* "The Black Jinx"
02-24-44 or 02-26-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Irene Bordoni (singer) and Al Trace
(singer/songwriter)
(East):
Eddie Dowling (Broadway producer) and Helen Menken (radio
actress)
167* "The Red Cross"
03-02-44 or 03-04-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Arlene
Francis (actress) and Lucy
Monroe
(singer)
(East): Helen Hayes
(actress) and Lindsay MacHarrie (radio director)
168* "Wanted: John Smith"
03-09-44 or 03-11-44: 30:00*
Condensed from
"The Devil's Violin" 01-28-40
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Aubrey Waller Cook (pianist) and
June Vincent
(actress)
(East):
Irene Bordoni (singer) and Stan Lomax (baseball player)
169* "The Circular Clues"
03-16-44 or 03-18-44: 30:00*
Condensed from
"The Woman in Black" 01-14-40
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West):Joan Edwards (singer/actress) and
B. Yost
(East): Connee
Boswell (singer) and Xavier
Cugat (bandleader)
170* "The Glass Ball"
03-23-44 or 03-25-44: 30:00*
Repeat of
"The Silver Ball" 03-17-40
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Nannet Fabray (actress) and
Mrs.I Gerhard
(East): John
G. Chapman (New York Daily News critic) and S.Schulman
171* "The Case EQ couldn't Solve"
03-30-44 or 04-01-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): H.Duval and P.Young
(East):
J.Clyde and Dick Todd (vocalist)
172* "The Painted Problem"
04-06-44 or 04-8-44: 30:00*
Condensed from
"The Picture Puzzle" 11-05-39
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): I.Munson and Ya Ching Lee
(East): Milton
Cross (Metropolitan Opera radio host) and Marc
Lawrence
(actor)
173* "Dead Man's Cavern"
(AFRS version)
04-13-44 or 04-15-44: 29:30
Condensed from
"The Haunted Cave" 10-22-39
Guest Armchair Detectives (West):
Marjorie Lawrence
(Metropolitan Operastar) and
Beverly Kelly of the Ringling
Brothers/Barnum and Bailey Circus (circus publicity director).
Guest Armchair Detective (East): Dale
Carnegie (motivational speaker)
Ted Fio Rito
(musician)
A local legend known as "the Strangler", killed 29
people
over 100 years ago. Has he come back for more?
174* "The Letters of Blood"
04-20-44 or 04-22-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): M.Gateson and B. Vlavianos
(East):
P.Fears and George McManus (comic strip artist)
175* "The Buried Treasure"
04-27-44 or 04-29-44: 30:00*
Condensed from
"The Lost Treasure" 09-24-39
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): A.Lesser and P.Fears
(East): Mrs.I
Gerhard and Clayton
Rawson (mystery writer)
176* "The Thief in the Dark"
05-04-44 or 05-06-44: 30:00*
Condensed from
'The Cellini Cup"
11-12-39
Printed as authorized story
"Here is a Mystery"in RadioGuide 01-26-40
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): M.Gardner and J.C.Lewis (radio
producer)
(East):
Robert Watson, Alex
Pope and Martin Kosleck (actors respectively
played
Hitler, Göring and Goebbels in Paramount's 'The Hitler Gang' )
Ellery
meets a man who claims that an
art-gallery propietor has
cheated him out of a
cup made by the great
Benvenuto. Ellery and
Nikki go to the auction of
the priceless cup and
meet a variety of
people. That night the Cellini
cup is stolen
from the son of the art dealer in
total
darkness and in the presence of both
Ellery and
Nikki...
177* "The Chinese Puzzle"
05-11-44 or 05-13-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): A.Fisher and Rex Harrison (actor)
(East):
John J. Anthony (fictitious radio host) and Rose Marie
Lombardo (radio singer)
178* "The Bottle of Wine"
05-18-44 or 05-20-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Marjorie Lord (actress) and
S.
Schuyler
(East):
J.Brice and J. McGurrin
179* "The Great Chewing Gum Mystery"
05-25-44 or 05-27-44: 30:00*
Condensed from
"The Gum-Chewing Millionaire" 06-18-39
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Henry Daniell, Lou Frankel (actor)
(East):
E.S. Friendly and Vincent Lopez (band leader)
180* "The Murder Game"
06-01-44 or 06-03-44: 30:00*
Condensed from
"The Dead Cat" 10-29-39
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): John Archer (actor) and
Carol
Thurston (actress)
(East):
B.Kaplan and Rose
Marie (actress)
181* "The Dark Secret"
06-08-44 or 06-10-44: 30:00*
Condensed from
"The Black Secret" 12-10-39
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Royal Arch Gunnison (radio
reporter)
(East):
G.Greentree and Carol Thurston (actress)
182* "The Blue Chip"
06-15-44 or 06-17-44: 30:00*
Adapted as "The Adventure of the Blue Chip in 'Soldier Shows",
Folio 27, 1945
Intended for use by unit Special Services personnel in musical revues
where
there is no time for to build much scenery or costumes and a jury chosen
from
the audience was used as a part of the show.
Guest Armchair Detective
(West): Jane Cowl (actress)
(East):
Roland Young (actor and warbonds salesman)
Actually said it would
be either Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff or Bromo Seltzer :-)
Story is set in the time that is was allowed for gamblingships to operate
within
a
three mile radius of the coast. Our heroes are vacationing in
Velie's
beachhouse. Mrs Velie is unable to attend.Suddenly a taxi drives up and
delivers a drunken man. Morten Tucker is not only a beach developer he is
also very dead. The trail leads to Frank Betts, Mrs. Diane Tucker, Buzz
Rowland the poolmaster and the Tucker's daughter Penny.
Why was he delivered to their address? Why is he wet?...What does the Blue
Chip mean Ellery found in the taxi?
(visit to the LoC 4/29/2005, the best radiostory I heard )
183* "The Corpse in Lower Five"
06-22-44 or 06-24-44: 30:00*
Condensed from
"Napoleon's Razor" 07-09-39
Guest Armchair Detective
(West): M. Rognadahl
(East):
Gloria Halliday (finalist
undiscovered voice of America in the "America
Cinderella competition")
Returning
from a movie writing stint Ellery, Nikki and Velie take the continental
train to California. Several people are traveling
along a drunk salesman Frank
Gilley, miss Flame Brighton a moviestar,
a Canadian professor Parnaud,
newlyweds Clyde Tomkins and his wife.... Parnaud
een avid Napoleon addict
reports his old Napoleon razor
with a wooden handle stolen. Soon thereafter it
is found in the back of Mr.Gilley in lover five, the place where professor
Parnaud would have laid. Soon it is discovered that Frank Gilly, is not a
salesman but a jewelthief who has just robbed emeralds. The murdercar gets
unhitched from "The Flyer" and Ellery calls his father in NY. He'll join the
train
in Chicago, meanwhile no emeralds are to be found... so Ellery and his
father
set up a trap.
(visit to the LoC 4/29/2005)
184* "The Devil's Head"
06-29-44 or 07-01-44 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective
(West): Claudia Morgan (radio actress)
(East):
Hildegarde (singer)
This episode was announced as "The Adventure
of the House of the Four
Devils" at the end of last weeks episode.
The setting here is a countryhouse in the middle of NY City. As Nikki
pays
visit Dorothy Center's house close to the water. Milo brother, David who
lives
with the couple calls it "The House of the Four Devils" referring to the
four
sprouts on each corner of the roof.. While talking to
Dorothy in the garden, she confesses that she's unhappy. Having a 52 year
husband is a daunting task for a 27 year old and she admits being in love
with
someone else. As Milo comes to meet them one of the sprouts falls on his
head. Fortunately Milo isn't dead. Nikki suspects David, Milo's brother and
an
artist who works on the topfloor. Milo also thinks his brother and wife are
having an affair and asks Ellery to investigate. When visiting Milo at home
he
gets shot (and again survives). Chasing the culprit they find Dorothy, who
promptly confesses... Ellery Queen isn't convinced.
(visit to the LoC 4/29/2005)
185* "The Egyptian Tomb"
07-06-44 or 07-08-44: 30:00*
Repeat
of "The Pharoah's Curse" 08-25-40
Guest Armchair Detective
(West): Michael Whalen (actor)
(East):
Royal Arch Gunnison (war correspondent, author "So
Sorry No Peace")
An archeological expedition leads to disaster when a party discovers a
famed
tombed
they clearly hear a voice speak out a curse.."Before two seasons are
past
the ghouls who touched this sacred grave shall die". Soon after Kidder,
on
party member freaks out in a desert storm en dies. Tremo, yet another
partymember falls overboard and Smith died in his bed of some kind of an
insectbite. Some remaining members ask Ellery to look in. They already
know
the
curse is bogus as some other competitors tried to scare them off. But
their
contract which states one year after their findings they're to divide
everything
is even scarier. Professor Kareem is suspect number one, although he also
is
afraid and sleeps in a locked room guarded by photoelectric cells. Still
Kareem
gets murdered...
(visit to the LoC 4/29/2005)
186* "The Foul Tip"
07-13-44 or 07-15-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair
Detective (West): Charles Latorre
(actor)
(East):
Michael Whalen (actor)
A baseball-mystery.
187* "The Yang Piece"
07-20-44 or 07-22-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective (West):
Major George
Fielding Eliot
(military analyst)
(East):
Colonel John Stillwell (retired Army Officer)
188* "The Four Prisoners"
07-27-44 or 07-29-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair
Detective (West): Dr.F.E.Long
(East): Claudia Morgan (performer)
189* "The Man without a Heart"
08-03-44 or 08-05-44: 30:00*
Repeat of
"The Meanest Man in the World" 08-18-40
Guest Armchair Detective (West): Jane
Russell (actress)
(East):
Jane Cowell (actress)
190* "The Three Hands"
08-10-44 or 08-12-44: 30:00*
Repeat of
"The Mark of Cain" 09-22-40
Guest Armchair Detective
(West): Dorothy Hart (actress)
(East):
Major George Fielding Eliot (military analyst)
191* "The Man Who Wanted Cash"
08-17-44 or 08-19-44: 30:00*
Repeat
of "The Fatal Million" 09-04-40
Guest Armchair Detective
(West): John Mills (actor)
(East):
Bill Stern (sportscaster)
Involves a king who sells out
and for a million dollars in cash.
192* "The Mayor and the Corpse"
08-24-44 or 08-26-44: 30:00*
Repeat of
"The Picnic Murder" 09-08-40
Guest Armchair Detective
(West): John Conte (radio announcer)
(East):
Joan Edwards (singer/actress)
193* "The Dead Man's Bones"
08-31-44 or 09-02-44: 30:00*
Repeat of
"The Emperor's Dice" 03-31-40
Guest Armchair Detective (West): Earl
Wilson (columnist)
(East): Fred
Waring (band leader)
194* "The Disappearing Cats"
09-07-44 or 09-09-44: 30:00*
Based (?) on story "The Seven Black
Cats" (1937)
Guest Armchair Detective
(West): Allan Jones (singer/actor)
(East):
W. Peterson
195* "The College Crime"
09-14-44 or 09-16-44: 30:00*
Condensed version of "The Three R's"
09-10-39
Guest Armchair Detective (West):
Captain J.Chase
(East):
Josephine Antoine (soprano)
In this version "There Was An Old Woman" was mentioned, in the '46
EQMM
version
"The Murderer was a Fox"(sic) and in the printed Calendar
version
"The
Origin of Evil".
When at the beginning of a new academic year students and teachers
return to the classrooms,
Ellery is hired by the administration of Barlowe
College
to locate a Poe
scholar who vanished in the Ozarks during the
summer. His
finds some baffling clues: a detective-story manuscript,
a
skeleton
with two missing fingers...
196* "The Robber of Fallboro"
09-21-44 or 09-23-44: 30:00* Repeat of "The Black Sheep"
07-28-40
Source for The Accused in EQMM,
12/54 and The
Robber of
Wrightsville" in Q.B.I. (1955)
Guest Armchair Detective (West): Cornel
Wilde (actor)
(East):
V.E.Chenea
A
masked thief steals a $ 15,000 payroll from the owner of a mill in the
village of
Fallboro. When the victim's stepson is arrested for the crime
on
circumstantial evidence, the boy's mother calls in Ellery
Queen.
197* "The Invisible Clock"
09-28-44 or 09-30-44: 30:00* Repeat of 08-11-40
Script printed in The Case Book of Ellery
Queen' (1945)
Guest Armchair Detective
(West): J.Holton, C. Choiniere
(East): Lt. Eileen Mallon (Overseas veteran)
A priceless
ruby disappears during a society ball Ellery and Nikki are
attending. The clue
is the clock that is heard ticking where no clock
exists.
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147*
"The Hopeless Case" 
