161* "The Scarecrow and the Snowman"
01-20-44 or 01-22-44: 30:00*
Written by Frederic Dannay & Manfred B.Lee
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)
Announced armchair detectives: Basil O'Connor (president
of National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis)
and Gloria Swanson (actress).
Printed by Crippen & Landru as a
tribute to Ellery Queen
Used as basis for EQ appearance in the Crackajack
Funnies comic #42
A tough case that takes Ellery months to solve.
A corpse is found frozen,
on a farm filled with crazies162* "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
(Hollywood costume designer) and Audrey Christie
(actress in 'The Voice of the Turtle' Broadway
play).
NBC
War Bond parade
(02-05-44
at 12:00 pm) had
Captain Glenn Miller; Band of the Army Air Force
Training Command; Grantland Rice; cast of "Adventures of Ellery
Queen"; Harry Hershfield on the
show
164* "The Problem Child"
02-10-44 or 02-12-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Paula Lawrence and John Shuttleworth
(fictitious
radio host)
(East): Jackie Tucker (USO hostess of Karber's
Ridge, Ill.) and
Ben Grauer
(NBC announcer)
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):
Rear Admiral Yates Stirling,
Jr. 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
and Lindsay MacHarrie (American
Red Cross executive)
Special broadcast in honor of the $200M Red Cross
War Drive
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 (musical comedy singer) and Stan Lomax (baseball player,
sport
columnist)
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 drama
critic) and Sammy
Schulman (war photographer)
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)
Announced armchair detectives: two members of Ringling Brothers
and Barnum and
Bailey Circus: Paul Jung (whitefaced clown) and Herbert
Duval
(legal adjuster) at WEAF (East)
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)
Announced
armchair detectives: Marjorie Lawrence of Metropolitan Opera, and
Milton Cross
(radio announcer).
173* "Dead Man's Cavern"
(AFRS re-broadcast of West version)
04-13-44 or 04-15-44: 29:30
Written by Frederic Dannay & Manfred B.Lee
Condensed from
"The Haunted Cave" 10-22-39
Guest Armchair Detectives (West):
Marjorie Lawrence
(Metropolitan Operastar) and
Francis Beverly Kelley 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): Peggy Fears (singer)
and George McManus (cartoonist of "Maggie and
Jiggs")
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.Inez
Gerhard (author) and Clayton
Rawson (mystery writer,
magazine editor)
176* "The Thief in the Dark"
(AFRS pre-broadcast sneakpreview)
05-04-44 or 05-06-44: 30:00*
Condensed from
'The Cellini Cup"
11-12-39
AFRS Mystery Playhouse program "The Thief in the Dark" sneak
preview
at the
end of AFRS Nero Wolfe broadcast of "The Last Laugh" 07-05-43
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 of Good
Will Hour) 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): James McGurrin (commissioner of
jurors, New York City) and John
"String" Brice,
(police chief of Ringling Brothers-Barnum and
Bailey circus.)
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): Edwin S. Friendly
(New York newspaper man)
and Vincent Lopez
(orchestra leader)
Monday: With Helen Hayes in the cast, as well as
lovely Marion Shockley, St.
Albans Naval Hospital boys will see the Ellery Queen Show
exactly as WEAF beams it
on Saturday Night. (Brooklyn
Eagle - Fri May 26 1944)
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): Ben Kaplan (Providence
Journal radio
editor) and
Rose Marie (nightclub singer)
In which mystery develops at surprise party for
Ellery's secretary, Nikki Porter
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)
Newspaper announced on Royal Arch Gunnison on WEAF 6-8-44 (East)
(East):
Carol Thurston (actress) and Mrs. Geraldine
Greentree (Ohio radio
editor).
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)
Announced armchair detective: Annabella (French actress)
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.
Even so
Kareem is 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, president
of National Safety
council)
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 Cowl (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):
West Peterson (detective
magazine editor)
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)
Announced armchair detective: Annamary Dickey (Metropolitan
Opera
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):
Victor E. Chenea (vice-president
of Pan American World airways).
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): Lieut. Eileen Mallon (Overseas veteran army
nurse)
"Lt. Mallon will tell why a quota of 6,000 volunteers for the
Army Nurse Corps
must be met by Jan. 1, to keep us the Army Medical Corps'
record of saving the
lives of 97% of all battle wounded treated."
(44-09-30 Lima News)
On the fashionable estate of a Long Island
family of wealth 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" 
