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329* "The Saga of Ruffy Rux"
11-27-47 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
McCullah St. Johns
Ellery
takes on a gangster who keeps jingling two silver "lucky"
dollars...
330* Title Unknown
12-04-47 :30:00* Repeat
331* "Nikki Porter, Bride"
12-11-47 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Zuma Palmer (columnist
Hollywood Citizens News.)
Nikki quits her job with Ellery in anger and plans to get married to
Hobart Grimman, a known bigamist and a fraud. Grimman is shot at
the altar, but by whom?
332* "The Melancholy Dane" aka "The Great Dane"
12-18-47 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Dick
Williams (west coast editor
Pic magazine.)
When Willis Dane's father dies suddenly, his
mother immediately
marries Willis' uncle Claude. Uncle Claude is murdered and young
Willis is accused of the crime.
333* "Ellery Queen: Santa Claus"
12-25-47 :30:00* Repeat of 12-25-46
Guest Armchair Detective: Fabius
Friedman (west coast
editor Radio Best magazine)
Ellery visits a man on death row to try to
prove his innocence. A
$1000 diamond ring on the finger of a movie theatre box office clerk
is the clue
he needs to pull this off. The trail leads to a department
store and Santa Claus who is knifed to death!
334* "The Unhappy New Year"
01-01-48 :30:00* Repeat 01-01-47
After one of these re-runs Kaye
Brinker took over Nikki's part
335* "The Head Hunter"
01-08-48 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Alice Canfield.
A "head-hunter" has committed two murders in the underworld and
is after more gamblers. The masked "Head Man" commits another
murder and even shoots Sergeant Velie! Who is this guy?
336* "The Terrified Man"
01-15-48 :30:00* repeat of
"The Invisible Clue" 01-15-42
Guest Armchair Detective: Jerry Devine
(radio producer)
Mr. Brown has received a "poisoned soap" letter, threatening his
death. Brown is going to be killed by "someone he sees every day."
After Brown is killed, Ellery takes a look at the contents of Brown's
medicine chest.
337* "The Private Eye"
01-22-48 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Henry Morgan
(comedian, quizmaster)
Private
eye Cam Clubb tries to unravel the murder of a statesman in
exile. He comes
across... Ellery Queen.
From this episode Howard Culver
took over the Ellery-part
338* "Death House"
01-29-48 :30:00* Repeat
of "The Death Traps" 05-27-43
Guest Armchair Detective: Erskine Johnson (Hollywood columnist)
When the strange Mr. Lazarus dies and leaves his entire estate to
Mrs. Madge Manus, there are two
conditions...and several attempts
on her
life.
339* "Bubsy"
02-05-48 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Charles 'Buddy'
Rogers
Bubsy Chum is a 6' 6" stupid killer who's a one man crime wave.
Who is behind Bubsy? After kidnapping Ellery and Nikki, Bubsy's
planning to
kill them both unless Ellery can name his boss.
340* "A Question of Color"
02-12-48 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Edith Gwynn
(Hollywood columnist)
Gamblers have set up a colored boxer into taking a
fight beyond his
abilities, so they can win big. The boxer's trainer has been made
drunk, severely limiting the chances the boxer can win. Who
gave
Doc the whiskey?
341* "The Old Sinner"
02-19-48 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Virginia
McPherson (writer United Press)
Uncle Bert has returned and is promptly
poisoned
after a bit of
blackmail.
342* "The Blue Egg"
02-26-48 :30:00* Repeat of 09-12-45
Guest Armchair Detective: Seymour
Nebenzal (movie producer)
An impossible crime has been committed. Where is that missing
fabulous blue sapphire?
343* "The Human Weapon"
03-04-48 :30:00* Repeat of 04-01-43
Adapted in an episode of the
Dumont tv-series the Adventures of
ElleryQueen
11/23/50
Guest Armchair
Detectives (East):Joan Barton (actress)
(West): John Nelson
( m.c. of "Bride and Groom").
Mr. Sykes has been placed in an insane
asylum by his wife. He must
be released today so that he can kill his wife...and he asks Ellery for
help! Abel Sykes escapes from the asylum and does in fact murder
his wife...or does he?
344* "The Lynching of Mr.Q"
03-11-48 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Kirk Douglas
Ellery is arrested for murder in a small town.
They take him for
"Scarface Ellery Cue," a notorious gangster and a lynch
mob forms.
345* "The Armchair Detective"
03-18-48 :30:00* Repeat of 3-27-46
Guest Armchair Detective: Sheila Graham (columnist)
The
show dealt with the murder of "an armchair
detective". Ellery assured
audiences at the beginning of
the program the adventure happened ' a
long time ago'
to avoid an Orson Welles type of
misunderstanding.
Sheila Graham at the time quite powerful and
feared
confessed she was 'rather uneasy' in the chair
346* "The Farmer's Daughter"
03-25-48 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Agnes Moorehead (actress)
Ellery and Nikki are visiting a farm. There's more to the farmer's
daughter than meets the eye. Cueball Mingo has escaped from the
state pen!
347* "The Vanishing Crook"
04-01-48 :30:00*
repeat of __________
Guest Armchair Detective: Arlene Rogers
(winner of the
contest "America's Champion Movie
Fan")
An English jewel thief is being held prisoner, beaten and tortured.
By the time Inspector Queen and the cops break
in, Herbert Frink
has disappeared.
348* "The K.I. Chase"
04-08-48 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Jimmy Starr (motion picture
editor LA
Herald Express and
mystery author).
Big Joe Manx is back in town with a Latin bodyguard. Nobody
seems particularly afraid of him. A blank piece of stationery with
the letters "K. I." are the clues to $50,000 and incriminating
evidence when
Manx is shot.
349* "The Slicer"
04-15-48 :30:00*
Repeat of 08-01-45 "Nick the Knife"
Guest Armchair Detective:
Gene Handsaker (Hollywood columnist,
Associated Press Newsman)
An unknown madman has murdered nineteen women by attacking
them at night while they are alone. The identity of "The Slicer" is
quite a
surprise.
350* "Murder by Installments"
04-22-48 :30:00*
Repeat of 12-31-42 "The Man Who was
Murdered by Installments
Guest Armchair Detective: Mel Blanc
Dexter Prill played by Francis X. Bushman
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.
Dwight Hauser directed the
remaining episodes. This week or the next Howard Culver took over the part
of the famed amateur detective...
351* "The Three Frogs"
04-29-48 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective:
Florabel Muir (columnist)
Ellery
vs "The Frog" leader of a youth gang of criminals.
Nikki tries to reform a young
delinquent.
352* "One Diamond"
05-06-48 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Peggy Lee
Why couldn't
the murderer of millionair Mark Gallows read
the "treasure- map"
leading to the famous diamond?
353* "Nikki Porter, Starlet"
05-13-48 :30:00*
Repeat of
"The Doodle of Mr.O'Drew"11-28-45
Guest Armchair Detective:
Harve Fishman (former Quizkid)
354* "Misery Mike"
05-20-48 :30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective: Cliff Arquette
(radio comedian)
Mike was a rat with a difference; he
was a accordion playing
racketeer, but only one tune from "Il
Trovatore." Mike has a scheme
to blackmail opera singers. But who killed "Misery Mike"? The
accordion
provides a clue. Ellery
is forced to disguise
Nikki, as a
famous European opera singer.
355* Title Unknown
05-27-48 :30:00*
Repeat (with new title)
Guest Armchair Detective:
Sam Abbott
Al that is known about this story is that it's about racial prejudice
leading to crime. Ellery investigates
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