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After "The Gulf Screen Guild Theater" went of the air it
was replaced by Ellery Queen and thus the program gained it's first
sponsor. Bert Parks stept in as announcer...
46* "The Double Triangle"
04-28-40 :30:00*
Repeated on 07-08-43 or 07-10-43
Script printed in in The Case Book of Ellery
Queen (1945)
Guest Armchair Detectives: unknown
Ellery tries to
locate the anonymous lover who's romancing the wife
of a young bookkeeper. His efforts to keep the husband from
murdering the
lover result in him becoming the eyewitness to the
killing of the wife.
47* "The Man who could double the Size of
Diamonds"
05-05-40 :30:00*
Repeated on 07-15-45 or 07-17-43
Script printed in EQMM,
May '43
Guest Armchair Detectives: unknown
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.
48* "The Fire Bug"
05-12-40 :30:00*
Repeated on 07-22-43 or 07-24-43
Script printed in EQMM,
March '43
Guest Armchair Detectives: unknown
A series of
suspicious blazes in Ellery neighborhood,each of
which destroyed a building owned by
the same man.
49* "The Honeymoon House"
05-19-40 :30:00*
Repeated on 07-29-43 or 07-31-43
Script printed in The Case Book of
Ellery
Queen (1945)
Guest Armchair Detectives: Arthur Mann
(Umpire
of the 'Choose Up Sides' sports
quiz)
Love rivalries among the offspring of
munitions
manufacturers lead to a bride's
murder on her
wedding night.
50* "The Mouse's Blood"
05-26-40 :30:00*
Repeated on 08-05-43 or 08-07-43
Script printed in EQMM
September '42 and reprinted in
The Fireside
Mystery Book (1947)
Guest Armchair Detectives: unknown
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)
51* "The Four Murderers"
06-02-40 :30:00*
Repeated on 08-12-43 or 08-14-43
Guest Armchair Detectives: Louis Connolly (newspaperman)
and Mary Rhinehart
(stenographer)
52* "The Good Samaritan"
06-09-40 :30:00*
Repeated on 08-19-43 or 08-21-43
Basis for movie
"A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen" 1942
Script printed in EQMM
November '42
Guest Armchair Detectives: unknown
Ellery hunts the elusive Robin Hood who's
been sending stolen
$100 bills to the needy tenants in a certain
tenement.
53* "The Mysterious Travelers"
06-16-40 :30:00*
Repeated on 08-26-43 or 08-28-43
Guest Armchair Detectives: Muriel Frizzell (supervisor)
Murder suspects from Persia, Ceylon and the Fiji Islands in New York
to thrust Ellery
into one of most exciting peregrinations in crime.
54* "The Dark Cloud"
06-23-40 :30:00*
Repeated on 09-02-43 or 09-04-43
Guest Armchair
Detectives: Doris Gibson (magazine cover girl)
55* "The Blind Bullet"
06-30-40 :30:00*
Repeated on 09-09-43 or
09-11-43
Script printed
in EQMM, 9/43
Adapted on television in the
Dumont series "The Adventures of
Ellery Queen"
12-7-50
Guest Armchair Detectives: Fred Hogan (telephone maintenance
man)
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)
56* "The Fallen Gladiator"
07-07-40 :30:00* Repeated on
09-16-43 or 09-18-43
Based on "Mind
over Matter" from Blue Book, October 1939 and
collected in New Adventures of Ellery Queen
(1940)
Guest Armchair Detectives: unknown
57* "The Frightened Star"
07-14-40 :30:00*
Repeated 10-21-43 or 10-23-43
Script printed in EQMM spring
'42
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Mitzi Cumming
(East):
Dr.Henry R. Junemann (dentistry professor)
A
locked-room mystery involving the death of a mysteriously
retired Hollywood actress ...
Plot gimmick from The American
Gun Mystery (1934)
58* "The Treasure Hunt"
07-21-40 :30:00*
Repeated on 09-23-43 or
09-25-43
Based on
"The Treasure Hunt" Detective Story, December '35 and
EQMM
fall '41 (first issue) and collected in New Adventures of
Ellery Queen
(1940)
Guest Armchair Detective: Carol Bruce (vocalist)
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.
59* "The Black Sheep"
07-28-40 :30:00*
Repeated as "The Robber of
Fallboro" 09-21-44 or 09-23-44.
Source for The Accused in
Today's Family February ' 53 and EQMM,
December '54 and
as The
Robber of Wrightsville" in Q.B.I. (1955)
Guest Armchair Detectives: Benny Baker
(comedian) and Marjorie
Allen
(soprano)
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.
60* "The Fatal Million"
08-04-40 :30:00*
Repeated as
"The Man who wanted Cash" 08-17-44 and 08-19-44
Guest
Armchair Detectives: Doris Sharpe (radio casting director,
CBS
receptionist),
An impersonator who murdered the owner of a chain of
roadside
restaurants, posed as his victim during a secret sales transaction,
and walked away with a
million dollar cash in a suitcase.
61* "The Invisible Clock" aka
"The Mysterious Clock"
08-11-40 :30:00*
Script printed in The Case Book of Ellery
Queen' (1945)
Guest Armchair
Detective: Andrew S.Telep (small town newspaper
editor from Mayfield, Pennsylvania)
A priceless
ruby pendant disappears during a society ball Ellery and
Nikki are attending. The clue
is the clock that is heard ticking where
no clock exists.
62* "The Meanest Man in the World"
08-18-40 :30:00*
Repeated as
"The Man without a Heart" on 08-03-44 and 08-05-44
Script printed in EQMM
July 42
Guest Armchair Detectives: unknown
Ellery and
Nikki are empaneled side by side as jurors in the same
murder trial. The defendant, Will
Keeler, seems to be the only one
who
could have plunged the paperknife into the back of
Sylvester
Gaul's neck.
63* "The Pharaoh's Curse"
08-25-40 :30:00*
Repeated as
"The Pharaoh's Tomb" on 07-06-44 and 07-08-44
Guest Armchair
Detectives: unknown
64* "Box 13"
09-01-40 :30:00*
Guest Armchair
Detectives: unknown
65* "The Picnic Murder"
09-08-40 :30:00*
Repeated as
"The Mayor and the Corpse" on 08-24-44 and 08-26-44
Guest Armchair
Detectives: unknown
A Sunday outing attended by six persons, from which only five return
is the
subject of investigation. Belief in the innocence of a small town
lawyer indicted for murder on circumstantial evidence leads the
radio
sleuth to look into a case that makes few headlines but almost
sends
the wrong man to the chair.
66* "The Disappearing Magician"
09-15-40 :30:00*
Repeated as "The Vanishing
Magician" on 11-04-43 or 11-06-43
Guest Armchair
Detectives: unknown
A two-story
Chelsea browstone owned by 4 ex-vaudevillians is
threatened
with foreclosure. Avanti the Magician tries to save
the
house by challenging Mr.Steele, a businessman who has made a
standing offer of $25,000 for any illusionist's trick he can't solve
within 24 hours. Avanti claims to be able to disappear from the
closely examined and guarded brownstone. The police
guards the
place and the trick is pulled off. Ellery
sees through the gimmick but
refuses to reveal his solution until the 24 hours are
up.
67* "The Mark of Cain" aka "The
House of Cain"
09-22-40 :30:00*
Repeated as
"The Three Hands" 08-10-44 and
08-12-44
Script printed in "The Pocket
Mystery
Reader"(1942)
Guest
Armchair Detectives: unknown
Ellery, Nikki, Sergeant Velie and Inspector
Queen
masquerade as servants in an attempt to
prevent
murder among the heirs of eccentric
millionaire John Cain. To no avail...
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