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Season 6

240* "The Man who was Afraid"
             09-05-45 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Jonah J.Goldstein (New York judge)

241* "The Blue Egg"
             09-12-45 :30:00*  Repeated on 02-26-48
             Guest Armchair Detective: Virginia McWatters (opera singer)

             An impossible crime has been committed. Where is that missing
             fabulous blue sapphire?

242* "The Lost Soul"
             09-19-45 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Shep Field (musician)

243* "The Green House"
             09-26-45 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: George V. Denny Jr. (associate director of 
             the New York League for Political Education) 

244* "Ellery Queen, Cupid"
             10-03-45 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Edith Spencer (radio's "Aunt Jenny")

245* "The Kid Glove Killer"
             10-10-45 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Eddie Downling (Broadway producer)
             Repeat performance guest: Carol Stone (Broadway actress)

246* "The Other Man"
             10-17-45 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Jan Clayton (actress)
             Repeat performance guest: Danton Walker (newspaper columnist)

            The master detective throws fast switch and springs a surprise in his
            dramatization of a mystery story in which a man finds himself betrayed.
 

247* "The Repentant Thief"
             10-24-45 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Commander Henry H.Hale (US Navy Officer)

248* "The Halloween Murder"
             10-31-45 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Edward Everett Horton (actor)
             Halloween Show

249* "The Message in Red Introclip to the radioshow
             11-07-45 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Victor Jory (actor)

             Three women are murdered on the same night with the same gun.
 

250* "The Happy Marriage"
             11-14-45 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Joseph Curtin and Alice Frost (stars of
             radio's Mr. and Mrs.North appearing as those characters)
             Last week, the Norths' were annoyed when Ellery made a surprise
             appearance on their comedy-mystery show and solved the mystery
             before they did....

251* "The Ape's Boss"
            11-21-45 :30:00*
            Guest Armchair Detective: unknown

252* "The Doodle of Mr.O'Drew"
             11-28-45 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Vera Zorina (actress/dancer)

253* "The Peddler of Death"
             12-05-45 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Helen Hayes (actress)

254* "The Man with Two Faces"
             12-12-45 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Major General Emmanuel E. Lombard (retired
             French Army Officer) 
             Repeat performance guest: Vera Zorina (actress/dancer)

255* "The Curious Thefts"
             12-19-45 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Ralph Morgan (actor)
             Repeat performance guest: Virginia Vale (actress)
             Condensed story in Story Digest 9-46

256* "The Man Who Loved Murders"
             12-26-45 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Jean Sablon (vocalist)

257* "The Lost Hoard"
             01-02-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Saul Pett (newspaper columnist)

258* "The Various Deaths of Mr.Frayne
             01-09-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Arthur Godfrey (radiostar)

259* "The Green Eye"
             01-16-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Morgan Conway (ex-FBI agent, actor)

             An international jewel thief baffles the police of two continents.
             The chase leads from New York to London, with Ellery investigating the
             crime in competition with Scotland Yard and New York's finest.

260* "The Lovely Racketeer"
             01-23-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: James L.Cox (inventor)

261* "Ellery Queen's Tragedy"
             01-30-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: unknown

262* "The Fifteenth Floor"
             02-06-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Marjorie Rambeau (actress)

263* "The Living Death"
             02-13-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Belita (ice skater/actress)
             Repeat performance guest: James L.Cox (inventor)

264* "The Three Fencers"
             02-20-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Willie Mosconi (pool expert)
             Repeat performance guest: Eugene List (pianist)

265* "The Ninth Mrs.Pook"
            02-27-46 :30:00*
            Guest Armchair Detective: Craig Rice (mystery writer)
            Repeat performance guest: Dick Joy (radio announcer)

266* "The Phantom Shadow"
             03-06-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Alfred Eichler (advertising executive/
             mystery writer)
             Repeat performance guest: Jean Meegan (newspaperwoman)

              In this Queen, Nikki Porter witnesses a murder, sees the killer and the
              victim, but fails to identify either.

267* "The Clue of the Elephant"
             03-13-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Betty Forsling (newsweek radio editor)
             Repeat performance guest: Sam Spiegel (radio producer)

268* "The Man Who Waited"
             03-20-46 :30:00*
             Adapted as "Cold Money" (This Week, 03-20-52 and collected in 
             Q.B.I., 1955)
             Guest Armchair Detective: Orson Welles

269* "The Armchair Detective" Radioshow available on the internet...
             03-27-46 :30:00*  Repeated on 3-18-48
             Guest Armchair Detective: Private Pat Berkeley (wounded soldier)

            The Armchair detective is murdered whilst Ellery Queen is on
            the air. Ellery finds the solution before the show ends.

270* "The Death Wish"
             04-03-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Con Colleano (circus trapeze artist)
             Repeat performance guest: six of the "Goldwyn girls"

271* "The Girl who couldn't get Married
             04-10-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Carolyn Rolland (associate editor of the
              magazine "Seventeen")

              In his radio thriller, Elleryhimself falls in love with a frustrated girl, who
              is unable to catch a husband. This crush sort of dashes a stream of
             water on the torch which his secretary, Nikki Porter has been carrying
              for the slick sleuth.
 

272* "Nikki Porter, Murder Victim"
            04-17-46 :30:00*
            Guest Armchair Detective:six of the "Goldwyn girls"
            Plot "De Muerte Natural" by Rafael Burnal used by permission 

            After a series of jewel robberies Nikki gets shot. In the hospital
            a second attempt is made by a man in a surgical outfit

273* "The Man Who Bought One Grape"
             04-24-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: James P. Markham (Texan)
             Repeat performance guest: James H. Pepkin (Texan)
             In Texas there is a poker hand peculiar to that state known as "The
             Blaze" This fact is essential to the solution hence the choice of guests.

             An eccentric one-eyed millionair has been buying one grape a
             day from an Italian fruit vendor. He apparently used them as
             replacement for his stolen glass eye. then the thief is murdered.

274* "The Rhubarb Solution"
             05-01-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Joan Edwards (singer)
             Repeat performance guest: Saul Pett (newspaper columnist)

            A dollar bill with a nail polish message aids in finding a farm
            woman who disappeared

275* "The Nine Mile Clue"
             05-08-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Red Barber (sportcaster)
             Repeat performance guest: Muriel Babcock (magazine editor)

             In need of auto repairs Ellery and Nikki stop in a small town. The
             garage owner is killed and Ellery's car gets involved...

276* "The Crime in the Darkness"
            05-15-46 :30:00*
            Guest Armchair Detective: Vernon Pope (magazine editor)
            Repeat performance guest: Margaret Whiting (singer)

         Ellery investigates a case where a man uses telepathy in stead of
         his eyes.

277* "The Hollywood Murder Case"
             05-22-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Elsa Miranda (the "Chiquita Banana" girl)
             Repeat performance guest: Lucille Ball (comedienne)

             Ellery and Nikki in Hollywood. Ellery want to write a  screenplay based
             on the murder of a famous director. Another director claims to have a
             piece of the movie soundtrack that implicates a famous actress of the
             crime. Then soundtrack is stolen and the second director murdered.

278* "The Laughing Woman"
             05-29-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Francis Lederer (actor)
             Repeat performance guest: John Reed King (radio announcer)

             A neurotic wife leaves her husband for a racketeer. The husband
             becomes prime suspect when that racketeer is  murdered.

279* "The Mr.Warren's Profession"
             06-05-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Dorothy Dunn (contest winner from Ohio)
             Repeat performance guest: Barbara Lewis (secretary)

             A professional blackmailer who had the strange habit of making puns
             about booktitles is murdered . Just before dying he ran a bell over and
             over...

280* "The Great Spy Puzzle"
             06-12-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: John Reed King (radio announcer)
             Repeat performance guest: Archie Mayo (movie director)

            A man is killed in front of both Nikki and Ellery. He offered them
            fragments of a piece of paper. He didn't get the time to explain but they
            can make out the wordt Ft. Haust on one fragment 

281* "Cokey and the Pizza"
             06-19-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Elsa Miranda (the "Chiquita Banana" girl)
             Repeat performance guest: Francis Lederer (actor)

             Whilst Ellery is investigating how a gangster trapped in a room above
             an Italian restaurant gets his supplies of cocaine, the man is murdered...
             by a Penguin.
             In
spector Queen wants Cokey Cox to sing in the worst way... Cokey is
             no Caruso, his song will" jail a dangerous mob

282* "The Double Die"
             06-26-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Joseph Curtin and Alice Frost (stars of
             radio's Mr. and Mrs.North appearing as those characters)

            A gambler asks Ellery to investigate who uses loaded dice.  Then Ellery
            is called away: in Indiana his phonenumber turned up in the hotel room
           of a vanished corpse. The gambler is murdered and leaves a clue: two
            dice turned to show threes

283* "The War Bride"
             07-03-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Dolores Moran (actress)
             Repeat performance guest: Richard Long (actor)

             An ex-soldier desperately wants to marry a young French  woman he
             met overseas. He's been threatened with murder if he does...

284* "The Confidential Butler"
             07-10-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: W.C.Siple (air freight executive)
             Repeat performance guest: Sunny Skylar (songwriter)

             A butler blackmails three of his former employers and gets  murdered.
             A tea-brewing clue helps Ellery out.

285* "The Ultra-Modern Murder"
             07-17-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Alan Baxter (actor)
             Repeat performance guest: Ed Hall (newspaper editor)

             A woman is murdered whilst entering a surrealist art studio. She
             pulled a lightcord made of a snake's tail firing off  an antique
             dueling pistol in the hand of a Venus statue facing the door.

286* "The Golden Key"
             07-24-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Ben Hecht (writer)
             Repeat performance guest: Maxwell Hamilton  (magazine editor)

             Three young college students are the focal point of attempted murder. 
             A Phi Beta Kappa-key points Ellery in the right direction

287* "The Man Who Got Away with Murder"
             07-31-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Ray Bolger (actor, dancer)

             A lawyer phones in and confesses to a series of recent murders.
             To get the better of Ellery he then claims the caller was an impostor.
             The lawyer is stabbed to death.

288* "The First Night"
             08-07-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Milton Berle (comedian)
             Repeat performance guest: Joan Edwards  (singer)

             During a seaside vacation Ellery tries to enjoy a first night opening of
             a play by the local summer theater company

289* "Bis to Cal"
             08-14-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Paula Stone (actress)
             Repeat performance guest: Benny Baker (comedian)

             A financier turns to Ellery after receiving a ransom note with his
             daughter's thumbprint in blood. But is she really kidnapped?

From Left to Right: Ellery Queen, Charlotte Keane, Parks Johnson and Warren Null.
290* "The Gymnasium
        Murder
"
             08-21-46 :30:00*
             Repeat of  10-12-42
             or 10-10-42
             Guest Armchair Detective:
             Warren Hull, Parks Johnson
             (co-hosts radio's Vox Pop)
 

291* "The Doomed Man"
              08-28-46 :30:00*
              Guest Armchair Detective:  Marsha Hunt (actress)

              A young woman gets blamed for the murder of a patriarch.
              A candlestick clue is all Ellery needs

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