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Season 7

292* "Ellery Queen, Criminal"
             10-09-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Jean Sablon (vocalist)  

             While tracking down a thief-impersonator Ellery gets beaten up and is
             held prisoner in a Hotel room, guarded by a woman.  Back in New York
             Nikki doesn't recognize him and to worsen matters the woman guard is
             murdered in a room of dust.

Program of  10-16 pre-empted by United Nations special on the Neurenberg war trials

293* "The Woman who Died Several Times"
             10-23-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: John Carradine (actor) 

             A politician confesses shooting his mistress. Only she appears to
             be alive and well as she managed to let the politician shoot blanks.
             Some time later a well-known book reviewer comes up with the same
             story, only this time she really is dead.

294* "Ellery Queen's Rival"
             10-30-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Rear Admiral H.B. Miller (retired Navy
             Officer)

             While dating Nikki and Larry Kinnaire, detective writer, come across a
             locked room murder. Soon another locked room  murder occurs and
             Ellery tries to impress

295* "The Crime of Inspector Queen"
              11-06-46 :30:00*
              Guest Armchair Detective: Paul Douglas (actor)

              Inspector Queen has to pick up Joe Krupp, accused murderer  willing
              to testify against his boss. On the way back from LA Krupp is killed
              and Inspector Queen is the prime suspect. Fortunately Ellery went
              along...

296* "The Uneasy Voyage"
              11-13-46 :30:00*
              Guest Armchair Detective: Carmina Freeman (editorial director of
              Baffling  Detective magazine)

              Ellery tries to prevent a murder on a ocean liner. Soon after discovery
              of the presence of a professional hitman, the french patriot is
               murdered.

297* "The Prize Fighter's Birthday"
             11-20-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone Columbus, Ohio

             A prizefighter is asked to throw his 26th fight, he refuses and gets a
             bomb package which nearly kills him.

298* "The Blackmail Victim"
             11-27-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone Chicago, Illinois

             A journalist threathens to kill innoncent people if he isn't paid
             $25,000 to be delivered by Ellery. An ambush is laid out, the criminal
             escapes after having hidden the money in the morgue

299* "The Ellery Queen, Gigolo"
             12-04-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone Cambridge, 
             Massachusetts

             When investigating a jewel robbery Ellery goes undercover in a
             escort service. The woman running the service is murdered in
             the street clutching a chess piece.

300* "The Old Man's Darling"
             12-11-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone in Indiana

             Ellery has the chance to earn $ 5,000 for a children's fund to
             investigate if old John Spuyten's young nurse has been stealing.
             During the investigation the nurse is murdered.

301* "The Hurricane that Committed Murder"
             12-18-46 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone

             A man gets murdered by a bomb triggered by a barometer and 
             an approaching hurricane.

302* "Ellery Queen, Santa Claus"
             12-25-46 :30:00* Christmas Show  Repeated on 12-25-47 
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone in Jersey City,
             New Jersey
           
             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! 

303* "The Unhappy New Year"
             01-01-47 :30:00* New Year's Show Repeated 01-01-48
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone in Old
             Greenwich, Connecticut.

             When trying to commit suicide an unhappy advertising man gets
             nearly shot. Inspector Queen solves the case.

304* "The Man who could Vanish"
              01-08-47 :30:00*
              Guest Armchair Detective: Mrs. George Tullis through telephone from
              2424 South 26th Street, Arlington,Virginia

              Mr.Revenant comes in the policestation to confess to a murder
              and says he can disappear at will. Put in jail he subsequently
              disappears without a trace.

305* "The Lollipop Murders"
             01-15-47 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone 

             Ellery is forced on a hoodlum' yacht. A woman left as dying
             message a wrapped lollipop in her mouth.

306* "The Queen Solomon"
             01-22-47 :30:00* Repeat of 'The Three Mothers" 11-26-43
             Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone in Baltimore,
             Maryland

307* "The Stone Age Detective"
              01-29-47 :30:00*
              Guest Armchair Detective: reached through telephone in Detroit,
              Michigan

              An 84-year old man paid a famous scientist to find a way to extend his
              life and had a tribesman as bodyguard. To no avail: he gets murdered.

308* "The Haunted House"
             02-05-47 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Victor Jory (actor)

             Sergeant Velie gets himself blackmailed after being photographed in an
             incriminating pose. Ellery tries to help out.

309* "The Green Gorilla's"
             02-12-47 :30:00*  Repeated 06-01-47
             Guest Armchair Detective: Jose Ferrer

             A program about juvenile delinquents. Who is  behind the street gang
             "The Green Gorillas." Ellery uses a teen-ager "Bob Brown" to get the
              goods on the gang.

310* "The Big Brain"
             02-19-47 :30:00*
             Announcer: Bill Cullen (standing in)
             Guest Armchair Detective: Jean Parker
            (actress)

             In Florida Ellery and Nikki try to solve the 
             murder of an Argentine businessman out to
             buy American base-ball players

311* "The Strange Death of Mr.Entricson"
             02-26-47 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: June Knight (actress)

             In this locked room murder a lawyer, hired by four racketeers
             looking for legal redemption, gets murdered.

312* "Nikki Porter, Killer" aka Nikki Porter, Suspect 
             03-05-47 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Alfred Drake (actor); Gypsy Rose Lee

             Nikki gets blamed for a murder after stepping off a train just as
             the loot from a train robbery disappears from her compartiment
             and a man is murdered 

313* "The Crooked Man"
             03-12-47 :30:00*
             Likely adapted as an episode from Dumont tv-series  The Adventures of Ellery
             Queen, 11/30/50
             Guest Armchair Detective: Warren Hull, Parks Johnson
             (co-hosts radio's Vox Pop)

             A private eye is blackmailing culprits of crimes, many of them have
             commited suicide. Ellery sets a trap by framing himself for Nikki's
             murder. The evidence is in a safe with a timebomb. The clue to to the
             combination is the second verse of the nursery rhyme "Simple Simon"

314* "The Specialist in Cops"
              03-19-47 :30:00*
              Guest Armchair Detective: Bela Lugosi (actor), Joan Barton (?)

              Nutsy Yapp specializes in killing police officers for hire, now
              has kidnapped Ellery. Yapp lets him write a note to his father.
              Can Ellery include a clue to his whereabouts?

315* "The Ten Thousand Dollar Bill"
             03-26-47 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Ted Malone (poetry reader)

             Ellery and Nikki spends some time at country inn due to a
            disappearence, an embezzlement and a murdered man with a
             $ 10,000 bill in his hand.

316* "The Man who Murdered a City"
             04-02-47 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Andre Baruch (radio announcer),
             Bea Wain (singer)

             Ellery wants to expose "The Buzzer" who got elected because 
             citizens didn't want to vote.

317* "The Big Fix"
             04-09-47 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective:unknown

             Larry "Hot" Lipps gets murdered. This gambler was just told
             by his doctor he had only a  few weeks to live.

318* "The Redheaded Blonde Brunette"
             04-16-47 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective: Arthur Godfrey (radio personality)

             A night-club singer tries to cash in on the insurance by
             marrying several soldiers. Then she gets murdered.

320* "The Sky Pirates"
             06-08-47 :30:00*
             Guest Armchair Detective(West) Marion Bell (actress)
             (East):: Cy Steinhauser (Radio Editor of The Pittsburgh Press.)

             Two terrorists hold up a transatlantic airliner, shoot one of the
             passengers, rob the rest of the passengers and bail out over the ocean.
             Ellery has plan to trap the "sky-jackers." It involves everyone
             becoming  unconscious after being deprived of oxygen for fifteen
             seconds.