Though cash is tight, and Archie tries to get Nero to look for a new case, the large genius is comfortable doing nothing. A dame crosses Archie's path, and a matter involving jilted actors in the theater is the answer to the money problem. Is there a dark secret in Emil Stoener's past, that threatens the new play, or the role Doris has in it?

An old friend visits Nick Carter. Marvin is looking for his bride, who had been out of the country, and expected to return a few days ago. Alice Evans is…

Days blend into one another, but adventure waits for Philip Marlowe today as he tries to mind his own business. A dame knocks on his door. The woman claims to…

Get a feel for the busy streets of New York, as described by the picturesque speech of Richard Diamond. Despite his lighthearted banter, he’s quick to let us know that…

On a case where he has to rub elbows with high society, Sam gets the details about a man who married Elanor, a woman twice his age. Her death caused…

Sam is feeling in the dumps when he has to report on a longtime friend. Dick Foley is a fellow detective who keeps to himself. Opening up to Sam, he…

Watson had found himself in a mystery, and wrote a letter to describe the problem to his friend Holmes. A friend of Mrs. Watson, a proponent of woman’s rights, is…

Thomas Appleby was 70 when he married his 39-year-old bride. When he died from a crushed skull at age 75, neighbors had only sympathy for his wife, until she confessed…

Johnny investigates a matter of a race horse, and a question of insurance fraud. Piledriver is facing being killed since he hasn’t won any races, but is his owner trying…

A unique case of a woman with her husband kidnapped has a ransom note, not asking for money, but offering to pay her money. Charlie Chan and his #1 son…