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Detective Danny Clover is asked by a judge to mediate between a father and daughter with a complicated past. Nelson Jennings spent ten years in Sing Sing for a manslaughter conviction and is being released on parole, but he insists his identity remain hidden from his 20-year-old daughter Ruth, who recently learned he is alive. Clover must decide whether to reunite them or honor the father's wish to remain dead to his child.

With Detective Danny Clover, Judge Summers, Nelson Jennings, Ruth Jennings, Johnny Milton.

Listen for: Clover's difficult choice about whether to bring father and daughter together despite Jennings' wishes, and Ruth's emotional response to learning the truth about her father's past.

First aired on May 22, 1949 on CBS.

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Early in 1921, Gus Chapman goes to a federal agent in Atlanta, Georgia, and reports that he was held against his will on John S. Williams's plantation on the Yellow River after working out a fine. The agent, who is investigating, questions Gus about the conditions he endured, including being locked in a stockade at night and beaten. Gus describes his treatment and the agent begins to look into Williams's conduct. The agent visits the plantation to inspect the quarters and speaks with a worker named Clyde Manning, whose remarks raise further concerns about the place. This is part of the Police Reporter series, and the recording is an episode from its radio run.

With Gus Chapman, John S. Williams, Clyde Manning, Department of Justice agent.

Listen for: Gus Chapman's account of his treatment at the plantation and the agent's visit to the quarters and the shop

First aired in 1950.

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Police Commissioner Momburg of Dusseldorf is pursuing a killer who has stabbed several victims, including children, across the city through the summer of 1929. A young woman, Mariah Butler, reports that a man tried to choke her in a city park and led her toward a house on Lampa Street. Momburg's men find the suspect's home empty, but the wife of the suspect, Frau Curtain, is brought in for questioning. Momburg presses her to reveal where her husband is hiding, and she agrees to meet him at Rocha's Plot. The episode is part of the Police Reporter series and is presented as a true murder mystery.

With Commissioner Momburg, Mariah Butler, Frau Curtain, Peter Curtain.

Listen for: Momburg's questioning of Frau Curtain and the signal she is to give at Rocha's Plot

First aired in 1950.

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Captain Sutherland and Detective Sloan of the Aurora police investigate the disappearance of Warren J. Lincoln, a greenhouse owner, after a neighbor reports blood-stained evidence in his house and yard. Lincoln's wife and her brother, whom the neighbors describe as quarrelsome, have apparently left, and the police find signs of violence in the bedroom. When Lincoln himself reappears at headquarters, he claims he was away on business and says he was kidnapped in Chicago. The detectives question his explanations and his account of threatening calls and letters. This episode of the Police Reporter series, a true murder mystery drama, is broadcast as the first in the series.

With Warren J. Lincoln, Captain Sutherland, Detective Sloan, Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln's brother, Joe, Neighbor woman, Officer.

Listen for: The neighbor's description of the quarrelsome household and Lincoln's shifting explanations when the detectives question him.

First aired in 1950.

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Nero Wolfe is hired by Theodore Olifant, a self-styled religious leader, who fears for the life of Ilsa Dana, a wealthy socialite he is in love with. Wolfe and Archie Goodwin return from the office to find Dana strangled in her apartment. Olifant, Basil Young and boxer Jack Hunter all had reasons to resent her, and each is questioned in Wolfe's library. The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe series, with Sydney Greenstreet in the title role, is shown here in its 1950 episode Dear Dead Lady, broadcast on November 3, 1950.

With Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin, Theodore Olifant, Ilsa Dana, Basil Young, Jack Hunter, Mr. Hasbrouck.

Listen for: Wolfe's line 'Have you prayed tonight?' and the question of who wrote the threatening postcard

First aired on November 3, 1950.

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Nero Wolfe, a large and sedentary private detective, is visited in his New York office by a man who offers a thousand dollars to drop a client named Dorothy Spencer. Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's assistant, is suspicious when the visitor claims to be a pianist but seems ignorant of music, and Wolfe begins to doubt the man's story. The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe aired on October 27, 1950, starring Sydney Greenstreet as Wolfe. Soon the visitor turns up dead, and the police come looking for Miss Spencer, drawing Wolfe and Archie into a murder investigation.

With Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin, Charles Porter, Dorothy Spencer, Sergeant Pearly Stebbins, Inspector Kramer, Fritz, Mr. Wheeler.

Listen for: Wolfe's deductions from Porter's worn cuff and his use of the musical term 'da capo', and the moment Stebbins reveals that the dead man was not Porter

First aired on October 27, 1950.

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Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin take on the case of Gloria Kent, a young woman whose late mother's money has been spent by her father on a supposed treasure map. The map and letters were sold to Mr. Kent by a pair of swindlers, Cross and Hallock, who later return the money to Gloria. The episode is part of the New Adventures of Nero Wolfe radio series, which first aired on October 20, 1950, and this title stars Sidney Greenstreet in the role of Wolfe. Archie is the narrator and the one who handles the pressing details of the case.

With Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin, Gloria Kent, Mr. Rodman, Mr. Kent, Cross, Hallock, Ben Sanford.

Listen for: Listen for Wolfe's gruff exchanges with Archie and with Inspector Kramer, and for the investigation into the Kent family and the questionable documents.

First aired on October 20, 1950.

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Johnny Dollar is hired by an insurance company to protect Milford Brooks III, a policy holder insured for two million dollars. Brooks has threatened suicide unless the company pays him half a million dollars in cash, and he has changed the beneficiary of his policy to Harold Hatcher, a notorious gambler. Dollar takes Brooks to New York, where he loses track of him and of Theodore Butts, a woman connected to the case. He searches the city for them, questioning a police contact and visiting Hatcher's nightclub, where he speaks with Hatcher and a woman named Janelle. Dollar follows Hatcher's cab and finds a dark garage above which two voices are heard.

With Johnny Dollar, Milford Brooks III, Austin Farnsworth, Harold Hatcher, Theodore Butts, Janelle, Lieutenant Fisher.

Listen for: Dollar's expense account entries, read aloud between scenes, and the moment he trails Hatcher's taxi to the garage on 72nd Street.

First aired on March 25, 1949 on CBS Radio.

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Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator for State Casualty and Bonding, looks into a string of accidents at the Funfair and Weatherly Carnival in Alabama, where rides have been injuring townspeople. He meets general manager Shanty Brennan and carnival owner Louisa Pepper, who suspect a former carnival worker has a grudge against them. Dollar traces that man, Carter Lacey, to a hotel in Talladega and learns he was recently released from prison. The carnival's troubles escalate with threats, violence and a fatal attack in a hotel room, and Dollar moves between the carnival and the town as the danger grows. This episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar originally aired on CBS Radio on March 11, 1949, with Bob Bailey, Edmond O'Brien, John Lund and Charles Russell in the leading roles.

With Johnny Dollar, Shanty Brennan, Louisa Pepper, Myrtle Pepper, Carter Lacey, Luigi.

Listen for: Dollar's reasoning as he works out who is behind the accidents, and the tense confrontation between Lacey and the carnival people in the trailer.

First aired on March 11, 1949 on CBS Radio.

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Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is assigned as bodyguard to Robert Perry, a businessman who fears for his life. When a booby-trapped buzzer in Perry's desk kills him that morning, Johnny must determine whether this is murder or suicide, with multiple suspects including Perry's estranged wife Christine, his Dutch business partner Van Brueten, and his secretary Susan Gates.

With Johnny Dollar, Robert Perry, Susan Gates, Van Brueten, Christine Perry, Murphy.

Listen for: The clever murder method using a rigged buzzer connected to a bomb in Perry's desk, Johnny Dollar's expense account narration, and the introduction of multiple suspects with motives related to money and a pending divorce.

First aired on March 4, 1949 on CBS Radio.

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