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Old Time Radio - Carnival of Screams Podcast - Presents The Great Detectives Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Vanishing Shells
Archie gets Nero Wolfe employed by an actress who is fearful of being cut out of a lead role in a play.
Original Air Date: February 2, 1951
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While driving to buy some black orchids, Wolfe and Archie find themselves stranded with three complete strangers, one of them is a murder.
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A man plots to carry out a vengeance on a man who framed him for Murder, and wants Wolfe to clear his name if he fails. Wolfe rebuffs, but ends up drawn into the case when the potential client is murdered.
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We hope you enjoy tonight’s Episode of Nero Wolf in “The Slaughtered Santa.”
Starring the one and only Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolf and written by Alfred Bester.
Tonight’s case an advertising executive, hated by everyone, is found shot, from a strange position.
The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe starred the incomparable Sydney Greenstreet 1879-1954, as Rex Stout’s iconic detective. Greenstreet is best known and remembered for his film roles, the first of which (at age 62) was as Kaspar Gutman (“The Fat Man”) in 1941’s The Maltese Falcon, opposite Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mysterytheater/support
We hope you enjoy tonight’s Episode of Nero Wolf in “The Slaughtered Santa.”
Starring the one and only Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolf and written by Alfred Bester.
Tonight’s case an advertising executive, hated by everyone, is found shot, from a strange position.
The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe starred the incomparable Sydney Greenstreet 1879-1954, as Rex Stout’s iconic detective. Greenstreet is best known and remembered for his film roles, the first of which (at age 62) was as Kaspar Gutman (“The Fat Man”) in 1941’s The Maltese Falcon, opposite Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mysterytheater/support
We hope you enjoy tonight’s Episode of Nero Wolf in “The Slaughtered Santa.”
Starring the one and only Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolf and written by Alfred Bester.
Tonight’s case an advertising executive, hated by everyone, is found shot, from a strange position.
The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe starred the incomparable Sydney Greenstreet 1879-1954, as Rex Stout’s iconic detective. Greenstreet is best known and remembered for his film roles, the first of which (at age 62) was as Kaspar Gutman (“The Fat Man”) in 1941’s The Maltese Falcon, opposite Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mysterytheater/support
We hope you enjoy tonight’s Episode of Nero Wolf in “The Slaughtered Santa.”Starring the one and only Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolf and written by Alfred Bester.Tonight’s case an advertising executive, hated by everyone, is found shot, from a strange position.
The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe starred the incomparable Sydney Greenstreet 1879-1954, as Rex Stout’s iconic detective. Greenstreet is best known and remembered for his film roles, the first of which (at age 62) was as Kaspar Gutman (“The Fat Man”) in 1941’s The Maltese Falcon, opposite Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade
We hope you enjoy tonight’s Episode of Nero Wolf in “The Girl Who Cried.”
Starring the one and only Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolf and written by Alfred Bester.
Tonight’s case an advertising executive, hated by everyone, is found shot, from a strange position.
It's all a matter of perspective. The program closing has been deleted, the story is unaffected. + It began one night when Walter Channing, an advertising executive, was dictating a memo to his charming secretary Brenda Barclay. He is interrupted by a former employee, Bennett, who had, until that afternoon worked there for fourteen years. He pleads with Mr. Channing to reconsider his termination and when Channing refuses, he threatens him very subtly.
The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe starred the incomparable Sydney Greenstreet 1879-1954, as Rex Stout’s iconic detective. Greenstreet is best known and remembered for his film roles, the first of which (at age 62) was as Kaspar Gutman (“The Fat Man”) in 1941’s The Maltese Falcon, opposite Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mysterytheater/support
We hope you enjoy tonight’s Episode of Nero Wolf in “The Case of the Impolite Corpse.”
Starring the one and only Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolf and written by Alfred Bester.
Tonight’s case an advertising executive, hated by everyone, is found shot, from a strange position. It's all a matter of perspective. The program closing has been deleted, the story is unaffected. + It began one night when Walter Channing, an advertising executive, was dictating a memo to his charming secretary Brenda Barclay. He is interrupted by a former employee, Bennett, who had, until that afternoon worked there for fourteen years. He pleads with Mr. Channing to reconsider his termination and when Channing refuses, he threatens him very subtly.
The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe starred the incomparable Sydney Greenstreet 1879-1954, as Rex Stout’s iconic detective. Greenstreet is best known and remembered for his film roles, the first of which (at age 62) was as Kaspar Gutman (“The Fat Man”) in 1941’s The Maltese Falcon, opposite Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mysterytheater/support
Old Time Radio Carnival of Screams Podcast the Great Detectives Presents Nero Wolf in The Case of the Friendly Rabbit
We hope you enjoy tonight’s Episode of Nero Wolf in “The Case of the Friendly Rabbit.”
Starring the one and only Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolf and written by Alfred Bester.
Tonight’s case has Wolfe making one of his rare departures from his brownstone home into the outside world. Without giving too much away, it involves a governor’s special investigative committee, a visit to Wolfe from a shadowy character.
The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe starred the incomparable Sydney Greenstreet 1879-1954, as Rex Stout’s iconic detective. Greenstreet is best known and remembered for his film roles, the first of which (at age 62) was as Kaspar Gutman (“The Fat Man”) in 1941’s The Maltese Falcon, opposite Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade.
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