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Richard is on a date with Miss Betty Callahan at the Club Cuba. While they are having their after dinner coffee, an unwelcome gentleman pulls up a chair and sits at their table. He says "I'm told you are Richard Rogue the investigator. I understand my wife has retained your services to spy on me." Richard says "I don't know your wife or care anything about your private life as long as you are leading it somewhere away from this table". After causing a scene, the unwelcome gentleman is then lead away by Manuel, the maître d'. Later, as Richard walks toward his apartment, he is met at the door by Mrs. Matt Web, who wants to hire him to watch her husband. Richard says "I believe I just met him, but I don't take domestic cases, sorry". The next morning, Betty calls Richard and tells him that Matt Web has been found dead in his car.…
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1 Stand By for Crime - The Kidnapper's New Shoes 24:48
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Chuck Morgan and his secretary Carol Curtis are on their way to see Fred Michaels. Fred called earlier and said he was in trouble, but would not elaborate on the phone. Fred and his wife Elsie owned a jewelry store and had done well for themselves. When Chuck and Carol arrive, Fred tells them that his son Ricky has been kidnapped from school. The kidnappers told me to get together 50 thousand dollars in cash and jewels. Chuck asks him if he had notified the police or the FBI. Fred told them that the kidnappers said to not call the police, or else something would happen to Ricky. They also said that they would call back with further instructions. While Chuck and Carol were there, the kidnappers called back. They told Fred where to take the ransom, and they said that it must be delivered by your friend, Chuck Morgan.…
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1 Broadway is My Beat - The Dion Hartley Murder Case 27:49
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Detective Danny Clover is urgently called to Dion Hartley's apartment. Mr. Hartley is a collector of many exquisite pieces of priceless art, but has grown tired of this hobby. He now likes to influence others to do his bidding. He said he has influenced others to try and murder him, and now wants the Detective in his game to try to protect him. He said that if he is not murdered by the end of the week, he will donate 50 thousand dollars to Danny's favorite charity. Broadway knew Dion Hartley as a writer who worked for a magazine named "Satire". Danny went to the offices to speak to the editor, Miss Sybil Reynard. She tells Danny that she has a love/hate relationship with Dion, and could kill him, but is willing to wager that Camden Drake, a writer from Greenwich Village, will be the one that actually murders him.…
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1 Nick Carter, Master Detective - The Corpse in the Cab 28:01
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A passenger hails Shorty's taxi cab for himself and another passenger. He tells the driver to go through the park and he will let him know where to turn. The second passenger says that it is on West 54th Street. The first passenger then proceeds to shut the partition between the front and back seats. Once out of the park, the first passenger opens the partition and tells Shorty he wants to exit the cab. While getting out, he then tells Shorty to take the other passenger to the precinct police station. Shorty notices the other passenger has been murdered in the cab and immediately drives to Nick Carter's office to tell him what happened and why he has a dead body in his taxi.…
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1 Mr. and Mrs. North - The Case of the Heavenly Body 24:52
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Pam and Jerry North are visiting the Cafe Emil, an expensive French restaurant for their first time. They are waiting for their table in the bar when Sam Zachary, the newspaper columnist arrives. Sam tells Emil that he would like to talk to Miss Nan Coleman, the singer, when her number is finished. Pam asks Jerry if he read Sam Zachary's story about the gang killing of the big gambler Jack Rawlings. She said that the next article will name the person who lured Jack Rawlings out of hiding for the gang. Miss Coleman comes to Al the bartender needing to talk to him. She seems afraid to see Sam Zachary and wants Al to call Fred Benedict. Sam Zachary then walks into the bar and shows Miss Coleman the story for tomorrow's newspaper, naming her as the person who set up Jack Rawlings.…
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Captain Jim Scott receives a call from Officer Harry Gavin. Gavin tells him that he is at Madame Cherini's. Jim says "Great, aren't you supposed to be on duty?" Gavin says "I am on duty. I'm sitting up with a corpse". Jim then asks "does the corpse has a name?" Gavin says "yes, he is Jerome K. Wade, the gun manufacturer that used to be partners with Sam Carver. He has been shot". Jim asks "who did it?" Gavin says "Sam Carver". Jim says "you're crazy, Sam Carver's been dead for four years. Now look Gavin, I don't like to joke about such things". Gavin says "I'm not kidding. Madame Cherini is a medium, and she swears that Carver did it".…
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1 The Adventures of Michael Shayne - The Case of the Left-Handed Fan 25:59
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Stage actress Christina Bancroft hires Michael for protection for three days, until the play ends in New Orleans. She says someone is trying to kill her, but she does not know who, or why. After the interview, Michael stood in the wings of the theater watching the play. Near the end, two men walked over to Michael and introduced themselves; Hamilton Dunn, the director of the play, and Frank Harper, Christina's business manager. Later, Michael was talking to Christina in her dressing room. He asks her "why do you think someone is trying to kill you? What evidence do you have?" Based upon her reply, Michael says "you are lying to me. You know who is after you, and you know why. So, let's have it."…
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1 Walk Softly, Peter Troy - The Doll with the Dreamy Disposition 23:30
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Mr. George Brophy and his daughter Anita are involved in a fatal car accident. They are unharmed, but the other driver is not so lucky. Witnesses at the scene of the accident identify the other driver as the son of Johnny Michaelis, one of the biggest gangsters in London. The next day, the story of the accident makes the newspaper headlines, but George Brophy's name is left out of the story, because the reporters know that Johnny Michaelis would be looking for him. Brophy pays a visit to Peter Troy to hire him for protection. Peter says that he is definitely not interested. Then, Brophy says that the protection is not for himself, but for his twenty-one year old daughter Anita. He says that all you have to do is get her on the 11 o'clock plane to New York. Brophy then shows Peter a picture of Anita. Of course, that changes his mind about the job.…
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1 I Was a Communist for the FBI - Very Private Funeral 27:18
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Matt Cvetic is in a meeting with Comrade Rivchenko, who asks if he knows anything about an "electronic brain", or a man named Duane Fleming. Matt says "the electronic brain is supposed to be a super calculating machine for mathematics, but I do not know anyone named Duane Fleming". Rivchenko says "Duane Fleming knows everything about electronic calculators, and, he is on our side. Comrade Fleming has been engaged to aid the installation of the newest electronic brain at the university, and you will be his assistant. The U.S. Military relies heavily on machines like this. It's calculations can help to put advanced aircraft in production years ahead of schedule. You will assist Comrade Fleming to make sure that the new machine renders the smallest possible service to the U.S. Military".…
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1 Philo Vance - The Money Machine Murder Case 25:04
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A con-artist named Joe Crane is trying to sell Mrs. Willoughby a "money making machine". He tells her to put a blank piece of paper into it, turn the crank, and out comes a new one dollar bill. He visited her yesterday, and gave her some one dollar bills to put in the bank. He says "The bank accepted them so they must be real. You give me 10 thousand dollars, and the machine is yours. To test it, she wrote her initials on one piece of paper, and made a new dollar that still had her initials on it, so she buys the machine. The next day, the machine quits working, so she calls the district attorney and reports that she has been swindled. Meanwhile, a guy named Sniffy Edwards shows up to Joe's apartment, looking for his share of the money. Joe decides that he wants to keep it all, so a fight breaks out, and Sniffy ends up dead.…
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1 Counterspy - The Case of the Mile High Murders 25:05
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Gregor, having learned that the authorities are closely watching his human smuggling enterprise, radios his pilot named Eagan, who is currently in the air carrying eight illegal passengers into Miami from Cuba. Eagan is ordered to force the passengers out of the plane by gunpoint in midair over the Caribbean Sea, activate the automatic pilot and set it for a descending trajectory, and to parachute from the airplane. The plane would soon crash and there would be no evidence of it or any of its illegal passengers. Eagan, reluctantly, carries out Gregor's instructions and makes his way back to Cuba. As a result of this terrible crime, the Miami Office of Immigration makes a call to David Harding, Chief of Counterspies in Washington.…
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1 Whitehall 1212 - The Case of Air Cadet Gordon 28:52
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Inspector Costello at the West End Central Police Station calls Scotland Yard for help in finding a murderer that, not only strangled his victim, but beat her severely after her death. Three days later, it happened again, only this time it was much more terrible. The killer seemed to be copying the infamous Jack the Ripper murders. However, in the second murder, he left a fingerprint in blood on the victim's mirror. Forty eight hours later, there was a third victim. Each crime scene began to get progressively worse. Fingerprints were again found, however there was nothing in the database that led to the murderer. Then, a fourth victim appeared. After that, the West End became quiet for a week, until a fifth attempt was made.…
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1 Hollywood Star Playhouse - Statement in Full 24:24
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Bob Morgan and June Cordell are sitting in his car, parked at Lookout Point. They have been seeing each other for quite a while, almost a year. June wants to be married, but Bob has been saying that his wife will not give him a divorce. June tells him that she has decided that she will meet with his wife, and try to make her understand about their relationship. Bob then tells June that she cannot meet with his wife, because he has no wife. He has been lying to her all along. June becomes so enraged that she grabs Bob's gun from the glovebox. They struggle for the weapon, then suddenly, a shot rang out.…
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Inspector Christopher McKee was in his office at the Center Street Police Headquarters, when the telephone rings. A strange man tells him he can find a corpse at 1142 West 16th Street, Gilbert Shannon's apartment, and hangs up the phone. A few seconds later, a young woman named Julie calls and tells the Inspector that she just found her father, Gilbert Shannon, dead on the floor of his apartment at the same address. The Inspector then tells his deputy to call the medical examiner and says that he is going to that apartment himself. When he arrives, he inspects the crime scene, and tells Julie that her father was killed by blunt force trauma, and the murderer was someone known to him.…
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Colonel Palmer arrives from London to meet with OSS Agents Captain Daggett and Lance Corporal Barnes at the dock before starting their mission. The Colonel says "your torpedo boat shall depart in twenty minutes. You should reach Saint-Nazaire in occupied France just before dawn. Once you have landed, you will move inland exactly six kilometers. There, you will be met by an agent of the Marquis. Do you understand?" The agents knew this mission is important. German U-Boats are hitting convoys in the Atlantic, causing significant losses in men, material, and supplies. The best way to reduce these losses is to locate the German submarine installations along the French coastline and radio the information back to England so that the Allied Air Forces would know where to attack.…
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