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Collection of radio plays about Sherlock Holmes, featuring 25 of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tales, William Gillette's stage play, and original sotires by Edith Meiser and Anthony Boucher. Includes a 32-page booklet by radio historian Anthony Tollin and William Nadel of the Baker Street Irregulars.
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This collection contains twelve of the greatest mystery shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio! You'll hear Richard Widmark starring in Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Orson Welles in The Black Museum, Peter Lorre in Mystery in the Air, William Conrad in The Whistler, Ernest Chappell in Quiet, Please!, Everett Clarke in Lights Out, Harry Bartell in Escape, and Fredric March in a tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense, plus such others...
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"Gunshots, fist fights, and footsteps in the dark! Come hear crime and mystery, action and suspense with radio's greatest detectives! Ten hours of bracing crime stopping broadcasts bring you Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, The Saint, The Shadow, Johnny Dollar, Bulldog Drummond--and fourteen more favorites!"--Container.
31) The Whistler
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An eerie whistle marks the beginning of every Whistler show where the narrator tells of the "strange tales and screts, which are hidden in the hearts of the men and women who have stepped into the shadows."
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Created in 1934 by American mystery author Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe is one of the most iconic private investigators in crime fiction. As Watson did for Holmes, Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's confidential assistant, narrates the cases of the detective genius. Wolfe was an armchair detective who rarely left his luxurious brownstone in New York, so Archie would collect the facts and report back. Wolfe would probably not have taken on many cases had he not needed...
38) Red Skelton whistling collection: Whistling in Brooklyn ; Whistling in Dixie ; Whistling in Brooklyn
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Whistling in the dark: a radio sleuth is kidnapped by crooks who want him to help devise the perfect murder.
Whistling in Dixie: Radio sleuth Wally "The Fox" Benton forgoes his honeymoon to help his wife's old friend solve a murder and hunt for Confederate gold.
Whistling in Brooklyn: The Fox is on the trail of a serial killer, and winds up on the mound at Ebbets Field.