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Season 2
68* "The Song of Death"
01-08-42 (West) or 01-10-42 (East): 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Frank Buck (explorer)
and
Dorothy McGuire (actress)
(East): Frederick Chase Taylor
(radio's Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle) and
Neysa McMein
(illustrator/poster artist)
69* "The
Invisible Clue"
01-15-42 or 01-17-42: 30:00*
Script printed in Adventures in Radio (1945)
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Charles Herbert (radio producer/composer)
and Mark Warnow (radio
orchestra conductor)
(East): Meyer Davis
(orchestra leader) and Ham Fisher (cartoonist)
A threat of death.
70* "The Patient Murderer"
01-22-42 or 01-24-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Aubrey Waller Cook (pianist) and
Bea Wain (radio singer)
(East): Lois January
(actress) and George Jessel (comedian)
71* "The 52nd Card"
01-29-42 or 01-31-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): A.Finn and M.Kingsley
(East): Gypsy Rose Lee
(stripper) and Norman Corwin (radio writer).
72* "The Imaginary Man"
02-05-42 or 02-07-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Mel Ott (baseball star) and Hank Warden
(actor)
(East): Frank Forest
(singer) and Lucille Manners (singer)
73* "The St.Valentine's Knot"
02-12-42 or 02-14-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective
(West): Lady Hardwicke (wife of actor Sir Cedric
Hardwicke) and Mary Lewis
(Metropolitan Opera soprano)
(East): D.Fritsch and Parks Johnson
(host radio's Vox Pop series)
74* "George Washington's Dollar"
02-19-42 or 02-21-42: 30:00*
Adapted as The President's Half Disme
in EQMM, February '47 and collected
in The Calendar of Crime (1952)
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Mr. and Mrs Parks Johnson (of radio's
Vox Pop series)
(East): Gilda Gray
(actress) and Joe Howard (musician)
75* "The Old Witch"
02-26-42 or 02-28-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Vicki Baum
(novelist) and
Howard Dietz (theatrical producer)
(East): Heinie Dorner
(tenor) and E.B.Locker
76* "The Missing Tumbler"
03-05-42 or 03-07-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Bill Stern (sportscaster)
and
Blue Barron (orchestra
leader)
(East): Aubrey Waller Cook
(pianist) and Mayor Harter (via phone)
Fixing in the sports
world.
 77* "The Income Tax Robbery"
03-12-42 or 03-14-42: 30:00*
Printed as The
Ides of Michael Magoon in
The Calendar
of Crime (1952) and reprinted as
Filled in for Murder in Adventure
Magazine, June 1959
Guest Armchair
Detectives (West): Alice Marble
(tennis
star) and Chicago Mayor Edward.Joseph
Kelly
(via phone)
(East): M.Hedstrom
and Baltimore Mayor Howard
Wilkinson Jackson
(via phone)
Mike Brady, a private
detective asks Ellery for help. He helps out
wealthy families who have
a kleptomanic problem...
(visit to the LoC 4/27/2005)
Chicago's Mayor Edward J. Kelly took no
chances of being put
on
a spot when invited to be a guest "detective" on an Ellery
Queen
mystery case. Preferring to hear the show at NBC's
Chicago studios
(the program originates in New York), he arrived at
the Merchandise
Mart accompanied by three "real McCoys"
from Chicago police force.
When decisions were handed down,
the mayor and tennis star Alice
Marble, who also
was a
"detective" on the case, place the guilt on
the
same man.
Must have
been three red faces when the culprit was
unveiled
by
Ellery Queen, and he wasn't
the guy picked...
(Movie-Radio Guide 06-13-42)
Between 1918 and 1955 income tax returns were due on March 15.
hence the timing of this episode...
78* "The Out-of-order Telephone"
03-19-42 or 03-21-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): G.F.Donahoe and M.S.McDermott
(East): Miss
F.E.Conaty
and Gordon S.Miller
79* "The Servant Problem"
03-26-42 or 03-28-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Jim Ameche
(radio actor) and
John Allen
(radio newscaster)
(East): Leo G.
Carroll (actor) and Judith Evelyn (actress)
The Stars of Angel
Street as armchair detectives.
On April 1. Lee visited
the studios during rehearsals and met with Kaye Brinker, a young actress, who would become his second wife
80* "The Black Syndicate"
04-02-42 or 04-04-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Mayor A.Rossi (via phone) and
Lois
Wilson (actress)
(East): Judge
S.McDevitt and Selena Royle (actress)
81* "Ellery Queen, Swindler"
04-09-42 or 04-11-42: 30:00*
Script printed in Rogues Gallery
(1945)
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Bill Johnson (bandleader) and
Allen Prescott
(radio comedian)
(East): Arthur
Murray (dance instructor) and Marian Anderson (singer)
A 'respectable' jeweler, Adolf Humperdinck cheats one of his employees out
of $
4,000. Ellery, with the help of M.Jallet, works out a
jewel-switching
maneuver to retrieve the young man's money.
82* "The Superstitious Client"
04-16-42 or 04-18-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): L.Brophy and Mayor Z.Leymel
(via phone)
(East): Mrs.Octavus
Roy Cohen (wife of author) and Mayor R. Perkins
83* "The Millionaires'Club"
04-23-42 or 04-25-42 :30:00*
Repeated as
"The Inner Circle" 12-28-44 and 12-30-44
Adapted as
"The Inner Circle" EQMM, January 1947 and
collected in
Calendar of
Crime, 1952
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Bernardine Flynn (radio announcer/
actress) and
Otto Soglow (cartoonist)
(East): L.Brophy
and Ward Greene (author)
84* "The Living Corpse"
04-30-42 or 05-02-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): N.W.Lathan and
Mayor
E.J.Reilly (via phone)
(East): Ed
Gardner (Duffy's Tavern star) and Shirley Booth (actress)
85* "The Missing Child"
05-07-42 or 05-09-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Shep Fields (orchestra leader) and
Mrs.Joy Lyons
(East): Lawrence
E. Spivak (publisher) and Bea Wain (radio singer)
86* "The Green Hat"
05-14-42 or 05-16-42: 30:00*
With John P. McIntyre as prominent Washington war correspondent
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): a 'jury' of servicemen
(East): a
so-called 'blue ribbon jury',
jurymen which convicted a real killer to
the electric
chair at Sing-Sing, will switch from fact to fiction as the guest
armchairs
detectives. Program was advertised with a warning "Attention
Colored
Folks".
87* "The Three Iou's"
05-21-42 or 05-23-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): R.Porterfield and
Earl Young
(radio newscaster)
(East): Alice
Marble (tennis ace, radio sportscaster) and E.J.Reilly (Mayor
of
Chicago via phone)
88* "The Old Men"
05-28-42 or 05-30-42: 30:00*
Adapted as "As
Simple as ABC" in EQMM, May 1951 and collected as
"The Gettysburg
Bugle" in The Calendar of Crime (1952)
Guest Armchair Detectives (West): Joan
Caulfield (actress) and
Emery Deutsch
(bandleader)
(East): D.Lind
and Judge J.T.Mahoney
89* "The Dog Fires"
06-04-42 or 06-06-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Joan Edwards (singer/actress) and
J.Scheeter
(East): Warren
Hull (actor/radio announcer) and Joana Leschin (concert
pianist)
Story of heartless pyromaniac.
90* "The June Bride"
06-11-42 or 06-13-42: 30:00*
Adapted as "The Medical
Finger" in EQMM, June '51 and collected
in The Calendar of Crime (1952)
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Lois January (actress) and Lem Ward
(painter/woodcarver)
(East): C.
Agar and Jack McManus
Seven minutes
after a wedding ceremony the very wealthy bride drops dead.
Main suspect
appears to be the violent-tempered former boyfriend who had
threatened to kill the
woman. Ellery is attending
Odds are five to one against armchair detectives solving ELLERY QUEEN
murder mysteries, according to the guesses in the NBC series which started
in January. Thirteen were correct; 68 missed.
(42-06-13 The Billboard)
91* "The Golf Murder"
06-18-42 or 06-20-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Alphonso d'Artega (band leader) and
Kay Lorraine
(vocalist)
(East): Joan
Edwards (singer/actress) and Conrad Thibault (singer)
92* "The Midnight Visitor"
06-25-42 or 06-27-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives (West):
George and Dorothy
Kilgallen
(journalists)
(East): E.Allardice
and A.Simon
93* "The Air Raid Warden"
07-02-42 or 07-04-42: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detectives
(West): Benay Venuta (singer/actress) and
D.Mich
(East): Clyde
Barrie (baritone) and Dick Stabile (bandleader)
After a whirlwind courtship
Manfred B. Lee and Kaye Brinker were married on
July 4, 1942 the same day as this last broadcast. The
series went of the air for three months...
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