← The Casebook of Gregory Hood
The Casebook of Gregory Hood — 1946
31 episodes broadcast in 1946.
Hood imports a cursed Aztec sacrificial knife just as a fellow collector of murder weapons is beset by a crooked assistant and an unfaithful wife.
Hood fakes his own death and then sets out to unmask the killer -- turning himself into the case.
A fog-bound drive, a clarinet cut off by a scream, and the sudden vanishing of Sandy's wife into the mist open a night-long search.
A film actress is found strangled in her dressing room, and the clue is a map a child star scribbled on the same picture.
At a meeting of the Derringer Society, a woman drops into a trance and predicts a member will be killed that night at exactly 11:15.
A run of killings tracks a wave of store robberies -- among the dead, the night watchman at Hood's own new shop.
August 12, 1946
(untitled)
Hood and Sandy trade San Francisco for a New York holiday, only to find murder trailing them through Manhattan.
August 26, 1946
Ghost Town Mortuary
September 2, 1946
Murder on the Archery Range
September 9, 1946
(untitled)
September 16, 1946
(untitled)
September 23, 1946
The Frightened Librarian
An old acquaintance begs Hood's help against a blackmailer; after Hood knocks the man down, he finds himself arrested for the blackmailer's murder.
Stolen cameos and a mute, honking circus clown lead Hood to the big top, where the clown is poisoned mid-act.
A scheme to get a set of ancient Korean coins appraised ends with Hood framed for murder.
October 21, 1946
(untitled)
October 28, 1946
(untitled)
November 4, 1946
(untitled)
November 11, 1946
The Tin Cup Mystery
November 18, 1946
(untitled)
December 2, 1946
Not Wise but Too Well
December 9, 1946
The Jade Tree
December 16, 1946
Pearls Are Unlucky
December 23, 1946
Spirit of Christmas
December 30, 1946
Pay Off
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