The Crime Club — 1947
42 episodes broadcast in 1947.
January 2, 1947
(untitled)
January 9, 1947
(untitled)
January 16, 1947
(untitled)
Gilbert Shannon phones the police to report his own murder; seconds later his daughter phones to report the same thing, and Inspector McKee inherits a single fingerprint.
January 30, 1947
Murder Goes Astray
February 6, 1947
Flower for the Judge
February 13, 1947
Murder Solves a Problem
February 20, 1947
Call Me Pandora
February 27, 1947
The Case of the Absent Minded Professor
March 6, 1947
(untitled)
Two killings have already happened in an empty house where four women are circling the same inheritance.
A millionaire dies at his open wall safe and a large diamond vanishes with him -- then comes back far sooner than any thief would allow.
A sleeping woman is woken by two gunshots. The body turned up soon after with one wound.
A developed roll of film gives up its murderer in the angle of its shadows.
A private yacht bound for Hawaii turns into a killing ground before it makes port.
April 17, 1947
Death Cuts a Silhouette
The topaz pieces missing from a murdered man surface the following day behind a pawnbroker's counter.
Claustrophobia turns out to be the lever that opens a murder case, in Virginia Rath's story of a missing woman found by death.
A doctor's death ties back to a wig, a mounted moosehead and a rare poison.
May 15, 1947
Death Is a Genius
A stockbroker is killed, and it is his shoes that finish the case.
Barney Crawford, a police chief's son with ambitions in Egyptology, finds a body wrapped and displayed among the museum's mummies.
Sarah Elizabeth Mason's story of a boarding house where a wealthy man dies and most of his fortune goes missing -- with a wastrel nephew close at hand.
A boxer's shot at the title is destroyed by a killing.
Special prosecutor Christopher Chance, sent to clean up a district attorney's office, comes to suspect his own mentor's daughter of a string of killings.
Young lawyer Peter Woods is offered $5,000 for a case his fiancee distrusts -- because a gang has mistaken him for the crook he happens to resemble.
H. F. S. Moore's story, told in flashback: a thoroughly hated woman dies of atropine poisoning in a mystery writer's train compartment.
Detective Mike Donahue takes his fiancee to Coney Island, loses his wallet to a thief in the crowd, and later finds it on a dead man.
Hal Hampton comes out of a five-year sentence for diamond theft, and a knock at his hotel door frames him for a robbery he did not commit.
Louise Parnell and Roy Turner mean to let an untrained lion do their killing for them, and the circus's last performance belongs to death.
A small, timid man walks into Spades Diamond's nightclub and asks the country's most successful gang leader to help him rob a bank. They say yes.
The annual police-versus-firemen ballgame in Spencer Town is interrupted by a bank robbery, and by the trusting young patrolman nobody could explain.
Toby Randolph's tea leaves are read in a nightclub caravan, a bracelet goes missing, and Broadway columnist Paul Palmer follows both to a murder.
Mark and Julia Manning are handed the deed to a nightclub by a stranger. Inside it they find contraband, and then a body.
A detective's seaside holiday ends at a body on the sand, and the quiet resort beach turns out to keep worse things than driftwood.
A woman searching for her missing brother unlocks the wrong door and finds a killing behind it.
Barney Crawford goes fishing with his queasy fiancee and hauls up a body from the harbour with a dead fish in its pocket.
September 18, 1947
A Frame for Murder
Lawyer Peter Woods kills time at a Madison Avenue bookshop window and is drawn into stolen diamonds and a collection of antique clocks.
A nervous clerk, a suitcase holding half a million in securities and an old man who has disappeared put a private detective onto murder.
Paul Remson, a popular new judge who has always opposed capital punishment, must pass a death sentence on a convicted murderer.
In the series finale, actress Lynda Barrie's rambling Westchester house holds a weekend party, a hypnotist's influence, bad dreams and a killing.
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