The Whistler — 1944
51 episodes broadcast in 1944.
January 2, 1944
Satan Holds 5 Aces
January 9, 1944
Death Sets a Trap
January 16, 1944
Time Out for Murder
January 23, 1944
Guilded Trap
January 30, 1944
Obsession
February 6, 1944
Devil's Trap
February 13, 1944
Murder in the Mind
February 20, 1944
According to Desire
March 5, 1944
Background for Murder
March 12, 1944
Lisbon Adventure
March 19, 1944
The Ordeal
March 26, 1944
Death Leaves a Legacy
April 2, 1944
The Barrier
April 9, 1944
Detour to Death
April 16, 1944
The Corpse Walked In
April 23, 1944
Death Has a Double
April 30, 1944
Voice from Beyond
May 7, 1944
Seven Guests for Dinner
May 14, 1944
Lady Courts Death
May 21, 1944
Death Wears a Halo
May 28, 1944
African Interlude
Guest host Peter Lorre introduces a mad professor whose grim theory holds that anyone on the verge of suicide can be pushed into becoming a murderer.
June 18, 1944
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June 25, 1944
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July 2, 1944
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July 9, 1944
Road Without Turning
July 16, 1944
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A dying aristocrat lays a curse on the ruthless newcomer who has foreclosed on his family's old Louisiana bayou plantation.
A crooked art dealer peddles forged manuscripts to a dying man's wife -- who knows they are fakes and gladly overpays anyway.
August 6, 1944
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August 27, 1944
Opus 32
Two robbers running a respectable lending library plot to force a dwarf into pulling off a heist against his will.
In a lonely Devon village, a sharp-tongued invalid becomes convinced her masseur means to kill her -- or does she?
At a malaria-stricken mine in equatorial Africa, the manager's old flame arrives as the new doctor's wife, and the eternal triangle turns deadly.
A woman weds an artist moments after he kills his girlfriend, hungry to share a life with a murderer -- and dreaming of bigger thrills yet.
A killer's foolproof alibi hinges on an actor who is his exact double, until the deadly game turns back on him.
A frantic six-day search for a missing heiress across New York builds to a surprise finish.
Suicide or murder? A $100,000 fortune rides on which answer the dead man's tale finally reveals.
Lured by money, an ordinary man agrees to plant a bomb in a war plant for a stranger with a foreign accent -- and cannot shake the jitters.
Constance, thirty-five and dominated by her tyrannical sister Emma, can only wonder whether her suitor's love is genuine.
Two grifters wed each other by mistake, each believing the other rich, and when the money proves imaginary the husband's eye drifts to what her death would pay out.
A woman murders her identical twin and takes over her life, only to find that being her sister is nothing like she imagined.
Behind the circus's cheerful bustle, a broken-down aerialist nurses a grudge toward the daughter of the man whose act once cost him his son.
A gangster has a plastic surgeon change his face -- and is then forced to keep paying for the operation for the rest of his life.
A veteran narcotics detective is framed for his partner's shooting in a blackened alley, with every clue pointing straight at him.
A man impatiently counts the days until his wealthy eighty-year-old Uncle Mike finally dies and leaves him the fortune.
Fired from a department store after $10,000 goes missing, an ex-convict figures he might as well steal for real -- until a music box turns his luck (a rare Whistler happy ending, aired Christmas Day).
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