Whitehall 1212 — 1952
38 episodes broadcast in 1952.
A gangster styled on the Chicago mobs and his girl cut a swath of robbery and murder, until a silver cigarette case links two of the bodies.
Cashmere Casuba is shot dead behind the wheel of his car, and when a police informer turns up drowned with a bullet in his chest the two deaths converge.
A spent brass shell from a Browning pistol is the one hard clue to a woman's murder -- and a character called 'Poopsie' is the lead.
The killing of eleven-year-old schoolboy Phillip Avery turns on two scraps of evidence: a handkerchief marked with oil and a pound note with one corner torn away.
A woman is murdered yet seems to go on living, and the tangled affair of Jesse Williams ends when the culprit's poor spelling gives him away.
A moustached raider in a black raincoat cleans out a jeweller's and leaves a woman dead, and the Yard hunts the description.
A bloodstained pyjama jacket and a man's suit are all that remain of an old 1910 killing -- the death of Dr. Harvey's wife.
A knife gone red with rust is the Museum's souvenir of a 1922 killing -- the murder of Peter Amory.
A single smeared print on a bare mirror runs down the strangling and beating of Marjorie Ashley -- a 1942 horror the papers compared to the Ripper.
A bottle of Glenlivet whisky is the odd thread that ties the Yard's men to a theft of uranium.
When Thomas A'Becket Applebee is murdered his wife Alma is charged, until her young lover steps forward to confess.
A black Gladstone bag, stained with blood since 1924, leads the Yard to a dismal Eastbourne cottage and a too-smooth travelling salesman.
A dropped earring and a headless woman's body point the Yard toward a Belgian butcher in a case that had defied them.
A wife drowns in her bath exactly as a former wife did, and the Yard moves before the man's next bride can be next.
The clasp from a woman's handbag is the trail to the vanished Mrs. Minerva Bannerman -- and to the acid bath that hid her.
A grey shirt marked with blood draws the Yard to a grimy poultry farm and a man gone mad, with the body of Francesca Nicholson still to be found.
A motor-car running board is the clue that avenges a murdered constable -- William George Greenly, shot through both eyes.
A single imitation pearl runs down the man who beat Marjorie Tate to death in her hotel room.
A denture plate and a small flask of petrol are the odd clues that answer for the killing of Sidney Wolfe's mother.
A surgeon's instrument case and a child's rompers lead the constabulary to whoever posted the parcels of human remains turning up in Scotland.
The death of Miss Winifred Hogg and her landlord's nerves turn on arsenic soaked out of ordinary flypaper.
A bare-headed man bolts from a blazing motor-car in the days around Guy Fawkes Night, and the Yard asks who was meant to burn with it.
A woman's body in the open country, a guileless boy scout, and a man photographing birds all circle a yellow string handbag left behind.
Arsenic kills Mrs. Mildred Birdsong, and a Welsh box of poison-laced chocolates points to a keen gardener with weed-killer to hand.
The wounds in the body of Mr. Sweet read as bullet holes until the Yard proves the killing was done with a hammer.
A killing at the zoo is done with an ankush -- the iron hook a mahout uses on an elephant.
Knocked down by a motor-car but not killed, a woman is last seen stepping into a green delivery van marked on its side with a painted shoe.
A sheet of magenta blotting paper ties the Yard to an Oxford murder -- the killing of a foreign gentleman's impoverished sister.
A single Wellington boot cracks the murder of Nora Brady -- a case remembered as the only time a Briton was tried twice for one killing.
A clarinet points the way to Rowena Hargate's killer, the trail rounded out by a measure of Booth's gin and a blade taken from a Greek restaurant.
A cigarette case scored with an old scratch settles the murder of Dugel Henry, whatever the army man's story about a burglar.
A man's bloodied handkerchief answers for the death of Lady Madge Johnson, a noted philanthropist killed in her hotel room beside a box of banknotes.
An inspector's own warrant badge is the Museum's memento of the murdered boy Damon Madden -- a case whose failure ended a Yard man's career.
The body of Marlene Corcoran is found in a shuttered wine shop, and her killer's 500-pound confession to a newspaper proves worthless because of the stationery it is written on.
A chemist's Winchester bottle carries prints no file can match in the killing of a small girl of four -- so the Yard sets out to fingerprint all of Blackbourne.
A radio set built never to receive a signal is the strange centre of a barman's death by strychnine.
A hard-drinking husband is killed by the man who loves his wife, the blows struck with a heavy electric torch.
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