Old Time Radio Mysteries

Two young men are speeding along in a car on a lonely West Virginia road at 70 miles per hour. There's a tense look on the face of the driver, Steven Martin, as he takes the curves on the road without slowing down. His companion, Chuck Williams, nervously wipes the perspiration from his face. He turns and watches the road behind fearfully now and then, glancing at Steve for reassurance. Steven says "Turn on the radio, Chuck. Let's ...

Detective Sergeants Joe Friday and Ben Romero were working the night watch out of the Los Angeles Police Homicide Division. At 5:35 PM, they got out of their car and walked toward the scene of the crime, The Loupos Cafe. One or more persons shot up the cafe using a machine gun. Romero says "Look at that, Joe. Took out the whole front of the place". As they walked inside, another officer was there named Shelton, from the Hollywood D...

It was 10:00 PM when Detective Sergeants Friday, Romero, and Captain Elliot walked out of the murder room at the Ferndale Sanitarium and went down to the end of the hall, the emergency room. A doctor and a nurse were attending to Miss Stallings, who was present in the room when Valentine was shot. The doctor asks "Where are the bullets that were removed from Miss Stallings?" The nurse says "Right on this table, doctor". The doctor ...

Steve walks into the Commissioner's office. Ruth says "Well, here he is Commissioner. I have your plane ticket at my desk when you're ready, Steve" Steve says "Okay, Ruth. Well, where am I going this time, Commissioner?" He says "To Munich. Your plane leaves in one hour. You'll be looking for the memory chain". Steve asks "Memory chain? I hope it is no relation to the daisy chain". Commissioner says "Seriously, Steve, this is the t...

It's Sunday night in New York and in Room 508 of the Hotel Westland, four men sit around a table on which stand a couple of beer bottles, some glasses, ashtrays, and 65,000 dollars in cash. Gilbert Banister, the eldest and fattest of the group studies the five playing cards in his hand, then places them on the table.  He picks up the deck, turns to the tall blonde-haired young man on his left, and asks "How many, Summers?" He says ...

After midnight, on October 4, last a late model blue sedan comes to a stop at a traffic light on the highway leading Southwest out of Wichita Falls, Texas. While the driver waits for the light to change, a figure moves out from the shadows and taps on the window of the sedan. He asks "Going toward Haskell, mister? The driver says "I don't know. Where is it? I'm headed for El Paso". Stranger says "That's my direction. How about a ri...

Chuck Morgan was on his way downtown to pick up his secretary, Carole Curtis. Lately, she had been involved in welfare work and had just attended a meeting with disabled veterans of the Korean war. Carole is telling Chuck all about her meeting, but Chuck's mind is on the latest crime spree in Los Angeles. The latest series of crimes was unusual, due to the fact that the unknown perpetrator left no clues at all. No telltale cigarett...

Sergeant Tartaglia brings in a man named Harry Dean to see Detective Danny Clover. Danny says "Close the door, Tartaglia. It's okay, you can stay. Just close the door. Sit down, Mr. Dean". He says "Thank you".  Danny says "What's on your mind?" Dean says "I'm 46 years old, Mr. Clover. I live at 903 Hillcrest Road in Queens. Once, when I was six and a half, I stole a peppermint stick. I got caught. Well, I mean, I gave myself up to ...

Nick and Patsy are spending a short vacation at the home of Walter Summers, Sheriff of a small county in upper New York State. Their vacation there had been peaceful, until the sheriff receives a certain telephone call from the local milkman, Jed Peter, who says "Sheriff, I'm at the Parsons place. You know out on the edge of town". Sheriff says "Yes, I know. What's the matter?" Jed says "Well, I stopped in here a while back to deli...

Mrs. Mollison pays a visit to Mr. David Hale's office at the new airport. Dave says "Please have a seat, Mrs. Mollison. Now, how can I help you?" Mrs. Mollison says "I understand you're in charge of leasing out space here at the new city airport". Dave says "Well, not airfield or hangar space. Just commercial space in the various buildings. What did you have in mind?" Mrs. Mollison says "A luggage shop, Mr. Hale, smart and expensiv...

A dubious character named Harry Connors is in his New York brownstone room, nervously pacing the floor. Finally, the phone rings. He says "Hello?". The voice on the line says "Connors?" He says "Yeah, where you been, Lorenz? I've been waiting". Lorenz says "You're too nervous, Connors. Irritable, a sign of insecurity". Connors says "Your telegram said you'd call..." Lorenz says "I'm calling long distance, my friend. Words are expen...

Lydia Laverton is speaking with her uncle the 10th Baron Elderly. He says "Well, I don't know. Yeah, I suppose we'll have to do something". Lydia says "You should sell out, Uncle, that's what". Baron says "Sell the estate? You can't be serious?" Lydia says "Of course I'm serious. You could get a couple of hundred thousand for this place, and live in comfort for the rest of your life". Baron says "Live in comfort? What's that got to...

Frank Race and Mark Donovan are on a plane heading toward Central America. They are a few minutes from the landing field at Kalan, gate to the eastern entrance of the Panama Canal. Frank says "We're losing altitude, we'll be on the ground shortly". Mark says "I hope the weather is nicer down there than it is up here. It's been a very bumpy ride. Why did we have to come to this place, anyhow?" Frank says "To see if we can persuade a...

Comrade Revchinco has party work for Matt Cvetic. Revchinco says "Comrade Cvetic, you know of course about the organization known as the American Rally for Peace and Tolerance". Cvetic says "The ARPT, yes, something for us to infiltrate I take it". Revchinco says "My dear Cvetic, do you pretend not to know that the ARPT has been a Communist front for five years?" Cvetic says "I'm not pretending anything, I just didn't know it". Rev...

A racket boss, Ricky, is waiting for one of his soldiers, Harry, to report on Peter White. When Harry appears, Ricky says "I've been waiting for you, Harry, come on in. What is going on?" Harry says "Boss, that extortion we got with Peter White is off". Ricky says "I'm listening". Harry says "He's hot as a two bit pistol. I just trailed the guy, White, like you told me to. So, there I am trailing him and where do you think he goes?...

Counterspy Agent David Harding is receiving a message from Agent Ferguson in Washington. Ferguson says "Urgent, reference Confidential File R33X". Harding says "Go ahead, Ferguson". Ferguson says "The State Department requests that you personally meet the ocean liner S.S. Tregania, which is scheduled to arrive at 10:00 A.M. in New York, Pier 33". Harding says "All right Ferguson, notify the party's concerned that I'll board the Tre...

A letter is passed along to Inspector Steven Rockeed's desk. It is addressed to Criminal Investigation Department, New Scotland Yard, and sent from a man named Crittenden, living at Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire. While the Inspector was glancing over it, a visitor was announced. He came in and laid a three day old copy of the Morning Telegraph newspaper on the Inspector's desk. The visitor asks "Are you Inspector Rockeed?" He an...

Reporter Joe Cathcart and the Police Lieutenant Halloran are looking at a once attractive blonde, in her early 30s, that is now on a slab in the city morgue. Halloran says "Yep, there you are. The unidentified body picked up off Pier 23, at the end of of Greenwich Street, at 3 P.M. yesterday. The Medical Examiner thinks she hit the water Tuesday night around 8 o'clock". Joe says "Okay Lieutenant, suicide?" Halloran says "And what e...

Early in the evening, Peter Woods, a young lawyer, had time to kill before his appointment with Hilda Ryan, his fiancé, so he took a walk along Madison Avenue which was practically deserted. He stopped to window browse outside a bookshop. Just as he was getting interested in some of the titles, he was joined by a couple. The guy says "What you stopping here for Dixie?" She says "Maybe I like books". He says "Maybe you don't. Maybe ...