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The Dry Martini Caper

Original Air Date: August 1, 1948 – Play Time: 00:28:53 – Episode 110

Corporation head Gordon Martini phones Sam after being assaulted in his office. At their meeting outside his office, Martini is shot dead apparently by his chauffer Ernie.

Ernie doesn’t last long as a suspect – Sam find his body in the back

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The Mad Scientist Caper

Original Air Date:  July 25, 1948 – Play Time: 00:28:40 – Episode 109

Raymond Fox is a mad scientist – his eyes had a wild gleam in them, his hair was a wild tangle, and he was wearing a wild assortment of clothing that looked like they’d been slept in. Inventor of the helioscope and

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The Missing Newshawk Caper

Original Air Date: July 18, 1948 – Play Time: 00:30:02 – Episode 108

Lurene Tuttle and Howard Duff

Effie is back! And Sam is hired to find a missing reporter, Ray McCully, who had been investigating a numbers racket. Aided by a thug named Woody, Sam finds McCully – dead.

In McCully’s wallet are

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The Wheel of Life Caper

Original Air Date:  July 11, 1948 – Play Time: 00:28:43 – Episode 107

Alan Reed

A beautiful woman appears in Sam’s office with a case of amnesia. Named after the flower of forgetfulness and the street on which she found herself, Poppy O’Farrell is being followed by a strange man.

Sam follows a lead

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The Rushlight Diamond Caper

Original Air Date: July 4, 1948 – Play Time: 00:28:50 – Episode 106

Sam is hired to protect the gifts at Ralph Rushlight’s wedding, including the priceless Rushlight Diamond. The smooth cut diamond, only slightly smaller than an eight ball, is supposed to bring bad luck. Carrying it downstairs, a mirror breaks in the hall

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The Bow Window Caper

Original Air Date: November 9, 1947 – Play time: 00:28:42 – Episode 72

Doctor Helmut Reese worries that his wife Esther is jealous – dangerously jealous – and seems to want to ruin him. But why? And who is the strange man that’s been watching the doctor’s house?

One of his patients, a terminally ill woman

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The Adam Figg Caper

Original Air Date: October 5, 1947 - Run Time: 00:23:52 – Episode 67

Joseph Kearns

Someone is trying to kill Old Man Exon. According to his butler, a leprechaun-like character named Adam Figg, the old man is nasty, cantankerous, villainous, crooked and insipid. In his own words, “A past like mine is the finest thing an

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The Calcutta Trunk Caper

Original Air Date: June 8, 1947 – Run time: 00:24:39

It’s Constance Pendleton’s wedding day and her sister, Marsha Hopkins hires Sam to stop the wedding. It seems the groom is a famous ne’er-do-well, a bluebeard named Major Andreas Brodnik whose six previous wives died suddenly, leaving him their fortunes. But Marsha isn’t really

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