All the Write Moves: John Dickson Carr (Suspense & Cabin B-13)
5/31/20261 hr 24 min
Our month-long spotlight series on mystery writers concludes with John Dickson Carr, master of the locked room mystery who was recently referenced in Wake Up Dead Man. We'll hear some thrillers penned by Carr for Suspense as well as episodes of his own mystery anthology series Cabin B-13. From Suspense, it's "The Burning Court" (originally aired on CBS on June 17, 1942) and the first half of "The Hangman Won't Wait," starring Sydney Greenstreet as Carr's amateur sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell (originally aired on CBS on March 30, 1943). And from Cabin B-13, we'll hear "The Bride Vanishes" (originally aired on CBS on...
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Get this and get it straight, crime is a sucker's road, and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison, or the grave.
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[dramatic music] The story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.
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The Adventures of the Saint, starring Vincent Price.
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Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator- Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
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[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Down These Mean Streets with more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers. Today we wrap up our month of classic mystery writers with John Dickson Carr, the master of the locked room mystery, where a seemingly impossible crime has been committed, and the detective must not only figure out who done it, but how it was done. Carr's novel The Hollow Man is considered by many to be the best example of this sub-genre.