Tuesday Night Detectives - The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Case of the Well-Staged Murder) & Ellery Queen (One Diamond)
Vintage Classic RadioShow Notes
<p>On this week's episode of "Tuesday Night Detectives" on Vintage Classic Radio, delve into the thrilling world of classic detective radio dramas. Starting with "The New Adventure of Sherlock Holmes", listeners will be treated to the "Case of the Well-Staged Murder", originally aired on November 16, 1947. In this gripping episode, the indefatigable duo of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, portrayed by Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce respectively, unravel the intricacies of a murder that appears to be the perfect crime. As Holmes applies his formidable powers of deduction, the plot thickens, revealing an ingeniously planned act designed to confound even the keenest observer.</p><p>Following that, we present "Ellery Queen" in "One Diamond", which first hit the airwaves on May 6, 1948. This episode features the sharp-witted Ellery Queen, a detective who is as adept with his mind as he is with his charm. The story centres around a mysteriously vanished diamond, leading Queen on a chase filled with twists and turns. </p><p>Together, these episodes offer a nostalgic trip back to the golden age of detective radio. Tune into "Tuesday Night Detectives" for an evening of mystery and masterful storytelling here on Vintage Classic Radio.</p>
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This week on Tuesday Night Detectives, two very different private investigators, back to back. We open with Richard Diamond, Private Detective and "The Private Eye Test," broadcast 19 March 1950. Dick Powell stars as the wisecracking former cop turned private eye, this time sitting a formal licensing exam alongside every other private investigator in the city. It should be routine, until the staged corpse in the training exercise turns out to be a real one, and Diamond has to solve a murder from inside the exam room itself. Then we visit The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez," broadcast 12 February 1940, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson. Professor Coram's secretary is found stabbed to death in a locked study at Yoxley Old Place, his dying words pointing only to "the professor." The single clue left behind is a pair of golden pince-nez, and from that alone, Holmes builds one of his most purely deductive solutions in the entire canon. Two very different detectives, working two very different continents. Visit us at vintageclassicradiopodcast.com. Please share and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SiriusXM, Pandora, and anywhere else you get your podcasts.
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