Tuesday Night Detectives - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Strange Death of Mrs. Abernetty) & The Thin Man (Nora's Night Out)
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Step back into the golden age of radio mystery with this week's double feature of intrigue and suspense! First, in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' as the great detective and Dr. Watson unravel the chilling case of "The Death of Mrs. Abernetty", originally broadcast on November 30th, 1946. A curious death, a tangle of motives, and Holmes' razor-sharp deductions promise a classic detective's tale. Then, we lighten up with wit and sophistication in Dashiel Hammett's iconic detective duo, Nick and Nora Charles. In "Nora's Night Out", the glamourous sleuthing couple find that even a night on the town can turn into a case of mystery and danger. Whether it's the foggy streets of Baker Street or the cocktail lounges of old-time Manhattan, tonight's adventures prove that crime never rests -- and neither do our detectives. Tune in to Tuesday Night Detectives, where every clue counts and every story crackles with vintage suspense, here on Vintage Classic Radio.
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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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