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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Charlie Chan: A Test of Color/A Getaway/Murderous Revelation (EP4771)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Performing Arts, Drama, Fiction, Arts

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Today's Mystery: Leslie Beaton has told Sheriff Holt damning information against one of the suspects, while Charlie Chan races against a self-imposed deadline to provide the killer's identity.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1935 or 1936

Originating from Los Angeles

Starring: Walter Connolly as Inspector Charlie Chan

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Welcome to the great detectives of old time radio from Boise, Idaho.

0:35.5

This is your host, Adam Graham.

0:37.9

In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode of Charlie Chan.

0:43.0

But first, I do want to encourage you to check out our other podcast,

0:46.6

and I'm going to go ahead and cite the Great Adventurers of Old Time Radio

0:51.1

at greatadventures. Info.

0:54.8

Currently we are playing Flash Gordon and Cloak and Dagger.

1:00.9

And we have so many great heroes coming your way, including Buck Rogers, Counter Spy, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and even more.

1:10.8

Follow us on the Great Adventurers of old-time radio for the best and all sorts of adventure stories from the Golden Age of Radio.

1:19.7

Well, now we are going to get into our final episode of the Landini murder case.

1:26.5

Now, there are a total of 33 episodes of this serial

1:31.3

and circulation, so we are going to play the last three. So this episode is going to be a bit

1:37.4

longer. In addition to that, between the time that I recorded the last episode and the time I listened to the final three parts,

1:47.8

I read the rest of the Keeper of the Keys, which was the Earl Der Biggers novel on which

1:57.3

this particular serial was based. So I will be able to talk after the podcast how this measures up

2:06.3

and where the novel might have been different

2:08.5

and offer my thoughts on both the novel and the serial.

2:12.4

And of course, as I mentioned last week,

2:15.7

I recorded my prediction for who did it, my solution to the case,

2:23.2

and I will say that I recorded that prior to reading the rest of Keeper of the Keys.

2:28.8

And the first half of that book did not really have a whole lot of information that wasn't included in the radio program.

2:38.1

So it was mostly based on my observation of what we heard on the radio as opposed to anything

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