Charlie Chan: Premature Corpse/Too Many Suspects (EP4672)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Adam Graham
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1935 or 1936
Originating in Los Angeles
Starring: Walter Connolly as Inspector Charlie Chan
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to the great detectives of old-time radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, |
| 0:35.1 | Adam Graham. In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episodes of Charlie Chan, |
| 0:41.2 | but I do want to encourage you if you're enjoying the podcast to please follow us using your favorite podcast software. |
| 0:48.7 | I also want to encourage you to check out our other podcast, and I'm highlighting the old-time radio snack wagon. The snack wagon |
| 0:56.7 | is a great podcast for snackable bits of old-time radio. If you're driving somewhere to a doctor's |
| 1:04.4 | office or taking a trip into the grocery store and want to experience some interesting aspect of the Golden Age of Radio. You'll enjoy the |
| 1:14.1 | old-time radio snack wagon. Each week we serve up a little sample size, whether it's from a complete |
| 1:21.3 | short program or an excerpt of a longer program. It's a great little sampling from the Golden |
| 1:27.4 | Age of Radio. You can check |
| 1:29.3 | it out at snackwagon.net or wherever you get your podcast. Now, from 1935 or 36, here is |
| 1:37.9 | episodes 9 and 10 of the Landini murder case, the premature corpse, and too many suspects. |
| 2:06.0 | The most delightfully fascinating character in the realms of mystery, Charlie Chan. Charlie Chan. The The I'm not going to be. I'm going to |
| 2:53.6 | I'm going to Charlie Chan is engaged in one of the most baffling murder mysteries of his long career. |
| 3:19.7 | At Pine View, near beautiful Lake Tahoe, Landini, the noted opera singer, has been murdered. |
| 3:25.7 | Of clues there are none, of motives, plenty. |
| 3:29.1 | Ward, owner of Pine View, Ryder, Swan and Romano, all at various times married to |
| 3:35.0 | Landini, hated her. |
| 3:37.4 | Leslie Beaten, too, hated Landini because the singer had attached herself to Leslie's brother, Hugh, a promising young singer. |
| 3:44.8 | The greatest advance made in arriving at a solution is the discovery that the shot heard by all was not the shot which killed Vandini. |
| 3:52.9 | And while the doctor is examining the body, Chan and Sheriff Holt are in a bedroom discussing their discovery. |
| 3:59.6 | I deeply regret to say, Sheriff, that our investigations to this moment are about equivalent |
| 4:07.2 | to opening of empty sack. |
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