The Welcome to the great detectives of old time radio.

From Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham.

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

But first, I do want to encourage you if you're enjoying the podcast, follow us using your favorite podcast software.

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per month at patreon.orgatedetectives.net. Well, I don't have a precise date for this week's

episode of Charlie Chan. However, I was able to locate a synopsis for the first episode, which

aired the week before the one we played last week, and this isn't the same story. So this aired

after that sometime during the summer of 1944. Here is the Pearl of Great Price.

Good evening.

This is Sergeant X, filling in for Peter Lorry.

When danger threatens anyone of her brood,

even the placid and uninspired mother hen can become an avenging demon,

purposeful and unmindful of her own safety.

And in man, too,

this instinct to preserve one's own is strong indeed.

As you will hear tonight in the mystery playhouse.

Yeah. Tonight Tonight, the mystery playhouse is proud to play host to an ardent stamp collector,

a proud and loving father, and master detective, the incomparable Charlie Chan.

The record of Mr. Chan's achievements in crime detection, you know,

is equaled only by his reputation as a family man, a role he much prefers, by the way. However hard Charlie has tried, he's never been able

completely to retire and live the life of a simple, home-loving man. Take, for instance, one night

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