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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Ellery Queen: The Adventure of the Wounded Lieutenant (EP4360)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Fiction, Arts, Drama, Performing Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Today's Mystery :A former police detective is disabled while serving overseas and his battalion members are killed after a native waiter reports their planned attack. But how did the spy know?

Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 18, 1943

Originating in New York

From the Office of War Information, taken from the network broadcast of a 30 minute episode

Starring: Sydney Smith as Ellery Queen, Marian Shockley, Santos Ortega, Ted de Corsia

Armchair Detectives: Virginia Fields and Ed Sullivan

Website Referenced: Ellery Queen, A Website of Deduction

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Coming up this week on the old time radio snack wagon.

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That's what makes them taste good.

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That's why they sell so many of them.

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Suppose nobody like mercy.

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What would happen to the hot dog business?

0:11.0

Well, what would happen to the most of it?

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Wait a minute, what's the matter?

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I've got it.

0:16.0

That's it.

0:17.0

That's the routine we've been looking for.

0:19.0

That's the kind of an act you and I should do.

0:21.0

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1:29.6

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1:39.3

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1:47.7

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1:54.7

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