The Our detective this week is a little unusual, a little different from anybody we've heard before.

In fact, I think I'll let the man who played him on radio tell you a little bit about his character.

Perhaps you know, Lehonors, with it all, through the entertaining mystery stories by Miss Alice

Tilton. I like the man. I expect to have a good time acting him and I hope you'll have a good time hearing his

adventures. One of the intriguing things about Leonidas is his beard.

Because of it he bears a resemblance to William Shakespeare

so that strangers often ask Leonidas if they haven't met him

in the public library.

Are those addressing point blank as Bill Shakespeare, or just plain bill?

Then two, there is the oner-deous double life.

He's the owner of Meredith, an exemplary school for boys in a pleasant New England town,

and privately, confidentially, he's the author of the Lieutenant Hazeltine stories.

Lieutenant Hazeltine is a fabulous hero, a master of every situation.

On the radio he is introduced like this.

Hazeltine to the rescue!

Yes, hmm.

Now, Leonidas in his own life is always tumbling

into strange and unexpected situations. So you can imagine his mixed feelings when confronted

with a real mystery of his own and somebody says as somebody always does.

You ought to hear Lieutenant Hazeltine on the radio, he'd know what to do. always does Leonel

the lieutenant hazeltime on the radio he dare what to do but so as you may discover

does Leonovis. Leonidus Witherall was the creation of Phoebe Atwood Taylor, a writer hailed as the mystery

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