This is Case Closed Mystery and Crime from the Golden Age of Radio every Wednesday at relicradio.com.

We've got two stories featuring Jack Webb this week.

First, from Jeff Regan Investigator, will hear the prodigal daughter from July 17, 1948.

After that, it's Pat Novak for hire, and Jack of Clubs.

That story aired February 20th, 1949.

My name's Jeff Regan.

I'm the lion's eye, his private eye.

I work for Anthony J. Lyon, head of the International Detective Bureau.

He doesn't care where the money comes from, just so long as it comes to him.

He cashes in on trouble,

and for him it pays off. For me, it's work.

Here's the kind of adventure you've been waiting to hear.

Hard-boiled action and mystery with radio's most exciting private detective, Jeff Regan.

So stand by for trouble and suspense in tonight's story of The Prodigal Daughter. And now here's Jack Webb as Jeff Regan. prodigal daughter.

And now here's Jack Webb as Jeff Regan.

Well, this is the way it started.

Melody was sitting in the outer office wearing her horn-rimmed glasses.

That told me that the client was in with a lion.

I smiled at her, and she blinked back, rolled her eyes toward the lion's den.

He's polite today.

Yeah, I know. On the phone, I was Jeffrey.

No.

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