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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Michael Piper, Detective: The Erie Basin Murder (EP3994)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Fiction, Performing Arts, Arts, Drama

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today's Mystery: A stabbing follows a contentious auction.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 6, 1942

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Great Detect!

0:29.9

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0:43.3

and Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram.com slash greatdetectives.

0:50.6

I do want to encourage you to check out our other podcasts today.

0:53.5

I'm highlighting the amazing world of radio at amazing.greatdetectives.net.

0:59.7

This is a podcast series with a lot of different programs and special series.

1:06.8

We have holiday specials, but we've also done things like a summer of Humphrey Bogart,

1:13.1

the summer of Angela Lansbury and Top Secret, which were chosen by my listeners, as well

1:19.5

as tributes to recently deported actors like Dean Stockwell and Larry Storch, and spring

1:26.9

mini-series that I've done, including the Whistler, the Lost Episodes, and old-time radio

1:33.3

plays about Alexander Hamilton.

1:35.7

We have a new spring series that's going to be starting on February 22, but you can

1:41.4

get caught up on all of our radio goodness over at amazing.greatdetectives.net, and

1:47.7

you can find all the different podcasts we do linked right at the top of greatdetectives.net.

1:54.8

And now we're going to get into Michael Popper Private Detective, and this was an interesting

2:00.1

series that presented a mystery for me to solve.

2:05.2

It aired for four brief months between October 1941 and February 1942 over the Blue Network

2:15.5

and was sponsored by Canada Dry.

2:18.7

And here was the mystery that I was presented.

2:22.1

The series featured some memorable voices, including John Gibson as Doc, but who was the

2:28.9

star of this series?

2:30.9

No one seemed to know, indeed.

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