This is Case closed, your weekly hour of mystery and crime from the Golden Age of Radio.

You can find a new episode every Wednesday at relicradio.com.

Our first story this week comes from Murder Clinic.

We'll hear death in the dressing room from September 29, 1942.

After that, it's murder by experts, and it that counts from august 29th nineteen forty nine

murder clinic stories of the world's great detective men against murder

each week at this time, W.O.R. Mutual turns the spotlight on one of the world's great detectives of fiction and invite you to listen to the story of his most exciting case.

Tonight, we meet Sir Henry Merivale, known to his host of friends as H.N.

In the story, Death in the dressing room.

Good evening, H.M.

Tell me, you were with Scotland Yard for a long time before you retired,

weren't you? I was indeed, Mr. Knight, and didn't I hear that you ran some sort of a secret

department for them? Well, there was nothing secret about it. You see, it was called the

Department of Queer Complaints. All the crackpots were sent in to me.

As a matter of fact, that's how I happened to be on the spot when this nightclub murder took place.

You see, I was there investigating one of our queer complaints that didn't seem to have anything to do with murder.

And, well, suppose I begin at the beginning, eh?

You know how sometimes a nightclub will catch the public fancy, the place to see and be seen at?

Well, at the time of this story, the Orient Club in London was having just such a theme,

flourishing like the proverbial Green Bay tree.

Tony Kaplan, who ran it, was a smooth, slippery customer,

Piccadilly, by the way of Times Square, Monte Carlo.

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