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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

World's Great Novels: The Moonstone, Part Four (EP4740)

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas

Adam Graham

Drama, Arts, Fiction, Performing Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Today's Mystery: An experiment reveals how the diamond got out of Rachel Verinder's cabinet. But where is it now?

Original Air Date: April 23, 1948

Originating from Chicago

Starring: Sherman Marks as Gabriel Betterridge; Arthur Sedgewick as Sergeant Cuff; Charles Mountain as Franklin Blake, Jonathan Hull, Dick York, Donald Gallagher, Boris Aplon, Marvin Peisner

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0:00.0

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0:21.9

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0:26.8

So now you can keep up with the Joneses.

0:28.6

And the Evanses. The Welcome to the great detectives of old time radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're going to bring you the concluding episode of the Moonstone.

1:13.0

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1:45.9

Now from April 23rd, 1948, from World's Great Novels, here is the Moonstone Part 4.

1:55.8

The World's Great Novels.

1:57.6

The World's Great Novels. Great novels.

2:11.7

Before the publication of the Moonstone in the middle of the last century,

2:16.9

Wilkie Collins had already won fame as one of the ranking novelists of his day.

2:21.9

He is best remembered, however, for the Moonstone, which brought him special recognition as a writer who concentrated on a dominant motif, which he developed by the introduction

2:27.7

of strange and unexpected elements.

2:31.3

The National Broadcasting Company now presents in its series of Books that Live,

2:36.9

the fourth and final episode of the Moonstone by Wilkie Collins,

2:41.4

one of the world's great novels.

3:01.8

Uh, I, Gabriel Betteridge, house steward to Miss Rachel Ferender, I myself witnessed the experiment to determine whether Franklin Blake was indeed the person who had stolen the moonstone.

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