Crime Club

 

 

This Mutual anthology series featured murder and mystery books that were actual Doubleday Crime Club imprints. There was a new Crime Club book "every week, at bookstores everywhere." It was certainly a natural to do a radio show to tantalize potential purchasers with half hour radio adaptations of the books.

 

The telephone rings:

 "Hello, I hope I haven't kept you waiting.

Yes, this is the Crime Club.

I'm the Librarian.

Murder Rents A Room?

Yes, we have that Crime Club story for you.

Come right over"

 

Later the doorbell tones sullenly:

 "And you are here.

Good.

Take the easy chair by the window.

Comfortable?

The book is on this shelf.

Let's look at it under the reading lamp"

 

 

The Librarian begins reading the tale, and we begin another Crime Club mystery dramatization - excellent sound effects, moodily realized within an interesting and "noirish" pretext.

Barry Thomson played the mild-mannered, albeit ominous, Librarian. Roger Bower produced and directed. Veteran Willis Cooper wrote the scripts which were from the Crime Club books

 

Want to check out an episode? - why not "taste & try"?

 

This episode can be freely downloaded to your computer - just right button click on any link below and chose "Download Linked File" (or words to that effect). The file is on an average about 19Mb - download time will depend on your (broadband) speed

 

CC_1946-12-02 Death Blew out the Match.mp3

 

This MP3 CD contains all 32 surviving episodes of the 30 minute series: Crime Club

 

 

Crime Club Radio Log

 

1.           CC_1946-12-02 Death Blew out the Match.mp3

2.           CC_1947-01-23 Mr. Smiths Hat.mp3

3.           CC_1947-03-06 Death is a Knockout.mp3

4.           CC_1947-03-13 Fear Came First.mp3

5.           CC_1947-03-20 Dead Man Control.mp3

6.           CC_1947-03-27 Silent Witnesses.mp3

7.           CC_1947-04-03 The Sun is a Witness.mp3

8.           CC_1947-04-10 The Grey Mist Murders.mp3

9.           CC_1947-04-24 The Topaz Flower.mp3

10.       CC_1947-05-01 Epitaph for Lydia.mp3

11.       CC_1947-05-08 The Corpse Wore a Wig.mp3

12.       CC_1947-05-22 Murder on Margin.mp3

13.       CC_1947-05-29 Murder Makes a Mummy.mp3

14.       CC_1947-06-05 Murder Rents a Room.mp3

15.       CC_1947-06-12 Death is a Knockout.mp3

16.       CC_1947-06-19 Hearses Don't Hurry.mp3

17.       CC_1947-06-26 Death Never Doubles.mp3

18.       CC_1947-07-03 Death at 7-10.mp3

19.       CC_1947-07-10 Coney Island Nocturne.mp3

20.       CC_1947-07-17 Death Deals a Diamond.mp3

21.       CC_1947-07-24 Serenade Macabre.mp3

22.       CC_1947-07-31 Self Made Corpse.mp3

23.       CC_1947-08-07 A Pitch in Time.mp3

24.       CC_1947-08-14 The Gypsy Sings of Death.mp3

25.       CC_1947-08-21 A Deed Indeed.mp3

26.       CC_1947-08-28 Death Swims at Midnight.mp3

27.       CC_1947-09-04 Sometimes a Sucker Wins.mp3

28.       CC_1947-09-11 Fish for Entree.mp3

29.       CC_1947-09-25 No Time for Murder.mp3

30.       CC_1947-10-02 Cowhide.mp3

31.       CC_1947-10-09 Sentence of Death.mp3

32.       CC_1947-10-16 Cupid Can Be Deadly.mp3

 

 

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