Five members of a New York artists and writers club, including Quenny, Rankin, Stangal and Peters, argue over whether detective puzzles are inexhaustible. Peters offers a story from his own experience: a hostess, Mrs. Kildare, discovers her sapphire ring missing after a dinner party at her apartment. She locks the doors, has the guests stand in the dark and counts to one hundred, promising a search by police if the ring is not returned. The episode is from Suspense, first broadcast on the Columbia Network on September 30, 1942. Eric Dressler plays Mr. Peters and Alice Frost plays Mrs. Kildare.

With Peters, Quenny, Rankin, Stangal, Mrs. Kildare, Mr. Flanders, Mrs. Cheever, Mr. Harris.

Listen for: Peters's story of the missing sapphire ring and the hundred-count in the dark, told within the club discussion about detective puzzles.

First aired on September 30, 1942.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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Lawyer Parker and Captain Burke of Homicide return at dusk to a house near Tarrytown where Major Kenyon died in a summer house more than twenty-five years earlier. Parker has received an anonymous letter claiming the death was not suicide and pointing to a drawer in the library desk. Inside the house they recall the people who lived there, including Kenyon's wife Isabel and the household staff, and the afternoon of the death. The two men search the desk for the hidden item, which proves to be a record that may explain what happened. The guide does not reveal the outcome.

With Parker, Captain Burke, Major Jerry Kenyon, Isabel Kenyon, Joe Parker, Diane Fisk, Paul Kenyon, Kitty.

Listen for: The anonymous letter and the search of the library desk, and the recording that is found in the drawer.

First aired on November 3, 1942.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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