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198* "The Cafe Society Case"
10-05-44 or 10-07-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective
West: W.Peterson
East:
Joe Laurie Jr., "Senator" Ed Ford, Harry Hershfield (3 of the 4 joke
experts on radio's Can you top this?)
A death-by-drowning mystery at a society set
summer home. Any one
of the three pedigreed gentlemen could have
been the murderer, but
Ellery needs just one guess.
199* "Cleopatra's Snake"
10-12-44 or 10-14-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective
West: Ken Sobol (author)
East:
Armand Denis (explorer/documentary filmmaker of
Dangerous
Journey
with film which depicts the weird Hindu ritual of snake worship)
Apparently there was a snake in the studio
200* "The Airport Disasters"
10-19-44 or 10-21-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective
West: unknown - pre-empted?
East: Vaughn
Monroe (orchestra leader, singer)
Leonard Levinson doing the
guest detective bit on the "Ellery Queen''
rebroadcast tomorrow (Thursday) night, says he's doing it just so's the
wife and kids in Hollywood can hear his voice.
(Variety, Wednesday, October 18, 1944)
201* "The Unfortunate Fisherman"
10-26-44 or 10-28-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective
West: Leonard Levinson (radio writer)
East:
Sophie Kerr (author)
202* "The Election Day Murder"
11-02-44 or 11-05-44 :30:00*
Repeat of
"The Wandering Corpse" 08-13-39
Guest Armchair Detective
West: Aline MacMahon (actress)
East:
Norman Siegel (syndicated radio columnist, radio editor
of the
Cleveland Press)
Late on
Election Night at the headquarters of a successful candidate the Queens
are joining
in the celebration. But tragedy strikes in an adjacent Turkish bath
with
Inspector Queen in somewhat of a jam, and Nikki Porter a not too helpful
assistant.
203* "The Booby Trap"
 (AFRS
pre-broadcast sneak preview)
11-09-44 or 11-11-44: 30:00*
AFRS Mystery Playhouse program "The Booby Trap" Sneak preview
at the
end of a program
Mr. & Mrs. North "Pam Solves it"
08-09-44
Re-written as "Enter Ellery Queen" (Argosy, June 1960, reprinted as
"The Mystery in the
Library of Congress" in Q.E.D. (1968)
Guest Armchair Detective
West: Peter Donald (radio comedian)
East: Nora Stirling (radio writer)
Announced armchair detectives: Ken Roberts (quizmaster of Quick as a Flash)
and Phil Baker (quizmaster of Take It Or Leave It.)
204* "The Right End"
11-16-44 or 11-18-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective
West: Tom Slater (radio host)
East: Red
Barber (sportscaster)
Football
story dealt with airlines and Japanese battleships.
205* "The Taste Test"
aka "The Thespis Club"
11-23-44 or 11-25-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective
West: unknown
East:
Fannie Hurst (novelist)
An advertising agency launching a new
health drink, invites Ellery to
participate in a taste test. The agency lads think they have a
natural in
the beverage called "Etsat" (Taste spelled
backwards). The tasting
experiment becomes a natural setting for crime.
206* "The Glass Sword"
11-30-44 or 12-02-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective
West: Jeanne Cagney (actress)
East: Rouben
Mamoulian (movie director)
Ellery
and Nikki Porter visit the circus, where the ace
sleuth matches
wits with the tiniest detective extant.
207* "The Stickpin and the Ring"
12-07-44 or 12-09-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective
West: Victor
Jory (actor)
East: Ilka Chase (authoress,
actress)
208* "Death on Skates"
12-14-44 or 12-16-44: 30:00*
Guest Armchair Detective
West: Barry
Sullivan (actor)
East: Frank Graham
(radio announcer, magazine sports editor)
209* "The Toy Cannon"
12-21-44 or 12-23-44: 30:00*
Guest
Armchair Detective
West: Neil Hamilton (actor)
East: Harriet
Van Horne (radio critic/newspaper columnist)
210* "The Inner Circle"
12-28-44 or 12-30-44: 30:00*
Repeat of
"The Millionaires' Club" 04-23-43 or 04-25-43
Printed as a story in the Calendar of
Crime (1952)
Guest Armchair
Detective
West: R.Daigh
East: Luise Rainer
(actress)
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