Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. Often within a closed circle of suspects, each suspect is usually provided with a credible motive and a reasonable opportunity for committing the crime. The central character is often a detective (such as Sherlock Holmes), who eventually solves the mystery by logical deduction from facts presented to the reader. Some mystery books are non-fiction. Mystery fiction can be detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle or suspense element and its logical solution such as a whodunit. Mystery fiction can be contrasted with hardboiled detective stories, which focus on action and gritty realism.
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You are camped in the dry mountains of Mexico a hundred yards from a treasure and buried gold. A beautiful girl is sitting across the fire with a gun. Somewhere out in the night a horseman waits, like the girl, for you to make just one mistake. Original Air Date: September 21, 1949Host: Andrew RhynesShow: […]
“The Maestro,” a prizefight manager planning revenge on his star fighter by scalding him to death in the steam room! Original Air Date: July 20, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Peter Lorre Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
Original Air Date: November 17, 1940Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Shadow Stars:• Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston)• Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane) Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
Cathy wants to kill Alan, so she marries George to frame him for the murder she plans to commit. Cathy was beautiful a redhead with pale while skin and big luminous brown eyes. Her beauty was always there for her to depend on when she got in to a tight spot that is until she […]
You are groping through the midnight darkness of a gigantic department store, a hundred eyes are starring at you, a hundred arms are reaching for you and your most urgent desire is to escape… Original Air Date: August 25, 1949Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• Ben Wright Special Guests:• Georgia Ellis• Harry Bartell• Vivi Janiss• Wilms […]
A man vows to kill the hit and run driver who killed his son, and he’s keeping a diary of his plans! Felix Laine a writer by profession of detective novels who was planning to kill a man. He didn't know his name, where he lived or what he looked like but he knew that […]
Original Air Date: November 10, 1940Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Shadow Stars:• Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston)• Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane) Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
After threatening a rival’s life, a man finds himself driving a car with a cop in the front seat and a body in the back! A kaleidoscope is a simple instrument a toy made of a tube with a few mirrors and bits of colored glass nothing more yet when you revolve it slowly an […]
A weird old man seems a mite too friendly with the cottonmouths. Original Air Date: August 18, 1949Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Stars:• William Conrad• Paul Frees Narrator:• Ira Grossel Special Guests:• William Lally• Ruth Parrot• Wilms Herbert• Edgar Barrier Author:• Irvin S. Cobb Adaptation:• Fred Howard Producer:• Norman MacDonnell Music:• Wilbur Hatch Intro and Exit […]
A man who has just finished writing a symphony hears the exact same symphony on the radio. He had just set down the last note on paper he was happy and weary and full of peace. There was a radio near the couch, he sat down and turned it on and felt great horror as […]
Original Air Date: November 03, 1940Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Shadow Stars:• Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston)• Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane) Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
A young woman, stuck in the desert with her stepfather, finally kills the old man and drives off with the first motorist passing by. Original Air Date: July 09, 1945Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Whistler Stars:• Bill Forman• Bob Anderson Narrator:• Marvin Miller Writer:• Eleanor Beeson Producer:• George W. Allen Music:• Wilbur Hatch Intro and Exit […]
You are with three men in a jungle plantation on the rubber coast of Borneo. You know that one of the men is a desperate criminal who you've come to arrest but you don't know which one. You have to find him before he can save himself by killing you… Original Air Date: August 11, […]
There’s some nice detection by a newspaperman trying to locate a priceless-but-hidden mural. Father Walsh came to see Mr Darcy a newspaper editor, as he didn't know where else to turn. Three nights ago a man came to see him demanding that he gave him the bibles marked EB. Father Walsh did not know what […]
Original Air Date: October 27, 1940Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Shadow Stars:• Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston)• Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane) Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
A meek bookkeeper is determined to kill his long-time rival in an elaborate plan to steal his job and his wife. Have you ever hated a man enough to kill him? That's the kind of hate that grows with the years in to an all-consuming passion. Original Air Date: July 02, 1945Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The […]
The classic story of the man-eating ants of the Amazon and the stubborn plantation owner who refuses to surrender to them. You are isolated on a remote plantation in the crawling Amazon Jungle and an immense army of ravenous ants is closing in on you – swarming in to eat you alive. A deadly black […]
A story about a penniless dancer who has her empty purse stolen in the subway. When the purse is returned, she finds it loaded with money! Miss Zizi Lewis is taking the subway home late at night when her purse is snatched. A tall dark handsome man recovers her bag for her and disappears in […]
Original Air Date: October 20, 1940Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Shadow Stars:• Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston)• Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane) Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
Who killed Lucille? The killer always returns to the scene of the crime, right? Oliver had often thought of killing his lover Lucille when she was causing so much trouble and threatening to tell is wife. Original Air Date: June 25, 1945Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Whistler Stars:• Bill Forman• Bob Anderson Narrator:• Marvin Miller Writer:• […]
An ordinary tourist on a cruise ship who finds a beautiful woman, murder and fight in the back alleys of Mozambique. You are trapped in the native quarter of Mozambique, two dead men at your feet and the police closing in on you and besides you a sultry girl who offers you escape. Ronald A […]
The story of a very personal reaction to the Hamilton-Burr duel. Original Air Date: June 15, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Geraldine Fitzgerald• Richard Wharfe Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Author:• James Thurber Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
Original Air Date: October 13, 1940Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Shadow Stars:• Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston)• Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane) Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
A performer’s wife tries to convince him to kill himself because he’s no longer responsible for his actions. Original Air Date: June 18, 1945Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Whistler Stars:• Bill Forman• Bob Anderson Narrator:• Marvin Miller Writer:• Geraldine Merkin Producer:• George W. Allen Music:• Wilbur Hatch Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
A man caught in an impossible situation while climbing a glacier waits to die…when he hears a cry for help. Original Air Date: July 21, 1949Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Special Guests:• Joseph Kearns• Maria Palmer• Wilms Herbert• Ben Wright• Jeff Corey• Tudor Owen• Bill Johnstone Author:• Charles Montague Writer:• Les Crutchfield Producer:• Norman MacDonnell Music:• […]
A railroad magnate visits a psychiatrist with complaints of headaches and bad dreams…and with good reason! Original Air Date: June 08, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Thomas Mitchell• Donald Crisp Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
Original Air Date: October 06, 1940Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Shadow Stars:• Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston)• Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane) Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
Jack Crowley needs $10,000 fast to cover the shortage in his accounts at the bank. Along comes laughing cousin Charlie for a weekend visit…with $10,000 in cash! The course of action called for seems obvious. Was it a coincidence that the “greedy” wife is named, “Trina?” Original Air Date: June 11, 1945Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The […]
Two drummer boys who show a British regiment the meaning of courage in battle. You are deep in the remote hill country of Afghan face to face with the fierce Bataan Warriors trapped in to a hopeless fight from which there seems no escape… Set in the North of India at a battle long remembered […]
A ghost story about a huge pipe organ built throughout an entire house, and the reason that it tends to play itself. Original Air Date: June 01, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Ida Lupino• Vincent Price Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
Original Air Date: September 29, 1940Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Shadow Stars:• Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston)• Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane) Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
“If I can’t you have, no one else can!” A spurned woman goes blind to prevent her lover from marrying another. Original Air Date: June 04, 1945Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Whistler Stars:• Bill Forman• Bob Anderson Narrator:• Marvin Miller Writer:• Louis Estes Producer:• George W. Allen Music:• Wilbur Hatch Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence […]
Three “civilized” men and a “savage” are adrift on a raft with little water. The “savage,” without thirst, watches the others fight over the water. Original Air Date: July 07, 1949Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Escape Special Guests:• Joseph Kearns• Ben Wright• Barney Phillips• Jack Kruschen• Wilms Herbert Narrator:• Lawrence Dobkin Author:• John Russell Adaptation:• Irving Ravetch […]
A determined scientist plans to keep Mr. Donovan’s brain alive in a jar…not such a good idea! The conclusion of the story begun the week before. Original Air Date: May 25, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Orson Welles Author:• Curt Siodmak Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by […]
Original Air Date: March 24, 1940Host: Andrew RhynesShow: The Shadow Stars:• Bill Johnstone (Lamont Cranston)• Marjorie Anderson (Margot Lane) Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
A Nazi war criminal assumes the identify of a Swiss-born American citizen who died in a concentration camp. Things aren’t as wonderful in America as the Nazi imagined. To Frederick Pontiac an American citizen caught in Germany by the war death came slowly and painfully of starvation and torture in a cellar of a Nazi […]
A determined scientist plans to keep Mr. Donovan’s brain alive in a jar…not such a good idea! Original Air Date: May 18, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Orson Welles Author:• Curt Siodmak Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
A young boy who was thought dead returns home. Or does he? Original Air Date: May 11, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Eddie Bracken Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
Jessica had been in a sanatorium for nearly a year. She hadn’t been on the stage in more than two years. “The Dark Tower” was to be her first attempt to work again in all that time. It isn’t the greatest play in the world, but it has a sure-fire box office appeal which. Jessica […]
A man driving across country (with a beautiful hitchhiker) is shot at everywhere he goes. Original Air Date: April 27, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Gene Kelly Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
A forger finds refuge from fighting the Fascists in Spain. Original Air Date: April 20, 1944Host: Andrew RhynesShow: Suspense Stars:• Ed Gardner Writer:• John Dickson Carr Producer:• William Spier Intro and Exit music from: Resurgence by Ghostrifter https://bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
A small time hood gets into the counterfeiting business, with surprising results. Love makes the world go round so they say but it also causes a lot of trouble. Take for instance the case of Eddie Ford and Ruth Spreight, they were in love and had been for a long time, childhood sweethearts the kind […]
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