Classic Radio's Greatest Mystery Shows, Volume 1 (Classic Radio Collection)

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This collection contains twelve of the greatest mystery shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio! You’ll hear Richard Widmark starring in Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Orson Welles in The Black Museum, Peter Lorre in Mystery in the Air, William Conrad in The Whistler, Ernest Chappell in Quiet, Please, Everett Clarke in Lights Out, Harry Bartell in Escape, and Fredric March in a tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense, plus such others as The Weird Circle, Molle Mystery Theatre, The Hall of Fantasy, and Crime Classics.

Pull the covers up close and relive twelve of the best classic radio mystery shows from yesterday and the legendary stars who made them great in this incredible collection.

Contents include:

The Black Museum, ”A Lady’s Shoe,” starring Orson Welles

Crime Classics, ”Blackbeard’s Fourteenth Wife and Why She Was No Good for Him,” starring Lou Merrill

Escape, ”The Second Class Passenger,” starring Harry Bartell

The Hall of Fantasy, ”Death in the Bayous,” starring Richard Thorne

Inner Sanctum Mysteries, ”The Shadow of Death,” starring Richard Widmark, with Paul McGrath (host)

Lights Out!, ”The Battle of the Magicians,” starring Everett Clark, written and directed by Wyllis Cooper

Molle Mystery Theatre, ”Female of the Species,” starring Lizabeth Scott

Mystery in the Air, ”Beyond Good and Evil,” starring Peter Lorre

Quiet Please, ”The Thing on the Fourble Board,” starring Ernest Chappell

Suspense, ”Actor’s Blood,” starring Fredric March and Hans Conried

The Weird Circle, ”The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” by Edgar Allen Poe

The Whistler, ”Whirlpool,”starring William Conrad