The Scarecrow & The Snowman (Aired January 20, 1944)
The Adventures Of Ellery Queen - Tuska cited Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940) and Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941) as the best of the Bellamy-Lindsay pairings. "The influence of The Thin Man series was apparent in reverse", Tuska noted about Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery. "Ellery and Nikki are unmarried but obviously in love with each other. Probably the biggest mystery... is how Ellery ever gets a book written. Not only is Nikki attractive and perfectly willing to show off her figure", Tuska wrote, "but she also likes to write her own stories on Queen's time, and gets carried away doing her own investigations." In Ellery Queen, Master Detective, "the amorous relationship between Ellery and Nikki Porter was given a dignity, and therefore integrity", Tuska wrote, "that was lacking in the two previous entries in the series", made at Republic Pictures before Bellamy and Lindsay were signed by Columbia.
THIS EPISODE:
January 20, 1944. NBC network. "The Scarecrow and The Snowman". Sponsored by: Bromo Seltzer. A good mystery about a tough case that takes Ellery months to solve. A corpse is found frozen, on a farm filled with crazies. The script was previously used on "Ellery Queen" on January 7, 1940. Sydney Smith, Marian Shockley, Santos Ortega, Ted de Corsia, Charles Paul (organ), Ernest Chappell (announcer), Jeanne Cagney ("Guest Armchair Detective"), P. Cusack ("Guest Armchair Detective"), Frederic Dannay (writer), Manfred B. Lee (writer). 1/2 hour.
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