The Adventures Of Ellery Queen - "The Message In Red" (11-07-45)

"The Message In Red" (Aired November 7, 1945)

INTRO: Bob Camardella Plays Tony Williams & The Platters "Only You" (1956)

The Platters are an American vocal group formed in 1952. They are one of the most successful vocal groups of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound bridges the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition and the new burgeoning genre. The act has gone through multiple line-ups over the years, earning it the branding tag "Many Voices One Name", with the most successful incarnation comprising lead tenor Tony Williams, David Lynch, Paul Robi, founder and naming member Herb Reed, and Zola Taylor. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1955 and 1967, including four number-one hits.

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."

 

THIS EPISODE:

 
November 7, 1945. CBS network. "The Adventure Of The Message In Red". Sponsored by: Anacin, Hill Cold Tablets. Three women have been shot to death in one night...by the same gun. What did the three women have in common...and who killed them? Don Hancock (anouncer), Victor Jory ("Guest Armchair Detective"), Sydney Smith, Santos Ortega, Ted de Corsia, Gertrude Warner, Raymond Edward Johnson, Anthony Boucher (writer), Manfred B. Lee (creator, writer), Frederic Dannay (creator), Bob Steel (producer, director), Chet Kinsbury (music), Frank Mellow (sound effects), James Rinaldi (sound engineer), Virginia Dwyer (commercial spokeswoman). 29:55. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.