Crime Club
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Roger Bower
BROADCAST: December 1946 - October 1947. HOST: Barry Thomson as the host/librarian and Raymond Edward Johnson. PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Roger Bower. 30-minute murder mystery stories adapted for radio by Stedman Coles or Wyllis Cooper from based on and featuring some of the stories from the Doubleday Crime Club books. Crime Club was broadcast by Mutual and produced and directed by Roger Bower. The post war stories were by various different authors and adapted for radio by among others Stedman Coles and Wyllis Cooper (writer of Lights Out and Quiet Please). The narrator played by Barry Thomson is the supposed curator of the Crime Club library. He speaks to the listener as if they have just arrived or phoned and requested one of the Club's books. The telephone rings, “Hello I hope I haven’t kept you waiting. This is the librarian, Silent Witnesses; yes we have that Crime Club book for you, come right over.” The organ plays suspenseful music, the door opens and the librarian says, “Ah you’re here, good take the easy chair by the window. Comfortable? The book is on this shelf…” He would take the book from the shelf and begin to tell the tale. The story would end with the Librarian informing you that there was a new Crime Club book available this week and every week in bookstores everywhere.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
Chapters
| Death Blew out the Match | 29:27 |
| Fear Came First | 29:59 |
| Dead Man Control | 28:56 |
| Silent Witnesses | 29:16 |
| The Sun Is a Witness | 29:17 |
| The Grey Mist Murders | 29:49 |
| The Topaz Flower | 29:13 |
| Epitath for Lydia | 29:20 |
| The Corpse Wore a Wig | 29:12 |
| Murder On Margin | 29:09 |
| Murder Makes a Mummy | 29:27 |
| Murder Rents a Room | 29:15 |
| Death Is a Knockout | 29:03 |
| Hearses Don't Hurry | 28:55 |
| Death Never Doubles | 28:57 |
| Death at 7 -10 | 28:58 |
| Coney Island Nocturne | 29:04 |
| Death Deals a Diamond | 29:18 |
| Serenade Macabre | 28:49 |
| Self Made Corpse | 28:45 |
| A Pitch in Time | 30:01 |
| The Gypsy Sings of Death | 29:55 |
| A Deed Indeed | 29:04 |
| Death Swims at Midnight | 29:14 |
| Sometimes a Sucker Wins | 30:06 |
| Fish for Entree | 29:57 |
| No Time for Murder | 29:12 |
| Cowhide | 29:05 |
| Sentence of Death | 29:09 |
| Cupid Can Be Deadly | 29:30 |
Reviews
EXCELLENT OTR !
Jonnie King
The "Crime Club" is one of those truly neat Golden Age Shows that often blends comedy with the mystery. All of these Episodes are clean with great audio quality, and this is a short-run Series that should have lasted longer: Good plots, good Intros & Outros from the "Librarian" (who is PERFECT by the way !),good music bridges,good casts. Many of the shows such as "Murder Makes A Mummy", "A Deed Indeed", and, "Fish For Entree" add a dash of "Mr. & Mrs. North" or "The Thin Man" comedy with the mystery...with a male-female pairing that works very well. Enjoy these Episodes ! They're among the "best" of the "short run" Series of OTR programs that were produced !!
Great program!
jtyroler
This is a great program, but why is it when you try to download these, there aren't any titles, just The_Crime_Club_461202_ep01.mp3? The names of the programs show up on the first page with the reviews and synopsis of the show. Anyway, for the most part, these are stand alone stories, different characters and different locations, but there are a few with a Sgt. Cassidy, complete with Irish brogue, who appears in several episodes.
Relax with a good book.
PamelaMc.
I enjoy murder mysteries and this series hooked me on the Crime Club books. Mildly simplistic but well done and pleasent entries make this a great choice for folks who enjoy the world of OTR.
Cindy Barnett
Enjoyed this a lot. Some mysterious, some creepy but all entertaining.