Death Comes to Dinner
Financier Finley gathers four prominent men in his locked penthouse and is stabbed with a table knife during a brief blackout. Britt Reid finds Warren's bloodstained monogrammed handkerchief and helps…
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Financier Finley gathers four prominent men in his locked penthouse and is stabbed with a table knife during a brief blackout. Britt Reid finds Warren's bloodstained monogrammed handkerchief and helps…
Oliver Perry returns with a woman named Carol and sends a note claiming to know the Green Hornet's identity, ordering him to a merchandise warehouse where Perry has arranged for…
A valuable Rodin statue is due to be returned to France when collector Ralph Barry is murdered and his body is substituted into the packing case used for the artwork.…
A shipment of diamonds at Robbins and Brown is secretly replaced with cheap zircons and a Green Hornet seal is planted to frame the masked crime fighter. When Brown is…
A murder prosecution against a crooked stockbroker begins to collapse when the defense reveals that the key witness is legally unable to testify, forcing the Green Hornet to find another…
When wealthy widow Mrs. Warren Findley is shot in her study, secretary Charles Darwin appears protected by an airtight movie-theater alibi. Britt notices the alibi depends on Darwin merely preserving…
Public Buildings Commissioner Duncan secretly gives contractor Butler inside information so Butler can submit the lowest bids on city jobs in return for regular payoffs. When Senator Banning begins an…
After financier James Hartford kills himself following a ruinous double-cross by former associates, his nephew Charles becomes the murderer known as the Claw, killing Cornwall and marking Murray and Britt…
A pair of swindlers advertise furnished apartments they do not own, collect rent and large deposits in advance, then vanish, repeatedly cheating veterans and other tenants. Axford poses as a…
Political boss Jonathan Ward suddenly backs honest reform candidate Franklin Norwell, then after Norwell wins tries to control the new mayor by secretly imprisoning Norwell's father in Beasley's sanitarium. The…
After a robber steals Andrew Blake's wallet and identity, Britt's investigation also uncovers Blake's own corrupt effort to profit from a city traffic-light contract. The Green Hornet intercepts Blake's payoff…
After Britt is shot and former Top Hat Gang witness Romel Azure is murdered, he deliberately lets suspicion fall on the Green Hornet so the real killer will keep moving…
Paul Norton's cut-rate chain recruits large numbers of veterans with promises of management jobs, works most of them brutally for low pay and discards them, while Norton and Sanders also…
Nightclub owner Rex Tinsley repeatedly escapes police pressure with help from lawyer Phil Crane and a political connection. Using Clicker Benny's camera as the Green Hornet, Britt photographs Tinsley, Crane…
After city official Henry Marsden dies before he can expose a kickback scheme, Britt's suspicions turn toward businessman John Rollins and a pending merger with the Wendell Corporation. Rollins fakes…
A postwar steel shortage is being worsened by Barnaby's black-market operation, and investigator Jennings is murdered after getting too close to the racket. Britt keeps an incriminating note out of…
Prosecutor James Conway returns from Chicago with evidence that can destroy Marty Sluckin's protected gambling empire, only to have Sluckin's men kidnap his daughter Polly and force him to back…
Disbarred attorney Gerstman runs a parole racket that gets dangerous criminals such as Lefty Martin, Potter and Nolan out of prison and back into crime. After the Sentinel attacks the…
Ward boss Joe Desmond exploits immigrants by charging them for supposed fast-track citizenship papers that are really insurance policies, while placing them in jobs and collecting more money. When Tony…
Tip-Top Charlie's high-priced 'almost used' dealership is tied to a car-theft and resale operation working from a hidden underground garage. The Green Hornet uses an attempted theft of Michael Axford's…
Public Works Commissioner John Anderson kills himself while under suspicion for missing public funds, but Britt learns that blacklisted newsman Clebourn and roadhouse operator Gorham have been controlling officials through…
Recently paroled racketeer Duke Finley finds wealthy Grant Wheeler wandering with amnesia, disguises his identity as 'John Murphy' and plans to collect ransom from Wheeler's family. Axford unknowingly gets the…
Fixer Kester poses as a reformer against illegal betting while secretly taking over bookmakers and arranging to profit from a rigged handicap. He has jockey Skip Collins's sister hidden so…
A gang of river pirates has been stealing valuable shipments from waterfront warehouses, and a watchman is murdered during one robbery. Britt follows a stolen perfume shipment to Stanley Tim,…
Persistent complaints about Green Tree Hospital suggest that patients who should have been released are being kept confined while receiving poor food and care. Britt finds superintendent Meagle has been…
A gang recruits schoolboys to strip valuable parts from parked cars, and the Sentinel's campaign against the racket leads prosecutor Dalton to investigate. After Dalton is murdered and his death…
Evidence of graft in a city sewer project points toward political fixer Wagstaff, while returning whistleblower John Bates disappears after the Hornet warns Bates's wife that he is in danger.…
The second half of the story closes a parole racket in which influential John Jarvis and attorney Waters trade recommendation letters and influence for cash. The Hornet diverts a $10,000…
After a tunnel collapse kills workers, the Sentinel suspects contractor Gorman used inferior materials and bribed city inspectors to approve the job. The Green Hornet pushes Gorman into a confrontation…
Rod Pomeroy and Jerry Jerome extort $20,000 from Talbot, only to discover the bills have been recorded; Jerome murders Talbot with a gun registered to Pomeroy and then blackmails his…
The Green Hornet attacks a counterfeiting ring, clears himself of a murder accusation, and faces the added danger of having his identity discovered by a persistent reporter.
The Daily Sentinel challenges a corrupt highway commissioner pushing a new bridge project, and the murder of a ferry operator sends the Green Hornet into action while a woman who…
Larry Larson uses compromising photographs of Commissioner Higgins's son, taken after the young man was drugged at Larson's roadhouse, to keep Higgins from testifying against a narcotics gang. Britt reveals…
After Britt Reid's worried father comes east, Britt finally reveals that he is the Green Hornet and explains why the masquerade is necessary. Father and son then turn their attention…
Two attorneys arrange partner Thorndike's death as a drunken automobile accident, expecting the crash to hide their murder scheme. As inconsistencies mount, the Green Hornet pressures the conspirators into turning…
Repeated police raids on the city's numbers racket fail because someone is leaking advance warning, then Sergeant Burke is framed with a fake payoff. Britt traces the operation to Jay…
After Dryden and Gilpin are captured as leaders of the numbers racket, their partners kidnap Sentinel reporter Linda Travis and threaten to kill her unless the charges are dropped. Linda…
More than $20,000 collected for a Christmas charity is stolen by a masked insider using a dead man's coat and hat as a disguise. The Hornet sends identical extortion notes…
While visiting his father on the West Coast, Britt finds that scarce Rose Bowl tickets are feeding a lucrative scalping racket tied to racketeer Nick Marvin and former detective Oliver…
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