The Professor and the Puzzle
About This Broadcast
An apparent suicide and broken engagement expose blackmail, murder, and illegal diamond cutting.
This Box 13 broadcast aired on January 9, 1949. It is listed as episode 21 in the archive. Mutual Broadcasting System carried the broadcast. The cast includes Alan Ladd, Sylvia Picker, and Vern Carstensen. Other credited names include Richard Sanville as director and Russell Hughes as writer.
The surviving recording runs about 28 minutes.
Alan Ladd stars as writer Dan Holiday, who advertises for unusual adventures under the address 'Box 13' and turns the replies into dangerous real-life cases.
Listeners can expect adventure, crime, and mystery, episodic drama in format, and suspenseful and wry in tone.
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Alan Ladd
Richard Sanville