Hearthstone of the Death Squad
Hearthstone of the Death Squad centers on Inspector Hearthstone, an implacable Metropolitan Police investigator whose murder cases are presented with the certainty that patient police work will eventually identify the killer.
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Hearthstone Death Squad – 520110 – 20 – The Terrifying Letter
A stenographer is forced to type a fake suicide note before she is murdered, giving Hearthstone a case where the killer's attempt to manufacture evidence becomes the clue that drives the investigation.
Episode details →The Marriage Annulment Murder Case
An annulment request followed by murder gives Inspector Hearthstone a domestic case built around a damaged marriage and the motives of the people closest to it.
Episode details →Hearthstone of the Deathsquad the Unheeded Warning Murder Case
A secretary ignores a warning to leave her job and murder follows in the office, making the earlier threat central to Hearthstone's effort to reconstruct what happened.
Episode details →Program History
A crime series built around Inspector Hearthstone, a recurring detective character who emerged from Mystery Theatre and investigates murder cases with a Scotland Yard-style procedural flavor.
CBS sustaining detective series centered on Inspector Hearthstone, successor/extension of the Hummerts Mystery Theatre lineage.
The run breaks into several distinct periods: CBS Hearthstone run (August 30, 1951 to 1952) on CBS Radio Network.
Names that turn up again and again in the surviving run include Alfred Shirley (performer), Anne Hummert (producer), Henry Howard (director), Frank Hummert (writer (performer), Harry Cramer (announcer), producer) (performer), and Art Hannes (announcer).
The stories often return to police investigation and homicide squad, murder-case procedural, Hummert mystery-radio production lineage, missing heiress and identity concealment, marriage annulment and domestic motive, and narcotics and organized crime.
The show also sits in a wider radio history that includes Hearthstone of the Death Squad CBS run, Hummert Mystery Theatre lineage, and Fragmentary surviving Hearthstone corpus.
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Hearthstone Death Squad – 520110 – 20 – The Terrifying Letter
A public stenographer is forced to type what appears to be a suicide note and is then murdered, sending Inspector Hearthstone after the person who tried to disguise the killing.
The Marriage Annulment Murder Case
A woman asks her husband for an annulment and is later found murdered, leaving Inspector Hearthstone to untangle the motives among the people connected to the troubled marriage.
Hearthstone of the Deathsquad the Unheeded Warning Murder Case
A secretary is warned to leave her job, and a murder soon occurs in her office, pulling Inspector Hearthstone into a case in which the warning proves to have been…
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