Mystery House
Mystery House is a title with a complicated radio history rather than one perfectly documented series lineage. GRH’s recordings belong to the broad tradition of anthology mystery and suspense broadcasts that used the Mystery House name, and the page should preserve that uncertainty instead of pretending every surviving file came from one continuously documented production.
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A New Lease On Death
This is an early surviving broadcast in the GRH holdings and gives a useful point of comparison within the surviving material.
Episode details →Laugh-IThought Id Die
This is a middle-period broadcast in the GRH holdings and gives a useful point of comparison within the surviving material.
Episode details →Murder Is An Art
This is a later surviving broadcast in the GRH holdings and gives a useful point of comparison within the surviving material.
Episode details →Program History
A mystery and suspense anthology represented by surviving standalone dramas. Where the historical record is incomplete, Golden Radio Hour keeps the uncertainty rather than assigning unsupported dates or episode order.
Mystery and suspense anthology framed by fictional publishing-house owners Dan and Barbara Glenn. WGN/Mutual origination and Harry S.
The run breaks into several distinct periods: Preserved WGN / Mutual / Goodman transcription span (August 19, 1945 to August 9, 1946) on Mutual Broadcasting System.
Names that turn up again and again in the surviving run include Forrest Lewis (performer), Nanette Sargent (performer), and Rye Billsbury (announcer).
Across its run, the surviving broadcasts are tied to Mutual Broadcasting System and WGN.
The stories often return to mystery and whodunit investigation, publishing, manuscripts and editorial framing, murder and homicide, death, corpses and mortal danger, justice, proof and criminal evidence, and dark humor and comic mystery.
The show also sits in a wider radio history that includes WGN Chicago mystery anthology, Harry S. Goodman transcription syndication, Publishing-house framing device, and Transcription-disc preservation and numbering.
If you are following the same actors and creative circles, related programs worth opening next include CBS Radio Workshop, Columbia Workshop, Escape, Have Gun, Will Travel, and Let George Do It.
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A New Lease On Death
A man who once escaped conviction for murder tries to rebuild his life, only to become entangled in another killing that eerily echoes the crime from which he previously walked…
Death At Deadline
When a newspaper's managing editor is murdered, suspicion falls on a gangster the paper had targeted. A reporter digs deeper and uncovers a more complicated conspiracy of betrayal and revenge…
A Short Life For Mary
An elderly wealthy man sets a deadly trap for his much younger, fortune-seeking wife and the people conspiring with her, turning greed over his estate into an elaborate game of…
Malice In Wonderland
Murder strikes a struggling circus sideshow whose performers all carry secrets of their own. With suspicion spreading through the troupe, the people behind the midway must discover which of them…
Complete With Quartet
A polished funeral director discovers that a burial arrangement contains an unexpected second corpse. The discovery pulls him into deception, betrayal, and murder among people accustomed to dealing professionally with…
Well Well Another Body
A man famous for repeatedly stumbling onto corpses finally becomes the obvious suspect when another body appears. The investigation gradually exposes the twisted reasons the deaths have kept occurring around…
Sauce For The Goose
A private detective rescues a desperate woman whose life has been destroyed by blackmail. Instead of allowing the blackmailer to keep draining her, he helps turn the scheme back against…
Death House Blues
A lawyer makes a desperate last-minute attempt to save a condemned client from execution. The effort uncovers corruption, murder, and betrayals that suggest the case was never as settled as…
Danger--man At Bay
A fugitive wanted for murder takes refuge with his sister and her husband. His arrival places the household inside a dangerous web of lies, divided loyalties, and betrayal as the…
Murder For Laughs
A hard-boiled reporter and police captain investigate a bizarre series of killings associated with a supposedly senile flower seller and her mysterious 'whammy,' searching for the rational criminal scheme behind…
Murder In Paradise
A family whose public success is built on publishing cheerful 'happiness' books is shattered when the eldest son is murdered. Behind the optimistic image, investigators find resentment, betrayal, and darker…
Nothing But The Proof
A murderer constructs an elaborate alibi around an apparently failed suicide attempt. The carefully staged crime begins to unravel because of a young boy whose strange-sounding story contains evidence adults…
Death Passed My Window
Confined to bed, an invalid watches the tenement building across the way and notices details others overlook. What she sees from her window gradually allows her to piece together a…
Sub-rosa Justice
A dying man tells his doctor how manipulation and a disastrous marriage led to his wife's death. His confession builds toward a final revelation that changes the apparent meaning of…
Laugh-IThought Id Die
A wealthy practical joker stages a cruel 'experiment' during a dinner party, expecting to frighten and manipulate his guests. The game stops being entertainment when one of the people present…
Murder Takes Practice
A man secretly engineers fake attempts on his own life in order to frame other people. His elaborate deception begins falling apart when the detective and members of his own…
Death With A Punch
A nightclub owner tries to break with a strange Punch-and-Judy performer, but the relationship turns into blackmail and murder. The violence finally erupts around a live performance before an audience.
The Composite Killer
A newspaper artist is asked to create a composite portrait of a murderer from witness descriptions. The killer realizes the drawing may identify him and begins targeting both the sketch…
Murder Me Gently
A detective investigates the poisoning of the owner of a classical-record shop. The death leads him toward a carefully constructed revenge scheme connected to someone from the victim's past.
Bury Me Not
The murder of an actor sends a detective into a case involving false identities and more than one corpse. Each discovery makes it harder to determine who is actually dead—and…
A Killing In The Market
A former racketeer newly released from prison is implicated in two murders that carry a distinctive floral signature associated with him. He must prove someone is deliberately using his old…
Murder Hires A Hall
An honest political candidate challenges a corrupt local boss and soon becomes trapped in betrayal and an attempted killing. The campaign turns into a criminal struggle over who controls both…
Bases Loaded
Professional baseball becomes the setting for murder when both a star pitcher and his manager are killed. The investigation uncovers jealousy and betrayal behind the public world of the team…
Time To Kill
A glamorous film star's hidden past begins surfacing after her bigamist husband dies under suspicious circumstances in a private club. Blackmail, old relationships, and murder all become entangled in the…
Dagger In The Dark
A Scottish entertainer is murdered backstage during a performance in a small town. The killing exposes concealed relationships and betrayals among the people connected to the show and the community.
A Vacation From Murder
A detective hoping for a peaceful holiday encounters a suspicious death instead. His attempt to stay out of police work fails as the circumstances force him to investigate one more…
Drop Me A Line
A millionaire's latest marriage draws a cynical nightclub owner into a confusing case involving staged deaths, concealed identities, and an apparently meaningless doodle that becomes a crucial clue to the…
Operation Murder
A former speed pilot becomes involved in developing a new aircraft design. The project leads to murder, an attempt to frame an innocent person, and intrigue extending beyond ordinary industrial…
Murder Is An Art
A young artist's violent emotional outburst appears connected to a woman's death in an art studio. Investigation of the other artists and relationships around the studio reveals jealousy and a…
A Case Of Homicide
A ruthless industrialist finds the body of a business rival delivered to his office in a packing case. A second boxed corpse—his secretary's fiancé—turns the workplace into the center of…
Death In The Saddle
At a rodeo, jealousy and a reckless wager surrounding a supposedly unrideable bronco end in murder. Investigators discover that the horse's dangerous reputation conceals the method behind the killing.
Death Is An Accident
A local newspaper editor investigates the confession in an old disappearance that had been written off as accidental. The reopened case exposes layers of deception and leads to additional crimes…
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