Whistler (Various)

The woman's husband is disappointed enough to get a whistleresque idea while atop a mule going down the Grand Canyon! Steve was in his glory. Never in his wildest dreams had he ever believed a thing like this could come to pass. Here they were, just the two of them at Carol Crandall’s special table at the Top of The Mark in San Francisco. Through the huge plate glass window he could see the shining city stretching away to the east. Everything sparkled and across from him, Carol Crandall sparkled…

William Conrad plays a detective named, Conrad. The country's largest news magazine wrote him up under crime described him as massive, soft spoke and methodical. Howard Martine was all of these and more. He was a man who believed in a planned existence whether it was business, matrimony or murder. Howard Martine never took chances...

It was past midnight when Jerry Coonan left the cocktail bar with a tall blond in a mink coat. On the way out he gave the high sign to Red Stafford and Shorty Burton sitting idly at the bar waiting for the tip off and as he guided her out the front door, he could see them get off their stools and prepare to leave. Jerry chuckled softly to himself, the blond was dumb and rich. The diamond pendant around her neck ought to bring $10,000 at least and he'd mentally appraised the square cut emerald on her hand $5000 more...

A dead body is found floating with a five thousand pound cheque in his pocket. He was killed by a fountain pen!

An idea develops which involves a bridge, until the boiling point is finally reached! Kelly never knew exactly when it was that he decided to kill her. Thinking it over afterwards, he realized that murder is something like a pot boiling over. The fire is underneath for a long time and nothing happens, and then all at once the heat reaches a certain point and there it blows and you look back in horror to find that you've killed someone...

There comes a time when a meek stockbroker gets fed up with his humdrum life and chucks it all for romance and adventure in Florida... and actually finds both!

A good story about a cop who discovers that he's living in the same building with a homicidal maniac.

Ben's niece Joan suddenly arrives for a visit, before Harvey can find the loot! Harvey finds his old friend Ben living like a hermit afraid to spend the money he embezzled but Harvey is sure he has it and that it must be hidden somewhere in this old house. When he is sure Ben is asleep Harvey lets him self out, slips quietly down the hall to the stairs. The fire is still throwing a good light as he moves around the room searching systematically checking the floorboards, the walls when suddenly Ben appears and challenges him. Harvey strikes him with a heavy bookend then he puts the heavy bookend on the table and stares down on the floor where Ben fell and he realizes that Ben’s dead, that he killed him…

Visiting hours were over and the Jeffrey Long museum in San Francisco was quiet. In the private office of the owner Jeffrey sat at his desk staring at the note in his hand; a note that was damp with his own perspiration. The hands trembled, as there was a tight nervous feeling in the pit of his stomach, symptoms of terror. It had all started three months ago when Jeffrey Long had received the first envelope when in Cairo. Then followed days and weeks of mounting fear because each Saturday thereafter, like a gentle stabbing before the final thrust, came an identical note and the message was always the same, “If you’ve killed Estelle you will die on the anniversary of her death.” And tomorrow, Sunday the 17th, is the anniversary of Estelle’s death…

The setting for murder can be anywhere. Perhaps it seems more at home in a dark alley or on an isolated dark road or yet in the dingy backroom of a cheap honky-tonk. But once murder is in the mind of someone and the dark plan evolved, the setting can be anywhere. It can even take place in a well lighted, well appointed apartment in the expensive part of the city where laughter is mixed with the pleasant talk of four people.

The Whistler was one of radio's top mystery programs airing from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955, sponsored by the Signal Oil Company.The Whistler was an ominous narrator who opened each episode with: "I am the Whistler, and I know many things, for I walk by night. I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak."The opening dialog was heard over the echo of footsteps and a haunting signature thirteen-note theme, whistled each week by Dorothy Roberts. The stories followed an effective formula in which a person's criminal acts were typically undone by their own missteps. The Whistler narrated the story, often commenting directly upon the action in the manner of a Greek chorus, taunting the criminal from an omniscient perspective. One of the show's trademarks was the ironic twist endings that helped serve as a payoff for the listener.Bill Forman held the title role of host and narrator the longest. Others who portrayed the Whistler include Gale Gordon (later starring in I Love Lucy), Joseph Kearns (Mr. Wilson in television's Dennis the Menace), Marvin Miller (later starring on television as Michael Anthony in The Millionaire), Bill Johnstone (The Shadow on radio from 1938 to 1943) and Everett Clarke.The twelve half-hour episodes starring Bill Forman included here with the date of broadcast, are:"Strange Sisters" (28 Jan 1946)"Panic" (4 Feb 1946)"Six Letter Word for Death" (11 Feb 1946)"Murder in Haste" (25 Feb 1946)"Terror Stricken" (8 Apr 1946)"Smart Boy" (15 Apr 1946)"Ambassador of Death" (16 Jun 1947)"Beyond Reasonable Doubt" (16 Jul 1947)"Whispered Verdict" (13 Aug 1947)"Curtain Call" (27 Aug 1947)"A Question of Murder" (4 Aug 1948)"Payment in Full" (1 Sept 1948)