Red Duck Murder

Originally Aired: May 31, 1949Philo Vance #47, "Red Duck Murder," opens with a tense confrontation in a counterfeiting operation. Joe D'Angelo runs a scheme manufacturing fake hundred dollar bills, and his associate Eddie Keddy has just successfully passed two of the phony bills at local establishments. When Eddie demands a larger cut of the profits for taking the risk of distributing the counterfeit money in different cities, tensions escalate quickly. Joe reminds Eddie who's in charge, but Eddie threatens to expose the operation to the FBI if he doesn't get what he wants.The situation turns violent when Joe calls in Georgie, another member of the gang, to teach the ambitious Eddie a lesson about challenging authority. Despite Georgie's fastidious nature and criticism of Eddie's poor taste in clothing, he carries out Joe's orders without hesitation. The episode sets up a dangerous world of counterfeiters where greed, betrayal, and violence intertwine, leaving listeners to discover how Philo Vance will untangle this criminal enterprise and what the mysterious "Red Duck Murder" has to do with this counterfeiting ring.