The Crime Club "Fish For Entree" (9-11-47) - Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod

Crime Club was a Mutual Network  murder and mystery series, a product of the Doubleday Crime Book Club imprints found weekly in bookstores everywhere. The telephone rings"Hello, I hope I haven't kept you waiting. Yes, this is the Crime Club. I'm the Librarian. Murder Rents A Room? Yes, we have that Crime Club story for you.Come right over. (The organist in the shadowed corner of the Crime Club library shivers the ivories) The doorbell tones sullenly"And you are here. Good. Take the easy chair by the window. Comfortable? The book is on this shelf." (The organist hits the scary chord) "Let's look at it under the reading lamp." The Librarian, played by Raymond E. Johnson,  begins reading the tale. Veteran Willis Cooper (Lights Out, Quiet Please) did some of the scripts from the Crime Club books.THIS EPISODE:September 11, 1947. Mutual network. "Fish For Entree". Sustaining. A corpse with a dead fish in his pocket is fished out of the harbor. Stedman Coles (writer), Walter Kinsella, Virginia Dwyer, Bill Smith, Julie Stevens, Paul Hammond. 1/2 hour.