Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 187 – Crime Club: The Topaz Flower

Raymond Edward JohnsonA look at a somewhat forgotten American cozy mystery writer – Charlotte Murray Russell – wrote a number of mysteries well into the 1950s but then suddenly gave it all up and returned to her library work. She was an influence on a number of later female mystery writers who got their start writing “cozy” style mysteries.

This play is from the Crime Club. A brief look at that radio series. This episode starred Raymond Edward Johnson (right) and is adapted from Russell’s book, The Case of the Topaz Flower.

Music under is Benny Goodman’s “Benny Rides Again.”

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