Episode 550 - First Day of School (The Whistler, Philip Marlowe, I Was a Communist for the FBI, & Dragnet)

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It's time to sharpen those pencils and hit the books with four radio mysteries set in and around the classroom. First, a chemistry professor tries a blackmail experiment in "Hasty Conclusion" from <em>The Whistler</em> (originally aired on CBS on May 19, 1947) and Philip Marlowe's latest client is a Nebraska schoolteacher caught up in mystery and murder in "The Rustin Hickory" (originally aired on CBS on September 10, 1949). Then, Dana Andrews tries to thwart a Commie plot to infiltrate a college campus in "Little Red Schoolhouse" from <em>I Was a Communist for the FBI</em> and Joe Friday goes back to school to find an assailant targeting students in "The Big Knife" from <em>Dragnet</em> (originally aired on NBC on May 11, 1950).</span></p>