The Toni Parsons Story: The Korean War ended in 1953 but here, two years later, Harry is hired to find a runaway who is still looking for the brother who never came back from that war. Rich Little Poor Girl: Harry is called in to check out a little girl whose father has abandoned her in a Seattle motel room with a stuffed animal and thousands in cash.

The Voice From the Lake: Harry is hired to find out why a corpse would have a desperate need for money, when a wealthy matron gets a demand for cash from a supposedly dead grandson.Īlways Leave 'em Wanting More (Double Length): A special double length episode that takes back to the Chicago of the late 1930's during Harry's days as a rookie cop and a married man. The Two Freddies: Is the girl next door, Cynthia Geary of Northern Exposure, a thief or a bigamist? Harry'd like to know, so would the police.

The Case of the Sleeping Witness: People die in hospitals all the time but one death leads directly to Murphy's commitment of a serious felony. It also doesn't keep him from being shot at. However, this doesn't keep him from being hired to find out who stole the vital records from the files of a dead academic. death.įinding Portland (Double Length): Network radio or rather one of it's former stars take center stage in this double length tale of kidnapping and faded glory as Harry meets Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa.īody of Work: The closest Harry usually gets to academia is the 'Mr. Ten Percent of Nothing: It's the dieing days of network radio and Harry opens his case files to one of the last radio detectives and.

To a million listeners, Harrys adventures, now lodged in the Seattle of the 1950s, are real. Harry Nile has developed a large, devoted following, maybe because hes had a hard life - kicked off the Chicago police force, Hounded by a dirty cop who was on the take, battling his own gambling addiction, even losing his bride of one year in a gun battle. During his convalescence he decided to relocate to this gray, rainy city which seemed to fit his disposition better than sunny California. Eventually one of his cases took him to Seattle, where he was shot by the man he was chasing. But audiences wanted more, and so began over 25 years of episodes featuring Phil Harper as Harry, later to be joined by Pat French as his admiring and quirky associate, Murphy.Īfter the first episode, West For My Health, set in 1940, Harry hung up his shingle in Los Angeles in a loft over a tailor shop. On New Years Day of 1976, radio listeners were introduced for the first time to a former Chicago cop turned hard-luck private detective named Harry Nile, the brainchild of mystery fan Jim French, who created the character for a one-time-only broadcast.

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