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The Case of the Missing Witness

Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons · January 13, 1944 · 30 min · 4,316 words

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one of the most famous characters of American fiction in one of Radio's most thrilling dramas. Tonight and every Thursday night from 7.30 to 8, Eastern wartime, the famous old investigator will take from his files and bring to us one of his most celebrated missing persons cases.

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of your smile. your drug is for a colonos, K-O-L-Y-N-O-S, colonos toothpaste, now Mr. Keene, tracer of lost persons. Tonight he brings us the case of the missing witness, one of the strangest of his career, a case in which murder three beautiful women and a fashion show are all strangely mingled. But listen now, as our story opens a man

and has seated in a chair across his head, slants a bar of sunlight. And on his face is a completely incredulous smile. He rises slowly to say, don't be a fool, my dear. Put it down before you hurt yourself. Can't you hear me?

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