The Blitz Murder Case

Whitehall 1212 quickly. This is Scotland Yard. For the first time, Scotland Yard opens its secret files to bring you the authentic true stories of some of its most celebrated cases. These are accurate records drawn from these files by Special Permission of Sir Harold Scott, Commissioner of Scotland Yard.

They're true in every respect, except the names of the participants, which for obvious reasons have been changed. The research has been done by Mr. Percy Hoskins, Chief Crime Reporter for the London Daily Express. The stories for radio are written and directed by Willis Cooper.

New Scotland Yard, the London headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, is situated near the embankment on Whitehall, hard by 10 Downing Street and almost in the shadow of Big Ben. Here also is the headquarters of the CID, the Criminal Investigation Department.

The body of men whose exploits for more than a hundred years have made the name Scotland Yard synonymous with a brilliant detection of crime and unrelenting pursuit of the criminal and the presentation of the painstakingly acquired evidence that assures his eventual punishment.

On the lower ground floor of New Scotland Yard is the famous Black Museum, where whose present custodian is chief superintendent, James Davidson, a Scotland Yard veteran. Behind this door... Good afternoon. This black mirror of ours is rather unique. Everything in it was at one time connected with the successful solution of a crime. All was closely involved in the crime itself. We possess

an imposing collection of little weapons here, each carefully docketed to indicate its origin. Here are half-emptive bottles of almost every poison known to man, together with a statement of what a particular concern it's used. Here are the blood-stained garments on which the solution of a crime of violence depended. Among the Black Museum's relics are disguises