Case of the Missing Clarinet

The first time in its history, Scotland Yard opens its official files to bring you the true stories of some of its most baffling cases. These are the true stories. The plain, unvarnished facts just as they occurred reenacted for you by an all British cast.

Only the names, therefore obvious reasons been changed. The stories are presented with a full corporation of Scotland Yard. John Whitehall 1212 is provided by Percy Hoskins, Chief Crime Reporter of the London Daily Express. The story is for Radio, written and directed by Willis Cooper.

And now you are to hear the voice of Chief Superintendent John Davidson. Good afternoon. This device is not in the strictest sense of murder weapon. You don't recognize it? Listen, you undoubtedly will. A little out of tune, I'm afraid.

It's been here a long time. Eh? A clarinet. Hahaha. You see? It's used in dance bands, until the man who owned this played in the dance band many years ago. And a certain young woman who listened to him died.

No, I hasten to say as not as a result of listening. Now, a knife was used, this knife. And a man was hanged. Would you like to hear more about it? I lost Inspector Frank Bennett.

I was preparing to unlock my desk and begin the day's work on the morning of Monday, the 1st of May, 1936. If I had told a young man in a blue-sewed suit and a shocker from a remarkably rumpled blonde hair, I looked up and pardoned with surprise as he spoke.

They said there was somebody in here. They must be right, aren't they? I'm going to turn here. Are you an inspector or something? Merely an inspector. My name is... Good morning, Mr. Woods. Stinger Woods.