We hope you enjoy tonight’s Episode of Nero Wolf in “The Girl Who Cried.”Starring the one and only Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolf and written by Alfred Bester.Tonight’s case an advertising executive, hated by everyone, is found shot, from a strange position.It's all a matter of perspective. The program closing has been deleted, the story is unaffected. + It began one night when Walter Channing, an advertising executive, was dictating a memo to his charming secretary Brenda Barclay. He is interrupted by a former employee, Bennett, who had, until that afternoon worked there for fourteen years. He pleads with Mr. Channing to reconsider his termination and when Channing refuses, he threatens him very subtly.The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe starred the incomparable Sydney Greenstreet 1879-1954, as Rex Stout’s iconic detective. Greenstreet is best known and remembered for his film roles, the first of which (at age 62) was as Kaspar Gutman (“The Fat Man”) in 1941’s The Maltese Falcon, opposite Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade.Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mysterytheater/supportSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/old-time-radio-mystery-theater/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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