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In article <48121406-b69b-4ba7-bb48-17775db825fd@googlegroups.com>,
Quadibloc  <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 11:30:12 AM UTC-6, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>> In article <19b00107-cf94-4c38-9b9c-4679c6082d5a@googlegroups.com>,
>> Quadibloc  <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>> >On Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 5:30:05 PM UTC-6, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>> >
>> >> And apparently it's a *fictional* radio show.
>> >
>> >You're welcome. Possibly, though, I could be mistaken. The novel was
>based on a 
>> >short story - The Santa Claus Murders - and perhaps the short story,
>unlike the 
>> >novel, did refer to a real radio show.
>> 
>> That's a thought!  Can your google-fu find a summary of the
>> story, with the original radio show named?
>
>Unfortunately, I had been looking. Indeed, it's possible the story you 
>remembered was a completely different one.

Well, I never read it, only read about it, and the gist was (a)
mystery, (b) by Fredric Brown, and (c) the only way the reader
could guess whodunit was by knowing about a real-world 1940s
radio show.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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  Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-11 05:05 +0000
    Re: Garfield July 8 Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-07-11 04:30 -0700
    Re: Garfield July 8 Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-07-11 13:12 -0700
      Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-11 20:18 +0000
        Re: Garfield July 8 Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-07-11 14:00 -0700
          Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 06:50 -0700
            Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 14:00 +0000
        Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 06:53 -0700
          Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 14:04 +0000
            Re: Garfield July 8 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 10:20 -0400
              Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 15:23 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Juho Julkunen <giaotanj@hotmail.com> - 2018-07-15 23:26 +0300
                Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 20:41 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 13:59 -0700
                Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 23:14 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 14:07 -0700
                Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 23:26 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-07-15 17:20 -0700
                Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 20:37 -0700
                Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-16 17:27 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-16 11:29 -0700
                Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-16 19:48 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-07-15 17:57 -0600
            Re: Garfield July 8 Wolffan <akwolffan@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 10:53 -0400
            Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 13:58 -0700

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