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Mystery is My Hobby: Murder at the Arnold House

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Bart Drake forces a crime reenactment, and the room turns into a trap for the suspect.

1. Mystery Is My Hobby Presents "Murder at the Arnold House," a case centered on Tony Irwin’s death inside the Arnold home. 2. Bart Drake narrates and Inspector Noah Danton drives the investigation, while Paul Arnold, Brenda Arnold, Robert the butler, and Agatha all matter as witnesses or suspects. 3. The episode asks who killed Tony Irwin and how the room with the curtains, safe, and doorway actually worked during the shooting. 4. Tony Irwin arrives at Brenda Arnold’s room and pressures her about her past, including a burlesque-show history and a prior connection with Jerry the Duke. 5. Brenda offers Tony a Christmas present and leads him toward a wall safe hidden behind curtains in the room. 6. The lights go out, a shot is fired, and Tony Irwin is found dead near the safe with a gun beside him. 7. Inspector Denton treats Mrs. Arnold, Robert the butler, and Agatha Arnold as suspects while Paul Arnold is initially said to have been on a plane from Boston. 8. Paul says he was in Boston after 6:30 p.m., but the airport call to Harrison exposes that his plane ticket was used by another man. 9. That detail changes Paul Arnold’s alibi and places him back in New York at the time of the murder at 7:30 p.m. 10. Brenda admits Tony Irwin knew about her past and had threatened blackmail, but she insists she did not shoot him. 11. Bart keeps pushing the idea that the scene needs to be tested rather than argued about. 12. Inspector Denton argues from the gun, the safe, and the witnesses’ conflicting positions instead of trusting anyone’s story. 13. Robert claims he saw a figure near the hall door fire the shot, but his account becomes important because his angle of view matters. 14. The reenactment shows that the doorway by the hall and the library doorway do not give the same line of sight into the curtained area. 15. Bart has Robert point as if he held a gun, then shows that Robert’s claimed view could not have seen what he thought he saw. 16. The scene reveals that a bullet fired from the wrong position would have struck the curtain, and no bullet hole is found there. 17. The dialogue keeps shifting between Paul’s insistence on loyalty and Denton’s hard, procedural approach to the case. 18. The episode plays as a brisk studio detective drama with overlapping voices, repeated interruptions, and a final explanatory recap. 19. Listeners who like classic radio mysteries with room-geometry deductions. 20. Listeners who want slow character study or minimal plot turns.

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