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Mystery is My Hobby: Voice of Doom

·28 min

1. Mystery is My Hobby: Voice of Doom follows Barton Drake and Inspector Dan to Hurricane Manor after Tracy Winthrop sends an urgent letter from the Hudson. 2. Adam Graham presents the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho, and introduces the episode before the drama begins. 3. Tracy Winthrop says one of his two nieces plans to murder him, and he asks Drake to become the guardian of his stepdaughter Lucy. 4. The first mystery is a voice heard outside the house saying, “Enter not or you die,” which Tracy dismisses as the wind at Hurricane Manor. 5. Drake, Inspector Dan, and Tracy move into a soundproof study, where Tracy explains that Lucy is his heir even though his nieces do not know it. 6. Tracy also says Drake himself may be in danger after his guardianship becomes known, because someone may try to remove him as a witness. 7. A second voice interrupts the house, and Drake and Dan begin searching for loudspeakers, microphones, and other hidden equipment. 8. The search leads upstairs, where the lights fail and Tracy is found strangled with wire in the hallway. 9. Lucy arrives at the body, while Mona Evans and Grace Armaid quickly become part of the household’s confusion and suspicion. 10. Mona claims Lucy is crazy, says she and her sister Helen stand to inherit, and presents a will she says is in Tracy’s handwriting. 11. Drake asks to see that will, then searches Mona’s bedroom and the cellar after deciding she knows more than she admits. 12. Grace is caught with Mona Evans’ diary, and she tells Drake and Dan that she wants to be arrested and fears the house’s “voice of Doom.” 13. Drake uses the diary as a clue and leads Dan to the furnace room, where the house’s hot-air system explains how a voice could travel through the building. 14. The pair get trapped in the furnace room and face escaping gas, forcing Dan to shoot the lock while Drake blocks an air duct with his coat. 15. They follow the source to another room, where the person behind the voice is found and the confrontation turns physical. 16. Drake then explains that the diary entries match the handwriting on the forged will, linking the handwriting practice to the document itself. 17. He also explains that Helen and Mona used role-swapping and fake insanity to push Lucy aside and control Tracy’s estate. 18. The episode keeps a brisk detective-noir rhythm, with Barton Drake making deductions while Inspector Dan reacts to each new danger. 19. Listeners who like old-time-radio detection, hidden-room tricks, and inheritance plots will fit this episode. 20. Listeners who want slow-burn character drama without a mystery mechanism may skip it.

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