Sunday, May 2, 2021

Unboxing Murder - Episode 18

Two men sit near each other on a bench seat. The man on the left is thin with eyes downcast, wearing glasses, a hat and holding boxes on his lap. The other man wears a dapper purple suit but most of his face and body are outside the frame of the drawing. Modified detail of a panel from Suspense Comics No. 1 (Dec 1943). Pencils by Don Rico.

Did criminals retaliate against a former crimefighter’s family? Isn’t it convenient when clues for a podcast mystery happen to be in the form of audio recordings? Is military hierarchy just a way of replicating European aristocracy? Find out!

Unboxing Murder, episode 18 of This Gun in My Hand, was bellowed by Rob Northrup, with a special guest appearance by Flicka the Ladybug as Bonnie and the voice of the bellowing monster. Go now and visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities, and for credits, show notes and details on how to subscribe. Come oooon, what's in the boooox? This Gun in My Hand.

This episode is also available on Youtube, and in audio formats other than mp3 on archive.org.


Show Notes

1. “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” - Matthew 11:15, KJV
Cf. “Wink wink, nudge nudge, know what I mean? A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat! Say no more!” - Eric Idle

2. Bold Venture was a radio drama that ran from 1951-1952 starring Bogart and Bacall. In one episode, Bogart used the phrase “This gun in my hand” or something close to it.


Music and Sound Effects Credits

The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain.  Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Intro from Bold Venture, public domain radio show.
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Bold_Venture_Singles/Bold_Venture_5x-xx-xx_ep08_A_Muncie_Murderess_in_Havana.mp3 

Title: Park ambience - mostly birds
License: public domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mafon2/sounds/274175/#

Title: reel to reel tape machine single reel turning.flac
License: public domain
https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/454152/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail from Suspense Comics (Holyoke Publishing), No. 1, Dec 1943, page 21(?), pencils (and maybe inks?) by Don Rico.
https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=19572


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