The Mystery Project

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The Mystery Project was produced by CBC Radio (Canada) to revive and reinvent half-hour radio mysteries - with original scripts, casts and scores. The series ran from 1992 until 2004. Each week, casual listeners get to puzzle through a fully dramatized radio-play with a resolved plot, while regular listeners have the added fun of following familiar characters' further adventures. The series was created by the Executive Producer, Bill Howell. Barry Morgan was the co-ordinating producer. With Host Bob Boving.

Among the many series featured were:
In The Blood by Paul Ledoux
(8 eps)
Midnight Cab by James W. Nichol
(39 eps)
Death Downtown by Paul Milliken
(3 eps)
Flynn by Lyal and Barbara Brown

Pocket City Blues by Charles Tidler
(4 eps)
House Detective Becker by Martin Kinch
(13 eps in 12 plays the last of which was in two parts)
Albert's Father by Henry Comor
(5 eps)
Clean Sweep by Alf Silver
(30 eps)
Bailey's Way by Gordon Pengilly
(13 eps)
Recipe for Murder by Don Druick
(8 eps)
The Old Guy by Paul Ledoux

Fallaway Ridge by Eve Crawford and Cathy Dunphy
(4 eps)
The Investigations of Quentin Nickles by John Richard Wright
(20 eps)(the last 3 eps never broadcast)

Peggy Delaney by James W. Nichol
(39 eps)