Michael Shayne:
“Phantom Neighbor” 1/8/49
A woman calls Shayne at one in the morning because she’s in
a hotel room with a corpse, uncertain as to whether she’s the one who killed
the guy. When Shayne seems to luck into
the crime’s solution fairly early in the episode, you just know there’s a twist
coming. But it’s a good twist all the same.
Jack Webb is in this episode as reoccurring character
Inspector Lefevre—Shayne’s police contact/sometimes nemesis. Webb is so good in
the hard-boiled shows he did prior to Dragnet
hitting it big that it sometimes make me wish Dragnet hadn’t been so successful. Webb is always a blast to listen
to in these roles.
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