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Crime and Peter Chambers. Created by Henry King, transcribed and starring Dane Clark. A private investigator, duly licensed and duly sworn. Peter Chambers. You're a private eye. That's your business. Anything else? That's for laughs. It's one of those dark brown nights, dirty with rain. You're home and you're doing calisthenics with a scotch bottle. It isn't so much that you enjoy a drink, but after all, you're a private eye. You might get waved out of the league if you didn…

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Synopsis

In the Crime and Peter Chambers episode titled Joan Bradly, private investigator Peter Chambers finds himself in a precarious situation when he receives a late-night call from Mary Doyle. She urgently requests his services for a bodyguard job, hinting at a dangerous situation involving a significant sum of money. Despite the pouring rain and his initial reluctance, Chambers heads to her rooming house, sensing that something is amiss.

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Dane Clark

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NBC

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Crime and Peter Chambers, Episode 4

Joan Bradly

Tuesday, April 27, 1954 · 25:30

Crime and Peter Chambers, Episode 4

Joan Bradly

Tuesday, April 27, 1954 · 25:30

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Peter Chambers takes on a bodyguard job for Mary Doyle, who is in possession of a large sum of cash. When he arrives, he discovers a murder has occurred, and the stakes quickly escalate.

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  • 1954 — The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.
  • 1954 — The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
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