The Eno Crime Club is an American radio mystery drama that was broadcast from February 9, 1931, until June 30, 1936, first on CBS and later on the Blue Network.
[1] In the show's early years it, The Shadow, and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes gained in popularity among radio programs, displacing dance orchestras, which had been high in ratings.
[1] The supporting cast included Georgia Backus, Ray Collins, Adele Ronson., Arline Blackburn, Linda Carlon-Reid, Brian Donlevy, Helene Dumas, Gloria Holden, Elaine Melchior, Ralph Sumpter, and Ruth Yorke.
[8] Addition of sound effects and some revisions of the script preceded the dress rehearsal, which occurred shortly before the episode was broadcast.
[8] Joseph Dis Stephany and Eugene Eubanks headed another version of the program for CBS's Pacific Coast network in 1932.
[9] The Eno Crime Club sounded a slowly struck gong three times between scenes, which was "a notable exception" to a pattern found in other radio mystery dramas of its era.
[1] The 30-minute sustaining version began on Mutual on December 2, 1946, on Mondays at 8 p.m. E. T. On January 2, 1947, it was moved to Thursdays at 10 p.m. E. T.[4] Vincent Terrace wrote in his book Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows that crimes solved on the program "require intellect, not brawn, to solve" and that the series was "more talk than action".