Episode 10 of The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe aired on NBC Radio December 22, 1950. There were 26 episodes in this series which starred Sydney Greenstreet as Wolfe. Nero Wolfe is hired to investigate the death of several sidewalk Santas by a Santa who fears he will be next. Sydney Hughes Greenstreet (December 27, 1879 – January 18, 1954) was a British-American actor. While he did not begin his career in films until the age of 61, he had a run of significant motion pictures in a Hollywood career lasting through the 1940s. He is best remembered for his Warner Bros. films with Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre, including The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), and Passage to Marseille (1944). He portrayed Nero Wolfe on radio during 1950 and 1951. He became a United States citizen in 1925 based loosely on the rotund detective genius created by Rex Stout.
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