Scope and Content Note
When I Love a Mystery debuted in 1939, Carlton E. Morse was quite well known as the writer, director, and producer of the popular radio serial One Man's Family. One Man's Family became one of the longest-running American radio soap operas, broadcasting 3,256 episodes from 1932 to 1959. I Love a Mystery, which Morse also wrote, directed, and produced, aired until 1952. Morse created other radio serials including I Love Adventure, China Town Squad, Adventures by Morse, Family Skeleton, and His Honor, the Barber.
The Carlton E. Morse Script Collection, spanning the years 1939 to 1952, consists of photocopies of radio scripts, a few with annotations. It includes four Adventures by Morse scripts, forty-seven I Love a Mystery scripts, and thirteen I Love Adventure scripts, for a total of sixty-four scripts in 105 folders.