The episode "Bridge for Sale: Deception in America" (mostly on confidence men) of the history radio program BackStory featured a few mystery elements during the discussion of the lie detector. In addition to covering Wonder Woman's golden lasso, the program included an excerpt from the mystery novel The Yellow Circle (1909) that posited the creation of a lie detector device; the author is Charles Edmonds Walk (1875–1943), who also wrote The Paternoster Ruby (1910). "Bridge for Sale" also mentioned the film Call Northside 777 (1948, dir. Henry Hathaway), in which reporter Jimmy Stewart attempts to exonerate an accused cop killer; a real-life developer of the polygraph, Leonarde Keeler, appears in the film as, appropriately enough, a polygraph examiner.
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CALL NORTHSIDE is popping up this month on public television stations...and last night was INDEPENDENT LENS's episode about Wonder Woman, which will be repeated on overnight plays on some PBS stations and on the World Channel in the next few days...
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