Boston Blackie

The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Lyndsay Faye
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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Internationally best-selling author Lyndsay Faye became enamored with tales of Sherlock Holmes and his esteemed biographer, Dr. John Watson, as a child and later began spinning these quintessential characters into her own works of fiction - from her acclaimed debut novel, Dust and Shadow, which pitted the famous detective against Jack the Ripper, to a series of short stories for the Strand Magazine, whose predecessor published the very first Sherlock Holmes short story in 1891.

Boston Blackie, Volume 1

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Jack Boyle
• Narrated By full cast

That's Boston Blackie, safecracker turned crime fighter and a long-running favorite with fans of straight-ahead detective fiction in a wide range of media. Beginning inauspiciously in a 1919 short story by author Jack Boyle, Blackie progressed from the printed page into silent films, then into talkies - and finally, in the 1940s, into radio. The first radio Blackie was Chester Morris, who played the role in a long series of B movies during the 1940s.

Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 12 mins)
• By E.M. Hornung
• Narrated By Walter Covell
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Raffles is Sherlock Holmes' polar opposite, a foil for great detectives and a man with all the immoral charms of a hero-thief, plus a remarkable ability at cricket. Raffles is the godson of Robin Hood, the model for Cary Grant in "To Catch a Thief," and the inspiration of Leslie Charteris' "The Saint." As the great reinvention of the trickster for the 20th century, Raffles convinces readers to throw away their scruples and follow along for wit, bold adventures, and thrilling suspense.

The Shadow - The Complete Radio Show Collection - Including more than 250 Shows

• ORIGINAL (106 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Orson Welles
• Narrated By Orson Welles

The Shadow was long believed to have debuted on radio as a program in its own right on September 26, 1937, on the Mutual Broadcasting System. But the character actually premiered in September 1931, on CBS, as part of the hourlong The Blue Coal Radio Revue (named for the show's sponsor), featuring Frank Readick - The Shadow announcer of Detective Stories - as The Shadow, and playing Sundays at 5:30 p.m. Eastern standard time.

Box 13, Old Time Radio Shows

• ORIGINAL (23 hrs and 19 mins)
• By various writers
• Narrated By Alan Ladd

Alan Ladd stars as newspaperman turned mystery novelist Dan Holliday. To seek out new ideas for his fiction, Holliday runs classified ads in the Star-Times newspaper, where he formerly worked: "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything - write Box 13, Star-Times." Each episode follows Holliday's adventures when he responds to the letters sent to him by such people as a psycho killer and various victims.

Casey, Crime Photographer, Volume 1

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 50 mins)
• By George Harmon Coxe
• Narrated By full cast

The origins of Jack "Flashgun" Casey can be traced to the 1930s detective pulp magazine Black Mask; the hard-boiled photojournalist was introduced in the March 1934 issue by former newspaperman/ad exec George Harmon Coxe. Radio audiences received a formal introduction to Coxe's creation over CBS Radio beginning on July 7, 1943.

The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective: Volumes One & Two

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Dashiell Hammett
• Narrated By Howard Duff, Steve Dunne

Steely. Seasoned. Smart-alecky. The storied San Francisco snooper is back! Share the exciting exploits of Dashiell Hammett's famous gumshoe through this thrilling 6-hour collection. Featuring all of the episodes from both our Volume One and Volume Two collections, Howard Duff and Steve Dunne star as Sam Spade in 12 madcap capers from 1946 - 1951. As crass as he is charismatic, this dynamic detective attracts a curious clientele - gentlemen who tend to drop dead and ladies who are drop-dead gorgeous.

Casey, Crime Photographer, Vol. 1: Classic Radio Collection

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Hollywood 360
• Narrated By Staats Cotsworth, full cast

In the March 1934 issue of the legendary pulp magazine Black Mask, Jack "Flashgun" Casey, crime photographer, made his debut. His creator was former newspaper and advertising executive George Harmon Coxe Jr., who wrote more than 60 crime fiction novels in his lifetime. Casey's keen eye for detail served him well on the job, helping him to solve the crimes he was assigned to photograph for the newspapers.

Great Radio Detectives

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 30 mins)
• By various writers
• Narrated By Vincent Price, Bob Bailey, Dick Powell

Gunshots, fist fights, and footsteps in the dark! Come hear crime and mystery, action and suspense with radio's greatest detectives! Ten hours of bracing crime-stopping broadcasts bring you Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, The Saint, The Shadow, Johnny Dollar, Bulldog Drummond - and 14 more favorites! Vincent Price, Bob Bailey, Basil Rathbone, Howard Duff, Dick Powell, and more star in 20 tales that are hard boiled and heroic, brilliant and bloody.

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: Murder Matters

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Johnny Dollar
• Narrated By Bob Bailey

America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator faces cases of killing for vengeance and keeping silent for honor... "dead" men who won't stay down for long (or alive for much longer)... beneficiaries that can't be found and beautiful mixed up risk-takers who may be out on their last ledge. He pads his expense account in pursuit of stolen jewels, arsonists, crooked cops, and romance, all while he tries to solve matters of murder.

Miss Marple's Final Cases: Three new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 22 mins)
• By Agatha Christie
• Narrated By June Whitfield

June Whitfield stars as Miss Marple in three brand-new BBC Radio 4 dramatisations. The short stories on which the adaptations are based were published in a variety of magazines during Agatha Christie's lifetime and then collected posthumously as the audiobook Miss Marple's Final Cases.

A Criminal Defense

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 1 min)
• By William L. Myers
• Narrated By Peter Berkrot
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When a young reporter is found dead and a prominent Philadelphia businessman is accused of her murder, Mick McFarland finds himself involved in the case of his life. The defendant, David Hanson, is Mick's best friend, and the victim, a TV news reporter, had reached out to Mick for legal help only hours before her death. Mick's played both sides of Philadelphia's courtrooms. As a top-shelf defense attorney and former prosecutor, he knows all the tricks of the trade. And he'll need every one of them to win.

Marvel’s Doctor Strange

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 1 min)
• By Marvel Press
• Narrated By Bradford Hastings
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Marvel's Doctor Strange follows the story of the talented neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange who, after a tragic car accident, must put ego aside and learn the secrets of a hidden world of mysticism and alternate dimensions. Based in New York City's Greenwich Village, Doctor Strange must act as an intermediary between the real world and what lies beyond, utilizing a vast array of metaphysical abilities and artifacts to protect the Marvel cinematic universe.

The Saint Solves the Case

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Leslie Charteris
• Narrated By Vincent Price, Tom Conway, Denis Green

The Saint - the hero of a hundred thrilling yarns of breathless adventure and mystery, the Robin Hood of modern crime, the 20th century's gayest buccaneer! Vincent Price, Tom Conway, and Denis Green, in a rare, never-before-available audition recording, star as the suave Simon Templar - poised in the presence of ladies, cool when confronted with danger. Well known to both the criminals and the common man, his services are frequently sought, his involvement quickly detected, and his cases promptly solved.

A Quiet Life in the Country: A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 43 mins)
• By T E Kinsey
• Narrated By Elizabeth Knowelden
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Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life. But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self-imposed retirement. There's a dead body in the woods, and the police are on the wrong scent. Lady Hardcastle makes some enquiries of her own, and it seems she knows a surprising amount about crime investigation...

The Six Shooter: Gray Steel

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Frank Burt
• Narrated By James Stewart

"The man in the saddle is angular and long legged…the gun in his holster is gray steel - its handle unmarked." Lean of figure and tanned of skin, his steely eyes gaze out over the violent frontier of the American West. He's a quiet man - but one not to be crossed. He's film legend James Stewart in his only continuing radio role as Britt Ponsett: The Six Shooter. Here are twenty tense, exciting episodes from the 1953-54 series - including the original audition!

Richard Diamond, Private Detective: Old Time Radio - 122 Shows

• ORIGINAL (49 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Blake Edwards
• Narrated By Dick Powell, Virginia Gregg

Richard Diamond, Private Detective is a detective drama which was on radio from 1949 to 1953 and on television from 1957 to 1960. Dick Powell starred in the Richard Diamond, Private Detective radio series as a rather light-hearted detective who often ended the episodes singing to his girlfriend, Helen (played by Virginia Gregg).

Dead Low Tide: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 2 mins)
• By John D. MacDonald
• Narrated By Stephen Hoye
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A classic novel by John D. MacDonald with an exclusive introduction written and read by Dean Koontz. A college graduate and amateur fisherman, Andy McClintock is stuck toiling in the office of a construction company. But when Andy tries to quit, his boss offers him a promotion and a raise - and then promptly kills himself with a harpoon gun. At least, that's what it looks like, until the police rule it homicide - with the murder weapon belonging to Andy.

The Maltese Falcon

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Dashiell Hammett
• Narrated By Eric Meyers
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Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, first serialized in a magazine in 1930, is best known through the iconic Humphrey Bogart film of 1941. But it was the book that created the classic "noir" genre with its tough private detective threading his cool way between the criminals and the law. Sam Spade, the private eye solving the mystery of the Maltese statuette, was the template for Philip Marlowe and a host of others…. but they come no more shrewd and cunning with Hammett peppering the text with one-liners.

The Case of the Velvet Claws: Perry Mason Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 1 min)
• By Erle Stanley Gardner
• Narrated By Alexander Cendese
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Married Eva Griffin has been caught with a prominent congressman, and is ready to pay the editor of a sleazy tabloid hush money to protect the politician. But first Perry Mason tracks down the publisher of the blackmailing tabloid and discovers a shocking secret, which eventually leads to Mason being accused of murder. This is the first Perry Mason mystery and our introduction to secretary Della Street, detective Paul Drake, and the great lawyer himself.

Ice Blue: Lord & Lady Hetheridge

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Emma Jameson
• Narrated By Matthew Lloyd Davies
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When Hetheridge saves the outspoken, impetuous young detective from getting the sack, siding with her against Scotland Yard's powerful male hierarchy, his cold, elegantly balanced world spins out of control. Summoned to London's fashionable Belgravia to investigate the brutal murder of a financier, Hetheridge must catch the killer while coping with his growing attraction to Kate, the reappearance of an old flame, and the secret that emerges from his own past.

Dragnet: Old Time Radio - 379 Episodes

• ORIGINAL (137 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Frank Burt, James E. Moser, John Robinson
• Narrated By Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, Ben Alexander, and others

Dragnet was perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in media history. The series gave millions of audience members a feel for the boredom and drudgery, as well as the danger and heroism, of real-life police work.

Actor and producer Jack Webb's aims in Dragnet were for realism and unpretentious acting. He achieved both goals, and Dragnet remains a key influence on subsequent police dramas in many media.

The Scrapbook of Sherlock Holmes

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Archie Rushden
• Narrated By Time Winters
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Ten new and original tales of the master detective, told by his loyal friend and assistant, Dr. Watson. The world may not yet be ready for the giant rat of Sumatra but it will assuredly be eager for these stories of murder, kidnap and theft. Here are tales of a walled-up corpse, a gun-toting American, a sealed-room with a difference, and mysterious disappearances, all in the traditional Conan Doyle style.

The Fat Man and the Thin Man

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Dashiell Hammett, Milton Lewis
• Narrated By J. Scott Smart, William Powell, Les Damon, and others

J. Scott Smart stars as "The Fat Man", Brad Runyon, the stout-but-stalwart investigator who was first conceived as an arch villain in Hammett's classic novel The Maltese Falcon. Charismatic and captivating, Runyon has a way with the ladies, in spite of his 237 pounds. Nick Charles, "The Thin Man", was played on radio by William Powell, Les Damon, and Les Tremayne. Cases seem to fall in to Nick's lap...often dropped there by his wife, Nora (played by Myrna Loy and Claudia Morgan).