Great Radio Detectives

By: various writers

Narrated by: Vincent Price, Bob Bailey, Dick Powell

Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's Summary

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.

Episodes include: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator: Visitor at Midnight 05-12-55; Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Meek Memorial Matter 03-03-57; The Shadow: Death on the Bridge 03-03-40; Nick Carter, Master Detective: Death in the Pines 03-04-44; Mr. and Mrs. North: The Norths Go To the Dogs 02-02-44; Candy Matson: The Egyptian Amulet 10-23-50; Bulldog Drummond: Death Rides a Racehorse 03-03-48; Boston Blackie: Kingston and the Disappearing Office Building 09-08-48; Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce Partington Plans 11-06-39; Pat Novak for Hire: Rubin Callaway's Pictures 03-13-49; Gang Busters: The Case of the Cowboy Killers 08-28-48; Dragnet: The Big Watch 05-25-54; The Saint: The Horrible Hamburger 09-10-50; The Falcon: The Case of the Widow's Gorilla 11-12-50; Night Beat: Flowers on the Water 03-27-50; Broadway's My Beat: The Bob Foster Murder Case 11-08-52; The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective: The Queen Bee Caper 07-10-49; The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Uneasy Head 06-06-50; Michael Shayne: The Case of Tahlani's Tears 01-15-49; Richard Diamond, Private Detective: Central Park Murder 08-20-49.

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Great Radio Detectives

This is great entertainment, if you have never heard one of the old radio shows before you don't know what you are missing. The radio shows allows the listener to use their imagination and visualize the situations in their minds. It is a special experience...

Uneven

To paraphrase, "who among us can not like The Shadow?" Johnny Dollar is a slick dude who grows on you. And of course Holmes is by himself in some exalted detective heaven. But the collection lacked "zip," and some of the stories were told so flatly and were so flat that I found my mind wandering. I expect I will listen a third time. Number two was better than number one, but in my opinion, much better radio of this era is available.

Entertaining Suspenseful Loveable bunch of Rogue

loved those ruff and tumble bunch of charming rogues & mugs. keep them coming sweetheart

Love it

My dad got me to liking to his generational programs such as theses and I really enjoy them.

Time travel through enjoying old time detective radio

These are some of the best of the past radio shows. Enjoy the past. using your imagination.

A real treat!

Loved it, listened to it with my daughter who is a fan of detective stories and she rates it highly. The stories were entertaining and the delivery made each character take on new life. Richard Diamond was the best of the lot, definitely looking for more of these.

Love that Old Time Radio!

Sam Spade, Philip Marlow, Richard Diamond, Johnny Dollar! What could be more exciting than going back in history to listen to the world of 1940's private eyes and crime investigators? Listen and enjoy the tales that kept a generation entertained before TV took over.

half good

some gems, corny 1940s lingo, half were ok, others too dated,etc. what you might expect.

Terrible Recording

It seemed like a fun idea to listen to the old radio shows while driving in the car. Unfortunately, the recording is so bad that I finally stopped after the first few episodes. In retrospect, I guess it was unrealistic to assume that they would have been remastered.

Old Radio Detectives Afficianados

We like to listen to these while traveling by car. The variety is excellent and the quality of recordings outstanding.

Great Radio Detectives

I’d love more episodes of this series this is absolute magic. If you like oldies, this is the one.

its awefull.

its really awefull, terrible quality sound, really old rubbish plots in yhe stories. I was so disaointed. no British stuff either