Boston Blackie, Volume 4

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.

Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Vol. 1: Old Time Radio Shows

• ORIGINAL (19 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Blake Edwards
• Narrated By Dick Powell

Hollywood's beloved song and dance man, Dick Powell, turned gumshoe in this 1945-era detective yarn. At once a tough-talking detective working with police to solve tough murder cases and yet an affable crooner who ended nearly every episode singing to his girlfriend in his rich baritone voice. Whether murder or music, Dick Powell beguiled radio audiences through 100+ episodes before the show moved to television and the role was eventually taken over by David Janssen, later the star of The Fugitive.

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.

The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Alfred Bester
• Narrated By Sydney Greenstreet

He's the smartest and the most stubborn, the fattest and the laziest, the cleverest and the craziest - the most extravagant detective in the world. Yes, it is Nero Wolfe, Rex Stout's gourmand orchid fancier and one of the most eccentric and unique detectives ever to hit the airwaves. Starring character actor Sydney Greenstreet (The Maltese Falcon), The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe is an immensely entertaining mystery series that remains a true delight even 60 years after it was first broadcast.

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Volume 1

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 8 mins)
• By John Dawson, Robert Ryf, Les Crutchfield
• Narrated By Bob Bailey

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar began in 1949 as a typical slam-bang detective series, and though consistently well written and acted, the series never really captured an enthusiastic audience. However, in the fall of 1955, Bob Bailey took over the title role; veteran director Jack Johnstone and writers John Dawson, Robert Ryf, and Les Crutchfield joined the production team; and the series was transformed into a quarter-hour, five-a-week strip show.

Boston Blackie

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Jack Boyle
• Narrated By Mike Dennis
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Friend to those who have no friend! Enemy to those who would make him an enemy! It's Boston Blackie, safecracker supreme and inspiration for countless Hollywood films as well as radio and TV shows. Jack Boyle's crime fiction short stories and novellas, set in San Francisco, featuring this timeless character were originally published in magazines in 1915 then compiled into this suspense collection in 1919. The stories, however, link from one to the next, so there is continuity throughout the audiobook.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries: Oldtime Radio Shows

• ORIGINAL (66 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Radio Revival
• Narrated By Old Time Radio

This is an collection of Inner Sanctum Mysteries, an oldtime radio show from the 1940s and 1950s. If you love a good horror story, you'll love these. You get all these (and many others plus more of the same genre):

• Homicidal Maniac
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• Song of the Slasher
• Murder Comes to Life
• Death on the Highway
• The Scream
• Island of Death
• Man From Yesterday
• Color Blind Formula
• Desert Death

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.

Orson Welles: The Ultimate Collection

• ORIGINAL (60 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Orson Welles
• Narrated By Orson Welles

If you are a lover of old-time radio and a fan of Orson Welles, you won't want to miss this treasure chest of legendary Orson Welles radio broadcasts! With his flair for the sensational and innovative, Welles captured audiences' attention with his 1930s CBS weekly drama series The Mercury Theatre on the Air, later renamed The Campbell Playhouse, which featured hour-long dramatizations of classic books. His 1938 production, The War of the Worlds (an H. G. Wells adaptation) was especially memorable, as were many other productions, each featuring talented voices and actors.

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.

Crime Club

• ORIGINAL (14 hrs and 9 mins)
• By PDQ Audiobooks
• Narrated By Barry Thompson

Based on the Doubleday Crime Club book series, Crime Club burst onto the airways as a 30-minute murder mystery hosted by Barry Thompson. Each week's episode started with a phone ringing twice, then answered by Thompson in his eerie voice "I hope I haven't kept you waiting. Yes, this is the Crime Club. I'm the librarian." These 29 commercial-free episodes represent the best of one of old-time radio's crime dramas.. Excellent stories, acting, and production values make for a great listen.

Jimmy Stewart - Radio Collection

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Jimmy Stewart
• Narrated By Jimmy Stewart

This collection features 13 of the best radio performances by one of America's most beloved stars.