Nick Carter, Master Detective: Echoes of Death

Nick Carter: Master Detective: Volume Two

• ORIGINAL (8 hrs and 49 mins)
• By David Kogan, Alfred Bester, Milton J. Kramer
• Narrated By Helen Choate, Lon Clark, John Kane, and others

Nick Carter made his literary debut in 1886 and was featured in over a thousand stories, but there's nothing dusty about this dime novel detective. From the first burst of knuckles rapping on his office door to his deft wrapping up of each case, Carter is an investigator in action. But, he doesn't work alone.

Adventures of Philip Marlowe Vol 1

• ORIGINAL (26 hrs and 1 min)
• By PDQ Audiobooks
• Narrated By Gerald Mohr Van Heflin

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Volume 1 is a collection of the only known episodes to exist from its run on both NBC and CBS radio. Originally called "The New Adventures of Philip Marlowe," the private eye series, based on the character and books created by Raymond Chandler, made its debut on the NBC radio network on June 17, 1947, with Van Heflin in the role of Marlowe. The first episode adapted Chandler's short story "Red Wind."

Nick Carter: Master Detective, Volume 1

• ORIGINAL (8 hrs and 44 mins)
• By David Kogan
• Narrated By Lon Clark, Helen Choate, Charlotte Manson, and others

This collection stars Lon Clark as Nick Carter, Master Detective - that "most famous of all man-hunters" - in 18 riveting whodunits selected from this long-running radio series! Joining the private eye in these tales of detection is Helen Choate and Charlotte Manson as Nick's Girl Friday Patsy Bowen, John Kane as Scrubby Wilson, and Ed Latimer as Sgt. "Matty" Mattison. These fantastic episodes, originally released in our long out-of-print cassette collection, are now available in digital from the Radio Spirits Archives Collection.

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 100 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.

Nick Carter, Master Detective: Chasing Crime

• ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 24 mins)
• By John Russell Coryell
• Narrated By Lon Clark, Charlotte Mason, John Kane

Predating Sherlock Holmes, Nick Carter is the greatest name in American detective fiction, and he's back with this new collection of classic crime-fighting action. Each knock on Carter's door brings cases of plagues and poisoned food, suspicious suicides and malicious murders. With Lon Clark in the title role, there are 18 mysteries to solve, 18 adventures to unravel, and no limit to the thrilling excitement!

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.

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.

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.

Dr Morelle: Collected Cases: Classic Radio Crime

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Ernest Dudley
• Narrated By Cecil Parker, full cast, Sheila Sims

Seven instalments of the classic radio crime drama starring Cecil Parker, plus special documentary feature 'A Case for Dr Morelle'. Dr Morelle uses psychological insight, criminology and dogged persistence to solve cases. Here he must deduce the answers to mysteries including a hotel death, a man tormented by nightmares, and deadly threats made to an elderly spinster.

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 Adventures of Sam Spade: Lawless

• ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Dashiell Hammett, William Spier
• Narrated By Howard Duff, Lurene Tuttle, Stephen Dunne

No bigger fad swept across postwar radio than that of the hard-boiled private detective - and nobody had more fun with their wink-and-nudge take on the genre than the producers, writers, and cast of The Adventures of Sam Spade. Dashiell Hammett's legendary private eye had a sardonic sense of humor, which wavy-haired, rugged-voiced Howard Duff played to perfection.

Night Beat: Lost Souls

• ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Night Beat
• Narrated By Frank Lovejoy

"Sometimes the best stories a reporter gets are the ones he can't print..." The city after dark is a world of crime and corruption, of mystery and vice, of a thousand stories waiting to be told. And, Frank Lovejoy, as newshound Randy Stone, is just the man to tell them. Prowling the streets alongside Lovejoy are radio favorites William Conrad, Georgia Ellis, Parley Baer, Lurene Tuttle, Larry Dobkin, Jeanette Nolan, Bill Johnstone, and more.

Rogue's Gallery: Blue Eyes

• ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Dee Englebach
• Narrated By Dick Powell, Ted von Eltz, Lurene Tuttle

Hard-boiled, good-looking, and just a bit of a wise guy - that's Richard Rogue, the private investigator with the active imagination! Join movie favorite Dick Powell for 16 two-fisted adventures. Ted von Eltz costars as Lieutenant Urban, with Lurene Tuttle as Betty Callahan. Peter Leeds joins the cast as Eugor, Rogue's alter ego, who emerges only when our hero is rendered unconscious! Filling out the gallery are radio favorites Gerald Mohr, Gloria Blondell, Lou Merrill, Paul Frees, Harry Bartell, Jay Novello, and more.

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.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Dramatized)

• ORIGINAL (4 hrs and 21 mins)
• By George Lucas
• Narrated By Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Billy Dee Williams, and others

Like its predecessor, this electrifying drama boasts an outstanding cast (including Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Anthony Daniels as See Threepio, Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian, and John Lithgow as Yoda); a greatly expanded script, with many scenes not found in the movie; and audio engineering of unparalleled excellence. The Empire Strikes Back takes you once more into a galaxy of pure sound and limitless imagination for an adventure you'll never forget.

Bulldog Drummond: Out of the Fog

• ORIGINAL (4 hrs and 35 mins)
• By H. C. McNeile, Allan E. Sloane, Leonard Leslie
• Narrated By George Colouris, Ned Wever, Jackson Beck

"Out of the fog...out of the night...and into his American adventures comes...Bulldog Drummond." Footsteps in the dark presage the coming of H. C. "Sapper" McNeile's famous British crime-solver! This collection of classic radio adventures stars George Coulouris and Ned Wever. The Captain, along with his sidekick Denny, solves cases of slayings, submarines, and sabotage in ten digitally restored and remastered episodes, hosted by Jackson Beck.

Gunsmoke, Season 1

• ORIGINAL (31 hrs and 36 mins)
• By PDQ Audioworks
• Narrated By William Conrad

Everyone's favorite western, Gunsmoke, debuted June 26, 1952, on the CBS radio airwaves on starring William Conrad as Matt Dillon, and ran until June 18, 1961, making it the longest running dramatic series in radio history. This amazing audio collection contains 64 episodes from the first radio season, and are the live cast recordings from the original on-air performances.

The Solution Of A Remarkable Case: Nick Carter Detective Library, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 44 mins)
• By Nicholas Carter
• Narrated By Kelly Klaas

Eugenie La Verde had been found dead in her room and the murderer had not left a single clue, however slight, by which he could be traced. Her face was distorted and swollen almost beyond recognition, and in spots was highly discolored, where the blood had coagulated beneath the skin. Her mouth was open, and her eyes were wide and staring, even yet filled with an expression of the horror through which she had passed just before her death.

The Floating Admiral

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Agatha Christie, Simon Brett - preface, Dorothy L. Sayers - introduction, and others
• Narrated By David Timson

Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye - even the identity of the victim is called into doubt.

Michael Shayne, Private Detective

• ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Michael Shayne
• Narrated By Jeff Chandler

He's as hardboiled as they come - and if you don't think so, he'll take you outside for a word! He's Michael Shayne, the red-headed, two-fisted private eye, stepping out of the pages of popular pulp novels and into sixteen exciting radio episodes filled with action, excitement, and adventure. Radio great Wally Maher and film favorite Jeff Chandler star as this hot-tempered hero as he takes on cases of phony finger prints, corrupt casinos, perceptive paranoia, blackmailed blondes, mistrust and murder.

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.

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.

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: Wayward Matters

• ORIGINAL (10 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Jack Johnstone
• Narrated By Bob Bailey, John Dehner, Stacy Harris, and others

Johnny has a way with the ladies, but will his last date be with death? For free trips and a fat fee, Johnny Dollar descends into cases of missing money and missing men. But, what can he do when the bodies are walled up, washed up, and fallen down? When the jewels and the paintings are fake? And, when everything from trucks to trout to widows are on the loose? He'd better bring his gun.

Johnny Dollar: Phantom Chases

• ORIGINAL (11 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Johnny Dollar
• Narrated By Bob Bailey

This 10-hour collection features 43 digitally restored and remastered episodes, including such gems as the series only nine-part storyline, and an episode of Romance that features Bailey as an impulsive chap named Johnny in a mid-east adventure!