The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: Lonely Canyons

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: Medium Rate Matters

• ORIGINAL (10 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Original Radio Broadcast
• Narrated By Bob Bailey, Edmund O'Brien, Mandel Kramer

He's a specialist in insurance fraud and the finer points of human nature. He's insouciant, cynical, and glib...but honest when it counts. Wherever he goes, there's intrigue, excitement, and mystery! He's the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.

The Godwulf Manuscript

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Robert B. Parker
• Narrated By Michael Prichard
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surprised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest. The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond coed whose prints are all over the murder weapon but Spenser knows there are no easy answers. He tackles some very heavy homework and knows that if he doesn't finish his assignment soon, he could end up dead.

Raymond Chandler: The BBC Radio Drama Collection

• ORIGINAL (10 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Raymond Chandler
• Narrated By Toby Stephens

The complete collection of landmark BBC Radio dramas of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe mysteries. Philip Marlowe is the archetypal noir detective: wisecracking and world weary, hard boiled yet honourable. This volume includes all eight dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's groundbreaking crime novels featuring his iconic hero.

The Big Sleep

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Raymond Chandler
• Narrated By Ray Porter

Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out - and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse.

The Late Show

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Michael Connelly
• Narrated By Katherine Moennig

Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none, as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Ballard is determined not to give up at dawn.

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Volume 1: Classic Radio Collection

• ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Hollywood 360
• Narrated By Bob Bailey, full cast

First heard on network radio in 1948, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar chronicled the adventures of freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar, "the man with the action-packed expense account."

For 14 years, it was one of the most popular detective shows on the air, lasting until the final days of network radio drama in 1962. Each story started with a phone call from an insurance executive calling on Johnny Dollar to investigate an unusual claim. His investigations usually required him to travel to distant locales and often involved murder.

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: Confidential

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Jack Johnstone
• Narrated By Bob Bailey

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator had little patience for liars and liked nothing better than females, fishing, and a free hand with an expense account. Bob Bailey's Johnny Dollar was skeptical without being cynical, sympathetic without being a sucker, and had a way of delivering a sarcastic remark with more sincerity than most detectives delivered straight talk. Join him for 10 action-packed, digitally remastered five-part serials.

The Professor: McMurtrie and Drake Legal, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Robert Bailey
• Narrated By Eric G. Dove
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Law professor Thomas Jackson McMurtrie literally wrote the book on evidence in the state of Alabama. But when a power-hungry colleague uses a recent run-in between McMurtrie and headstrong student Rick Drake to end his career, he is left unsure what to do next.

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.

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, Volume 1

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Raymond Chandler
• Narrated By full cast

Gerald Mohr stars as Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled gumshoe in The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, a series based on one of the most popular sleuths in the history of crime fiction. The show first aired in 1947, with Van Heflin in the title role. Chandler disliked the initial incarnation, dubbing it "totally flat". However, in the 1948 revival, Chandler admitted satisfaction, remarking that Mohr's voice "packed personality". Mohr indeed made the role of Marlowe his own, portraying a brash and forceful tough guy who could let fly with the occasional wisecrack.

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.

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.