Radio Detectives

The Golden Age of Radio had incredible detective shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars voicing fiction’s most famous gumshoes. This collection includes Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade searching for the Black Bird in The Maltese Falcon in a radio adaptation that co-starred the original film cast of Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre.

Before Samantha Moon became a vampire, a mother, and a private investigator, she was a twelve-year-old detective who couldn't leave a mystery alone. Every mystery starts with a single clue. This one begins with a phone call no one can explain. When a frightened classmate starts getting mysterious calls every afternoon at exactly 3:12, Sam figures she's chasing a prank. Then broken radios, baby monitors, and walkie-talkies all over town begin whispering impossible warnings — and every clue points to a long-abandoned radio station with a secret someone tried very hard to bury. As Sam and ...

Just when she thought she'd seen everything... Detective Lieutenant Anita McElone is one of Harbor Haven's finest. She's also a hard-boiled ghost skeptic. So when she shows up on the doorstep of Alison Kerby's Haunted Guesthouse to ask for supernatural help in solving the murder of her former partner, it's hard to tell which woman is more flabbergasted. But McElone is dead serious, so Alison promises to help in any way she can - even asking her resident ghosts, Paul and Maxie, for help with the case.

A collection of vintage thrillers from popular crime writer RD Wingfield Well known as the creator of Inspector Jack Frost, RD Wingfield scripted numerous twisty, suspenseful dramas for BBC Radio between 1968 and 1995. Many of the thirteen tales in this collection were originally thought to be...

Paul Temple lives again in five BBC Radio 4 remakes of classic adventures, starring Crawford Logan as Paul and Gerda Stephenson as Steve. Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery (2006): A pair of spectacles spells danger for the suave sleuth and his wife as they embark on a trip to Egypt. Paul...

The brand-new murder mystery in the Sunday Times bestselling series. *** An impossible death. A seaside town on the brink. Stay tuned for murder… Sidmouth is gearing up for summer – but murder is all year round… When a doctor is found dead in the woods, shot through the heart with a...

A collection of thrilling tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, including six full-cast dramas and a short story read by Benedict Cumberbatch In the first half of the 20th century, the detective story exploded in popularity. Innovative authors penned whodunits, whydunits and...

Ian Rankin introduces a gripping collection of his radio writing, featuring Alexander Morton as the roguish detective Mr Cullender in two original radio dramas, and as Inspector Rebus in Let it Bleed Best known for his Inspector Rebus novels, Sir Ian Rankin is one of Britain’s most successful...

Eight BBC Radio crime dramas featuring Golden Age detective Gideon Fell, starring Donald Sinden With his cape, canes and shovel hat, portly amateur sleuth Dr Gideon Fell cuts an eccentric figure - but his odd appearance belies his sharp intellect and astonishing faculty for deduction. Created by...

The complete BBC Radio collection bringing together two full-cast dramatisations of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently novels. In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Dirk Gently has an unshakable belief in the interconnectedness of all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely - and he's drawn into a four-billion-year-old mystery that must be solved if the human race is to avoid immediate extinction....

Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in these definitive BBC radio dramatisations of Dorothy L Sayers' classic crime novels Aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey was the master creation of Dorothy L Sayers, widely acknowledged as one of the four original ‘Queens of Crime’. These...

A dead inventor. A life insurance claim that should be simple. A widow made of brass, grief, and murder. Napoleon Nightshade investigates insurance claims that do not fit in folders. The complicated ones. The ones where the cause of death has a cause of death When brilliant recluse Dr. Elias Voss dies alone in his locked estate, the paperwork says cardiac arrest. Natural. Clean. Payable. But Halcyon Mutual has a problem: people connected to Voss’s final days are dying too. Quietly. Naturally. In their sleep. Each victim receives the same delivery before death. A black flower. Napoleon ...

A collection of RD Wingfield’s finest thrillers from the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties Best known for his ‘Inspector Jack Frost’ series of novels, RD Wingfield also penned a string of gripping thrillers for BBC Radio. Initially thought lost, many of the 14 dramas in this collection were...

Some mysteries don't start with a question. They start with a single word, crackling out of a radio that hasn't made a sound in years. At Carver & Sons Repairs, siblings Mara and Theo Carver are settling back into the rhythm of their late grandfather's shop when a strange old shortwave radio arrives — one that's supposedly been silent for decades, until it suddenly isn't. A single word crackles through the static: hello. And then, nothing. With the help of Mr. Whitaker, the shop's resident expert in things that don't quite make sense, Mara and Theo trace the signal from a mysterious ...

'A clever, witty, and utterly addictive locked-room Golden Age mystery.' London, 1937. The golden age of radio. Millions of listeners gather around their wireless sets each evening, drawn by the crackle of static and the promise of escape. And none command the airwaves quite like Simon Lane, the pompous, cravat-wearing creator of the Simon Lane Mysteries – a man so convinced of his own brilliance that he solves fictional crimes before the fictional police have even arrived. But on the night of the final broadcast of the series, art imitates death in the most shocking way possible. Richard...

From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world’s favourite fictional detective. This book tells his story decade-by-decade, exploring his...

John Moffatt stars as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The ABC Murders: A chilling letter sets the sleuth on the trail of an enigmatic killer. After the Funeral: A wealthy businessman is dead, and his sister thinks it was murder. Death on the Nile: Poirot is in Egypt when a chilling murder...

Fully-dramatised adaptations of all 60 Sherlock Holmes stories, brought to life with a full cast of actors, sound effects and music 'A remarkable undertaking... applauding them, and particularly Clive Merrison's Holmes, made my hands sore' The Times Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective...

‘A superbly plotted historical drama… highly recommended!’ The Wishing Shelf One woman must sacrifice everything to uncover the truth in this enthralling historical novel, inspired by the true World War Two campaign Radio Aspidistra… England, 1942: Having fled Germany after her father...

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jack Benny, Mel Blanc, and many more. Volume 1: Audio Table of Contents: The...