Radio Detectives

Every mystery starts with a single clue. This one begins with a phone call no one can explain. When a frightened classmate starts receiving mysterious phone calls every afternoon at exactly 3:12, Sam thinks she's chasing a prank. Then broken radios, baby monitors, and walkie-talkies across 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 her best friend Jake race to uncover the truth, they discover a missing boy, a forgotten midnight DJ, and voices hidden beneath the static that seem ...

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.

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...

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.

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 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....

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 ...

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...

'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...

‘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...

Cora Bell repairs radios for pilots who cannot afford silence. In the winter of 1943, her brother's aircraft disappears over the coast, and the official report calls it an ordinary navigational error. Cora finds a cracked flight log hidden beneath a transmitter coil. It records a landing at an airfield that was closed before the war, followed by a coded message in her brother's handwriting. When a senior intelligence officer orders her to stop asking questions, Cora realizes the missing plane is connected to a supply route no one wants remembered. Her investigation takes her through ...

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...

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...

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 Lucille Ball, Orson Welles, Sydney Greenstreet, and many more. Volume 2: Audio Table of Contents: The Adventures...

When a top Hollywood Agent is found poisoned in the bathtub of her home, suspicion quickly turns to one of her two nieces. But Carol Childs, a reporter for a local talk radio station, doesn’t believe it. The suspect is her neighbor and friend, and also her primary source for insider industry news. After a media frenzy pits one niece against the other—and the body count starts to rise—Carol knows she must save her friend from being tried in the court of public opinion. Even the most seasoned reporter can be surprised, and when a Hollywood psychic shows up in Carol’s studio one night ...

He knows crime, and he knows criminals...because he was once on the wrong side of the law himself. That's Boston Blackie - a friend to those who have no friends, an enemy to those who make him an enemy! Broadway actor Richard Kollmar stars in his best-remembered radio role as the tough yet sympathetic ex-safecracker. Lesley Woods costars as his lady friend Mary Wesley, with Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday. Join them for 16 exciting investigations of jewel heists, murder and more!