May 31, 2015

Dashiell Hammett is widely regarded as the father of the hard-boiled school of crime fiction. After his days as a Pinkerton detective, he turned to writing mysteries, and he gave the genre some of its best loved stories, including The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, and The Dain Curse. In honor of his birthday, we’ll...

May 24, 2015

Join Orson Welles as he leads you on a guided tour of The Black Museum, Scotland Yard’s mausoleum of murder. In each episode of this syndicated series, Welles tells the story of a seemingly innocuous object that was inexorably tied to a violent crime. Follow the story from the perpetrator’s flight from the scene of...

May 17, 2015

Step into the shoes of the criminal in The Whistler, one of radio’s best mystery anthologies. In tales narrated by the titular sinister storyteller, you’ll follow the culprit as they plot and carry out the perfect crime only to be undone by a twist of fate before the curtain comes down. As the Whistler, Bill Forman...

May 10, 2015

In 1952, John Lund became radio’s third Johnny Dollar, and he starred as “the man with the action-packed expense account” for almost 100 episodes in a two-year run. The big-screen star brought a confident, leading man quality to the role and gave Dollar a hard-boiled but world-weary persona. We’ll hear John Lund...

May 3, 2015

We head back to London for another mystery from Scotland Yard and a dangerous, relentless Pursuit. This series let listeners join in on the game of cat and mouse between cop and criminal – “when man hunts man.” Ben Wright stars as the dogged Inspector Peter Black, hot on the heels of England’s most dastardly...