Jan 26, 2014

The big screen and best-seller worlds collide this week when Glenn Ford and Erle Stanley Gardner team up to bring you Christopher London.  Ford stars as the globe-trotting private detective created by Gardner, the author behind Perry Mason.  In this short-lived series (curtailed by Ford's success in Hollywood), London...

Jan 19, 2014

In January 1946, The Fat Man premiered on ABC.  We're celebrating the anniversary with an hour of J. Scott Smart as Dashiell Hammett's extra large sleuth.  First, it's the series' debut episode, "The 19th Pearl," originally aired on ABC on January 21, 1946).  Then, we'll hear "A Window for Murder" (originally aired on...

Jan 12, 2014

Dane Clark stars as the titular private eye in Crime and Peter Chambers, a short-lived series drawn from the pages of Henry Kane's novels.  Chambers is a slick private eye solving tough cases in the Big Apple, and he's given voice and style by big screen tough guy Clark.  We'll hear "The Alan Lewis Murder," originally...

Jan 5, 2014

We kick off 2014 with an hour of "the Robin Hood of modern crime" - The Saint.  Leslie Charteris' debonair detective premiered on American radio on January 6, 1945, and we're celebrating his anniversary with an extra-large episode.  Vincent Price stars as Simon Templar in "Greed Causes Murder" (originally aired on...