Detective And Mystery – Retro Radio Podcast

Days blend into one another, but adventure waits for Philip Marlowe today as he tries to mind his own business. A dame knocks on his door. The woman claims to…

Get a feel for the busy streets of New York, as described by the picturesque speech of Richard Diamond. Despite his lighthearted banter, he’s quick to let us know that…

On a case where he has to rub elbows with high society, Sam gets the details about a man who married Elanor, a woman twice his age. Her death caused…

Sam is feeling in the dumps when he has to report on a longtime friend. Dick Foley is a fellow detective who keeps to himself. Opening up to Sam, he…

Watson had found himself in a mystery, and wrote a letter to describe the problem to his friend Holmes. A friend of Mrs. Watson, a proponent of woman’s rights, is…

Thomas Appleby was 70 when he married his 39-year-old bride. When he died from a crushed skull at age 75, neighbors had only sympathy for his wife, until she confessed…

Johnny investigates a matter of a race horse, and a question of insurance fraud. Piledriver is facing being killed since he hasn’t won any races, but is his owner trying…

A unique case of a woman with her husband kidnapped has a ransom note, not asking for money, but offering to pay her money. Charlie Chan and his #1 son…

A call comes in that an escaped mental patient is loose on the streets. A woman reports to the desk sergeant about her juvenile delinquent son. She is trying to…

A practical tool becomes a deadly weapon, and Orson Wells tells us how it all went down. From the echoing halls of the Black Museum, we go to a train…

A professor at a local college writes to Dan about a personal problem. How can Dan help the professor with his woman trouble? A tale of rivals for a love…

A group of jailbirds plan a prison break. Once on the outside, they don’t waste time getting back to work in their old ways. Blackie has a personal reason to…

Candy gets a phone call from an old pal who is a soldier. He asks her to attend a military party. Sounds innocent enough, but a mystery lurks beneath the…

Late at night at the JJ Titus Loan Company, men are gathered to blow the safe. The worried man is an employee who has helped the thugs pull off the…

A story of a girl who finds the key to her brothers disappearance, and opened the door to murder. Larry is missing, and the story in the newspaper is a…

Doctor Danfield gets himself mixed up in dangerous situations because of his medical understanding of the criminal mind. A pair of thugs, actually a mobster and his gal, make their…

After weeks of chasing a masked robber, Joe Friday continues his pursuit. Previously, a copycat robber had been caught. Today, interviews continue of witnesses who had been robbed. The story…

A man writes with a problem that might be better suited for a psychiatrists couch than for George Valentine. Still, George is intrigued enough by finding out who Sylvia is…

Actually, an installment of the Mystery Playhouse, hosted by Peter Lorre. He presents a story about an empty bottle, but one that’s not quite empty. Mr Wilder takes his wife…

Pam and Jerry North are sure their friend couldn’t have committed murder, but all the evidence stacks up against him. In flashback to the court room, Mr Baker tells his…