Radio Detective Story Hour

Radio Detective Story Hour

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Radio Detective Story Hour episodes

  • Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 258 – Eno Crime Clues
    Eno Crime Clues is a good example of early radio detective stories from the earliest time of radio programming. Often there were very little or crude sound effects, somewhat thin plotlines and the acting was a bit stilted. These series definitely were not the sophisticated versions of later detectives such as Nick Carter, Nick Charles or Philip Marlowe. I always find them hard to listen to as the pacing is so slow.
    But that said, they are still part of the radio history of detectives on radio and I am presenting it here for that reason. This series was after the original Eno Crime Club moved to NBC and the writing was picked up by Stewart Sterling (left), a pseudonym for Prentice Winchell, who also wrote occasionally for the pulps and later published a number of crime detective books. Sterling called this his "Manhunter" series featuring his detective Spencer Dean and his aid Dan Cassidy.
    Music under is Annette Hanshaw singing "Say It Isn't So" and "Body and Soul."
    1 hr 5 min
  • Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 257 – The Lady in the Morgue
    Jonathan Latimer was an American crime writer who first was a reporter writing about the likes of Al Capone and Bugsy Moran for the Chicago Tribune and the Herald-Examiner. In the thirties he created a detective character called William Crane in a series of novels Latimer himself referred to as “half-boiled” as his stories were send ups of the likes of the hardboiled fiction of Hammett and Chandler.
    This radio version of his story comes from the Molle Mystery Theater via the Armed Forces’ Mystery Playhouse. The radio version is much more a screwball than serious crime detection, though due to Latimer’s ability to create a serious crime story, it raises above a simple comedy.
    Music under is Sidney Bechet and Bix Beiderbecke.
    32 min

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