The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

June 29, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Adam Kegg Matter (EP0315)
Release Date: January 07, 2011

Johnny Dollar is called in to find an insured stolen necklace.

Originial Air Date: November 11, 1950

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32 min
June 28, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Clue of the Hungry Cat (EP0314)
Release Date: January 06, 2011

A man is convicted of murdering a woman, but Holmes believes otherwise when he founds the victim’s cat wasn’t fed.

Original Air Date: October 26, 1946

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35 min
June 27, 2025 Let George Do It: Laura’s House (EP0313)
Release Date: January 05, 2011

George and Brooksie are summoned to a house rumored to be haunted by a distraught woman who fears an evil house is influencing its owners. They arrive to find their client dead. Is it natural causes or murder?

Original Air Date: July 25, 1949

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32 min
June 25, 2025 Nero Wolfe: The Beautiful Archer (EP0312)
Release Date: January 04, 2011

A young heir is killed while sitting in a car with his ex-girlfriend. Is she the murderer?

Original Air Date: November 24, 1950

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34 min
June 23, 2025 Thin Man: The Adventure of the Haunted Hams (EP0311)
Release Date: January 04, 2011

A young heir is killed while sitting in a car with his ex-girlfriend. Is she the murderer?

Original Air Date: November 24, 1950

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34 min
June 20, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Queen Anne Pistols Matter (EP0310)|Mystery Audio Drama
Release Date: December 31, 2010

A pair of pistols is ensured for $15,000 with the policy terminating on delivery. The intended recipients refuse and that’s when the case starts to get interesting.

Original Air Date: November 4, 1950

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37 min
June 19, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Black Angus (EP0309)
Release Date: December 30, 2010

A son of a Scottish Lord breaks off his engagement and the jilted bride hires Holmes to find out the reason why. Holmes and Watson find themselves involved a mystery involving an ancient curse and rumors of werewolves.

Original Air Date: October 19, 1946

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35 min
June 18, 2025 Let George Do It: The Next to Last Guest (EP0308)
Release Date: December 29, 2010

An elderly man hires George to see to the distribution of his securities to his three heirs goes off without a hitch. George finds out quickly that things aren’t what they seem when one of the benficiaries commits suicide.

Original Air Date: June 20, 1949

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33 min
June 17, 2025 Nero Wolfe: The Careless Cleaner (EP0307)
Release Date: December 28, 2010

A beautiful cleaning woman is found murdered in the room of an aritst with his marriage on the rocks.

Original Air Date: November 17, 1950

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35 min
June 16, 2025 Thin Man: Adventure of the Passionate Palooka (EP0306)
Release Date: December 27, 2010

Nick and Nora are hired to help a boxer find his beloved missing dog and his girlfriend before the big fight.

Original Air Date: July 6, 1948

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34 min

About The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

From the publisher's feed

Adam Graham continues his journey through Old Time Radio Detective programs from their first available adventure to their final bow in Seasons 1-3 which were released between 2009 and 2012, featuring…

nearly 800 Old Time Radio episodes. You can listen to the current podcast feed of The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio here.

In this volume, you'll hear:

Alan Ladd playing Dan Holiday, a reporter-mystery writer who will go anywhere and do anything to those who send him a letter to Box 13.
Jack Webb as Pat Novak for Hire, a Man Who Rents Boats and also ends up getting involved in murders in the most hard-boiled detective series of them all
Before he was Johnny Dollar, Bob Bailey starred in Let George Do It as George Valentine, a detective who advertised that danger was his stock and trade.
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes featuring early 1930s episodes with Richard Gordon and Luis Hector, followed by the definitive performance of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as SHerlock Holmes and Watson as well as later series starring Tom Conway and John Stanley as Holmes.
The early adventures of the Man with Action-Packed Expense Account with episodes starring Dick Powell, Charles Russell, Edmond O'Brien, and John Lund,.
Jack Webb and later Frank Graham star as Jeff Regan, Investigator, a detective who was known as the Lyon's Eye.
Jeff Chandler stars in a failed Pilot for San Francisco Final
The Radio Adventures of the Thin Man including radio adaptations of the first two Thin Man Movies starring William Powell
The Father Brown radio series starring Karl Swenson
Golden Age Radio episodes featuring Rex Stout's housebound sleuth Nero Wolfe, most notably played by Sidney Greenstreet.
The mid-1950s series features a Detective and His Glamourous Wife in The Adventures of the Abbotts.
William Gargan stars in two separate detective series as hard-boiled private eye Ross Dolan in I Deal in Crime and as Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator
Dick Powell's first hard-boiled detective series in Rogue's Gallery.
Glamourous Private Eye Candy Matson solves crimes in San Francisco
Glenn Ford stars as Christopher London
Before he became, a famous journalist known for 60 minutes, Mike Wallace starred in Crime on the Waterfront
The old-time radio adventures of Hercules Poirot starring Harold Huber.
This one's about Pete Kelly (played by Jack Webb) in Pete Kelly's Blues, a 1920s Blue Clarinet Player who gets into trouble and mystery in Kansas City
The Adventures of Frank Race, a former lawyer who became a freelance troubleshooter.
Broadway Legend Walter Hampden stars as Leonidas Witherall, a boy's school headmaster who looks like William Shakespeare and finds mystery and adventure.
J. Scott Smart stars as The Fat Man, the rotund private eye with the famous theme.

Listen for specials starring Alan Ladd, Humphrey Bogart, Howard Duff, Orson Welles, Peter Lorrre, Sidney Greenstreet, Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Price, Lena Horne, Dick Powell, Glenn Ford, Charlton Heston. and more.