The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1

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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 1 episodes

May 19, 2025 The Thin Man: The Case of the Glamorous Clue (EP0286)
Release Date: November 29, 2010

A man Nora brought home is murdered. When Nick refuses to believe her because she refuses to believe his story about him solving a crime with the help of an ex-girlfriend Broadway starlet, Nora sets out to solve the case alone.

Original Air Date: June 16, 1944

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35 min
May 16, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Howard Caldwell Matter (EP0285)
Release Date: November 26, 2010

Johnny Dollar finds himself searching through low class San Francisco dives to find the missing son of a wealthy New England matron.

Original Air Date: September 30, 1950

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32 min
May 15, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Man With the Twisted Lip (EP0284)
Release Date: November 25, 2010

Sherlock Holmes is hired to find a missing husband who appears to either have met with foul play–or disappeared into thin air.

Original Air Date: May 6, 1946

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35 min
May 14, 2025 Let George Do It: Stranger than Fiction (EP0283)
Original Release Date: November 24, 2010

George isn’t interested when a woman wants to hire him to find out if her husband based a steamy protagonist in his novel on a real-life mistress, but changes his mind when someone takes a shot at the husband/author.

Original Air Date: May 23, 1949

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33 min
May 13, 2025 The Amazing Nero Wolfe: The Shakespeare Folio (EP0282)
Original Release Date: November 23, 2010

Archie and a cabbie are attacked by a car after the cabbie bought a book to sit on. Wolfe discovers the book is a first edition Shakespeare Folio.

Original Air Date: November 30, 1945

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35 min
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45 min
May 12, 2025 Thin Man: The Case of the Wandering Corpse (EP0281)
Original Release Date: November 22, 2010

A corpse disappears along with a necklace, Nick bought for Nora as an anniversary present, and its place is another corpse.

Original Air Date: October 10, 1943

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33 min
May 09, 2025 Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Virginia Beach Matter (EP0280)
Original Release Date: November 19, 2010

Johnny is sent to Virginia Beach to guard a woman from her boyfriend who has just been released from prison, but quickly finds out he wasn’t told the whole truth.

Original Air Date: August 31, 1950

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33 min
May 08, 2025 Sherlock Holmes: The Waltz of Death (EP0279)
Original Air Date: November 18, 2010

Every time a certain waltz played in Austria, a beautiful woman is killed.

Original Air Date: April 29, 1946

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33 min
May 07, 2025 Let George Do It: Come and Get Me (EP0278)
Release Date: November 17, 2010

A little man hires George to prove him guilty of murder.

Original Air Date: May 16, 1949

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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.