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January, 1948. Pete Delaney tends bar on Figueroa the same way he always has - honest pours, no questions asked. Then a regular named Harold Voss dies at his desk at City Hall, and Pete opens the envelope Harold left behind the bar two months earlier with instructions not to open it unless he didn't come back.

Inside: eight photographs, a safe deposit key, and a letter implicating some of the most powerful men in Los Angeles in eleven years of stolen public money. Pete didn't ask for any of it. Now people in clean suits are breaking his windows.

He calls Jack Malone.

Death Wears a Blue Ribbon is the third episode of The Midnight Frequency, an original old-time radio drama in the tradition of classic noir. Each case stands alone - no need to start at Episode 1.

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February, 1948. Margaret Ashford drives to Jack Malone's office at eight-fifteen in the morning with a prepared list of names and two days to find her daughter. Claire was supposed to be married on Saturday. She had a dress fitting on Thursday morning, left the shop at half past ten, and never came home. Her car was found two miles away. Her purse was still inside.

Detective Santos says adults aren't missing persons for forty-eight hours. Margaret Ashford says her daughter doesn't leave her purse in a locked car.

She's right.

The Widow on Mulholland is the fourth episode of [Series Name], an original old-time radio drama in the tradition of classic noir. Each case stands alone - no need to start at Episode 1.

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December, 1947. Lily Chen walks into Jack Malone's office with two wills, a dead father, and a theory about how he died. The official story is heart failure - a sick man whose time came. But Franklin Chen called his daughter ten days before he died, said he'd found something wrong in the business accounts, and promised to explain on Saturday. He died on Thursday.

The trail leads to Chinatown, a fraudulent ledger hidden by a 78-year-old woman who has been keeping secrets since 1906, and a family inheritance that someone was willing to kill to collect.

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Los Angeles, November 1947. Private investigator Jack Malone is hired by the mysterious Vivian Cortez to quietly recover a stolen gem - the Marchetti Emerald, forty-two carats of Colombian green that has been in one family for three generations. The police think it was misplaced. Malone knows better. When the trail leads to Dutch Hennessey, a man whose size does his talking for him, and to a hidden cavity inside the emerald's setting, what began as a routine recovery becomes something far older and far more dangerous.

The Maltese Emerald is the first episode of [Series Name], an original old-time radio drama in the tradition of classic noir. Produced with full cast, original sound design, and live jazz score.

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