Sherlock Holmes came to NBC radio in 1930. In the mid-1940s, actor Tom Conway took over the role of Holmes, with Nigel Bruce as Watson. This collection contains twelve Holmes adventures starring Conway and Bruce.
Detective and mystery radio programs
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- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
A millionaire strikes a deal on the seedier side of Paris and a priceless cache of rubies becomes destined for his beloved daughter Rachel. Two days later Rachel is dead - murdered on a train on her way to the Riviera to meet her...
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. Mrs. Farrars is found dead of an apparent overdose one year after the death of her husband. The villagers of King's Abbot are suspicious. The rumour is...
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Before creating cinematic masterpieces like "Citizen Kane", Orson Welles established his creative credentials with "The Mercury Theatre on the Air", an hour-long showcase which allowed him, producer John Houseman,...
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International crime. Lushly depicted settings. Shady, interesting characters. And Orson Welles leading the pack as the amoral anti-hero. All of this and more makes The Lives of Harry Lime one of the richest, most intriguing programs...
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Volume 3 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna. At the end of the film, in a spectacular chase through the sewers of the city, Harry...
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Volume 2 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna. At the end of the film, in a spectacular chase through the sewers of the city, Harry...
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Volume 1 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna. At the end of the film, in a spectacular chase through the sewers of the city, Harry...
- Author:Green, DennisSummary:
Sherlock Holmes searches for the daughter of a Canadian multimillionaire.
- Author:Levitt, GeneSummary:
Philip Marlow, like other hard-boiled detectives, is unsentimental about the violence he faces - and few could take it or dish it out like Marlow. Behind the snappy come-backs and hard drinking, Marlow was a philosophical and...
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The Adventures of Frank Race featured an attorney turned O. S. S. agent turned worldwide investigator. After the War, Race returned home and adventure was clearly calling him into a new career as a far-flung investigator. Even though it...
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Frank Race is a cultured and sophisticated investigator who, in his world travels, encounters equal measures of crime, espionage, violence, and attractive but suspicious women. A dashing combination of Johnny Dollar and James Bond, Race...
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Frank Race is a cultured and sophisticated investigator who, in his world travels, encounters equal measures of crime, espionage, violence, and attractive but suspicious women. A dashing combination of Johnny Dollar and James Bond, Race...
- Author:Lovejoy, FrankSummary:
Volume 3 of Nightbeat Frank Lovejoy stars as hard-nosed Chicago Star newsman Randy Stone, a reporter who looks for the human stories behind the headlines. Lovejoy's distinctive voice and manner, combined with excellent scripts and...
- Author:Lovejoy, FrankSummary:
Volume 2 of Nightbeat Frank Lovejoy stars as hard-nosed Chicago Star newsman Randy Stone, a reporter who looks for the human stories behind the headlines. Lovejoy's distinctive voice and manner, combined with excellent scripts and...
- Author:Lovejoy, FrankSummary:
Volume 1 of Nightbeat Frank Lovejoy stars as hard-nosed Chicago Star newsman Randy Stone, a reporter who looks for the human stories behind the headlines. Lovejoy's distinctive voice and manner, combined with excellent scripts and...
- Author:Hughes, RussellSummary:
Alfred Wyman is a strange artist who wants to kill the wealthy Miss Gleason because she killed Vincent. Just when Randy has given up on a story for the night, he stumbles across an old man in a dispute with a taxi driver over the fare....
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It wasn't much of a story just an obituary, Mrs. Martha Orloff, age 62, scrub woman, death by natural causes, heart failure. But what's natural by killing yourself with a scrubbing brush. It would have only been a two-line obit if the...
- Author:Marcus, LarrySummary:
A story of young love and old death. A girl from Kansas named Linda Johnson has been arrested for grand theft. She's bailed out by someone she doesn't even know. Randy Stone covers the night beat for the Chicago Star searching...
- Author:Lovejoy, FrankSummary:
For Randy Stone of the Chicago Star, stories begin in many ways. This one began with a Halloween killing and ended with a sweet revenge.