Showing results for "Conrad" in Traditional Detectives

Den unge engelske sømand Jim er styrmand på dampskibet Patna, der støder på et skær i Det Indiske Ocean. Om bord er 800 pilgrimme, der hjælpeløse ser til, mens officerer og mandskab flygter fra det skib, de frygter skal til at synke. Panikken overvinder også Jim, der overhører sin ellers stærke samvittighed og flygter med resten af mandskabet. Selvom skibet ikke synker, kommer denne beslutning til at hjemsøge ham, længe efter han har udstået sin straf. For én ting er, hvad retten dømmer ham til. Noget helt andet er den straf, hans egen samvittighed idømmer ham.

‘The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.’ At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the...

William Conrad was a big part of the golden-age of radio. Not only did he star as US Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke (five episodes in this collection), but he appeared on hundreds of radio shows during the 1940s and 50s. Here’s sixteen radio broadcasts that either star William Conrad or have him in the supporting cast. You won’t have any problem identifying his deep baritone voice!

Forty-two years old Marlow is drinking with four other Englishmen. They have known each other since the beginning of their working lives. Some of them have other jobs now, but they still gather to recall the good old days. Marlow tells his friends a story of his early life, when he travelled to the East as a young man in search of adventure. He shares his experience and impressions of the different cultures he came across with the four men.

On a cold, rainy night in the darkest shadows of your imagination, fate is waiting for you...in the form of The Whistler! Join him for 20 excursions into the realm of those nameless terrors of which we dare not speak! Bill Forman plays the role of the omniscient storyteller, offering terrible tales from the perspective of the very culprits themselves. Yet somehow, even though you know who’s guilty, there is always a shocking twist at the end!

This series tells the fascinating and exotic story of the crew of The Scarlet Queen, "the proudest ship to plow the seas." Their quest for a Chinese treasure leads them to remarkable encounters in ports of call throughout the Pacific Ocean and the China Sea. Captain Philip Karney - played by Howard Duff in the audition episode, and thereafter by series creator Elliott Lewis - is at the helm of the 78 foot ketch. At the skipper's side is First Mate Red Gallagher, played by the husky-voiced Ed Max.

This anthology of post-World War II crime radio drama presents fictionalized crime, dramatizations of actual crimes, and programs that presented on-the-spot recordings of real police investigations. Radio Spirits is proud to present 20 adventures from 15 of the best (and most unusual) programs broadcast in the last dozen or so years of commercial network dramatic radio. Series include Gang Busters, The Line Up, Broadway's My Beat, Man from Homicide, Night Watch, and more!

Mystery, adventure, and international intrigue surround Ken Thurston, The Man Called X! Radio's most enduring cloak-and-dagger drama presents suave stage and screen star Herbert Marshall in 16 tales of globetrotting espionage! Announcer John McIntire tells of the man "who crosses the ocean as readily as you or I cross town." Leon Belasco costars as Pegon Zellschmidt, with a supporting cast that includes Ge Ge Pearson, Steven Geray, Ted von Eltz, Frank Graham, Alan Reed, Cathy Lewis, William Conrad, and more.

Die Ursprünge des Falls liegen weit in der Vergangenheit. In Vermissa Valley, einem ehrfurchtsvoll "Tal der Angst" genannten Landstrich in den USA. Dort versetzte eine abtrünnige Freimaurerloge die Bewohner in Angst und Schrecken. Und wie es scheint, reichen deren Verbindungen bis ins gegenwärtige London, wo Sherlock Holmes und sein amerikanischer Kollege Professor van Dusen versuchen, einen grausamen Mord aufzuklären. Doch ihr Gegner ist schlau. Vielleicht selbst zu schlau für die beiden größten Gehirne des Planeten ... Ein Fall mit Sherlock Holmes und Professor van Dusen.

Zwei Tote in White-Chapel. Scotland Yard ist sich sicher: Ein doppelter Auftragsmord. Steckt gar die Mafia dahinter? Immerhin handelt es sich bei den Toten um Sizilianer. Der berühmte Meisterdetektiv aus der Baker Street verfolgt jedoch eine andere Spur. Eine, die ihn direkt zu einem gefährlichen Geheimbund namens ZODIAC führt. Obwohl er alle Register seines Könnens zieht, gerät er alsbald in einen Hinterhalt. Denn seine Gegner sind schlau. Zu schlau - selbst für Sherlock Holmes. Und sie bedienen sich scheinbar übernatürlicher Mittel.

Anthony Berkeley was a journalist, novelist, and founding member of the Detection Club - whose members included Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers - and was one of crime fiction's greatest innovators, developing the idea of the psychological crime novel in the 1920s and '30s. One of his recurring and most-beloved characters was Roger Sheringham, a novelist and amateur detective. In these two classic tales, Roger Sheringham must investigate two terrible murders

Eine verschlüsselte Botschaft erreicht Sherlock Holmes. Für ihn ist klar: Sie steht in Zusammenhang mit Professor Moriarty, dem "Napoleon des Verbrechens", und sie bedeutet Gefahr. Doch ehe die beiden handeln können, geschieht ein grausamer Mord. Das Duo begibt sich an den Schauplatz des Verbrechens - und muss feststellen, dass dort bereits jemand anderes ermittelt. Ein Amateurkriminologe aus den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Ein Fall mit Sherlock Holmes und Professor van Dusen. Klassische Detektivgeschichten in deutscher Erstveröffentlichung.