Showing results for "The Radio Detectives" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Eight BBC Radio crime dramas featuring Golden Age detective Gideon Fell, starring Donald Sinden With his cape, canes and shovel hat, portly amateur sleuth Dr Gideon Fell cuts an eccentric figure - but his odd appearance belies his sharp intellect and astonishing faculty for deduction. Created by...

A collection of vintage thrillers from popular crime writer RD Wingfield Well known as the creator of Inspector Jack Frost, RD Wingfield scripted numerous twisty, suspenseful dramas for BBC Radio between 1968 and 1995. Many of the thirteen tales in this collection were originally thought to be...

Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor: 'An Inscrutable Masquerade', 'The Conundrum of Coach 13', 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny' and 'The 10.59 Assassin'. Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor has written four more mysteries featuring the world's greatest detective. Read by acclaimed actor Benedict Cumberbatch, these new adventures share all the suspense of the original tales.

In these eight intriguing tales, Holmes and Watson solve cases that range from the suspicious to the downright strange. They encounter mysteries as diverse as vanishing staff, secret plans and eccentric lodgers as Holmes is struck down by a rare tropical disease and, later, lured away from retirement to help his country on the eve of war.

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Now he gets his own back, introducing 16 tales of detectives whose abilities rival that of the great Sherlock Holmes.

A collection of suspenseful standalone radio thrillers by Edward Boyd Scottish writer Edward Boyd was well known for his TV and radio plays, including The Corridor People and The View from Daniel Pike, and he also penned several episodes of Z-Cars. He specialised in the thriller genre, and this...

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, and many more.

Veteran scriptwriter Vincent McInerney draws on his lifelong knowledge of Liverpool and his background in the Merchant Marine in these engaging thrillers, in which the gruff, indomitable John Crust and his sidekick Minty probe the circumstances surrounding a missing husband, a stolen sculpture and a hidden treasure.

Join Oasis Audio for 100 radio shows from across all genres. Thrill to detective stories and mysteries, dig your spurs in for some dusty-trail Western adventures, laugh until you cry with the kings and queens of radio comedy, and sit on the edge of your seat for the greatest radio dramas. This volume includes episodes of The Abbott and Costello Show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, The Adventures of Red Ryder, The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective, The Aldrich Family, The Amos N Andy Show, and more.

Join Oasis Audio for 100 radio shows from across all genres. Thrill to detective stories and mysteries, dig your spurs in for some dusty-trail Western adventures, laugh until you cry with the kings and queens of radio comedy, and sit on the edge of your seat for the greatest radio dramas. This volume includes episodes of The Big Story, Big Town, Bill Stern Newsreel, The Black Museum, Bold Venture, Boston Blackie, Box Thirteen, Broadway Is My Beat, The Burns and Allen Show, and Casey Crime Photographer.

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard introduces 12 dramatised stories, featuring detectives whose abilities rival that of the great Sherlock Holmes. Dramatised for radio by Chris Harrald, these 12 stories are written by masters of the crime and thriller genre, all contemporaries of Arthur Conan...

Volume nine includes Rocky Fortune, 1954-02-23: "Organ Grinder"; Rogues Gallery, 1945-06-23: "McDonald Murder Case"; Rogues Gallery, 1945-10-25: "Murder with Muriel"; The Saint, 1950-07-30: "The Previewed Crime"; The Saint, 1950-09-10: "The Horrible Hamburger"; Suspense, 1948-01-10: "The Kandy Tooth"; Tales of the Texas Rangers, 1951-05-20: "Square Dance"; Tales of the Texas Rangers, 1951-05-27: "Joy Ride"; This Is Your FBI, 1951-04-06: "The Soybean Shakedown"; and This Is Your FBI, 1951-11-09: "The Traveling Bride".

Volume six includes: Jeff Regan, Investigator, 1948-12-04: "The Lawyer and the Lady"; Let George Do It, 1951-08-27: "Murder on Vacation"; Let George Do It, 1951-01-08: "The Man Behind the Frame"; The Lineup, 1951-09-12: "The Senile Slugging Case"; The Lineup, 1951-10-11: "The Frivolous Forger Fracas"; The Lineup, 1951-10-18: "The Nicely Nixed Nixon Case"; The Lux Radio Theatre, 1943-02-08: "The Maltese Falcon"; The Man Called X, 1951-05-11: "Roulette Scheme"; The Man Called X, 1951-06-15: "Rubber Sabotage"'; and more.

Volume seven includes: The Man from Homicide, 1951-07-23: "Eddie Kent Case"; The Man from Homicide, 1951-08-06: "Drowned Girl Case"; The Mercury Theatre on the Air, 1938-09-25: "The Immortal Sherlock Holmes"; Mr. and Mrs. North, 1950s: "Bet on Murder"; Mr. and Mrs. North, 1950s: "Brother Danny"; The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, 1950-11-17: "The Careless Cleaner"; The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, 1950-11-24: "The Case of the Beautiful Archer"; Pat Novak for Hire, 1949-04-09: "The Sam Tolliver Case"; and more.

Volume eight includes: Pat Novak for Hire, 1949-04-16: "Go Away Dixie Gillian"; Philo Vance Detective, 1949-09-06: "The Oxford Murder Case"; Philo Vance Detective, 1949-09-13: "The Checkered Murder Case"; Philo Vance Detective, 1949-09-20: "The Penny-Ante Murder Case"; Philo Vance Detective, 1949-09-27: "The Shoeless Murder Case"; Richard Diamond Private Detective, 1950-04-13: "Man Who Hated Women"; Rocky Fortune, 1954-02-16: "Too Much Married Blond"; and more.

Volume 10 includes: Under Arrest, 1949-02-06: "The Sam Carver Case"; Under Arrest, 1949-08-21: "Ruth Cutler’s Burglar"; Whitehall 1212, 1952-04-20: "Case of Mrs. Manerva Bannerman"; Whitehall 1212, 1942-05-04: "Case of William George Greenley"; Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, 1956-04-16 through 1956-04-20: "The Shepherd Matter"; Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, 1956-04-30 though 1956-05-04: "The Callicles Matter"; Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, 1956-11-25: "The Royal Street Matter"; and more.

Volume five includes: David Harding, Counterspy, 1951-01-14: "Captured Contact"; Dragnet, 1950-03-23: "The Big Gangster, Part 1"; Dragnet, 1950-03-30: "The Big Gangster, Part 2"; Gang Busters, 1948-06-12: "The Park Avenue Pilferers"; Gang Busters, 1948-09-25: "The Cincinnati Narcotics Ring"; Inspector Thorne, 1951-08-03: "Golden Girl Murder Case"; Inspector Thorne, 1951-08-10: "Defrosted Refrigerator Murder Case"; Jeff Regan, Investigator, 1948-11-13: "The Guy from Gower Gulch"; and more.

Volume two includes: The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective, 1948-06-27: "The Bali Bond Caper"; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1946-03-04: "Submarine Caves"; The Adventures of the Falcon, 1950-11-12: "The Case of the Widow’s Gorilla"; The Adventures of the Falcon, 1950-11-26: "The Case of the Stooge’s Errand"; Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, 1952-02-13: "A Time to Kill"; Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, 1952-02-20: "Motive for Murder"; and more.

Following the success of the popular BBC Drama series, Norman Conquest is back! Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, where every story promises a 'Thousand Thrills!', with ingenious plots, full of twists and surprises, driven along with exciting action and tongue in cheek humour, our fast-talking, hard-hitting adventurer with a nose for trouble keeps up good cheer while he biffs the baddies in four action packed adventures.

A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Joseph Cotten, Hal Peary, Eve Arden, and many more.