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Hard-boiled detective radio grew from the same pulp and crime-fiction tradition that produced private eyes such as Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. These programs favor tough investigators, dangerous clients, urban corruption, clipped dialogue and cases where the moral choices are rarely simple.
Program guides that represent this listening collection especially well.
PROGRAM GUIDERaymond Chandler's hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlowe investigates murder and corruption in Los Angeles, with Gerald Mohr giving the character his best-known…
PROGRAM GUIDEA dark, sharply written San Francisco detective series starring Jack Webb as waterfront operator Pat Novak, whose jobs repeatedly lead into murder,…
PROGRAM GUIDEDashiell Hammett's private detective Sam Spade, played most famously by Howard Duff, recounts hard-boiled cases filled with murder, deception, eccentric suspects, and…
PROGRAM GUIDEDick Powell stars as the quick-witted private eye Richard Diamond, whose murder cases combine hard-boiled detective plotting with humor, romance, and Diamond's…
PROGRAM GUIDEA detective drama about freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar, whose expense-account narration carries him through fraud, theft, missing persons, and murder cases…
PROGRAM GUIDEDetective adventures centered on Michael Waring, known as the Falcon, who investigates murders and other crimes in a long-running series that changed…
PROGRAM GUIDEA hard-boiled private-eye series about Jeff Regan, an investigator working for a detective agency and handling murder, blackmail, missing persons, and other…
PROGRAM GUIDEA hard-boiled detective series based on Henry Kane's private eye Peter Chambers, following the New York investigator through murder cases and underworld…
Representative recordings from the existing Golden Radio Hour episode archive.
Johnny heads to New York to protect a reporter friend whose investigation of a major story has already brought repeated attempts on his life.
Identical twin pianists, stolen money and a fatal case of mistaken identity give Marlowe a mystery in which appearances are especially unreliable.
Novak pulls the wounded Reuben Callaway from the harbor just before he dies. Callaway leaves him a locker key and a message for Alma Biggs, leading Novak to…
A client dies in Diamond's office, leaving behind a carved ivory object that points toward an international mystery.
The self-styled 'Gumball King' hires Sam to discover who is sabotaging his vending machines. When the businessman is murdered, the investigation shifts from petty vandalism to homicide, with…
A con artist's death reveals stolen money, romantic jealousy, and multiple layers of deception.
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Jack Webb
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