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Here are 12 episodes from the greatest detective shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio, with the legendary stars that made them great. You'll hear Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson, Sydney Greenstreet as Nero Wolfe, Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Chester Morris as Boston Blackie, Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, and Jack Webb as Dragnet's Sergeant Joe Friday, plus more gumshoes like Philip Marlowe, Bulldog Drummond, Michael Shayne, and Johnny Dollar.

Ein geheimnisvoller Mann mit einer Maske will sich mit Sherlock Holmes treffen. Er will ein kompromittierendes Foto zurückhaben. Sherlock Holmes nimmt den Fall an. Das Foto befindet sich im Besitz einer Frau. Und zwar nicht irgendeiner Frau, sondern der klügsten Frau, die Holmes jemals getroffen hat. Ihr Name: Irene Adler.

Created by Blake Edwards of The Pink Panther fame, Richard Diamond, Private Detective came to NBC radio in 1949 starring film actor and singer Dick Powell. Powell had recently played Philip Marlowe in the popular RKO film Murder, My Sweet and jumped at the chance to play a suave detective on radio.

Dopo il fortunato esordio de 'La briscola in cinque', ritorna la squadra investigativa del BarLume di Pineta. Nel corso di un congresso, si trova ucciso un vecchio professore giapponese. La chiave pare sia in un computer che non contiene niente di significativo. Una indagine corale condotta con maestria e allegria.

Three Detective Al Harris Cold Cases in one volume. There's no such thing as a victim-less crime. An invitation to help solve a 20-year-old robbery is extended to Detective Al Harris. But the case quickly takes on a mythical quality when the stolen money is recovered by a couple of boys who followed a map to the spot where it was buried. Only half of the money remains, so where is the rest? Detective Harris takes the case thinking that a robbery with no deaths might be a pleasant break.

In the stack of envelopes on top of Gideon's desk, one was curiously unlabeled, the same as any random piece of junk. He slid it open nonetheless. All the envelope contained was a simple leaf...dark green with serrated edges, finely divided and lacy. It was almost triangular, broad at the base with the tip tapering to an almost point. No sooner did he lay the envelope down on his desk, his phone rang. It was the Chief of Police requesting his service on another case.

Michael Shayne, "the reckless, redheaded Irishman", was a popular hard-boiled detective created by crime novelist Brett Halliday. In the novels, Michael Shayne settled in Miami just after WWII, making crime pay by fighting it with a license and an attitude. Like Mike Hammer and Philip Marlowe, Shayne was a loner. The backstory on Mike is that he was happily married, but it hit him hard when his wife was tragically murdered. Grief stricken, Shayne loses himself in his work as a private eye, prowling the dark streets of the city.

In case his blue eyes aren't enough, Lucius Anoraq carries a gun. He wouldn't be caught dead in a pure breed show, but one wrong move and he'll be a blue ribbon corpse. Follow Lucius as he sniffs around Hollywood in the first four volumes of the series.

Giorgia Cantini ha un'agenzia investigativa a Bologna. In genere si occupa di banali pedinamenti per coniugi o fidanzati gelosi, ma stavolta le è stato affidato un caso di sparizione. Dora vuole sapere cosa è accaduto all'amica Vanessa Liverani, per tutti Van, madre di un bambino di dieci anni, Willy. Van è una giovane prostituta che conduce una vita solitaria ed è sparita senza lasciare traccia. Ma il suo corpo senza vita viene presto ritrovato nella Grotta delle Fate e Giorgia, per scoprire la verità, si concentra sulle confessioni che la donna ha affidato a un quaderno.

Quando il mare di Ostia restituisce il cadavere di Ademaro Proietti - palazzinaro di successo e personaggio di rilievo negli equilibri politico-economici della capitale - la prima ipotesi è che l'uomo sia annegato in seguito a una disgrazia. Eppure c'è qualcosa che non torna, un piccolo indizio che potrebbe richiedere per l'episodio una spiegazione diversa.