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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 270 – The Man in the Velvet Hat
In the introduction to Jerome and Harold Prince’s first detective short story, editors Ellery Queen called the piece a “strange, strange story.” The story was called “The Man in the Velvet Hat” and it...
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 271 – Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
This podcast offering is only tangentially a detective story of sorts. It does involve investigations by individuals, potential suspects, potential crimes, and a resolution of sorts. And like many of...
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 272 – The Thimble
Eleazar Lipsky was a lawyer and prosecutor in the Bronx and Manhattan until his death in 1993. In the 1940s he turned to writing novels and plays while maintaining his legal work. It was natural that...
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 273 – Dead Man Control
One of the best radio mystery series in the 1940s was the Crime Club which based its plays upon stories written by actual crime writers of the times. These were writers whose works were part of the...
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 274 – Escape: I Saw Myself Running
Antony Ellis, a remarkable writer as well as producer his work is found all over Suspense and Escape especially. Being an ex-pat Englishman, he also produced and wrote the John Dehner vehicle Frontier...
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 275 – Escape – Crossing Paris
Every so often while listening to various crime radio episodes, I come across one that just really holds my attention and surprises me with a fuller, denser episode that makes listening to it a real...
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 276 – Philip Marlowe – Trouble Is My Business
Raymond Chandler’s early writing career was mainly as a poet and essayist for several publications while living in the United Kingdom. But Chandler was not happy with it and returned to the U.S. to...
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 277 – Escape: Finger of Doom
Writer and critic Anthony Boucher was assembling short stories from current mystery writers in 1945 for a collection he was calling Great American Detective Stories and wanted to include one from...
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What happened to the Radio Detective Story Hour
This post is late coming. I wanted to update those who have asked why there have not been any new postings to this blog/audio of the Radio Detective Story Hour. The fact is that I have been working for...
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Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 278 – Richard Diamond, Private...
It’s Christmas time and this week’s podcast is a special one! Eleven years ago, I featured this on the Radio Detective Story Hour. Staying in the vein of our detective theme, I present a variation on...
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