Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 197 episodes
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Detectives on the Air: Classic Radio Sleuths from the Golden Age Step into the world of shadowy alleys, smoky offices, and cunning criminals with Detectives on the Air —your portal to the greatest detective dramas from the golden age of radio. Join iconic sleuths like Johnny Dollar, Richard Diamond, Philip Marlowe, Philo Vance , and more as they solve thrilling mysteries and navigate the noir landscapes of classic crime. Each episode brings you a timeless tale of intrigue, suspense, and old-time detective work, perfect for fans of vintage radio and true crime. Rediscover these radio legends, and let their gripping stories captivate your imagination once more!
Unknown Host hosts Detectives on the Air, a true crime show with 197 episodes published.
Originally Aired: October 25, 1955 Johnny Dollar #247, "The Alvin Summers Matter Ep 2," Johnny Dollar continues his investigation in Santo Tomas, Mexico, searching for embezzler Alvin Summers. After being beaten in his h
Originally Aired: October 24, 1955 Johnny Dollar #246, "The Alvin Summers Matter Ep 1," Johnny Dollar receives a puzzling assignment from Fred Wilkins at Northeastern Fidelity. Six months ago, Alvin Summers embezzled $75
Originally Aired: October 21, 1955 Johnny Dollar #245, "The Chesapeake Fraud Matter Ep 5," Johnny Dollar receives urgent news from Pat Kelleher in Baltimore: Frank Bowers and George Hanley, one of Pat's operatives who wa
Originally Aired: October 20, 1955 Johnny Dollar #244, "The Chesapeake Fraud Matter Ep 4," Johnny receives a telegram from Pat Kelleher at the Universal Adjustment Bureau ordering him to close the case and come home from
Originally Aired: October 19, 1955 Johnny Dollar #243, "The Chesapeake Fraud Matter Ep 3," Johnny Dollar continues his investigation into whether John Reardon, supposedly killed in an accident, is actually alive in Denve
Originally Aired: October 18, 1955 Johnny Dollar #242, "The Chesapeake Fraud Matter Ep 2," Johnny Dollar continues investigating the suspicious death of John Reardon, who allegedly died in a boat explosion five years ago
Originally Aired: October 17, 1955 Johnny Dollar #241, "The Chesapeake Fraud Matter Ep 1," Johnny receives an urgent call from Pat Kelleher at the Universal Adjustment Bureau in Baltimore about a baffling case. Eastern F
Originally Aired: October 14, 1955 Johnny Dollar #240, "The Molly K Matter Ep 5," Johnny Dollar believes he has finally cracked the case of the sunken Molly K. After learning that the Tokyo grain market crashed just befo
Originally Aired: October 13, 1955 Johnny Dollar #239, "The Molly K Matter Ep 4," Johnny Dollar finds himself under arrest, hauled in by Inspector Dan McKay on assault and battery charges filed by Captain Brawley. Dollar
Originally Aired: October 12, 1955 Johnny Dollar #238, "The Molly K Matter Ep 3," Johnny continues his investigation into the suspicious sinking of the freighter Molly K by getting valuable testimony from Josiah Hawkins,
Originally Aired: October 11, 1955 Johnny Dollar #237, "The Molly K Matter Ep 2," Johnny continues his investigation into the suspicious sinking of the freighter Molly Kay in San Francisco Harbor. When he receives a myst
Originally Aired: October 10, 1955 Johnny Dollar #236, "The Molly K Matter Ep 1," insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is summoned to San Francisco by his client Dave Borger to look into the suspicious sinking of the fre
Originally Aired: October 7, 1955 Johnny Dollar #235, "The Macormack Matter Ep 5," Johnny Dollar finds himself dodging bullets in the Bronx after receiving a tip from convict Mike Cairn about Joe Panny's connection to a
Originally Aired: October 6, 1955 Johnny Dollar #234, "The Macormack Matter Ep 4," Johnny Dollar investigates the murder of Joe Panny, a small-time auto thief suspected of pulling off a major safe burglary five years ago
Originally Aired: October 5, 1955 Johnny Dollar #233, "The Macormack Matter Ep 3," Johnny continues his investigation into the $100,000 McCormick burglary from 1951, tracking down ex-convict Joe Panny, who has mysterious
Originally Aired: October 4, 1955 Johnny Dollar #232, "The Macormack Matter Ep 2," continues Johnny's investigation into a five-year-old jewelry heist. After receiving a tip from dying convict Mike Cairn about a suspect
Originally Aired: October 3, 1955 Johnny Dollar #231, "The Macormack Matter Ep 1," Johnny receives an urgent call from Father Taggart, a chaplain at Sing Sing prison, asking him to visit Michael Cairn, a dying inmate. Ca
Originally Aired: August 3, 1954 Johnny Dollar #226, "The Hampton Line Matter," Johnny Dollar receives what seems like a simple assignment: fly to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and observe while the Coast Guard investigate
Originally Aired: July 27, 1954 Johnny Dollar #225, "The Radioactive Gold Matter," Johnny Dollar rushes to South Bend, Indiana when Washington Research Hospital reports the theft of $150 worth of radioactive gold isotope
Originally Aired: July 20, 1954 Johnny Dollar #224, "The Jeanne Maxwell Matter Fen," Johnny Dollar travels to Boston to investigate the death of twenty-one-year-old Jeanne Maxwell, whose body was found in shallow water b
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Detectives on the Air is hosted by Unknown Host. The show is categorised under True Crime and has published 197 episodes.
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