Monthly Archives: January 2016

Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 259 – The Eleventh Juror

Vincent Starrett was a Chicago-based journalist and crime fiction writer in the early part of the 20th century. He was an intense bibliophile and became interested in all things Sherlockian writing what is probably one of the best pastiches of Holmes in 1920 called The Adventure of the Unique ‘Hamlet.’ It is Starrett’s other fiction that this podcast is concerned… (more…)

Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 258 – Eno Crime Clues

Eno Crime Clues is a good example of early radio detective stories from the earliest time of radio programming. Often there were very little or crude sound effects, somewhat thin plotlines and the acting was a bit stilted. These series definitely were not the sophisticated versions of later detectives such as Nick Carter, Nick Charles or Philip Marlowe. I always… (more…)