Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 245 – Adventures of Mike Shayne

Wally MaherDuring the decade of the 1940s Private Detectives on radio made a decided turn from the lighter, somewhat cozy fictional character such as Ellery Queen, Nero Wolfe and Sherlock Holmes to the more hardboiled versions of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe and others. Just why this occurred is examined in this podcast along with an episode of Michael Shayne BEFORE the switch.

Music under is Kenny Barron performing “Little Niles.”

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