Tag Archives: audio noir

Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 260 – The Cross-eyed Bear

Wanted: A beautiful girl. One not afraid to look on danger’s bright face. Room 1000, The Lorenzo. This simple advertisement in a newspaper begins one of Dorothy Belle Hughes (left) psychological thriller crime stories. Hughes, whose works are only recently finding resurgence being re-published by The Mysterious Press were written mostly in the forties of which this story was first… (more…)

Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 251 – Night Beat

A revisit to the “journalist as detective” series, Night Beat.  The series was much more than simply a detective-style series.  It was a dramatic look at the microcosm of individuals who lived in the night in a large city.  Certainly with noir-ish elements, my fascination with the series is how each character is so well defined as flawed individuals who… (more…)

Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 222 – Dead on Arrival

A program series appearing on a Saturday morning called Stars Over Hollywood presented generally lighter fare geared mostly to women. However, occasionally they would present an episode that was a little darker in tone. This time you will hear a detective thriller called “Dead on Arrival” starring blonde, blue-eyed actor Gene Raymond (husband of Jeanette MacDonald) whose gritty voice was… (more…)

Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 220 – No Man of Her Own

A look at the roman noir or black fiction adapted for radio. Specifically, the Cornell Woolrich wrote a number of short stories he later expanded into novels; a move for the better with much improved storylines. In 1946, he wrote “They Call Me Patrice” which he expanded into his last great novel in 1948 under the title I Married A… (more…)