Tag Archives: Robert L. Richards

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 235 – You Take Ballistics

Fiction and film has its “Cop Noir” stories. Writers from the pulps wrote often in a cop noir style and radio followed. This time a look at the “cop noir” and a particular author whose work was adapted to radio often. The Cop Noir is a popular sub-genre with films like the new TV series Gotham to older film noirs… (more…)

Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 197 – The Fountain Plays

From the Dorothy L. Sayers collection of short stories – Hangman’s Holiday – this adapted version of “The Fountain Plays” on the Suspense radio program from August 1943. Adapted by Robert L. Richards, well respected radio scripter of horror pieces such as “The House in Cypress Canyon,” comes this fair translation of the Sayers’ story starring Edmund Gwen as Mr.… (more…)

Radio Detective Story Hour Episode 142 – “After Dinner Story”

This week a visit with Cornell Woolrich and the radio adaptation of his noirish horror story “After Dinner Story” as heard over the radio series Suspense. Woolrich was the master of creating tension out of the commonplace and while not completely faithful to the original story, this is still a very well done adaptation with script by Robert L. Richards.… (more…)