Category: Listener’s Choice

EP2871: The Fat Man: Murder Plays Hide and Seek (Listener’s Choice Short Division #3)

J. Scott Smart

A cabbie comes to Brad asking him to prove he didn’t kill a corpse in the back of his cab. Brad then finds the corpse missing.

Original Air Date: January 2, 1948

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EP2865: Jeff Regan: A Fire for Romano (Host’s Choice/ Wild Card)

A grocery store owner hires Regan to find out who started a fire in his store.

Original Air Date: July 30, 1950

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EP2859: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Imperfect Crime Matter (Listener’s Choice Standard Division #12)

Johnny is called in by an insurance agent who fears a mystery writer is going to murder his wife.

Original Air Date: June 25, 1961

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EP2853: Pat Novak for Hire: Father Leahy (Listener’s Choice Standard Division #13)

A priest asks Pat to intersect an escapee from prison and bring him to the priest.

Original Air Date: April 2, 1949

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EP2841: Candy Matson: Devil in the Deep Freeze (Listener’s Choice (Standard Division #14)

Natalie Masters

Candy is hired by a restaurant owner who found a dead man in his freezer wearing a devil’s costume.

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EP2835: Boston Blackie: Murder at the Movies (Listener’s Choice Standard Divisions #15)

Richard Kollmar

Blackie agrees to be a technical adviser on a crime film and then has to solve a murder.

Original Air Date: December 13, 1945

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EP2829: Easy Money: The Gem Switch (Host’s Choice/Wild Card)

Larry Haines


A small jewelry store has a $5,000 ruby disappear and be replaced with a duplicate. Mike Trent thinks he knows how to get it back–with the aid of a third hand.

Original Air Date: December 19, 1954

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EP2823: Philip Marlowe: Trouble is My Business (Listener’s Choice Short Division #4)


Philip Marlowe is hired to look into the wedding of a wealthy young man to a woman with dubious motives.

Original Air Date: August 5, 1947
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EP2817: Rogue’s Gallery: Lovely Little Old Lady (Listener’s Choice Standard Divsion #16)

Rogue goes to help an elderly woman with a son in trouble with the law. The son’s not there and Rogue wakes up to find he was given a Mickey Finn tea and has been framed for murder.

Original Air Date: November 29, 1945

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EP2811: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: Bodyguard to Anne Connelly (Listener’s Choice Standard Divsion #17)


Johnny travels to Milwaukee to protect a woman who’s afraid of an ex-boyfriend who’s been released from prison.

Original Air Date: December 3, 1949

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EP2805: Ellery Queen: The Armchair Detective (Listener’s Choice Standard Division #18)

Lawrence DobkinWhen an armchair detective is murdered on Ellery’s radio show, he has to find out who did it.

Original Air Date: March 18, 1948

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EP2799: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot (Listener’s Choice Standard Division #19)


While recuperating, Holmes is asked to investigate a strange death in Cornish country where the locals suspect the Devil’s involvement

Original Air Date: January 13, 1946

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EP2793: The Abbotts: The White Hot Flame (Host’s Choice/Wild Card)

A doctor dies in a plane crash over England, but Pat suspects foul play and pretends to be injured to investigate a hospital.

Original Air Date: March 13, 1955

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EP2787: Pete Kelly’s Blues: The Veda Brand Story (Listener’s Choice Short Division #5)

Jack Webb

A gangster tries to force Pete to marry the gangster’s girlfriend.

Original Air Date: July 11, 1951

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EP2781: Rocky Fortune: Hollywood or Boom (Listener’s Choice Standard #20)

Rocky is hired to drive a truckload of Nitro from New York to Los Angeles.

Original Air Date: January 26, 1954

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