Category: Going for the Golden

The Legendary Detectives, edited by Jean Marie Stine and J.L. “Frankie” Hill gives listeners nine stories from the Golden Age of Detection, written mostly by British authors, but also by Americans too. All were well- …

]In 1947’s A Matter of Policy by Sam Merwin, Jr., Jim Leavitt has been hiding from life ever since his father committed suicide four years earlier, making people suspect him of embezzlement. Then Jim’s boss, …

In 1939’s Where There’s a Will by Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe gets visited by the famous Hawthorne sisters: June, wife of the U.S. Secretary of State; May, president of Varney College; and April, one of …

The Golden Age of Detection, generally defined as the era between the two World Wars, saw the detective story come into its own. During this time, detection moved away from the who and how to …

In 1931’s The Incredible Crime by Lois Austen-Leigh, Prudence Pinsent lives in Cambridge as the daughter of the master of Prince’s College, where she keeps things exciting. One day in November she drives to Suffolk …

In The Paddington Mystery published in 1925 by John Rhode, Harold Merefield comes home drunk one night after spending the evening at the trendy nightclub the Naxos. As he takes off his jacket, he finds …

In “The Case of the White Footprints” by R. Austin Freeman, Dr. Jervis is visiting his friend, Dr. Foxton, who laments the boredom of his own practice compared with those cases of Jervis, both a …

In The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon, Detective Chief Inspector Maigret is on a train when he sees a man acting curiously. So Maigret follows the man to Brussels, where he gets a …

In The Key by Patricia Wentworth, it is 1944, and the German- Jewish scientist Michael Harsch is working hard to complete his special secret weapon to win the war. Just as he announces that it …

In Flowers for the Judge by Margery Allingham, the members of the Barnabus family publishing house ask family friend Albert Campion to help them because Paul Brande, the middle of the three partner cousins, disappeared …