The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy’s Paper Route (September 14, 1941)

Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone, the Chicago Star’s night-shift reporter, in Night Beat, an NBC drama following the human stories and dangers Stone finds after dark. In “The Devil’s Bible,” an unusually valuable old book leads Stone back to an unsolved murder. Originally broadcast July 24, 1950. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Originally broadcast October 11, 1942. The Whistler was a CBS mystery anthology built around an unseen narrator and stories of crime, suspense, and ironic turns. “Malice” is a surviving episode from the program’s first year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Step through the creaking door for “The Corridor of Doom,” originally broadcast October 23, 1945. Inner Sanctum Mysteries brought tales of mystery, suspense, and horror to radio, pairing its ominous stories with a sardonic host and the program’s unmistakable creaking-door sound. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Originally broadcast August 4, 1947, “The Sire de Maletroit’s Door” adapts a story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Escape was CBS’s anthology of high adventure, heard from 1947 to 1954. The series carried listeners into stories of peril in faraway places and unusual circumstances. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Howard Duff plays Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco private detective in The Adventures of Sam Spade, with Lurene Tuttle as his secretary, Effie Perrine. Spade’s case report for “The Bluebeard Caper” is dated August 8, 1948 in the recording. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.