Dragnet was a long-running radio and television police procedural

drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective,

Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an

actual police term, a "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated...

Let George Do It - Bob Bailey played George Valentine as a detective

handy man, who got his jobs from responses to a newspaper ad.

Part-time detective and writer Dan Holiday in Box 13 also used the

premise. It pays to advertise! The shows follow the usual formats of...

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - For over twelve years, from 1949

through 1962 (including a one year hiatus in 1954-1955), this series

recounted the cases "the man with the action-packed expense account,

America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Johnny Dollar"...

Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator is one of the few detective

radio series that had separate versions of it broadcast from both

coasts. Even the spelling changed over the years. It was first "Barry

Crane" and then "Barrie Craig". NBC produced it in New York from 1951...

The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the

private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell

Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in

1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946-1949, and finally for 51...

Broadway Is My Beat, a radio crime drama, ran on CBS from February

27, 1949 to August 1, 1954. With music by Robert Stringer, the show

originated from New York during its first three months on the air,

with Anthony Ross portraying Times Square Detective Danny Clover. John...

The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe - The first portrayal of Phillip

Marlowe on the radio was by Dick Powell, when he played Raymond

Chandler's detective on the Lux Radio Theater on June 11, 1945. This

was a radio adaptation of the 1944 movie, from RKO, in which Mr...

Let George Do It - Bob Bailey played George Valentine as a detective

handy man, who got his jobs from responses to a newspaper ad.

Part-time detective and writer Dan Holiday in Box 13 also used the

premise. It pays to advertise! The shows follow the usual formats of...

Dragnet was a long-running radio and television police procedural

drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective,

Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an

actual police term, a "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated...

Philo Vance was the detective creation of S. S. Van Dine first

published in the mid 1920s. Vance, in the original books, is an

intellectual so highly refined he seems he might be ghostwritten by P.

G. Wodehouse. Take this quote from The Benson Murder Case, 1924, as...