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Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio brings you classic mystery, suspense, crime, and psychological drama from the golden age of radio. Enter stories of murder, deception, strange circumstances, hidden motives, dangerous secrets, and unexpected twists. Each episode is an Old Time Retro Radio production, presenting the original broadcast with gently cleaned and mastered audio, a newly produced introduction and closing, and custom episode artwork. Featuring memorable mysteries, atmospheric suspense, detective tales, and dramatic performances, Old Time Mystery Radio celebrates the storytelling that made classic radio unforgettable. Rediscover classic old time radio mystery, suspense, crime drama, detective stories, psychological thrillers, and vintage otr radio. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/old-time-mystery-radio-old-time-radio--7217889/support.

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October 2, 2026 • 25 mins
Suspense presents “Beirut by Sunrise,” episode 600, originally broadcast on CBS Radio Network on May 31, 1955. Written by Richard Chandlee and produced and directed by Antony Ellis, the episode stars Mary Jane Croft.

A third-grade teacher on a Mediterranean cruise hopes to see Beirut at dawn, but a disturbing sight on the dock and a baffling clue pull her into danger ashore. This compact, espionage-tinged thrille...
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Nick Carter, Master Detective presents “The Case of the Persistent Beggars,” originally broadcast on January 26, 1947. This is episode 272 of the Mutual Broadcasting System series, written by Max Ehrlich and starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter, with Charlotte Manson as Patsy Bowen.

A rash of aggressive street begging sweeps the city, but Nick suspects something more organized—and more dangerous—behind t...
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September 30, 2026 • 30 mins
The Whistler presents “Murder in Mind,” originally broadcast on April 16, 1950. This is episode 411 of the CBS Pacific network suspense series, sponsored by Signal Oil Company.

At their hillside home in the exclusive Terrace Heights district, Gil and Vicki Hollister wait uneasily after a supposed accident involving Gil’s stepmother, Bell. Her startling return, a newly hired driver-bodyguard, and a troubling...
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Boston Blackie, “Murder on Cedar Street,” originally broadcast April 9, 1946, is episode 65 of the Richard Kollmar-led mystery series. Jan Miner co-stars as Mary Wesley, with Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Farraday.

A woman directs Blackie to 111 Cedar Street, where police discover him near the scene of a murder. As Inspector Farraday investigates the victim’s connection to a hold-up gang, Blackie and Mary fo...
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Broadway Is My Beat presents “The Frank Conway Murder Case,” originally broadcast on CBS on July 3, 1950. Episode 41 stars Larry Thor as hard-bitten New York detective Danny Clover, with Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia. Morton Fine and David Friedkin wrote the episode, produced and directed by Elliott Lewis.

Clover is called to the Olympian Hotel after a Texas visitor is found shot in room 312. A busin...
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Richard Diamond, Private Detective presents “The Al Brenners Case,” originally broadcast January 25, 1952. This is episode 119 of the ABC series, starring Dick Powell as wisecracking private eye Richard Diamond.

A professional stool pigeon offers Diamond a chance to collect a $5,000 reward by finding a wanted criminal. The proposition sends the detective into a dangerous underworld trail in this brisk noir-era my...
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September 26, 2026 • 30 mins
Suspense presents “Aria from Murder,” episode 413, originally broadcast on CBS on January 25, 1951. Produced during the series’ Auto-Lite run, this backstage noir stars celebrated opera singer Ezio Pinza.

Between acts of Don Giovanni at the Grandier Opera House, baritone Niccolò Mazzini telephones Lieutenant Morgan from his dressing room with an increasingly alarming confession. As the next curtain approach...
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Nick Carter, Master Detective presents “The Slingshot Murders,” episode 153, originally broadcast October 15, 1944. Lon Clark stars as Nick Carter, with Helen Choate as Patsy Bowen, in a Mutual Broadcasting System mystery written by Jock MacGregor.

A young newsstand boy’s report of suspicious activity near a bank branch draws Carter into a dangerous payroll-robbery investigation. Wounded but undeterred, Nic...
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The Adventures of Philip Marlowe presents “The Eager Witness,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 27, 1949. In episode 47, Gerald Mohr stars as Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled Los Angeles private detective.

Marlowe takes the stand for the prosecution in the murder trial of a notorious bookie, but an apparently ironclad alibi throws the case into doubt. With time running short, he follows the trail of a wi...
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The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe presents “The Bashful Body,” episode 11, originally broadcast on NBC on December 29, 1950. Sydney Greenstreet stars as Nero Wolfe, with Larry Dobkin as Archie Goodwin.

An orchid shipment draws the famously homebound Wolfe to a New York flower shop, where Archie discovers a murdered orchid grower hidden among the displays. But when the body vanishes, Wolfe and Goodwin must follow a...
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The Whistler presents “Escape to Skull Island,” originally broadcast on CBS on January 15, 1950. This is episode 398, written by R. Sprague Hall and featuring Fay Baker and Ted de Corsia.

Escaped convict Steve Henshaw races through a nighttime waterfront pursuit and takes shelter aboard a shadowy barge near Skull Island. But the uneasy refuge offered by George and Melody Gromick draws him into a dangerous hunt ti...
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Richard Diamond, Private Detective presents “The Garrabaldi Case,” originally broadcast February 1, 1952. In this 120th episode of the ABC/Camel Cigarettes series, Dick Powell stars as the wisecracking private eye Richard Diamond.

A frightened woman turns to Diamond to find a missing witness who may be the only person able to save her brother from execution the next day. With the clock running out, Diamond follow...
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Suspense presents “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” originally broadcast on CBS on December 14, 1953. Episode 530 adapts Edgar Allan Poe’s early C. Auguste Dupin detective tale, with Cornel Wilde as Dupin and John Dehner as the Police Prefect.

In 19th-century Paris, the body of young Marie Roget is recovered from the Seine, leaving police to sift through conflicting accounts of her disappearance. Called in to h...
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Nick Carter, Master Detective presents “The Case of the Clue Called X,” originally broadcast on November 14, 1948. This late-1948 Mutual Broadcasting System episode is episode 366 of the series and stars Lon Clark as Nick Carter, with Charlotte Manson as Patsy Bowen.

When ex-convict Joe Gibbs is accused of murdering a jewelry salesman and taking a cache of diamonds, Nick takes the case personally. With Joe’...
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Boston Blackie, “The Missing String of Pearls,” originally broadcast August 11, 1944, is episode 8 of the 1944 NBC summer run. Chester Morris stars as the resourceful Blackie, with Richard Lane as the ever-skeptical Inspector Farraday. Written by Milton and Barbara Merlin, the series was sponsored by Rinso.

When a valuable string of pearls vanishes from Gordon’s Jewelry Store, Blackie quickly becomes a susp...
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Broadway Is My Beat, “The John Stewart Murder Case” (episode 158), originally broadcast on CBS on March 28, 1953. Larry Thor stars as Broadway detective Danny Clover in this noir mystery, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and produced and directed by Elliott Lewis.

On an early-spring night in New York, Clover investigates the fears of John Stewart, a man convinced that someone intends to kill him. Stewart...
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The Adventures of Philip Marlowe presents “The Dark Tunnel,” originally broadcast on CBS on August 18, 1950. This is episode 97 of the Gerald Mohr series.

After breaking up an assault in a Hollywood alley, private detective Philip Marlowe is drawn into the search for a dancer missing for a month. A photograph, an old clipping, and a lead to the New Blossom Dance Land send him from Silver Lake to East Los Angeles&...
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Richard Diamond, Private Detective presents “The Elaine Tanner Case,” originally broadcast on February 12, 1950. Dick Powell stars as the wisecracking New York private eye in this NBC sustaining broadcast, written and directed by Russell Hughes.

Millionaire Morris Clinton hires Diamond to find Elaine Tanner, a young woman missing from her boarding-house room. Gunfire, a murder, and a trail leading to the Blue Fal...
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September 14, 2026 • 30 mins
Suspense presents “A Murderous Revision,” originally broadcast on December 3, 1951. Richard Widmark stars in this CBS Radio Network thriller, adapted by David Ellis from a story by S. Lee Pogostin and produced by Elliott Lewis.

When a bitter writer is dismissed from the radio mystery program Murder, Please, he decides to strike back at the producer whose rewrites have controlled his work. Scripts, microphones, re...
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Nick Carter, Master Detective presents “The Case of the Chemical Chickens,” episode 283, originally broadcast on April 13, 1947. Lon Clark stars as Nick Carter, with Charlotte Manson as Patsy Bowen. The script was written by Alfred Bester, later celebrated for his science-fiction novels.

A strange chemical discovery in Waldo McGlynn’s breakfast eggs sends Nick, Patsy, and Sgt. Mathison from a neighborhood g...
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