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Episode 367 – I’m Just a Poe Boy (Weird Circle, Suspense, & NBC University Theatre)
Episode 367 – I’m Just a Poe Boy (Weird Circle, Suspense, & NBC University Theatre)
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Length:
95 minutes
Released:
Jan 19, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
We're celebrating the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe - the master of the macabre and the father of the modern detective story. Poe's super sleuth C. Auguste Dupin and his methods of solving crimes through logic and observation inspired a genre and directly led to the creation of Sherlock Holmes. We'll hear old time radio adaptations of the three Dupin mysteries: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" from The Weird Circle; "The Mystery of Marie Roget" from Suspense (originally aired on CBS on December 14, 1953); and "The Purloined Letter" from The NBC University Theatre (originally aired on NBC on September 17, 1948).
Released:
Jan 19, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Episode 14 - Up on Cloud Eight (Rogue's Gallery): Before he crooned as Richard Diamond, Dick Powell cracked cases as private investigator Richard Rogue on Rogue's Gallery. We'll hear Powell in his first radio detective series with "Where There's a Will, There's a Murder," first broadcast on NBC... by Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)