OTR Detective - The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio

Today’s Mystery: Johnny is called in because Durango Laramie Dalhart has disappeared with $50,000 in cash. Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 23, 1958 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; G. Stanley Jones; Junius Matthews; Alan Reed; Frank Nelson; John McIntire; Bill Verdier; Tom Hanley Related: Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy…

Today’s Mystery: In the mid-19th Century, a young English woman has inherited a large Indian diamond from her evil uncle. She decides to wear it as a brooch on her eighteenth birthday. What could go wrong? Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 2, 1948 Originating from Chicago Starring: Sherman Marks as Gabriel Be Read more ...

Today’s Mystery: Danny investigates the murder of a Texan in a borrowed hotel room. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 3, 1950 Originated from Hollywoo Read more ...

Today’s Mystery: Inspector Chan returns from Reno with news on Landini’s heirs and mounting suspicions. Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1935 or 1936 Originating fro Read more ...

Today’s Mystery: Mike Waring finds himself on the opposite side of a beautiful Communist spy on the hunt for a party member who fled to Casablanca. Original Radio Read more ...

Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a carjacking. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 15, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Fr Read more ...

Today’s Mystery: Johnny goes to the Caribbean to locate a well-insured man who has disappeared and finds intrigue on a boat to Jamaica. Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 16, 1958 Originated from Hollywood Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Virginia Gregg; Tony Barrett; Lawrence Dobkin; Herb Ellis; Frank Nelson; Ben Wright Discussed: Oregon Coast Scenic…

An assistant prosecutor is murdered on the same night a man he sent to death row has escaped. Suspicion falls on the escaped murderer, but is he the real culprit?

Today’s Mystery: Danny receives an anonymous tip that the supposed natural death of an industrialist was actually murder. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 2 Read more ...

Today’s Mystery: Charlie Chan heads to Reno to question Landini’s secretary. Original Radio Broadcast Date: 1935 or 1936 Originating in Los Angeles Starring: Walte Read more ...

Today’s Mystery: The Falcon goes to Berlin to investigate when the books of the US occupation forces show a shortage. Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 17, 1952 Read more ...

A man with thousands of dollars in gambling debts agrees to introduce a woman to his baseball player brother. Original Air Date: April 29, 1947 Originating Read more ...

The Assistant DA suspects that a major fur robbery was an inside job. Original Air Date: September 1958 Originating from New York Starring: Nat Polen as Assistant District Atto Read more ...

The father of a hot pitching prospect calls The Saint in to protect his son from gamblers. Original Air Date: September 3, 1950 Originating from Hollywood Read more ...

A baseball player tries to call Blackie before a game, and is then murdered in the middle of the game. Original Air Date: April 16, 1946 Originating from Ne Read more ...

Diamond is hired to find a missing second baseman on a women’s baseball team. Original Air Date: August 30, 1950 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Dick Powell as Richard Diamond Read more ...

Ellery is called in to find a baseball star’s lucky bat. Original Air Date: October 2, 1943 Originated from New York Support the show monthly at

A catcher is murdered before a big game. Pat Abbott believes that the team’s star pitcher may be the key to finding the murderer, but she doesn’t like Jean’s tactic o Read more ...

A “clownpire” makes a controversial baseball call and finds himself investigating a burglary and maybe a murder. Original Air Date: August 13, 1942 Originated from New York Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis Read more ...

Today’s Mystery: Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigates the murder of a cop on New Year’s Eve. Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 8, 1951 Originating from Hollywood Starrin Read more ...