In a similar way to my other podcast, The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast, I thought there would also be an audience for Classic Detective Stories. Here we present stories from the first ever detective story The Murders In The Rue Morgue up until the 1950s or so when copyright gets in the way. Expect stories from the Golden Age and from The Hardboiled era as well as guest appearances by that super sleuth Sherlock Holmes.
Classic stories will be narrated once a week, mainly by me, Tony Walker, but also by guest narrators.
So far we have featured stories by Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle,...
Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1928 by the American detective fiction writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee. It is also the name of their main fictional detective, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve baffling murder cases. From 1929...
Published 04/27/24
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was an English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright. She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those featuring her famous characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie is the best-selling novelist of...
Published 04/20/24