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Greatest Detective Shows, Volume 5: Ten Classic Shows from the Golden Era of Radio
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OASIS AUDIO CLASSIC RADIO SHOWCASE SERIES
Oasis Audio has gone into the vaults and dusted off the very earliest form of audio book, old time radio shows, for our listeners. Introduced episode by episode by Jim Engel, old time radio authority and board member of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, this series of classic radio shows is sure to have something for everyone. Celebrity casts and top-notch writers made the 1920s through the early 1950s, the golden era of radio. The series features seven exciting themes with 100 episodes in each. That is 700 classic radio programs in all.
Greatest Detective Shows
Thrill to the hardboiled adventures of Ellery Queen, Philip Marlow, Dragnet, The Man called X, Philo Vance, Rocky Fortune and so many more as heroes fight the bad guys. 100 great Detective classics in ten volumes.
Volume 5
Oasis Audio has gone into the vaults and dusted off the very earliest form of audio book, old time radio shows, for our listeners. Introduced episode by episode by Jim Engel, old time radio authority and board member of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, this series of classic radio shows is sure to have something for everyone. Celebrity casts and top-notch writers made the 1920s through the early 1950s, the golden era of radio. The series features seven exciting themes with 100 episodes in each. That is 700 classic radio programs in all.
Greatest Detective Shows
Thrill to the hardboiled adventures of Ellery Queen, Philip Marlow, Dragnet, The Man called X, Philo Vance, Rocky Fortune and so many more as heroes fight the bad guys. 100 great Detective classics in ten volumes.
Volume 5
- David Harding Counterspy 1951_01_14 Captured Contact
- Dragnet 1950_03_23 The Big Gangster Part_01
- Dragnet 1950_03_30 The Big Gangster Part_02
- Dragnet 1952_12_28 The Big Mask Part_01
- Dragnet 1952_01_04 The Big Mask Part_02
- Gang Busters 1948_06_12 The Park Avenue Pilferers
- Gang Busters 1948_09_25 The Cincinnati Narcotics Ring
- Inspector Thorne 1951_08_03 Golden Girl Murder Case
- Inspector Thorne 1951_08_10 Defrosted Refrigerator Murder Case
- Jeff Regan Investigator 1948_11_13 The Guy from Gower Gulch
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