Classic Detective Stories
by John Anthony Walker
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The Great Valdez Sapphire by Ellen Mary Clerke
The Great Valdez Sapphire by Ellen Mary Clerke
About this podcast
Step into the shadows with Tony Walker in the captivating podcast, "Classic Detective Stories." From the intricate puzzles of the Golden Age to the gritty streets of the Hardboiled era, this podcast traverses the thrilling landscape of crime fiction. Each week, delve into timeless tales penned by masters like Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, Edgar Allan Poe, and Dashiell Hammett.
Starting from Edgar Allan Poe’s groundbreaking "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," the series spans decades up to the 1950s, exploring the rich heritage of detective literature. Alongside a host of guest narrators, and occasional visits from the legendary Sherlock Holmes himself, "Classic Detective Stories" revives the intrigue and suspense of classic whodunits.
Tune in for a weekly dose of mystery, where each story promises a twist that will keep you guessing until the very end.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 79 episodes
- The Great Valdez Sapphire by Ellen Mary Clerke · 1 h 5 minNot by Mary Agnes Clerke but her sister Ellen Mary Clerke... A country‑house dinner, a proud gem‑collector, and a bishop who turns suddenly pale at the sight of a certain blue…
- The Story of the Czarina's Diamonds by Richard Harding Davis · 28 min · Season 3Following on from The Story of the Naval Attaché last week, we move onto part 2 of Richard Harding Davis's novella: In The Fog, in which a Queen's Messenger has an encounter with…
- The Story of the Naval Attache by Richard Harding Davis · 1 h 15 min · Season 1On a winter night when London has quite forgotten the idea of light, an American naval attaché loses his way in the yellow murk near Knightsbridge. The streets are gone, the…
- The Adventure of the Copper Beeches by Arthur Conan Doyle · 1 h 19 minMiss Violet Hunter has been offered a post as governess at a salary so far above the ordinary. The conditions attached are small, and each on its own might be put down to an…
- The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet by Arthur Conan Doyle · 1 h 10 minOn a bitter winter morning in London, a respected banker arrives at Baker Street half‑mad with terror. In his keeping was one of the most precious ornaments of the British…
- The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor (Sherlock Holmes) by Arthur Conan Doyle · 1 h 5 minA bride vanishes from her own wedding breakfast. Her clothes are found floating in the Serpentine. A jealous woman is taken away by the police. Every sign points toward something…
- The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb by Arthur Conan Doyle · 1 h 10 minA young hydraulic engineer is offered an unusually generous fee for a small, secret piece of work. The commission requires absolute discretion; the journey must be made at night…
- The Man With The Twisted Lip (Sherlock Holmes) by A. Conan Doyle · 1 h 21 min · Season 5In a reeking opium den on the riverside, Dr Watson is looking for a lost soul when he stumbles on something stranger than any drugged vision: an old man who isn’t what he seems…
- The Five Orange Pips (Sherlock Holmes) by Arthur Conan Doyle · 1 h 14 min · Season 2Five dried orange pips, sent through the post with no letter, no explanation, only three initials scrawled beneath them. Twice before, the same type of letter arrived at an…
- A Case of Identity by Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) · 1 h 1 min · Season 3A woman comes to Baker Street with a hundred pounds a year, a typewriter, and a fiancé who has vanished into thin air as if he had never existed at all. Sherlock Holmes never…
- Dancing Dan's Christmas by Damon Runyon · 54 minOn Christmas Eve during Prohibition, a burglar named Dancing Dan drinks hot Tom and Jerrys at Good Time Charley's speakeasy with the narrator and the proprietor. Dan has been…
- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Arthur Conan Doyle · 1 h 8 minA battered hat. A Christmas goose. A puzzle that begins in jest. On a winter evening in Baker Street, what starts as idle curiosity leads Sherlock Holmes into the heart of…
- Rear WIndow by Cornell Woolrich · 1 h 37 minRead by Brendan Sullivan A man, stuck inside with time on his hands, watches the small theatre of neighbouring lives through a single window. Patterns harden into questions…
- The Inoffensive Captain by E C Bentley · 1 h 12 minA dangerous prisoner has escaped from Dartmoor, and the police are certain he will return to where he stashed the stolen jewels whose whereabouts remain maddeningly obscure. When…
- The Mystery of the Child's Toy by Leslie Charteris · 1 h 7 minwo men are out late for dinner in a swanky hotel: one is a detective, the other writes detective stories. They notice three Wall Street tycoons at a nearby table. Before the…
- The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle · 1 h 4 minA young woman arrives at Baker Street with a story of barred shutters, a locked room, and a low whistle in the small hours. Holmes and Watson travel to a crumbling country house…
- Death on the Air by Ngaio Marsh · 1 h 33 minWas it accident, or murder? On a frosty Christmas morning, the household of Septimus Tonks awakens to a grim discovery: their patriarch lies lifeless beside his wireless set…
- The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle · 1 h 18 minCan a hair colour be sinister, Holmes? A London pawnbroker, lured by the absurd Red-Headed League, unwittingly becomes a pawn in a far grander scheme. As Jabez Wilson carries out…
- Abraham Lincoln's Clue by Ellery Queen · 59 minThis story by two American cousins, Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, writing under the name Ellery Queen, is a classic of Golden Age American detective fiction, narrated for…
- Cheating the Gallows by Israel Zwangill · 51 min · Season 2Two men share a room, yet live separate lives. One vanishes with a fortune, the other consoles the abandoned bride. But the evidence stacks up, a man is condemned, justice is…
