Performance audiobooks

Tales of the Texas Rangers

By: Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Tales of the Texas Rangers, a western adventure old-time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on the U.S. NBC radio network and remained on the air through September 14, 1952. Movie star Joel McCrea starred as Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, who used the latest scientific techniques to identify the criminals and his faithful horse, Charcoal, to... Read more

Suspense

By: Various

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

One of the premier drama programs of the Golden age of Radio, Suspense was subtitled “radio’s outstanding theater of thrills." The protagonist was usually a normal person suddenly dropped into a bizarre or threatening situation; solutions were “withheld until the last possible second” and evildoers were usually punished in the end. Read more

Philo Vance Detective

By: Jackson Beck

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Exceptionally entertaining, soft-boiled Detective Philo Vance solves murders with his wits. His brain is a match for the Great Sherlock Holmes, and so is his superior attitude. This radio series pays homage to the original detective novels of Van Dine first published in the mid-1920s. Read more

Our Miss Brooks

By: Al Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Featuring a witty professional woman as the central character of this old-time radio show, Our Miss Brooks was a groundbreaking concept. Audiences could (and continue to) relate to Connie Brooks as a clever, sarcastic, kindhearted teacher. A year before the radio series ended, it had a television, stage play, and film adaptations of the same title. Read more

Night Beat

By: Various

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This popular radio program followed Randy Stone, a hard-nosed Chicago Star newsman, and his quest for the human-interest story behind the headlines. Running from 1950 to 1952, listeners were invited to join the newsman in his journeys, oftentimes encountering criminals and troubled souls. Read more

My Favorite Husband

By: Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Pugh & Jess Oppenheimer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

My Favorite Husband starred Lucille Ball and Richard Denning as Liz and George Cooper (Liz and George Cugat in early episodes). The couple lived at 321 Bundy Drive in the fictitious city of Sheridan Falls, and were billed as two people who live together and like it. Read more

Philo Vance Detective: Roof Top Murder Case

By: Jackson Beck

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A dead man found in the Alamo Motel was killed by ranch owner Bolan, but he's also the corpse! Read more

Our Miss Brooks: Key to School

By: Al Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Mrs. Davis leaves with the key to Madison High, and no one can get into school! Not many people like to get up early in the morning but our Miss Brooks, who teaches English at Madison High School doesn’t seem to mind at all. In fact, she gets quite a kick from getting up in the morning because it offers proof positive that she managed to live... Read more

Night Beat: Vincent and the Painter

By: Russell Hughes & Frank Lovejoy

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Alfred Wyman is a strange artist who wants to kill the wealthy Miss Gleason because she killed Vincent. Just when Randy has given up on a story for the night, he stumbles across an old man in a dispute with a taxi driver over the fare. The old man has no money so Randy pays the fare but is surprised when the gentle looking old man, Alfred Wyman,... Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Fool's Gold

By: Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

It is shortly after 9 am on the Tuesday after Labour Day 1946. Two men in a late model black sedan cruise slowly along the main street of the town of Live Oak in West Texas casing a bank. Read more

Suspense: A Present for Benny

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A comedy/gangster story about two boxes. One box contains an ermine coat, the other has a bomb. Which is which? Read more

Suspense: Rave Notice

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Lou has collected for the Red Cross and built a TV. The men discuss sailing and girls. Lou wrote a song and wants to sing. Read more

Suspense: Case History of Edgar Lowndes

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Case History On Edgar Lowndes is a story in which psychiatry is called upon to deal with a sick mind, which has unknowingly been tempted thrice by murder. Thomas Mitchell stars as the millionaire tycoon Edgar Lowndes and Donald Crisp as the psychiatrist Dr Erinson. A railroad magnate visits a psychiatrist with complaints of headaches and bad... Read more

Suspense: Of Maestro and Men

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Lorre is typecast as The Maestro, a prizefight manager planning revenge on his star fighter by scalding him to death in the steamroom! Read more

Suspense: Death Went Along For the Ride

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A man driving across country (with a beautiful hitchhiker) is shot at everywhere he goes. Death Went Along For The Ride is a suspense play that tells of fear, suspicion and dangerous adventure on a long highway from California to New York. Read more

Suspense: Fear Paints a Picture

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A young girl about to inherit a fortune, is going mad. A picture of a man in her room comes closer and closer to her. There is a picture hanging on a wall, you look at it casually, an extraordinary picture you’ll say skilfully done, look at those fine brush stokes those superb colors, but isn’t the subject matter a little bizarre? It is... Read more

Suspense: Two Sharp Knives

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A story about a bumbling small town assistant police chief who's not as dumb as he seems to be. A wanted man is captured and later found hanging in his cell. The program has a surprise ending. Read more

Philo Vance Detective: Argyle Murder Case

By: Jackson Beck

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Argyle Murder Case opened with the finding of the body of a man dressed in brand new clothing with the exception of a pair of argyle socks. Vance, with only this meagre clue to work on, identifies the body and manages to interview three people, Roger Star owner and feature performer in a theater company, Lila Martin, an actress, and Milton... Read more

Our Miss Brooks: Mr. Boyington's Parents

By: Al Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Brooks has been named Mother Away From Mother. To most people a warm day in May suggests a drive in the country or a leisurely picnic but to our Miss Brooks who teaches English at Madison High School it has a far different significance... Read more

Our Miss Brooks: Student Banking

By: Al Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Mrs. Davis uses $25 intended to be deposited in the school savings account to buy Miss Brooks a new dress. Miss Brooks, the English teacher at Madison High School, has been busy, but not busy enough for the warden. She ends up taking responsibility for the students money with disastrous consequences. Read more

Our Miss Brooks: Grudge Match

By: Al Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

There's going to be a grudge fight between Walter Denton and Stretch Snodgrass over the hand of fair Harriet Conklin. Walter and Stretch were the best of friends until one night when Walter found out that his best friend had been to the movies with his girlfriend Harriet Conkli. Read more

Night Beat: The Will of Mrs. Orloff

By: Frank Lovejoy

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It wasn’t much of a story just an obituary, Mrs. Martha Orloff, age 62, scrub woman, death by natural causes, heart failure. But what’s natural by killing yourself with a scrubbing brush. It would have only been a two-line obit if the other scrubwoman hadn’t stopped him on his way out of the building. Read more

Night Beat: The Black Cat

By: Frank Lovejoy

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

For Randy Stone of the Chicago Star, stories begin in many ways. This one began with a Halloween killing and ended with a black cat sweet revenge. Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Blind Justice

By: Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 5.45 am March 6th, 1940 and Pete Salverson owner of the roadside café in West Texas is opening for business. As he sweeps up in the kitchen he hears a sound outside the back door and discovers a beat up and hungry dog there with a strange kind of leash on it like a harness the kind a blind mans dog might wear. When the sheriff turns up he... Read more