News, Reviews, and Commentary on all forms of science fiction, fantasy, and horror audio. Audiobooks, audio drama, podcasts; we discuss all of it here. Mystery, crime, and noir audio are also fair game.
I got hooked on mystery magazines when, as a young lad, I spent a summer in Calgary with my baba and zaida. My zaida had an extensive library, which included a great number of mystery books and magazines. Among them… Read moreThe McWilliamses And The Burglar Alarm by Mark Twain
Following up on the last FREE Bill Pronzini/Nameless Detective audiobook released by Audio Go (formerly BBC Audiobooks America, formerly Chivers Audio) comes this follow up Nameless Detective tale by Bill Pronzini… The Ghosts Of Ragged-Ass Gulch (A Nameless Detective Mystery)… Read moreThe Ghosts Of Ragged-Ass Gulch by Bill Pronzini
The Radio Times has a picked a new play set to air on February 4th, 2010 in BBC Radio 4’s Afternoon Play slot. It’ll be a curious dramatization of the real life collaboration between Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler while… Read moreBBC R4: Double Jeopardy, a dramatization about Double Indemnity
There’s a fascinating conversation between Raymond Chandler and Ian Fleming available over on BBC Archives. It was first broadcast on the BBC “Third Program” on July 10th, 1958. In it the two famed authors, and friends, discuss each others novels… Read moreIan Fleming and Raymond Chandler in conversation
Here’s another David Dodge radio drama, Plunder of the Sun, produced in the USA this time, and much older (having been produced the same year the novel came out). This time the setting is South America, rather than Cote D’Azur…. Read moreEscape: David Dodge’s Plunder Of The Sun
First published in the December 1951 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, To Catch A Thief is the romantic tale of an ex-American jewel thief living in retirement on the French Riviera. Randal S. Brandt, who penned the introduction to the recently… Read moreBBCR4 + RA.cc: To Catch A Thief