{"podcast":{"title":"1001 Radio Crime Solvers","slug":"1001-radio-crime-solvers-5874010","podcast_index_feed_id":5874010,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/529217/rss","website_url":"https://www.bestof1001stories.com/show/1001-radio-crime-solvers/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/0/a/1/a/0a1a12190707444fe55e3c100dce7605/1001Radio_logo2.jpg","author":"Jon Hagadorn","episode_count":281,"summary":"Welcome to 1001 Radio Crime Solvers - where you can enjoy the best radio detective stories from the golden age of radio. This was a time when TV was still in its infancy and radio was in its creative heyday- using top writers and top talent to capture huge audiences, and shows featuring hard boiled detectives like Sam Spade, Richard Diamond, Philip Marlowe, and Johnny Dollar competed for prime time with mental sleuths like Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown, and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. And here you'll find standouts -like Dragnet's Joe Friday, Vincent Price's 'The Saint', and Michael Waring's free-lance troubleshooting investigator 'The Falcon'- to name a few. We release new episodes every Sunday at 5pm ET. We're a proud part of 1001 Stories Network. www.1001storiespodcast.com.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-03T08:29:05.147245+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers-5874010"},"episode":{"title":"THE SS MALAY TRADER SHIP and THE GRAVE DIGGERS SPADE","slug":"the-ss-malay-trader-ship-and-the-grave-diggers-spade","published_at":"2026-06-19T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers-5874010/the-ss-malay-trader-ship-and-the-grave-diggers-spade","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers-5874010","url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/6d90722a-143f-45eb-83cc-2b5ba24978df/ADL9319026664.mp3","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/6d90722a-143f-45eb-83cc-2b5ba24978df/ADL9319026664.mp3?dest-id=4552092","summary":"🎙️ SHOW NOTES — 1001 Radio Crime Solvers Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar \"The SS Malay Trader\" & \"The Grave Digger's Spade\" Episode 1 — The SS Malay Trader A Missing Ship, a Vanished Crew, and an Insurance Case That Doesn't Add Up Johnny Dollar is sent to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the SS Malay Trader , a freighter that left port with a full crew and valuable cargo—and then simply stopped existing. No distress call. No debris. No survivors. Just silence. Dollar's search leads him into a world of maritime secrets, falsified records, and people who know far more than they're willing to admit . Every clue he uncovers suggests the ship didn't vanish by accident. Someone engineered the disappearance, and they're willing to go to great lengths to keep the truth submerged. With danger rising on all sides, Johnny must piece together the final hours of the Malay Trader before the people behind the scheme erase the last traces of their crime. A tense, atmospheric sea‑mystery that blends classic Dollar grit with the eerie isolation of the open ocean. Episode 2 — The Grave Digger's Spade A Quiet Town, a Disturbed Grave, and a Secret Someone Is Desperate to Bury When an insurance claim leads Johnny Dollar to a small town with a freshly disturbed grave, he quickly realizes he's stepped into a case where the dead aren't the only ones with secrets . A missing beneficiary, a suspicious burial, and a handful of nervous locals point to a truth someone has tried very hard to keep underground. Dollar's investigation uncovers a web of fraud, fear, and long‑buried grudges , each one tied to the mysterious figure whose grave has been tampered with. As he digs deeper—figuratively and literally—he finds himself closing in on a motive powerful enough to drive someone to desecrate a g…","meta_description":"🎙️ SHOW NOTES — 1001 Radio Crime Solvers Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar \"The SS Malay Trader\" & \"The Grave Digger's Spade\" Episode 1 — The SS Malay Trader A M…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3749,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/1001-radio-crime-solvers-5874010/episodes/the-ss-malay-trader-ship-and-the-grave-diggers-spade/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/1001-radio-crime-solvers-5874010/the-ss-malay-trader-ship-and-the-grave-diggers-spade.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}