{"podcast":{"title":"The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas","slug":"the-great-detectives-of-old-time-radio-daily-mystery-dramas-162279","podcast_index_feed_id":162279,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4607052/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/otr-detective-the-great-detectives-of-ol","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/70809e24fe2019aecf85b00b4ec6c3cc.jpg","author":"Adam Graham","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Are you ready for a mystery? Get ready to unleash your inner sleuth. Every day Monday-Saturday, we feature a different detective audio drama from the Golden Age of Radio. Our current mystery-solving line-up of radio detectives includes The Adventures of the Falcon, Charlie Chan, Broadway's My Beat, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, and Dragnet. Whether you want to listen to a mystery before going to sleep or enjoy some drama while driving, or just feel nostalgia for old-school radio fiction, we have you covered with six audio dramas every week. Podcast Award finalist Host Adam Graham has been your guide through dozens of old-time radio detective series since 2009. He provides insightful commentary and humor after each episode and responds to listener questions and feedback. You can subscribe to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from your favorite podcast app or by visiting our website at http://www.greatdetectives.net . We are currently in our fifteenth season of provided suspenseful mystery dramas. Our podcast feed captures the last 1,000 episodes we've released including all of seasons thirteen and fourteen, and part of season twelve. We have created two archive feeds: Volume 1, w…","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T14:17:29.582006+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-detectives-of-old-time-radio-daily-mystery-dramas-162279"},"episode":{"title":"The Saint:  Sonata for a Slayer (EP4976)","slug":"the-saint-sonata-for-a-slayer-ep4976","published_at":"2026-05-18T07:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-detectives-of-old-time-radio-daily-mystery-dramas-162279/the-saint-sonata-for-a-slayer-ep4976","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-detectives-of-old-time-radio-daily-mystery-dramas-162279","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-saint-sonata-for-a-slayer-ep4976--71970930","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdcn.co/e/pdrl.fm/997ffb/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71970930/gd4976.mp3","summary":"Today's Mystery: A man asks Simon to investigate a case where a talented pianist's life is endangered by Beethoven, but then is murdered himself. Original Radio Broadcast Date: June 18, 1950 Originating from Hollywood Starring: Vincent Price as Simon Templar; Alice Frost; Fritz Feld; Tony Barrett; George Neise Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Patreon Supporter of the Day: BookGeek28, Patreon Supporter since December 2021 Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Take the listener survey at http://survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call at 208-991-4783 Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectives Follow us on Twitter @radiodetectives Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.","meta_description":"Today's Mystery: A man asks Simon to investigate a case where a talented pianist's life is endangered by Beethoven, but then is murdered himself. Original…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1993,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-great-detectives-of-old-time-radio-daily-mystery-dramas-162279/episodes/the-saint-sonata-for-a-slayer-ep4976/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-detectives-of-old-time-radio-daily-mystery-dramas-162279/the-saint-sonata-for-a-slayer-ep4976.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}