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  • The Adventures of Philip Marlowe The Dear Dead Days

    The Adventures of Philip Marlowe The Dear Dead Days
    2026/09/10
    It was a Saturday morning—the kind I don't get often enough. No clients, no trouble, just me and a book and the promise of a quiet day. Then the phone rang. Mrs. Phoebe Cardwell, an elderly widow with a voice that carried the weight of better days, needed my help. Her chauffeur, Stevens, had vanished. Not a word in weeks. She was worried sick. "Stevens is like a son to me," she said. How could I say no?That's how it started. And like most things that start with a worried woman and a missing man, it ended somewhere I never expected.This is Philip Marlowe. This is The Dear Dead Days.What seemed like a simple missing person case took me from a modest bungalow in Venice to a stately Pasadena estate, where I found Stevens alive and well—and up to his neck in something far darker than a skipped visit. He was packing jade and gold artifacts. Ancient pieces. Valuable. The kind of treasures that don't belong in a chauffeur's quarters. And when I saw the exact same jade vases sitting on Phoebe's mantel, I knew I was looking at a puzzle with pieces that didn't fit .The trail led to the Live Oak Museum, where a priceless collection called the Sing Wu had mysteriously vanished back in 1947. The museum had kept it quiet to avoid scandal. Phoebe Cardwell, it turned out, had been a chairman of the museum's art committee. Her husband Horace had died almost penniless. And those jade artifacts I kept seeing? They were pieces of the missing collection .But the truth was stranger than theft. Phoebe wasn't a criminal. She was a woman with a secret illness—kleptomania—that her husband had spent his fortune trying to hide. She couldn't help herself. And Stevens, loyal to the core, had been quietly selling the pieces she gave him to support her in her old age. He wasn't a thief. He was a protector .Sometimes the hardest cases aren't about catching the bad guy. Sometimes they're about finding a way to make things right without destroying the people who deserve better. I found a solution that let Phoebe keep her dignity, let Stevens walk away with a reward instead of a prison sentence, and returned the collection to its rightful place. It wasn't justice in the usual sense. But it was the closest thing to a happy ending I'd ever seen .Press play—and step into the world of Philip Marlowe, where the shadows hold secrets, the coffee is always black, and the truth is rarely what it seems.

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    31 分
  • The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Red Wind

    The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Red Wind
    2026/09/10
    There was a desert wind blowing that night. One of those hot, dry Santa Anas that comes down through the mountain passes and curls your hair and makes your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that, every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge .That's how this one started.I was sitting in a bar across from my apartment building, nursing a beer and trying to forget the day, when a small, snappily dressed man named Waldo walked in asking about a woman in a print bolero jacket and a blue silk dress. The drunk at the end of the bar didn't like the look of him. He plugged Waldo twice through the heart, muttered "So long, Waldo," and vanished into the hot wind. I called the police, told them about the seven hundred dollars in Waldo's pocket, and figured that was the end of it .It wasn't.Back at my apartment building, I stepped off the elevator and came face to face with the woman from Waldo's description. She was trembling, packing a small automatic, and ready to use it. Her name was Lola Barsaly. Waldo had been her chauffeur before he stole her fifteen-thousand-dollar pearl necklace—a gift from her dead lover, Johnny Dalmas. She wanted it back. She wanted it back bad enough to follow the trail into a web of murder, blackmail, and betrayal .The dead bodies started stacking up. Waldo's killer came knocking at my door with a .22 target pistol. Another corpse turned up in Waldo's apartment—a man strangled and stuffed into a Murphy bed. A Russian kept woman, a wealthy engineer with a gun, and a string of pearls that turned out to be worth less than the clasp that held them together .By the time the pieces fell into place, I'd made a deal with the cops, protected a few reputations, and sat on a rock at Malibu, watching the seagulls swoop at the splashes as I tossed a string of phony pearls into the Pacific, one by one . They'd fooled Waldo and Lola, but they couldn't fool a seagull.This is Philip Marlowe. This is Red Wind. The premiere episode of the classic CBS series that set the tone for everything that followed . Press play—and let the Santa Ana winds carry you into the shadows.

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    30 分
  • The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Nether Nether Land

    The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Nether Nether Land
    2026/09/10
    It was the kind of night that had no business being anything but quiet. I was bone-tired, half-asleep, and moments away from the kind of oblivion a man in my line of work learns to cherish. Then the knocking started. A woman at my door, trembling, beautiful, and carrying a story that didn't quite fit together. Carolyn Shepard claimed someone was following her. She said she didn't know why or who. She needed help. So I put on the coffee and told her to talk. Then she vanished. Just like that. From a locked apartment. No sound. No trace. Just her wallet left behind on the table.That's how it started. And like most things that start with a desperate woman and a midnight knock, it didn't end anywhere I expected.This is Philip Marlowe. This is Nether Nether Land.In this classic episode from the golden age of radio, Marlowe is drawn into a labyrinth of half-truths, disappearing women, and a secret so dark that the mind itself becomes the final crime scene. The trail leads from a frantic roommate to a mysterious blackmailer named Frank Laszlo. From a hospital bed holding an unidentified blonde to a man named Pious Oldfield who's just too tall to be the one they're chasing. And finally, to a moment of breaking—when Carolyn Shepard, cornered by her own demons, screams at a ghost: "You're dead, Steve... I killed you!"The truth was always there, hiding in plain sight. She hadn't been running from a stalker. She'd been running from herself. Conscience. Guilt. A memory she couldn't outrun.The case solved itself in the end. But some cases don't end clean. Some leave you sitting in the dark, wondering how many people around you are haunted by ghosts only they can see.Press play—if you dare. Enter the world of Philip Marlowe, where the shadows are long, the coffee is black, and the truth is the last thing anyone wants to find.

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    30 分
  • He Disappeared Minutes Before the Wedding — And the Truth Is Worse Than You Think

    He Disappeared Minutes Before the Wedding — And the Truth Is Worse Than You Think
    2026/09/03
    Minutes before her wedding, her groom stepped into a carriage, asked her to wait — and vanished. No note. No explanation. No trace.

    Mary Sutherland comes to Sherlock Holmes heartbroken and desperate for answers, convinced something terrible happened to the man she loved. But Holmes barely needs to leave his chair before he sees the truth — and it's far more disturbing than a kidnapping or a crime scene.

    Sometimes the person hurting you the most isn't a stranger. Sometimes they're standing right beside you, and you never see it coming.

    "A Case of Identity" is one of the quietest, most unsettling stories Conan Doyle ever wrote — no murder, no chase, just a truth so close to home it changes everything.

    Part of Baker Street: Unsolved Cases, based on the original story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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    43 分
  • Framed for Murder: The Case That Nearly Hanged an Innocent Man

    Framed for Murder: The Case That Nearly Hanged an Innocent Man
    2026/09/03
    He was named the sole heir to a fortune the night before the man who wrote the will vanished without a trace. Now there's blood at the crime scene, a signed confession of guilt in the evidence, and Scotland Yard is closing in — with a noose waiting for him.

    John Hector McFarland swears he's innocent. But every single clue says otherwise.

    With his client's life hanging by a thread, Sherlock Holmes has hours — not days — to prove that the most obvious answer isn't always the right one. What he uncovers will turn the entire case on its head.

    This is "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder," one of the most gripping wrongful-accusation cases Holmes ever solved. If you think you know how this ends, think again.

    Part of Baker Street: Unsolved Cases, based on the original story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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    58 分
  • Five Orange Seeds, One Deadly Warning

    Five Orange Seeds, One Deadly Warning
    2026/09/03
    A letter arrives at 221B Baker Street containing nothing but five dried orange pips and three chilling letters: K.K.K. For John Openshaw, it's a death sentence — the same warning his uncle and his father received, right before they died. Desperate, he turns to Sherlock Holmes for protection. But this time, the great detective may be too late.

    "The Five Orange Pips" is one of the darkest cases in the Holmes canon — a story of vengeance, secret societies, and a race against time that doesn't end the way you'd expect.

    Episode 5 of Baker Street: Unsolved Cases, based on the original story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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    48 分
  • The Only Woman Who Ever Beat Sherlock Holmes

    The Only Woman Who Ever Beat Sherlock Holmes
    2026/09/02
    The Only Woman Who Ever Beat Sherlock Holmes

    The King of Bohemia arrives at 221B Baker Street with a desperate request: recover a scandalous photograph before it destroys his upcoming marriage. But the woman holding it — the clever and elusive Irene Adler — turns out to be more than Holmes bargained for. Using disguise, deduction, and every trick in his arsenal, the great detective closes in... only to discover that this time, he's been outsmarted.

    This is "A Scandal in Bohemia," the story that proves even Sherlock Holmes can lose — and the case that made Irene Adler the only woman he ever called "The Woman."

    A classic mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, brought to life in this first episode of Baker Street: Unsolved Cases.

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    55 分