Radio drama series
Each series is a different detective in a different city or era. Every episode stands alone, and each one has its full transcript.
Mono Noir Super Series
4 episodes · 3 h 18 min
Special Matters
A Boston policewoman and a man with no pulse take the cases nobody else will file.
Boston, 1950. Nell Harrow is a policewoman parked at the department's basement desk for anything it cannot explain. Jonah is a man with no name, no pulse and no past, who hears every…
57 episodes · 26 h 16 min
Sherlock Holmes — The New Cases
Holmes and Watson, in the real era of each case.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are back at 221B Baker Street, working new cases in the real era of the crime that inspired each story. A summer of World Cup fever in 1966, a sleet-soaked…
10 episodes · 4 h 31 min
Holmes NYC
A modern Sherlock Holmes in New York.
Holmes and Dr. Watson work New York City, from Brooklyn brownstones to the cargo docks at JFK, in the age of cell phones, cameras and databases. Every story uses the technology of the year…
8 episodes · 3 h 43 min
Holmes LA
A modern Sherlock Holmes in Los Angeles.
Sunshine, freeways and secrets: Holmes and Dr. Watson take on modern cases in Los Angeles, where nothing is quite as simple as it looks from a car window. Each story uses the technology of…
8 episodes · 3 h 43 min
Vienna Files
Post-war noir in four-power Vienna.
Vienna, 1945 to 1955: a city of ruins and requisitioned palaces, divided among four occupying powers, where a missing file or an unplaced telephone call can cost someone everything. August…
6 episodes · 2 h 55 min
Moscow Rules
Detective radio drama in post-Soviet Moscow.
Moscow after the Soviet Union, from 1991 to today. Maksim Volkov, a former criminal-investigation officer turned consulting detective, and his flatmate Dr. Grigori Melnik, a military…
6 episodes · 2 h 49 min
Velvet Shadows
Noir in Prague after the Velvet Revolution.
Prague after the Velvet Revolution, from 1990 to 2005: old secrets, new money and a city that is still deciding what to remember. Antonín Zima, a consulting detective, and Pavel Hruška, a…
7 episodes · 3 h 17 min
Istanbul Confidential
Wartime espionage noir in neutral Istanbul.
Istanbul, 1939 to 1950: a neutral city on the Bosphorus where diplomats, spies and ferry captains all drink in the same cafes. Kemal Arslan, a consulting detective, and Captain Haluk…