The Falcon - Shakedown
Just finished listening to "The Falcon - Shakedown" released by Radio Spirits back in 2014, and is now out-of-print.
Yes, "The Falcon - Shakedown" has been patiently waiting in my audio tsundoku, i.e. antilibrary. I have three separate tsundoks - books, DVDs, and audio CDs, each with several hundreds of unread, unwatched, and unlistened to books, DVDs, and audio CDs.
Drexel Drake; whose real name was Charles H. Huff) created the fictional private investigator Michael Waring, alias the Falcon, a freelance investigator and troubleshooter, in his 1936 novel, The Falcon's Prey - which was followed by two more novels – The Falcon Cuts In, 1937, and The Falcon Meets a Lady, 1938. Drake's Falcon novels were best sellers and spawned a series of popular movies. So it was only natural for a popular movies series to jump over to radio from the silver screen and evening having a 39-episode run on television.
Each radio show began with a telephone ringing and Michael Waring, the Falcon, answering the phone. Speaking with a woman whose voice was never heard, Waring would explain that he had an urgent situation in which he had to deal with criminals. This intro-hook carried over when Waring, in the radio series, retired from his job as a private investigator and was recalled into Army Intelligence to fight the threat of Communism in Europe - a staple of radio programs in the 1950s as Communism became a growing threat to Western Democracies.
My favorite episodes in this collection are: "The Case of Everybody's Gun," "The Case of the Broken Fingerprint," "The Case of the Hypocritical Hypo," "The Case of the Jumping Jack," and "The Case of The Disappearing Doll."
Great Detective Drama from Radio's Golden Age.
Strongly Recommended!
Five Stars!
https://www.amazon.com/Falcon-Shakedo...
Yes, "The Falcon - Shakedown" has been patiently waiting in my audio tsundoku, i.e. antilibrary. I have three separate tsundoks - books, DVDs, and audio CDs, each with several hundreds of unread, unwatched, and unlistened to books, DVDs, and audio CDs.
Drexel Drake; whose real name was Charles H. Huff) created the fictional private investigator Michael Waring, alias the Falcon, a freelance investigator and troubleshooter, in his 1936 novel, The Falcon's Prey - which was followed by two more novels – The Falcon Cuts In, 1937, and The Falcon Meets a Lady, 1938. Drake's Falcon novels were best sellers and spawned a series of popular movies. So it was only natural for a popular movies series to jump over to radio from the silver screen and evening having a 39-episode run on television.
Each radio show began with a telephone ringing and Michael Waring, the Falcon, answering the phone. Speaking with a woman whose voice was never heard, Waring would explain that he had an urgent situation in which he had to deal with criminals. This intro-hook carried over when Waring, in the radio series, retired from his job as a private investigator and was recalled into Army Intelligence to fight the threat of Communism in Europe - a staple of radio programs in the 1950s as Communism became a growing threat to Western Democracies.
My favorite episodes in this collection are: "The Case of Everybody's Gun," "The Case of the Broken Fingerprint," "The Case of the Hypocritical Hypo," "The Case of the Jumping Jack," and "The Case of The Disappearing Doll."
Great Detective Drama from Radio's Golden Age.
Strongly Recommended!
Five Stars!
https://www.amazon.com/Falcon-Shakedo...
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