Podcasts Arts Performing Arts Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives) Episode 367 Im Just a Poe Boy (Weird Circle, Suspense, & NBC University Theatre)

Episode 367 Im Just a Poe Boy (Weird Circle, Suspense, & NBC University Theatre)

Published: Jan. 19, 2020, 5 a.m.

We're celebrating the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe - the master of the macabre and the father of the modern detective story. Poe's super sleuth C. Auguste Dupin and his methods of solving crimes through logic and observation inspired a genre and directly led to the creation of Sherlock Holmes. We'll hear old time radio adaptations of the three Dupin mysteries: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" from\xa0The Weird Circle; "The Mystery of Marie Roget" from\xa0Suspense (originally aired on CBS on December 14, 1953); and "The Purloined Letter" from\xa0The NBC University Theatre (originally aired on NBC on September 17, 1948).