Candy Matson & Carter Brown: Two Detectives, Two Continents, One Hard-Boiled World
Candy Matson lived on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.
Carter Brown never existed.
Yet put their mysteries side by side, and they seem to walk the same rain-slicked midnight streets.
In this Chesterton Radio Deep Dive, we enter two remarkable corners of postwar detective radio. Candy Matson, YUkon 2-8209 gave American listeners something unusual for 1949: a smart, independent female private detective working the very real streets of San Francisco. Cable cars, Telegraph Hill, Fort Ord and California’s Valley of the Moon weren’t generic noir scenery. They were Candy’s world.
Then there was…
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