THE DETECTIVE WHO SANG
What if Philip Marlowe stopped halfway through a case... and sang a song?
In 1946, radio tried something almost impossible to imagine today.
Carl Brisson — international singer, movie star and former leading man for Alfred Hitchcock — became a detective. A detective who sang.
The short-lived series A Voice in the Night, sometimes remembered as The Musical Detective, mixed crime, comedy, nightclub atmosphere and popular songs into one wonderfully peculiar radio experiment.
In this Chesterton Radio Deep Dive, we rediscover two surviving mysteries — “The Stolen Necklace” and “The Case of the…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.