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Endless Noir
New old-time radio: an original 1930s detective drama, a new case from Calloway Bay every Monday. A detective the city never quite writes down, and a world that only grows. Every case stands alone, so start anywhere, no catch-up required. Tune in at endlessnoir.com, where the station plays the whole run start to finish, around the clock. How it is made: Endless Noir is a self-writing serial. Every case is written, voiced, and scored by an autonomous pipeline against a persistent canon…
Episodes
Endless NoirCase 064 — No Two Alike
A locked disc holds the only true record of the night, and Thorpe says it is not for playing. From the cold open: "Mind the sacks, watch your step — every one…
Endless NoirCase 063 — Both Hands at One Table
Two separate informations, two different hands, both naming the same walk-up behind the same hand laundry — who informs on their own house twice? From the cold…
Endless NoirCase 062 — Five-Ten Out of Calloway Bay
The clock reads a few hours to the 5:10 and Walter takes a bench facing the door, watching for a man he's sure is coming. From the cold open: "One-way. The…
Endless NoirCase 061 — Supper by Supper
The detective takes the trace and starts the walk down to the dressmaking flat where a stranger stopped breathing. From the cold open: "Twenty years learning…
Endless NoirCase 060 — What the Night Line Heard
She presses a wax disc into his hand — the one shift the charity's men were too quick to collect, the record of the night her sister died at the board. From…
Endless NoirCase 059 — Forgive Him First
The one un-smiling face in the room is the detective's own, and he says a story like this plays like a happy ending only if you never run it backward — so he's…
Endless NoirCase 058 — A Clean Slate, Rented
Crandall pays his day rate to find Renner's killer and hands him a ledger closed to the exact page it was open on when the man died over it. From the cold…
Endless NoirCase 057 — State Your Name for the Record
The nameless witness is sworn; the board turns to what he knows about the man seeking to be made new. From the cold open: "This hearing of the Calloway Bay…
Endless NoirCase 056 — Come Suppertime
He takes the boarding-house address expecting to sign off a formality and be home by dark. From the cold open: "This is the part I set down last, after it was…
Endless NoirCase 055 — Nothing Owed
Tobin says the words that let Sowell off every hook there is — no marker, no penance, nothing owed — and the detective, who came here to close a case, realizes…
Endless NoirCase 054 — Good Night, and Be Forgiven
She swears the voice absolving strangers on the air is the man who killed her husband, and the detective, telling this from the far side of it, already knows…
Endless NoirCase 053 — Vouched
A woman at the back who never applauds is gone before the handshake, and Cole's thanks land a half-beat too smooth, a wrongness the detective can't place under…
Endless NoirCase 052 — Play This When I'm Gone
The master of ceremonies announces the dead man left a testament in his own voice to be played tonight, and the detective feels the weight of the second…
Endless NoirCases 050-051 — Double Feature: What the Poor Box Kept / Known by Ear
A double feature from the vault — 2 complete cases, back to back, the way the anthology hours ran them. Case 050 — What the Poor Box Kept: The books already…
Endless NoirCases 048-049 — Double Feature: New Names for Old / Forgiven by Inches
A double feature from the vault — 2 complete cases, back to back, the way the anthology hours ran them. Season 4 premiere. Case 048 — New Names for Old: The…
Endless NoirCase 047 — The Marker No One Pays
Brogan asks him to hold one old man's gate call before the morning shape — and holding it means walking into the machine that finally has his face. Season 3…
Endless NoirCases 045-046 — Double Feature: The Man She Sent Me To / The Ground Won't Take Him
A double feature from the vault — 2 complete cases, back to back, the way the anthology hours ran them. Case 045 — The Man She Sent Me To: He takes the job to…
Endless NoirCases 043-044 — Double Feature: The Man He Swore To / The Favor Comes Due
A double feature from the vault — 2 complete cases, back to back, the way the anthology hours ran them. Case 043 — The Man He Swore To: Brogan asks the…
Endless NoirCases 041-042 — Double Feature: A Warm Room to Leave From / The Line She Called
A double feature from the vault — 2 complete cases, back to back, the way the anthology hours ran them. Case 041 — A Warm Room to Leave From: She leaves the…
Endless NoirCases 039-040 — Double Feature: The Cold Slip / Dead Air
A double feature from the vault — 2 complete cases, back to back, the way the anthology hours ran them. Case 039 — The Cold Slip: She won't say she'll swear to…
Endless NoirCases 037-038 — Double Feature: The Man Who Knew Me When / The Straight Left
A double feature from the vault — 2 complete cases, back to back, the way the anthology hours ran them. Season 3 premiere. Case 037 — The Man Who Knew Me When…
Endless NoirCases 035-036 — Double Feature: The Interested Party / The Man on the Page
A double feature from the vault — 2 complete cases, back to back, the way the anthology hours ran them. Season 2 finale. Case 035 — The Interested Party: She…
Endless NoirCases 033-034 — Double Feature: The Match Nobody Struck / The Open Door
A double feature from the vault — 2 complete cases, back to back, the way the anthology hours ran them. Case 033 — The Match Nobody Struck: An accident doesn't…
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Cases 031-032 — Double Feature: The Word He Lent / The Book of Futures
A double feature from the vault — 2 complete cases, back to back, the way the anthology hours ran them. Case 031 — The Word He Lent: Marchetti tells him it's…
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Cases 029-030 — Double Feature: The Last Number / The Borrowed Name
A double feature from the vault — 2 complete cases, back to back, the way the anthology hours ran them. Case 029 — The Last Number: She said she'd hold him up…
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Case 028 — The Fall She Didn't Take
She can't pay much and she isn't hiding anything — she came because she heard he's the one who does the honest thing, and the only thing she knows for certain…
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Case 027 — The Room She Kept
He takes a case he can't be paid for and knows the girl walked in already half-decided. From the cold open: "First hard frost of the year came in the night and…
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Case 026 — The Next Name in the Tray
The card is stamped fraud, and the only clerk who'll touch it is the examiner who read him line by line. From the cold open: "The municipal relief hall was a…
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Case 025 — In Good Standing
A city license examiner is due at noon to review his permit, and a woman is already waiting past Dale, sent by the reporter, who has telephoned twice. Season 2…
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Case 024 — The Page She Wouldn't Burn
She lays a carbon copy of a file on the blotter she was ordered to feed the furnace, and says the man who gave the order is counting the ashes tonight. Season…
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Case 023 — The Audit of a Man Who Doesn't Exist
The woman in the waiting room asked Dale which old cases the detective still kept files on — and smiled when Dale wouldn't say. From the cold open: "The rain…
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Case 022 — The Order Nobody Signed
He's holding a city order that points straight back into the territory the machine warned him out of. From the cold open: "The rain had been coming down since…
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Case 021 — The Courtesy Call
A hand-delivered card invites the detective to the Blue Room — and Dale points out the thing he already knows: in twenty years Marchetti has never once asked…
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Case 020 — The Name He Stepped Into
The date she gives for when her man walked out and didn't come back is the day Flynn walked a frightened stranger down the courthouse steps at noon. From the…
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Case 019 — The Debt Comes Walking
The envelope holds no money and no name — only a time, a place, and the line 'you said eyes open,' and the detective knows which debt just woke up. From the…
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Case 018 — Something Put By
A name the detective hoped he'd buried surfaces on a clerk's transfer list — and a name on that list has days, not weeks. From the cold open: "Some mornings…
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Case 017 — The Picture She Keeps
She leaves a photograph and a held-back grief; Flynn sees the face of a man who packed before he left, not one who was taken. From the cold open: "Some clients…
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Case 016 — The Quiet Account
The workday she circled in his pocket diary is the day before he died, and the figures he wrote beside it don't add up to anything yet. From the cold open: "It…
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Case 015 — The Marker
The man Marchetti describes fits the one man Flynn hoped he'd never be asked about. From the cold open: "The back booth of the Blue Room was where Calloway Bay…
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Case 014 — The Ember Trade
The secretary slides a calling card across the desk — a name the detective thought the city had finished burying — and says the woman is already in the hall…
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Case 013 — The Name on the Door
The morning Chronicle carries an appointment notice with a name the detective knows, and he reads in it the answer to a silence he's been waiting on for two…
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Case 012 — The Quiet Answer
There's a woman who won't give a name, only that it's about a name — and she's been waiting since before the office opened. From the cold open: "I'd said the…
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Case 011 — The Name He Never Said
He's decided to do the one thing he's refused for years, and won't say what it is — only that he's done waiting for his name to come up. From the cold open…
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Case 010 — The Last Honest Man
Brogan has a name and a sit-down set for tomorrow night, and he wants the detective standing next to him when he pulls it. From the cold open: "It was the…
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Case 009 — The Hand That Reached Down
A kid found Frankie Slim under the el at low tide, but it's the way he was killed that's wrong: too clean, too quiet, no message left for anybody. Frankie was…
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Case 008 — The Wrong Address
The hunters already knew where the witness slept last night; someone is a step ahead of the detective, and the only people who knew his moves are on his own…
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Case 007 — The Last Train Out
A woman who won't give a name but knows his says she'll be at a place at midnight, and if he doesn't come she's already dead. From the cold open: "The morning…
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Case 006 — The Operative
She slides a brass key across the desk and says it opens a drawer belonging to the most respectable man in Calloway Bay. From the cold open: "The rain was…
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Case 005 — The Long Count
She swears her man was clean and never took a dive in his life, so why was he found dead in his corner the morning after he wouldn't go down? From the cold…
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Case 004 — The Long Memory
She slides a creased photograph across the desk — a girl's face from twenty years back — and the detective realizes he's seen those eyes somewhere he can't…
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Case 003 — The Frame-Up
There's a fresh body across town, killed with the detective's own gun, and the police are already on the stairs. From the cold open: "Monday crawled in off the…
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Case 002 — The D.A.'s Money
The only proof died in the harbor, unless somewhere there's a copy of the D.A.'s ledger. From the cold open: "Midnight, and the rain was still working…
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Case 001 — The Harbor Widow
A snitch coughs up the name Marchetti, then bolts for the door. Season 1 premiere. From the cold open: "Frankie Slim wasn't slim, and his name wasn't Frankie…
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New old-time radio: an original 1930s detective drama, a new case from Calloway Bay every Monday. A detective the city never quite writes down, and a world…