Episodes

You're listening to The Conquest of David Rugg on The Mystery Cipher– the only surviving episode of The Devil's Scrapbook, a chilling old-time radio show originally broadcast in 1938 on the Mutual Broadcasting System.Hosted b...

Fog has a way of swallowing the truth. On a night when the Thames lay still and London held its breath, a man died without a sound—his skin marked by a strange blue pallor, his secrets carried off by the mist. My name is Dr. ...

“In the dead of a London winter, when the fog lay thick as old grief over Baxter Street, a parcel arrived at our door. Inside it lay an ornate clock—beautifully crafted, fearfully precise… and entirely without hands. But the ...

Welcome to another movie! This one is a little different, while not quite full Film Noir- this was still evolving, Secret Agent definitely flirts with the genre's dark soul — ambiguous heroes, and fatal choices, and a sense t...

An ace of clubs.A dead man.Too many stories that don’t add up. I’ve chased worse odds.They usually chase back. Mercer: Private Eye is a hard-boiled noir mystery series set in 1950s New York, following Calder “Cal” Mercer, a p...

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was one of the most popular American radio detective dramas of the Golden Age of Radio, airing from 1949 to 1962.The show followed Johnny Dollar, a sharp-tongued insurance investigator who traveled ...

Step into a world where shadows speak, clues whisper, and every silence hides a secret. The Mystery Cipher brings you atmospheric detective fiction inspired by classic sleuths and smoky-voiced investigators of a bygone era. H...

There is one dead accountant, two corpses on a pier, and forty-eight hours to stay out of jail.” Join us for a new podcast. Mercer: Private Eye.

In the fog-drenched streets of Victorian London, secrets move quieter than footsteps… and justice moves with a single man. Join us as Kelsom Cholerh—haunted traveler, relentless analyst—unravels mysteries the Empire would rat...

London chokes beneath a fog that seems to know far too much. A statesman lies dead behind a locked door… ash upon his lips, a sealed document burning in his fireplace, and whispers that the Queen’s peace hangs by a thread.Onl...