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Late one night, a man walks into the luxurious home of disgraced banker Harry McNamara and his wife Julie. And when the man launches an unspeakably brutal attack on Harry, a horror-struck Julie, frozen by fear, watches her husband die. Just one hour later, the attacker, J. P. Carney, hands himself into the police and confesses to beating Harry to death. But he also claims that the assault was not premeditated and that he didn't know the identity of his victim.

One freezing December night, the body of young, vulnerable Lizzie Barnsley is found on the side of an isolated canal. When blood from her stiletto heel matches that on a wound on the head of Peter Box, police swiftly declare him the prime suspect in her murder. Criminal lawyer Dan Grant is called in to provide Peter Box's legal defense, along with investigator Jayne Brett. They need answers from Box-but he's not talking.

A story of young love and old death. A girl from Kansas named Linda Johnson has been arrested for grand theft. She's bailed out by someone she doesn't even know. Randy Stone covers the night beat for the Chicago Star searching through the city for strange stories waiting for him in the darkness. This one began with young love and ended with old death.

By day, the park rings with the sound of children's excited laughter. But, in the early hours of the morning, the isolated playground is cloaked in shadows-the perfect hiding place to conceal a brutal murder. When London journalist Mark Roberts is found battered to death, the police quickly arrest petty thief Nick Connor. Criminal defense lawyer Dan Grant along with investigator Jayne Brett are called to represent him-but with bloody footprints and a stolen wallet linking him to the scene, this is one case they're unlikely to win.

Volume 1 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna. At the end of the film, in a spectacular chase through the sewers of the city, Harry met his end - but in radio's first prequel, Welles resumed the role in "The Lives of Harry Lime", a series produced in England by Harry Alan Towers.

Volume 2 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna. At the end of the film, in a spectacular chase through the sewers of the city, Harry met his end - but in radio's first prequel, Welles resumed the role in "The Lives of Harry Lime", a series produced in England by Harry Alan Towers.

Volume 3 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna. At the end of the film, in a spectacular chase through the sewers of the city, Harry met his end - but in radio's first prequel, Welles resumed the role in "The Lives of Harry Lime", a series produced in England by Harry Alan Towers.

International crime. Lushly depicted settings. Shady, interesting characters. And Orson Welles leading the pack as the amoral anti-hero. All of this and more makes The Lives of Harry Lime one of the richest, most intriguing programs ever produced in Radio's heyday. As played by Welles, Lime is a rogue, a scoundrel, and an opportunist. He is also a fascinating character that listeners have always found undeniably attractive - an anti-hero whose life, in some ways, bears a close resemblance to that of Welles himself.

Before creating cinematic masterpieces like "Citizen Kane", Orson Welles established his creative credentials with "The Mercury Theatre on the Air", an hour-long showcase which allowed him, producer John Houseman, musical director Bernard Hermann, and a close-knit team of performers and technicians to broadcast innovative adaptations of both well-known and obscure stories - programs that quickly set a new standard for dramatic radio production.

Lane Sanders and her fiery boss, Mayor Fiorello "Fio" La Guardia, have managed to contain the explosive underground conspiracies of New York's most sinister schemers. But after a seemingly harmless pinball racket claims the life of a trusted ally, a new ringleader signals the rebirth of an all-too-familiar crime network at home and across the pond. Spurred on by the possibility of a violent syndicate spreading like wildfire through Europe, Lane sets sail for London-the city where her parents began the undercover work that led to their tragic undoing.