Guilty As Heard

GUILTY AS HEARD

Radio Live Arts is proud to present three classic radio mysteries — performed live in the room and on the air. As a new RLA experiment, if you can’t join us in person, you can tune in live over the internet!

From hardboiled San Francisco to a murderous Manhattan honeymoon to a courtroom where the wrong person may take the fall — join voice artists Dave Fiebert, Sara Painter, Viveca Parker, Mary Beth Rim, Robert Smythe, and Jared Reed as we bring you three thrilling tales of intrigue and murder.

Sam Spade: The Jane Doe Caper

Spade picks up a case nobody’s paying him for — a woman pulled from the water with no name, no papers, nothing but a cheap medallion and a rented room that tells a hard-luck story. The cops tagged her “Jane Doe” and moved on. Spade can’t. Hardboiled to the bone, with a surprising ache underneath, and the usual crackle between Sam and his sweetheart Effie holding it all together.

The Adventures of the Thin Man: The Case of the Goofy Groom

Nick and Nora Charles turn up for a swanky hotel wedding, and the ceremony’s barely over before the bullets start flying — somebody wants the groom dead. So the Charleses do the only sensible thing: pack the newlyweds off into hiding and take their place on the honeymoon, bait and all. Cocktails, wisecracks, and a supporting cast of grifters named Bingo, Snakey, and Georgie the Germ. The champagne of the evening.

Defense Attorney: Joshua Masters

Defense attorney Marty Bryant takes a chilling request from a wealthy old man: one of his three sons wants him dead — find out which. Then a son turns up murdered, the police like Masters for it, and Marty is suddenly defending the very client who saw it coming. Mercedes McCambridge’s Marty Bryant was a rarity in 1952 — a woman running the case, the courtroom, and the men around her — and she anchors the evening’s hardest, straightest shot of drama.