Detectives Don't Sleep
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Introducing: Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A brand-new release from the Noiser Network. Join Hugh Bonneville on a thrilling journey through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated Holmes mys...
Operation Three Stooges
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s April, 1992, in California. When three members of the Ewell family are found shot to death in their Fresno home, the news is met with shock. Fr...
A Trick of the Light
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s January 1929 in Southampton, England. The body of missing businessman Vivian Messiter is found inside a locked garage. Local police call in one...
Jigsaw John
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In July 1984 the body of an unidentified young woman is found in a Los Angeles parking lot. Veteran homicide detective John St John investigates. When...
A Family Affair
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s December 2003, in Texas. When four gunshots ring out in the suburban city of Sugar Land, killing two members of the Whitaker family, and badly ...
Lost In The Woods
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 2008, in Budgeree, Australia. The kidnapping of Julian Buchwald and Carolynne Watson shocks the local community. After all, who would want to ...
The Mysterious Life of Agatha Christie
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode originally appeared on Short History Of… read by John Hopkins. If you like what you hear, search ‘Short History Of’ in your podcast...
Halloween Special: Houdini's Spirit Detective
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From 1925 to his death in 1926, the great escapologist and illusionist Harry Houdini conducts a tireless campaign against fake mediums. To help him, h...
The Diamond Heist Sweethearts
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In February 1925, Richard Reese Whittemore breaks out of Maryland State Penitentiary, killing a prison guard in the process. So begins a year-long vio...
Mother Justice
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 2014, and we’re in Mexico. Twenty-year-old Karen Rodriguez is on her way to meet some friends when she is kidnapped by cartel members. The ab...
Bad Medicine
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In June 1986, Sue Snow, a healthy, forty-year-old woman, is found unresponsive in the bathroom of her home in Auburn, Washington. She is rushed to ho...
Death of a Detective
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In May 1937, the citizens of Paris are horrified by the murder of a young woman on the Métro. The case is a classic locked room mystery, with an adde...
Bluebeard Watson
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 1920, in Los Angeles. Two men force their way into one of the city’s most prominent department stores pretending to be private investigators ...
The Red Clay Murder
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 1885, in Richmond, Virginia. The body of a young, pregnant woman is found floating in the city’s old reservoir. At first, the coroner thinks ...
The Mounties Get Their Man
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In January 1936, in New Brunswick, Canada, a generous, sociable man called Philip Lake is found dead in the doorway of his burnt-out cabin in the wood...
Introducing: Real Survival Stories - Grizzly Bear Attack
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Noiser presents a brand-new podcast. Real Survival Stories brings you astonishing tales of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary survival situatio...
The Arm in the Shark (Part Two of Two)
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Detective Sergeant Frank Matthews concludes his investigation into the disappearance of police informant Jim Smith. The prime suspect is Smith’s fri...
The Arm in the Shark (Part One of Two)
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On Anzac Day 1935, visitors to an aquarium in Sydney witness a grotesque spectacle as a massive tiger shark vomits up a severed arm. Whose arm is it? ...
A Deadly Business (Part Two of Two)
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Legendary PI Bill Dear continues his hunt for Dean Milo’s murderer. His pursuit takes him across the country, where he comes into contact with a hos...
A Deadly Business (Part One of Two)
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s August 1980, in Akron, Ohio. Detective Larry Momchilov is called to a crime scene in a wealthy part of the city. Waiting for him is the body of...
The Mystery in Room 348
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In September 2010, a quiet, hardworking landman, Greg Fleniken, is found dead in his hotel room. He appears to have suffered traumatic internal injuri...
Murder on the Moscow Express
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1910, a body is found in a first-class compartment of a train at Moscow’s Kursky Railway Station. The man has been stabbed to death, but the moti...
Not the Crying Sort
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In August 1922, Ivy Giberson is found tied up in her home in Lakehurst, New Jersey, while her husband William lies dead from a gunshot wound to the ...
The Ballad of Jay J. Armes
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1972, while Hollywood legend Marlon Brando is in France filming Last Tango in Paris, his teenage son goes missing, presumed kidnapped. To find the ...
The Crime of the Century
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s October 1910. An explosion destroys the Los Angeles Times Building. Twenty people are killed, and many more are badly injured. With a rise in d...
The Baltimore Plot
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In February 1861, concerned railroad bosses learned of a plot to destroy the main route to Washington DC, in order to disrupt the inauguration of Pres...
Hunting the Hunter (Part 2 of 2)
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sergeant Glenn Flothe of the Alaska State Troopers Homicide Division is on the trail of a serial killer. Flothe’s prime suspect is a successful bus...
Hunting the Hunter (Part 1 of 2)
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In September 1982, two hunters stumble upon the body of a woman buried in a shallow grave by the Knik River in Alaska. Could her death be connected t...
The Blind Leading the Blind
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s April 1955, and an explosion rips through the Meier and Frank Department Store in Portland. The store’s owner, Aaron Frank, is shocked. Even ...
Manchester's Sherlock Holmes
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In February 1889, wealthy businessman John Fletcher is found unconscious in a Manchester cab and taken to hospital where he is declared dead on arri...
Public Enemy Number One
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In May 1978, France’s Public Enemy Number One, Jacques Mesrine, escapes from the maximum-security prison, La Santé, in Paris. This marks the first ...
The Taxi Bandits
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In February 1912, two bank messengers are robbed when their taxi is stopped by a group of masked men. They are beaten unconscious, and when they wake ...
The Clutter Family Murders
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s one of the most famous cases in True Crime history, thanks to Truman Capote’s classic book In Cold Blood. The story begins one night in Nov...
The King of La La Land
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1997, a charismatic young Frenchman called Christophe Rocancourt takes Los Angeles’ glitzy social scene by storm. Drawn by his glamorous lifesty...
Texan Money, Texan Murder
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In September 1972, Houston detectives Joe Gamino and Jerry Carpenter are called to the affluent home of a well-known plastic surgeon, Dr. John Hill. H...
BONUS: Interview with Arthur Brand, Art Detective
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of Detectives Don’t Sleep our producer sits down with world-renowned art detective Arthur Brand. We ask him about his life a...
The Nazi Art Mystery (Part 3 of 3)
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The year-long hunt for Hitler’s favourite statues reaches its finale, as art detective Arthur Brand closes in on the shadowy individuals behind thei...
The Nazi Art Mystery (Part 2 of 3)
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Art detective Arthur Brand continues his quest to find Hitler’s favourite statues, the massive bronze horses that once stood outside the Reich Chanc...
The Nazi Art Mystery (Part 1 of 3)
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014, Dutch art detective Arthur Brand hears about a controversial artwork that someone is offering for sale on the black market - a pair of monume...
The Dulcimer Murder
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1913 Chicago’s first female detective, Alice Clement, gets called out to the slums to investigate the death of a young woman. At first glance, it...
The Billionaire Boys Club
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s June 1984. Beverly Hills. Detective Leslie Zoeller is on the trail of missing con artist, Ron Levin. Levin is a larger-than-life character, kn...
Murder in Paradise (Part 2 of 2)
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the Bahamas of the 1940s, private eye Ray Schindler continues his investigation into the murder of billionaire Sir Harry Oakes. The case against Co...
Murder in Paradise (Part 1 of 2)
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The murder of billionaire Sir Harry Oakes in the Bahamas in 1943 causes a sensation across the world. The prime suspect is Oakes’ son-in-law, Count ...
The Case of the Pickled Corpse
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On October 16th, 1920 the body of a missing bank employee is discovered within New Jersey’s sprawling pine barrens. His clothes are all wet, despit...
Detectives Don't Sleep
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Detectives Don’t Sleep. The new show from award-winning podcasters, Noiser. Launching March 2023. Early access to new episodes for Noiser+ subscribe...