Detectives Don't Sleep

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 boy, Brando turns to America’s most recognisable and flamboyant Private Eye — Jay J. Armes. This incredible investigator, famous for the fact that he has hooks for hands, has hunted down murderers, kidnappers, robbers, and cheats, and worked for millionaires, celebrities, and dignitaries all over the world...

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 head. Ivy says two burglars broke in and did it. When crack detective Ellis Parker is brought in to take charge of the investigation, he reassures her that he’ll do everything he can to find her husband’s killer. And that’s just what he does, in record time. But the solution he discovers is not quite what she – or anyone else – was expecting...

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 motive for the murder isn’t immediately obvious. In his pockets, celebrated Detective Arkady Koshko finds a monogrammed wallet with some money in it, a handkerchief, and a decorated silver cigar case. It’s a baffling crime scene, with more questions than clues. Most investigators would be stumped, but Koshko isn’t like most investigators...

In September 2010, a quiet, hardworking landman, Greg Fleniken, is found dead in his hotel room. He appears to have suffered traumatic internal injuries which have led to his death. But with no sign of a struggle, no enemies, and no witnesses to any kind of fight, the cops are quickly stumped...

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 a local businessman, Dean Milo. He’s been shot twice in the head, execution style. There doesn’t seem to be anything missing in his house, so the motive for his murder is unclear. With the investigation stalling, the dead man’s widow calls in investigator Bill Dear...

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 host of shady characters. And then, just as he’s making a breakthrough, there’s bad news. Fred and Sophie Milo assume control of the Milo Barber and Beauty Supply Corporation and fire the private investigator. However, Bill has come too far to fail. He vows to see the case through to a successful conclusion...

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? And how did it end up inside the shark? These are just some of the questions facing Detective Sergeant Matthews of Sydney’s Central Intelligence Bureau. When the victim is identified as a man called Jim Smith, Detective Matthews realises he knows him. Not only that, he may be the reason Smith was killed...

Detective Sergeant Frank Matthews concludes his investigation into the disappearance of police informant Jim Smith. The prime suspect is Smith’s friend, Paddy Brady, but Brady denies involvement and points the finger at two members of Sydney’s wealthy elite – Reginald Holmes and Albert Stannard. After surviving a dramatic suicide attempt, Holmes agrees to tell Matthews everything he knows. But other interested parties are determined to silence him...

Noiser presents a brand-new podcast. Real Survival Stories brings you astonishing tales of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary survival situations. In this taster episode, we meet Jeremy Evans. He’s a man most at home hiking and fishing in the Canadian wilderness. But one day, on a solo camping trip, he stumbles across a Grizzly and her cub. Scarcely surviving a frenzied attack, Jeremy is left battered and broken...

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 woods. The bodies of his common-law wife and his infant son are found frozen in the snow outside. There is no sign of the youngest child, 6-month-old Betty, though they assume she died with her father in the fire. But when the Mounties investigate, they realise that this fire was no accident — the family was brutally murdered, and Betty is missing...