He’s now aided in his investigations by his associate Murphy, a red-haired, former librarian, who made her debut in the episode “ The Twenty-Dollar Trackdown.” Murphy is not the stereotypical P.I.’s secretary - this lady is no dummy. If you get in a tight spot, you want a guy like Harry in your corner. He cares about his clients and his greatest strength is his humanity. Even after years in the business, he’s not cynical. He’ll never be rich or have a fancy office he often is just a step ahead of the bill collectors.

Here’s a detective who is a real human being. He seldom uses his gun or gets into a fight, but he’s no wimp.

He manages not to do the deed and ends up staying on the West Coast, working as a private eye, first in Los Angeles, and later, in Seattle. The “little favor” involves the murder of a rival crime boss. to do a “little favor” for the holder of his markers, a Windy City crime boss. After piling up substantial gambling debts, he hits rock-bottom and agrees to travel to L.A. He resigns from the police force after exposing corruption at a Chicago precinct. When his beautiful blues-singer wife is killed in a nightclub shooting, Harry goes into a major tailspin. We find out that Harry’s real last name is actually Niletti he changed it before he joined the force to protect his family from potential coercion or retaliation by the Mob. As a rookie on the Chicago police force, Harry was recruited by the department’s Internal Affairs. Like many private eyes, Harry started out as a cop. It aired on three different radio stations in the Seattle area, and was also been syndicated both nationally and internationally. The show’a s a defiant survivor - not even a 12-year hiatus (1978-1990) could stop it. This cult favourite started on Januand is still on the air - making it the longest running private detective audio series in the history of American broadcasting. HARRY NILE, a fictional private detective in Los Angeles and Seattle during the 1940’s and 50’s, is the title character of a long-running and much loved new-time radio detective series, The Adventures of Harry Nile. Here’s one radio detective still very much on the case.

Not all radio detectives are only available in re-runs from sometimes dubious old-time radio outlets. (1928-2017) One of about a gazillion versions of Harry Nile episodes for sale.

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