Noir Confidential
Noir Confidential
Jerry Bader
Noir Confidential draws upon the era of filmmaking known as Film Noir. Today, the genre is called Neo-Noir, but the same concepts, tropes, and techniques are used to reflect today's feelings of inevitability, cynicism and defeat. The pessimism, distrust, and greed displayed in classic Film Noir movies like "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Third Man" speak to a society racked by geopolitical conflict and economic disparity. All the elements that sparked the Film Noir heyday have returned to haunt society, and a new class of cynical anti-heroes and manipulative Femme Fatales have arrived to exorcise their demons by finding their elusive MacGuffin. Occasionally we will present a classic radio play from the 1940s and early 50s: some Dashiell Hammett (Sam Spade) and Raymond Chandler (Philip Marlowe), but to be completely upfront we are here to promote audiobooks in general and more specifically my own books like Deception, Delusion, Dilemma, Diversion, and Defection.Coming very soon is a special Noir Confidential Premiere Exclusive, CULT - The Podcast Movie. That's right podcast fans, we're bringing back Theatre of The Mind, radio plays for the podcast era. CULT is a movie script I wrote based on a short story published in my book Noir II. I've rewritten the story and turned it into a movie script. It is currently being produced as a special presentation just for my podcast subscribers. I hope you enjoy it.
Barry Craig - Missing Hotel Room
If you haven't listened to our AudioZoo Podcast Drama "The Collector", please give it a try.
Jan 19
22 min
AudioZoo Podcast Drama Network Presents "The Collector" S1E6
AudioZoo Podcast Drama Network. Podcast Link: https://audiozoopodcast.podbean.com/ Website Link: https://audiozoopodcast.com/index.html Author and Screenwriter, Jerry Bader and Voice Actor and Sound Designer, Sash Mutze, got together to create the AudioZoo Podcast Network, a platform for presenting immersive radio-style podcast dramas (Theatre of the Mind) for a mature audience interested in the Neo-Noir style of storytelling: adult tales of desire, struggle, and survival. We follow Alfred ...
Dec 19, 2025
14 min
AudioZoo Podcast Drama Network Presents "The Collector" S1E5
AudioZoo Podcast Drama Network. Podcast Link: https://audiozoopodcast.podbean.com/ Website Link: https://audiozoopodcast.com/index.html Author and Screenwriter, Jerry Bader and Voice Actor and Sound Designer, Sash Mutze, got together to create the AudioZoo Podcast Network, a platform for presenting immersive radio-style podcast dramas (Theatre of the Mind) for a mature audience interested in the Neo-Noir style of storytelling: adult tales of desire, struggle, and survival. We follow Alfred ...
Dec 19, 2025
14 min
A Man called X - Japanese
Note to Listeners: In the next month or so, we will be creating a new Noir podcast drama website called AudioZoo Podcast Network. If you would like to be notified when it launches so you can be a part of this exciting new venture, email me at [email protected]. Thank you for your continued support. - Jerry Bader The Man Called X was an espionage radio drama which aired on CBS and NBC from July 10, 1944, to May 20, 1952, about Agent Ken Thurston, who took on dangerous cases in v...
Nov 19, 2025
29 min
The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Adam Figg Caper
Sam is back! This month we start a new series going back to the late 1940s for the adventures of the quintessential private detective, Sam Spade. Hopefully, the recent Monseiur Spade television series will spark a return to stories, TV series, and films about people, problems, and puzzles, rather than fantasy, men in capes, and movies about children's toys. To support this channel, investigate my take on the private detective genre with my latest, The Axel Files: Finding Lunia.Jerry BaderAuthor and Screenwriter
Feb 19, 2024
23 min
The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Convertible Caper
Sam is back! This month we start a new series going back to the late 1940s for the adventures of the quintessential private detective, Sam Spade. Hopefully, the recent Monseiur Spade television series will spark a return to stories, TV series, and films about people, problems, and puzzles, rather than fantasy, men in capes, and movies about children's toys. To support this channel, investigate my take on the private detective genre with my latest, The Axel Files: Finding Lunia.Jerry BaderAuthor and Screenwriter
Feb 19, 2024
23 min
The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Calcutta Trunk Caper
Sam is back! This month we start a new series going back to the late 1940s for the adventures of the quintessential private detective, Sam Spade. Hopefully, the recent Monseiur Spade television series will spark a return to stories, TV series, and films about people, problems, and puzzles, rather than fantasy, men in capes, and movies about children's toys. To support this channel, investigate my take on the private detective genre with my latest, The Axel Files: Finding Lunia.Jerry BaderAuthor and Screenwriter
Feb 19, 2024
24 min
The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Bow Window Caper
Sam is back! This month we start a new series going back to the late 1940s for the adventures of the quintessential private detective, Sam Spade. Hopefully, the recent Monseiur Spade television series will spark a return to stories, TV series, and films about people, problems, and puzzles, rather than fantasy, men in capes, and movies about children's toys. To support this channel, investigate my take on the private detective genre with my latest, The Axel Files: Finding Lunia.Jerry BaderAuthor and Screenwriter
Feb 19, 2024
28 min
A Life In Your Hands, Gangster Dan Wilmore Murdered
The Axel Files: Finding Lunia: Woman With A Fanhttps://www.amazon.com/Axel-Files-Finding-Lunia-Woman-ebook/dp/B0CRJ3TGSSTrailer: https://youtu.be/cQiCtxNFXWk?si=ddepUzLAT1Vt8INhIn my business, you meet all kinds of people; some, let’s call them civilians, are ordinary, what the politicians call “folks;” then there are the characters, the peculiar sorts, people with strange peccadilloes: what an old friend of mine might call, “people who scare the horses.” Some, let's call them “the desperate:” come to me because they find themselves in a situation, sometimes of their own making and other times… well… let’s just say, imposed upon them. In each case, they have secrets: something they’d like to hide from the authorities and me, things like felonies, misdemeanours, mishaps, or misunderstandings. These cases are always about one of two things: money or women, but sometimes neither money nor women come in the form you'd expect, which brings me to the case of "Finding Lunia."It all started one day when Jacob Lerner, a young Aussie artist nicknamed Garbo, walked into my office carrying a painting. Not just any canvas, but a masterpiece he claimed he’d found in the trash in a Montmartre back alley. If the artwork was the original, it was one of five masterpieces stolen from the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris on a warm Spring night in 2010 by the renowned second-story burglar, L’Araignée, The Spider.The painting is a Modigliani portrait of Lunia Czechowska, one of five expressionist masterpieces stolen by L’Araignée and supposedly dumped in the trash by a nervous associate who was supposed to hold onto the canvases for safekeeping, not that anyone in their right mind believed someone would throw one hundred million dollars worth of art into the trash. Usually, I am hired to find some lost, stolen or misappropriated object, but in this case, the item found me, or so my Aussie client claimed. If you believe the story that played out in a Paris courtroom in 2017, then it would make sense to believe the story told to me by Jacob Lerner. All I had to do was prove the painting wasn’t a forgery. The trouble is twenty percent of the canvases in the world’s most prestigious museums are fakes, and Modigliani is one of the most frequently forged artists. Money and women: this case involves both, but not necessarily in the ways you’d expect.Axel Webb, Private Investigator
Jan 20, 2024
25 min
A Life In Your Hands, Carl Fortune
The Axel Files: Finding Lunia: Woman With A Fanhttps://www.amazon.com/Axel-Files-Finding-Lunia-Woman-ebook/dp/B0CRJ3TGSSTrailer: https://youtu.be/cQiCtxNFXWk?si=ddepUzLAT1Vt8INhIn my business, you meet all kinds of people; some, let’s call them civilians, are ordinary, what the politicians call “folks;” then there are the characters, the peculiar sorts, people with strange peccadilloes: what an old friend of mine might call, “people who scare the horses.” Some, let's call them “the desperate:” come to me because they find themselves in a situation, sometimes of their own making and other times… well… let’s just say, imposed upon them. In each case, they have secrets: something they’d like to hide from the authorities and me, things like felonies, misdemeanours, mishaps, or misunderstandings. These cases are always about one of two things: money or women, but sometimes neither money nor women come in the form you'd expect, which brings me to the case of "Finding Lunia."It all started one day when Jacob Lerner, a young Aussie artist nicknamed Garbo, walked into my office carrying a painting. Not just any canvas, but a masterpiece he claimed he’d found in the trash in a Montmartre back alley. If the artwork was the original, it was one of five masterpieces stolen from the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris on a warm Spring night in 2010 by the renowned second-story burglar, L’Araignée, The Spider.The painting is a Modigliani portrait of Lunia Czechowska, one of five expressionist masterpieces stolen by L’Araignée and supposedly dumped in the trash by a nervous associate who was supposed to hold onto the canvases for safekeeping, not that anyone in their right mind believed someone would throw one hundred million dollars worth of art into the trash. Usually, I am hired to find some lost, stolen or misappropriated object, but in this case, the item found me, or so my Aussie client claimed. If you believe the story that played out in a Paris courtroom in 2017, then it would make sense to believe the story told to me by Jacob Lerner. All I had to do was prove the painting wasn’t a forgery. The trouble is twenty percent of the canvases in the world’s most prestigious museums are fakes, and Modigliani is one of the most frequently forged artists. Money and women: this case involves both, but not necessarily in the ways you’d expect.Axel Webb, Private Investigator
Jan 19, 2024
29 min
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