Radio's "Captain Midnight": The Wartime Biography Book

Using the female characters in detective series that were aired or meant to be aired on radio, the author provides brief entertainment bios of several radio actors, both male and female. Some of these characters appeared in dime novels and serializations before becoming radio characters. Thus it is also somewhat literary criticism. While the author alludes to chapter numbers in his text, none of the chapters are numbered. As he relates the history of these radio shows the author reminds us of how much has been lost in the way of historical documentation.