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The Noir Factory Podcast is created for the mystery reader, noir movie goer, or true crime buff who wants a closer look into the genre. Mystery writer Steven Gomez looks at crime history, pu...
The Noir Factory Podcast Case #37 Huey Long-The King Fish "One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government. And t...
Noir Factory Podcast Episode #36 Leopold and Loeb ***CORRECTED BACKGROUND AUDIO*** My deepest apologies! The previous version of this episod...
Noir Factory BEST OF 2017 There's a tradition in the podcasting world that during the first week of a new year you look back at the episodes...
Hero Obscura Episode #48 Santa Clause Today's hero isn't obscure. Not in the least. In fact, he's known by all. He exists as certainly as lo...
Noir Factory Interrogation #4 Dmitri Matheny- Noir Jazz ------------------------------------ Crime Jazz: "The Femme Fatal. The cop on the be...
Noir Factory Podcast Case #35 Sexton Blake-Pulp Detective "If there is a wrong to be righted, an evil to be redressed, or a rescue of the we...
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Noir Factory Podcast Interrogation #3 Will Viharo: Gonzo Pulp Writer Will Viharo is the author of the Vic Valentine series as well as the ho...
Noir Factory Podcast Case #34 Joseph Weil: The Yellow Kid " Who's going to believe a con artist? Everyone if she's good." -Andy Griffith Jos...
Case #33: The Black Sox I'm forever blowing ballgames, pretty ballgames in the air. I come from Chi, I hardly try, just go to bat and fade a...
Noir Factory Case #32 Alan Ladd and Box 13 " I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't e...
NFL SuperPro For a hero to fail, a lot of things has to happen. It has to be poorly thought out, ill conceived, and have little in terms of...
Space Cabbie! Everyone has a hero. For cop's it's probably the Dark Knight and for soldiers I can imagine Captain America, depending on the...
The Blue Diamond Some heroes are with us for ages and other are gone in the blink of an eye. If you are in the business of being a hero, par...
" He's clearly a man with a mission, but it's not one of vengeance. Bruce is not after personal revenge ... He's much bigger than that; he's...
" Behind me, Billie was on her last song. I picked up the refrain, humming a few bars. Her voice sounded different to me now. Beneath the la...
"He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That's one of...
Eddie Muller is the founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation . According to their website, the Film Noir Foundation is a non-profit...
"Even if they never got anything for it, it was cheap at that price. Without malice aforethought I had given them the best show that was eve...
Noir Factory Podcast Episode #27 In 1996 a board game called KILL DR. LUCKY came out. It was a wildly fun game where each person takes turns...
Case#01.5: Kate Warne-America's First Female Detective REVISITED Hi Steve Gomez here. A lot has happened behind the scenes at the Noir Facto...
Noir Factory Interrogation #1 Dan Slater-Author Dan Slater's novel Wolf Boys had been banned from prison by the Texas State Department of Co...
Noir Factory Podcast Case #026: Victor Lustig-Con Man Extraordinaire "I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as America...
"Whether in a white dinner jacket or in a trench coat and a snap-brim fedora, he became a new and timely symbol of the post-Pearl Harbor Ame...
"...My husband pointed out that kids frequently have an instinctive desire to follow the good example rather than the bad, once they find ou...
NOIR FACTORY PODCAST CASE #23- The Real Life Inspiration for Professor Moriarty. "He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer o...
NOIR FACTORY PODCAST CASE #22-The Inspiration Behind Sherlock Holmes "Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime." -Mokokoma Mokhonoana, a...
NOIR FACTORY PODCAST CASE #21: The Shadow- Pulp Hero " The world of Doc Savage and The Shadow was one of absolute values, where what was goo...
" My agent told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England-I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tende...
NOIR FACTORY PODCAST CASE #19: The Kray Twins " They were the best years of our lives. They called them the swinging sixties. The Beatles we...
NOIR FACTORY PODCAST CASE #18: The Cotton Club-Nightclub " It was infamously racially exclusive. W.C. Handy wished to go one evening to the...
NOIR FACTORY PODCAST CASE #17: Raymond Chandler-Writer " Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarni...
" A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp st...
" It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night." –Willie Sutton-Bank Robber William Francis "Willie" Sutton Jr. was bor...
Even as a boy Eliot Paul Ness seemed destined for excellence and if you asked his fellow students, probably seemed most likely to be a crime...
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to a family of poor Jewish immigrants, who came from Eastern Europe. His parents...
The name evokes visions of a dancer, slithering through a smoke-filled parlor, wisps of cloth snaking over her as she moves. Her eyes are li...
He was born in Pawnee, Oklahoma in 1900, seven years before the territory became a state. His grandparents, all four of them, were pioneers...
Letter to Henry Ford on April 10, 1934…. Dear Sir, While I still have breath in my lungs I will tell you what a dandy car make. I hav...
Agatha Christie was the bestselling author of all time, and living in the days of Stephen King and J.K. Rowling, that means something. In li...
Sitting about a mile and a half off San Francisco in the middle of a bitter, inhospitable California bay, Alcatraz Island is a lot like many...
The Great Santa Claus Bank Robbery-An APB on Old Saint Nick! As a crispness fills the air and the scent of gingerbread begins to waft from t...
CHAPTER FOUR It took me a while to catch up with Mike McCarthy. He was the Special Investigator for the District Attorney, which meant that...
Christmas time is special at the Noir Factory. The snow cleans up the chalk outlines on the sidewalk outside and the fellons wear a snappy s...
It's hard to tell where exactly the story begins because there was no huge discovery. At the tips of your fingers there are marks. Loops and...
In the 30's, the FBI used the term "Public Enemy Number One" as a designation of infamy. Although that period in time became known as the "P...
The partnership between mankind and canine is one of the oldest and most successful relationships on Earth. Every since early man sat around...
Life changed quickly for the people of Norfolk County, England in the 1800's. The large estates were falling. The families of privilege, who...
He was born on March 9, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Elizabeth, NJ, in a neighborhood he called "grimy, industrial, and working...
FOR A BETTER VERSION OF THIS EPISODE, SEE CASE #01.5: Kate Warne- America's First Female Detective REVISITED When the door opened at the Pin...