Rocky Jordan Presented by the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Oct 23, 2026 · 40 min · 20 segments
Original Release Date: June 6, 2018 A sand diviner comes to Rocky’s place and predicts he’ll meet a blonde and encounter death. Original Air Date: January 2, 1949 Support the show monthly…
Things had been dull around the tambourine until I got that invitation to the tent of a desert sheik.
It was a great party.
The host was fine.
The food was fine.
And there was a dancing girl.
She was fine, too.
Two whips of that, and everything went up in smoke.
The Café Tambourine, crowded with forgotten men from the world's waterfronts, alive with the babble of many languages.
It was all quite a set-up.
Rocky Jordan, the guest of honor of Sheikh Abbas Ali and his caravan tent on the desert.
But I didn't like the way their festivities ended up, with two wild tribesmen accompanied by a blonde named Diana Carrington dragging me into Cairo police headquarters on a charge of murder.
I guess it all started early that afternoon.
I was sitting at a back table in my cafe when a little fellow in native dress came shuffling my way.
Who'd you expect, the Sphinx? I am Ismi, Effendi.
I'll take it somewhere else, Ismi.
Try some of the tourists up front.
They'll bite.
Wait, Mr. Jordan, one moment.
Things had been dull around the tambourine until I got that invitation to the tent of a desert sheik.
It was a great party.
The host was fine.
The food was fine.
And there was a dancing girl.
She was fine, too.
Two whips of that, and everything went up in smoke.
The Café Tambourine, crowded with forgotten men from the world's waterfronts, alive with the babble of many languages.
It was all quite a set-up.
Rocky Jordan, the guest of honor of Sheikh Abbas Ali and his caravan tent on the desert.
But I didn't like the way their festivities ended up, with two wild tribesmen accompanied by a blonde named Diana Carrington dragging me into Cairo police headquarters on a charge of murder.
I guess it all started early that afternoon.
I was sitting at a back table in my cafe when a little fellow in native dress came shuffling my way.
Who'd you expect, the Sphinx? I am Ismi, Effendi.
I'll take it somewhere else, Ismi.
Try some of the tourists up front.
They'll bite.
Wait, Mr. Jordan, one moment.
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