• Episode 15 - Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin Part 2, Archie Goodwin
    Dec 23 2022

    The long-awaited second part of the two-part series about Rex Stout's magnificent detective duo. 

    All about the illustrious, witty, hardboiled assistant detective of Nero Wolfe: Mr. Archie Goodwin. 

    Tune in and find out!

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    54 min
  • Episode 14 - Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin Part 1, Nero Wolfe
    May 24 2022

    Welcome back to SFTT! 

    Today's episode is the first part of the two-part series about Rex Stout's great detective duo: Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. 

    We start off with the stories' title giver, the notoriously opinionated genius Nero Wolfe!

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    30 min
  • Episode 13 - Sam Spade and Mike Hammer, the hard-boiled Detectives #2 & #3
    Aug 27 2021

    Our little excursus through the world of hardboiled and noir fiction continues! 

    In today's episode I will compare some of what we have learned about Philip Marlowe with these two other famous detective tough-guys.


    Music:

    Ketsa - Tomorrow Has Gone

    Checkie Brown - A life on Mother Earth



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    23 min
  • Episode 12 - Philip Marlowe, the hard-boiled Detective #1
    Jul 28 2021

    In today's episode, I will tell you a little bit about the godfather of hardboiled fiction. Maybe, Marlowe is more than booze, guns and trench-coats? Give it a listen and find out!

    Music:

    - Prelude 2 by VGM Mark H | https://soundcloud.com/user-656562764
    Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
    Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

    - Ketsa - Tomorrow-Has-Gone

    - Jazz Street by https://www.free-stock-music.com

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    20 min
  • Episode 11 - Arsène Lupin, the Gentleman Thief
    Jul 25 2021

    In today's episode, I will tell you the story of the greatest fictional thief of all time: the one and only Arsène Lupin!

    He is known as the man of a thousand disguises and the prototype of the gentleman thief character.


    Music:

    Serge Quadrado - Spy Piano

    Gotama - Dissolving Dreams

    Ketsa - Tomorrow-Has-Gone

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    26 min
  • Episode 10 - Jules Maigret, the "Bridge Character"
    Jun 20 2021

    It is amazing!
    After half a year of absence the Table Talk is back with episode 10.
    The detective of the moment is Jules Maigret, french commissaire and my favorite "bridge character"!

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    33 min
  • Episode 8 - Erast Fandorin, the Russian Sherlock Holmes
    Dec 22 2020

    The topic of today's episode will be the Russian gentleman detective Erast Petrowitsch Fandorin. 
    Find out, why he is the perfect combination between Sherlock Holmes and James Bond!

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    29 min
  • Episode 6 - Lord Peter Wimsey, snobbish Lord or suffering Aristocat?
    Oct 18 2020

    I'm talking about Dorothy L. Sayer's detective Lord Peter Wimsey. 
    Interesting guy I must say. 
    I can't wait to read some of his stories and find out the stuff I tell you about in this episode!

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    26 min