Show overview
TRUE NOIR: The Assassination of Anton Cermak launched in 2024 and has put out 10 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 5 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a monthly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 27 min and 31 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Fiction show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 1.1 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by Imagination Connoisseurs Unlimited.
From the publisher
This ten-episode, fully immersive audio drama was written by Max Allan Collins (ROAD TO PERDITION) and stars Michael Rosenbaum (SMALLVILLE), David Strathairn (L.A. CONFIDENTIAL), and more than twenty other of your favorite actors from television and film. The story takes place at the end of the Prohibition era and follows the exploits of Nathan Heller, a former cop-turned-private eye, as he comes between gangsters Al Capone and Frank Nitti over the murder of Chicago's mayor, Anton Cermak.
Latest Episodes
S1 Ep 9Chapter 9 - The Guilty Party
Heller takes an unexpected thrill ride at the World’s Fair, ending on a metal strut hundreds of feet off the ground. It’s just the first of a series of events that night that could spell the end of his fledgling detective agency – and him.Produced by Imagination Connoisseurs Unlimited, LLC | www.icu.co
S1 Ep 10Chapter 10 - The Happy Ending
Heller survives being pushed off the Sky Ride at the Chicago World’s Fair, triumphs in a brutal battle of blows and bullets, and even invades the domain of a Chicago mob boss without getting killed. But will he make it through breaking the bad news to Mary Anne about her missing brother? Produced by Imagination Connoisseurs Unlimited, LLC | www.icu.co
S1 Ep 8Chapter 8 - Too Long At The Fair
Heller watches a capacity crowd celebrate the opening of the Chicago World's Fair. Little does he know he’s standing at the crossroads of his two biggest cases – and things are about to take an unexpected turn.Produced by Imagination Connoisseurs Unlimited, LLC | www.icu.co
S1 Ep 7Chapter 7 - Trial Run
Just three days after Chicago Mayor Cermak dies from an assassin’s bullet, the Bayfront Park Shooter is tried for attempted murder on four counts and sentenced to eighty years. But Heller knows there’s more to the story than a lunatic with a gun.Produced by Imagination Connoisseurs Unlimited, LLC | www.icu.co
S1 Ep 6Chapter 6 - Welcome to Miami, Mr. President
Chicago Mayor Cermak hopes to curry favor with President-Elect Franklin Roosevelt at a political rally in Miami’s Bayfront Park. But among the spectators is a hitman sent by a Chicago mob boss – and only Heller can stop him.Produced by Imagination Connoisseurs Unlimited, LLC | www.icu.co
S1 Ep 5Chapter 5 - Tower Town and Magic City
EHeller waits in the Dill Pickle Club to meet his new client, Mary Ann Beame - she’s a girl with a fist full of cash, a mysterious past, and plenty of dark secrets to share with the right guy.Produced by Imagination Connoisseurs Unlimited, LLC | www.icu.co
S1 Ep 4Chapter 4 - Two New Clients
The day after Christmas, Heller takes a sleeper car to Atlanta on the Dixie Flyer, riding into a job that will put him at odds with the most powerful men in Chicago.Produced by Imagination Connoisseurs Unlimited, LLC | www.icu.co
S1 Ep 2Chapter 2 - Visiting Hours
Heller, asleep in his one-room apartment at the Hotel Adams in Chicago, is rousted awake by an uninvited – and unwelcome - visitor. Who knew this would be the first in a series of unplanned meetings?Produced by Imagination Connoisseurs Unlimited, LLC | www.icu.co
S1 Ep 1Chapter 1 - The Nitti Raid
A little after 3pm on a cold December day in 1932, and Chicago Police Detective Nathan Heller takes a ride that will change his career path, and his life, forever.Produced by Imagination Connoisseurs Unlimited, LLC | www.icu.co
S1 Ep 3Chapter 3 - Merry Christmas, Mr. Heller
Newly-minted private detective, Nathan Heller, runs three minutes late for his lunch with his uncle Louis and a distinguished guest, only to find out it’s just the first in a series of events with razor-thin margins of error. Is Heller up to the challenge?Produced by Imagination Connoisseurs Unlimited, LLC | www.icu.co