Get this and get it straight.

Crime is a sucker's road,

and those who travel it'd wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

The story you're about to hear is true. The

The story you were about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.

The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize.

Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account.

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator

yours truly Johnny Deller the Hello and welcome to a bonus episode of Down These Mean Streets and it's a big one. Today, April 25th, I am celebrating my 40th birthday, which no

matter how many times I say it or think about it is still really hard to come to grips with.

But as I was getting ready to celebrate, it occurred to me that for the vast majority of those 40 years I have been obsessed with old time

radio shows, particularly detective shows.

And so as a sort of birthday present to myself,

I decided to sit down and put together this compilation of

what are probably my favorites of all of the old time radio detective shows I've

listened to. It's a mix of shows and stars and hopefully you'll enjoy listening to them as much as I do.

First one on the list is Red Wind, the very first episode of the Adventures of Philip

Marlow on radio. It originally aired on NBC on

June 17th, 1947, and it starred Van Heflin as Marlowe.

Now most of the time on the podcast when we hear Philip Marlow, we're hearing Gerald Moore,

who played Marlow from 1948 until 1951.

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