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 down these mean streets.

Another installment where I picked my five favorite episodes of an old time radio detective series.

This time around I'll be sharing my five favorites from Barry Craig, Confidential Investigators.

The show aired on NBC from 1951 until 1955, and it starred William Gargan, who was no stranger to playing detectives, as Barry Craig, a New York-based gumshoe, who unlike the more hard-boiled detectives on the air approached his cases with a sardonic

sensibility. Barry Craig was far more likely to toss off a quip than to throw a punch.

And Gargan could play the rye comedy and scripts

written by, among others, Louis Vitties,

who brought the same blend of comedy and crime to scripts he wrote for the saint.

This is a show that's really grown on me over the years.

My initial impressions were that it was too dry and too slow, especially compared to something

like Gerald Moore's Philip Marlow.

But as I've gotten older, I find myself enjoying Barry Craig more and more.

Garden's performance is great.

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