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.

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yours truly Johnny Deller The Hello and welcome to a bonus down these mean streets.

It's another spotlight installment where I share my favorite episodes of a classic radio detective

show.

This time around our super sleuth is Casey Crime Photographer, the shutter bug who chases Crooks just as diligently as he chases a great story for his paper.

Springing from the pages of Pulp magazine stories by George Harmon Cox, Casey's adventures were heard on radio between

1943 and 1945.

And for much of that run, Casey was played by Stots Kotsworth. But Casey wasn't solving his cases alone.

He was supported on the paper and in detecting by Star reporter Anne Williams, played at various points by Leslie Woods and Jan Minor, two

actresses who coincidentally also played the role of Mary Wesley on Boston Blackie. Of course no amateur sleuth can get along without a friend on the police force and

for Casey and Anne that friend was Captain Logan, played by Bernard Lenro.

Around here, we recognize Lenro's voice from his work as Inspector Lestrade on the

new Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and as Jeffrey Barnes, the master of ceremonies on

the Moleum mystery theater.

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