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 long overdue bonus show of down these mean streets.

Another installment where I share my five favorite episodes from a classic radio detective series. And today that series is Rocky Fortune, a show that blends two of my favorite things, old time radio mysteries, and Frank Sinatra.

The series aired on NBC from October, 1953, when Sinatra's career was in a bit of a slump until March of 1954

when he dramatically rebounded with a new recording contract and an Academy Award

for Best Supporting Actor.

In my opinion, it marked an all-too-brief run for old Blue Eyes as the titular Mr Fortune,

a man bouncing from job to job, but always managing to find mystery and usually

murder wherever he went.

The show's format allowed for a wide variety of stories and settings.

Each week, Rocky could be almost anywhere doing almost anything.

He worked as an oyster shucker, a messenger, a carnival barker, a short order cook, and even a department store

Santa at Christmas.

Scripts were written largely by George Leffertz and Ernest Kanoy, two immensely talented writers who

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