Episode 537 - Love, Marriage, and Murder (The Whistler, The Falcon, & Black Museum)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Mystery, Detectives, Old, Radio, Time, Tv & Film, Oldtimeradio

4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Wedding bells are ringing and police sirens are wailing in these three old time radio mysteries. Matrimony is neither holy nor happy in these shows, beginning with "Maid of Honor" from The Whistler (originally aired on CBS on April 14, 1947). Next, private eye Mike Waring investigates a case of embezzlement and ends up married in "The Case of the Unwelcome Wife" from The Falcon (originally aired on CBS on May 27, 1951). Finally, Orson Welles tells the story of how a mandolin string was linked to the murders of a pair of bridegrooms in a syndicated episode of The Black Museum.

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0:00.0	Get this and get it straight.
0:02.0	Crime is a sucker's road,
0:04.0	and those who travel it'd wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.
0:07.0	The story you're about to hear is true. The
0:12.5	The story you were about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:18.5	The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
0:21.5	The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize.
0:25.0	Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account.
0:30.0	America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator
0:33.2	yours truly Johnny Deller the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets and more crime solvers from the
1:00.7	golden age of radio. Hard to believe, but it's June, which has long been a
1:07.1	traditional month for weddings. But in the three shows we'll hear today,
1:12.4	wedding bells might as well be tolling a funeral march.
1:16.9	In each of these mysteries, matrimony plays a major role in the story, and sometimes till death do us part comes up much sooner than the
1:26.5	happy couple imagined. We'll kick things off with Maid of Honor, another strange story by the Whistler.
1:35.3	Originally aired on CBS on April 14, 1947,
1:40.4	the title character bumps off the bride on the eve of her wedding so the maid of honor can have the groom all to herself
1:48.8	Unfortunately the groom winds up accused of the murder the maid of honor committed.
1:54.8	Along with Bill Foreman as the sinister storyteller, you'll hear Mary Lansing and
1:59.6	Lorraine Tuttle.
2:01.4	Next is an adventure of Mike Waring, the private eye known as the Falcon.
2:07.0	Les Damon Stars, in the case of the Unwelcome Wife, originally aired on NBC on May 27, 1951.
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