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 down these mean streets and more old-time radio detectives and crime fighters.

We're monkeying around on this week's show,

as our heroes face a trio of mysteries,

each one involving a chimpanzee.

First up in our trilogy of animal antics is the monkey's uncle

from the Adventures of Philip Marlow.

Gerald Moore stars as Raymond Chandler's private eye in this episode that originally aired on

CBS on March 7th, 1950.

Marlow gets a late night phone call warning of murder,

and soon he's on the trail of some very eccentric characters, including a chimpanzee who works as an English

butler under the name of Cornelius.

No relation, I'm guessing, to Roddy McDowell in Planet of the Apes.

The cast includes John Dana, Mary Lansing, Tudor Owen, and Junius Matthews.

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