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, where today we kick off a new year of old time radio detectives and crime fighters.

For our inaugural episode of 2024, we're hitting the road with three radio mysteries involving cars.

Whether they're stolen or the means for committing a murder,

speeding down the road or idling on the corner,

these cars are at the center of each of these cases.

Up first is a syndicated adventure of Boston Blackie, starring Richard Kalmer as the thief turned sloothe, the enemy to those who make him an enemy,

the friend to those who have no friend.

Blackie discovers a gang of car thieves after his girlfriend's car is swiped from right in front of his building.

Leslie Woods co-stars as Blackie's Girl Friday, Mary Wesley, and Maurice Tarplin is Inspector Faraday of the police.

Then the cops are on the trail of a hit and run driver in the lineup.

But this was no accident. The evidence shows that the driver deliberately killed two young women with his car.

Bill John Stone stars as Lieutenant Ben Guthrie and Wally Mayer as Sergeant Matt Greb in this episode

that originally aired on CBS on August 3rd 1950. We haven't heard the lineup on the podcast in a while, but it's one of the great old-time

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