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 means streets with more old-time radio

detectives and crime fighters. This week we're off to the circus with

mysteries said in the world of acrobats, clowns, and wild animals. First up is Serenade Macabre, a tale from the collection of the

Crime Club, originally aired on Mutual on July 24th, 1947.

It's the story of a lethal love triangle at the circus,

where a woman and her lover plan a deadly accident

for her lion tametamer husband.

Then Bob Bailey stars as George Valentine in a piece of publicity from Let George do it,

originally aired on Mutual on June 14, 1948.

George's new client is a famous trapeze artist

and she's received several threatening letters.

Now George and Girl Friday, Brooksy, quickly determined that the woman herself is behind

the letters as part of a strange publicity stunt. But someone takes the stunt too far and their clients soon winds up dead.

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