Episode 570 - Mystery on the Menu (Boston Blackie, Box 13, Richard Diamond, & Johnny Dollar)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2024
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
Hope you brought your appetite - this week's show features four mysteries set in the world of food. From restaurants to the grocery store, our detectives have a lot to chew on in these cases. First, Boston Blackie investigates a murder in a Chinese restaurant and Dan Holiday comes to the aid of a beleaguered restauranteur in "Tempest in a Casserole" from Box 13. Dick Powell goes undercover in a butcher's shop in Richard Diamond, Private Detective (originally aired on NBC on January 7, 1950) and Johnny Dollar gets a deadly dinner invitation in "The Fatal Filet Matter" (originally aired on CBS on May 10, 1950).
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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 with more old-time radio |
| 0:59.8 | detectives and crime solvers. |
| 1:02.6 | This week, mystery is on the menu, |
| 1:06.0 | with four old time radio mysteries set in the world of food. |
| 1:11.6 | From fine restaurants to the grocery store, today's special is some delicious detective work. |
| 1:18.7 | First we'll hear Richard Kalmer as Boston Blackie. The reformed jewel thief turned detective and his girl Friday |
| 1:26.1 | Mary Wesley go out to dinner at their favorite Chinese restaurant. But when they arrive, they discover |
| 1:32.3 | the restaurant is devoid of customers and the owner is lying dead on the floor. |
| 1:38.0 | Next, Alan Ladd stars as Dan Holliday in Tempest in a Casserole from Box 13. |
| 1:45.7 | The latest letter holiday receives at Box 13 comes from a colorful restaurant tour |
| 1:51.5 | who's plagued by a series of bizarre problems. |
| 1:55.4 | What appears at first to be some comedic misunderstandings evolve into a genuine |
| 2:00.3 | mystery that only Dan can solve. |
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