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 with more old-time radio

detectives and crime fighters. This week we're looking to the stars with

three radio mysteries involving rockets and outer space. Whether it's people

blasting off or discovering new heavenly bodies it all plays a part in the cases our heroes tackle today.

First up is Herbert Marshall as Ken Thurston, the dashing Debenaire secret agent known as the man called X.

Thurston's latest assignment brings him to the government's rocket testing site in White Sands, New Mexico.

Top secret information has been escaping from the facility,

and the man called X is on the scene to plug the leak.

This episode originally aired on NBC on April 14, 1951.

Next, Jackson Beck stars as Master Detective Philovance in the syndicated episode, The Star Studded

Murder Case. An astronomer collects a major reward for his work in discovering a new planet, but his

acceptance speech is barely finished before he's threatened by a colleague who thinks the

glory should be his instead and it's not

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