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 And the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets and more old-time radio

detectives and crime fighters.

March Madness is in full swing,

and whether your bracket is still solid,

or if it's been busted by a first round upset,

I hope you'll enjoy a trio of radio mysteries set on and around the basketball court.

First up is Big Town and the Fatal Fix, originally aired on NBC on January 25, 1949.

Crusading newspaper editor Steve Wilson is on the case when a girl is attacked at the town docks.

Her assault puts Wilson on the trail of a racket out to fix basketball games.

Edward Pauly plays Wilson and Fran Carlin co-stars as crime reporter Lorely Kilbourn.

Then we'll hear Tony Curtis as a college star pressured to throw a game in the McKay College Basketball scandal,

an episode of suspense that originally aired on CBS on September 24th, 1951.

Curtis's character has fallen on some hard times,

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