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 and more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers.

Start spreading the news. We're leaving today for the Big Apple and four radio

mysteries set in New York, New York. The city so nice they named it twice.

First up is Dick Powell as Richard Diamond in an episode known as the Fred Sears Murder Case.

Originally aired on NBC on June 5, 1949, the show opens with Rick and girlfriend Helen on a date at a New York nightclub.

But instead of the floor show, they witness a brawl between a millionaire, his wife's boyfriend, and a gossip columnist.

A few hours later, one of the men winds up murdered,

and his body is discovered in Diamond's office.

Next we'll hear Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, the New York

cop with the soul of a poet in Broadway is my beat. We'll hear an episode known as the Earl Lawson Murder Case, originally

aired on CBS on June 9, 1951. The titular Mr. Lawson has been murdered in Times Square and his suspected

killer is a man who himself has only a month to live. Up third is John Lund as Johnny Dollar, the man with the

action-packed expense account in the independent diamond traders matter, originally aired on CBS on November 24th, 1953.

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