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

detectives and crime fighters. This week the doctor is in, or I should say doctors, because in all four

of the old time radio mysteries will hear today, doctors play a key role. Sometimes they're good, sometimes they're bad, but no

matter what they put our heroes on the trail of four mysteries. First up is Dick Powell as Richard Diamond Private Detective.

We'll hear him in an episode that originally aired on NBC on August 23rd, 1950.

The doctor in this show is Diamond's client.

He hires the detective to look into a mysterious death, and he promises Diamond a hefty $1,200 fee.

Unfortunately, before Diamond can get over to his office,

the doctor has taken a trip out the window

to the street below. Naturally, Diamond doesn't suspect its suicide,

and he starts looking into the death the doctor contacted him about. This one's known as

the Evans Farmer Murder Case, and it's unique in that it doesn't

feature a song from Richard Diamond at the end of the episode.

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