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 fighters. This week are supersoothes rub elbows with the

supernatural in four radio mysteries involving Voodoo.

Now perhaps not surprisingly, stories involving Voodoo take our heroes out of their usual beats.

As we'll hear in, Death is a Doll, a syndicated episode of Box 13 with Alan Ladd as Dan Holliday.

The mystery writer and amateur sleuth travels to Louisiana to investigate why a man is suddenly on death's door.

Now since this is a show about Voodoo, you can probably guess what kind of doll is involved here. The man's belief in black

magic may push him into an early grave so it's up to Dan Holiday to figure out

what's going on.

And his investigation brings him into the bayou

in the middle of the night.

Box 13 has always been one of my favorite radio detective shows. The Hook is fantastic. A writer hires

himself out as a detective to find ideas for his stories. And even if Alan Ladd isn't the most polished radio performer, the scripts are good, and he

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