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 we're heading south of the border with four radio mysteries set in Mexico.

Of course so many radio detective shows were set in and around Southern California, and Los Angeles

is less than three hours from Tijuana by car, so it's no surprise that so many sloths made their way there over the course of their adventures.

Although with our first show today, we're starting with a crook instead of a crime fighter.

It's the big shot, an episode of suspense adapted from a story by Brett Halliday and starring

Bert Lancaster.

Halliday was one pen name used by Davis Dresser

who's probably best known for creating Private Eye Michael Shane, a character we've heard many times on this podcast

The big shot marked Bert Lancaster's dramatic radio debut

He plays a mining engineer with a chip on his shoulder who's been hired to work

at a crooked mine in Mexico, an outfit that hopes to swoop in and clean out the gold before the locals realize what's happening.

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