Episode 589 - There Ain’t No Cure for the Summertime Clues (Mollé Mystery Theatre, Boston Blackie, Murder By Experts, & Barrie Craig)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Mystery, Detectives, Old, Radio, Time, Tv & Film, Oldtimeradio

4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

As we head into the home stretch of summer, here are four seasonal radio mysteries. Frank Lovejoy stars as the owner of a summer resort in dire financial straits who may have turned to murder to keep the lights on in "Last Night" from The Mollé Mystery Theatre (originally aired on NBC on February 22, 1946), and in a syndicated mystery, Boston Blackie finds a marriage racket when he heads to a dude ranch for vacation. A man spends a hot night trying to get rid of a surprise corpse in "Summer Night" from Murder By Experts (originally aired on Mutual on June 13, 1949), and William Gargan discovers strange affairs afoot at a resort in "Midsummer Lunacy" from Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (originally aired on NBC on August 17, 1954).

Transcript

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0:00.0	Get this and get it straight.
0:02.0	Crime is a sucker's road,
0:04.0	and those who travel it'd wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.
0:07.0	The story you're about to hear is true. The
0:12.5	The story you were about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:18.5	The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
0:21.5	The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize.
0:25.0	Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account.
0:30.0	America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator
0:33.2	yours truly Johnny Deller And the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets and more old-time radio
1:00.2	detectives and crime solvers.
1:03.3	It's hard to believe, but July is practically over.
1:07.6	Summer is winding down and before you know it,
1:10.5	kids will be back in school and vacation season will have come to an end.
1:15.5	So as we head into the final month of summer, I thought it would be fun to share some radio
1:20.6	mysteries set around the season. Some involve detectives. some
1:24.0	involved detectives trying to get away from work to catch a little bit of
1:28.0	R&R.
1:29.0	Others involve ordinary people who are
1:32.0	caught up in stories as sticky as the hot summer
1:35.6	nights. That's certainly the case for the characters in our first show.
1:40.2	It's last night, a Cornell Woolrich story adapted for the Molee Mystery Theater.
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