Get this and get it straight.

Crime is a suckers road,

and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

The story you are 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 Price.

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

usually each week on this show we're in the big city New York, Los Angeles, sometimes Chicago or London,

and we're rubbing elbows with radio cops and private eyes

as they prowl the dark alleys and solve crimes under the bright lights.

But some radio detectives worked far away from the

hustle and bustle of the city. Some of them applied their trade in the wide open

spaces of the frontier and today we'll hear a few of those

Western tales of mystery and murder. First up is Alan Ladd, Shane himself in a killing in Abilene, an episode of suspense that originally

aired on CBS on December 14th, 1950.

Ladd plays a man on the trail of his brother's killer,

but when he tracks the man down,

Ladd discovers the killer is about to be lynched for another crime in another town.

Now Ladd's in the odd position of trying to save his brother's killer, only to ensure that the man will be brought back to

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