Get this and get it straight.

Crime is a sucker's road.

And those who travel

it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

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 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 Dollar.

... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to another bonus holiday episode of Down These Mean Streets.

Our Christmas countdown continues this week with two more old-time radio holiday mysteries.

First up, we have Vincent Price as Simon Templar, the saint, whose Christmas Eve plans to play Santa at a charity ball or thwarted when he's repeatedly mistaken for a notorious

jewel thief.

The episode is Santa Claus is No Saint, and it originally aired on NBC on December 24, 1950.

Then Frank Sinatra stars in one of my favorite old-time radio shows, Rocky Fortune.

The titular character's latest job is playing Santa in a department store in the run-up to Christmas,

but he runs afoul of some crooks who are sadly lacking the Christmas spirit.

The episode is called The Plot to Murder Santa Claus,

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