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 Saint,

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 a bonus episode of Down These Mean Streets,

as today we continue our countdown to Christmas with holiday adventures of some of our favorite radio detectives.

This week, our Christmas crime solvers are Johnny Dollar and Nero Wolfe.

First up is the man with the action-packed expense account, as played by Charles Russell.

We'll hear him in small-time swindles of big-time department stores, originally aired on CBS on December 24, 1949. It's a case that brings Johnny Dollar to a crowded department

store at the height of the holiday shopping season. But he's not looking for some last-minute

gifts. He's hunting for a thief and a murderer.

Then Sidney Green Street is Neuro Wolf with Larry Dopkin as Archie Goodwin in the case of the slaughtered Santas.

Originally aired on NBC on December 22nd, 1950. A real Grinch is bumping off sidewalk Santa's in the Big Apple, and one very frightened Chris

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