Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it would 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 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. And the Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets. This week we're walking the

gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. the

most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.

It's Broadway, the bead of Detective Danny Clover.

And Broadway is my bead was one of radio's best crime dramas. Today we'll hear a pair of episodes from this fantastic

series. Larry Thor starred as Clover, a tough but soulful cop who solved murders up and down the Great White way.

Like other radio detectives, Clover narrated his cases,

but his wasn't the breathless machine gun delivery of Philip Marlow or the Just the Facts realism of Joe Friday.

Clover had the soul of a poet, and his lyrical descriptions gave the series a kind of philosophic melancholy to accompany the murder and mayhem.

When it's July and the heat puffs up from the river,

Broadway is a place of regret. The winter dreams made for the

summer are blurred. The golden girls fan themselves with newspapers. It's the time of

the salt tablet, the fly paper, and the sullen sleep on the fire escape.

The mornings are filled with a thousand hours and the bleary talk

and dead cigarettes in the bottom of paper cups.

It's summer, the poet's time, the lover's's time and if you can afford an ocean voyage it's the most wonderful time of the year

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