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 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. the Hello and welcome to down these means streets and more detectives and crime

fighters from the Golden Age of radio. This week we're opening the mail with Alan Ladd in Box 13.

The star of this gun for hire and the Glass Key plays Dan Holliday.

A mystery writer who gets plots for his novels by running a newspaper ad seeking adventure.

Each week a letter to Box 13 started a new case for holiday, one that could give him the

makings of a great book if he lived long enough to put pen to paper.

This was a syndicated series developed and produced by Ladd himself through his Mayfair

Productions company and it's long been one of my favorite radio detective shows.

This week we'll hear a pair of Box 13 mysteries beginning with Mexican Maze.

It's a story written by Robert Mitchell and Jean Leavitt, a pair of writers who would go on to work on the adventures of Philip

Marlow.

In this one a letter brings holiday south of the border where he finds himself caught in a frame

up that has a spot for him as a corpse.

Then in House of Darkness, Dan helps a blind man who discovers a cry for help written in braille in a library book.

Together the men track down a damsel in distress and they uncover an insidious plot

to collect an inheritance.

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