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 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, where this week we'll hear the American radio adventures of Captain Hugh Bulldog Drummond.

A veteran of World War I, Drummond found himself still hungry for thrills, and he embarked on a career as a gentleman

adventurer and soldier of fortune. He earned his nickname because of his dogged

pursuit of justice. Bulldog Drummond first appeared in a 1920 novel by

H.C. McNeely and he was on the big screen two years later in a silent film.

Between 1922 and 1969 there were 24 feature films starring Drummond

where he was played by among others Ronald Coleman, Ralph Richardson, Ray Mulan, and Tom Conway.

Bulldog Drummond first came to radio in 1941 in a series of adventures set in England and starring George Caloris as the detective.

Caloris was an English veteran of the stage and screen.

He portrayed Walter Parks Thatcher in Citizen Kane.

In the fall of 1941, the story shifted across the pond and found Drummond and his

loyal sidekick Denny in the United States. Over the course of the radio run several actors play Drummond

including Santos Ortega, Commissioner Weston on the Shadow and Inspector Richard Queen on Ellery Queen and radio's Dick Tracy

Ned Weaver. The series was produced and directed by Hyman Brown one of radio's

greatest whose works also included Inter-Sankdom Mysteries,

Barry Craig, Confidential Investigators, and the Private Files of Rex Saunders.

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