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 Mean Streets a weekly roundup of

detectives and crime solvers from the Golden Age of radio. This week were saluting Gerald Moore, one of my favorite

radio actors and a man who had one of the best voices of the era. Born June 11th, 1914, Moore started working on radio as an announcer and

narrator in the mid-30s, and all the way through the late 1950s he was heard on comedies, dramas, thrillers, and Westerns.

But for us, Gerald Moore's name is synonymous with Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlow.

More starred as the Los Angeles Private Eye from 1948 until 1951,

and he gave us one of radio's all-time great detectives

with a rich deep voice and a delivery that blasted

like the muzzle of Marlow's 38. Today in honor of his birthday we'll hear a

quartet of Gerald Moore's radio performances including

two adventures of Mr. Marlow. First from April 2nd 1949 it's The Last Laugh laugh a story full of classic mystery elements the reading of a

will a cast of greedy airs and a secluded island. Marlow is on the scene after one of his late clients names the gumshoe in his will,

and it's the perfect spot for a murder.

The cast includes Fred Flintstone himself, actor Alan Reed, along with Doris Singleton, Paul Dubov, Peter Leeds, Ann Morrison, and John Dana.

Then we'll hear Mr. Moore as Archie Goodwin in the case of the vanishing shells from the new

adventures of Nero Wolf.

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