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. And the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets.

This week we're visiting the library of the Crime Club for tales of mystery and murder.

This anthology sprang from the pages of the Crime Club novels published by Doubleday.

A set of books send each month to subscribers eager for regular doses of mayhem in print.

The radio show offered a mix of original stories as well as adaptations of

novels published under the Crime Club Banner. Each episode was

introduced by the librarian, the Keeper of the Stories, who answered a phone call from a reader inquiring about a particular title.

The Librarian was a storyteller cut from the same cloth as the Whistler, the man in black on

suspense, and the mysterious traveler.

And even though he didn't play a large role in the stories themselves, his ominous delivery helped to set the scene for the mystery that followed.

The Crime Club came to the Mutual Network in 1946 as a replacement for Bulldog Drummond.

It featured a cast of some of the best East Coast radio players.

Among those heard on the show were Larry Haynes, Radio's Mike Hammer, Alice Frost, who was half of Mr and Mrs North, and Stots Kotsworth, Casey Crime Photographer himself.

Scripts were penned by a team of writers that included Willis Cooper,

the brilliant radio wordsmith behind lights out, quiet pleas, cloak and dagger, and Whitehall

one two one two. Unfortunately, the show couldn't land a sponsor and it left the airwaves on October 15th, 1947 less than a year after it premiered.

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