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 with more mysteries and

crime solvers from the Golden Age of Radio.

This week we're saluting Agatha Christie, one of the greatest mystery writers of all time.

Her novels and stories are still read all around the world and they continue to be adapted for lavish big and small screen productions.

Next month, one of Christie's most famous characters is slated to return to the big screen in Death on the Nile.

It's Kenneth Brana's follow-up to his wonderful adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express.

And in a throwback to the star-studied Christie adaptations of the 1970s, this new film is full

of A-Listers, with Brana at the center as Belgian Detective Ekul Poirot.

This week marks the 130th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth on September 15th, 1890.

And to celebrate her life and career, we'll hear one of her classic stories and one of her iconic characters brought to radio life.

First we'll hear witness for the prosecution,

adapted for the Radio City Playhouse. This episode originally aired on NBC on April 25th

1949. The story that would become witness for the prosecution was first published as Traitor's Hands in

1925.

It got its new title when it was republished in a collection of stories in 1933.

And Christie used that title when she adapted it

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