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 super sleuths from the

Golden Age of Radio.

This week it's back to Baker Street

for more adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

And with Halloween only a few days away,

I've picked out some stories of Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson facing off

against things that go bump in the night, or at least that appear at first glance to go bump in the night.

Holmes and the supernatural go practically hand in hand.

His most famous adventure, the Hound of the Baskervilles finds him investigating reports of a demonic

hellhound stalking a family through the generations. And in the Sussex vampire, one of my all-time favorite Holmes short stories,

the detective comes to the aid of a man who believes his new wife is actually a blood-sucking monster.

Holmes' creator, Arthur Conan Doyle,

was a famous believer in spiritualism and ghosts,

even if he never had Holmes face off

against a truly other worldly foe.

When they created original Holmes adventures for radio,

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