Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it'd wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

The story you were 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 crime solvers from the

Golden Age of Radio. This week we're celebrating the birthday of Dick Powell.

And we've got a radio recreation of the film that launched his second career as a tough hard-boiled star of noir dramas.

Powell made a name for himself in the 1930s and early 40s in musicals and comedies, But by 1944, the then 40 year old felt he was a little long in the tooth to play those boyish leads.

He went out for the role of Walter Neff in double indemnity, but the part of the

insurance salesman seduced into murder went instead to Fred McMurray.

Powell didn't give up, though, and his work paid off

when he was cast as Philip Marlow in Murder My Sweet,

the big screen adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell My Lovely.

It marked a turning point in Powell's career.

More no more noir roles would follow in movies like Pitfall, Johnny a Clock, and Cry Danger.

He'd left Mary Musicals behind, and he got in practically on the ground floor of the film Noir era.

Murder My Sweet was the first movie to feature Marlow,

the popular private eye of several Chandler novels.

The film co-starred Claire Trebor. private eye of several Chandler novels.

The film co-starred Claire Trevor and Shirley Otto Krueger and Mike Miserke.

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