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 and another round of old time

radio crime solving. This week we'll hear a pair of radio

gumshoes freelance detectives with an unusual method of finding their cases.

Usually when we think of private eyes from the era, we can picture a shabby office, a weather-beaten desk

with a bottle in the drawer, and a shamis with his feet up. There's a knock on the door and a beautiful woman or a frightened man walks in with a case.

But for George Valentine and Dan Holliday, jobs came in the form of letters responding to newspaper ads placed by the sloths themselves.

Valentine, a former GI, offered his services for people in dangerous situations.

Instead of tackling the problem themselves, his advertisement invited them to let George do it. And Dan Holliday was a newspaper reporter turned mystery writer.

He used his cases as fodder for his novels and he posted an ad seeking adventure. Holiday asked those in need of his

help to write to Box 13. Today we'll hear first from George Valentine in an old time radio mystery starring Bob Bailey.

Around here we know and love him as Johnny Dollar, but before he itemized the action-packed expense account of America's fabulous freelance

insurance investigator, Bailey spent several years on the air as Valentine.

We'll hear him today in Destination Dead End, originally aired on Mutual on

February 14th 1949.

Francis Robinson co-stars as Claire Brooks, George's Girl Friday, in this story of a fellow private

eye who finds himself in the crosshairs of the mob. George gets the assignment when the man's mother writes a letter expressing her concern for her son's safety.

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