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. the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets with more Ace Crime Solvers from the Golden age of radio.

This week we'll hear from a trio of hard-boiled private eyes.

Detectives willing to risk life and limb for their usual fee plus expenses.

They get shot at, slugged, harassed by the cops, and lied to by their own clients.

But no matter what happens and no matter what dangers they face these gum shoes will have the case solved by the end of the show

Our first hard-boiled hero is Philip Marlow, Raymond Chandler's ace investigator played by Gerald

Moore.

We'll hear him in an episode originally aired on CBS on August 20, 1949, called the Lady Killer.

A handsome composer wants Marlow to act as his bodyguard,

but Marlow turns the job down when he senses his potential client isn't giving him the whole story.

The man decides to come clean just in time for Marlow to hear his murder over the phone.

Jean Bates, Paul Dubov, to hear his murder over the phone.

Jean Bates, Paul Dubov, Anne Morrison, and Theodore Von Elts co-star in this story written

by Robert Mitchell, Mel Denelli, and Jean Leavitt, the trio of writers responsible for nearly the entire run of the series.

Norman McDonnell is the producer and director.

Then we'll hear Jack Webb in his pre- Dragnet gig as Pat Novak for hire, the ultra-hard-boiled

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