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 means streets with more crime solvers from the

golden age of radio. This week we're throwing a belated birthday party for

Nigel Bruce, the actor who's synonymous with Dr. John H Watson. Bruce played the friend and biographer of Sherlock Holmes opposite Basil Rathbone in 14 films and hundreds of radio episodes on the new adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Dr Watson was Nigel Bruce's signature role.

And while Holmes' purists may not care for his portraying Watson as a bit of a bumbler, he was a wonderful foil for

Rathbone on screen and on the air.

Bruce's Watson was jovial, friendly, and fiercely loyal, even if he was a little slow on the uptake.

In honor of his birthday, we'll hear a pair of Sherlock Holmes radio mysteries, co-starring

Nigel Bruce, plus an old-time radio

recreation of one of his other big screen roles. First we'll hear Bruce and Rathbone

in the tell-tale pigeon feathers, originally aired on

mutual on January 21st, 1946. It's

older and in some respect smarter brother.

The story begins when Mrs Hudson,

Holmes and Watson's landlady, visits Mycroft to enlist his aid with a baffling

mystery plaguing her sister.

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