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. This week our old time radio detective Roundup takes us all around the world with international adventures

of three radio heroes. Most of the shows we listen to on this podcast are set in the asphalt jungles of big American cities.

But there were plenty of radio sloths and secret agents who worked across the globe on cases of mystery and intrigue

And today we'll hear three of them Rocky Jordan, Mr. Modo, and Agent Steve Mitchell from

Dangerous Assignment. The first destination on our international tour is Cairo, where we'll meet Jack Moils as Rocky Jordan.

Rocky was a tough expat cut from the same cloth as Rick Blaine in Casablanca. Leaving a slightly shady past behind in the United States,

Rocky owned and operated the Cafe Tambourine, a nightclub frequented by the good and bad who passed through post-war Egypt.

Despite his best efforts to stay out of trouble, Rocky couldn't help but get involved when danger arrived at his doorstep, like it does in the man with no name,

originally aired on CBS on October 9th, 1949. A customer makes cryptic comments about an elephant hunt

before he hastily leaves the cafe. The next day, Rocky discovers the man's body was pulled out of the

Nile and he met his maker courtesy of a blast to the face from an elephant gun.

Jane of Ella, one of radio's masters of accents and dialects,

plays Rocky's friend and foil on the Cairo Police

Force, Sergeant Sam Sabaya.

Then we'll jet off to Rome with Mr. I-A-Moto in the radio adventures of the Japanese secret

agent created by writer John P Markwand and who's memorably played in eight movies by Peter Lorry.

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