Episode 452 – Girls' Club (Murder Clinic, Policewoman, & Holiday Wilde)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
We're celebrating some of the women detectives of the radio era, including stories inspired by the life and work of a trailblazing woman detective in the New York Police Department. First, Murder Clinic presents an adventure of Madame Rosika Story, the brave, brilliant, and beautiful psychologist and private eye created by Hulbert Footner. We'll hear "The Scrap of Lace" (originally aired on Mutual on September 22, 1942). Then, Policewoman dramatizes the life of Mary Sullivan, the first woman homicide detective in the NYPD. We'll hear "The Case of the Scheming Bridegroom" (originally aired on ABC on June 29, 1947). Finally, Gloria Blondell stars as Holiday Wilde in the audition show for the adventures of a young woman on an international search for her missing father. From 1947, we'll hear "Mr. Fortune and The Court Of Shanghai."
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:07.0 | The story you were about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. |
| 0:18.0 | The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective. |
| 0:22.0 | The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize |
| 0:25.4 | Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account |
| 0:30.4 | America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. |
| 0:33.0 | Yours truly, Johnny Deller. And the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets presenting crime fighters and |
| 1:02.1 | detectives from the Golden age of radio. |
| 1:06.5 | This week we're leaving the boys behind and we're celebrating some of the women who |
| 1:11.5 | chased down crooks and closed cases on radio. |
| 1:15.0 | In today's show we'll hear a series based on the life and work of a real life |
| 1:20.0 | trailblazer on the New York Police Department, an adventure of one of the great |
| 1:25.1 | sloths of the Golden Age of Mystery, and an audition recording for what would have been a fun series |
| 1:32.1 | about a globe-tting adventurer. |
| 1:35.0 | Up first is a sleuth who made the jump from print to radio, |
| 1:40.0 | though sadly not in her own series. |
| 1:45.0 | Madam Rosika's story, the brave, brilliant and beautiful psychologist and private investigator, |
| 1:50.0 | was created by Holbert Footner. |
| 1:52.0 | She appeared in several novels and short stories from |
| 1:55.0 | 1925 until 1936. Like most great detectives she had a side kick, the Watson to her Holmes was her |
| 2:04.8 | loyal secretary Bella, and Footner put Madam's story in cases that took her all |
| 2:10.7 | around the world. Footner's 1923 short story, The Scrap of Lace, |
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