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. And the Hello and welcome to down these mean streets with more old time radio

detectives and crime fighters. This week we're back at Baker Street

for four radio adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective and his loyal sidekick and biographer Dr. Watson came to radio in their own series on October 20th, 1930.

Their adventures aired steadily over several networks until the early 1950s.

Several actors played Holmes over the years on radio, the best known as Basil Rathbone, who

starred as Holmes on the air while he could also be seen as Holmes in a popular film series.

Today, in honor of the anniversary of his debut

as a radio detective, will hear a quartet of Sherlock Holmes

Adventures, a mix of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories adapted for radio, as well as some original

mysteries.

Up first are Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce's Watson in the Strange Case of the Murder in Wax,

originally aired on Mutual on January 7th, 1945.

In this episode, broadcast to an audience of GIs at California's Camp Roberts, Holmes and Watson are on the trail of a killer who's murdered several young women in the London Park of Hampstead Heath.

Anthony Boucher and Dennis Green wrote the original story.

An actor Harry Bartel is on hand to both hear the story from Dr Watson and to sing the praises

of sponsor Petrie Wine.

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