Get this and get it straight.

Crime is a sucker's road.

And those who travel

it 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 Price.

Bob Bailey, in the exciting adventures

of the man with the action-packed expense account.

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator...

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets with more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers.

This week, all of our radio shows involve radio shows.

Their mysteries set behind the microphones of radio dramas, where the performers have more to contend with than just the drama in their scripts.

First up, Larry Dobkin stars as Master Detective Ellery Queen, who has to solve a murder that takes place in his own studio right in the middle of his own show.

It's the Armchair Detective, and it originally aired on CBS on March 27, 1946.

Larry Dobkin is a regular on the podcast.

Usually we hear him as Louis, the cab driver and sidekick of Simon Templar on the saint,

but he also pops up as Archie Goodwin, opposite Sydney Green Street on the new adventures of Nero Wolfe.

Then Alan Ladd stars as Dan Holliday in Actors' Alibi, a syndicated episode of Box 13.

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