Episode 634 - Crimesolving on Campus (Michael Shayne, Box Thirteen, Richard Diamond, & The Saint)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Mystery, Detectives, Old, Radio, Time, Tv & Film, Oldtimeradio

4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

As summer winds down and students head back to school, we’ll join some radio detectives as they tackle cases on college campuses. Michael Shayne looks for a peeping Tom turned murderer in “The Return to Huxley College” (originally aired on Mutual on November 5, 1946), and mystery writer and amateur sleuth Dan Holiday tries to help an old friend figure out how a colleague died in “The Professor and the Puzzle” from Box 13. A murderer is supposedly dead, but someone’s spotted him on campus and it’s up to Richard Diamond, Private Detective to find him in “The Martin White Case” (originally aired on NBC on January 22, 1950). And The Saint returns to his alma mater to find the author of some poison pen letters before his works turn deadly in “Simon Carries the Ivy” (originally aired on NBC on April 1, 1951).

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0:00.0	Get this and get it straight.
0:02.1	Crime is a sucker's road.
0:03.9	And those who travel
0:04.6	it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.
0:12.3	The story you were about to hear is true.
0:15.2	Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:18.6	The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.
0:21.7	The Adventures of the Saints,
0:23.5	starring Vincent Price.
0:25.5	Bob Bailey, in the exciting adventures
0:27.7	of the man with the action-packed expense account.
0:30.6	America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator...
0:33.4	Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
1:03.0	... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers.
1:08.6	It's hard to believe that summer vacation is coming to a close.
1:13.6	My daughter reports for her first day of third grade tomorrow, and since we're in back-to-school mode at my house, I've picked four radio mysteries where our
1:20.2	sleuths are headed to campus themselves in cases set at college. First up is an adventure of Michael Shane, private detective.
1:30.3	Now, usually when we hear Mr. Shane on the podcast,
1:34.3	he's portrayed in an ultra-tuff, two-fisted manner by Jeff Chandler.
1:39.3	But today we'll hear a different, earlier incarnation of the character,
1:43.3	voiced by Wally Mayer, one of Radio's
1:46.2	busiest character actors. You may know Wally Mayer from his work on the lineup as Sergeant
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