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.

We're only a few days away from Thanksgiving here in the USA,

and I imagine most of us are thinking about preparing and or eating a big meal come Thursday. So with thoughts of food in the air, I thought I'd celebrate Thanksgiving

a little early with a trio of radio adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and in each of them, a meal is a key part of the mystery.

First up is the strange case of Mrs. Abernetti from November 30, 1946. This one comes from actor

Tom Conway's single radio season starring as Sherlock Holmes.

Conway donned the Deer Stalker Cap after Basil Rathbone stepped away from 221B Baker Street.

Interestingly, a few years later, Conway would succeed another actor as a radio detective when he took over the role of the saint from Vincent Price.

Nigel Bruce, who for years had co-starred alongside Rathbone on radio and on the big screen,

...