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 Saint,

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 fighters. Last week with Valentine's Day on the horizon, we featured mysteries starring actual couples. Today, with Valentine's Day freshly in the rearview mirror,

we're switching over to less romantic entanglements, as our heroes are pulled into cases involving

husbands and wives with some tension in their relationships. Sometimes it's a husband with a missing wife.

Other times it's a wife who fears for her husband's safety.

And sometimes there's a woman with eyes

on making our hero her next partner at the altar.

First up, we have Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce

as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in the Book of Tobit.

From March 26, 1945, it's a mystery involving a woman whose husbands have the unusual habit of dying not long after tying the knot.

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