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 and more old-time radio detectives and crime solvers.

Today we wrap up our month-long series of actors who played multiple detectives on the air,

and we're closing things out with Bob Bailey.

He's probably best remembered today for his long run as Johnny Dollar, where he's generally

accepted to be the best actor to play the insurance investigator.

But before he had an action-packed expense account, Bailey starred for several years as George Valentine,

a private eye who found his clients through a newspaper classified ad in the series Let George Do It.

Today we'll hear him as both Valentine and Dollar, beginning with a pair of episodes from Let George Do It.

Come and Get Me from May 16, 1949, and the Silent Waterfall from January 9th, 1950.

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