This is case closed one hour of old-time radio crime and mystery every Wednesday at relicradio.com.

Our first story comes from Richard Diamond Private Detective this week.

We'll hear the Jerome J. Jerome case from September 17, 1949.

After that, from February 28, 1949, we'll hear Your Money or Your Life from Let George Do It.

Here's another in NBC's great parade of new shows.

Music Now Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, private detective. Now Dick Powell is Richard Diamond, private detective.

Hello there, this is Diamond.

You know if you've ever got a few idle minutes,

and you need a good chuckle to keep you going,

just turn to the personals in any of the local papers. I'm a guy with a strange sense of humor, and it really takes something right out of left

field to get a spasm out of my funny bone. But just listen to this one out of the little rock

bugle. Oh, yeah. Thatchular, sincere, young man, four feet ten, one hundred and ninety pounds, handsome, out of work

for a year, desires to meet a woman who can straighten him out.

See what I mean?

If this guy does find a woman who can straighten him out, she'll probably do it with a flat

iron.

Oh, and, uh, and get this one.

Young man with large personality,

desires to meet a woman with big bank account

and small sense of humor.

Object murder.

Oh, excuse me, that's merger.

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