Welcome to the great

Attractives of Old-Time Radio. From Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a

comment, email it to me, boxthirteen at greatdetectives.net. Follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives and

become one of our friends on Facebook. Facebook.com slash Radio Detectives. I don't want to let you know

about our other podcast. In particular, I'm going to tell you about the amazing world of radio.

And what we're going to be doing this summer. It's going to be our summer of summer replacement

programs. Programs that were aired only during the summer and never brought back as a full series.

This is going to be a lot of fun. We're going to cover a lot of different grounds. We're going to

have a lot of anthology series, some comedies, some musical programs, and even a series or two that

feel a little bit like precursors to programs like America's Most Wanted. And they action all

starts every Wednesday starting June the 2nd. Be sure and check out the amazing world of radio

for some great summer fun. We also have our other series, The War, Old-Time Radio Superman at

otrsuperman.com and public domain video theater. And you can access all of those series right

from the front page of our website over at greatdetectives.net. Now it is time for today's episode

of The Fat Man, the original air date April the 21st, 1955, and the title is Murder Makes Music.

There he goes into that drugstore. He's stepping on the scale.

Wait 239 hours for June danger.

Who is it? The Fat Man.

And now here's The Fat Man in Murder Makes Music.

I put the telephone slowly back in its cradle and died at what I'd heard.

J. Shrewd, would I please seem Mr. Sherman at 2 o'clock? That's what the Secretary

of Voice had said. My memory took a backward dive from autumn day in 1929 when the world

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