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Welcome to Down These Mean Streets, a weekly trip back to the Golden Age of Radio where we rub elbows with the era's greatest private eyes, cops, and crime-fighters. Since 2013, I've been podcasting everything from cozy mysteries to police procedurals, spotlighting characters ranging from hard boiled gumshoes to amateur sleuths. 

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Episode 670 - All the Write Moves: John Dickson Carr (Suspense & Cabin B-13)

May 31, 2026

Our month-long spotlight series on mystery writers concludes with John Dickson Carr, master of the locked room mystery who was recently referenced in Wake Up Dead Man. We’ll hear some thrillers penned by Carr for Suspense as well as episodes of his own mystery anthology series Cabin B-13. From Suspense, it’s “The Burning Court” (originally aired on CBS on June 17, 1942) and the first half of “The Hangman Won’t Wait,” starring Sydney Greenstreet as Carr’s amateur sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell (originally aired on CBS on March 30, 1943). And from Cabin B-13, we’ll hear “The Bride Vanishes” (originally aired on CBS on December 12, 1948).