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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. 

Be sure to tune in each Sunday for adventures of a radio detective and the behind-the-scenes stories of their shows. Join me as we spend time with Sam Spade, Johnny Dollar, Sgt. Joe Friday, and more!

Jan 26, 2014

The big screen and best-seller worlds collide this week when Glenn Ford and Erle Stanley Gardner team up to bring you Christopher London.  Ford stars as the globe-trotting private detective created by Gardner, the author behind Perry Mason.  In this short-lived series (curtailed by Ford's success in Hollywood), London...


Jan 19, 2014

In January 1946, The Fat Man premiered on ABC.  We're celebrating the anniversary with an hour of J. Scott Smart as Dashiell Hammett's extra large sleuth.  First, it's the series' debut episode, "The 19th Pearl," originally aired on ABC on January 21, 1946).  Then, we'll hear "A Window for Murder" (originally aired on...


Jan 12, 2014

Dane Clark stars as the titular private eye in Crime and Peter Chambers, a short-lived series drawn from the pages of Henry Kane's novels.  Chambers is a slick private eye solving tough cases in the Big Apple, and he's given voice and style by big screen tough guy Clark.  We'll hear "The Alan Lewis Murder," originally...


Jan 5, 2014

We kick off 2014 with an hour of "the Robin Hood of modern crime" - The Saint.  Leslie Charteris' debonair detective premiered on American radio on January 6, 1945, and we're celebrating his anniversary with an extra-large episode.  Vincent Price stars as Simon Templar in "Greed Causes Murder" (originally aired on...