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A return to detective author, Dashiell Hammett, and his last fictional creations - Nick and Nora Charles in The Adventures of the Thin Man. The series starred Les Damon (see photo) and Claudia Morgan.

I return once more to Dashiell Hammett's only fictional detective created exclusively for radio! Brad Runyon, the Fat Man. "The hard boiled, hard hitting adventures of a criminologist who tips the scale at 247 pounds..." J. Scott Smart stars in the episode called "The Nineteenth Pearl."

This week we look at one of the more unusual radio detectives who not only uses deductive reasoning in solving crimes, but who also uses elements of the mystical. The pulp fictional detective Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow. This episode is from the Orson Welles year.

A look this week at probably one of the most famous detective/cop radio shows ever and the man behind it all. The facts: Dragnet is the show; Jack Webb is the creative force. An early episode from the run starring Webb as Joe Friday and Barton Yarborough as Ben Romero.