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Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Episode 57 - Sophisticated Sleuthing (Philo Vance)

Broadcast on:
11 May 2014

S.S. Van Dine's dapper detective Philo Vance starred in twelve novels and over a dozen films before he came to radio. Played on screen by William Powell and Basil Rathbone among others, Vance was most memorably portrayed on the air by Jackson Beck in a syndicated series. We'll hear him take on "The Thundering Murder Case," one of the syndicated Philo Vance episodes.