![]() There was the genius of Sherlock Holmes, Nero Wolfe, Charlie Chan, and Father Brown. There were the soap operatic adventures of Mister Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons. North, Leonidas Witherall, and the Thin Man. There was the pulp fiction adventures of Nick Carter and Casey, Crime Photographer. However, the hard boiled private eye, the daring men who encountered femme fatales, exchanged wisecracks with underworld characters, and took conks on the head every week, until the Summer of 1945 when the Fitch Bandwagon mysteries premiered over NBC starring Dick Powell as Richard Rogue. Powell was in the midst of redefining his career to feature dramatic tough guy roles from his previous role as Comedic singing star. The previous season he’d been host and singer for musical Bandwagon Show which was also for Fitch. Powell was the perfect choice to bring the hard boiled eye to the radio given his film experience. ![]()
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