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He butchered the English language. He sang as if he gargled with gravel. He dropped pearls of wisdom disguised as one-liners. And he had a nose that got everywhere ten minutes before he did.

Big-nosed, brash, and boisterous, beloved entertainer Jimmy Durante parlayed his experience in vaudeville, nightclubs, and Broadway shows into a radio career highlighted by many successful programs

Big-nosed, brash, and boisterous, beloved entertainer Jimmy Durante parlayed a career in vaudeville, nightclubs, and Broadway shows into a radio career highlighted by many successful programs throu

A story of young love and old death. A girl from Kansas named Linda Johnson has been arrested for grand theft. She's bailed out by someone she doesn't even know.

A woman's body is found in an old trunk at the Charing Cross railroad station baggage claim. Who killed Mrs. Noami Fournier?

Thomas A'Becket Appleby has been murdered. His Wife Alma is arrested for the crime, but her young lover confesses to the crime.

A woman's stocking is kept in the Black Museum as a keepsake of a woman who was struck by a motorcar.

A wireless set that was never intended to be operative is in the Black Museum because of its involvement with the murder of a bartender with strychnine.

A bottle of The Glenlivet in the Black Museum is the exhibit in a case of stolen uranium!

The first show of the series. A visit to the Black Museum and an exhibit of teacup fragments. A woman and her companion have been killed with a shotgun.

For Randy Stone of the Chicago Star, stories begin in many ways. This one began with a Halloween killing and ended with a sweet revenge.

Philip Marlow, like other hard-boiled detectives, is unsentimental about the violence he faces - and few could take it or dish it out like Marlow.

Volume 9 of The Adventures of Jungle Jim! The pulp era was full of jungle heroes. Jungle Jim is one of the unique ones.

Volume 8 of The Adventures of Jungle Jim! The pulp era was full of jungle heroes. Jungle Jim is one of the unique ones.

Volume 7 of The Adventures of Jungle Jim! The pulp era was full of jungle heroes. Jungle Jim is one of the unique ones.