Crime Photographer - Tooth for a Tooth (audio product)

"...we bring you another adventure of Casey, crime photographer, ace cameraman who covers the crime news of a great city."

Part of the sprawling Casey, Crime Photographer multimedia empire that ran from the 1930s into the 1950s, spanning magazine stories, novels, movies, radio, tv, comic books and a stage play, this radio show follows the adventures of Casey, a photographer for the Morning Express.

A veteran newsman, Casey is not only a top photographer, but also knows almost everyone in the city, hobnobbing with high society playboys and notorious racketeers alike. Invariably, his pursuit of a story draws him and reporter girlfriend Ann Williams into events, often to the distress of their pal, homicide Lieutenant (later Captain) Logan. When not out snapping pictures and chasing headlines, Casey and Ann spend almost every waking moment at the Blue Note Cafe with the affable barman Ethelbert, their confidante, sounding board and friend.

Created by George Harmon Coxe and adapted for radio by Alonzo Deen Cole, the show went by many names over the years - "Flash-Gun Casey, Press Photographer," "Casey, Crime Photographer," "Casey, Press Photographer," but most commonly, simply "Crime Photographer."

Tooth for a Tooth

First Broadcast: July 15, 1946.

Starring Staats Cotsworth, Lesley Woods and John Gibson.

A Morning Express coworker’s case of the blues tips off Casey and Ann to a back-alley dentist and all-around suspicious character. Ethelbert gets fascinated with what words sound like backwards, though no connections to Satanism or the four-year-old Paul McCartney are mentioned.

Sponsor: None.