Finding decently written Christmas radio drama is hard, believe me, I tried. This one has the virtue of not being A Christmas Carol or The Gift of the Magi. It's depressing how many times those were resorted to.
This one is an old-time tough-guy detective story with a lot of fun twists and turns. People ask me why I don't post more "golden age of radio" stuff, maybe I should dip into those archives more.
I had never heard of the writers before and was interested to find out that at least Jackson Gillis is someone whose work I certainly saw before, he wrote scads of stuff for TV, some shows I certainly saw, some I didn't. I don't know if he and maybe his co-writer got away with many of the the things on TV they got away with on radio where they can do anything for the cost of a sound effect.
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