Mr. District Attorney, Vol. 1 Audiobook (Free)

Mr. District Attorney came to radio in 1939 and centered on a crusading DA named Paul Garrett. Created, written, and directed by former law college student Ed Byron, the series was influenced by the first years of New York governor Thomas E. Dewey. It had been Dewey’s public war against racketeering which resulted in his election as governor and enabled him to run for the presidency of the United States. Phillips H. Lord, the inventor of Gang Busters, helped Byron develop the idea and coined the name. Dwight about Mr. District Attorney, Vol. 1 Weist was radio’s first Mr. District Attorney. With the help of his sidekick, Len Harrington, and his secretary, Edith Miller, Mr. Area Attorney proved every week to become “champion from the people-guardian of our fundamental privileges to life, liberty, and the pursuit of joy!” Near the end of its radio run in the early 1950s, the series produced a changeover to tv with the current radio solid reprising their tasks.

Episodes included are: “The Fifteen-Year-Old on Trial,” “The Joy Ride Murder,” “The Murderous Hitchhiker,” “The Staircase Killer,” “The Charity Killer,” “The Strike and Work Killer,” “The Desert Killer,” “The Missing Corpse,” “THE LENDER Killer,” “Knifing in the Park,” “Hungry Hobo,” and “Phony Confessions.”