Old Time Radio Detective — That Hammer Guy: "The Lillian Martin Case" (1953) | Full Episode

VintageRadioShows.com · Jul 27, 2026 · 28m

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer was never a gentleman sleuth. He was a blunt instrument with a conscience — a New York private eye who took the beating, threw it back twice as hard, and believed in rough justice when the law ran out of room. In this April 1953 Mutual broadcast, Hammer takes the Lillian Martin case and follows a pair of two-tone saddle shoes through a city that would rather he didn't. Their owner shoots first and comes close enough to leave a mark, and everything Hammer turns up afterward says the shooting was the easy part. Larry Haines stars as Hammer, with Jan Miner, from a…