This Gun in My Hand: April 2023

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Shadow Taxi - Episode 79

A man in dark gray suit stands on the rear bumper of a red 1940s taxi cab. He's rocked backwards by a sock in the jaw from a man inside the cab, leaning out the empty or broken back window. A woman sits next to him in the back seat of the cab. The man on the bumper is firing a pistol into the air, his aim thrown off by the punch.

In a race between Falk Zildjian and The Shade, which crimefighter will bring the bloody killer to justice? Who’s driving the gray De Soto? Will you scoot over? Listen to find out!

Shadow Taxi, episode 79 of This Gun in My Hand, was driven by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Who’s laughing now? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. The Shade first appeared in episode 12, “Made in The Shade.”
2. Alternate title for this episode: Irregular Fare.

Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Organ music performed (and/or written?) by Lou White was taken from a public domain episode of the radio show Nick Carter, Master Detective, “The Echo of Death,” broadcast July 6, 1943.

Sound Effect Title: Traffic mel 1.wav
By malupeeters
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
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Sound Effect Title: Old FM radio tuning by sielxm3d.mp3
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_3667256/sounds/319846/

Sound Effect Title: Squeaky Car Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/coltures/sounds/262325/#

Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#

Sound Effect Title: Screeching Tyres
By iainmccurdy
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/iainmccurdy/sounds/650934/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Ten Detective Aces Magazine, Volume 44, Number 4 (June 1942). Public domain painting by John Hilkert or Norman Saunders.