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We doff our cap to Dick Powell in this birthday celebration of the crooner who reinvented himself as a tough\\xa0film noir\\xa0leading man. First, he\\u2019s private investigator Richard Rogue in \\u201cMurder at Minden\\u201d from\\xa0Rogue\\u2019s Gallery\\xa0(originally aired on Mutual on January 3, 1946). Then, it\\u2019s a pair of mysteries starring Powell in his signature radio role as singing gumshoe\\xa0Richard Diamond, Private Detective: \\u201cThe Elaine Tanner Case\\u201d (originally aired on NBC on February 12, 1950) and \\u201cThe Carnival Case\\u201d (originally aired on NBC on August 16, 1950).