The FBI in Peace and War, aired on CBS from November 25, 1944 to September 28, 1958, was a radio crime drama inspired by Frederick Lewis Collins’ book of the same name, being produced and directed by Max Marcin and Betty Mandeville. The idea for the show came from Louis Pelletier who wrote many of the scripts. This long running series starred crime-fighter Martin Blaine as the infallible Field Agent Sheppard. This realistic crime fiction is told from the perspective of the criminal and the FBI hunted him down.