What happens
Sam Shovel, a private detective played by Bud Abbott's comedy partner Lou Costello, is called into a case involving a dead man found outside his office. The episode is Double Murder at the Liquor Distillery, part of the Abbott and Costello radio series, first broadcast on September 8, 1948 on NBC and ABC. Before the detective story begins, the show presents its usual comedy sketches, including a long exchange between Costello and a sister-in-law-like neighbor, and musical numbers featuring singer Susan Miller. The case opens with odd clues, a broken window, and a widow who arrives at the office, and Sam begins to puzzle over what has happened. Lead actors listed for the episode are Bud Abbott, Joe Kirk, Elvia Allman and Connie Haines.
Hollywood radio studio and a private detective's office in a comic detective drama
Characters: Sam Shovel, Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Susan Miller, Luke, Lucetta Nabbat
Listen for: The dead man outside Sam Shovel's office and the broken window with its note
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.