Death Buys a Bedroom: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (July 27, 1954)

“Death Buys a Bedroom” is an episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 27, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Barry Craig, a confidential investigator traveling by train to the Adirondacks for a fishing vacation, meets an attractive woman named Claire Roberts who asks him to hold a mysterious envelope for her. When a waiter attempts to poison his drink, Craig realizes the envelope is far more dangerous than it appears, and multiple people—including an armed man named Wiley and a fake conductor—are willing to kill to obtain it.

A passenger train traveling to the Adirondacks, including the club car and sleeping car bedrooms.

Characters: Barry Craig, Claire Roberts, Wiley, James Bryan, Train conductor, Waiter, Bartender

Listen for: A tense cat-and-mouse game aboard a moving train as Craig tries to determine what the mysterious envelope contains and who is willing to kill for it.

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.