Death's Bargain Basement: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (August 10, 1954)

“Death's Bargain Basement” is an episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 10, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Barry Craig is hired by Homer Dibble, a fired department store accountant, to investigate a mysterious firing connected to a $37,241 discrepancy in the company's books. When Craig and Dibble visit the store owner G.J. Thomas's home, they discover Thomas murdered with a knife in his back. They rush to the department store to find the records containing evidence of the embezzlement have been burned, along with an unconscious night watchman.

New York City (Madison Avenue, Willie's bar, G.J. Thomas's house, Thomas Department Store)

Characters: Barry Craig, Homer Dibble, G.J. Thomas, Willie, G.J.'s butler, Night watchman, Mr. Connors

Listen for: A tie-buying scene establishes Craig's character; the discovery of Thomas's body and the burned accounting records; Dibble reveals the discrepancy could have occurred in one of three departments.

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.