Kitchens Come with Knives: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (September 22, 1953)

“Kitchens Come with Knives” is an episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 22, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Private investigator Barry Craig is hired to report on Sam Jenkins's movements. When Craig spots Jenkins entering a house and confronts the woman living there, Lynn Walters, she claims Jenkins isn't there and hints at a darker conspiracy involving Jenkins's business partners. After Lynn faints from shock, Craig discovers a grim reason for her distress.

A large house on East 43rd Street in the city, late at night during a rainstorm

Characters: Barry Craig, Lynn Walters, Sam Jenkins, Griffith and Swenson, Large man (unnamed)

Listen for: The confrontation at Lynn Walters's front door, her revelation about Jenkins's jealous wife and scheming partners, and the shocking discovery in the kitchen

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.