Midsummer Lunacy: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (August 17, 1954)

“Midsummer Lunacy” is an episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 17, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Barry Craig, a confidential investigator, is summoned to Jubilee Villa resort by an attractive blonde guest named Linda Paris, who asks him to investigate a wealthy-seeming guest named Stuart Stoner before she agrees to marry him. Craig's investigation reveals that both Linda and Stuart are using false identities and posing as wealthy, but he uncovers a darker mystery when he confronts Stoner and discovers the man suffers from mysterious episodes of suffocation and blackouts.

Jubilee Villa, a resort hotel with tennis courts, a casino, a bar, and lawn dances under pine trees.

Characters: Barry Craig, Linda Paris (Mary Ranceroff), Stuart Stoner, Lou Latimer

Listen for: Barry Craig's hard-boiled narration as he unravels the deceptions at the resort; Stoner's mysterious affliction that causes him to blank out.

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.