Never Murder a Mummy: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (March 30, 1955)

“Never Murder a Mummy” is an episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 30, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Detective Barry Craig receives a mysterious mummy wrapped and delivered to his office. When an exotic woman claiming to be Princess Nefertiti arrives to collect her "sister," Craig follows her to an Egyptological museum where he makes a gruesome discovery: the mummy case contains the murdered body of wealthy archaeologist patron Osgood, not an ancient mummy.

Barry Craig's detective office on Madison Avenue, an Egyptological museum and its grounds

Characters: Barry Craig, Princess Nefertiti, Jake, the night elevator man, Osgood (deceased)

Listen for: The mysterious delivery of the mummy, Princess Nefertiti's claim that she is 5,000 years old and the sister of the mummy, the discovery of Osgood's body inside the mummy case at the museum.

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.