Sweet Larceny: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (March 2, 1955)

“Sweet Larceny” is an episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 2, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Confidential investigator Barry Craig receives a cable from Oscar Melamed requesting an armored truck to safely transfer the priceless Barbary Tomb relics arriving Friday by ship. When Craig meets with Lisa Barnum to discuss the collection, he is attacked and knocked unconscious, and the cable gram is stolen from his pocket. Lisa reveals that the relics belonged to her uncle, an Egyptologist who vanished in Egypt two years ago, and she believes her own father was involved in his murder.

New York City, with references to a ship at sea and Egypt

Characters: Barry Craig, Lisa Barnum, Oscar Melamed, Dexter Barbary, Lisa's father

Listen for: The mystery of the vanished Egyptologist and the claim to ownership of the priceless tomb relics; Barry Craig's determination to uncover who stole the cable gram and why.

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.