The Lost Lady: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (June 14, 1953)

“The Lost Lady” is an episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 14, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Barry Craig is hired by Adolf Beck to protect his wife while she shops for a hat in New York. When Mrs. Beck disappears from a boutique dressing room, Craig must track her down. Beck reveals his wife was once a nightclub singer named Lyla Lorne and was previously engaged to Eddie Myron, a nightclub owner, before they married—suggesting there may be dangerous connections from her past.

New York City, including a boutique called Madame Florie's and Adolf Beck's office

Characters: Barry Craig, Adolf Beck, Mrs. Beck (Lyla Lorne), Monsieur (boutique owner), Eddie Myron

Listen for: The disappearance of Mrs. Beck from the locked dressing room and the revelation of her mysterious past connections to nightclub life and Eddie Myron.

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.