The Thirteenth Guest: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (August 9, 1953)

“The Thirteenth Guest” is an episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 9, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Barry Craig is hired by the wealthy playboy Badger Boris to work as a discreet bouncer at an exclusive masquerade party, paid to prevent guests from becoming too rowdy or stealing from one another. When Craig meets a mysterious woman on the patio at midnight for an intimate rendezvous, he discovers she has been murdered, stabbed through the heart.

A lavish masquerade costume party at the home of wealthy playboy Badger Boris, featuring a patio with flagstone and floral displays.

Characters: Barry Craig, Badger Boris, Cora Wilmer, Mark Wilmer, Rita Romaine, a society photographer

Listen for: The distinctive narration and dialogue of William Gargan as Barry Craig, the playful banter between Craig and Boris about the terms of employment, and the atmospheric description of the discovery of the dead woman on the patio.

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.