Visitor at Midnight: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (May 12, 1955)

“Visitor at Midnight” is an episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 12, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

Listen to Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator free, live around the clock: every episode, in the order it first aired. No sign-up.

What happens

When a mysterious visitor climbs through Barry Craig's window at midnight, he claims to be a novelist seeking advice on an unsolvable murder plot: poisoning a heart-disease victim by replacing his medicine capsules with water. The next morning, Craig discovers that a crooked broker named James W. Baker—who suffered from heart disease—has died suddenly. Craig visits Baker's house to investigate whether the fictional murder scheme has become reality.

Barry Craig's apartment and the Baker household, in the present day.

Characters: Barry Craig, Sandra (Baker's niece), James W. Baker (deceased), Hanson (Baker's lawyer), Tommy (Baker's secretary), The midnight visitor

Listen for: The clever murder method described in the novelist's plot, and whether Craig can prove it was actually used on Baker before the murderer escapes.

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.