Juniper Lane: Let George Do It (January 16, 1950)

“Juniper Lane” is an episode of Let George Do It, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 16, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

George Valentine receives a misdirected letter from a man warning of a planned murder on Juniper Lane, a forgotten street in the city. When George investigates to return the letter, he discovers the woman it was meant to protect—the elderly Queen Bess—has already been murdered with a knitting needle. As George and Lieutenant Riley search for the killer among Juniper Lane's struggling residents, a second murder occurs, revealing a more complex and sinister scheme than anyone suspected.

Juniper Lane, a forgotten one-block street in the city bounded by industrial areas and gas works, lined with brownstone buildings and one small shop.

Characters: George Valentine, private investigator, Brooksie, George's assistant, Lieutenant Riley, police detective, Stevenson Sprote, part-time printer and former newspaper editor, Miss Bathwell, an elderly woman who paints on windows, Miss Bess Pottswell, the murdered landlord of Juniper Lane, Felix McCoy, Bess's estranged husband

Listen for: The mystery of the switched envelopes that draws George into a tangled web of murder; Sprote's confession that he cannot remember whether he committed the crime; the second murder that shifts suspicion; and George's deduction about which gun was actually used to kill Felix.

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.