Four Rings Of Death: Nick Carter, Master Detective (February 25, 1945)

“Four Rings Of Death” is an episode of Nick Carter, Master Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 25, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Nick Carter arrives at Tory Island with his assistant Patsy to help decipher a secret code that reveals the location of a buried treasure worth over two million dollars, hidden there by four wealthy Tories during the American Revolution. When they discover one of the heirs, Cyrus J. Trial, murdered with a bullet through his head, and his crucial napkin ring—part of the cipher—nearly stolen, Nick must identify the killer before the treasure is lost forever.

Tory Island, a small rocky island off the Long Island shore, during a stormy night in 1945

Characters: Nick Carter, Patsy, Colonel Howard, Andrew Jessup, Cyrus J. Trial, Matt O'Dell, Peter Brady, Cecil Whittemore

Listen for: The mystery of the four napkin rings that together form a cipher to the treasure's location, and which of the suspects—possibly the obsessed former worker Charlie Vain—murdered the heir to steal the ring.

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.