The Case of the Invisible Treasure: Nick Carter, Master Detective (January 25, 1948)

“The Case of the Invisible Treasure” is an episode of Nick Carter, Master Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 25, 1948. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Nick Carter and his assistant Patsy become entangled in a mystery when a bottle of rare cologne called Heavenly Sin causes a scene at a department store perfume counter. After a man desperately tries to buy every bottle and offers money for more, Patsy is mysteriously pushed in front of a taxi. The broken cologne bottle is lost in the accident, but Nick suspects the cologne itself holds a valuable secret that someone is willing to kill for.

A department store on Fifth Avenue in New York City, and the surrounding streets

Characters: Nick Carter, Patsy, Al Harper, Department store clerk, Young woman at perfume counter, Aggressive man seeking cologne

Listen for: The mysterious importance of the Heavenly Sin cologne and why someone would resort to attempted murder to obtain it.

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.