The Case of the Sick Statue: Nick Carter, Master Detective (August 12, 1945)

“The Case of the Sick Statue” is an episode of Nick Carter, Master Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 12, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Nick Carter receives a desperate letter from a housemaid named Maisie Leeds working at wealthy art collector Horace Allen's mansion on Park Avenue, claiming that a mysterious plague called Bronze Disease is afflicting the household's prized bronze statues. When Nick and his secretary Patsy visit the house to investigate, they discover Maisie has been murdered and stuffed in a bronze chest, her neck bearing traces of silver polish around the strangulation marks.

New York City, including Nick Carter's brownstone office, Horace Allen's mansion on Park Avenue, an art dealer's showroom at the Plaza, and an employment agency on Vanderbilt Street

Characters: Nick Carter, Patsy Boon, Maisie Leeds, Horace Allen, Peter Craig, Cengen Arrowfield

Listen for: The mysterious connection between Bronze Disease, the murdered maid, and the hidden laboratory; why silver polish was found on the victim; and who really killed Maisie Leeds

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.