The Museum Tragedy: Nick Carter, Master Detective (May 27, 1945)

“The Museum Tragedy” is an episode of Nick Carter, Master Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 27, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Nick Carter arrives at a museum where the night watchman, Sam Hildred, has been shot three times and killed. A valuable Egyptian scarab known as the Angotara Scarab has been stolen from a broken display case. The watchman's shattered watch stopped at 2:27, marking the time of the murder, and a gun with three fired shots is found at the scene.

A museum housing Egyptian relics and antiquities, visited in the early morning hours after the crime is discovered.

Characters: Nick Carter, master detective, Patsy, Nick's associate, Officer Bert, Lieutenant Riley, Lieutenant Bradley, Duck, the medical examiner, Mr. Steiner, the museum curator, Sam Hildred, the murdered watchman

Listen for: Nick Carter's deduction as he examines the crime scene, the significance of the shattered watch stopped at 2:27, and the mystery of who stole the priceless Angotara Scarab and murdered the watchman.

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.