Webs of Murder: Nick Carter, Master Detective (March 11, 1945)

“Webs of Murder” is an episode of Nick Carter, Master Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 11, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Nick Carter agrees to pick up a valuable shipment of spider webs from a woman named Miss Lewis who collects them for military use in gun sights and bombsites. When Nick arrives at her conservatory on Cherry Street with his assistant Patsy, Miss Lewis shows him how she harvests webs from Black Widow spiders. While the shipment is being prepared, Nick discovers Miss Lewis has been murdered and all the webs have vanished, with only Nick's own gun left at the scene.

A spider web collection conservatory on Cherry Street, and Nick Carter's car in a town with naval buildings and a police department.

Characters: Nick Carter, Patsy, Miss K. Lewis, Miss Bowen, Jim Baldwin, Pete Moro, Lieutenant Riley

Listen for: The fascinating details of how Black Widow spider webs are collected and prepared for military use, and the mystery of who murdered Miss Lewis and stole the valuable shipment.

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.