Edna Wolfe Case: Richard Diamond, Private Detective (August 9, 1950)

“Edna Wolfe Case” is an episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 9, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Private detective Richard Diamond is hired by Edna Wolfe to follow her husband George, whom she suspects of seeing another woman named Nancy. Diamond tails George to an apartment building where he finds Nancy Fowler dead from a gunshot wound, with George fleeing the scene. The police arrest George based on circumstantial evidence, but Diamond begins to suspect the case is more complicated than it appears.

New York City, including an apartment building on 47th Street, the Gilded Cage nightclub, and various city locations

Characters: Richard Diamond, Edna Wolfe, George Wolfe, Nancy Fowler, Lieutenant Levinson, Eddie Young, Gus Winkler, Walt

Listen for: The revelation of who actually killed Nancy Fowler and why Edna Wolfe set up her own husband; the twist involving planted evidence and a frame-up; Richard Diamond's clever trap to catch the real killer.

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.