What happens
Richard Diamond, a private detective, is hired by Roger Blake, a vice president of an insurance firm, to recover eighty thousand dollars in jewels stolen from Mrs. Carter. Blake claims a convicted man named William Blake, now held in a Havana jail, knows where the jewels are hidden. Diamond decides to travel to Havana, where he arranges to visit the prisoner and begins asking questions. The episode is part of the Richard Diamond, Private Detective series, first broadcast on June 14, 1950, with Dick Powell in the lead role. The Havana section is recounted in this portion of the broadcast.
New York City, then Havana, Cuba, around 1950
Characters: Richard Diamond, Roger Blake, William Blake, Mrs. Carter, Lieutenant
Listen for: Diamond's reasoning about why Roger Blake would pay so much to find the jewels, and his encounter with William Blake in Havana
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.