Gibson Murder Case: Richard Diamond, Private Detective (October 8, 1949)

“Gibson Murder Case” is an episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 8, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

Listen to Richard Diamond, Private Detective free, live around the clock: every episode, in the order it first aired. No sign-up.

What happens

Private detective Richard Diamond is called to schoolteacher Esther Blodgett's apartment after she discovers a dead man sitting in her living room. The victim is identified as Leland Gibson, a wealthy older man who recently moved into a hotel and became involved with a young waitress named Virginia Pelgrom. Diamond must solve how the body ended up in a locked room and uncover the connection between Gibson, the mysterious woman, and a suspicious couple living in the building.

New York City, primarily in an apartment building on East 79th Street and surrounding locations including a hotel and a village apartment

Characters: Richard Diamond, Esther Blodgett, Lieutenant Walt Levinson, Leland Gibson, Virginia Pelgrom, Mr. Austin, Mrs. Austin, Helen Asher

Listen for: Diamond's witty banter and complaints about the heat, his relationship with Lieutenant Levinson, and the clever puzzle of the locked-room murder solved through details about painters and missing rugs

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.