Marilyn Connors Case: Richard Diamond, Private Detective (January 12, 1951)

“Marilyn Connors Case” is an episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 12, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

When the attractive Marilyn Connors hires Richard Diamond to protect her from her husband Joe, who is being released from prison after ten years, Diamond initially takes the case but is fired by Martin Cope, Marilyn's boss and lover, who owns the nightclub where she works. Diamond later agrees to take the job again at the urging of Cope's attorney William Sloan, but finds Joe Connors shot dead in Marilyn's locked apartment.

New York City, primarily Martin Cope's nightclub and Marilyn Connors' apartment on West 74th Street

Characters: Richard Diamond, Marilyn Connors, Martin Cope, Joe Connors, Lieutenant Levinson, William Sloan, Bernie, Francis

Listen for: The clever locked-room mystery and how Bernie the piano player used a duplicate key to frame Martin Cope for a murder he didn't commit; Diamond's colorful narration and snappy dialogue with the police lieutenant.

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.