Messenger Service, Paddy Clark: Richard Diamond, Private Detective (April 19, 1950)

“Messenger Service, Paddy Clark” is an episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 19, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A messenger delivering a mysterious envelope to Richard Diamond is found shot dead outside Diamond's apartment door. Diamond and Lieutenant Levinson investigate the murder and discover the envelope was sent by Patty Clark, a cigar store owner in Diamond's building. When Diamond visits Clark's room, he finds him also murdered, and two armed visitors—Agnes and Paul—burst into his office demanding the envelope at gunpoint.

New York City, primarily Diamond's apartment building on East 51st Street, a messenger service office, and a cigar store in Diamond's building lobby.

Characters: Richard Diamond, Lieutenant Levinson, Otis, Sergeant Walt, Myrtle Tibbles, Miss Ogilvie, Mr. Cartwright, Agnes

Listen for: A tense mystery with multiple murders, a counterfeiting racket, and gunplay. Pay attention to why Patty Clark sent the envelope to Diamond and who is really behind the killings.

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.