Ralph Chase Case: Richard Diamond, Private Detective (May 15, 1949)

“Ralph Chase Case” is an episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 15, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Private detective Richard Diamond is hired by Ralph Chase to prevent his stepdaughter Elizabeth from marrying gangster Murray Lang after her probation expires Monday. That evening, someone takes a shot at Chase in his library, and Diamond later discovers Lang's body in the garden, shot with Elizabeth's gun. As Diamond investigates, he uncovers a web of motives and discovers the crime's true architect.

The Chase mansion in Sands Point, Long Island, and Richard Diamond's office in New York City

Characters: Richard Diamond, Ralph Chase, Elizabeth, Chris, Murray Lang, Helen Asher, Lieutenant Levinson

Listen for: A twisting mystery where nothing is quite as it seems, featuring gunshots in the night, a murder in the garden, and a detective piecing together lies and deception among a household full of suspects with competing interests.

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.