What happens
Private detective Richard Diamond investigates after a woman is found dead in the garden of a Long Island estate. Harry Baker says his wife, Lillian, jumped from a balcony, but Diamond first encounters her at a department store, where she is caught shoplifting. Diamond tangles with the police lieutenant Walt Levinson and the store staff while sorting through the events of the afternoon. The episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective, first aired on September 3, 1949, starring Dick Powell, Virginia Gregg, Ed Begley and Arthur Q. Bryan, and this summary covers only the early part of the story.
New York City, including a department store and a precinct station, and a country estate in Port Washington, Long Island
Characters: Richard Diamond, Lieutenant Walt Levinson, Helen Asher, Harry Baker, Lillian Baker, Constance Loring, Nat Fox, Otis
Listen for: Diamond's exchanges with Walt at the department store and the estate, and the clerk's account of the shoplifting incident
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.