The Simpson Case: Richard Diamond, Private Detective (January 18, 1952)

“The Simpson Case” is an episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 18, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Richard Diamond is hired by a wealthy woman to protect her husband John Simpson, an oil tycoon who was shot at in his garden. Simpson reveals he received a threatening letter referencing a mining partner named Frank Victor who died in a cave-in twenty years earlier in Africa. Diamond investigates the mystery while Simpson asks him to pick up a mysterious package from a bar.

Long Island and New York City, primarily at the Simpson estate and various locations around the city

Characters: Richard Diamond, Mrs. Simpson (Jane), John Simpson, Ralph Simpson, Professor Fisher, Lieutenant Levinson, Earl Collins

Listen for: The solution to who sent the threatening letter and attempted to kill Simpson; the revelation of the bomb plot and the use of hypnosis in the crime

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.