The Case of the Amorous Bookkeeper: Adventures of the Falcon (May 14, 1950)

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“The Case of the Amorous Bookkeeper” is an episode of Adventures of the Falcon, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 14, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Michael Waring, the Falcon, is hired by Barney Murdoch of the Style Center dress company to find bookkeeper Elliot Finch, who has vanished with nearly $30,000 of the firm's money. Waring tracks Finch to his apartment, where his wife Cora is protective and nervous. Finch's employer and his partner Lucille Landis figure in the affair, and a murder soon follows. This adventure of the Falcon, from the NBC series Adventures of the Falcon, was first broadcast on May 14, 1950, starring Les Damon.

New York City, the Style Center dress company offices and an apartment, late Sunday night and the following day

Characters: Michael Waring (the Falcon), Barney Murdoch, Lucille Landis, Elliot Finch, Cora Finch, Sergeant Corbett

Listen for: Waring's questions to Cora Finch and the sudden shift in Barney Murdoch's attitude once the bookkeeper is found

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.