Hello, and welcome to another episode Nostalgic Mystery Radio.

I'm your host Stevie Kay, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesterday.

For this episode, I bring you Richard Diamond Private Detective, episode titled The Tom Waxman

Bawning Case, originally aired June 26, 1949, where a union meeting is in full swing,

and Tom Waxman, a charismatic young speaker, has the audience in the palm of his hand,

but two men have other plans on who should control the union. So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

Thank you for listening. Here's Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, private detective.

Music as Richard Diamond, private detective.

Hello there. I'm Diamond.

What if you got any idea how much trouble a private detective can get into sometimes?

Well, if you happen to have an office at Broadway and 53rd Street and the sign painted on your door reads Diamond Detective Agency, you're a setup for more trouble than a guy who goes bear hunting

with a switch.

I know, because I've got that office and the sign painted on the door.

Sure, I've got a lot of idle time and I use it up, sitting around with my feet on the desk, waiting.

But idle time can be as dangerous as a rattlesnake taking a sun bath.

It's just a preliminary, the lull before the storm.

You might wait an hour, a day, or maybe even a week.

But the quiet minutes keep multiplying,

and sooner or later things come to a head,

like one day last week.

I'd been working on an extra long lull

that didn't look like it was going anywhere,

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