Ep.429 Barrie Craig Confidential Investigator: Murder Island

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Barrie Craig Confidential Investigator William Gargan, who also played the better known television (and radio) detective Martin Kane, was the voice of New York eye Barrie Craig while Ralph Bell portrayed his associate, Lt. Travis Rogers. Craig's office was on Madison Avenue and his adventures were fairly standard PI fare. He worked alone, solved cases efficiently, and feared no man. As the promos went, he was "your man when you can't go to the cops. Confidentiality a specialty." Murder Isla...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Nostolic Mystery Radio.
0:21.6	I'm your host Stevie Kay.
0:23.5	This is my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.
0:27.0	For this episode, I bring you Barry Craig Confidential Investigator,
0:31.8	episode titled Murder Island, originally aired January 9th, 1952, where Barry meets a burlesque queen who is trapped
0:40.9	on Murder Island.
0:42.9	So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.
0:49.1	Thank you for listening. William Gargan stars as Barry Craig, confidential investigator.
1:10.1	Did you ever wonder folks how a certain species of blonde can breathe in spite of a heart of stone?
1:20.6	The National Broadcasting Company presents William Gargan
1:27.6	In another transcribed drama of mystery and adventure
1:31.0	With America's number one detective, Barry Craig, confidential investigator.
1:37.1	Thank you. Barry Craig speaking, a confidential investigator occupies a kind of strategic position in law enforcement.
1:57.2	He can mix with an element, a regular department cop is obliged to scorn, if not arrest on sight.
2:03.1	Like a cop, the confidential operator is on the side of the angels, but he can work for the devil,
2:09.0	like I did, not too voluntarily, once upon a crime.
2:13.6	The case came at me in broad daylight at the foot of Father Duffy statue on Broadway. The first I knew of it was a gun in my ribs. Freeze, Shamish. And don't let out of peep. A tough right out of a B-movie. With a reek to him like he ate garlic for candy. Is it a gun or a monkey wrench, Sonny? Bleed and find out. A line of dialogue like that, you ought to copyright.
2:35.8	Hey, you're talking yourself to death.
2:38.3	Shut my mouth.
2:39.8	See that car on the corner?
2:41.8	The green and white job that reads PD?
2:43.9	Not the police car, smart guy, the one behind it.
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