The Dulcimer Murder

Detectives Don't Sleep

NOISER

True Crime, Fiction, History, Drama

4.6 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In 1913 Chicago’s first female detective, Alice Clement, gets called out to the slums to investigate the death of a young woman. At first glance, it looks like the girl died of typhoid fever. A tragic but all too common ending for Chicago’s impoverished population. But Detective Clement has a hunch that there’s more to the story. Especially when she spies a dulcimer - an expensive stringed instrument - perched in the corner of the victim’s squalid apartment. Taking out her magnifying glass she sees something incredible. The strings….have been poisoned… But who would go to so much trouble to kill some poor girl? Answering that question will take everything Detective Clement’s got. She’ll go undercover and use her incredible powers of deduction to unmask a killer hiding in plain sight. It’s a case that will take the nation by storm. Solidifying Alice Clement’s reputation as one of America’s greatest sleuths. A Noiser production, written by Chris McDonald For ad-free listening, exclusive content, and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Now available for Apple and Android users. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's summer, 1913 in Chicago.
0:07.0	The sky is bright and cloudless.
0:12.0	The sun's heat, relentless.
0:16.0	Two detectives stand outside a crumbling apartment block on Clark Street.
0:22.6	It's a seedy area in North Chicago.
0:26.1	The building is a relic of the old city before it was ravaged by the Great Fire of 1871.
0:33.1	Since then, Chicago has become America's first real modern city,
0:39.3	home to the country's first skyscraper.
0:43.3	But none of that ingenuity can be seen here.
0:47.3	Some of the apartment windows have been covered up with huge wooden boards,
0:52.3	and the tiny gardens are all littered with trash.
0:59.6	The detectives climbed the steps of the filthy tenement building.
1:04.7	One of the detectives, Williams,
1:07.6	looks like you would expect.
1:10.4	Black porcelino hat, permanent scowl,
1:13.6	and, despite the high temperatures,
1:17.6	a three-piece suit.
1:20.6	The other detective, Alice Clement, does not.
1:25.6	For a start, she's a woman, a rarity on any police force in 1913.
1:32.5	Her career began in 1909 as a beat cop for the Chicago Police Department, where she patrolled
1:40.2	department stores in search of pickpockets. After impressing her superiors with her extensive
1:46.5	arrest record, she was promoted to detective, the first female to be assigned to the role in that
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