# Nick Carter: The Vanishing Lady (EP1278)

An episode of [Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696519927), 6 Aug 2026, 35 min.

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Release Date: June 05, 2014 Nick investigates the disappearance of a pregnant woman at a hospital. Original Air Date: May 6, 1945 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net Check out all our social media links and connect with us at https://www.greatdetectives.net

## Transcript

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[1:47] now it's time for Nick Carter. In today's episode is The Vanishing Lady.
[1:56] The Linox Show starring Nick Carter Master Detective, presented by ACME, America's great
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[2:17] world over as one of the most daring and resourceful characters in the history of
[2:22] detective fiction. A man whose name has become a symbol of the triumph of
[2:27] right and justice over the sinister forces of crime and dwewlessness. A man recognized
[2:31] as one of the great masters of deduction. Nick Catter, Master Detective.
[2:46] Today's exciting case, The Vanishing Lady, another exciting chapter dramatized from the life
[2:54] story of Nick Catter. In just a moment, we'll hear how Nick Kocher
[3:04] traced a woman who vanished on the steps of the Mercy Maternity Hospital and found
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[4:17] today's exciting case from the life of Nick Carter. As we look in on
[4:23] Nick Carter today, we find him in his laboratory at the top of the
[4:26] old brownstone house on the corner of Fifth and Fourth. It is night.
[4:30] The laboratory is dark except for the strange, unearthly glow of a small mercury
[4:34] vapor lamp, which casts an eerie light into the intent and watchful eyes of
[4:38] the great Detective Nick Carter. There is silence. Someone moves in the shadow.
[4:44] You're right, Betsy. The alka violet ray shows that two different inks
[4:47] were used in the writing of this will Old jobs a forgery. That's all.
[4:54] Turn on the lights, prazede. Now I can go home and get
[4:58] a nice sleep for Jane. Oh no, not yet, at the vaporize
[5:00] already. I want to test this sheet of paper for a laden fingerprints.
[5:03] You want to dinas and pit rock side, pet rock side. I want
[5:06] to take pictures, I digest isn't photogenic. I take it easy, Pats.
[5:11] He's under the night bell. Somebody's at the front door. So I
[5:14] guess I'll never get over having my stomach. Do Nipats. If a phone
[5:16] or a doorbell rings suddenly in the middle of the night, here you take
[5:19] your stuff. I'll go down and see who it is. It's the cutter
[5:33] you are, mister Nick Carter. Why yes, what seems to be the
[5:36] trouble. That's my wife. She's disappeared. We had a quarrel and now
[5:40] she's gone. I wouldn't be too upset, mister Ashbury, Harold Ashbury,
[5:44] But I am upset. Anyone would be. You see, she's gonna have
[5:46] a baby when no even I mean any hour. She was on her way
[5:50] to the hospital. That's when she disappeared right on the steps of Mercy Hospital.
[5:55] Why weren't you with her at the time. I just told you we
[5:57] had a quarrel, don't you see it? I look, I think we
[6:01] get more information if we gave mister Ashworth a chance to collect himself. Yeah,
[6:05] sit down in this easy chair. Thanks very kind, missus Carter,
[6:11] because you've been through this yourself. Oh no, my name's Bowen, Miss
[6:14] Patsy Bowen. I'm sorry, I mean perfectly all right, miss Ashworth.
[6:19] You see, I was one of a large family, so I do know
[6:21] a little about these things. Mister Carter. On the other hand, mister
[6:26] Ashworth didn't come here quiet and nick. You may be tops when it comes
[6:29] to scientific detection, but how you ever passed and applied psychology? Now,
[6:34] mister Ashworth, suppose you tell us all about it from the beginning. Yes,
[6:39] yes, of course, let's see. Sometimes I have to hand it
[6:42] to you. Thanks all right, mister Ashworth. You and your wife are
[6:46] expecting a baby. What's her name, by the way, Norah. She
[6:49] was Nora Brent. Her two uncles owned the Brent Tubing and Appliance, This
[6:54] company that she has money. Oh no, her father was a minister.
[6:57] He died before we met. Was never approved of me. You see,
[7:01] I've been married before, we had divorced. Divorced. That's what our uncles
[7:05] didn't approve of. Besides, Nora's a good ten years younger than I am.
[7:09] They say I married her on the rebound. You see. She had
[7:12] a childhood sweetheart, Jim Stanley, a boy she'd know one all her life.
[7:16] He was reported missing with a carrier that went down on the Pacific.
[7:19] That was two years ago. Nora was pretty cut up about it. My
[7:23] first wife had just run away with another man. So you consoled each other,
[7:27] well, maybe just at first, but it didn't take long for us
[7:30] to realize that we were made for each other. You've got to believe me,
[7:32] mister Carter. We loved each other. We were ideally happy. No
[7:35] arguments, no differences of opinion, no never, That is not until today.
[7:41] And what happened today. This morning a letter came for Nora. Was
[7:44] addressed to Nora Brent, not missus ashmittt mind you, and up in the
[7:47] corner of the envelope the sender's name and address read Chief Petty Officer Jim Stanley
[7:51] Tappan. Even in hospital but that's a man. She was in love with
[7:55] the man who was supposed to be dead. Now he's in a hospital only
[7:58] five miles down the bay. I take it she got excited when she saw
[8:01] the letter. I knew she would, mister cutterr And well, maybe it
[8:03] was jealousy. Maybe I was afraid of what might happen. You see,
[8:07] we're expecting the baby almost any time, so so what so I destroyed the
[8:11] letter. Very short sighted, but I realized that now. But I couldn't
[8:16] bear to think of losing her. I'd have done anything to provent. It
[8:18] would have been much better to have brought the whole thing out into the open.
[8:22] It's too late now, it's happened, just what I was afraid of.
[8:26] We were sitting in my den after dinner tonight. I was so worried.
[8:28] I just couldn't seem to take my eyes off her. Pretty soon I
[8:31] realized I was making you nervous, so I said, I thought I'd go
[8:33] to bed and read. I just got in into my pajamas. When the
[8:37] phone rang, I let Norah answer it, because her uncle, Timothy Brant
[8:41] generally called about that time to find out how Nora was feeling. Oh,
[8:43] so the uncles had forgiven her for marrying you. Oh, yes, Tim
[8:46] Brand's as well. Guy. He came right around to see as as soon
[8:48] as Paul, the other uncle died five months ago. Paul never forgave us,
[8:54] even cut Nora out of his will. Stubborn old customer. And was
[8:58] it Uncle Tim on the telephone? No. I could hear Nora's voice,
[9:01] but not what she was saying. She was talking on the extension in the
[9:05] dining room. So pretty soon she opened the bedroom door. She was sort
[9:09] of quiet, white. Oh, what did you do with that letter?
[9:15] But what aboutter Nora? One from Jim Stanley? I just told her.
[9:18] But Nora, there wasn't any letter. You mean Jim's alive. No,
[9:22] you've never lied to me before. Good you uput you please one of the
[9:26] explanations, Norah, Nora, Darling, what's wrong? What's the matter?
[9:33] Baby? I got to get to the hospital, please, Darling, don't
[9:37] be frightened. Just as soon as I get dressed again, I probably Uncle
[9:41] Tam Hello. Oh yes, Uncle Tim, No, something's happened. It's
[9:46] the baby. I'm going to the hospital right away. Please call doctor Jenkins
[9:50] and tell him that I need him trying to come right away, nor,
[9:52] for heaven's sakes, wait just a minute. How I'm going from good?
[9:56] I don't ever want to see you again. And she left without you.
[10:11] Yes, I heard the front door slam while I was putting on my shoes.
[10:15] I ran after her, but it's too late. Old Joe, that's
[10:18] the man who has the taxi on our corner, pulled away just as I
[10:20] ran out the front door. It was twenty minutes before I got another cab.
[10:24] I drove to Mercy Hospital as fast as I could make the driver go.
[10:28] It couldn't have taken as more than twelve minutes to get there, but
[10:31] it seemed like hours. Is what happened. When you got to the hospital.
[10:33] I rushed up the steps into the reception room and demanded that the nurse.
[10:37] Asked at the desk to take me to my wife, and they said
[10:41] they hadn't played eyes on her. Maybe she went somewhere there, that's what
[10:45] I thought. I thought. Maybe she'd been in an accident, maybe the
[10:46] baby had been born in the way. I thought all kinds of horrible things.
[10:50] Then I remember Joe, the taxi driver owned the cab my wife had
[10:54] driven off in. So I drove back home again. Joe swears he drove
[10:58] her straight to Mercy Hospital. Even what you go up the steps and open
[11:01] the big front door. Very interesting, Betsy, I think we shall have
[11:05] to interview both Joe and the nurse at the desk. I was hoping you'd
[11:09] say that, mister Connor, I brought Joe along as Cat's waiting outside,
[11:13] he can drive us to the hospital. Well, what can Joe tell Nick
[11:26] about the vanishing lady that he hasn't already told her husband Harold? And how
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[13:33] our story. As we see Nick caught her again. He and Patsy and
[13:37] Harold Ashforth are an old Joe's cab, which is whirling them off to Mercy
[13:41] Hospital, on whose steps Missus Ashforth disappeared less than an hour previously, as
[13:46] she was on her way there to have a baby. Nick is questioning the
[13:50] driver. Look here, Joe, eh, you're sure it was missus Ashforth.
[13:56] You drove to Mercy Hospital tonight. Sure, I'm sure i'd know her.
[14:00] Anyways, when you got to the hospital, did you help her up
[14:01] the steps? No? I helped her out of the cab, and just
[14:05] as she opens the door, a man comes out from under the portico and
[14:09] she runs to him. He puts his arms around her. So it gets
[14:11] there was somebody she knowed and I drove off. Who was this man?
[14:15] What do you look like? Well? I couldn't rightly say, it was
[14:16] too dark. I see well he uh here's the hospital. Go wait here,
[14:22] Joe, you may need you again. Yeah, sure, the reception
[14:39] desk is over here, mister cutter. That's the nurse that told me my
[14:43] wife. But he look who's there talking to her? It's uncle Tim what's
[14:46] been going on here? Right? Like to know? Well, the baby
[14:48] did decide we right ahead of time, Tony hospitalist get to take care of
[14:52] places like that. But I tell you, mister Brent, we didn't turn
[14:54] your niece away. Missus Dashwood never came here. I swear to you she
[14:58] never walked in that. Then why did I just get this wire saying you
[15:01] will pull up? Mind if I have a look at that telegram at the
[15:03] Brent? And who in places are you? This is Nick Carter, uncle
[15:07] Taim. He's trying to find out what's happened to Norah. I am ponder
[15:09] didn't you stick with Nora? You've done your duty as a father. We'd
[15:13] know where she was. I suppose you Let me look at that telegram,
[15:16] see what I can make of it. Oh yes, just course, Mercy
[15:22] Hospital pull Missus Ashworth taken elsewhere. Everything under control, No cause for anxiety.
[15:28] Signed Missus Mary Brown. Who's Missus Brown? Ever heard of her?
[15:33] Ju Harold? Name means absolutely nothing to me? Mary Brown, nice,
[15:37] indefinite son a name. Let's see. This telegram was handed in at the
[15:43] Midtown station at ten forty five. That was only a few minutes after Nora
[15:46] left the house. Yes. Interesting. Why did you receive the telegram at
[15:50] the Brent about ten minutes ago? I came right over here. I only
[15:54] lived three blocks away. Why did you receive it earlier? Should have had
[15:58] it three quarters an hour ago? I suppose I would have if I'd been
[16:00] home, but I went to a late movie. Patrick yet me. Suppose
[16:03] you go to the telegraph office is where I was sent from, so you
[16:06] can get a line of new handed it in and get hold of a nurse's
[16:08] registry. That's possible. There may be a nurse by the name of Mary
[16:11] Brown. Okay there is. Find out what hospital or senatorium she works out
[16:15] of. Report back to mister Ashford's apartment, right and you, mister Ashford,
[16:22] I suggest you go home. I have a hunch you will get a
[16:25] telegram yourself in the not too distant future. Do you think so? Maybe
[16:27] there's one there already. I'll see you later. Mister brand tell me you
[16:33] really think your niece is still in love with this fellow Jim Stanley. It's
[16:37] my personal opinion, mister Carter, that she found she didn't love her husband,
[16:41] and she took that way out to sort of keep Madame's lamb. Well,
[16:47] yes, I'm getting on home. This is something more I can do
[16:49] for you. Oh. I think you've done everything we could expect, mister
[16:53] Brandt, But there are still a few questions. I'd like to ask the
[16:56] nurse at the reception desk good night, good night. Oh then, sister
[17:11] honest, mister Carter, missus Ashwood didn't come here tonight. We don't turn
[17:15] away cases like hers ever. Mister Ashworth's doctor what's his name, Stevens.
[17:19] He takes care of all the Brents and the Ashwood Did you show up at
[17:22] any time at night? Oh? No, sir, he hasn't been here
[17:25] all either, and yet nor I told her I'll get hold of him.
[17:29] I wonder see there's a telephone down the hall. I suppose you asked the
[17:33] operator to connect me with the ambulatory ward to tap And based hospital. And
[17:37] while I'm getting that, Carl, you might phone doctor Stephens's house and find
[17:40] out for me why he didn't get round to deliver the Ashworth baby. Oh
[17:44] let him think it's a routine inquiry from the hospital. Will you do that
[17:47] for me? Oh? Anything I can do for you, is that tisure,
[17:49] mister Carter? I'm sure, Thanks sister, I'll take a call down
[17:53] here, gee idol and connect the gentleman on the whole phone with a tap
[17:59] and based hospital. Yeah, the tap and based hospital, the ambulatory ward.
[18:03] Yes, mister Nick Carter, the detective Harry up William Myrdle. Hello,
[18:18] is this the doctor in charge of the ambulatory ward? That's right,
[18:22] Nick Carter speaking. I want to find out about a patient named Jim or
[18:26] James Stanley. Oh, yes, of course, mister Carter. What would
[18:30] you like to know? Where's he? Now? Well? I don't know.
[18:33] He made a telephone call earlier in the evening and apparently it upset him
[18:37] very much. He said he had to get into town at once, so
[18:41] well we let him go. He didn't say where he was going, no,
[18:45] but I gother it was somewhere in town. If you like, there's
[18:48] anything that I can no, no, no, that's quite all right.
[18:52] Thanks. Oh, mister Carter. I got back to Stephen's house. He's
[18:56] out on an emergency. He never got the call about missus Ashford. She
[19:00] must have been a big emergency. Hey, where you're going, mister Carter?
[19:03] We ran another emergency, I hope, thanks, Joe. Okay,
[19:22] which is the ashbourth apartment. Well, for all right, just inside the
[19:26] front door. Thanks, Oh there's somebody there all right? Light slits shades,
[19:32] jarn, what's that? Two figures mail read jupter. One of them's
[19:37] got a gun, they called bind. No time for a door, Go
[19:41] out of the window, right up with your hands for of you. He
[19:45] shot at Byby, but he didn't hit you. She un doubt of me
[19:47] would ever be meant to kill you? That's right. I well, I
[19:49] was just trying to keep him off me. He's got some crazy idea that
[19:52] I ran away with his wife. I take it you're Chief Petty Officer,
[19:56] Jim Stanley. That's right. I found out today this I had married Nora.
[20:00] Well, she sounded sort of upset when I talked to her on the
[20:03] phone, so I thought i'd just drop around and size up the situation.
[20:08] If he wasn't treating her right, I was going to beat his ears in.
[20:12] Nora and I grew up together. We were like brother and sister,
[20:15] you see, mister Stanley. Unfortunately, mister Ashworth's wife disappeared just after you
[20:19] talked to her, and samo he rather imagine she might have run away with
[20:22] you. So that's why he jumped me. Nobody's got it all wrong about
[20:27] me and Nora. Oh, we had a crush when we were in school.
[20:30] But I married a girl in Australia three years ago. I wrote Nora
[20:34] at the time, and she wrote back wishing me luck well. She never
[20:37] told me that we women do strange things sometimes to keep my boyfriends gets.
[20:41] Oh, Pattie, stay away from that broken window. Wait from me outside.
[20:45] Don't worry. I'm not the one who take chances. Oh look,
[20:48] nick, I found out about the telegram and has no Mary Brown miss or
[20:52] missus, and the nurse's registered and the telegram was handed in by a man.
[20:56] In fact, I think he sent another. I ran into miss Patsy
[20:59] coming on the corner. Oh, miss brand hello, as I had a
[21:03] hunt. Should get another wire. Let's have a look. No, don't
[21:04] try to come in, Patsy, you'll hand it up. Hey, you
[21:07] are it same? Your grandniece and her mother doing beautifully at play sanatorium.
[21:14] Come and bring the papa. Missus Ashforth keeps asking for him and no signature.
[21:19] She wants me, Norah wants me. And the baby's here. I
[21:22] have a little girl. It's wonderful. Where's my hat. Now I have
[21:26] got time. Come on everybody. Well, Joe, we seem to have
[21:44] kept you rather busy tonight. That's all right by me. It just shows
[21:47] me me that keeps taking. I'm a father father. Oh baby girl,
[21:51] sure up out if you'll have better luck next time. After all you and
[21:55] are are still young. And that's what you mean, mister brand about better
[21:59] luck next time? Anything unlucky about a baby girl. My brother, as
[22:03] you probably know, disinherited Nora. However, he did leave a cottasulto as
[22:08] will. He couldn't better think of the Brent factory going out of the family,
[22:12] so he said that if Nora ever had a son, he would inherit
[22:15] my brother's share of the business. You see, my brother was a woman
[22:19] aid or attired. So having a girl baby because Carol, I have a
[22:23] million dollars, I see. Well, here are Clay Sanitarium. Fancy look
[22:30] complacated, fancy and expensive. Well, some of the very best babies get
[22:34] themselves born here. Oh, doctor Jeremia Clay is famous for that. He's
[22:38] brought more millionaires in the world. And you can shake a stick at so
[22:41] that mister Ashwood's daughter isn't a millionaire jo All, money doesn't matter. It's
[22:45] my wife and daughter who really count. Now. Well, well, well
[23:00] I'm glad you come. Welcome mister Brent, and congratulations you sir. You
[23:06] must be the father. Sorry, I haven't that, honor. This is
[23:08] mister Ashford. Oh yes, yes, of course, this way, mister
[23:12] Ashworth. Please. The new mother is so anxious to see you. This
[23:15] way, please, such a curious case. Women are often most unreasonable at
[23:21] these times. Didn't want the family informed. Of course, the minute it
[23:25] was all over, when she saw the baby completely turned to normalcy one of
[23:29] the family at once. This is her room. Sorry, I'm afraid only
[23:33] the father can go in. Just at first, you go, Nora,
[23:40] Nora, don dear. Really wasn't so bad. I had a very easy
[23:48] time. It's girls, you know. I'm sorry, dearest. I don't
[23:53] care what it is, just as long as you love me, phill I
[23:57] do. Anyway that showed her to me, I can introduce to a perfect
[24:03] strain. We'll get acquainted with her together. Well, come on, Nick,
[24:07] our job's finished. Let's go home. Oh, doctor Clay, I
[24:12] think i'd like to have a look at missus Ashforth's baby. Of course,
[24:15] I'll have a nurse show it to you just a moment, please. Is
[24:19] the first time I ever knew you to show an interest in the nursery.
[24:22] I'm playing a hunch, Patsy, Oh, a hunch that may split this
[24:26] case wide open. Mister Carter, this is where we keep the babies.
[24:40] I'm sorry you can't go in, but I've asked the other nurse to bring
[24:42] the baby to the window. I'll motion to her. You're having many babies
[24:45] here, have you? And no, this is a small private hospital.
[24:48] You see. Oh, there she is. It's a fine, healthy looking
[24:52] little girl, isn't she? So that's supposed to be the Ashforth baby?
[24:56] What do you mean supposed there's a name on a tape. I put it
[25:00] there myself. That baby's at least three days old. Morrow reporce if for
[25:03] use at her delivery. Betsy, you heard missus Ashworth say she had a
[25:07] very easy time. You mean it's been a miss Cake mistake nothing, It's
[25:11] been a criminal substitution nurse. How much did mister Timothy Brent pay you to
[25:15] substitute a girl for a boy baby? How dare you? I'll call doctor
[25:18] Clay and have you arrested for slam. Oh? No, you won't.
[25:21] Of course. If you do, I'll insist that the police take a blood
[25:22] test of that baby, and if that test proves the baby's blood does not
[25:26] belong to mister and missus Asforth's blood group, you will end up in behind
[25:30] bars for a long, long stretch. Oh no, no don't, I'll
[25:33] tell you everything. I did it for Timothy Brent. He said his niece
[25:37] would lose her mind if she had a boy baby. He said, why,
[25:41] I had nothing to do with you, did mister Brince? You brought
[25:44] her here, you arrange for the whole thing. Well, you double crossing?
[25:47] Look easy, easy, you'll wake the patients. Now, the nurse,
[25:52] where's the real? Last word? Baby? The boy in the first
[25:53] crib by the door, mister Carter, you're sure there's no mistake this time?
[25:57] Yes, that's the Ashworth baby. Very well, that's see. I
[26:02] think we'll introduce him to his mother. We'll talk to you later, nurse,
[26:04] and to you, mister. I wouldn't have done it, but mister
[26:07] Prince said, I have nothing to do with this. Later, Brent later.
[26:11] All right, Patsy, go get the baby. Don't you want to
[26:14] carry him in? Nick? Good? Heavens nofraid I might break him.
[26:18] Ah here we are all right, Come on, come on, come on,
[26:38] missus Ashford. It seems has been a slight mix up. Maybe they
[26:41] brought you before. I belong to someone else, so we we thought you
[26:45] might like to see yours. It's a boy. Bring him in, patsy.
[26:51] Okay, young man, this is your mother. Oh give him to
[26:57] be pleased. Well, look at him, screws so homely and so darling.
[27:08] I know he belonged to us anywhere. In just a moment, Nick
[27:33] will tell you the clues that enabled him to solve the case of the vanishing
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[28:47] in one hour. Now, let's hear from Nick Carter himself. Nick,
[29:00] why didn't you have that old reprobate uncle Tim Brand arrested? Yes? Nick,
[29:04] how come you let him go free? When the DA's office goes over
[29:07] his books in order to straighten out the kid's inheritance, they'll do plenty to
[29:11] him without my help. Oh, of course, So that's why he had
[29:15] to change the boy for a girl. He's been up to some shenanigans with
[29:18] his brother's fortune. Obviously, Nick, when did you first aspect the uncle
[29:22] right away? Oh? Just like that? Eh, it couldn't have been
[29:26] anybody else. A man who met Nora on the hospital steps had to be
[29:29] responsible for her disappearance. Only two men knew she was on her way to
[29:33] the hospital, her husband and her uncle. That's right, Her husband was
[29:36] left at the post never caught up with her. Therefore it had to be
[29:38] the uncle. Well, Nick, it was quite a story. Now,
[29:41] what can you tell us about next week's Kates? Well, let's see.
[29:45] Next week. I think I'll tell you about the pompous chemical magnet who rang
[29:49] our doorbell one evening, clad in pajamas, overcoat and bare feet, and
[29:53] the pajama legs were partly burned off. In fact, that was the third
[29:56] night in a row that the old boy had been thrown out of a hotel.
[30:00] Hold it, Patsy, Let's not give the whole plot away. That
[30:02] comes next week. Well what do you call that story, Nick? I
[30:04] call it the strange case of the Involuntary Firebug. Nick Carter, Master Detective
[30:22] is featured in Street and Smith magazines. Lon Clark is starred as Nick,
[30:26] with Helen Chot as Patsy. Original music is played by Loue. White.
[30:30] The programs are written by Edith Miser, and any resemblance there into actual persons
[30:34] living or dead is purely coincidental. The entire production is under the direction of
[30:41] Jack McGregor. Nick Carter. Master Detective is presented this time and over these
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[31:32] This is the mutual broadcasting system. Welcome back. Well. A nice
[31:41] mystery and a few good twists and turns along the way, and just a
[31:47] pretty overall interesting plot makes us one better than last week's, though I think
[31:53] this may be the last one we hear from Edith miser. Well. Now
[31:56] we turn to some listener calm and feedback. I've talked before about the rarity
[32:06] of people in their thirties and unders being old time radio listeners. And listener
[32:16] from Winnipeg, Canada. Her name is Sheila. I believe I apologize if
[32:22] I'm mispronouncing it well, she writes in plays consider mister Graham that even those
[32:35] over forty find their friends do not understand why we like old time radio.
[32:39] I am fifty this year and do not personally know one person who listens to
[32:44] old time radio. I didn't grow up listening to radio shows. If there
[32:46] were any on, we didn't listen, and I never heard any of my
[32:50] friends talking about them. I first got access to them on because said in
[32:53] my twenties, and again knew no one else who listened. People under forty
[32:58] like them for the same reason that we will forty like them. They're entertaining
[33:00] and fun and the slice of life they show us from back then is fascinating.
[33:07] There's certainly something to be said for that. And at the age curve
[33:15] on the listenership of this program, the top age bracket is forty six to
[33:22] fifty five, and if you are fifty five, you were three years old
[33:30] at on September thirtieth of nineteen sixty two, when the last of the Golden
[33:37] Age radio programs ceastaring. And usually when we hear from listeners about their associations
[33:46] with old time radio in their childhood, it involves tapes, or it involved
[33:54] traveling with someone and listening to the radio late at night i'd or involve some
[34:00] other program like the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. So in some ways. It
[34:07] is an oddity at or I should say, maybe unusual be a better word,
[34:13] at any age, though it may seem a little more unusual the younger
[34:20] the person that we're talking about. All right, well, that will do
[34:27] it for today. We will be back tomorrow with yours truly Johnny Dowler,
[34:32] and join us back here next Thursday for another episode of Nick Carter. In
[34:37] the meanwhile, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net,
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