Richard Diamond, Private Detective: Edna Wolfe Case 08/09/1950
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Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
29 min
3 speakers
8 chapters
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What is the opening premise of the Edna Wolfe case?
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Well are you, Mr. Diamond?
Oh my goodness, yes. Come right in.
My name is Wood.
And officially so is mine. Sit down.
Thank you.
Oh no no, my pleasure. You must get a dividend from the nylon companies. You tell if there was a shortage.
I am well stuck.
Yeah. What can I do for you?
That by calling me Edna.
Then why?
I'd like you to follow my husband.
As a detective or a replacement?
I think he's been seeing another woman.
Why? Have you been running around the house in a diving suit and swim pens?
I've always tried to keep myself attractive for my husband, Mr. Diamond.
Well, then if your husband is seeing another woman, Mrs. Wolf, it's got to be an optometrist assistant.
Well. Thank you. I think you and I are going to get along just fine. Well,
now that we're all agreed, tell me some more about your husband. What makes you think there's another woman?
Usual things. The way he's been acting. business appointments every evening.
Nothing else.
He received a call late this afternoon. I listened in on the extension. It was a woman.
She called the house?
George was very unhappy about it. Wanted never to do it again.
Did she give a name? She
said. This is Nancy. I must see you here tonight at eight o'clock.
Hmm. She didn't say where here was, did she?
No, George seemed to understand probably her apartment.
Probably.
If he's seeing another woman, I want a divorce, Mr. Diamond.
And you need grounds. Yes. A hundred a day in expenses, Mrs. Wolfe.
Edna.
It's still a hundred a day inexpensive.
Here's two hundred.
Hm.
I hope that's enough of a retainer.
Oh, that'll keep me interested for quite a while. Now uh tell me, what does your husband do? Oh, I I I mean his business.
He's in steel.
How much in?
Oh, very much. He's vice president of his company.
What does he look like?
Well, here's a picture of him.
Hmm. Well, I'll start right away and see what I can find out for you, Mrs.
Aitner.
Yeah. Well look, after I found out just how unfair your husband's treating you, I might lend you my shoulder to cry on. And I just about have to call you Edna then. Wouldn't I? By seven o'clock I was standing across the street from her house waiting for her wandering husband. By seven thirty a man stepped out on the sidewalk and hailed cabs. I recognized him from the photograph as George Wolfe. And I started the tail. Following him east across town to an apartment house on forty seventh street. By the time I got in the lobby it was deserted. A list of names on the mailboxes showed the only girl named Nancy in the building was a Nancy Fowler.
Why does Mrs. Edna Wolfe hire Richard Diamond to follow her husband?
So I headed for her apartment. Her door was at the far end of the hall. And I was halfway to it when George Wolfe bounded out and ran right into me. Let me go. Take your hands off of me. You forgot to close the door. Get out of my way. What's the matter, friend? You look like you ran into a yard full of snakes.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the opening premise of the Edna Wolfe case?
0:00–4:41
2
Why does Mrs. Edna Wolfe hire Richard Diamond to follow her husband?
4:41–8:08
3
How does Diamond begin trailing George Wolfe to the apartment building?
8:08–11:33
4
What evidence is found at Nancy Fowler’s apartment after the shooting?
11:33–16:38
5
How do Lieutenant Levinson and the police interrogate the suspects?
16:38–20:32
6
Why does Diamond confront Eddie Young in his apartment?
20:32–23:47
7
What motive does Diamond uncover behind Nancy Fowler’s murder?
23:47–26:37
8
How does the episode resolve the Edna Wolfe case?
26:37–29:37
Speakers
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