Nick Carter Presented by the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio
Jul 9, 2026 · 30 min · 12 segments
Original Release Date: July 30, 2015 Nick is a called in when the benefactor of his boy’s club receives a threatening letter, Nick run into a man who claims to be able to pray others to death…
Well, Patsy, at last I know the name of the killer, how he murdered his victims, and why.
Well, then, let's go.
Let's go where?
Why, let's go arrest him, of course.
Not so fast, Patsy.
There's still one slight hitch.
Hitch? What is it?
Well, I know all these things, but I can't prove a darn one of them.
[music plays]
And now, The Case of the Salesman of Death, today's exciting adventure starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter, brought to you by new Post War Old Dutch Cleanser.
As our story opens, Nick Carter is just completing a telephone conversation with a would-be client.
I understand, Mrs. Gordon, but...
Yes, but if you don't...
All right, Mrs. Gordon.
I'll come out right away.
Ah.
That, Patsy, was the rich Mrs. Benjamin Gordon of Park Avenue on Newport.
Oh, you mean the one who gives so much money to charity and is mixed up in the East Bay Boys Club?
That's the one.
Well, what's with her?
Seems someone wrote her a threatening letter, so get your hat.
She's waiting for us.
I've already got it, Nick.
But, uh, just what did this mysterious someone threaten Mrs. Gordon with anyway?
Apparently someone is trying to kill her by prayer.
Well, Patsy, at last I know the name of the killer, how he murdered his victims, and why.
Well, then, let's go.
Let's go where?
Why, let's go arrest him, of course.
Not so fast, Patsy.
There's still one slight hitch.
Hitch? What is it?
Well, I know all these things, but I can't prove a darn one of them.
[music plays]
And now, The Case of the Salesman of Death, today's exciting adventure starring Lon Clark as Nick Carter, brought to you by new Post War Old Dutch Cleanser.
As our story opens, Nick Carter is just completing a telephone conversation with a would-be client.
I understand, Mrs. Gordon, but...
Yes, but if you don't...
All right, Mrs. Gordon.
I'll come out right away.
Ah.
That, Patsy, was the rich Mrs. Benjamin Gordon of Park Avenue on Newport.
Oh, you mean the one who gives so much money to charity and is mixed up in the East Bay Boys Club?
That's the one.
Well, what's with her?
Seems someone wrote her a threatening letter, so get your hat.
She's waiting for us.
I've already got it, Nick.
But, uh, just what did this mysterious someone threaten Mrs. Gordon with anyway?
Apparently someone is trying to kill her by prayer.
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