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Two and One Makes Murder

The Whistler · May 6, 1951 · 28 min · 4,321 words

The transcript of “Two and One Makes Murder”, an episode of The Whistler first broadcast May 6, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Whistler plays The Whistler free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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And now stay tuned for the program that is rated tops in popularity for a longer period of time than any other West Coast program in radio history. The Signal Oil Program, the Whistler. Signal, the famous Go Father Gasly, invites you to sit back and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.

I am the Whistler, and I know many things, for I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.

And now for the signal oil company, the Whistler Strange Story. Two and one makes murder. To Mildred Wiley, the cool mountain breeze was delightful. She was sitting on the porch of Taggart Lodge, chatting with a mother of her employer Philip Taggart.

Mildred smiled as she recalled her last conversation with her, when Philip had told her he was in love. Every so often during the fourteen years Mildred had been employed by Taggart and Company. Where she'd started as a nineteen-year-old stenographer and worked up to her present position of personnel director and treasurer, Philip Taggart had come to her and told her in friendly

confidence that he had finally found the right woman. But each time he discovered after a few months that he was wrong. Mildred was certain that this time would be no exception. Yes, Mildred would see to that.

Appearing younger and still beautiful in her early 30s, she long since decided that she herself would someday be Mrs. Philip Taggart, an heir by marriage to the Taggart fortune. As Philip's mother spoke, Mildred looked up.

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