Triple Cross: Box 13

“Triple Cross” is an episode of Box 13, the old-time radio show. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Dan Holiday answers an anonymous ad offering adventure and receives an airmail letter from Nevada with a plane ticket and cryptic instructions. Upon arriving at Los Maros, he's directed to a casino where he's told to bet on specific roulette numbers with provided money, winning a fortune. At the bar afterward, Holiday encounters a nervous woman named Eva and begins to feel increasingly disoriented.

Los Maros, Nevada—the Paradise Hotel and its casino

Characters: Dan Holiday, Susie Reed, Eva, Bellhop, Bartender, Croupier

Listen for: How Dan Holiday got into this mysterious gambling scheme and whether Eva is connected to the people behind the mysterious messages

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.