What happens
Inspector Christopher McKee investigates the shooting of multimillionaire Fennimore Kingston in his New York mansion. Kingston's wife, Catherine, reports that a valuable diamond ring is missing from the wall safe, yet the murder weapon cannot be found. Catherine and her cousin Michael Doge become entangled with Amy Clowerson, a former fiancee of Kingston, as McKee follows telephone records and the trail of the ring. The episode is the Crime Club story Dead Man Control, adapted from the novel by Helen Riley and broadcast on March 20, 1947, with Ted Osborne as Inspector McKee.
New York City, 1940s, including the Kingston mansion on East 67th Street and police headquarters on Center Street
Characters: Inspector Christopher McKee, Fennimore Kingston, Catherine Kingston, Michael Doge, Amy Clowerson, Cassidy
Listen for: The telephone calls traced by McKee and the discovery of the ring under the window drape
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.