What happens
An assistant county assessor on a Mediterranean cruise meets Maria Novella, a woman who claims to fear for her safety. She gives him a brooch for safekeeping, and he pretends to be a gem importer to win her trust. At the port of Trapani, the brooch disappears, Maria cannot be found at the hotel she named, and the police are slow to act. Hansel, the man at the center of the trouble, is left to sort out who he can trust. The series is Escape, and this episode first aired on June 3, 1954, with John Dana in the lead.
A Mediterranean cruise ship and the Sicilian port of Trapani, Italy
Characters: Hansel, Maria Novella, Mr. Brilliant, Pietro, Mr. Thurston, Enzo
Listen for: Maria Novella's fearful request that Hansel hold the brooch, and Mr. Brilliant's checkers game and the knowing remarks he makes to Hansel
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.