What happens
Britt Reid, publisher of the Daily Sentinel, investigates the suicide of Henry Lowell, a wealthy man who was being blackmailed by the Scorpion News over a past scandal. Lowell's widow hires detective Clifford Kilburn to find the blackmailer, and Reid joins the search. Kilburn is soon threatened with death at midnight, and the story follows Reid and his valet Kato as they pursue the blackmail racket. This is an episode of The Green Hornet, a radio drama first broadcast on June 21, 1945.
A city in the 1940s, including a fashionable east side home, a newspaper office, Kilburn's home and laboratory, and a detective agency office.
Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Helen Lowell, Henry Lowell, Clifford Kilburn, Axford, Sergeant Burke, Inspector Evans
Listen for: Listen for the threats signed with a crude death's head drawing, and for how Reid and Kato work out who is behind the blackmail.
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.