What happens
Britt Reid, publisher of a city newspaper, and his valet Kato investigate a railroad train wreck that killed its crew. Suspicion falls on a man who smokes English cigarettes and leaves them broken in half, and on a Chinese laundry the two men visit. Reid and Kato follow the clues, which lead them to the wreck site and beyond. The episode is part of the Green Hornet radio series. It aired on June 7, 1945.
A city and its suburbs during wartime, including a newspaper office, a Chinese laundry, a railroad bridge and tunnel, and a farmhouse by the North Railroad.
Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Casey, Mike Axford, Lowell Milroy, Chang, Carl, Sergeant Burke
Listen for: The clue of the broken English cigarette stubs, and the moment Reid and Kato confront Lowell Milroy at his home.
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.