What happens
Britt Reid, publisher and secret crime fighter the Green Hornet, aided by his valet Cato, investigates the disappearance of reporter Michael Axford. Axford was sent to interview Major Barry, a survivor of a sunken ship, at the apartment of stage star Varna Claire. Reid visits Claire's apartment and questions her staff about Axford's whereabouts, finding Axford's hat there and noticing odd behavior among the household. The story opens in the Green Hornet's wartime adventure series, with the episode's original air date of April 18, 1944.
Wartime America, primarily New York City, with an apartment building, a newspaper office, and a naval training center.
Characters: Britt Reid, Cato, Michael Axford, Varna Claire, Major Barry, Miss Case, Peterson, Victor Raskin
Listen for: Listen for Reid's questioning of the butler and Claire's household, and for the mystery surrounding Axford's disappearance.
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.