What happens
Britt Reid, a young newspaper publisher who secretly fights crime as the Green Hornet, and his valet Kato are drawn into a strange puzzle. Reporter Ed Lawrey and his colleague Casey Chase accidentally swap a letter on a crowded street, and afterward Ernest Kegler finds a body in his living room that later vanishes. The Green Hornet series aired on the Blue Network, and this episode is dated April 18, 1943. Britt and Kato investigate the disappearance and the missing letter, trying to learn who is connected to the strange events at Kegler's home.
A city street and the Daily Sentinel newspaper office, then Ernest Kegler's house and the Green Hornet's hidden car and passage.
Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Ed Lawrey, Casey Chase, Ernest Kegler, Bolton
Listen for: Listen for how the strange disappearing body and the missing letter are first noticed by Lawrey and Chase, and how Britt Reid begins to question their story.
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.