What happens
Newspaper publisher Britt Reid and reporter Ed Larry approach James Conway, a grand jury investigator probing gambling graft in the county. Conway, who has evidence against a gambling ring and its protectors, has returned from Chicago and his daughter Polly has gone missing after meeting his plane. Britt Reid arranges to help secretly, while the gang holding Polly plots a trap at a bridge. The story is part of the Green Hornet radio series, first broadcast May 24, 1938.
A county city in the 1930s, including the Daily Sentinel newspaper office, a local airport, Conway's study, and a gambling club called the 7-11.
Characters: Britt Reid, James Conway, Polly Conway, Ed Larry, Cato, Dick Slocken, Sheriff Materling, Steve
Listen for: Britt Reid's plan to pose as one of the gang and the telephone call in which the kidnappers speak with James Conway.
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.