What happens
Brit Reid, publisher of the Daily Sentinel and secretly the Green Hornet, investigates the murder of a messenger on a city-bound express from Washington. The messenger was carrying papers from South America to a consulate, and the killer, disguised as the Green Hornet, used a gas pen on the chauffeur and left a Hornet seal behind. Reid's reporter Mike Axford visits the consulate and meets its official Pedro Camus, while Reid and his valet Kato plan a trap. The Green Hornet's own Black Beauty is brought into the case as the investigation grows more tangled. The episode is an installment of the radio series The Green Hornet, first broadcast on April 6, 1946.
A city in the United States, including a city-bound express train, the Daily Sentinel newspaper offices, Reid's apartment, a consulate, and a waterfront dump.
Characters: Brit Reid, Kato, Mike Axford, Lenore Case, Gunnegan, Pedro Camus, Sartel, Spike
Listen for: The Hornet seal left on the dashboard and the gas pen used on the chauffeur, both clues that point toward the killer's identity.
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.