What happens
Britt Reid, the young publisher known as the Green Hornet, investigates the shooting of gangster Jim Devlin on a Manhattan pier. Devlin's widow, Bell, has come to town, and Reid suspects Steve Manning, Devlin's former partner, may be behind the killing. Reid and his valet Kato plan to question Mrs. Devlin at the Royalton hotel, while newspaper reporter Michael Axford follows the case for the Sentinel. The series is The Green Hornet, first aired March 16, 1948. Reid's secretary Lenore Case assists him from the hotel lobby.
A city in the late 1940s, including a pier, the Royalton hotel, Reid's office at the Sentinel, and Manning's estate outside town.
Characters: Britt Reid, Kato, Lenore Case, Michael Axford, Sergeant Burke, Steve Manning, Bell Devlin, Jim Devlin
Listen for: Reid's plan to question Bell Devlin at the Royalton, and the phone call that brings Mrs. Devlin's answer.
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.