What happens
Joe Lester, a small-time gambler, sits in a high-stakes poker game in Barney Flood's hotel room with Barney Flood and Dan Kilmer. Lester resents Flood for taking the woman he loved, and after a tense showdown, Flood, who has bet his life on a card game, is found dead by a gunshot. Lester is questioned by police and then released, but he begins receiving unsettling calls and sees a shadowy figure watching his apartment. The episode is part of the Inner Sanctum Mysteries series, an original radio play by Emil Tepperman with Larry Haynes as Joe Lester. The original air date was August 28, 1945.
A hotel room at the Brandon Hotel, a police headquarters office, and Joe Lester's apartment in a city.
Characters: Joe Lester, Barney Flood, Dan Kilmer, Louise, Inspector Larkin, Esther
Listen for: Lester's confession and the moment he realizes he had been watched and set up.
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.