What happens
Harry Smith, newly released from prison, takes a job as housekeeper's husband in the New York brownstone of Olaf Anderson, an elderly diamond cutter. Anderson is hired to cut the King Midas Diamond, a stone worth a fortune, and Harry, together with his wife Marie, begins to scheme over it. The episode is an Inner Sanctum Mystery, broadcast on March 26, 1946, and written by Michael Schlaar for the series' host. Harry watches Anderson prepare the stone and grows impatient as the cutting is repeatedly put off. Tension builds between Harry and Marie as they plan what to do with the diamond and with the old man.
A old New York City brownstone, including a work room where diamonds are cut, in the 1940s.
Characters: Harry Smith, Marie Smith, Olaf Anderson, Detective Joe Meghan, Mr. Johnson
Listen for: Harry's plan to take the King Midas Diamond and Marie's growing impatience with him.
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.