What happens
Carola Winter, a mystery novelist, comes to a seaside hotel on a rocky coast for a rest. One night she watches a tall stranger named Michael Barrett stab a small man named Mr. Field on the beach, and she offers to help him dispose of the body. The next day, the hotel staff notice Mr. Field is missing, and a detective begins asking questions. Carola is drawn deeper into a web of secrets and danger as the case unfolds. This is an episode of the Inner Sanctum Mysteries radio series, originally broadcast on February 5, 1946.
A swanky hotel on a storm-swept, rockbound coast at Skeleton Bay, in late summer and autumn
Characters: Carola Winter, Michael Barrett, Mr. Field, Detective Sergeant Smith, Sandy, Mary
Listen for: Carola's decision to hide the body in her cabin closet and the detective's questions after Mr. Field disappears
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.