What happens
Claudia Dale, the wife of Howard Dale, picks up a pale stranger on a stormy night near a cemetery. He calls himself Garth Ragman and tells her things about her life, including that her husband has been murdered and lies near the piano in her living room. Claudia finds the body there, and Detective Sergeant Quinn of homicide questions her about the crime and her whereabouts. Ragman's uncanny knowledge unsettles her, and she becomes drawn to him despite her suspicions. The transcript covers the opening of this Inner Sanctum Mysteries episode, which aired on July 27, 1952.
A stormy night on a lonely road near a cemetery, then Claudia's home and police headquarters in a small town.
Characters: Claudia Dale, Garth Ragman, Howard Dale, Detective Sergeant Quinn, Martha Wollstone
Listen for: Ragman's unsettling predictions about Claudia's past and the discovery of Howard's body by the piano.
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.