What happens
Private investigator Jeff Regan of the International Detective Bureau is hired by Daniel Carter to find his runaway daughter, Patrice, who left home five years earlier. Regan travels to New Orleans, where he learns that a young woman matching Patrice's name has died of leukemia. Jeff Regan, Investigator is a radio series, and this episode, The Prodigal Daughter, aired on July 17, 1948, with Jack Webb in the title role. Webb plays Regan, with Wilms Herbert as Anthony J. Lyon and Loretta Poynton as Melody. The telling so far follows Regan's inquiries, a violent encounter on a dark street, and his confrontation with the people who have involved him in the case.
Los Angeles and New Orleans, late 1940s
Characters: Jeff Regan, Anthony J. Lyon, Melody, Daniel Carter, Patrice Carter, Janice King, Oliver Figg, Red
Listen for: Regan's dealings with Janis King and the stripper called Red in New Orleans, and his confrontation with Conover.
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.