What happens
Johnny Dollar, a freelance insurance investigator for Mid-Eastern Life and Casualty, travels to New York after his friend, fashion designer Mary Grace Marshall, is murdered in her apartment. Sergeant Randy Singer of the 18th Precinct homicide squad shows Johnny evidence that points to him, including a lighter left at the scene. Johnny visits the apartment and the building superintendent's home, where he questions the superintendent, Charlie Walker, and his wife. The investigation turns on a half-empty scotch bottle, a recording played that night, and the couple's account of the screams heard upstairs. The series is Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the episode aired on CBS Radio on October 20, 1957, and Bob Bailey, Edmond O'Brien, John Lund and Charles Russell appear among the lead actors.
New York City, 1957, including Mary Grace Marshall's apartment on East 77th Street and the 18th Precinct headquarters
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mary Grace Marshall, Randy Singer, Charlie Walker, Mrs. Walker, Ben
Listen for: The scotch bottle left in the kitchenette and the screams heard by the building superintendent's wife
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.