What happens
Scott Henderson, an engineer in New York, spends a sultry August evening with a stranger he meets at a bar after his friend Jack Marlow leaves for Brazil. The woman wears an unusual hat and accompanies him to a theater. When he returns home, he finds his wife Marcella murdered, and the police arrest him. He insists he was with a woman all evening, but no bartender, cab driver or theater employee remembers her. His secretary Carol Richmond, who believes in his innocence, begins searching for the woman. Radio drama starring Brian Aherne, Ella Raines and Alan Curtis, from the Lux Radio Theatre, broadcast March 27, 1944.
New York City, mid-August, and a courtroom and the streets of the city.
Characters: Scott Henderson, Jack Marlow, Carol Richmond, Marcella, Inspector Burgess, Miss Montero, Mike Falano, Mack
Listen for: The witnesses' blank memories of the mysterious woman in the funny hat, and Carol's first steps in the search for her.
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.