What happens
Philip Marshall, a tobacco shop manager in London in 1902, is trapped in an unhappy marriage to his domineering wife, Cora. He grows close to Mary Gray, a young woman he meets in a park. When Cora learns of their friendship and threatens to ruin them both, Philip's life takes a dark turn. Charles Laughton stars as Philip, with Ella Raines as Mary and Rosalind Ivan as Cora, in this Lux Radio Theatre production broadcast on April 9, 1945. The story follows the aftermath of a sudden death in the Marshall household and the questions that a Scotland Yard inspector raises about it.
London, 1902, a respectable side street and the Fraser and Nicholson tobacco shop
Characters: Philip Marshall, Mary Gray, Cora Marshall, Gilbert Simmons, John Marshall, Mrs. Simmons, Inspector Huxley
Listen for: Philip's conversations with Cora and Mary, and Inspector Huxley's questions about the stairway accident
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.