What happens
Edwin Dingle, a bookish researcher at the Higbee Memorial Research Library, finds himself drawn into a case involving his identical twin brother, Buzzy Baloo, a nightclub comic who has witnessed a murder and is being pressured to testify against gangster Ten Grand Jackson. This episode of Lux Radio Theatre, broadcast on March 25, 1946, stars Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. Edwin meets the librarian Ellen Shanley, and a mysterious music draws him toward Prospect Park, where he encounters a spirit who claims to be Buzzy. The brothers' strange arrangement begins to take shape as the district attorney's case presses forward.
Brooklyn and Manhattan, including the Higbee Memorial Research Library, Prospect Park, a delicatessen and the Pelican Club nightclub.
Characters: Edwin Dingle, Buster Dingle (Buzzy Baloo), Ellen Shanley, Ten Grand Jackson, Molly, Mitch, Monte, Schmitt
Listen for: The mysterious music that signals Edwin and Buster's switching places, and Buster's ghostly bargain with Edwin to take his place at the Pelican Club.
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.