What happens
Ken Thurston, a government agent, is investigating whether a famous French scientist, Professor Hosmer, is really dead, after a film of a man resembling him shows the electronic brain of a radar-guided airplane. Thurston visits Hosmer's office and learns the professor died suddenly, and that his ashes are being sent to his sister Evelyn in San Francisco. Thurston follows the trail, and Hosmer's secretary Jean Alexander and his agent Pagen take part in the chase. The episode is part of The Man Called X, a radio series first broadcast on November 2, 1947, starring Herbert Marshall.
Washington, D.C., Arizona, Phoenix, and San Francisco
Characters: Ken Thurston, Pagen, Jean Alexander, Professor Hosmer, Evelyn Hosmer, Dr. Brenner, Colonel
Listen for: The mystery of whether Professor Hosmer is really dead, and the clues tying the photographs and ashes to his sister Evelyn
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.