What happens
Mary Withers, a young woman married to the wealthy Mr. Murray, is pressed for money by Skip Morgan, a private detective. Morgan says he can help Mary's new husband take her inheritance in exchange for a payment of fifty thousand dollars. Mary's husband, a shrewd, older businessman, dislikes the arrangement, and Morgan's motives grow tangled with those of the others involved. The episode is from the Mystery House series, broadcast on September 2, 1945. The story is a mystery drama in which the characters' schemes and loyalties shift from scene to scene, as the household's tensions mount.
A luxurious apartment belonging to the wealthy Mr. Murray, and a nearby city where Mary and her associates move among the offices and rooms of the household.
Characters: Mary Withers, Mr. Murray, Skip Morgan, Susan, Larry, Frank Wink, Mr. Brent
Listen for: Listen for Skip Morgan's proposal to Mary and the increasingly tense exchanges over money and marriage.
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.