What happens
Rocky Fortune, a drifting young man, is working as a steward aboard a luxury liner sailing from Bermuda to New York. After a flirtatious visit to the sick bay, where he meets nurse Helen Travis, he finds the cabin of Lady Harkness in disorder and is knocked unconscious. Fortune wakes with a plaster cast on his arm and learns that jewelry worth $50,000 has been stolen from the lady. The captain treats him as the prime suspect, and Fortune must clear his name while the ship's doctor lies dead in the dark room. This episode of the NBC radio series Rocky Fortune, starring Frank Sinatra, first aired on October 20, 1953.
A luxury ocean liner sailing from Bermuda to New York, including its sick bay, a passenger cabin, and the ship's lazarette.
Characters: Rocky Fortune, Helen Travis, Dr. Harper, Lady Harkness, Captain Bly, Porton, Larry, Mr. Travis
Listen for: Fortune's attempts to explain the stolen jewels and the dead doctor to the captain, and the reveal of where the jewels were hidden.
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.