What happens
Detective Mark McPherson investigates the shotgun murder of Laura Hunt, an advertising executive whose body was found in her Manhattan apartment. Waldo Lydecker, a newspaper columnist who knew her well, gives the detective his account of Laura's career and their relationship. Shelby Carpenter, Laura's associate and planned husband, is also questioned about his whereabouts on the night she died. The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater presents this 1945 adaptation of the Laura story, starring Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Jean Tierney and David Bruce, on August 20, 1945.
New York City, Park Avenue apartment and nearby locations
Characters: Mark McPherson, Laura Hunt, Waldo Lydecker, Shelby Carpenter, Bessie, Diane Redfern
Listen for: The detective's interviews with Waldo Lydecker and Shelby Carpenter, and Laura's return to her apartment
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.