What happens
Professor Leiden, a retired scholar of crime, becomes fascinated with Demetrius, a notorious spy and murderer, after learning that his body has been found on a beach in Turkey. Leiden travels across Europe, speaking with people who knew Demetrius, and meets a man named Peters who shows an unusual interest in the case. Lady Esther presents this Screen Guild Players adaptation of the Warner Brothers film, starring Peter Lorre as Leiden and Sydney Greenstreet as Peters, with the original broadcast on April 16, 1945.
Turkey, Bulgaria and Paris in the late 1930s, following the trail of the criminal Demetrius across Europe.
Characters: Professor Leiden, Eric Peters, Colonel Haki, Demetrius, Madame Irana
Listen for: Leiden's growing suspicion of Peters as the two men maneuver around each other in Paris.
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.