What happens
Radio detective Wally Benton, known to listeners as the Fox, is persuaded by his fiancée Carol Lambert to travel to Fort Dixon, Georgia, after Ella May Lee asks for his help. Ella May's sweetheart, Martin Gordon, has been murdered in the ruins of an old Civil War fort, and she believes the Fox can find the killer. Wally and his companions explore the fort at night, where they are shot at, and they later examine Gordon's papers and an encoded note. The episode is a Screen Guild Theater presentation from the Lady Esther series, broadcast on May 17, 1943, starring Red Skelton, Claire Trevor and Virginia Gray.
Radio studio and small-town Georgia, including Ella May's house and the ruins of Fort Dixon
Characters: Wally Benton, Carol Lambert, Ella May Lee, Martin Gordon, The sheriff, Corporal Lucan, The district attorney, Mr. Bailey
Listen for: The sounds of digging and gunfire in the dark fort, and Wally's search for the meaning of Gordon's encoded note
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.