What happens
John Markov, who runs a store on Wells Street, and his wife Maria plan to burn the store to collect fire insurance money. Their plan goes wrong when Maria is badly burned and John must decide how to get her to help. Cornell Wild stars in this episode of Suspense, a radio drama that aired on December 28, 1950. The story is told from John's point of view as he drives through the night with his injured wife, trying to find a way out of the trouble he has created.
A small city in the late 1940s, including a family store on Wells Street, a restaurant, a police station, a fire marshal's office and a riverside road at night.
Characters: John Markov, Maria Markov, Frank Laszlo, Sergeant Holbrook
Listen for: The sound of the car on the dirt road by the river, and Maria's cries and silences as John drives her through the night.
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.