What happens
Harry Clark, a drifter, takes a job from bookie Augie Persian answering phones in a small apartment. When he returns to the apartment he finds Brandy, a model, dead in the kitchen. Eleanor Grayson, who shares the apartment, appears and insists she is innocent. Harry becomes a suspect, Persian's men pursue him, and he is trapped between them, with his life threatened and no money to escape. Suspense, starring Edmund O'Brien and Anne Blythe, first broadcast on 1948-11-11, presents this crime drama in its episode Muddy Track.
A city apartment, a rooming house, and a park in the city.
Characters: Harry Clark, Augie Persian, Eleanor Grayson, Brandy, Dimples
Listen for: Listen for how Harry is drawn into Persian's bookmaking operation and how Eleanor's account of Brandy's death shifts as he learns more.
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.