What happens
Maury Swartz, a tie salesman newly arrived in Chicago, rents a room at 19 Deacon Street from an elderly landlady. The room belongs to a woman named Laverne, who has been gone for about ten years, and Maury becomes obsessed with her portrait and her disappearance. He tracks down a phone number found in her belongings and learns more about her past connection to Jasper Florence, a theatrical producer. Maury pursues Florence to rent the old Florence Theatre, a building tied to Laverne's history. This is an episode of the radio series Suspense, first broadcast on November 22, 1945, starring Lloyd Nolan.
Chicago in the 1940s, including a Deacon Street boarding house, a Lake Shore Drive residence, a State Street neighborhood, and an old theater.
Characters: Maury Swartz, Jasper Florence, Laverne, Mrs. Swartz
Listen for: The landlady's warning about the room and the mounting mystery surrounding Laverne's disappearance.
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.