What happens
Emily Haven, a wealthy, wheelchair-bound woman who cannot bear the feel of metal, lives with her sister Grace and maid Anna. After Grace is caught shoplifting from Bradlocks, store assistant manager Henry Lane begins visiting the house and grows close to the sisters. One night a masked intruder, Mr. Scorchy Hood, a fugitive from prison, breaks in to steal the family silver, and Emily frightens him off. Tensions rise as Henry proposes to Emily and a brooch goes missing. The episode is part of the Suspense series, broadcast on June 26, 1947.
A wealthy family home in New York, where Emily Haven lives in a wheelchair with her sister Grace and their maid Anna.
Characters: Emily Haven, Grace Haven, Anna, Henry Lane, Sergeant Cole, Mr. Scorchy Hood, Inspector Wells
Listen for: Emily's fear of metal and the increasingly tense visits from Henry Lane.
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.