What happens
Frank Gault, an editor at a publishing house, is caught between his unhappy marriage to Lillian and his affair with Bessie Lucas, a colleague in the editorial department. When Lillian makes her demands for a divorce, the tension escalates. Meanwhile, a manuscript titled Death on My Hands arrives on his desk, written by an author named Blaine Kittredge. This episode of Suspense, originally broadcast on June 22, 1954, stars Whitfield Connor as Frank and Betty Lou Gerson as Lillian. The story is written by E. Jack Newman.
A publishing house and the Gault family home in an unnamed American city, around the early 1950s.
Characters: Frank Gault, Lillian Gault, Bessie Lucas, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Wells, Blaine Kittredge, Dutch
Listen for: Pay attention to the conversations between Frank and Lillian about the divorce, and to the manuscript Death on My Hands, which Frank reads.
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.