What happens
Henry Wilson, a long-serving employee, is pressed by his ambitious colleague Charles Dodds, who has taken over a position Wilson wanted. After a tense evening in Dodds's office, Wilson strikes him down with an iron vase, then returns to the building to stage the scene. Wilson's nerves and strange reactions draw the attention of the police and co-workers. The episode is from the radio series Suspense, first broadcast on 1946-09-26, with Jean Lockhart in the lead role.
A business office in New York City, and the streets and rooms around it, in the late 1940s.
Characters: Henry Wilson, Charles Dodds, Tom Higbee, Mr. Larkin, Mrs. Dodds, Detective Lewis, Jim
Listen for: Wilson's shifting account of his movements the night of the killing, and the detective's questions about the times he gives.
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.