What happens
Alan Pierce, a famous Washington political columnist, returns to his hometown and checks into Belden General Hospital after a heart attack. He has promised to expose the contents of the Argyle album, a secret that has been building in his columns. When Pierce is found dead, with a surgeon's scalpel in his chest, reporter Harry Mitchell of the Herald takes charge of the story and begins his own investigation, which leads him through the dead man's secretary, a mysterious woman named Marla, and a junkyard owner named George Broad. Presented on Suspense, the radio thriller series, the play was broadcast on December 13, 1945, and stars Robert Taylor.
Belden General Hospital and a hotel in an American city, with later scenes at an apartment and a junkyard
Characters: Harry Mitchell, Alan Pierce, Dr. Van Selben, Pinky, Lieutenant Horace Lipp Sampson, Marla, Mr. Winter, Gil
Listen for: The scene in the hospital room when Harry Mitchell discovers Pierce is dead and the corpse is found with a scalpel in its chest
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.