What happens
Lord Peter Whimsy, posing as a footman named Joseph Rogers, infiltrates a secret society that meets in masks at a villa on Hampstead Heath. The society's members gather to deal with a traitor in their midst, and Rogers must keep his true identity hidden while the members debate who among them has been careless. This is the Suspense episode The Cave of Ali Baba, based on the story by Dorothy Sayers and first broadcast on August 19, 1942, on the Columbia network. Romney Brent plays Whimsy.
London, including a house in Lambeth and a villa on Hampstead Heath, with a secret society meeting in masks.
Characters: Lord Peter Whimsy, Number One, Number Two, Number 21, Number 37
Listen for: The masked society's meeting at the villa, where the traitor is revealed and Rogers's identity is questioned.
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.