What happens
Anthony Kendall, a matinee idol, and his leading lady Rina Shalfan are tied to a Hollywood killing in the 1920s. After a drunken, dismissed actor named Bart Malloy threatens them at the gate of Tony's estate, Malloy goes to a bar, then uses a phone call impersonating a doctor to lure the Russian director Sergei Kosakov to his home high in the hills. Rina arrives to find Kosakov dead, and police find her kneeling beside the body. Tony goes to his friend Sergeant Kay of homicide, who suspects Rina, and Tony begins to piece together clues about the whiskey glass and the cloves. The episode is Suspense, first broadcast on November 17, 1957, with Francis X. Bushman starring.
Hollywood and the Hollywood Hills in the 1920s, including Whitley Heights, Henry's on Hollywood Boulevard, and Kosakov's hillside house.
Characters: Tony Kendall, Rina Shalfan, Bart Malloy, Sergei Kosakov, Sergeant Kay, Alec Benson, Fritz
Listen for: Listen for the clues of the whiskey glass and the cloves, and for how Tony works out who was in Kosakov's house.
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.