What happens
Dr. Alka-Zah, a fraudulent medium with a Coney Island reading parlour, takes a paying customer's visit and notices a violet tissue-paper packet tied with green and gold cord in her purse. Later, Lily Morton, a maid, is found strangled after a bus ride to a Rockland County estate, and Dr. Alka-Zah and his assistant Abby go to the house of her employer, the retired actress Gloria Drew, hoping to profit from the reward she has offered. Gloria's husband Clinton DeBrie is also in the household. The episode is an installment of the CBS anthology series Suspense, first broadcast on June 9, 1957, and starring Vincent Price.
Coney Island and the Rockland County estate of Gloria Drew, New York, 1950s
Characters: Dr. Alka-Zah, Abby, Gloria Drew, Clinton DeBrie, Lily Morton, George
Listen for: The green and gold string and violet tissue paper that recur in the medium's visions and in the gifts sent to Gloria Drew.
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.