What happens
Detectives Joe Carter and Saul Morris investigate the stabbing of a postman named Gilligan on a quiet suburban street in Southern California. Gilligan was found beside an open mailbox with six letters scattered on the sidewalk, and the detectives trace the missing seventh letter through the neighborhood, questioning residents and checking records. Carter's search leads him closer to people he knows, and his household is drawn into the case. The episode is part of the CBS radio anthology Suspense, first broadcast on April 17, 1956, and stars Stacey Harris.
A suburban residential neighborhood near a large city in Southern California, in the early morning and day hours of a single day.
Characters: Joe Carter, Saul Morris, Gilligan, Louise Carter, Bobby Carter, Margaret Richards, Bert Richards, Lieutenant
Listen for: Listen for the detectives' interviews with neighbors and the discovery of the missing seventh letter.
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.