What happens
Steve Gates, newly released from prison after a conviction built on circumstantial evidence, is offered a thousand dollars by reporter Malvin Lester to stage a fake crime that will discredit a district attorney. Gates agrees and is sent to a Malibu beach house to meet a woman known as Silver Fox. The story follows the scheme as it unfolds, with Gates left to wonder what he has really been drawn into. Charles McGraw stars in this episode of the radio series Suspense, which aired on February 2, 1958.
Southern California, including a hotel in Los Angeles, a beach house in Malibu, and a hillside estate in the Malibu mountains
Characters: Steve Gates, Malvin Lester, Silver Fox, L.B. Rossin, Milton, District Attorney Farley
Listen for: The confrontation at the Malibu estate, where Gates learns who is really behind the scheme
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.