What happens
Ruth Franklin, a well-dressed woman in New York, meets Roy Mason at a luncheon honoring the best-dressed women in America. Their romance quickly becomes the talk of the city, but Mason ends their engagement plans and the two quarrel bitterly at a cocktail lounge. Franklin later meets him again at his apartment, where a confrontation over a gun ends with Mason dead on the floor. Franklin flees the scene and begins trying to make sense of what she has done. The episode is a Suspense play starring Miss E. Vardon, first broadcast on January 18, 1951.
New York City, including a luncheon, a cocktail lounge, a Manhattan apartment, and the streets of the city.
Characters: Ruth Franklin, Roy Mason, Petey Wright, Percy Hamilton, Elizabeth Granger, Sergeant Collins
Listen for: The gradual revelation of Ruth Franklin's true background and the events leading to Roy Mason's death.
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.