What happens
Charles Richard Wallingford, a porter in a downtown advertising office, finds a memo naming Pat Smith of Boston as the winner of a toothpaste slogan contest worth $25,000. He travels to Boston, makes contact with a man named Pat Smith, and proposes a scheme to claim the prize. Wallingford's plan turns against him as he learns there are two Pat Smiths staying at the same hotel and a woman named Betty becomes involved. The story is presented as Suspense, the radio drama, with Hume Cronin in the lead, broadcast on June 13, 1946.
A downtown office building in an unnamed city, then Boston, including a hotel on Commonwealth Avenue, a waterfront dock, and a hotel lounge
Characters: Charles Richard Wallingford, Pat Smith, Betty, Sergeant Hurley, PJ Rogers
Listen for: The surprise revealed in the newspaper near the end of the broadcast, which the story builds toward
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.