What happens
A thief named Ralph Watson uses the classified ads to find wealthy sellers of valuable items and then robs them. He answers an advertisement from Liz Phelps, who is selling a silver-blue mink coat, and visits her home posing as a buyer. Instead of paying, he pulls a gun on her and takes the coat. Her husband Frank comes home unexpectedly during the robbery. Watson/Ralph's wife Wilma comes along on his jobs and helps him in each stage of the scheme. The script is from the Suspense radio series, first broadcast on July 11, 1956, and Stacey Harris stars.
A city in the United States, during the 1950s, where the thief reads newspaper classified ads and visits the homes of people selling valuable goods.
Characters: Ralph Watson, Wilma, Liz Phelps, Frank Phelps, Walter
Listen for: Watson's confident patter with Mrs. Phelps as he pretends to be a buyer, and the moment she realizes he has come to steal the coat.
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.