What happens
Russ Logan, a meticulous businessman, plans to have his partner Jim Kendrick killed during a visit to Kendrick's home in Coldwater Canyon. The plan goes wrong when Kendrick interrupts the routine, and the gunman escapes into the canyon. Logan's wife Jean and the chauffeur Nick are part of the household around them. Logan hires a small-time gambler, Frankie Rizzo, to carry out the shooting, but the job failed and Rizzo is now a liability. The Whistler is the narrator who introduces the story; the episode is from The Whistler series, first broadcast on February 24, 1952.
Coldwater Canyon, Los Angeles area, Kendrick's home and surrounding canyon, Santa Monica and the Surfside Motel, and the Logans' apartment in the city
Characters: Russ Logan, Jim Kendrick, Jean Logan, Nick, Frankie Rizzo
Listen for: Logan's careful timing and the fumbled attempt on Kendrick's life, and how the chauffeur Nick's testimony at the canyon shapes what the police do next
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.