What happens
Maxine Kendall, a singer at a Los Angeles night club, is unhappily married to Charlie Kendall, an invalid who drinks and smokes heavily. After a tense argument at home, she begins to plan a way to be rid of him. Her scheme depends on establishing an alibi while Charlie is alone in the house. The Whistler series aired on the Signal Oil program, and this episode first aired on January 30, 1949, with Doris Singleton and Gerald Moore in the cast.
Los Angeles and the nearby town of Carpancita, late 1940s
Characters: Maxine Kendall, Charlie Kendall, Jim McCoy, Henry Cooper, The Whistler
Listen for: Maxine's plan to create an alibi while Charlie sleeps, and the appearance of the man in the pinstripe suit
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.