What happens
Dr. Paul Durant takes four guests aboard his yacht and sails far out to sea, insisting that one of them murdered his brother Gerald. The suspects are gambler Hal Norton, nightclub singer Ona Raymond, society girl Karen Somerset, and Professor John Mallory. Durant refuses to turn back until the killer is exposed, and the passengers begin to accuse one another. This is an episode of the radio series The Whistler, first broadcast on July 9, 1943. The story continues beyond the portion covered here.
A small yacht sailing southwest from Honolulu into the open Pacific Ocean, 1940.
Characters: Dr. Paul Durant, Hal Norton, Ona Raymond, Karen Somerset, Professor John Mallory, Gerald Durant, Captain
Listen for: Durant's threat to blow up the yacht if the guests do not identify his brother's killer, and the guests' escalating accusations against one another.
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.