What happens
James Matthews, a restless businessman in Mexico City, depends on his wealthy wife Rose for money to fund a gold mine partnership with Mallard Gunther. Gunther keeps asking for more investment, and James grows desperate as Rose resists giving him the money and spends her evenings with a new acquaintance, George Turner. This episode of The Whistler, the long-running CBS mystery anthology, aired on February 6, 1949. The story follows James's mounting pressure and his efforts to get Rose's signature on a check.
Mexico City, present day of the 1940s
Characters: James Matthews, Rose Matthews, Mallard Gunther, Sally, George Turner, Juan Ortega, Lieutenant Garcia
Listen for: Listen for James's growing frustration with Rose's refusal to give him money, and for Gunther's repeated requests for an additional investment.
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.