What happens
Elliot Wilson, an art importer's agent, ships a Chinese elephant puzzle hiding diamonds from Singapore to San Francisco after his partner Hanson is killed. When Elliot arrives, he learns that Jim Craig, the man meant to receive it, has died in a traffic accident. Elliot traces the puzzle to a gift shop clerk and then to a buyer named Alton Galloway in Riverview. Galloway refuses to sell it back, and Elliot's attempt to take it from his study ends in violence. Elliot must now get the puzzle back and recover the diamonds without being caught.
Singapore, San Francisco, and the village of Riverview on the Sacramento River, around 1950
Characters: Elliot Wilson, Hanson, Jim Craig, Evans, Alton Galloway, Miss Olenstern, Sheriff Costa, Amy Ettinger
Listen for: Elliot's attempts to get the Chinese elephant puzzle back from Alton Galloway, and how the police begin to link him to the death in Galloway's study
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.