What happens
Dan Farley, a counterfeiter carrying $150,000 in fake $20 bills, boards a westbound luxury streamliner from Chicago. In the club car he meets Judith Barnes, who seems frightened of two men watching her from opposite ends of the car. She asks Dan to hold a small package for her, and Dan begins to suspect the package holds something valuable. Dan is a character in The Whistler, a West Coast radio mystery series, and this episode first aired on November 27, 1949.
A westbound luxury streamliner train traveling from Chicago toward Los Angeles, including its club car and passenger compartments.
Characters: Dan Farley, Judith Barnes, Seth Williams, Joe Franklin
Listen for: The exchange in the club car where Judith asks Dan to hold her package, and the moment Dan first opens it.
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.