What happens
Millie Parker, who has been separated from her estranged husband Yancy for over a year, comes to his run-down boarding house with a scheme to sell forty-five thousand dollars in stolen bonds from Consolidated Investment Company, where she works as private secretary to Mr. Poole. Millie tells Yancy the plan, and the two agree to sell the bonds in San Francisco. Afterward, Millie is shaken when Mr. Poole reveals that the auditors found a one-cent discrepancy and will have to re-audit the books. The series is The Whistler, and this episode first aired on November 11, 1946.
Los Angeles, at the Consolidated Investment Company, Yancy's run-down boarding house, and a drugstore telephone booth, with later scenes in Mrs. Jolly's boarding house and an airport.
Characters: Millie Parker, Yancy Parker, Mr. Poole, Nancy, Mrs. Jolly, Kelly
Listen for: Listen for the moment Millie learns the auditors are returning and must decide quickly how to get the stolen bonds back into the safe deposit box.
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.