What happens
Attorney Paul Benton and his client Cynthia Winters are carrying on a secret affair while Paul's wife Edith stands in their way. Paul and Cynthia plot to be rid of Edith, and Paul secretly films the sailing trip where Cynthia intends to make it happen. A commercial film producer, Fred Mason, is drawn into their scheme as the one who will develop the pictures. This is an episode of The Whistler, a radio mystery series, recorded from a broadcast dated July 17, 1949. The lead actors are not named in the transcript, and the recording moves through its scenes with Paul and Cynthia at the center of the plotting.
A seaside cafe, a fishing boat off a rocky point, Paul's home and den, a studio apartment downtown, and Cynthia's beach house in Malibu.
Characters: Paul Benton, Cynthia Winters, Edith Benton, Fred Mason, Lieutenant Blake
Listen for: Paul's calm planning of Edith's death, and Cynthia's reversal when she confronts him.
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.