What happens
Sam and Leah Wicksen spend a winter week at their mountain cabin with Leah's friend Suzanne and Suzanne's husband Harvey, who is expected later. Leah and Sam have a seemingly happy marriage, but Suzanne has discovered something about Leah that threatens it. Tension builds between the two women as Suzanne taunts Leah and Leah grows desperate. Sam leaves for the city to pick up Harvey, leaving the two women alone at the cabin during a gathering storm. The Whistler is an old-time radio anthology series, and this episode first aired on October 1, 1945.
A cabin high on the slope of Bald Mountain during a winter week, snowed in by a blizzard.
Characters: Leah Wicksen, Sam Wicksen, Suzanne, Harvey
Listen for: Suzanne's pointed remarks to Leah about the secret she has uncovered, and the growing rivalry between the two women over the course of the day.
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.