What happens
Harley Jackson, a respectable businessman with a criminal past, is pressed by Mrs. Cole, widow of his old friend Fred Cole, to repay a $30,000 debt of honor that Fred claimed Jackson owed him. Jackson refuses, but Larry Black, a former associate, appears with a letter that could ruin him and demands payment. Jackson turns to an old gang member, Wacky, to recover the letter. This episode of The Whistler, a West Coast radio mystery series first broadcast on October 23, 1949, follows Jackson's mounting desperation as he tries to protect his position and his future.
Los Angeles, California, in the late 1940s, including Jackson's office, a city street, and a riverside area outside town.
Characters: Harley Jackson, Wacky, Mrs. Cole, Larry Black, Fred Cole, Florence
Listen for: Listen for the exchange in Jackson's office when Mrs. Cole asks him to repay the debt, and for Larry Black's threat about the letter.
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.