What happens
Danny Bryan, a former top crime reporter for the San Francisco Express, is out of work after a dispute with his editor Martin Graves. Drinking at the Club Knockturn, he rages against Graves and later goes to Graves' apartment to confront him. A struggle breaks out, and Danny finds Graves dead on the floor. Fearing for his life, Danny tries to build an alibi with his fiancee Teddy Eldridge, then faces the consequences of the choices he has made that night. The Whistler is the series, and this episode aired on February 24, 1947. Joseph Kearns and Doris Singleton star in the episode.
San Francisco, California, in 1947, including the Club Knockturn, Martin Graves' apartment on Russian Hill, and the Skyline Boulevard outside the city
Characters: Danny Bryan, Martin Graves, Teddy Eldridge, Stan McIntosh, Horace Bleaker, Mike, Neil
Listen for: Danny's mounting desperation as he tries to cover up what happened to Graves, and the way Teddy and Mike are drawn into his alibi
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.