What happens
Harriet Eldridge and her brother Melvin live in Santa Rosa in a house belonging to Albert Pettis, who has been away in Australia. Melvin returns alone, and when a young woman, Valerie Hinton, arrives looking for Pettis, Harriet grows uneasy about the relationship between Melvin and the visitor. Valerie reveals she is Pettis's niece and that she met Melvin in Australia while he posed as Pettis. Harriet works to turn Melvin against Valerie, and the tension between the siblings and the newcomer steadily rises as Harriet plans her next move. The episode is from The Whistler, first broadcast on February 27, 1949.
The Pettis house in Santa Rosa, California, late 1940s
Characters: Harriet Eldridge, Melvin, Valerie Hinton, Henry, Albert Pettis
Listen for: Harriet's quiet manipulation of Melvin and the growing conflict with Valerie Hinton, who claims to be Albert Pettis's niece.
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.