What happens
John Talbot returns home one night to learn that his wife Mary has left him, and his brother Frank asks him for money. Years later, John marries a widow named Helga, whose son Paul comes to live at the country estate. A young woman named Joan arrives, claiming to be John's daughter, and Paul and Helga begin to view her with suspicion. Joan senses that something is wrong in the house. This episode of The Whistler, broadcast on CBS on September 5, 1942, is a mystery drama.
A brownstone mansion on West 52nd Street and a country estate, in the years after John Talbot's marriage to Helga.
Characters: John Talbot, Frank Talbot, Mary, Helga, Paul, Joan, Jackson
Listen for: Joan's growing unease about the house and the conversation between Paul and Helga about her.
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.