What happens
Morley Carr, a schemer who lives by his wits, befriends Sam Wilson, a talkative stranger in an Omaha bar who boasts of a quarter million dollars. When Sam is found dead in his hotel room, Morley realizes the money has vanished and that a woman with black hair was seen leaving. He follows her from Omaha to San Francisco, where she checks into a hotel and begins meeting people about a large sum connected to the missing fortune. Morley pursues her relentlessly, taking on a series of risky dealings and deceptions as the trail leads toward a valuable prize. The Whistler, a long-running West Coast mystery drama, aired this episode on December 3, 1950.
Omaha and San Francisco, with a hotel cocktail lounge, a hotel room, a railroad depot, a pawn shop, a private investigator's office and a steamship pier
Characters: Morley Carr, Sam Wilson, Lucille Lacey, Cardoza, Zack Chambers
Listen for: Morley's first meeting with Sam Wilson in the Omaha bar, and the discovery of the body and the missing money in the hotel room
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.