What happens
Ted Mallory meets his partner Harry Murdoch on a lonely highway at night, and their dispute over the freight business ends with Mallory shooting Murdoch and sending his truck rolling down a hill. Mallory later learns that the truck has been found and that a man who witnessed the killing is blackmailing him. Harry's widow, Helen Murdoch, refuses to sell her share of the company, and Mallory begins to fear that she is growing suspicious of him. The Whistler is a radio mystery series, and this episode first aired on December 27, 1953.
A lonely highway at night, a freight company office, a cafe on Highway 101, and the apartments of Ted Mallory and Helen Murdoch in an American city.
Characters: Ted Mallory, Harry Murdoch, Helen Murdoch, Lenny Phillips, Alan Forbes, Lieutenant Emerson
Listen for: The shifting relationship between Ted Mallory and Helen Murdoch as her suspicions about him grow.
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.