What happens
Charles Carter, general manager of Rankin Industries, is determined to gain control of the firm. After the company's president dies, he cultivates the friendship of his daughter, Amelia Rankin, who holds the controlling interest. When a shot is fired through her window and blame falls on the estate caretaker, Henry, Charles grows closer to Amelia and proposes marriage. Her decision to sign over her fortune to him leaves him facing the rest of his plan. This episode of The Whistler is a 1946 installment with the story told in a radio drama format, with no names of the lead actors given in the transcript.
Greenacres, the Rankin estate, and the Roosevelt Hotel in North City, in the western United States
Characters: Charles Carter, Amelia Rankin, Henry, Mr. Terrence Rankin, Johnson, Lane
Listen for: The gradual shift in Charles's manner toward Amelia, and the moment Amelia reveals she knows what he has done.
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.