What happens
Albert Taylor, a charming young husband in Miami society, quarrels violently with his wife Helen and leaves her dead in their home. He then boards a train to New York, where a passenger named Ricketts becomes suspicious of him. When the train is wrecked in a collision, Albert takes the identity of Leslie Jameson, a mystery writer who died in the crash. He is drawn into a tangle of hotel publicity, a demanding woman named Ruth who claims to be his wife, and mounting pressure from the police. The episode is from The Whistler, first broadcast on December 17, 1947, and the story is told in its first part only.
Miami, a limited express train bound for New York, and New York City in the late 1940s
Characters: Albert Taylor, Helen, Ricketts, Leslie Jameson, Ruth, Sergeant Lake
Listen for: Albert's crafty assumption of Leslie Jameson's identity after the train wreck, and Ruth's increasing demands on him
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.