What happens
Fred Wallace, a former police reporter and pulp detective writer with a gambling habit, marries wealthy widow Vera Doran after a Florida racetrack romance. When Vera refuses to lend him money to settle a debt with a gangster, their quarrel grows bitter and Fred begins to plot her death. The Whistler series aired this episode, Murder on Paper, on January 29, 1945. Fred's scheme involves a car on a mountain road, with Vera's friend Lita Martin riding along, and Fred confides his plans in an unsettling conversation at the beach house.
Florida racetrack, then Los Angeles and Malibu, with a mountain road near San Bernardino
Characters: Fred Wallace, Vera Doran, Lita Martin, Jenkins
Listen for: Fred's confession to Lita on the beach and the staged accident on the mountain road
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.