What happens
Marshall Blake returns secretly from Phoenix intending to kill his wife Melody, whom he has arranged to meet at her apartment. He has a plan with Helen Mason, Melody's sister, who lives upstairs and will support his story. After Melody is poisoned in a drink, Blake and Mr. Prentice, a neighbor, find that her body has vanished from the elevator. Blake grows suspicious of Helen and begins to doubt that his plan will hold together as the night unfolds. This story is part of The Whistler series, first broadcast on January 27, 1947, on the Signal Oil program.
An apartment building in a city, its fourth-floor apartment, the lobby, and the basement garage, at night in the late 1940s.
Characters: Marshall Blake, Melody Blake, Helen Mason, Mr. Prentice, Blake, Mrs. McPherson, Mr. Novello
Listen for: Listen for the sudden disappearance of Melody's body from the elevator and the sharp shift in trust between Marshall and Helen.
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.