What happens
John Chapman, a noted criminal lawyer, grows suspicious after hearing that his wife Alice is seeing assistant Paul Barnes and gambling heavily. He hires private detective Manny Welch to follow her, and after Alice is found shot, Paul is charged with her murder. John's secretary Gloria asks him to defend Paul, and the trial proceeds with testimony that John has carefully arranged. This is an episode of The Whistler, broadcast on September 1, 1948, on CBS. The narration is by the Whistler, and the story is presented in the series' radio drama format.
New York City and Connecticut, late 1940s, including a law office, a courtroom, and a summer house.
Characters: John Chapman, Alice Chapman, Gloria, Paul Barnes, Manny Welch, Lieutenant King Kincaid, Frankie Carlson
Listen for: Listen for the moment Manny Welch's testimony begins to unravel under cross-examination, and for the phone call and footsteps at the end of the story.
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.