What happens
Marilyn Millington, a broke young woman in Honolulu, is handed a purse by a frightened woman who is then arrested. Inside she finds cash and papers belonging to Leona Chadwick, whose uncle has left her an inheritance in San Francisco. Marilyn decides to pose as Leona and claim the estate, but her scheme begins to unravel when the real Leona shows up at her hotel. The Whistler is an old-time radio anthology series, and this episode first aired on April 3, 1949.
Honolulu and San Francisco, late 1940s
Characters: Marilyn Millington, Leona Chadwick, Mr. Winters
Listen for: Marilyn's growing plan to impersonate Leona Chadwick and claim her uncle's estate
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.