What happens
Pianist Denise Barrett, stepmother of young concert pianist Pamela Barrett, grows anxious when Pamela plans to marry Richard Matthews instead of pursuing her music. Denise and attorney Marty Drake, who have been quietly taking money from the Barrett estate, decide Pamela must be stopped. Denise considers a deadly plan involving poisons from her late husband Thomas Barrett's collection. This is an episode of The Whistler, a mystery series, first broadcast on February 17, 1952, with the lead actors named in the credits. The story is told in the present tense as Denise sets her scheme in motion.
The Barrett household and estate, a swimming pool, and a seaside cafe, in the early 1950s
Characters: Denise Barrett, Pamela Barrett, Marty Drake, Richard Matthews, Alma, Thomas Barrett
Listen for: Denise's conversations with Marty Drake about the estate money and the poison collection, and her plan involving Richard's rose
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.