What happens
Marty Lindquist, a lifeguard at the Pelican Bay club, faces losing his job during the slow winter season. After he rescues a woman from the surf, he learns she is the wife of owner Harry Evans, and he begins to suspect that Evans may have wanted her to drown. Marty's plans take a dangerous turn as he schemes to profit from what he believes he has discovered. This is an episode of The Whistler, a radio mystery series, first broadcast on January 16, 1949.
Pelican Bay Beach Club and nearby Beverly Plaza, Southern California, in winter
Characters: Marty Lindquist, Harry Evans, Betty Evans, Evelyn Johnson, Sergeant Merle
Listen for: Marty's growing suspicion that Harry Evans wanted his wife to drown, and his decision about what to do with that knowledge
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.