What happens
Mona Stanton divorces her husband Gerald Stempe to marry the charming Vincent Carter, but Vincent soon drops her for the respectable Alice Phillips. Mona, furious and humiliated, confronts Vincent at Pietro's and threatens to kill him. Her friend Blanche Fontaine offers her the use of a remote mountain lodge, and Mona begins to plan a disappearance that will look like Vincent's doing. This episode of The Whistler, the Signal Oil radio program, aired on August 26, 1951. The transcript cuts off partway through the story.
San Francisco, California, in 1951, including a train departure, a restaurant, an apartment building and a remote mountain lodge.
Characters: Mona Stanton, Gerald Stempe, Vincent Carter, Alice Phillips, Blanche Fontaine, Lucille, Pietro
Listen for: Mona's growing desperation after Vincent's rejection and her scheme to make him appear responsible for her disappearance.
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.