What happens
Mark Melville, a publicity man from San Francisco, arrives in the old gold rush town of Eagle's Nest and persuades its leading citizens to back a frontier week celebration. His success brings him into contact with Helen Wright, who is engaged to Jim Beverly, and their secret affair grows tense as Melville tries to end it. The episode is an installment of The Whistler, a West Coast radio mystery series, and this one was first broadcast on January 9, 1949. The story is narrated in the second person, and the lead actors are not named in the transcript.
Eagle's Nest, a small western former gold rush town, and its main street with its hotel, newspaper office and saloon
Characters: Mark Melville, Helen Wright, Jim Beverly, Ed Chambers, Bud Conklin, Joe Merrill, Henry Maloney, The Sheriff
Listen for: The tension between Mark Melville and Helen Wright as their relationship turns dangerous, and the sheriff's questioning after Helen is found dead
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.