What happens
Norman Grayson, an art dealer, sells six German manuscripts to Richard Morris for $50,000, and the buyer then dies of a heart attack. Grayson is summoned by Morris's young widow, Janet, who knows the manuscripts are forgeries and demands a payment for her silence. This episode of The Whistler, a radio series that aired on CBS, was broadcast on April 14, 1948. The cast includes Doris Singleton and Gerald Moore.
San Francisco, in the late 1940s, including the Morris home in the Heights, a funeral parlor, and a hotel.
Characters: Norman Grayson, Janet Morris, Richard Morris, Dr. Reed, Lieutenant Benson
Listen for: Janet Morris's confrontation with Grayson at the funeral parlor and her demand for money over the forged manuscripts.
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.