What happens
Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles investigate a series of threatening notes signed by a mysterious figure calling himself the Stranger. After a rancher, Smokey Riggs, is shot through a window in front of them, Bill and Jingles look into a mining claim, the White Star mine, and the men tied to it, including Hex Webb and Steve Drum. The episode is from the Wild Bill Hickok radio series, first aired on December 29, 1952, with Guy Madison as Hickok and Andy Devine as Jingles.
The frontier town of Dusty Hill in the Old West, including a bank, the sheriff's office, the county recorder's office, and the White Star mine.
Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Smokey Riggs, Hex Webb, Steve Drum, Mr. Sharp, Hard Rock Turner, Sheriff
Listen for: The notes signed by the Stranger, and the page 23 clue that Mr. Sharp dies trying to share.
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.