Gumshoe

Dan Holiday, a freelance writer who accepts adventures through classified ads, meets Carla Williams at a French restaurant. She reveals she has been paying blackmail for five years and asks Dan to witness her final payment to the blackmailer tonight at his apartment, where she expects to recover the letters being held over her. Dan agrees to help, and they arrive at the apartment to find the blackmailer is not there.

With Dan Holiday, Carla Williams, Susie, Ed, Bartender.

Listen for: The mysterious absence of the blackmailer when Dan and Carla arrive at his apartment, and what they discover inside with the lights on.

First aired in 1948.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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