The Whistler: Classic Radio Drama

Episode 532: The Havana Lee

Episode 19: Fog

Sailor Danny Price sets out with a gun to confront gambler Duke Moran over a debt on a night thick with fog. After tripping over a hydrant and briefly losing his memory, he wakes to find Moran murdered and the evidence pointing at him. A bait peddler tries to blackmail him by claiming to have seen the shooting, but Danny learns the fatal bullets came from a different calibre and that his friend Captain Fowler staged the evidence to drive him away and steal Danny’s fiancée. The captain flees, leaving a confession that clears Danny.

Episode 20: Jealousy

Lucia Urant lives in a cliffside mansion with her husband Gilbert and half-sister Beverly. When she begins having recurring visions of a spectral figure reaching for her and suspects Gilbert and Beverly of plotting to poison her, Lucia fakes her death and disappears. Overhearing the pair discuss leaving the country, she returns to confront them with a gun. The Whistler reveals that Lucia’s jealousy led her to stage the entire episode—she planted the poison and misread innocent actions—and her attempt at revenge collapses when her husband admits his feelings but denies any murderous plot.

Episode 1: Retribution

In this episode titled 'Retribution', John Hendricks is on trial for murder and sentenced to life in prison. Ten years later, he hatches a plan to escape with the help of his cellmate, Bill. Meanwhile, a couple seeking shelter encounters a deserted mansion where they encounter strange occurrences. As the night unfolds, a mysterious figure from the past resurfaces, seeking revenge and retrieving stolen money. The eerie events leave the couple and law enforcement bewildered as they confront unexplainable phenomena.

Episode 669: Search for an Unknown

In “Search for an Unknown,” ruthless gambling boss Duncan McKay receives a chilling anonymous letter threatening his life—one identical to letters sent to two complete strangers, hatcheck girl Julie Wilson and hardware clerk Albert Dobbs. Hiring private investigator Frank Ferguson to uncover the connection, McKay grows increasingly paranoid as one recipient turns up dead and Ferguson uncovers unsettling coincidences. As the investigation tightens, McKay takes matters into his own hands and kidnaps Dobbs, convinced the frightened little man holds the key. The truth finally snaps into focus: “Dobbs” is actually Albert Maxwell, the brother of a grocer McKay murdered years earlier while working as a protection thug in Los Angeles. The letters were bait, designed to lure McKay out from behind his fortress and into confronting his past. Just as Ferguson alerts McKay and calls the police, Maxwell reveals his true identity—turning the hunter into the hunted, and proving that some crimes never stay buried.

Episode 540: The Catalyst

In “The Catalyst,” quiet, unassuming Walter Kendall discovers that simply being present can trigger the worst instincts in others. Hired as a harmless intermediary in a shady business arrangement, Walter quickly realizes that greed, fear, and resentment erupt wherever he goes—men betray partners, lovers turn on each other, and violence follows close behind. Though Walter never commits a crime himself, his knowledge of everyone’s secrets makes him dangerously indispensable, and just as dangerous to keep alive. When the final deal collapses into murder, police uncover that Walter was the common thread linking every act of betrayal. In the end, the man who believed he could remain untouched by the chaos he provoked learns too late that being the catalyst is enough to seal one’s fate.

Episode 544: Perfect Alibi

In “Perfect Alibi,” slick private investigator Johnny Seltzer thinks he’s found the ultimate score when he falls in with Alice Collins, the beautiful niece of a wealthy lumber magnate. Together they hatch a cold-blooded plan: murder her uncle, frame gambling boss Frankie Benson using planted evidence, and walk away with both the inheritance and a flawless alibi placing Johnny safely at Alice’s apartment. The scheme works perfectly—too perfectly. Benson is arrested, the papers declare the case solved, and Johnny congratulates himself on his brilliance. But when police arrive at Johnny’s door, it’s not about the uncle’s murder at all. While Johnny was busy perfecting one crime, Alice herself was brutally killed in her apartment, stabbed with a letter opener in a scene eerily similar to a past Benson victim. Johnny’s airtight alibi for one murder becomes proof he couldn’t have prevented the other, and the man who believed he’d engineered the perfect crime learns that a perfect alibi only works for the right victim.