Ambrose Brennan is being pushed toward madness, with the pressure becoming so severe that he kills his business partner and threatens to take his own life.

This The Whistler broadcast aired on June 27, 1942. It is listed as episode 7 in the archive. CBS Pacific Network carried the broadcast. Other credited names include J. Donald Wilson as director and J. Donald Wilson as writer.

The surviving recording runs about 30 minutes.

A dark crime anthology narrated by the all-knowing Whistler, whose stories often follow ordinary people into murder, greed, or deception before ending with irony or unexpected justice.

Listeners can expect mystery, crime, and thriller, anthology in format, and suspenseful and eerie in tone.