A young woman fears that a tendency toward violence may run in her family and that she may have inherited a deadly legacy.

This The Whistler broadcast aired on February 14, 1943. It is listed as episode 40 in the archive. CBS Radio Network carried the broadcast. Other credited names include 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.