The Penalty
About This Broadcast
A wealthy man pays a struggling lawyer a large fee to prepare a will and keep the arrangement secret, while the man’s twin brother complicates the situation.
This The Whistler broadcast aired on March 28, 1943. It is listed as episode 46 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.
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J. Donald Wilson