Red Raincoat
Broadcast: 29th August 1946
Added: May 16 2005
It’s about 9:30 at night and hard, pelting rain has driven people indoors and left the street deserted. At the corner a bus stops and a woman alights from it. She wears a red hooded raincoat that covers her head and most of her face. She turns in to a side street lined with cheap apartment houses. Midway of the block she’s about to pass the entrance to an alley when from the darkness there is a gunshot and another and another, the woman falls. On the street brakes are hastily applied to an approaching taxi and as it comes to a skidding halt the driver gets out and shouts for the police…