The Man Higher Up

Amid a ferocious winter storm that has paralyzed New York’s bustling ports, a sudden mystery rattles the American Commodities Company. Two dockscale inspectors vanish under baffling circumstances, and a frantic telegram draws the attention of a sharp‑minded investigator celebrated for his uncanny psychological insight. The company’s chief clerk, caught between the irate president and a nervous dock superintendent, summons Luther Trant—a specialist whose reputation for reading hidden motives precedes him.

Trant steps into the office’s cramped, paper‑strewn backroom, aware that his client may not be a corporate boss at all but a covert Treasury agent with a national stake in the case. As the storm howls outside, he begins to untangle strands of fear, secrecy, and a puzzling wire that hinted at a ship’s abrupt disappearance. Listeners will be drawn into the early, tense moments of a detective story where scientific intuition meets a city on the brink of chaos.