Novella Noir | The Understudy | Noir Audio Drama

INSTITUTIONAL NOIRBroadway, 1950s. The curtain rises. Something is wrong. Frank Calhoun has managed forty-three productions in twenty-two years. He knows every creak in the Meridian's floorboards, every fault line in its crumbling glamour. He knows Dorothy Vale's performance the way you know a scar — by its exact shape, its particular history. Tonight, the woman on that stage is not Dorothy Vale. What begins as a nagging professional instinct pulls Frank into the most dangerous investigation of his life — one built from locked drawers, forged signatures, and the kind of money that doesn't like witnesses. Closing night is in fourteen hours.