What happens
Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator for the Corinthian Life Insurance Company, is sent to California to find Alec Jefferson, a young millionaire who financed an oil venture and vanished after leaving the oil field. Dollar questions his partner Mars Flaherty, visits Jefferson's apartment and meets a woman who claims to be his wife, and encounters a private detective named Philip Wilkins who is also looking into the case. Dollar and Wilkins begin working together, uncovering contracts and conflicting claims tied to the oil field. This episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was broadcast by CBS Radio on March 7, 1950, and stars Bob Bailey, Edmond O'Brien, John Lund and Charles Russell.
Southern California, including the Newhall oil fields and the Hollywood Hills and Sunset Strip in Los Angeles
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Alec Jefferson, Mars Flaherty, Philip Wilkins, Ada
Listen for: The oil-field interview with Flaherty and the apartment visit with the woman claiming to be Jefferson's wife
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.