The Alder Matter - Ep 4: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (August 9, 1956)

“The Alder Matter - Ep 4” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 9, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar, working in Caracas, Venezuela on the Alder matter, discovers that Billy Alder's houseguest Doris Cole is actually traveling under the name Dora Jansen with a passport and letters about a ship called the Caribbean Star. When the ship arrives at port, Dollar follows Cole to a hotel meeting with a mysterious man named Arthur Singer, and suspects the case involves more than the shooting at Alder that started the investigation.

Caracas, Venezuela; a hotel near the docks; Billy Alder's office

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Billy Alder, Doris Cole (also known as Dora Jansen), Arthur Singer, Vic Kelly, The cable office clerk

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's reasoning about Alder's contradictions and lies; the mysterious identity of Arthur Singer; the significance of the Caribbean Star's arrival; the tension between Dollar and the increasingly nervous Billy Alder.

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.