What happens
Johnny Dollar, a freelance insurance investigator for the Western Life and Trust Company, is sent to Winnemucca, Nevada, after Meg McCarthy, housekeeper to the wealthy Alkali Mike Murphy, is arrested for his death. Murphy left a two hundred thousand dollar policy to his relatives and to McCarthy, and Dollar sets out to determine whether he was poisoned or had died another way. The series, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, aired on CBS Radio on November 10, 1957, with Bob Bailey in the title role.
Winnemucca and the desert of northern Nevada, with Port Hopeful, a stone house in the desert, and the western city of San Francisco
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Meg McCarthy, Alkali Mike Murphy, Bill Kemper, Sergeant Otis Framley, Edgar Murphy, Danny Murphy, Margie
Listen for: The clay mug and the whiskey Alkali Mike's father used, and the question of how Alkali Mike died
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.