What happens
Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar looks into the disappearance of Albert W. Winkler, a jewelry partner who vanished along with the Green Eye of Calcutta, an emerald insured for one hundred thousand dollars. Dollar is called in by Paul Brennan of Inter-Allied Insurance and works with Sergeant Randy Singer of the New York police. A strange, eccentric collector named Wilbert Blossom contacts Dollar with a claim about Winkler, and a trunk is delivered to Blossom's home. The series is Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, with Bob Bailey in the lead role. Broadcast on CBS Radio on January 20, 1957, this installment follows Dollar's inquiries through New York and New Jersey.
New York City, Hartford, and a railroad warehouse in New Jersey, 1950s
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Paul Brennan, Albert W. Winkler, Wilbert Blossom, Randy Singer, Elwood Bluewood, Bernasconi, McKinney
Listen for: The contrast between the cluttered brownstone of Wilbert Blossom and the clues Dollar gathers about the delivery of the trunk.
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.