What happens
Johnny Dollar, a freelance insurance investigator for Federal Underwriters, is sent to look into a holdup at the National Savings and Loan company, in which a watchman was shot and about $65,000 was taken. Working with Lieutenant Benson of the police, Dollar questions suspects Bernie Manners and Eddie Page, and tracks down the wanted men through a series of leads in San Francisco. The series is Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and this episode aired on CBS Radio on April 21, 1953, with John Lund in the title role.
San Francisco, California
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Lieutenant Benson, Bernie Manners, Sergeant Friedman, Eddie Page, Jack Ivers, Mr. Smith, Quinlan
Listen for: The interrogation of Bernie Manners and the police trail leading to Eddie Page and Jack Ivers
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.