The Dan Frank Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (May 4, 1954)

“The Dan Frank Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 4, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives in Middleboro to investigate the murder of Dan Frank, the town's former police chief, who was shot in his own home. Mrs. Frank claims an intruder killed her husband while she and houseguest Max Bealy slept upstairs, but Johnny finds the town harbors dark secrets involving organized crime and people with motives to see Frank dead.

Middleboro, a Great Lakes town with a quiet exterior hiding organized crime and corruption

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mrs. Laura Frank, Max Bealy, Commissioner Corbett, Pete Parker, Eddie Sales

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's investigation into Frank's murder, tension between those with alibis and those with motives, and the revelation of hidden rackets running through the seemingly respectable town

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.