What happens
Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator, is called to the home of Alvin Peabody Kydreid, an eccentric and wealthy client of the Continental Insurance and Trust Company. Kydreid shows him a chain letter promising good luck, and warns that breaking the chain brings disaster. Two of his friends who broke it have died in accidents within six days. Dollar's suspicions grow as he examines the letter and its wording. The series is Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and this episode was broadcast on CBS Radio on August 2, 1959, starring Bob Bailey.
Lakewood, Connecticut, and the Continental Insurance and Trust Company office in Hartford, Connecticut
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Alvin Peabody Kydreid, Bill Ferguson
Listen for: The chain letter's wording and how Dollar reasons about the threat it contains.
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.