What happens
Johnny Dollar, a freelance insurance investigator, travels from New York to San Francisco to look into a warehouse fire that was insured by Greater Southwest Insurance. Peter H. Barnwell, the warehouse owner, stands to collect $340,000 from the policy, and Dollar begins to suspect that the blaze was deliberately set. He turns to his longtime informant Smokey Sullivan for help. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is a CBS Radio series from 1959, with Bob Bailey in the lead role. The episode opens in a busy San Francisco where Dollar starts piecing together what really happened.
San Francisco, California, 1959
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Smokey Sullivan, Peter H. Barnwell, Pat McCracken, Bill Mullen, Stumpy Moran, Touchy Thompson, Morrie Webster
Listen for: Dollar's conversations with Barnwell and Smokey Sullivan, and his plan to draw out the arsonist through a news broadcast on KCBS.
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.