What happens
Johnny Dollar, a freelance insurance investigator, is hired by Horace W. Milford, an advertising agency owner in Denver, Colorado. Milford confides that he has hired a professional killer to murder his son-in-law, Tony Farringer, and now wants to stop it. Johnny must trace the hired killer, known only as Blackie, before the murder takes place. The episode is from the Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar series, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on December 6, 1959, with Bob Bailey in the title role.
Denver, Colorado, in the late 1950s
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Horace W. Milford, Tony Farringer, Claire, Blackie, Eric Blinker
Listen for: Milford's account of his son-in-law's dealings and the threat posed by the hired killer called Blackie.
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.