What happens
Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator, is hired by Berkeley Furniture Manufacturing Company after ten thousand dollars goes missing from its safe. Berkeley suspects Harley Baron, an elderly bookkeeper who has vanished from town. Dollar traces Baron's apartment, where he finds a note from Baron's niece, Virginia Lockhart, and follows her trail by taxi and airplane. The series, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, aired on CBS Radio on January 4, 1959, with Bob Bailey in the lead role.
Hartford, Connecticut, and then a flight from Hartford through New York to Miami, Florida, with the story reaching Hollywood, Florida.
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Hal Spidell, Mr. Berkeley, Harley Baron, Virginia Lockhart
Listen for: Dollar's flight to Miami and the Hollywood, Florida hotel where Virginia Lockhart goes.
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.