What happens
Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator for Worldwide Mutual, travels to Columbus, Ohio, to look into a lumberyard fire that cost the company $330,000. He is summoned by Grace Tilford, a widow who believes the fire was set and that one of three people in her household is responsible. Johnny meets her business manager Harry Schilder, her adopted son Michael Tilford, and her niece Nancy Willard, each of whom had a motive to gain from the fire or from her estate. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is a radio drama series, and this episode aired on CBS Radio on August 9, 1959, with Bob Bailey in the lead role.
Columbus, Ohio, and the Tilford home near Minerva Park, 1959
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Fred Starky, Grace Tilford, Harry Schilder, Michael Tilford, Nancy Willard, Mrs. Haskell
Listen for: Listen for the reveal of the hair dryer and the wire that Johnny notices, and for the exchange between Harry, Michael and Nancy over Grace's estate.
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.