The Magnolia and Honeysuckle Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (April 13, 1954)

“The Magnolia and Honeysuckle Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 13, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar travels to Charleston, South Carolina to investigate a fire at the Cooper family's paper factory office that occurred early in the morning. A young woman named Felicia Farrow, the secretary, is found dead at the scene, and Norman Cooper, the factory owner's son, mysteriously leaves town on a hunting trip the same night. Dollar must uncover whether the fire was arson and what connection Norman has to the victim's death.

Charleston, South Carolina, primarily at the Cooper family's paper factory and mansion, with scenes at police headquarters and a lunch room.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Lieutenant Hervey, Norman Cooper, Mrs. Alice Cooper, Robert Cooper, Felicia Farrow, Bill Randall

Listen for: The mystery of why Felicia Farrow was at the factory at four in the morning, Norman Cooper's sudden departure on a hunting trip, and clues about whether the fire was professionally set arson.

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.