The Monticello Mystery Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (November 5, 1961)

“The Monticello Mystery Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 5, 1961. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is called to Port Jarvis, New York by insurance representative Henry Foreman regarding a wealthy client. Dollar travels to an isolated and beautiful lodge near Monticello owned by Rudy and Nancy Teckler, where he meets the couple and learns the lodge was previously owned by Nancy's first husband, Horace Rathbun Mellinger of a vast steel and oil fortune.

Port Jarvis, New York and an isolated private lodge near Monticello in the Catskill Mountains, between Kenosa Lake and Swan Lake

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Henry Foreman, Rudy Teckler, Nancy Teckler

Listen for: Johnny's suspicions grow as the Tecklers claim they summoned him for fishing rather than business; Nancy reveals the lodge belonged to her wealthy first husband Horace Rathbun Mellinger

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.