What happens
Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar travels to Meridian, Mississippi, after being summoned by the local office of Amalgamated Life Association on behalf of Dr. Emmett Melcher, head of the Melcher Laboratories, who does government work. On arrival Dollar meets Melcher's secretary, Mona Littlewolf, and the two spend the evening together. The next morning Dollar wakes in his hotel room after an attack, and Mona has vanished. Melcher reports that a dangerous unstable experimental fuel has been stolen from his vault, and Dollar begins tracking the missing secretary and the stolen substance. The series is Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and this episode aired on CBS Radio on July 30, 1961, with Bob Bailey among its leads.
Meridian, Mississippi, and nearby Philadelphia, Mississippi, in the 1960s
Characters: Johnny Dollar, George Caldwell, Dr. Emmett Melcher, Mona Littlewolf, Bernie, Lieutenant Harry Langley
Listen for: Johnny Dollar's search for Mona Littlewolf and the stolen experimental fuel, and the clues that point him toward a second town named Philadelphia.
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.