What happens
Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator for the Monogram Guarantee Insurance Company, looks into the theft of valuable miniature paintings from the Rimer Gallery in Philadelphia. Gallery owner Mr. Rimer has received one of the stolen miniatures back, left anonymously at his door, and has filed a claim for the loss. Dollar begins questioning Rimer and the gallery's dealings, while the earlier suspicion against investigator Jerry Pitcher resurfaces. The episode is part of the Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar radio series, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on July 31, 1960, with Bob Bailey in the lead role.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, including the Rimer Gallery on Walnut Street and the Monogram Guarantee Insurance office, with telephone calls to Paris, France.
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Mr. Rimer, Freddy Porter, Jerry Pitcher, Mr. Kingman, Charles Cunningham, Demosak
Listen for: Dollar's phone call to the informant Demosak in Paris and the curator Kingman's valuation of the stolen miniatures.
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.