The Robert Perry Case: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (March 4, 1949)

“The Robert Perry Case” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 4, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is assigned as bodyguard to Robert Perry, a businessman who fears for his life. When a booby-trapped buzzer in Perry's desk kills him that morning, Johnny must determine whether this is murder or suicide, with multiple suspects including Perry's estranged wife Christine, his Dutch business partner Van Brueten, and his secretary Susan Gates.

New York City, primarily in the offices of Perry and Van Brueten, importers, in lower Manhattan, with a visit to Christine Perry's apartment on Sutton Place.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Robert Perry, Susan Gates, Van Brueten, Christine Perry, Murphy

Listen for: The clever murder method using a rigged buzzer connected to a bomb in Perry's desk, Johnny Dollar's expense account narration, and the introduction of multiple suspects with motives related to money and a pending divorce.

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.