The Search for Michelle Marsh: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (September 25, 1949)

“The Search for Michelle Marsh” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 25, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is hired to find Michelle Marsh, a missing woman whose sister holds a $25,000 policy on her. When Johnny arrives at Michelle's Boston apartment, he finds a private detective shot dead outside the building, and a book of matches from a local bar is the only clue in her empty rooms.

Boston, Massachusetts - an apartment house on Longwood and Huntington Avenue and a local bar called Flannery's

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Lieutenant Darling, Mrs. Macy, Blackie, The Bartender

Listen for: Johnny's sharp narration as he pieces together the connection between the dead detective and the missing Michelle Marsh, and the mysterious employer who left town with her.

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.