What happens
Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator for the Universal Adjustment Bureau, is hunting for Elijah Summers, the beneficiary of a $25,000 life insurance policy held by Helen Gaysworth, who has died in New York. Dollar traces the trail from New York to San Francisco and then to the Sierra foothills, where he learns Summers is wanted for a murder at a ranch near South Fork. Helped by Janet Blake, who has her own reasons for wanting Summers found, Dollar follows the clues into the rugged country of Tough Luck Canyon. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar aired on CBS Radio, and this episode was first broadcast on November 17, 1957. Bob Bailey stars as Johnny Dollar.
New York City, San Francisco, and the Sierra Nevada foothills near the town of South Fork, California, including the ranch of Jess Tyler and the rugged Tough Luck Canyon
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Pat, Janet Blake, Elijah Summers, Sheriff Rowland, Ben Watts, Clara Tyler, Helen Gaysworth
Listen for: Johnny Dollar's search for Elijah Summers through the trail of clues, and the exchange with Janet Blake and Ben Watts at the Tyler ranch
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.