What happens
Johnny Dollar, a freelance insurance investigator, looks into the deaths of Barney Slade, a penny-arcade owner in Ocean Park, California, and his associate Jarvis Pocket. Slade is the husband of silent film star Mavis Gayle, who is named as beneficiary on his policy. Dollar questions the people around Slade, including Frank Jessup and Twilight James, and receives calls from a man seeking to blackmail those connected to the case. The episode is from the series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, first broadcast on CBS Radio on November 2, 1956, with Bob Bailey in the title role.
Ocean Park, California, in 1956, including the amusement pier, Barney Slade's apartment, and the sand dunes near 47th Avenue
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Milo Martin, Sergeant, Barney Slade, Mavis Gayle, Jarvis Pocket, Twilight James, Frank Jessup
Listen for: Dollar's confrontation with Frank Jessup on the sand dunes, and Milo Martin's appearance during the blackmail scheme.
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.