The Stock-In-Trade Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (June 4, 1961)

“The Stock-In-Trade Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 4, 1961. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is sent to the small town of Somerville, Tennessee to investigate the murder of Volney Bourgard Exum, a client of Worldwide Mutual Insurance. The elderly man was found dead at his desk with his head bashed in, and with no apparent clues or suspects, Dollar must uncover who killed him and why, starting with interviews of the three beneficiaries of his $35,000 insurance policy.

Memphis, Tennessee and the small town of Somerville, Tennessee, at an old plantation house and local businesses

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Ripley, Volney Bourgard Exum, Clara Bell Lockway Exum, Volney Bourgard Exum (nephew), Van Buren Ovalthorpe, Don Lekato

Listen for: Johnny Dollar's distinctive narrative style as he begins his investigation into the murder, interviewing the beneficiaries and piecing together the victim's sparse life and mysterious finances

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.