What happens
Johnny Dollar, a freelance insurance investigator for Surety Mutual and Trust, travels to Palm Springs to look into the disappearance of a $75,000 diamond and emerald bracelet owned by Roberta Galloway, wife of oil man Dan Galloway. The bracelet had been sold by local jeweler Wilhoyt Van Hook, and Dollar begins by questioning Detective Sergeant Lacey, the Galloway household, and Sonny Wyman, a sports car dealer tied to the Galloways' social circle. The investigation grows more tangled when a body is discovered on a desert trail near the Galloways' oil rig. The series is Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, this episode aired on CBS Radio on March 10, 1957, and stars Bob Bailey.
Palm Springs, California, and the surrounding desert, including the Galloway home, a remote oil rig near the Salton Sea, and a jewelry shop on Palm Canyon Drive
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Detective Sergeant Lacey, Roberta Galloway, Dan Galloway, Sonny Wyman, Wilhoyt Van Hook, Flora Galloway
Listen for: The tire tracks at the scene of the killing and what Dollar learns from the jeweler about the bracelet's sale
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.