The Tears of Night Matter - Ep 3: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (May 23, 1956)

“The Tears of Night Matter - Ep 3” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 23, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives in Miami Beach to investigate an insurance claim by Elise Wendover. He's intercepted by a gambler named Frank Scanlon and taken to see Sam Costigan, who runs a gambling club. Costigan asks Dollar to return a valuable diamond necklace called the Tears of Night to Mrs. Wendover, claiming she lost it at his roulette table and threatened to involve the police.

Miami Beach, Florida in the 1950s, including a gambling club and various locations around the city.

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Sam Costigan, Frank Scanlon, Hillary Fuchs, Elise Wendover, Teddy Davis, Hannibal Mortuis

Listen for: The mystery of why Sam Costigan really wants the necklace returned, the discovery that the necklace is a masterpiece worth $25,000, and hints that there may be a copy of the Tears of Night in circulation.

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.