The Wayward Diamonds Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (September 14, 1958)

“The Wayward Diamonds Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 14, 1958. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar discovers that Mrs. Merrell's insured jewels are fakes and suspects she plans to claim insurance fraud while her husband faces charges related to a yacht incident. When Dollar places a detective to watch her movements, the man is attacked at the Merrell home and Mrs. Merrell disappears, forcing Dollar and insurance man Peter Hanley to investigate her sudden flight.

Los Angeles and Westwood, California, primarily the Beverly Hilton Hotel and the Merrell home

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Peter Hanley, Mrs. Merrell, Mr. Merrell, Detective Sam Benjamin

Listen for: The revelation of the fake diamonds and Dollar's clever deduction about Mrs. Merrell's insurance fraud scheme; the mysterious attack on the detective and Mrs. Merrell's disappearance.

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.