What happens
Johnny Dollar, an insurance investigator for Masters Insurance and Trust, travels to Buffalo after a string of suspicious fires that have cost his company large claims. He is working with his old friend Smokey Sullivan, a former arsonist now helping the police, and Harrison Hadley, the local agent. Smokey has been attacked in his hotel room, and the trail leads toward a torch man known for an unusual method of setting fires. This is an episode of the CBS Radio series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, first broadcast on February 12, 1961, starring Bob Bailey, with Edmond O'Brien, John Lund and Charles Russell in the cast. Johnny follows the clues from the fire stations to the hotel as the case develops.
Buffalo, New York, in the early 1960s, including a hotel room, a radio station and local fire stations
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Harrison Hadley, Smokey Sullivan, Bottles Burton, Bill Peters, Jack Ogilvy
Listen for: Johnny's plan to make Smokey's supposed death public and how it lures the arsonist out
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.