What happens
Johnny Dollar, a freelance insurance investigator, looks into a fatal liquor store holdup in West Los Angeles. Willie Layman, the store's owner, was killed during the robbery, and his insurance company wants answers before paying out. Johnny speaks with Sergeant Mike Kirby of the West Los Angeles police and with Layman's much younger wife, Gloria, who insists she was asleep upstairs. Suspicion falls on a small-time thief arrested nearby, but Johnny doubts he could have done it. This episode is from the CBS Radio series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, first broadcast on April 26, 1959, with Bob Bailey in the title role.
Los Angeles, California, 1950s: a liquor store on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Los Angeles, the West Los Angeles police headquarters, and an insurance office on Wilshire Boulevard
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Herb Schilling, Pat McCrack, Sergeant Mike Kirby, Willie Layman, Gloria Layman, Benny Conroy
Listen for: Johnny's questioning of Gloria Layman and his reasoning about the bullets and the gun
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.