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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - 021261, episode 727 - The Wayward Fireman Matter

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

Jacab R Singer

Fiction, Society & Culture, Drama

5.02.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from February 18, 1949 to September 30, 1962. The first several seasons imagined protagonist Johnny Dollar as a standard private investigator drama.

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0:00.0

Johnny Dollar.

0:03.6

This is Harrison Hadley in Buffalo, New York. Hadley. That's right. I'm the local agent for Masters Insurance and Trust. Oh, of course, Mr. Hadley. It's been some time since I've had to call on you. Well, what's it to be your problem, sir? Fire. Fire. Well, actually, Mr. Dollar, two of them. Go on. One of them occurred yesterday. The other started only a few hours ago.

0:23.2

As a matter of fact, the fire department is still actually fires, Mr. Dollar, two of them. Go on. One of them occurred yesterday.

0:21.5

The other started only a few hours ago. As a matter of fact, the fire department is still fighting it. And you suspect arson? I sure do. So, Dollar, if you can come out here right away... I certainly can. Good. Now, I'll arrange for a room in your name at the Statler. And if you'll contact me when your plane gets in... Mr. Hadley, yes.

0:37.4

How much insurance have you written on those fires?

0:40.4

Well, on this warehouse... battler and if you'll contact me when your plane gets in mr hadley yes how much insurance have you

0:38.7

written on those fires well on this warehouse burning now it's something over two hundred thousand

0:43.8

okay so for both of them it means about four hundred thousand fine then you're gonna afford it

0:48.4

oh sure but afford what my expense accounts oh well of course we can. I mean, for two.

0:55.3

Expense account for two?

0:56.8

I'm afraid I don't understand.

0:58.4

You will when I see you.

0:59.8

Bye.

1:09.7

CBS Radio brings you Bob Reddick

1:11.8

in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account.

1:16.0

Investigator, yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

1:34.9

Thank you. Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to the master's insurance and trust company Buffalo office.

1:37.9

Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of

1:41.5

the wayward fireman matter.

1:43.7

The wayward Fireman Matter.

2:03.9

A lot of people have the mistaken idea that a lot of the crimes that are solved are solved by a lot of clever, mysterious Sherlock Holmes type of deduction, or by the equally mysterious and super-scientific rasmataz that goes on within the confines of some of our fabulous modern crime laboratories.

2:08.4

All right, some of them are.

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