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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar - 100260, episode 708 - The Stroke of Death Matter

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

Jacab R Singer

Fiction, Society & Culture, Drama

5.02.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 24 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

Jenny Dollar.

0:04.2

Dollar. My name is Hal Barker, Tri-Western Life Insurance Company. Out in Los Angeles, California. No, I'm holding down the branch office here in Reno, Nevada. Well, made it change, huh? That's right. Well, how are you, Mr. Barker, and what can I do for you? Are you available for an assignment? Can you fly on out here right away? I don't see why not, as long as you're willing to pay the freight. Good.

0:21.3

Yeah, you mind telling me what it's all about?

0:23.1

Not at all.

0:24.0

One of our clients... Can you fly on out here right away? I don't see why not, as long as you're willing to pay the freight. Good.

0:21.3

Yeah, you mind telling me what it's all about?

0:23.1

Well, not at all.

0:24.0

One of our clients, the man named Walter Bisby, has just died in a mining accident over near Virginia City.

0:28.7

This city, the famous old ghost town, huh?

0:30.4

That's right.

0:31.1

But now, listen, I don't think it was.

0:34.1

Uh, was what, Mr. Barker? Well, I don't think it was any accident. Boy, you don't, huh? No, and believe me, I don't say that just in the hope of not having to pay double indemnity on his insurance. Why do you... I have no proof, dollar, no proof at all. But I'm convinced that Walter Bisby was murdered, that I know who murdered him, and why? Well, tell me more, Mr. Barker.

0:54.7

Fly on out here to Reno, and I will.

0:57.1

I'll grab the first plane I can't.

1:07.2

CBS Radio brings you Bob Bailey.

1:09.8

In the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account,

1:13.3

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

1:15.7

Yours truly, Johnny Dole.

1:17.5

Thank you. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar

1:35.1

to the Tri-Western Life Insurance Company, Reno, Nevada office.

1:39.7

Following as an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the stope of death matter.

1:49.0

Expense account, item 1, 176, 25, a jet to Los Angeles.

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