https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yours-truly-johnny-dollar-bob-bailey-30-minute-era-1956-1960--7200860enSociety & CultureCopyright 07 Audio Networkhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/993e8420cc68311ed7389793564db7e2.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yours-truly-johnny-dollar-bob-bailey-30-minute-era-1956-1960--7200860Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:12:10 +000007 Audio Network07 Audio Networkinfo@07audio.loveYours Truly, Johnny Dollar follows radio's toughest freelance insurance investigator as he tracks down fraud, blackmail, and murder one expense account at a time. In this run, from 1955 to 1956, Bob Bailey took over the role and brought a world-weary,...falsecb2d4cb0-65b1-51e1-b41e-74b3059669e3episodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hapless-hunter-matter--74737206https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74737206Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:01:21 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 8th, 1957. A wealthy banker is dead in the woods near Kingman, New York, gunned down by his own hunting guide — or so the story goes. Johnny Dollar heads upstate to check the numbers behind a half-million-dollar policy, only to find a...11171950s radio drama,bob bailey,hunting accident,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,murder mystery,old time radio,whodunitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/johnny-dollar-and-the-drunken-guide-s-secret--74736733https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74736733Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:01:15 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 8th, 1957. A wealthy banker is dead and his hunting companion lies wounded in a hospital bed, with the local police pinning it all on a hard-drinking backwoods guide. But Johnny Dollar smells something off about the beneficiary's convenient...11171950s mystery,detective fiction,hunting trip gone wrong,insurance investigator,old time radio,radio noir,small town suspense,whodunitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sunny-dream-matter--74718581https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74718581Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:01:25 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 1st, 1957. Johnny Dollar heads to a quiet rest home in Buckland Center after its owner reports a disturbing string of accidental deaths among the elderly residents — deaths that just happen to leave the home itself as beneficiary. Behind...14861950s radio drama,bob bailey,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,murder mystery,nursing home,old time radio,whodunitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sunny-dream-matter--74718609https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74718609Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:01:17 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 1st, 1957. Johnny Dollar heads to a quiet retirement home outside Buckland Center, where the elderly residents seem content and well cared for — but five of them have died in the past six months, and each time, the home itself was the...14861950s detective drama,bob bailey,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,murder mystery,old time radio,radio noir,retirement homefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-death-insurance-gamble--74697903https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74697903Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:01:23 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Nov 24th, 1957. Johnny Dollar is called in on the strangest policy Hartford's ever seen: a doctor has insured $250,000 against a woman's continued survival past November 10th. With a colleague's career on the line and a mysterious beneficiary...12171950s mystery,detective fiction,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,life insurance fraud,noir drama,old time radio,radio thrillerfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hope-to-die-matter--74697899https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74697899Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:01:23 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Nov 24th, 1957. A puzzled insurance executive drags Johnny Dollar into the strangest policy of his career: not a payout on death, but on a woman's survival. As Johnny digs into who benefits from Mary Ellen Markham staying alive past a...12171950s radio drama,bob bailey,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,life insurance fraud,noir mystery,old time radio,whodunitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-shy-beneficiary-matter--74681593https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74681593Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:01:35 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Nov 17th, 1957. An eccentric spinster leaves $25,000 to a mysterious man named Elijah Summers, but two weeks of searching turns up no trace of him. Johnny Dollar's hunt for the elusive beneficiary takes him from a shabby New York apartment to a...13781950s radio drama,detective mystery,gold rush town,insurance investigator,manhunt,missing beneficiary,noir,old time radiofalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-shy-beneficiary-matter--74681591https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74681591Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:01:35 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Nov 17th, 1957. A dying woman's mysterious $25,000 bequest to a man nobody can find sends Johnny Dollar from the streets of New York to a foggy San Francisco rooming house and finally into the gold rush hills of the Sierra Nevada. But when...13781950s noir,bob bailey,detective drama,gold rush california,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,missing person mystery,old time radiofalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-alkali-mike-matter--74638169https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74638169Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:01:29 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Nov 10th, 1957. A telephone call from an old flame pulls insurance investigator Johnny Dollar out to Port Hopeful, Nevada — a stone palace built in the desert by a gold-rush legend's son, who's just turned up dead. With a $200,000 policy on the...11491950s radio drama,desert mystery,detective fiction,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,murder mystery,nevada setting,old-time radiofalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-alkali-mike-matter--74638251https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74638251Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:01:27 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Nov 10th, 1957. A desperate call from an old flame pulls Johnny Dollar out to a stone palace in the Nevada desert, where the legendary prospector Alkali Mike Murphy's son has died under suspicious circumstances just as a $200,000 life insurance...11491950s radio drama,detective mystery,gold rush legend,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,murder mystery,nevada desert,old-time radiofalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-model-picture-matter--74574872https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74574872Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:01:34 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Nov 3rd, 1957. A million-dollar face gets battered in the dark, and Johnny Dollar's investigation into an insurance claim for injured model Dorothy Blair leads straight to a sleazy fashion photographer with wandering hands. When that...12631950s fashion,classic mystery,detective mystery,film noir,insurance investigator,murder mystery,old time radio,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-three-sisters-matter--74514498https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74514498Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:01:17 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Oct 27th, 1957. A world-famous concert pianist vanishes on a routine mountain walk near his Colorado ranch retreat, and Johnny Dollar is called in by claims man Earl Foreman to track him down. What starts as a missing-persons case turns grim...11671950s radio drama,colorado setting,detective mystery,family secrets,insurance investigator,missing person,murder mystery,old-time radiofalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mary-grace-matter--74449463https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74449463Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:01:18 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Oct 20th, 1957. When Johnny Dollar's dear friend Mary Grace Marshall — a talented fashion designer he once hoped to marry — turns up murdered in her New York apartment, he rushes east to investigate. But NYPD Sergeant Randy Singer has uncovered...12711950s noir,hardboiled detective,insurance investigator,jack johnstone,murder mystery,new york city,old-time radio,wrongful suspectfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-silver-belle-matter--74449462https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74449462Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:01:27 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Oct 13th, 1957. A reclusive widow in a fading Montana mining town survives a mysterious shooting only to vanish without a trace, and Johnny Dollar heads west to find her before her insurance company has to pay out on a decades-old policy....14661950s radio mystery,detective drama,ghost town,insurance investigator,missing persons,montana,old time radio,silver minefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-bum-steer-matter--74373237https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74373237Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:01:24 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Oct 6th, 1957. A wealthy Colorado cattle rancher summons insurance investigator Johnny Dollar out to his Lazy JD spread with a suspiciously flimsy excuse — some local color, he says, nothing's wrong. Johnny finally makes the drive out from...15081950s radio drama,colorado ranch,detective drama,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,murder mystery,old-time radio,western noirfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-doubtful-dairy-matter--74298251https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74298251Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:01:40 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Sep 29th, 1957. Johnny Dollar heads to a Nevada dairy ranch to investigate a suspiciously convenient second silo fire, this time for a staggering $56,000 claim. The eccentric dairyman's tight-lipped secrecy about his silo's special design only...15031950s radio drama,arson mystery,dairy farm,detective fiction,insurance investigator,noir mystery,old time radio,whodunitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ideal-vacation-matter--74241453https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74241453Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:01:42 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Sep 22nd, 1957. When Broadway gossip columnist Ned Grant slips away for a secret getaway, Johnny Dollar has to track him down before an escaped ex-con with a two-year-old grudge finds him first. The trail leads from a tight-lipped apartment...1213bob bailey,detective drama,escaped convict,johnny dollar,new york city,noir mystery,old-time radio,radio thrillerfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/trouble-brewing-on-pinksatawney-creek--74241451https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74241451Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:03:41 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Sep 15th, 1957. Johnny Dollar heads to rural Pennsylvania to protect a stubborn, old-fashioned brewery insured against sabotage from the sleek new competitor rising on the cliff above it. What starts as a simple policy check turns into a...14721950s drama,brewery,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,old-time radio,radio mystery,sabotage plot,small-town intriguefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-widow-who-wasn-t-grieving--74102003https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74102003Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:03:26 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Sep 8th, 1957. When a wealthy ex-stock manipulator vanishes during Hurricane Audrey along with his 62-foot cruiser, Johnny Dollar heads to Buffalo to investigate a $141,000 insurance claim. But the missing man's young widow seems far more...14801950s mystery,hurricane audrey,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,lake erie,missing person,old time radio,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-parley-barron-matter--74026741https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74026741Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:03:01 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jun 23rd, 1957. Johnny Dollar heads to sun-baked Sarasota, Florida, at the urging of an old friend to investigate the vanishing of a mild-mannered retiree who never came home from a routine errand. With his car found abandoned near the fishing...17781950s florida,detective fiction,golden age radio,gulf coast noir,insurance investigator,missing person mystery,old time radio,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-seance-for-ruth-dixon--73953088https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73953088Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:01:07 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jun 16th, 1957. Johnny Dollar heads back to Newport, Rhode Island, to smooth over ruffled feathers with the local police and dig into the unsolved murder of Ruth Dixon, a young woman whose body washed up on the beach. As he brings roses to the...17791950s noir,detective mystery,insurance investigator,murder investigation,occult mystery,old-time radio,radio drama,séancefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mason-dixon-mismatch-matter--73875542https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73875542Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:01:17 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jun 9th, 1957. A body washes up on Newport Beach, and two grieving families claim her as their own missing daughter, one insured for a hefty double-indemnity policy. Johnny Dollar heads to Rhode Island to untangle a case where a bullet wound...17611950s noir,detective drama,double indemnity,insurance investigator,missing persons,mistaken identity,old time radio,radio mysteryfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-poor-little-rich-girl-matter--73831350https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73831350Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:01:06 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Sep 1st, 1957. A newly minted socialite wants a secret $200,000 life insurance policy on the husband she barely acknowledges in public, and Johnny Dollar is sent to Los Angeles to sniff out whether it's love, greed, or something darker. Between...17701950s mystery,detective fiction,golden age radio,insurance investigator,los angeles noir,old time radio,radio drama,suspensefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-smoky-sleeper-matter--73831349https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73831349Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:01:17 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Aug 25th, 1957. A furniture warehouse full of $83,000 worth of mattresses and box springs goes up in flames just outside Vineland, New Jersey, and insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is on the next train to sniff out arson. But the trail leads...16831950s noir,arson investigation,bob bailey,furniture business con,insurance fraud,johnny dollar,old time radio,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-killer-s-brand-matter--73831348https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73831348Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:01:22 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Aug 11th, 1957. Johnny Dollar heads to the dusty desert town of Cooper's Bend, Nevada, where a publicity stunt called 'Frontier Week' has stirred up more than tourism — someone's taken a shot at the promoter who dreamed it up. Between dodging a...16341950s radio mystery,detective drama,frontier town,insurance investigator,murder plot,old-time radio,small town intrigue,western noirfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wayward-widow-matter--73831347https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73831347Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:01:09 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Aug 4th, 1957. Johnny Dollar takes on his most curious assignment yet: chauffeuring a wealthy insurance client and her priceless art collection to a lakeside retreat in northern New Jersey. Behind the glamorous setup lurks a suspicious...17821950s mystery,art collection,detective drama,double indemnity,insurance investigator,old time radio,radio noir,wealthy widowfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-confederate-coinage-matter--73831346https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73831346Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:01:57 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jul 28th, 1957. Newspaper magnate Henry Samson's prized $20,000 Confederate half-dollar vanishes from his heavily guarded estate, Zora, and Johnny Dollar heads south to unravel a theft that looks like an inside job. With a suspicious secretary,...17891950s radio drama,coin collection theft,confederate coins,detective mystery,insurance investigator,old-time radio,southern mansion,whodunitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-loss-of-memory-matter--73596554https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73596554Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:01:22 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jun 2nd, 1957. Johnny Dollar is hired to guard a $21,000 collection of ancient Babylonian relics — 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets and scrolls dug up near the biblical city of Ur — as it's transported to a Hartford museum. But the collection's...17811950s radio drama,archaeological relics,connecticut,cuneiform tablets,detective mystery,family inheritance dispute,insurance investigator,old-time radiofalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wayward-truck-matter--73536415https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73536415Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:01:14 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: May 26th, 1957. A truck loaded with $9,500 in copper tubing vanishes into the desert night between East Los Angeles and Victorville — and so does its driver. Johnny Dollar heads to California to investigate whether it's a hijacking, a murder,...17541950s noir,desert setting,detective mystery,hijacking,insurance investigator,missing truck driver,old time radio,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ambergris-mirage--73473189https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73473189Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:01:05 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: May 19th, 1957. Johnny Dollar heads to the sleepy Mississippi Gulf Coast to track down eighty pounds of ambergris — a rare whale byproduct worth a small fortune to perfumers — that vanished from a train depot platform before it could ship....17111950s radio drama,ambergris mystery,detective drama,gulf coast mississippi,insurance investigator,missing cargo,old-time radio,small-town whodunitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-peerless-fire-matter--73417733https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73417733Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:51 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: May 5th, 1957. Johnny Dollar heads to the fading mill town of Cranford to investigate a suspiciously convenient blaze at a junkyard insured for $5,000 — and a claim form that seemed to be filled out before the fire even started. Between a...17391950s radio drama,arson mystery,detective fiction,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,old time radio,radio mystery,small town noirfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-melancholy-memory-matter--73361721https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73361721Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:52 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Apr 28th, 1957. Star pitcher Harry "Fastball" Hailey vanishes right in the middle of spring training, and his $100,000 double-indemnity policy has Johnny Dollar hopping a flight to Tucson. But when Hailey's sister sends a telegram insisting her...17181950s noir,baseball mystery,detective fiction,insurance investigator,missing persons,old-time radio,radio drama,tucson arizonafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ming-toy-murphy-matter--73361720https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73361720Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:00:49 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Apr 14th, 1957. A steel company vice president's beloved talking dog vanishes for the second time, and it's up to Johnny Dollar to track down the missing Pekingese before an eccentric client cancels his other insurance policies. What starts as...14971950s new york,comedy mystery,detective mystery,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,missing pet,old-time radio,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-clever-chemist-matter--73361717https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73361717Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:00:57 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Mar 17th, 1957. A Nobel Prize-winning scientist quietly rewrites his insurance beneficiary in favor of a mysterious new lab partner, and his own daughter smells trouble. Johnny Dollar heads into the orchards of rural South Jersey to look into a...17781950s noir,beneficiary fraud,detective mystery,insurance investigator,new jersey,old-time radio,radio drama,scientist thrillerfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-suntan-oil-matter--73266914https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73266914Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:00:29 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Mar 10th, 1957. Johnny Dollar heads to sun-soaked Palm Springs to investigate a $75,000 diamond bracelet reported stolen from a wildcatter's young wife. Between a desert oil gamble at the Salton Sea, a slick sports-car salesman with expensive...17781950s mystery,desert noir,detective drama,insurance investigator,oil wildcatting,old time radio,palm springs,stolen jewelryfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/561230-517-the-squared-circle-matter--73595097https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73595097Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:28:52 +000007 Audio Network1479falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/561125-513-the-royal-street-matter--73595095https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73595095Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:28:50 +000007 Audio Network1803falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-meek-memorial-matter--73247060https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73247060Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:20 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Mar 3rd, 1957. A priceless handwritten Gettysburg Address — one of Lincoln's original drafts, insured for $100,000 — vanishes from a New England heiress's private museum, and Johnny Dollar heads to Buzzard's Bay to sort collectors from crooks....17381950s radio drama,detective fiction,gettysburg address,insurance investigator,museum heist,new england,old-time radio,stolen artifactfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-templeton-matter--73223551https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73223551Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:17 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Feb 10th, 1957. When Boston's swankiest jewelry store is cracked open overnight and a wounded night watchman is left clinging to life, insurance investigator Johnny Dollar flies in on Lud Barlow's dime to untangle a slick, professional heist....17901950s noir,boston setting,detective drama,insurance investigator,jewelry heist,old-time radio,safecracking,whodunitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-kirby-will-matter--73195687https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73195687Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:17 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Feb 3rd, 1957. Johnny Dollar heads to a remote fishing resort on the Colorado River to investigate the death of a beloved retiree found dead on the beach beside his boat. What looks like a fatal rattlesnake bite quickly tangles into a web of...17911950s radio drama,bob bailey,desert setting,detective mystery,inheritance dispute,insurance investigator,old time radio,suspicious deathfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mad-hatter-matter--73195571https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73195571Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:23 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jan 27th, 1957. A vanished bride, a quarter-million-dollar face, and a suspiciously well-timed insurance policy send Johnny Dollar chasing a missing model-turned-heiress through a walled Spanish villa in the San Fernando Valley. Insurance...17591950s hollywood,detective mystery,golden age radio,insurance investigator,missing person,old-time radio,radio noir,whodunitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-green-eye-of-calcutta--73195444https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73195444Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:00:21 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jan 20th, 1957. When a jeweler vanishes with a 100,000-dollar emerald called the Green Eye of Calcutta, Johnny Dollar heads to New York to untangle a case that gets stranger by the minute — starting with a bizarre phone call from an eccentric,...17741950s radio drama,detective mystery,eccentric collector,insurance investigator,missing person,new york city,old time radio,stolen jewelfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-desalles-matter-drowned-in-fortune--73195288https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73195288Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:17 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jan 13th, 1957. Johnny Dollar heads to the foggy coastal town of San Ladeo to reinvestigate the drowning death of tycoon Dave Desalles, whose widow stands to collect $100,000 on a double-indemnity policy. With a skeptical old friend and fellow...17731950s mystery,detective drama,double indemnity,drowning case,insurance investigator,old-time radio,radio noir,whodunitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ellen-deere-matter--73195104https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73195104Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:00:18 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jan 6th, 1957. Johnny Dollar is hired to guard a $325,000 fortune in Hungarian jewels aboard a yacht anchored off Guadalajara, protecting the gems until their scandal-shadowed jewel-trader owner can bring them safely north to Los Angeles....17861950s radio drama,detective mystery,insurance investigator,jack johnstone,jewel heist,mexico,old-time radio,yachtfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-missing-mouse-matter--73194907https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73194907Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:15 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 23rd, 1956. Johnny Dollar trades his Christmas plans for a case so absurd he almost turns it down: an eccentric millionaire's insured mouse has vanished from a Rhode Island estate, and its owner swears it's been kidnapped. Between icy front...17931956,bob bailey,christmas mystery,comic mystery,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,old-time radio,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-rasmussen-matter--73194762https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73194762Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:00:15 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 16th, 1956. A dying oil-and-rubber tycoon hires Johnny Dollar to track down the widow of his estranged son, a $25,000 death benefit hanging in the balance. What starts as a simple insurance payout search turns into a hunt for a young war...17801950s noir,detective mystery,inheritance drama,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,missing person,old time radio,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sarasota-firebug--73194571https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73194571Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:27 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 9th, 1956. Johnny Dollar trades a New England winter for Florida sunshine, but there's no vacation in store once he lands in Sarasota to investigate a string of suspicious lumberyard fires. A $120,000 claim from a torched Orlando yard has...18021950s radio drama,arson investigation,florida noir,hardboiled detective,insurance mystery,johnny dollar,lumberyard fire,old time radiofalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-vanishing-mrs-markham--73193136https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73193136Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:08:35 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Nov 18th, 1956. Johnny Dollar flies to San Francisco to investigate a forgotten $50,000 insurance check, but the real mystery is Mrs. Markham herself: a wealthy client no one has actually seen in months. Her hairdresser, her bridge club, and...18011950s mystery,detective fiction,golden age radio,insurance investigator,missing person,old time radio,radio drama,san francisco noirfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-big-scoop-matter-a-story-worth-killing-for--73149434https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73149434Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:06:05 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Nov 11th, 1956. Freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar gets a worried call from Hartford: crusading reporter Art Wesley, insured for $100,000, is closing in on the boss of a national gambling syndicate — and someone has already tried...1492falsefull