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Johnny Dollar
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Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to the Tri Western Life Insurance Company, Corpus Christi office. Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the unholy two matter.
Doug Johnstone
It was a little late in the
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day to ride all the way to Texas, but I managed to make a pretty good set of plane connections. So, expense account item 127, 20 plain fare and tips, Hartford to Corpus Christi. Item 2, $4 even for a cab in from Cliff Mouse Airport to the Driscoll Hotel on North Broadway. As I was about to sign my name on a registration card for the benefit of the room clerk. Well, I guess this is a pretty small world at that. And I'm sure you're gonna find this room very comfortable, Mr. Dollar.
Doug Johnstone
Sure. Okay then, Obie. I'll see you first thing in the morning.
Johnny Dollar
There you are. Thank you, sir.
Doug Johnstone
Right, now I'll turn over and tell Wayne.
Johnny Dollar
Stocks, boy, take Mr. Dollar's bags up to Room Dollar.
Doug Johnstone
Excuse me, did I. I hear the name Dollar?
Johnny Dollar
What's that?
Doug Johnstone
Johnny Dollar, the insurance investigator?
Johnny Dollar
That's right.
Doug Johnstone
Who are you? The name is Doug Johnstone.
Johnny Dollar
Johnstone?
Doug Johnstone
Yes.
Johnny Dollar
Funny man by the name of Johnstone dramatizes all these cases I handle so we can put them on the air.
Doug Johnstone
Jack Johnstone?
Johnny Dollar
That's right.
Doug Johnstone
Well, I'm his younger brother, Douglas.
Johnny Dollar
No kid?
Doug Johnstone
No kidding.
Johnny Dollar
Well, glad to know you, Johnny.
Doug Johnstone
Listen, I'm in a big hurry. I've got somebody waiting for me, but I hope we can get together while you're here. In town and tear that brother of mine to pieces or something?
Announcer
Sure, why not?
Doug Johnstone
If you're. If you're down here working on a case, if I can be any help to you. Hey, wait a minute. Are you here to look into the Peterson matter by any chance?
Johnny Dollar
Well, frankly, I haven't the least idea.
Doug Johnstone
I wonder, can you tell me this? Did Jack Price over try Western life sin for you?
Johnny Dollar
Yeah.
Doug Johnstone
Clerk, may I have a piece of paper, please?
Johnny Dollar
Oh, yes, sir. Hey, guys.
Doug Johnstone
Sorry, I've got to rush out of here. Johnny, this way. But who is it, sir?
Johnny Dollar
Peterson, Doc.
Doug Johnstone
Here. Here's my address and phone number. That's both the home and the office. Now, maybe I can be of help to you, so don't lose that.
Johnny Dollar
Yeah, okay, thanks. But now, does it.
Doug Johnstone
If it is an account of old man Peterson, Johnny, well, I got some ideas about it and then. Well, they could be helpful to you if, as I say, that's why you're here.
Johnny Dollar
Well, what kind of ideas?
Doug Johnstone
Well, you know, he was supposed to have died because his heart gave out on him.
Johnny Dollar
No, no, I didn't.
Doug Johnstone
Oh, yeah, but if you ask me, well, if it turns out this is the case you're working on, well, you give me a call now, will you?
Johnny Dollar
Yeah, sure, but look, why not tell me what you know about it?
Doug Johnstone
Well, Johnny, after all, you may be here for something entirely different.
Johnny Dollar
Maybe, maybe not.
Doug Johnstone
Well, why don't you see first what Jack Price has to say, huh?
Johnny Dollar
Well, now, look, Doug, you said, Johnny, this.
Doug Johnstone
This theory of mine could be all
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wrong about the death of some man named Peterson.
Doug Johnstone
Yeah, John Ridgeway Peterson.
Johnny Dollar
Well, come on, tell me anyhow, what is your theory?
Doug Johnstone
It may not mean anything to you. You may have no interest whatsoever in Peterson.
Johnny Dollar
Oh, come on, stop beating around the bush, Doug. What do you think about his death?
Doug Johnstone
Okay, murder.
Johnny Dollar
What?
Doug Johnstone
Yeah, Johnny, murder.
Johnny Dollar
But because neither of us really knew if I'd become involved in it, that was all he'd tell me at the moment. And as he said, he had to run off to meet somebody. It was late and I was tired after the plane trip, so I grabbed a bite to eat. That's item three, two and a quarter. Then hit the sack the first thing in the morning. I was in Jack Price's office at Tri Western.
Jack Price
Well, no, I didn't mean to sound in a rush for you to get down here, Johnny. On the other hand, the hotter the trail, the easier it is to follow.
Johnny Dollar
Whose trail?
Jack Price
Jackson Sterling Peterson, beneficiary of his uncle John R. Peterson's life insurance policy 100,000 clams.
Johnny Dollar
Yes. And what's happened to him? The nephew, Sterling, I mean.
Jack Price
He simply disappeared.
Johnny Dollar
When?
Jack Price
About the same time his uncle died, apparently.
Johnny Dollar
When was that?
Jack Price
Five days ago.
Doug Johnstone
Huh.
Johnny Dollar
Funny that he should leave town when he was about to be presented with that wad of insurance money.
Jack Price
He didn't know that he was his uncle's benefit? No. Old John Peterson never told him. Actually, the old man didn't particularly want to leave it to this nephew, but.
Johnny Dollar
Well, why not?
Jack Price
Oh, they never really got along. As I understand it, the old man had been a hard worker all his life and Sterling is anything but. Nonetheless, he named him his beneficiary. So that's that.
Johnny Dollar
And his heir to whatever else there is to the estate, huh?
Jack Price
No, that goes to Sterling's half brother, Paul.
Johnny Dollar
Much of an estate?
Jack Price
Certainly not as much as the insurance. The old man didn't have much use for either of them, Johnny. But since they were his only surviving relatives, since they'd probably get everything, he left anyway.
Johnny Dollar
Yeah, I see what you mean. Does Paul live here in town?
Jack Price
Yes.
Johnny Dollar
What does he do for a living?
Jack Price
Apparently has some money in the stock market.
Johnny Dollar
And Sterling? Johnny?
Jack Price
I don't know what he lived on. No visible means of support kind of thing. You know what I mean?
Johnny Dollar
Uh huh.
Jack Price
I tried to call him, tell him of his uncle's death. His landlady said he wasn't there, hadn't been there for a couple of days, that he'd simply packed up his things and left. I'll give you the address.
Johnny Dollar
Yeah, do that.
Jack Price
Then I called his brother. But Paul didn't know where he was either.
Johnny Dollar
Just disappeared.
Jack Price
That's right.
Johnny Dollar
I wonder why.
Jack Price
Who knows?
Johnny Dollar
Have he called the police?
Jack Price
Why? Just because a man suddenly leaves town, that's hardly reason to call in the police, Johnny.
Johnny Dollar
Maybe, maybe not.
Jack Price
What?
Johnny Dollar
Sterling didn't know he was beneficiary of this policy? No, but maybe he did think he'd get some of the estate if he were lucky and the old man turned up dead. And maybe Sterling needed money.
Jack Price
I understand. He always did.
Johnny Dollar
So if he could help the old man on his way.
Jack Price
No, Johnny. The doctor said it was a heart attack.
Johnny Dollar
Yeah, well, there are a lot of ways to make it look like a heart attack. Has there been an autopsy?
Jack Price
Why, no.
Johnny Dollar
Then have one made. The insurance company's entitled to one.
Jack Price
Look, you're saying Sterling murdered him?
Doug Johnstone
Maybe.
Johnny Dollar
Johnny, just go ahead and order that autopsy. Item 5. A dollar and a quarter for a taxi. I found Doug Johnstone in his office. A small place but with a cluttered desk. Of a busy man. Full of stock market reports, that sort of thing. Doug brushed him aside and got right to the point.
Doug Johnstone
He? Yeah, I've got to know a lot about Sterling Peterson lately. Now, you see, I have interest in a handful of oil wells, a gas compressor station and things like that.
Johnny Dollar
Ah, lucky man.
Doug Johnstone
Well, I spend quite a bit of time over at Merrill lynch, trading in the stock market.
Johnny Dollar
You met Sterling in a brokerage office?
Doug Johnstone
Well, that's where I met his brother, Paul. That's where I learned about Sterling. Seems he was always trying to get money out of Paul.
Johnny Dollar
I take it Paul is pretty well healed, huh?
Doug Johnstone
Well, hardly. He's a sharp one. Has a pretty wild idea of how to make money in the market.
Johnny Dollar
What do you mean by that?
Doug Johnstone
Well, you know how it's always flattering for someone to ask your advice?
Johnny Dollar
Naturally.
Doug Johnstone
Well, I'd recommend he buy something like IBM. Good solid stuff for a stable company like US Steel AT&T.
Johnny Dollar
Nothing wrong with that, brother.
Doug Johnstone
No, no. But instead he'd throw his money into some crazy penny stock like, well, Golden Dream Uranium Company. It was being pushed by some crooked promoter, some boiler room operator.
Johnny Dollar
I see what you mean.
Doug Johnstone
I'd suggest Union Carbide. He'd end up with some speculation nobody ever heard of and so on. Yet somehow he managed to stay solvent. The point is, Sterling was always going to Paul for money.
Johnny Dollar
Money for what?
Doug Johnstone
To pay off his gambling debts. Much as I hate to admit it, civic pride and all that sort of thing. There are plenty of places in and around this town to gamble.
Johnny Dollar
Yes, so I've heard.
Doug Johnstone
So I want to. Stupid guy like Sterling Peterson simply won't learn. The house never loses. Well, you see what I mean?
Johnny Dollar
Yeah, yeah. And Sterling never really worked for a living.
Doug Johnstone
No. And he was always in debt up to his ears.
Johnny Dollar
Isn't it possible he simply left town because his debts had caught up with him? Some of his creditors were getting tough with him.
Doug Johnstone
Well, Sterling needed money badly. And, well, Johnny, I think he finally reached the point where he was willing to killed to get it.
Johnny Dollar
His own uncle?
Doug Johnstone
If what Paul has told me about him is true. Yes. Now you remember, he thought that he would inherit part of the estate, which
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of course was wrong.
Doug Johnstone
But he didn't know that. Not then.
Johnny Dollar
Then his running away.
Doug Johnstone
The way I look at it, Johnny, if he did kill his uncle.
Johnny Dollar
And you think he did?
Doug Johnstone
Yes. Yes, I do.
Jack Price
Wow.
Doug Johnstone
Well, when he found out he wouldn't get his uncle's money, his property, after all that he'd killed him for. Well, nothing. He didn't know about the insurance, you know.
Johnny Dollar
Yeah, I know.
Doug Johnstone
Well, what was left for him around here, Rabbi? Nothing. Nothing but a lot of creditors pounding on his door. And once people begin to think about that, they might get suspicious, start asking him questions about his uncle's death. Questions that he didn't have good answers to.
Johnny Dollar
Yeah, but to run out is the surest way in the world to arouse suspicions.
Mrs. Toomey
I know.
Doug Johnstone
I know it's stupid. Well, what do you think?
Johnny Dollar
Well, I'm not sure, but thanks. I. I'll see you later. I took a taxi over to the place where Paul Peterson lived. That's Adam 6, a buck and a half. It was a nice apartment in a fairly good neighborhood. But he wasn't home. Item seven, a dollar even for a cab to the brokerage house Doug had mentioned. I talked to Wayne Stockseth, a friend of Doug's. He hadn't seen Paul Peterson around there for several days. Well, Paul said something about going out of town dollar to look at some of the companies he considers investing in. I see. When he gets the money from his uncle's property and so forth, Paul will have quite a bit to play with. And play with is the proper term, despite our advice to avoid so many cheap speculations. I've heard he's a bit of a plunger. Yes, I'm afraid so. Well, if he does come around Wayne, ask him to call me immediately. I'll be at the Robert Driscoll. Item 8, $2 for a late lunch. Item 9, $30 for a cab to Jack Price's office.
Jack Price
Now wait a minute, Johnny. Instead of hunting for Sterling Peterson, you're just hanging around hoping to find out the old man was murdered.
Johnny Dollar
Well, give me time, will you?
Jack Price
Can I tell you the doctor who was with him when he died said it was heart failure.
Johnny Dollar
And I tell you, Jackson, there are plenty of ways. There are medical tricks. I can't.
Jack Price
Hold on a minute. Johnny Price speaking. Yes, already? Well, well, Doctor, what did you.
Johnny Dollar
What?
Jack Price
Oh, I see. Thank you.
Johnny Dollar
What's the matter, Jackson?
Jack Price
How did you know?
Johnny Dollar
How did I know what?
Jack Price
The autopsy. Yeah, you were right. Apparently some drug substituted for the digitalis the old man was taking.
Johnny Dollar
You mean Doug Johnstone was right? The old man was murdered?
Jack Price
Yes, Johnny.
Doug Johnstone
Murdered.
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Expense account item 10, $1.70 for a taxi to the cheap roaming house where Ste Peterson had lived before his mysterious disappearance. The landlady turned out to be quite helpful.
Mrs. Toomey
Yeah, that chiseling no account tin Horton gambler owed me two months back rent, Mr. Dollar.
Johnny Dollar
Well, if we can find him. Only I'm beginning and you ask me,
Mrs. Toomey
there's something mighty suspicious about the way he picked up and left.
Johnny Dollar
Yeah? What do you mean, Mrs. Toomey?
Mrs. Toomey
Well, now, here, here. Now you look for yourself. You see all them empty hangers and that closet there and them them empty doors I pulled out on the bureau?
Johnny Dollar
Oh, so what?
Mrs. Toomey
Took every stitch of clothes he had. He ever stuffed them all in them two little suitcases he owned would have been impossible.
Johnny Dollar
So he picked up a tour over a couple of more handbags without me
Mrs. Toomey
seeing him come in here with him.
Johnny Dollar
You apparently didn't see him leave?
Mrs. Toomey
Well, no. Look here in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom. Now you have receipt.
Johnny Dollar
That is funny.
Mrs. Toomey
Well, it sure is. Man not taking along his comb and razor and shaving things and his toothbrush and his hair tonic. I don't care how much of a
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hurry he was in, Mrs. Toomey. The day that Sterling Peterson disappeared.
Mrs. Toomey
You mean the night he disappeared, don't you?
Johnny Dollar
Do I?
Mrs. Toomey
Oh, that day he just sit around here. Said he was waiting for his brother. His brother had promised to come and see it. Ask me, he was hoping his brother would bring him some money to pay up his rent and things. Did his brother come around 7pm his brother telephoned. I took the message.
Johnny Dollar
Yeah.
Mrs. Toomey
Said Sterling was to meet him at some dive out on Staple Street.
Johnny Dollar
So he left and that's the last you saw him?
Mrs. Toomey
I heard him come back here and up to this room sometime after 2am
Johnny Dollar
but you didn't actually see him?
Mrs. Toomey
I go to bed at a Respectful.
Johnny Dollar
And how are you sure?
Mrs. Toomey
It was morning, he was gone, Bag and baggage. Must have just plain. Just plain sneaked out on me.
Johnny Dollar
No, I don't think so, Mrs. Toby.
Mrs. Toomey
What's that?
Johnny Dollar
A couple of things I learned earlier. A couple of things you've told me. And the stuff in that medicine cabinet. Hey, I don't think you'd better bank on collecting any back rents. Not from Sterling Peterson.
Mrs. Toomey
That deathbeat, is he. Of course he is.
Johnny Dollar
Or is he just plain dead? I went back to my hotel. No, Paul Peterson hadn't called me, but there was a message from Jack Price. So I went to my room and I phoned him.
Jack Price
I just wanted you to know the police are in on this now, Johnny.
Johnny Dollar
As a result of that autopsy?
Jack Price
Yes. They're looking for Sterling Peterson too. Also, they've been looking for you.
Johnny Dollar
They're very anxious to talk with you anytime they like.
Jack Price
After all, it was you brought this thing out in the open by suggesting the autopsy because you had the idea that it might be murder.
Johnny Dollar
No, that was Doug Johnstone's idea. And a very good one. Have they talked with Paul Peterson?
Jack Price
Well, I assume they will.
Johnny Dollar
Well, if he's back in town, huh? Okay, Jackson, Thanks. Now, let's see. Yeah, come in.
Jack Price
Duller.
Johnny Dollar
That's right.
Jack Price
I'm Paul Peterson. I got your message.
Johnny Dollar
Wow. Come in.
Jack Price
I understand that you're an insurance investigator, that you're looking for my half brother, Sterling.
Johnny Dollar
Ah, that's right. Who didn't know that he was the beneficiary of your uncle's insurance.
Doug Johnstone
Sit down, sit down.
Jack Price
Thanks. I just got back in town from a business trip.
Johnny Dollar
How so?
Jack Price
Look, I found these letters waiting for me.
Johnny Dollar
Oh, from Sterling.
Jack Price
Yes, here.
Johnny Dollar
Dallas, Wichita, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Fargo, North Dakota.
Jack Price
Yes, and by now he could be across the border in Canada.
Johnny Dollar
Yeah, maybe.
Jack Price
Read a dollar.
Johnny Dollar
Uh, just keep quiet and give me time and you won't have to worry about me anymore.
Jack Price
The others are practically the same.
Johnny Dollar
Neatly typewritten, no signature.
Jack Price
I'm afraid it's obvious who they're from.
Johnny Dollar
So it looks as though your half brother is running away now that we know your uncle was murdered.
Jack Price
Murdered?
Doug Johnstone
Yeah, that's right.
Johnny Dollar
Sterling, type these on your own machine. Paul, that might be pretty easy to trace. What? Yeah, with Sterling out of the way, you'd get your uncle's insurance as well as his money and property, wouldn't you?
Jack Price
I suppose so. But I don't see what you're driving at.
Johnny Dollar
Oh, you did things up pretty well, Paul. Much better than your stupid brother could have.
Jack Price
What are you talking about?
Johnny Dollar
And all to play safe, in case we discovered it was murder. Dollar that so called business trip. It was so that you could mail these letters to yourself. Make it look as though Sterling had done the murder.
Jack Price
He must have.
Johnny Dollar
And what happened? Did you make the mistake of telling him you'd done it?
Jack Price
I. Now look here.
Johnny Dollar
After all, he would never have thought of substituting for the digitalis your uncle was taking.
Jack Price
Look here.
Johnny Dollar
So did Sterling threaten to blackmail you? Is that why you had to kill him too? You're crazy.
Jack Price
You don't know what you're talking about.
Johnny Dollar
The tiny thing that tipped me off. What? When you went back to his room that night after you'd killed him. To haul away his stuff. Make it look as though he'd taken a powder. Yes, silly little thing. But no man, no matter how much of a hurry, would have left behind his comb, his razor, a toothbrush. And that isn't all.
Jack Price
I say you don't know what you're talking about. Or maybe you do.
Johnny Dollar
Oh, easy, Paul. That gun will make an awful lot of noise in here.
Jack Price
No, not when it's tight up against your back with a pillow over it.
Johnny Dollar
Stand up, dollar and if I don't?
Jack Price
Well, okay. Doug. What?
Doug Johnstone
Kick open the door.
Jack Price
I'll cover him.
Doug Johnstone
I tried it.
Johnny Dollar
The police. That's right.
Jack Price
All right, look. Look, boys. I said you covered Peterson. Drop it. Drop it.
Doug Johnstone
Johnny, you okay?
Johnny Dollar
Yeah, sure, Doug. You Hear it all, sergeant?
Jack Price
Yeah, I sure did, Mr. Donner.
Announcer
It's funny, though.
Johnny Dollar
Funny?
Jack Price
All I really came up here for was to talk to you. Not much point in it now, is there?
Johnny Dollar
So another day, another dollar, and I'm not talking about myself. Expense account total, including hotel bill, a flock of incidentals and a plane Back to Hartford. 287, 20. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
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Now here's our star to tell you about next week's story.
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Next week, a hurry trip to Alaska to look for a clue to a murder. And say, if you've been to Alaska, if you know anything about the customs, the manners of the people up there, especially their eating habits, well, it's quite possible that you'll find a solution to the case even before I do. Or maybe you will anyhow, because it all hangs on a tiny, seemingly unimportant clue. And yet we'll give a listen, see how well you can break down a killer's alibi. Yeah. Join us, won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
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Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood and is written, produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in our cast were Vir Greg, Jack Edwards, Forest Lewis, Stacy Harris, Gil Stratton and Barney Phillips. Be sure to join us next week, same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Dan Coverley speaking. Tangled secrets unravel eerily all through the
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long night as suspense follows on the CBS Radio Network.
Podcast: Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
Episode Date: April 13, 2026
Original Air Date: January 10, 1960
Host: Choice Classic Radio
Featured Detective: Johnny Dollar (voiced by Bob Bailey)
This episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is a classic detective drama from the "Golden Age of Radio." Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is dispatched to Corpus Christi, Texas, to investigate a suspicious life insurance claim in the case known as "The Unholy Two Matter." A seemingly straightforward case of heart failure in a wealthy man, John R. Peterson, quickly unfolds into a tangled web of murder, missing heirs, and small town secrets. Throughout, the brilliant deduction skills and razor-sharp dialogue of Johnny Dollar shine, in a tale of greed, deception, and justice.
[02:00–05:09]
“Okay, murder.”
—Doug Johnstone ([05:05])
[05:36–07:42]
[08:24–10:26]
“I think he finally reached the point where he was willing to kill to get it.”
— Doug Johnstone ([10:08])
[14:20–16:22]
“Man not taking along his comb and razor and shaving things and his toothbrush and his hair tonic. I don't care how much of a hurry he was in…”
— Mrs. Toomey ([15:24])
[12:05–13:04]
“Yeah, you were right. Apparently some drug substituted for the digitalis the old man was taking.”
— Jack Price ([12:44])
[17:26–20:16]
“Doug. Kick open the door. I’ll cover him.”
(Doug and the police apprehend Paul before he can shoot Johnny.) ([19:59–20:16])
Doug Johnstone (05:05):
“Okay, murder.”
Johnny Dollar (07:29):
“Sterling didn't know he was beneficiary of this policy? No, but maybe he did think he'd get some of the estate if he were lucky and the old man turned up dead.”
Doug Johnstone (10:08):
“Well, Johnny, I think he finally reached the point where he was willing to kill to get it.”
Mrs. Toomey (15:24):
“Man not taking along his comb and razor and shaving things and his toothbrush and his hair tonic. I don't care how much of a hurry he was in…”
Jack Price (12:44):
“Yeah, you were right. Apparently some drug substituted for the digitalis the old man was taking.”
Johnny Dollar (19:27):
“Oh, you did things up pretty well, Paul. Much better than your stupid brother could have.”
"The Unholy Two Matter" is a tightly plotted detective showcase, steeped in period atmosphere. Johnny Dollar’s relentless logic and observation expose not just a murder, but also the lengths to which greed and deception can drive a man. The climactic confrontation, punctuated by dry wit and sharp deductions, affirms Johnny’s reputation as America’s “fabulous freelance insurance investigator.”
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