Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Vol. 2 Audiobook (Free)

First heard on network radio in 1948, Yours Truly, Johnny Buck chronicled the travels of freelanceinsurance investigator Johnny Dollar, “the man using the action-packed expenseaccount.” For fourteen years it had been oneof typically the most popular detective shows for the air flow, lasting until the final times ofnetwork radio dilemma in 1962. Each story started having a telephone call from aninsurance executive calling on Johnny Dollar to investigate an unusual claim.His investigations usually required him to visit about Yours Truly, Johnny Money, Vol. 2 to faraway locales and ofteninvolved murder. The tales were recounted in flashback, as Dollar detailed eachline item from his expenditure accounts: “Item one, $3.75 cab fare to the airport.”

Over the years, many actors portrayed Johnny Dollar,including Charles Russell, John Lund, and Edmund O’Brien. However in 1955 BobBailey had taken over as the series was switching to a fresh dynamic format ofseventy-five-minute storylines told in five fifteen-minute installments, Mondaythrough Friday. While additional radio shows had been waning in the mid-1950s, Yours Truly, Johnny Buck was at itspeak. Specialists place these escapades in with the very best of the best of radio’sgolden age group. This collection contains thirty fifteen-minute episodes.

Episodes include “The Broderick Matter,” “The Amy Bradshaw Matter,” “The Henderson Matter,” “The Cronin Matter,” “The Lansing Fraud Matter” and “The Nick Shurn Matter.”