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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: Murder Matters
- Narrated by: Bob Bailey
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Radio/TV Program
- Release date: 12-10-14
- Language: English
- Publisher: Radio Spirits
Regular price: $27.99
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Publisher's Summary
America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator faces cases of killing for vengeance and keeping silent for honor... "dead" men who won't stay down for long (or alive for much longer)... beneficiaries that can't be found and beautiful mixed up risk-takers who may be out on their last ledge. He pads his expense account in pursuit of stolen jewels, arsonists, crooked cops, and romance, all while he tries to solve matters of murder.
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EPISODES INCLUDE: The Chesapeake Fraud Matter 10/17/55 - 10/21/55; The Alvin Summers Matter 10/24/55 - 10/28/55; The Valentine Matter 10/31/55 - 11/04/55; The Broderick Matter 11/14/55 - 11/18/55; The Fathom Five Matter 02/27/56 - 03/02/56; The LaMarr Matter 03/26/56 - 03/30/56; The Open Town Matter 07/23/56 - 07/27/56; The Markham Matter 11/18/56; The Royal Street Matter 11/25/56; The Rasmussen Matter 12/15/56; The Red Mystery Matter 12/20/59; The Kranesburg Matter 8/24/56 - 8/31/56
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- Chris Coyne
- 04-16-15
Dollar is the man.
I love this radio show. It's radio-noir at it best. It has a lot violence and romance in it. Dollar like all hard boiled detectives is tough, but with a heart of gold, always willing to help people. He meets a lot of beautiful women he often romances. The show doesn't shy way of the fact that some of the women he meets, might be guilty of the crime he's investigating, and he might have to send to them jail, or they end up getting murderd. I never heard of Bob Bailey until I started to listen to this show, I think he's great. One more peace of trivia, the theme music is also used on Lloyed Briges TV show Sea hunt.
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- Tom
- 03-19-15
Oldie but goodie
Love this old time radio stuff.
Johnny Dollar is the best! Bob Bailey rocks! You can't go wrong.
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- Roger
- 04-19-16
Great listen.
Bob Bailey is excellent as Johnny Dollar! Great content and always a very good supporting cast.
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- Heath Normand
- 27127
- 04-30-15
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Why has this character been made into a movie yet. Bob Bailey is the best voice for Johnny Dollar ever
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-27-16
Murder
It is a great suspense and fun radio listening . Old times and the good things about radio when it was our nightly entertainment
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- Carolyn
- Crystal, MN, United States
- 04-04-16
LOVE LOVE LOVE
I love Boy Bailey's voice and greatly enjoyed all of these stories! It brings to mind what my mother used to put on the radio when we were kids. I LOVE it!
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- joel
- 08-18-15
great
great as usual, keeps me up hours at night ,I l I be them !!!
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- Bob Molin
- 10-05-17
really enjoy the book
I really enjoy listening to Johnny Dollar I will be downloading more. really good playback
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- BB
- 07-24-18
My kind of story
I really oldtime stories the story line is good and I love a good mystery
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- Jay Weir
- 12-08-17
Johnny Dollar
the best of the good old days smooth smooth talking Johnny Dollar sure could pad an expense account