And Peter Chambers54-07-2014Donald Sloane-Embezzler

Crime and Peter Chambers. Created by Henry Kane, transcribed and starring Dane Clark. Private investigator, duly licensed and duly sworn, Peter Chambers. You're a private eye. That's your business. Anything else? That's for laughs. A strictly business history. You've been paid a little fee by a little lady in a little apartment on Grammarcy Park.

Now she's wringing her hands and she's got plenty to wring her hands about. Her name is Mrs. Donald Sloane and only yesterday her husband was declared an embezzler. Seems he worked in a bank. Only he must have thought it was a garden patch.

Because yesterday, before he disappeared, he helped himself to 100,000 shreds of lettuce. All crisp and all green. Mr. Chambers, my husband wasn't a thief. You've got a better name for a man who elopes with a hundred thousand bucks.

No Donald, I tell you there's something wrong here, something peculiar. Mr. Sloan, listen, look, here's the morning paper. Let me read it to you. Now the headline. Bang Teller and $100,000 vanish at lunch. No, no, no, no.

Beneath that, the following. Donald Sloan, Teller and junior officer of the trade bank of the city of New York is being sought by the police charged with the embezzlement of $100,000 of bank funds. Mr. Sloan, an employee of longstanding, left his tellers cage as usual at the lunchtime.

When he failed to return, a hasty check by Charles Jenkins, manager of the bank, revealed that Sloan's cash was $100,000 short. Curiously, Mr. Sloan had passed up an additional $28,000 in the same drawer. Look, Mr. Chambers, to the police, I'm just another wife doing the usual screaming about the innocence of her husband.