Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
Gumshoe shorts · August 24, 1958 · 23 min · 3,381 words
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What should you investigate the death of one of our pilots? All right. The Oceantrical Producer? Yeah. Sure. Well, well, do I remember? Now what about him? No, I didn't know. What you think otherwise? I do.
Why, sir? I'm a minion. Yeah, Mr. Westbury. I think I'd better. In the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Goss Truly?
Johnny Dolly. One, the viewers truly Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts, headed by special investigator Johnny Dollar. To the worldwide mutual insurance company, Home Office, Hartford, Connecticut.
Following his account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the noxious needle matter. Expense account item 185 cents for a taxi to the office of worldwide. When I got there, I had to go through a receptionist and two secretaries to get into Mr. Waldo R. Westbury's private office.
Please sit down, Mr. Dollar. Thanks. Wow. Oh, uh, here's the policy I mentioned. Providing $750,000 insurance on the life of a big jail in Montscofield. That's a lot of money, Mr. Westbury. Incidentally, was he married?
Scofield? Surrounded by beautiful women all this professional life? No. Then who was his beneficiary? This policy has been in effect only 13 years, but look here. Look at these writers changing the beneficiaries. oldie left her and sounds like a brother's way she was after his money of course to do the same while being hard in them baby
bootles bakers was bubbles jones holy smoke pepper caprice carsters cupcake don't want it it was just doing it very t smith she is the present beneficiary well it's quite a come down from all those babes uh... mister dollar the initial t stands for torso the stage designation you think she bumped him off to collect the insurance
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