The Douglas Taylor Matter

From Hollywood, it's time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny Daller Yeah, I did why he was dead Another adventure of the man with the action-packed expense accounts America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny Daller expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Daller to home office free decent insurance company Hartman I

Don't know how much responsibility you will want to take for these expenses But I hope you realize that a large share of them were incurred in an effort to protect the company The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Douglas Taylor matter It's a count item one $1.20 a cap there for my apartment to heart the police headquarters

Homicide division my name is dollar lieutenant Reese. Oh, yeah second door. They just go right in I can't say it's a pleasure lieutenant. We don't know yet Well, it had happened.

We aren't sure of that either. He was found out by the freight yards, but chances are he was shot someplace else and dumped there. How did you happen to land on me? His wife came down to identify him this morning.

She told us he was working for you. Well, get this off my chest now, Lieutenant. You won't like it any better if I say that. I can't answer any questions about what Taylor and I were working on.

Not now. Because it'll wreck a case that could be worth about a half million dollars if you start nosing it with looking for a motive. I hate to see you turn on cooperatives so early in the game dollar.

They can't help it. There are usually plenty of motives around when it's a private detective. We've got plenty of other places to start. We like to have them all. I don't like this. I don't eat it lieutenant, and I'm stuck with some competences I don't have to stand by.