The Hannibal Murphy Matter

From Hollywood, it's time now for Edmund Bobrion as... Johnny Daller. Inspector Draper, returning your call, sir. Oh, yes, Inspector. Thanks very much. I wonder when I could talk with you about the Hannibal Murphy death.

Well, it's your pleasure, sir. Do I understand you come all the way from the States? Yes. The news broke yesterday, and his insurance company thought I'd better. The reports weren't quite clear on whether or not it was accidental.

Then you haven't heard. Only that he somehow fell off a cliff. Oh, then I hope your pardon by being a bit non-plastage or timely arrival. Mr. Murthy's death was different from not accidental. Examination this morning revealed a bullet wound in his head.

Edmund O'Brien, in a transcribed adventure of the man with the action-packed expense account. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, yours truly, Johnny Dalin. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Home Office, Plymouth Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut.

The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Hannibal Murphy matter. Expense account item 1, 264 dollars and 80 cents, airfare and incidentals between Hartford and Kingston, island of Jamaica. After checking into the Myrtle Bank Hotel and reporting my phone to the British Constabulary, I went over late that morning and met the others in charge.

Well, Mr. Dollar, it's a pleasure to have you. Thank you, Inspector Treva. Although news of the death of one of your countrymen is hardly the kind of invitation I should like to send. If it hadn't been Mr. Murphy, I probably would have been invited to emerge in someplace else.

It's a popular pastime. What do you know about the Murphy's Inspector? I understand he's survived by a widow. Yeah, there's a brother also, Paul Murphy and the stepdaughter, Phyllis. I didn't know about them. I mean, they're all here in Kingston?