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The King's Necklace Matter (AFRTS)

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · March 17, 1953 · 27 min · 3,881 words

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John Lund has... Here's Tony. Johnny Dauff. Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Daller to home office, Eastern indemnity and insurance company Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the King's necklace matter.

Expense account item 1 134 dollars and 70 cents. Airfare and incidentals between Hartford and Miami. Weeding at the airport, as promised, was your southern state's agency manager, Marty Fenton. Over a cup of brew in the coffee shop, he briefed me on the assignment.

Ever heard of King Rawlings Johnny? King Rawlings? Financial Tiger, wasn't he? Retired some 15-20 years ago? That's the lad. About a year ago he wrote a policy in a quarter of a million dollar necklace that he owns, which has suddenly turned up among the missing?

Not yet. Did you expect it to? We got a letter from him before yesterday. Claimed somebody attempted to break into his safe things they were after. I'm usually sent for after the crimes been committed.

True, malad, true. Oh, pastor sugar, would you please? Sure. So what am I doing here now? The policy is coming up for renewal, Johnny. There have been nasty rumors circulating around about Rawlings' present financial conditions, where he's starting a buildup to put in a fraudulent claim.

done before. The boys in heart would get pretty stuffy about that kind of skull-dudgery. We want you to check around Los Panios and see what you come up with. Is that where the gentle sea breezes waft through the palm trees? 2000 imported ones. Los Panios is rolling his own personal island off the coast of Cuba. He's

lived there for 20 years, surrounded by his memories, his trees, and his collection of precious stones. People. Oh, your plane's waiting Johnny. I hired a little Let's not brush off the collection of people, Marty.

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