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The Blackmail Matter

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · May 5, 1953 · 29 min · 4,232 words

The transcript of “The Blackmail Matter”, an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar first broadcast May 5, 1953. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar plays Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Mr. Dale Martin has ensured with Nash... When did it happen? This morning about an hour. Anything to work on? No. I'll do it. But I don't take off my shirt. The makers of Rigley's Spearman Chewing Gum bring you John Lund in a transcribed adventure of a man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

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Healthful, refreshing, delicious. The accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Donner to Home Office, National All-Risk Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Black Mail Matter.

Expense account item 1, $1.40, cab fare and tip for ride for my office to Martin's Gym. After receiving what little information there was from you by phone, I arrived at 1215 at 1084 Sixth Avenue in the heart of downtown.

On the second floor I found Dale Martin, a very nervous Adonis, seated at a desk in his office. A policeman at the door informed me that a Lieutenant Nathan of the Homicide detail had stepped out for a minute and the coroner was expected soon.

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