Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar arrives at Dale Martin's gym to find a man named Fred Royal dead with a broken neck. Martin insists it's murder, not an accident, and Dollar begins questioning the gym's staff and clients to uncover what happened. A key to a safety deposit box found among Royal's effects suggests there may be more to the story than a simple gym accident.
Characters: Johnny Dollar, Dale Martin, Fred Royal, Lieutenant Nathan, Bernie Carroll, Jack Olson, Johnny Morgan, Michael Darling
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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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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