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The Molly K Matter - Ep 2

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · October 11, 1955 · 14 min · 2,076 words

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From Hollywood it's time now for Bob Bailey as Johnny dollar you don't know me mr. Dalla, but you're going to wow I can hardly wait you won't have to wait I want you to meet me tonight. Where on the waterfront nine o'clock Yes, it's dark down there at nine. It might be dangerous. Are you scared?

Strange women always scare me Where on the waterfront? 29. That's where the Molly Kay was birthed before she sank. Molly Kay was my mother. Meet me at nine. I don't know. Blind dates never work out for me. I'm always sorry afterwards.

You won't be sorry this time. Is that a promise? That's a promise. Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey and the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

yours truly? Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, present location San Francisco, to the home office, Marine and Maritime Casualty Limited Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment the Mully K Matter expense account continued. Item three, $4.65 food.

I needed it. It had been a rough day, rough from the standpoint of legwork. I'd covered most of the usual sources and usual angles, and for all I learned I might as well have stayed in bed.

The freighter Mully Kay had sailed out of San Francisco Harbor and gone down in the Pacific, and nobody wanted to talk about it. They were all too busy shaking in their boots and looking over their shoulders scared to death.

I was even beginning to look over my shoulder. Item 470 cents, taxi to the Embarcadero. Sure, I kept that blind date. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Here, keep the change. It was dark and lonely along the waterfront.

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