The Valentine Matter - Ep 2

From Hollywood, it's time now for... ... ... Johnny Dollar. This is Johnny DeBachme. That's right, Inspector. But you went back to Hartford, what now? The company I represent happens to hold an insurance policy on Dan Valentine.

They ask me to stay here in New Orleans and look into this attempt on his life. How'd they hear about it so fast? Well, it wasn't all the papers and on the wire services. Valentine's always been news, ever since prohibition.

Yet. He's still quiet about the whole thing. Yes, sir. It'll help matters when he finds out the insurance company's interested. 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. Expense account, submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar, to the new Britain Mutual Insurance Company Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Valentine matter. Expense account continued, item three, three bucks.

One telegram to Roy Vickers and Hartford requesting a copy of the policy contracts between New Britain Mutual and Dan Valentine. Plus the name and location of the beneficiary and any other debt on the case. After that I walked over to the police station and looked up Inspector DeBaca.

Sit down. Thanks. I don't quite get this, darling. What's your part? Well, the insurance company would like a full report on everything that's happened. That's all. You can give that on the back of your thumbnail, couldn't you?

Not quite inspector. Oh, you mean a separate report from what we have? Something like that, yes. Well, it's their dough. They can spend it any way they want to, I guess. If there's any reason for them canceling the policy on Valentine, they'll do it.