The Lorko Diamonds Matter - Ep 5

From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar Maria well isn't it kind of late at night to call you got to help me Johnny I'm being followed you'll be Aren't you at home? No? It's a little cafe on the waterfront. I came in here to find why the devil Did you have to go out everything was set up if you'd stayed home? You'd have been safe?

What are you trying to do get yourself killed? Yeah, what's the name of the place? Number 41, Rudil Amair. I'm afraid to go outside. No, whatever you do, don't go outside. Stay right where you are until I get there.

Take your choice, Maria. It's either that or wind up on a marble slab. What do you mean? You know what I mean. You know better than anybody. Now stay there. 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, location Algiers, North Africa, to the home office, Transworld Fidelity Company, Hartford, Connecticut, assignment, the Lorco Diamonds Matter, a hundred thousand dollars in jewels stolen and a murder.

Expense account continued. Item 12, $2.20, taxi fare to the waterfront of the Marrakesh Cafe. There was no time to lose and no time to get help from Inspector Marcus. A half hour earlier, he'd set a trap and he and his men were staked out around Maria's apartment house waiting.

But apparently she'd gone to the cafe before he got there. So now the whole thing had blown wide open. The rutal Amer was a dead end street close to the water, deserted at this hour of night.