The Todd Matter - Ep 5

From Hollywood, it's time now for... Johnny Dollar. Hi, baby. That's the only thing good about it. Well, I shouldn't. Yeah, please do. You stopped too slow. I was luckier than Gloria Tierney.

Yeah. Fred Chance. 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... Because truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar.

Two four state insurance company, Wilmington Delaware. The following is an accounting of expenditure as during my investigation of the Todd matter. Expense account item 11, $3.05 breakfast. I got mad at the nurse when she brought in a bowl of hot cereal and a glass of milk.

So I bribed an orderly to slip across the street and get me a tray of bacon and eggs. I was just finishing same when up came Sergeant Mapes. He looked haggard and tired and worried.

You nearly got it for good, baby. I got enough of it. You sure did. What do you remember, if anything? Well, we tailed Melva Charles to an apartment house. We stepped inside and somebody began trying to kill me.

And that's when I left town. Yeah, there's quite a mess. Corner had a real job in his hands. Yeah. Hey, how about you? Not a scratch. Coroner, did you say? Yeah. Melva Charles got it.

Her husband stuffed a butcher knife in her back. That was her trying to sell him out to you. Yeah. Yeah, maybe he thought he was worth more than 2,500. Maybe. A man named Henderson who happened to be walking down the hall at the wrong minute, took three in the head.