The Plantagent Matter - Ep 1

From Hollywood, it's time now for... Johnny Duller. This is Mr. Costello at the Plantagen Hotel in Vicksburg, Virginia. You left word? Oh, yes, Mr. Costello. I'm acting for Eastern Seaboard-Cassiely Insurance. You know, investigation? Oh.

Understand you had a burglary down there. Are we sure did, Mr. Duller? Well, the main reason I wanted to talk to you, Mr. Costello, was to let you know I'm getting the first plane out of Hartford as soon as the weather clears.

You're coming here to Vicksburg? Yes, that's right. That's right. Eastern Seaboard casualties ask me to investigate the burglary for them. Good. Then I'll expect you when I see you. And I'll be 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. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar. To the Chief Accountant Eastern Seaboard casually insurance company Providence, Rhode Island. The following is an accounting of expenditure during my investigation of the plant agent matter.

Expense account item 1, $2.00 carefare, my apartment at the Hartford Airport, item 2, $173, one airline ticket from Hartford to Vicksburg, Virginia, and back again. We took off in 10 below zero weather about 1.30 in the afternoon.

By five o'clock we circled into Vicksburg for a landing. Item $3.00, carefare to the Plantation Hotel three miles outside of town. A pleasant, spacious, gentle old building set back among the winter trees. 15 minutes after checking in, Mr. Costello appeared, rung my hand, and reported that the Vicksburg police had apprehended the burglar

who had rifled the hotel safe the night before. All of the loot had been recovered. As a matter of form, I spent two hours with the police itemizing the stolen property, which was all intact.