The La Marr Matter - Ep 5

From Hollywood, it's time now for... Johnny Dollar. This is Larry Comstock, Johnny. A tri-mutual insurance. You're out at the Lamar home. Yeah, Larry. Police crime lab, find out anything more about the stuff from here they took in for examination.

Yes. Yes, they certainly did. Well... They found traces of that poison Thomas Lamar was using just before he died. On that, too. Are you kidding? Oh, no. No, indeed, John. Not a bit. There's a murder weapon for you.

Toothbrush. Larry, send the cops out here. I think I've just about got this case sewed up. 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.

Yostruli? Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar, location south Bend, Indiana. To the universal adjustment bureau Hartford, Connecticut. The following is my final entry of expenses incurred during investigation of the Lamar murder, and murder it most certainly was.

It was in La Jolla, California, during my so-called vacation, that I met and I must admit, kind of fell for Vani Lamar. It was from La Jolla that I flew her back to South Bend, Indiana, when we both received news of a foster father's sudden death.

All the clues I'd been able to dig up seem to point to one Walter Marston, who had been La Mar's personal secretary, and who lived at the La Mar mentioned. At his room there in the house, I found the one book in the world that described the poison by a damron that had killed Thomas Renee Lamar.

Poison derived from a pretty little yellow flower once raised on an island near Greece. A flower with sudden death in its pollen. Huh? You're Johnny Daller, aren't you? Harrison the Butler said you were up here.