The Pearling Matter - Ep 4

From Hollywood, it's time now for Johnny dollar Hello, Mr. Pirling Mr. Ewell tells me you're in his office looking into my private affairs if Investigating the matter I came here for involves your private affairs. I guess I did that I should be rotated I suppose I guess I'm not When can I see you most any time how about today? I'll be at my house all day long

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. Oh, it's truly... Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar.

Two Eastern Liability and Trust Company Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the purling matter. Item 9, 10 cents, one phone call to Morton Scottman, advising him that she and her purling had been located in New Orleans by one of A.M. Wells' operatives.

Mrs. Scottman thought that over for a while, and then assumed it would be in the best interests of Eastern liability to make certain this was the truth. I told Mr. Scottman I intended to do just that.

Item $10, $5.00, cab fare from the New Western Hotel to the home of David Perling. Hi. Come on in. The man who opened the door wasn't a servant. He wore a dark blue double-breasted suit.

He smelled a cigars and bourbon and private detectives stuck out all over him. He jammed a pudgy finger in the general direction of what later turned out to be the library, and I followed. The room we went into was empty, except for us.

As far as I could see or hear, the rest of the house was empty, too. The man in the blue suit sat down on a leather sofa and pointed to a quart of bourbon that had just come out of a sack.