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The Star of Capetown Matter - Ep 5

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · July 20, 1956 · 14 min · 2,361 words

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From Hollywood it's time now Johnny dollar this has been Stacy partner. Oh hi Stacy Okay, I'll be ready that's putting it politely What do you mean I think he got pushed 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. It's truly

Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location at sea on the Southern Empress, our root Cape Town 2 decar. To the Home Office, Tri-Eastern Intimidity Associates, assignment, the Star of Cape Town matter. Expense account concluded.

Item 12.50 cents, room service on two aspirins. Right from the start, this whole deal had been a series of headaches. Headache won Andrew Forbes International Playboy, an owner of the Star of Cape Town, insured for $150,000.

Fours was tossing that stone around like it was a cheap toy. He wound up murdered, the diamond missing. Fours's probable killer Julio Bíac was in a Cape Town jail at the moment, but his confederate was still on the loose.

The steward who could have told me who the confederate was had been fished out of the drink dead last night. Now we were going ashore at the car, and whoever had that diamond could make it hard for me to find.

It could be Stacy, the boy from the wide open spaces. It could be Helen traveling companion to Agatha Fours. And I knew if it did turn out to be Helen, it would leave me kind of sick inside.

Worst of all, it could be somebody I didn't even know about. Hence the Asbra. Stacey had asked us to meet him at the gangway at 10 o'clock, but he was nowhere in sight when I showed up.

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