The Open Town Matter - Ep 1

From Hollywood, it's time now for Johnny Daller Ralph Kearns Johnny great planes guarantee. Oh hi Ralph Johnny you're 52 years old. I am eight months ago You married a lovely 27 year old girl now. I'm with you a month lady It took out a $50,000 life insurance policy on a chief of police's salary. I did huh?

And who did I name his beneficiary your beautiful wife who else so so three days ago? You were shot to death Eh, I had a feeling it wasn't gonna last. And 24 hours later, your wife files a claim on the policy.

My friends tried to warn me she was fast. Well, there's the setup, what do you think? The same thing you probably do. In that case, you got just 56 minutes to catch the plane. The town is Greensport, Missouri.

And watch yourself. What do you mean? Tonight and every weekday night, Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. That's truly Johnny Dollar. From special investigator Johnny Dollar to the home office, Great Plains Guarantee Company, Hartford, Connecticut.

The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the open town matter. Item 1, $84.60, transportation and incentives, Hartford to green sport and taxi to the townhouse hotel. I was hoping for a chance to shower and change, look around long enough to get my bearings and then edge into the case gradually.

But it didn't work out that way. The case was already there and waiting for me, right in the lobby of the hotel. All dressed up in a shiny black suit, squeaky black shoes, and a neater-than-need little black bow tie.