The Open Town Matter - Ep 4

From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny Deller Hello? Yeah, who's calling? Hello hang on a second Johnny look what the devil is that you Joe? Joe Sorry to keep you waiting Johnny. I was trying to get all the dope on another phone What Joe and how did you sober up so fast?

There's a big story-breaking boy and lusher not I'm still a reporter then go somewhere and report I'm going to bed You want a bet? I'll look Joe. Nobody sleeps in Greensport Johnny, it's a wide-open town, racket shooting, some murdered police chief with a lovely widow.

Sure, fine. So what's the big story? A fire boy, house burner down, flames 50 feet high, three alarms, put your clothes on and let's get going. You get going, the only big story I'll be interested in is when Marty Blake is charged with murder.

Johnny, that's where the fire is, at Marty Blake's. 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.

From special investigator Johnny Dollar, location Green Sport, Missouri, to the home office, Great Plains Guarantee Company, Hartford, Connecticut, assignment, the open town matter. Expense account continued. Item 10, $1.5 for a breakneck taxi ride to Marty Blake's home.

Its location marked against the night sky by a pillar of flame visible for a mile. The fire didn't make sense, The fire didn't make sense, so it fit in nicely with the rest of the case. None of it made sense.

Police chief Ed Blake, Marty's middle-aged husband of eight months, have been shot to death in his own home with his own gun. And less than 24 hours later, Marty had filed claim on his $50,000 life insurance policy.