The Open Town Matter - Ep 5

From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar it means Johnny Marty. Yeah, how is he? How about the same? Dr. Morton just gave him another transfusion. Has he been able to say anything yet? He hasn't even been conscious Why Marty? Who's there with you Joe Creole in the city attorney? Look Johnny? I've got to talk to you right away

All right go ahead and talk no not on the phone All right, it's room 604, City Hospital. Come on over. Not with them. They are. Why don't you come meet me? Because Shorty Wells is the key to this whole case.

If he's able to talk before he dies, I want to be here to listen. Suppose I tell you I'm ready to talk, Johnny. Are you telling me? I'm in an all-night lunch room right across the street from the hospital.

Can you come over here? All right, Marty. I'll gamble with you. Be there in five minutes. 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 are Storley, Johnny Dollar, from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar location Greensport, Missouri, to the home office Great Plains

Guarantee Company, Hartford, Connecticut, a silent, the open-town matter, expense account, final page. I hung up the phone more puzzled than ever and heaven knows the case had been puzzling from the start. Marty Blake, young widow of the murdered police chief, had been completely uncooperative and unwilling to talk.

And now she was reversing her field. Why? Her house had burned to the ground earlier in the evening, and Shorty Wells, number one on the city attorney's wanted for murder list, had been found trapped in the flames.