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The Crystal Lake Matter - Ep 4

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · August 16, 1956 · 14 min · 2,336 words

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From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny Dollar Hands get over here fast. I'm trapped in the office of Jensen's boat house trap look I've got no time to explain there's a man outside with a gun and I can't hold him off much longer I don't know but I've got a strong hunch is the one who murdered Russell and he's trying to do likewise to me

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 insurance investigator. Yours truly? Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar.

To amalgamated life associates, home office, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment? The Crystal Lake Matter. Expense account continues. Item 7, 2 cents. Just about what I figured my life was worth at the moment. The tiny office I was in had no windows and no outside door, a real trap.

And outside in the dark and boat house somebody with a gun was stalking me. the killer I've been looking for. But now he was looking for me. I stacked what furniture there was against the door.

He started throwing his weight against it, and it couldn't last very long. There was nothing I could do but wait. Right then, the sound of Anskarit's voice outside was just about the sweetest music this side of heaven.

Yeah, yeah, just a minute. I'll get this stuff away from the door. OK. Light switch here somewhere. There. Well... Bill Jensen. So you're my boy, Jensen. What are you talking about? What are you doing here anyway, dollar?

Getting shot at by you, mostly. Look, this is my boathouse. Remember, you got no business to come prowling around here. Simmerdown, Bill! Simmerdown! I thought he was a prowler, answer. Oh, yeah, sure. You knew I was getting close to you, Jensen.

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