The Picture Postcard Matter - Ep 1

From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar Oh, hi Tom. How are you doing lousy right now? I've got one big headache a hundred thousand dollar headache Try a nice bag and go back to bed a bag of ice at cure me all right, but not the kind of ice you're thinking of hmm

Hundred thousand bucks worth of uncut diamonds Johnny they've been stolen and we wrote the policy hundred thousand That's a fat lot of rocks Tom and a fat fee if you can recover them for us. You interested? Oh, that's the understatement of the week Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action packed expensive out America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny

Dollar Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to the home office global casualty Hartford Connecticut Following as an account of expenditures during my investigation of the picture postcard matter Expense account item one a dollar and a quarter taxi to the office of global casually where Tom Wilkins was waiting for me Looks like we're bucking a pretty well organized outfit in this deal, Johnny.

The way they pulled the job shows they planted out pretty well. How did that happen, Tom? And where? The diamonds were being taken by special courier from Zurich, Switzerland to Amsterdam. They got lifted at the Zurich airport.

How? The airport was crowded. The courier was carrying the diamonds in a leather briefcase strapped to his wrist. A fight broke out suddenly. In the confusion, the courier was slugged and the case cut loose from him.

After which, the fight suddenly stopped, huh? Yeah. was obviously a rigged brawl. By the time the police arrived, the people involved had disappeared. Where the uncut diamonds sounds like their timing was pretty good. Too good. How about the courier? You got to look at the guy who slugged him?