The Phantom Chase Matter - Ep 3 (3rd of 9)

From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny Della where you've been Quintana you were supposed to contact me again later last night What's complicated about it, I'm looking for a guy named Tom Chase you claim he's here in New Orleans under the name Tom James For 500 bucks. You'll tell me where he's hiding

I think you're stalling So that letter his last night, didn't you? Yeah, it's Chase's handwriting, all right. I'll find him again by tonight. You know how bar we met in? Ace's Castle. Be there 10 o'clock tonight, with the dough.

OK, but you'd better produce Quintana. I don't have much time. If Chase finds out I'm trying to put the finger on him, neither will I. 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 New Orleans, to the Home Office Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment? The Phantom Chase Matter. Expense account continued. Item 8, 425.

Long distance call to Pat McCracken at Universal Adjustment Bureau in Hartford. Pat agreed that 500 was a small price to pay if it got us a man who'd embezzled 120,000 from a New York investment outfit.

Item 9, 370, phone call to George Everson, senior partner of the investment outfit in New York. It was Everson who'd spotted a newspaper picture of a New Orleans bar with a man in the background who looked to him like Chase.

Everson had been afraid he was sending me on a wild goose chase, and he was happy to hear his wild goose had just laid a golden egg. Item $10, $2, a sort of newspapers and magazines to kill Tom.