The Silent Queen Matter - Ep 5

From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar a good morning, Mr. Dollar. This is Milo Remember oh Milo Martin the agent. Yeah. Yes. I've just read about that terrible affair about Jarvis pocket Yeah, he didn't even make it to the hospital and you mr. Dollar the killer tried to do away with you, too

All I got was a nice crack on the head and I'm not so nice dunking in the canal. You were fortunate, Mr Dollar extremely fortunate. Yeah, yeah anything else you wanted to talk about Milo?

Oh yes, I'm sorry I wasn't at the office when you called earlier. But your secretary gave me part of the information I was after. She remembered a man had phoned your office yesterday. Yes, she said he was a business associate of someone named Joseph Fallon. I was out of the time but he did leave that message.

What I wanted to know is did he ever call back? No, no he didn't. He probably will, unless he figures he's already found his pigeon. Digin' what for? Blackmail, Mr. Martin. Blackmail. 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. Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar, location ocean park, California. To state unity life, home office, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment, the silent queen matter. Expense account, final page.

27 years ago, somebody had hired one Joe Fallon to murder Tom Sanford, the husband of Silent Movie Star, Mavis Gayle. But Joe had muffed the job. Now that somebody had turned killer himself. His first victim, Tom Sanford, who'd been going under the name of Barney Slade and running a penny arcade in Ocean Park.