The Peerless Fire Matter

From Hollywood. It's time now for... Johnny Dollar. You smell smoke, Johnny? What do you think? Who is that? This is how they will be at four-state mutual insurance. Oh, hi, Hank. And I asked if you smell smoke.

Should I? What kind? The guy $5,000 makes when it goes up in flames. Where? Over... Chiangchia. That's right. But if there's only the $5,000 law, how can you afford me? Because what I smell is arson.

Whoa! In the exciting adventures of a man with the action-backed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yours truly? Johnny Dollar. And now Act 1 of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar.

To the Four State Mutual Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. Following his in account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the peerless fire matter. Expense account item 1, a dollar even cab to Hank Willoughby's office in the Security National Building, where he lost no time in getting to the point.

policy was taken up by one Oscar H. Laman about four years ago. He's the owner of the junkyard address of the yard his corner of Howard and Kingsway Boulevard. And why do you suspect arson? I'll try it in start until about four o'clock this morning when I got hit of the office a few minutes after nine the claim was already on my desk almost as though

he'd had it filled out and waiting even before the fire occurred. Precisely. How much do you know about this man Well, nothing really on set of the data on the policy. His home address is 232 East 4th Street.

Also in Cranford. Yeah. Okay, Hank, I'll see what I can see. Item 240 cents phone call to make sure the suspect, or at this point I guess I better call him a client, to make sure he'd be around for questions.