The Hollywood Mystery Matter

From Hollywood. It's time now for... Johnny Deller. What? Hollywood? What insurance company, Mr. Barron? No. Yeah, I guess I do. Well, I am sure that they'll be calling you in shortly. What about, sir? A little matter of investment.

Your connected with Berkeley furniture? No. Then what's your connection with this investment? You sent in Hollywood. Yes. Goodbye, Mr. Deller. Yeah, but where in Hollywood? Hello? Hello? Oh, he's a lot of help. Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-backed expense account.

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. It was truly... ...Shoney Dollar. And now Act 1 of yours truly... ...Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar. To the Eastern liability and trust company Home Office Hartford, Connecticut.

Following his account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Hollywood mystery matter. Expense account item one ten cents for a phone call to Hal Spidell, who's my regular contact at Eastern Liability and Trust.

Well, hi, Johnny. Nice to talk to you again. Yeah, nice to talk to you, Hal. Listen, have you received a report of loss from the Berkeley Furniture Manufacturing Company? Well, they're a client of ours, but no, what makes you ask a thing like that?

The phone call I just got. They called you direct? Now somebody did, a man by the name of Pizer. You're a good guy. Johnny, are you company? Yeah, a company. In Besselman, ten thousand. And how you found out about it, will you?

Hal, we'll do. Yeah, my informant, the man who'd called me, had really known something. But how to locate him? Item two, $1.45, taxi to the Berkeley Plan on the northwest edge of town. It's a small company, but a no one.