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The Deadly Doubt Matter

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · January 11, 1959 · 20 min · 2,179 words

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Johnny Dollar. Look, Miss Carson, is it? Yes, Calcard. Yeah, it's nice talking to you and all that, but it is rather late. Action, Fact, Expensacout. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yes, truly. John... Commence accounts have been advised by special investigator, Johnny Dollar. The Universal Adjustment Bureau Home Office, Hartford, Connecticut. Following his account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the deadly doubt matter.

expense account on a one-dollar ad camp from my hotel to the apartment I ever read on E-67. Carol Carson was waiting for me at the door she looked sort of dazed as she pointed to a body on the floor. He's dead to dollar. Ever read?

Yes. This is his apartment. You said over the phone you thought you'd kill. That's not what I meant. I meant I thought I was the one who killed him. I'm not sure. Oh. I had... Dad, I just had some.

Not making much sense. Funny. My head is... Oh, I had to get out of the beginning. I came to see Everett tonight about 11 o'clock, I guess. He was a friend of yours? He sent for me and... I had to come.

Why, and telling me why? A sister that I have a drink with him, then I started to feel funny. How so? Dizzy. I had to get some air. You think there was something in the drink?

There must have been. He didn't want me to leave, but I had to. What time was it? When I was 30, I think a little before maybe. Draw. I wandered around the street. I was in kind of a day.

How long were you wandering around? It seemed like a long time. Then what? I came back here to the apartment. I had a terrible headache. I remember walking in the door and that's all. That's all I remember. I must have passed out. When I came to, I was lying on the floor and that gun was near my hand.

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