The Phony Phone Matter

Johnny Deller. Art angles, international life and casually. How you doing, either? Hey, listen, Johnny, are you free to take something on for us? Art, to my boy, as long as a nice, big, wealthy company like yours just can't wait to pay my expense account.

Oh, not Johnny. Plus, a sizable fee for my superlative services. Okay, what's it all about? Murder, fraud, arson? No. Okay, then what? I don't know. Oh, you want me, but you don't know what for?

That's right, yeah. Oh, that's a switch. Actually, Johnny, it's one of our very important clients, won't you? Art, that's not a switch. He has demanded that you and only you be sent over to see him.

But he hasn't told you why. That's right. Uh-oh. Now what do you mean by that? Well, I mean, the last time I took on one of those IDN-O-Y matters, I got slugs shot at and thrown off a bridge.

Well, John, yeah. But OK, Art, I'll run on over and see you. Oh, oh, oh. CBS Radio brings you Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigate.

Yours truly... ...Shoney Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Deller. For the international life and casually insurance company Hartford, Connecticut office. Following his account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the phony phone matter.

I don't really go for these vague assignments, but international has always paid off pretty well. So Expense account item one, a dollar and a quarter for taxi over to the office of Art Engles. He was waiting outside the building for me in his car.