The Paperback Mystery Matter

Johnny Dollar. Hi Johnny, this is Fred Risco. Continental Insurance Company. That's right. In Boston, Mass. Yes. Well, it's nice to hear your voice again, Freddie. Only why doesn't somebody call me from somewhere where it's nice and warm this time of year?

Well, I have a little insurance problem. Tell me all. Prepared? CBS Radio brings you Bob Redick in the exciting 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 to the continental insurance company Boston office. Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the paperback mystery matter. I decided it might be smart to have my own car along so expense account item one is

four twenty for a thankful of gas and less than four hours after I talked with Fred Brisco on the phone I was in his office on Commonwealth Avenue there in Boston, an end over a lunch at the famous old Union Oysterhouse.

Is that another half dozen on the half shell, Johnny? Were you kidding? But I sure love the seafood in this town of yours. Who doesn't? No, but I certainly wish Mr. Gerson would get here.

I ought to be back at the office. Gerson, that's your client? Yes. Henry R. Gerson. He wants to tell you all about his worries himself. And I'm sure the only reason he insisted on meeting us here to catch a free lunch with that kind.

Johnny, that old crook is worth millions. You never know it. By the way, he lives and dresses. By that ramshackle-old apartment he lives in. He said crook, I did. Every penny that old miser ever got hold of and still has, for the most part, came from some dirty deal that he put over on somebody,