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The Caligio Diamond Matter

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · June 8, 1950 · 30 min · 5,046 words

The transcript of “The Caligio Diamond Matter”, an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar first broadcast June 8, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar plays Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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From Hollywood, it's time now for Edmund O'Brien as Johnny Dollar Hank Leshan at inter-commercial Johnny Hey, Jimmy here the Kalee's your diamond looks like a card worth about 200,000 on the open market. It's insured and it's been stolen, right?

I can't say definitely that it's been stolen, but it's gone by the past 10 They found him last night in his study Edmond O'Brien, in another transcribed adventure of the man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous Reliance Insurance Investigator, yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to the inter-commercial insurance companies of America, Home Officers, Hartford, Connecticut. Attention, Henry Mason. The following is an accounting of my expenditure during investigation of the Collegio Diamond Method.

expense account item one $1.20 taxi fare to the western part of town where the better homes are situated. Mr. Charles Benson's home was back from the street and circled with a high well-trimmed hedge. The black reef was already on the door.

A young lady very pretty in a black dress received me in the study. You're Mr. Daller? That's right. The Jason's home said you were on your way. I hate about it. I don't like this right now, Miss Bensonism. Yes, it's quite alright.

Maybe if I go over it all again it'll help me realize it. It's happened. The stand's gone. It's still like a bad dream. The beginning was when his dad bought the collegial diamond. When was that?

About three years ago in Italy. He bought it from a diamond trainer who just came into Florence from South Africa. Oh, for that interest there? No, he was just a tourist. He'd heard about this diamond from a friend of his, a collector.

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