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The London Matter

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · June 22, 1950 · 30 min · 3,974 words

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The following is an accounting of my expenditures during investigation of the London matter. expense account item 1, $1.75, cab fare to Commonwealth Hotel. I'll give you the background as briefly as I can, Dalla. We allowed the entry of some narcotics from India into Seattle.

We've been trying to break up a big ring in the Pacific Northwest. But the stuff didn't stay there. We followed it south in the Beverly Hills. Have you ever heard of Dorothy Rivers and Broderick Green?

The woman, I think so. I saw her in a couple of plays in New York, didn't I? Yes, yes, that's the one. She's been out west for the past two years making movies. Green is her husband, a director. The narcotics went to them.

Well, to their house, at least. They must have servants. Yes, yes, they did, but that doesn't do it any good. There were four of them, but three of them have been discharged. They all had a hand in packing the trunks for this London trip.

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