The Virginia Beach Matter

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Now from Hollywood, it's time for Edmund O'Brien as... Johnny Daller. Uh, Carl Brewster down at East Coast. Yes, Carl. I wonder if you do a little job for us. Sure, what is it? A policyholder of ours needs some protection.

Well, I hope this doesn't indicate a trend. This is the second time an insurance company has hired me as a bodyguard. Isn't that rather unusual? Well, it's rather an unusual case. This girl, her fiancée, has spent the past five years in prison.

He's being released tomorrow and he swears that the first thing he's going to do is kill her. That's cozy. I think she deserves some help. Come on down this afternoon, we'll talk it over. Edmond O'Brien, in a transcribed adventure of the man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly Johnny Dalla. Shount submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dalla to Home Office East Coast Underwriters Hartford, Connecticut, attention Carl Brewster. The following is an accounting of my expenditures during assignment on the Virginia Beach Matter.

Expensive on item $1.5 cab fare for my apartment to your office. Well, well, your prompt, Dalla. How are you, Mr. Brewster? Or did we set any particular time? No, I guess we didn't. Well, I'm glad to see you anyway, sit down.

Thank you. Now, let's see. Oh, yes, the Browning Girl. Janice Browning. How much did I tell you over the phone? That her boyfriend was getting out of stir and was going to kill her. What you left unsaid was that she probably deserves it.