The Port-O-Call Matter

From Hollywood, it's time to know for Edmund O'Brien, as... Johnny Daller. Bob Ratton, Johnny. Oh yeah, Bob, what's this? You're checking to see if I'm stalling on your case? Oh, nothing like that, Johnny. Well, on the way I am.

I trace one of the beneficiaries to Chicago, and I've been waiting all morning for a wire on it. We want you to drop the case. What, you capitulating? I better take another one. We carry a fifth...

When? Just a matter of hours ago. You mean all of them? Yeah, all this morning. Sure, Bob. I'll get a plane this evening. Edmond O'Brien, another adventure 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 great Eastern Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Porter Call matter. I was to count item one, $180, airfare and incidentals between Hartford and San Francisco, California.

At 11, after I'd found a hotel room and breakfast, I cabbed to police headquarters, where I was shown to robbery detail in the office of a Harried Lieutenant Clark. I'm not making excuses. They put us all balance, that's all.

We got the call from the place on Market Street at 9.15 yesterday morning, just a few minutes after they'd opened. While we were down there, the call came in from the Mission District. Same loan company, different brands.

And not 40 minutes later, the other company was here. Quite an operation. And hit the fourth one at five minutes of 11. I tell you, we had more officers on the streets than there were civilians.