The Edward French Matter

From Hollywood it's time now for Edmundo Bryan as Johnny dollar Speaking who is this? Oh, I'm sorry for my explosive greeting. Mrs. French is a habit I've gotten into is Mr. Dalla from the insurance company Well, I guess they haven't got around to writing about it They sent me here to talk to you about your son

And if we decide there are grounds for your fears about him They've given me authority to go out to the melee states and investigate the situation I'll come out to see about one-thirty then this is French Edmond O'Brien in the Transcribe to ensure the man with the action-packed expense account, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

It was truly Johnny Dallas. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dallas to Home Office Tri-State Insurance Group, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Edward French matter.

Expense account item $195 air fan incidentals between Hartford and Chicago, the home of Edward French's mother. There the story went about as follows. Edward French had left the States after the war and gone to the melee states where he managed to tea plantation concentrating on sales to a buyer for the dual tea company. He married

an English girl and their life seemed pleasant enough but her letter from a constable Wicklow had reported the abrupt end of that. Edward on a business trip to Singapore had disappeared. The current crop of melee guerrillas was suspected, but there was not one clue as to whether he was alive or dead.

Spencer County on three twelve hundred eighty three dollars airfare to Singapore. It was almost a week later that I just sold my way through the crowded streets to the office of the dual T buyer, Mr. Leaps.