2025-01-24
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if you got any leads anything to go on yeah johnny plenty then i'll grab the first plane yeah you'd better bob bailey in the exciting adventures of a man with the action fact expense account america's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly johnny dollar act one of yours truly johnny dollar expense accounts submitted by special investigator johnny dollar to the mid-eastern life and casualty insurance company home office harford connecticut following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the merry grace matter expense account item one ten cents phone called to the airport to reserve a seat on the first plane to new york item two phone called event parent at the claims department of mid-eastern life and this is johnny dollar oh hello john listen i'm on my way down to new york at your company's expense
though the expense part is beside the point now just wait a merry grace marshal has just been murdered marshal your company holds a policy on her and i'm going down there to investigate well now wait john until we issue proper authorization for you to conduct the investigation don't give me that man i'm going down there now well then it's completely without sanction from this or any other okay okay forget it i was trying to save time and i thought i was doing you a favor well i suppose you are but until a request for your services can be i said forget it didn't you hear me i gotta go gotta catch a plane well for heaven's sake man what are you so up in arms about why you're so concerned about this particular
because that girl was a personal friend of mine a very dear friend oh john i'm sorry i can see now why you're so upset yeah i'm upset why all means go ahead officially and
if there's anything i can do yeah there is you can stop all this yammering so i can hang up and get out of here goodbye john yeah what now you really cared for that girl didn't you yeah ben i cared expensive con item three nine twenty cab to the airport and plane ticket to new york the trip down there gave me time to think i was thinking about it hurts mary grace marshal tall brunette they're very beautiful and a straighter girl
as i'd ever know there was a time a few years ago and i'd hope she might marry me but she wanted to stay with her successful career as a fashion designer and she was right i'm not the marrying type evening so we just remain friends we had a lot of fun together it is dancing an occasional night club sometimes along here stuff a recital or the opera i go to the zoo or the circus a boxing match or a baseball game i just go for a quiet walk in the park and often just a long quiet evening in her apartment over a tall cool drink in good conversation a good night kiss sure but that is all now she was gone and believed me somebody was going to pay item four six dollars even for a fast taxi to the 18th precinct headquarters and sergeant randy singer come on in johnny close the door sure hi better sit down now yeah all right when did happen randy and how you set on the phone you have some leads clues all over the place they all point toward one person toward the one person known to have been withered about the time the coroner says she was killed how was she killed struggle fell and struck her head on the base of the fireplace cigarette johnny oh yeah thanks incidentally so far i've been able to keep this thing out of the papers oh hey give me a light will you huh i seem to have forgotten my lighter yeah you have here thanks now the coroner says she was killed sunday night late what by somebody you must have spent several hours with him you said late sunday night that's it go on johnny hey look stop snapping
that lighter and wait a minute where'd you get that according to all the evidence it was left behind by whoever murdered mary grace marshall here look familiar are you crazy this lighter is mine i yeah johnny i know and now act two of yours truly johnny dollar and the mary grace matter mary grace marshall an old friend a very dear one murdered in her new york apartment on east 77th street sergeant randy singham my old friend at 18th precinct homicide had called me immediately and when i got there showed me a very damning piece of evidence presented a special investigator johnny dollar by the international sure of course it's my lighter and i must have left it and mary grace's apartment sunday night but that certainly doesn't mean
that i killed her coroner says she died about the same time you were there oh how do you know what time i was there wife of charlie walker the building superintendent johnny she saw you leave that isn't enough evidence to convict a fly and you know it there's plenty more yeah like what your fingerprints all over the place sure i took a red butt same brand you smoke so what is
that a lot of them johnny like a very nervous smoke well i was with her all evening doing what oh now look randy surely you can't be serious you can't think for a minute look johnny this is my case nobody else's i'm keeping it that way i've kept it out of the papers i think you know why oh sure sure i know why
because we've been buddy buddy for so long you want to be sure
that if anybody hangs me you will for old times i ask you what you were doing let me tell you something randy that girl meant a lot to me what for you so shut up tell me what other evidence you have what you know
that can help me find out who i'm sorry randy sure it's it's your job i'd probably do the same thing to you under the circumstances
if you didn't i wouldn't have any use for you but don't you see okay look look we spent sunday afternoon at the zoo the Bronx zoo went up on the subway we walked a lot got pretty tired i promised her a dinner at the sham board over on third avenue but she said she had some food at the apartment so we went back there then we just sat around and talk played some music that's all and had some drinks yeah i picked up a bottle of scotch in a way how many drinks oh one of two light ones is all sorry johnny that bottle was nearly empty but that's him who discovered the body mrs walker wife of the apartment super the one who saw you leave shortly after hearing the screams that made her scream yeah that made her finally go up and look in the marshall girls apart crazy randy are lying can you prove it i'd like to talk to
that woman i think she's off a rocker if she told you she what'd you say i think you ought to see her huh but
if i'm your big suspect sure you are until you can help me prove i'm wrong we drove over to the place on 77th street in the prowl car everything was exactly