Johnny Dollar.

Barron Kay, Intercoastal Maritime and Life. Why? How are things in dear old Boston? Here in Boston, fine. But Cod Harbor is something else again. Cod Harbor? It's a little fishing village up north of here up near Gloucester. Yeah, I know. I handled a case up there a couple of years ago. Oh, yes, that's right. It was for Meg McCarthy, a big, blousy, brawling old gal who ran a joint she called Meg's Palace. Well, it's Meg McCarthy. After that dingy dive, she was running, burned down. She took the insurance money and moved away. Johnny, listen. It was Meg McCarthy who called me. Oh? Yes. Insisted that I have you go up there and see her right away. Well, she's back in Cod Harbor?

And running another restaurant and rooming house. We wrote the insurance on it. What's happened up there? All she'd tell me was that if you didn't show up in a big, fat hurry, she'd cancel out on us. So what do you think? I'll tell you this. Megas used to handling things pretty much by herself. I mean, she wouldn't have called for help

unless there's something pretty serious going on.

The last time, you know, it turned used to handling things pretty much by herself. I mean, she wouldn't have called for help unless there's something pretty serious going on.

The last time, you know, it turned out to be a murder.

I know.

So if you're willing to pay my expenses...

Go to it, Johnny.

Right.

I mean...

CBS Radio brings you Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account.

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. expense accounts by special investigator johnny dollar to the intercoastal maritime and life insurance company boston office following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Silver Queen matter.

Cod Harbor is on the coast up near the famous old town of Gloucester Mass.

Transportation facilities are practically nil,

so I decided to go up there on my own car.

Item one on the old expense account then is $4.95 for gas,

and having got an early start, I arrived there shortly afternoon.

It's quite a colorful spot, Codd Harbor.

If you could somehow manage to lose your sense of smell,

or maybe if you were an artist, bent on painting a picturesque waterfront.

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