From Hollywood, it's time now for Edmund O'Brien as...

Johnny Dollar.

This is Willis Dunhill, Mr. Dollar.

I took Marvin Shields place at the Plymouth Life Insurance Company.

Oh, yes. Yes, I read about that in the journal, Mr. Dunner. I'm glad to hear from you.

Thank you. I'm told you've done a lot of work for the company.

Yes, I've handled a few things.

I have an assignment for you now if you're available.

I have an appointment of ten, but I'll be free by noon if that's all right.

What's the case?

Well, a policyholder, Millard Ward, was stabbed to death.

He was a boson on a ship, and according to the cable the crewman who killed him as being held.

His name is Louis Radnick. Sounds open and shut, Mr. Dunhill. Is there an

insurance angle? Possibly, yes. Something about Radnick and the dead man's wife. The ship is due

in New Orleans tomorrow afternoon, and we'd like you to go down and look it over.

Edmund O'Brien, in a transcribed adventure of the man with the action-packed expense account.

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

Expense account submitted by special investigator johnny dollar to home office plymouth insurance company hartford connecticut the following is a claim of expenditure during my investigation of the millard ward matter

expense account item one a hundred eighteen dollars and forty cents half-and incidentals between Hartford and New Orleans.

When I got there, the newspapers were bantering the expected arrival of what they called a death ship.

And at four that afternoon, I was standing with two homicide men on the edge of a crowd of the curious,

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