This you can really call a fish story.

And I was a live bait.

This is another in the adventures of America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar.

At insurance investigation, Johnny Dollar is only an expert.

At making out his expense account,

he's an absolute genius.

Expense account, to make an absolute genius. Expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny Dollar to Intercontinental Marine Insurance Company Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of my expenditures

during assignment in San Pedro, California, investigating the loss of two pieces of property insured by you.

Or the tuna were running and so was everybody else.

Or, I caught a fishing boat, but you should have seen the one that got away.

Prentz account item one, $176.877.

Airfare from home base in Hartford to off base in California.

Expense account item two, $10.

Cab fare, Los Angeles Municipal Airport to the waterfront office

to the Pacific Deep Sea Canning Company in San Pedro.

There was perfume in the air.

Channel number five.

Inside, the name on the door said Walton.

That's who I wanted to see, so I walked in.

Well, who are you?

I'm here to follow up the claim you made to Intercontinental Marine Insurance Company.

My name is Johnny Dollar.

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