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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Dixon Murder Matter (EP1381) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time for today's episode of
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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Original air dight June sixteenth, nineteen fifty seven,
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and the title is the Dixon Murder Matter from Hollywood. It's time now for
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Johnny Dollar. The faces are loaded. There's nobody at what and you're pinching
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Johnny boy, bur my girl, yep, what's in your mind? For
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you? In a job. You didn't finish a job, I didn't.
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What are you talking about it? Donation diction matter? Remember for sure,
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Ruth Dixon's body was found on Newport Beach. You didn't find out who killed
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it, Johnny. I figured that was the job for the police. They
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want to talk to you about that, and so do we. Oh?
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Yeah, Ruth Dixon was insured with our company? How much on thousand dollars?
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One thousand? You don't expect me to go back to Newport for the
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commission? I'll make God Dad, do you no? But if you'll go,
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we'll put the bill. Oh, how come tell you when you get
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here? Interested? Yeah? Now, Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of
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the Man with the action packed expense to cause America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators,
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Truly Johnny Dollar, no act one of yours, Truly Johnny Dollars. Expense
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account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, the Providential Assurance Company, three nine
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three Dewey Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is the account of expenses
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incurred during my investigation of the Dixon murder matter. Expense account out of won
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a dollar and twenty cents taxi from my apartment to the Providential building along the
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way. I did some thinking. A week ago, a girl's body had
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been found on Newport Beach. The Masons and the Dixons had each identified it
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as the body of their missing daughter. I managed to locate the Mason girl.
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That meant that Ruth Dixon was the girl on the beach who had killed
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Ruth. Well, I didn't figure that was my job, but evidently the
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brands that Providential did. Why Well, I hope Bert McGraw would tell me,
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Oh, Johnny, I mean me, eh, morning, Bert,
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about this diction matter. I suppose you're wondering why we're so anxious for you
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to go back to Newport, while I am kind of curious. Well,
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I told you Ruth Dixon was insured with our company, But are only one
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thousand dollars. You'd save money by paying it off and forgetting it maybe,
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but it isn't that easy. Oh why on because of the Newport Police for
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one thing? Or what have they got to do with her insurance? Well,
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not a thing, but they have got plenty to do with our company
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and its representatives, and last week you were one of them. So the
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Newport Police Captain Lewis of homicide. To be exact, cold here this morning,
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ost Lewis Miller was the man I worked with. Lewis took over because
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Miller didn't follow up on you, and he's very unhappy with you, Johnny.
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I can't imagine why. Now, Well, Captain Lewis says you left
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Newport without giving his office all the information you had on the Mason girl.
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The Mason girl, what she got to do with the Dixon investigators. Well,
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how should I know? Dollar Mason didn't even know Ruth Dixon. Lewis
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says different. But that's beside the point. We can't afford to have any
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police department in this country feeling the the Newport boys do about our investigators.
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Oh, come on now, Bird, it isn't at all. That's serious,
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Johnny. We have to have police cooperation, and we can't force them
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to cooperate, so we try to build up a sufficient amount of goodwill.
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But burn Now it's too late to apologize, apollow. Captain Lewis chewed out
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my boss. My boss did it to me, and I have orders to
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do it to you, Okay, So get it over with. Well,
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i I'm almost through, except that no matter what it couses. It's gonna
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be worth it to have good will restore it. You understand, sure,
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And whatever you do in Newport, please keep Captain Lewis informed. See if
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you stumble on to something that might lead to the Dixon Girls killer, tell
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Lewis about it. Okay for it? Whatever you say? Oh no,
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hard feelings, Johnny, No, no, no, everything's just fun.
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Good boy, glad to see you understand. For an expense account like the
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one you're going to get, I can understand the theory of relativity. I
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took a camp back to my apartment that side of two it him three eighteen
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dollars and fifty cents transportation of Newport, Rhode Island. After checking into the
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Ogden Hotel, I called headquarters. Captain Lewis wasn't in, so I left
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a message asking him to call me. Then I called the girl in question,
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Darla Mason. Johnny, Hi, what are you doing back in the
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new Park? Oh? Just winding up a little unfinished business. Nothing to
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do with me, I hope, No, not a thing, uh,
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Darla? Yeah, if you're not busy then night. Why don't you meet
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me for dinner? Why? Johnny? I love you? Fine? You
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say where. Well, how about the chat eight. I can take the
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cruiser from my doc and after dinner we can go for a ride on the
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bay. That sounds great. See you at eight ten. Hi, bye
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bye. Expense account it him four fifteen dollars worth of American beauty roses for
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Ruth Dixon's mother. I rented a car and drove out to the Dixon home.
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The moment I stepped into the house, I could smell the heavy,
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sweet odor of oriental incense. While missus Dixon put the flowers in water,
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I located the source of the incense. It came from an ornate burner on
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the mantel in the living room. Behind the burner, draped in black,
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was a large photograph of Ruth Dixon, and on each side of the photograph
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were two lighted candles. Oh, mister Dalla, these are the most beautiful
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ruses I've ever seen. Well, uh, I'm glad you liked them.
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Oh yeah, Ruth, Ruth too. I beg your pardon, I said,
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Ruth will like them too. I'll take them to her in the morning,
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that is, if you don't mind. Oh no, no, not
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at all, mister Dona. I don't know how you've see in about such
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things. But I believe those who passed someone never really leave. What do
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you think? Well, I uh, I haven't given much thought to the
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subject, but you should. Ruth will appreciate these rouses. There's much a
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more than she ever would have. Do you believe best? Well? I
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am well, I didn't know Ruth when she was a lot. Once she
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was here. Oh that's right, you didn't. Well, she's still here.
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And if there's any doubt in your mind, why you just come with
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me and visit Madame Dessalle. Madame dessal. Yeah, she's been such a
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help and comfort to me this past few days. Well, without her and
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her teaching, I'd have been completely lost. This Madame Dessalle, what is
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she? She's just an ordinary person, but she has wonderful arcult powers.
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She can see beyond the rail, mister Dalla, and she's promised to let
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me seek to Ruth as soon as the condition the ride. Do you know
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what Nevill did seal in here? Henry? Oh, excuse mister Dollar,
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I have to put out good scandal. Henry doesn't believe like we do.
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Why again, haven't your women? No, Henry, open the windows,
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get the smoke and the smell out of Oh, mister Dollar, after ass
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diition, what are you doing back in Newport? He's trying to find a
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man that caused our girl to pass on. Oh she didn't pass on,
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Lucille, she died, Henry. Really well, anyway, I wish you
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lost, mister Dollar. I have a hunch I'm going to need it,
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mister Dixon, mister Dollar, wouldn't you like to stay to dinner? We
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aren't having anything since they just let me boiled cabbage head? Oh my no,
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what why? I just remembered why I burned that intense And it wasn't
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what you thought, Henry Dixon. It was on account of the cabbage.
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It covers the smell. That's not the truth, and you know it.
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Oh now look at that mantle, mister Dollar. She's made a regular shrine
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out of it. Looks like a heathen alder. Henry, Well, it's
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the truth. And I wouldn't blame mister Dollar if he was afraid the state
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of dinner with a woman like you around, You aren't afraid to stay on,
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mister do No, of course not. But I do have another engagement.
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Oh well, anytime you can come, you just let us know.
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Yes, thanks, I'll remember, well, you excuse me, you will,
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and you open the windows in the back, yes, Henry, oh,
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yes, when Madame Destall arranges, that's all. When Madame Desaul arranges
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for me to talk to Ruth, I'll let you know what she says.
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Good evening. Who're there. She hasn't been the same since Ruth's body was
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found on the beach, mister Dixon. According to the medical examiner, Ruth's
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body was in the ocean for approximate six weeks. That's right. Do you
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remember if Ruth was going with anyone in particular just before the time she disappeared.
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The police asked me the same question. I couldn't answer. Do you
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mean you don't remember? I mean that Ruth wasn't the girl that he tied
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down to one man and anymore. And she's content to live like she had
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to after my health failed. Did she date very often? Well, you
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know, she worked as a hostess at the yacht club. She met a
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lot of rich young men there, and if you asked me, she dated
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too much. Of course, her mother took Ruth's side, said she had
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to she was ever going to get herself a husband. But she went with
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no one in particular. No, she never settled down enough. Ah what
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about her friends, mister Dixon, was there's someone she might have confided in.
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She didn't have any girlfriends like men a lot better? Ah, Oh
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there was somebody. Well, I expect you could say he was her friend
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too old, who had been boyfriend. Besides, he doesn't have enough money
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for is he His name Sam Hood? He runs a small craft repair shop
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down by Viking Beach Viking Beaches on the Atlantic side of Newport, approximately a
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mile from Land's End, where the Dixon girl's body had been washed the shore.
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Once there, I didn't have any trouble locating. Sam Hood's repair shop
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was on the end of a large wharf. For a moment, I thought
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the wharf was deserted, and I heard it throw the wharf sitting over on
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the water with an old converted peatea boat. I'm standing on deck, tickering
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with the controls with a heavy set man wearing thick glasses and greasy dungarease.
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I was about to call him when he looked up at noon. I can
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I help it? Yeah, I hope. So I'm looking for Sam Hood.
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Yeah go on, Oh fine, you're not doing anything for I'm his
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brother. Leroy. Wow, yeah, Leroy, maybe you can't. You
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want me to come up, and you're gonna come down. I'll come down.
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But how do I do it? Yeah? Over? You left there?
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Oh sure you're a stranger around here, ain't you. Yeah, that's
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right. Well, I'm always glad to meet up with a stranger. This
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is such a little bitty place. Most everybody along the waterfronts heard everybody else.
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The's story is a minute time until it's sick of it. What did
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you say? Your name was? It's Dollar, Johnny Dollar. Well,
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welcome aboard the Cornormore, mister Dollar, Connomore. That's an odd name for
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a book. Sure, here's anything, but I found it in a book.
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Sure, Fitzer, and me too. Where are you lying? The
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dollar? I'm an insurance investigator. Whoa, Now that must be mighty interesting
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work. Yeah, sometimes you get you to back. Oh thanks? Oh
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well, I got a brand new plug around you here. He'd had it
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out of the wrapper. So if you want something, oh thanks? You
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sure missing something? Yeah? Yeah? Here? What did you say?
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I said? The colon went fancy yacht. But she's all mine in Sam's
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and I'm proud of uh where did you say your brother was they were Sam?
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Oh, he's just my folks down in Augusta. I would have gone
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too, but somebody had to stay in mine the store. Yeah, you
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know when they would be back, not for sure, but anything Sam knows
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about soul I we got real running miles in our family. Tell me,
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Leroy, did you know a girl named Ruth Dixon? Nor one? Just
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that took my hat to But Sam did that, sir? That gallon Sam.
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He used to set up there on the wharf looking out to a Booster
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Island and they talk, talk talk. You know what about you all been
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radio like? Brother? Yeah, Leroy, you told me a moment ago.
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Sam couldn't keep a secret. Well, he said she was full of
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dreams. Man, you asked me she was nothing but another too, Timon,
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just like all of them. Oh that's not a very good opinion of
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herly Roy, I can't help it. Sam was crazy for her, but
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she didn't let all watch. She knew it. How did your brother take
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the news of her death? Oh? Just awful that when I left town,
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yep, Sam on a thirty eight revolver le Roy. Sure, most
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everybody who has a boat on something like that. But Hey, wait a
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minute, you getting ideas. No, I'm just asking questions. Oh well,
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Sam couldn't kill the I know it? What makes you so sure?
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Well, because he's my brother, and how he was so broken when he
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heard about Rufe. Why would you suppose anybody'd want to put a bullet and
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he put it? Yeah, I like that. I don't know, LEI,
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I don't know. I asked him a few more questions, watched him
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chase the seagulls off the rainting once more, then left. At seven forty
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five, I was sitting in the hot club bar waiting for Dalla Mason.
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At eight thirty I was still waiting, and at nine thirty I gave up
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and went back to my hotel. I hadn't been in my room ten minutes
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before something started founding on the door. A Dad, I know it there?
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Hey, yeah, who is it? Capital? And open up?
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Uh? Good evening, Kevin, Nothing good about huh? Fine thing you
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pulled? You come over here to help, Then you go gallivant and all
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point nobody can find. I called your office as soon as I hit town
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because the people you're working for in Hartford told you to Now look that insurance
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agent said you were skeptical about there being a connection between the Mason and the
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Dixon. Ice still am, you won't be when I tell you what happened
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earlier this evening a chase. So what happened. Vlamason was shot and the
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bullet came from the same gun that killed Ruth. Six back too of yours,
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truly giant dollar in a moment. It is a very well known fact
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that symbols are important to men everywhere, whether they be symbols of the country,
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religion, or honor. They're a cherished part of the culture and tradition
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of all peoples, as in almost all countries of the world. The people
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of Spain are very religious, and in the Spanish town of Vendrel, the
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people were having difficulty with a symbol, a three hundred pound angel sitting on
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top of one hundred and fifty foot church people. The angel had been there
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since seventeen eighty four and needed repairs keep it from falling down on the heads
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of the parishioners. But one hundred and fifty feet is a long way up
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and three hundred pounds or a lot of weight to bring down, and it
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was a great deal of head scratching over the problem until someone casually mentioned the
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problem to someone else who happened at the stationed at the United States Air Force
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Base in Zaragoza, Spain. It wasn't long before visions of a helicopter came
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to mind. Because Americans liked to help other people everywhere, the Air Force
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whirliford lifted the angel from the church people, brought it down for repairs,
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and later returned it to its perch. So grateful were the people of Vendrel
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for this active friendly cooperation that they held a mass celebration of American Day to
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show their appreciation. Television and newsreels carried the story of kindness, so that
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the newspapers and magazine throughout stain. This gesture on the part of the United
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States Air Force created a new symbol, a symbol of friendship and understanding that
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became a symbol of freedom, the right of all men everywhere. Now Act
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two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar and the Dixon Murder about her yeah expense
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account adam six twenty cents for two cups of coffee of the Righte Caffe near
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my hotel or Captain Lewis proceeded to give me the details surrounding the shooting of
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Jalla Mason. She had been on her way down to the Mason Boathouse,
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where she planned to take the cruiser across the bay of the yut Pumment.
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As she neared the boathouse, someone had fired at her, and the bullets
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that wounded her came from the same gun that killed Ruth Dixon. So there
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was a connection between the Mason Dixon girls. And if you want more proof,
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I have, like, what, well if both bend a good deal
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of their time at the yacht club, Yeah, but for a slightly different
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reason. Ruth worked there before she was killed. But you must have known
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Dla. They's no, no, that's no good, Captain. You go
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to the district attorney with that kind of evidence and he'll throw you out of
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his office. He'll want proof they knew each other. And how well?
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Yeah, I suppose what about Darla? When can we see her? Will
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the doctors tell us we can? She still asked me regained consciousness. Hey,
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captain, do you know whether Masons have the work done on their cruising?
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Yeah? And that's another thing. That's Sam Hood's place. Have you
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questioned him? Never had a chance to Gordy was brother. He's away on
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some sort of vacation down Georgia. Left the David Dixon girl's body was identified.
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Are you sure he's still in Georgia? Well, I can ask the
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gust To Believes to check up on him if he is, have them tell
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him about Darla being shot up and find out if he knew her. Okay,
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well you ready? Yeah? No one was seen calling around the Mason
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place tonight. Nobody else was down at the boat house. Thanks Johnny for
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sure. Then stop being so formal. My name's Pete. Talk. Well,
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I guess we've done all we can for a while. I'm not so
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sure here, what do you mean? I'm not sure about that either,
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But I have an idea or maybe I ought to call it a hunch about
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what Well, I like to sleep on it first, If it's all the
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same to you? Have I had anything to say in the matter, help,
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not a bet. It was late and I was tired, so I
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did the obvious thing and went to bed. Really the next morning I called
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the hospital. Dalla Mason had regained consciousness and would recover, but she couldn't
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be questioned for another two or three days. So I finished dressing and went
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down for breakfast. I was crossing the lobby when someone called me. Oh,
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missus Dixon, just see you. Well you should have called out of
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come right down. Oh I was afraid i'd wake you up, and I
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didn't want to do that. It's very thoughtful of you. Dollar. Is
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there some place we can go and talk? Well, it's my room.
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Oh no, I mean when it wouldn't look right you know what? Oh
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yeah, well and how about over here? Looks like a nice quiet CRD.
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Yeah, this will do nicely, mister Dollar. Remember I told you
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about Madam Dassol. Yes, I remember that. Would you like to sit
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down? Oh no, I'm too excited to see. Excited about what well
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I've been trying to tell you about maddingdissol on what happened last night? What
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did happen? The conditions will write? I think that the conditions they will
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write. Remember I told you Madam was going to let this speak to Ruth
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when the conditions were right. Well they were last night. Oh well,
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aren't you interested in what we had to say? Oh? Yes, yes,
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I am missus Dick. She told me who killed her? Mister Dollar?
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What? Yes, just as Layne I heard it from Ruth, And
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there's no doubt about it. It was her vones, all right, Missus
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Dixon. Exactly what did Ruth say about the person who murdered her? Oh,
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Ruth described her to a teach her. She said it was a woman,
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young, dark hair, brown eyes, and a big red scar on
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the back of her left hand. I see you seem disappointed, mister dol
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I guess I was doing a little wishful thinking, Missus Dixon. Well,
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wishful thinking or not. Ruth told me who it was that killed her or
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her name too, Well, she didn't know her name, but what big
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red scar. Now you find a woman who has a thing like that on
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the back of her left hand, and you will have the guilty party.
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Yes, well, I'll look for someone like that today, Missus Dixon.
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Now come on, I'll buy you some breakfast. An hour later, back
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in my room, I put in a call to Captain Lewis Johnny wanting Pete
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anything new. Well, we heard from the Augusta police. Yeah, Sam
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Hood's and Augusta all right, been there for over a week. Uh huh
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Did they ask him if he knew the Mason? Girl said? Hee did?
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Said the Mason's huge let him and his brother serve as a cruiser.
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Uh huh, Johnny, when are you gonna stop playing games and tell me
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your idea? Hunts you mean, Pete, And I'll tell you just as
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soon as I get back from the library. Library. And while you're waiting.
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Called back to the Augusta police. Have them get hold of sam Hood
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again? What for? Ask him who named his boat? Why? Yeah,
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ask him if it was his idea the name of the Conomoar or his
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brother? Johnny? Are you feeling all right? I ever felt better,
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and I'm seeing About an hour. I found what I was looking for in
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the library, then went back to Captain Lewis's office and told him what I
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was now beginning to believe. While I was there, sam Hood called from
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Augusta with the answer the question the police had asked him. Then I went
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along down to the wharf on biking beach. Roy Hood was spoiled lazily over
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the deck of the Economoir, trying to sleep and at the same time keep
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an eye on a fishing line he tossed over the side. I started down
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the steps toward the boat well door fall. I damn the don dam morning
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leroy man. I sure didn't think you'd be back down here so soon.
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You don't Sammy back it? Yeah, I know you haven't any luck.
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No, no, no, just make him believe a real pasion. You
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got to go out beyond Gooseberry Island. How about taking me someday? Why?
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Sure, man, you just say the hood and we'll go right now.
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No, no, I'm afraid I couldn't do that this morning, Leroy.
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Well you just livedn't know any time? Yeah? How fast this boat
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cruise? Twenty five? Nuts? I ain't had some fastest boat queen here
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in the Navy station. How long would it take you to get over to
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the Mason Horman back again? Why? I wouldn't take no time at all?
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I come, yes, that did you know Dlamation was shot last night?
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Heard something about it? Yeah? Do you know Dlamation? Leroy?
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How could I know somebody? I said? I don't know. But if
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you didn't know her, why did you try to kill her last night?
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You're joking all? Not a bet? Oh? Come on now, man,
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what do you mean I tried to kill her last night? That's what
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I said. That ain't funny. They didn't want diffunny, But it's the
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truth, isn't it the truth? Now? Who told you that? Dollar?
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What? But she couldn't No, why not calls the paper Station's still
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unconscious. Besides, she couldn't see nobody around that Boo High. Last night
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was too dark because it was the night she killed Ruth Dixon. You know
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you beginning to get me riled. Dollars. It's your soul coming around,
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even all kinds of last thing. And I killed Ruth Dixon. I didn't
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said your brother, did Sam? Oh Man? Now you really lying?
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Sam's in Augusta. You ain't. He talked to him on the fall this
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morning. He told us about you and Ruth Dixon and the Mason girl and
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every other woman who comes around here. Well, just because I try to
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make a little time with him, I don't mean not killed nobody. Sam
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told us different, Leroy. He told us that you can't stand to have
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a woman laugh at you. Every time a girl has, You've tried your
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best to make a sorry for it. He really you really did talk to
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see him? What do you think? Why would you tell on me?
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Why he never has before? He didn't want to lee Roy. That's why
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I left here when he did. He needed time to think decide what to
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do about his brother. About you? What's gonna do about it? What
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I have to do? Take you in? No nobody taking me inwhere I
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don't want to go anybody? All right? Where I come out of there?
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You've got to go past off at me? Where I come back?
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Johnny? You all right? Oh yeah, I'm just fine, Come on
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all over. Yeah, Captain, I know, tell me something. If
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I can, we'll put you onto him in the first place. Two things,
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you see, he liked the girls, wanted to be a lady killer,
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but they only laugh at him, and he couldn't stand that, I
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see. But the big thing is what he named this boat. I don't
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get it. Oh, man like Leroy, not much education. He'd have
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to have a real reason for wanting to name it that. But why what's
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so special about that? You ever hear of Bluebeard? Lady killer? Sure
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well, Conomore was his real name. I saw Missus Dixon late that same
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afternoon. I'm afraid she was a fit disillusion, having been so sure that
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the person who had killed her daughter was a woman. But there was one
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funny thing on the back of LeRoy's left hand, with a long red scar.
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Expense account total including car rental Hotel Billin transportation back to Hydred nine hundred
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and sixty eight dollars and twenty cents. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Now
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here is our star. I'll tell you about next week's story next week,
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a case that couldn't be solved because there was no solution and yet, well,
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join us, won't you? Yours truly Johnny Dollar, Yours Truly,
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Johnny Dollars, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood, written by Charles B.
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Smith and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard an ourcast where
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Gene Tatum, Jeanette Nolan, Frank Nelson, Russell Thorson, Sam Edwards and
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Austin Green. Musical supervision is by Americo Marino. Be sure to join us
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next week, same time and station for another exciting story of Yours Truly,
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Johnny Dollars. This is Dan Cobberly speaking, welcome back. Well, there
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are a couple of ways to look at the setup for this episode. The
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first, and I'll just say the one I wouldn't subscribe to, is the
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idea that this is it's a bit of a plot hole or plot a problem
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for Johnny to be taken on this particular case. Because there's simply no reason
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for him to be there. The police reasonably, if they ran into any
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questions, they could call him, And indeed, in the course of this
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investigation, nothing that Johnny learned in the course of the Mason mismatch matter was
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any help at all in solving this case, and the police could have solved
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it themselves. I would tend to look at it as a somewhat realistic bit
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of unreasonableness, because I think we all have had points in our lives and
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people in our lives who have responded to things unreasonably for whatever reason. You
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might imagine a police officer looking who is having a time on an investigation,
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looking for escapegoat, why didn't that dollar guy stay around, which in turn
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leads to an unreasonable demand by the insurance company. And sometimes you have to
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do things to place unreasonable people that really it's nothing that you actually did wrong.
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I said before, nothing Johnny did in the Mason Dixon mismatch matter was
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inappropriate, And certainly we've heard detectives act in ways that policemen could legitimately complain
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about, but not Johnny in that case. In some ways, having to
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go through something like that makes him relatable. The fact that he gets a
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very generous expense account for it, and that he gives them notice in advance
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it's going to be patted and they're going to pay it. It makes him
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the hero that we can identify with. I thought it was a really sad
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thing in the episode with Missus Dixon there in just a good dramatic touch.
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It didn't have anything to do with the mystery, but it did fight a
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human moment. The brother was a somewhat obvious killer, or at least suspect
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from his introduction. Just his general way of acting was a little was a
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little creepy in portraying that character. Well, the solution was clever and I
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liked how Johnny managed that clue. All right, Well, now we turned
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to some listener comments and feedback, and we start with some feedback on the
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loss of memory matter. Joel says, this is a very different episode.
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I'm miss meant feeling uncomfortable hearing Johnny sound so vulnerable after the accident. He
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is rarely not the guy in charge. I was a bit puzzled at the
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end. I'll die in the fall down the ravine or was he just injured
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and went to jail. Well, Joel, I was actually a little unclear
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on the last point, and I consulted my ever handy guid by John Abbott,
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who is Johnny Dollar matter and on loss of memory. His report again,
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his report actually was based just on reading the script so hadn't even heard
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the episode. Is that Johnny gets the money back to Alvin and Alfred is
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arrested, and so that is what actually happened. It was actually a little
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unclear in the performance, but according to the original script, he just got
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arrested. As to discomfort, I can definitely hear you because our hero is
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not quite in charge or with that same zest, which is a little discomforting.
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But it's well done and I think it was a It was a solid
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change. Not something I want to see happen and every week, but sometimes
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it's good to shake us up a bit. So thanks so much for the
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comment, Joel. Judy said, just listen to this one this morning.
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These are so much fun. And Linda says, makes you wonder how many
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concussions one guy can take. Seem to be a common plant device in many
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of these shows. And that's true enough, Linda, because I think that
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it really is one of those points you have to suspend disbelief about about particularly
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the hard boiled shows. Someone like Nick Carter might take a blower to,
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you know, every few months, but most of the hard boiled private eyes
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generally they're going to get that blow on the head, and on average about
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every other week every week if you're Pat Novak. And when you have that
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thirty nine or fifty two weeks a year, that's a lot of concussion.
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But again, that calls for all friend's suspension of disbelief so that we can
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let our writers knock our heroes out. The Paulot can progress. We have
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also some comments on the on The Emily Braddock Matter episode thirteen sixty six,
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and a comment from Bobby Lee says, I agree with you, Adam.
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I did not like Johnny's last nine. I don't think it was true Johnny
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Doller. But not everybody agree with that. Actually, Mark wrote a pretty
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strong letter saying I'm about a week behind at this point and thus just thus
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just finished listening to the previously missing episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doller entitled the
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Emily Braddock Matter. Well, I don't mean to tell you what you should
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like and what you shouldn't. I felt the vitriol hurled that this episode was
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way over the top. Did someone kill your kitten that morning or something?
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The episode, while perhaps not a classic, was a perfectly adequate episode,
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and being more in the procedural vein as John Lone episodes tended to be,
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the lack of a twist ending was a rather unfair point to be used as
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a particular criticism against it. Even if that wasn't the case. The way
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you layered insult upon insult over this episode was simply too much. Criticism is
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one thing, but this was simply hateful and I expect better out of this
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Otherwise fine show. Well, thanks so much for your comment. Mark.
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After hearing your re reading your email, I actually went and re listened to
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the commentary. I went on for about two minutes. I want to say
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that owners are free to have a different opinion than I do, and if
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you enjoyed the Emily Braddock matter, certainly don't mean to belittle Land. And
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as I said at the time, I think one of the reasons for my
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disappointment with that is that a much better episode with Bob Bailey was based on
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it, and I was expecting more and if I hadn't been expecting more,
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I might not have been as disappointed. That said, I really didn't feel
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my comments were hateful or vitriolic. Certainly I didn't get into any like renting
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screaming sort of voice, which is always good. I can do that on
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my political podcast, don't really do that on old time radio. I think
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I remained in good humor. But even taking into account that this was a
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more procedural episode, I still feel that it was a disappointment. It's not
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just that there wasn't a twist ending, it's that there wasn't a twist anything
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in that episode. Even with a lot of the procedural episodes, usually they'll
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begin with an open question of some sort that needs to be resolved. Within
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the first five minutes of the episode, we knew everything about the Emily Braddock
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matter that we were ever going to know. After nearly half an hour,
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we really didn't have any more insights into her character. There wasn't a whole
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lot that was particularly interesting or clever about the investigation or her capture. So
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I didn't get a whole lot out of the episode. And to be clear,
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I have the utmost respect for the work of John Lunn on the series,
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and I respect the John Lunn era for what it was and think that
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there were some strong stories and some good episodes. I just felt the Emily
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Braddock matter was below par for the era. But I do appreciate your comment,
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and I should also say, who knows if I might have a different
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impression of the episode if we go through Johnny Dowler again and I go through
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that episode in its proper order. But for now, that's kind of where
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I stand. But thanks so much for writing in all right. Well,
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another listener comment, this one from Facebook. Dave Taylor comments, Adam,
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you're mention of a science fiction take on John Maybe wonder if you were familiar
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with InterPlaNet Terry Insurance Incorporated, a short lived comic strip published by DC in
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the mid nineteen fifties. Story Summon at least can be found here, and
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it's actually a pretty interesting concept. Links out to a website Dave Xmachina dot
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com and has summaries of this idea of a space age insurance investigator, and
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it appeared in the DC comics series Mystery and Space from issue sixteen to issue
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twenty five. Some interesting pictures and concepts. I'm not familiar with the strip.
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It's unfortunate that DC hasn't released a collection of it's of that particular series.
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I know that they have done that with the other their nineteen fifties science
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fiction series Strange Adventures, and they've done two volumes of that one. But
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yeah, I would love to somehow get a hold of of Missed stream Space
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and the Interplanetary Insurance and Corporation with Bert Brandon their Agent series. Did it
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first appear in nineteen fifty three, So if it was inspired by Johnny Doller,
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wasn't the Bob Bailey version. Well that'll do it for today. In
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