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dot mat. We truly appreciate all of your support. Well, now it's
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tom for us to listen to today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doller. As
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we began with the Open Town Matter Parts one and two from Hollywood, It's
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time now for Johnny Dillar Ralph Kurentz, Johnny Great Plains guardy Oh hi,
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Ralph, Johnny, you're fifty two years old. I am. Eight months
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ago you married a lovely twenty seven year old girl. Now I'm with you.
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I must, lady. It took out a fifty thousand dollars life insurance
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policy unachief of police's salary. I did, huh and who did I name
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his beneficiary? Your beautiful wife? Who else? So so three days ago
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you were shot to death. I had a feeling it wasn't gonna last.
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And twenty four hours lady, your wife files a claim on the policy.
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My friends tried to warn me she was fast. Well there's the setup.
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What do you think the same thing? You probably do that in case you
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got just fifty six minutes to catch the plane. The town is Greensport,
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Missouri. And watch yourself. What do you mean from what I hear,
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Johnny? It's a wide open town tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey,
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in the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Pact expenscout America's fabulous
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freelance insurance Investigators, Truly Johnny Dollar, from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the
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home office Great Plans Guarantee Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an
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accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the open town matter. Item one eighty
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four dollars and sixty cents transportation in Incinental's Hartford to green Sport and taxi to
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the townhouse hotel. I was hoping for a chance to shower and change,
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look around long enough to get my bearings and then edge into the case gradually.
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But it didn't work out that way. The case was already there and
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waiting for me, right in the lobby of the hotel, all dressed up
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in a shiny black suit, squeaky black shoes, and a neat of the
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neat little black bull tie. Oh am, I glad to see you,
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mister Dollar. Are you Oh indeed, yes I am. I just be
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the great big sigh relief. You know when I heard you tell the clerk
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your name, that's how I know you're you? You know you mean?
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There's been some doubts, but of course you'll want to know I'm mean.
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So I'll swear I had a card in one of these pockets. Well maybe
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you could just tell me who you are, mister Potzer, April p.
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Potza. I ought to have a card though, to make it more official.
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Well, never mind, I believe you. I must have given them
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all away. Don't worry, though, I'll get some more printed and see
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that you have one before you leave. Wow. Thanks a lot, mister
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Potsa. And now I wait, mister Dollar, you want to talk to
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me? Of course? Well, yes, I'm the agent here for the
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Great Plains Guarantee Company. I'm the one that sold that policy to the full
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of it's dead. Oh so that's it. Of course he wasn't dead,
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then you understand I'm glad to hear it. Feeling pretty lively as a matter
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of fact. But with a new young wife and all that, I imagine,
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so and not just a dollar. You got to do something about that
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woman. Oh oh, she's driving me crazy. She wants her money,
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she says, fifty thousand dollars, and she seems to think I'm carrying it
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around in my pocket. She's kind of anxious. I'll tell you how anxious.
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Chief Blake was shot about two in the morning, and at three that
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afternoon, Marty, that's missus Blake was down at my office after a claim
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form. Yeah, I understand it was sentta airmail special delivery, but she
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insisted on it, made me take it straight to the post office, assume
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as she'd signed it. Pretty cold blooded about it. Well, I've heard
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Marty Blake called a lot of different things in this town at different times,
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but never cold blooded. You follow me, I think I'm ahead of you.
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You know what I mean? Alright, when you meet her, I
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can Harley Wait, man, oh, man, wow, And I'm two
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A dollar and fifteen cents taxi to the suburban home of Edgar Blake, former
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chief of Police of Greensport, now deceased. On the strength of Patzi's description
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of the widow, I added a shave to the shower and change, and
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I hoped I looked a little fresher than I felt. The house was a
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rambling two story job set back from the street, well kept shrubbery, nice,
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long, quiet neighborhood, and plenty expensive. I wondered how Blake had
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been able to afford it. I was halfway up the walk when a man
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came out the front door. He wavered down the steps, then stopped and
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waited for me, rocking slightly on his heels. A copper, I can
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tell him a block away. You're a copper, right, wrong, private
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eye, maybe no insurance, investigating insurance. That's what I just asked her
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about. And you know what she did. I threw you up probably right,
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said I was drunk. Oh, ridiculous. It's exactly what I said.
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Ridiculous, I told her ridiculous. But do you know something she was
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right? I am no. I can hardly believe it. What's the fact
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though, at least a little bit? Maam's Craley Joe Craley, I'm a
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reporter Green Sport Daily harrowd Johnny dawarck Y Joe insurance. Huh and he did
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have some Well, you wouldn't have had any reason to be here. She
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was lying, no coming, who's a beneficiary? It's still no coming.
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It's here, of course, a little smarty Marty is ever love a little
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wife? How much is she going to make on the deal? Sorry,
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Joe, no comments? I love it? Oh, wait a minute to
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tell me something, Joe. Suppose I wanted a little action, wanted to
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get into a poker game while I'm here, find a crap table? Maybe
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any idea where I could go? Sure? Any one? A half a
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dozen different How long you been in town, Johnny? About an hour?
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You're wised up pretty fast, didn't you. I didn't know what's a secret.
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The town is wide open, isn't it? It is? But I
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wouldn't go around poking and things. If I were you. A guy could
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get hurt. You see what I mean? Maybe a guy did get hurt.
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Blake, Kimmy, what makes you think so well? If somebody wanted
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to keep the rackets going. The police chief would be a natural target,
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wouldn't he not necessarily need no comment? What was Blake? Sorry, Joe
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six thousand a year on six thousand, he was living in a house like
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this lady is seem mighty. She's even more expensive. So that's why Greensport
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is wide open. The police chief was in no comment. Well he's out
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now, that's for sure. Uh, Joe, I'll probably be talking to
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you later. Yeah, yeah, I do that. Just ask anybody,
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Joe Crailey, the alcoholic that works for the Arald I'm always around somewhere.
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Well, how do you do? Yes? What can I do? Johnny
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Dollar? I'm representing the insurance company. Oh, come in, mister Dollar,
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come this way. I'm a little surprised, really, I highly expected
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them to pay off so promptly. And in that case, you won't be
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too disappointed. Disappointed? What do you mean? I mean? I didn't
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come here to pay you anything? Then, why did you come? I'm
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a special investigator, missus Blake? What does that mean? The company would
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like a little more information about your husband's death. I told them all about
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it in the claim I sent to you. I know, but sometimes it's
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near that's the pitch. They're trying to squirm out of it. Why do
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you say that? Because they sent you here, that's why, Because they
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always do. I know how those companies operate. You've had experience with them
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before? No, I haven't. But I'm a real smart girl, mister
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dollar, and I know a fast shuffle when I see it coming. And
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a smart girl ought to know better than to yell before she's hurt. Why
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else would they send out a special investigator? I told you why. They
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want some more information? What information? What is it? They want to
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know the details, that's all exactly how your husband was killed. I told
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them all that in the claim. He was shocked to death with his own
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gone right here in his own house. Do you mind showing me how it
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happened? Oh? For the love, Look, there won't be any payment
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U until I file my report, missus blake, all right? You win?
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When you go after something, you really go after it, don't you.
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That's what I get paid for. Oh and what about something you personally
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wanted? Well, that would depend on how bad I wanted it. I
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see. Would you like a drink? No? No, no thanks?
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You won't mind if I have one? Right ahead? Looking at you right
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now, if you wouldn't mind me, Yeah, I stick to business all
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right. Come on. Happened over here by the stairway, right here.
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This is where he fell. This is where he died. His gun was
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lying on the floor beside him. The middle of the night. Wasn't about
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two in the morning. We'd been asleep. Why did he come downstairs?
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I heard a noise of some kind. It woke me up. I shook
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ed and told him about it, and he came down to see what it
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was. It was armed. No, his gun was there on the hall
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table by the front door. Is that where he usually lift it? Yes,
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whenever he came home he always took it off and put it there on
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the table. Then anyone who knew him would probably know they could find it
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there. Yes, I suppose. So, So what happened? Like I
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said, It went on downstairs and I walked out of the bedroom into the
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hall. Were there any lights on? Not down here? I turned on
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the hall light upstairs. Did you hear your husband say anything? No?
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All I heard was the shots, four or five of them. Then I
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heard someone run out the front door, and what did you do? I
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caught out to it, but he didn't answer, and I ran downstairs and
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found him lying here dead. Did you get a look at the prowler or
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whoever it was, No, it was too dark, and he ran out
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as soon as he fired the shots. How did he get into the house,
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the detective said, yea, he forced the lock on the front door.
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I guess that was the sound that woke me up, and then he
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used a gun that was inside the house that he may or may not have
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known was inside the house. That's what the police figure, all right.
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What do you figure, missus Blake, the same thing? I guess.
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I don't know any more about it than they do. I thought you might
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have some theory of your own, a string along with them, Just an
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accidental prowler who got panicky and snatched up a gun that happened to be lying
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around handy. I guess that's about him, any idead all who the problem
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might have been, of course not? Do you suppose it could have been
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somebody besides a prowler, somebody who came here for the express purpose of murdering
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your husband and had a lot of enemies, of course, because of his
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job. What about his friends, Missus Blake, What do you mean,
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do you suppose one of his friends could have done it? I don't know
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what you're talking about. I've been admiring your watch, real nice setting diamonds,
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emerald band must be worth around two thousand dollars. Very nice. Well,
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thank you, ms House the furniture. That car out there in the
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driveway on a police chief salary, Missus Blake, I wouldn't know anything about
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Ed's financial affairs. Who runs the rackets here in Greensport? What rackets?
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Mister Dollar? Was your husband and on them? Sure you would have that
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drink? All right, Missus Blake, play at your way. I thought
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the insurance company was probably convinced that I was the one who killed him.
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They're not convinced of anything yet, but they think I did it, don't
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they? No, but they think twenty four hours is pretty fast for a
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grief stricken widow to shoot a claim into the office. I am not grief
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stricken, mister Dollar, So I noticed. Do I have to be?
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Is there some clause in the policy? No, you don't have to be.
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You think I did it, don't you. I think there's a strong
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chance, then I think you need a little straightening out. Listen, Why
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should I make it easy for you. Go see Dave Sherman. Talk to
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him, Dave Sherman, the city attorney. See what he says before you
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get all lathered up. See if he thinks I'm guilty. All right,
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I will, and then we'll talk, and if you're nice enough to me,
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maybe I'll even cooperate. You never know, do you, Johnny Dollar?
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This is Dave Sherman, mister Dollar, city attorney. Oh, yes,
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I'm trying to reach you. Mister Sherman tells me it's the Ed Blake
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case. I suppose that's right. Well, I've already told my secretary to
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make all the records of it. It's not the records I'm mainly interested in,
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mister Sherman. I want to talk to you person. Why because I've
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been informed that you were able to furnish an alibi for my number one suspect,
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Mardy Blake. That's right, who informed you, mister Dollar? Mighty
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Blake a lovely widow. Right, Well, I guess we'd better have a
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talk. That's exactly what I was thinking. Yes, if you're dead set
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on lighting a fuse in this town, I may as well give you some
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matches. Come on over to the courthouse from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location,
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Greensport, Missouri to the home office Great Plains Guarantee Company, Hartford,
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Connecticut. Assignment the open town matter expense account continued Items five and six seventy
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cents. A copy of the Greensport Daily Herald and the taxi fair to city
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Hall. I opened the paper and glanced over the headlines murder of police chiefs
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still unsolved. City Attorney's office claims new evidence. Mayor Llans demands action.
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I could feel for the Mayor. My clients stood to lose fifty thousand dollars
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life insurance payable to the dead police chief's widow, Marty Blake. So I
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wanted action too, and I was hoping to get it from City Attorney Dave
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Sherman. I'm mister dollars. I want to say, thanks. Why did
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you get in town oh earlier this afternoon and you've already met Marty Blake.
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That figures, yes, it does. Under the circumstances. Her husband has
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been killed. He carried fifty thousand dollars worth of insurance with my company,
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and missus Blake filed her claim less than twenty four hours after his death.
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So that's why you hot footed it out here from Hartford. Well, the
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company figured twenty four hours. It was pretty fast action for a grief stricken
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widow. I don't imagine Marty is grieving too much. Oh she's not.
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She told me that herself. Marty's about twenty six or seven. Ed Blake
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was in his fifties. Money maybe, well not until he met her.
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Then he started to make it fast. He had to. That's how Marty
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likes things fast. And then he married her. Well, then she married
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him, and now eight months later she's a widow with an insurance claim for
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fifty thousand dollars. Well, she said she liked things fast. Why,
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I know what you're thinking, mister dollar, but you may as well back
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up and start all over. You're off on the wrong foot. How do
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you mean this killing? Oh sure worked out perfect for and made to order.
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A man could build a pretty good case against her, especially with that
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twenty four hour insurance claim. Yes, I would really sent it with a
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jury. I pointed that out to her. I figured, as much,
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would you mind telling me what happened? Well, her first move was to
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start turning on the chair. That's one of the easiest things she does if
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she thinks it might pay off. And after all, with fifty thousand dollars
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in the office, did she give you any of the details that you know
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the night had happened? It bored her to death to even talk about him,
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and you thought she was putting on an act? Who maybe throw you
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off? What would you think? Oh, she wasn't, mister Dollar anymore
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than she was sorry that Ed Blake was murdered. Then she's pretty cold blooded.
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Well that's some old question. Figuratively, yes, I suppose she is.
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See, she used to be an answer, never good enough to make
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the big time, so she had to Well, I lived by her wits
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and her charm. But you pointed out things that could look pretty black for
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if the case ever got to court. That's right, what happened? She
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said me to you? Why so I could tell you she didn't kill him?
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Well it adds up, mister s I know it's late at night,
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the two of them alone in the house, her husband shot to death with
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his own life, I know, mister Dollar, but not by her.
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Why not That story about the mysterious prower has when used before over and over.
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In fact, I broke one of them, not six months ago.
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But in this case it's true. How do you know? Because you were
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wrong on one point. They weren't alone in the house. What do you
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mean? Who else was there? I was? Oh, I see,
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she's as pure as the driven snow, well, at least so far as
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Blake's murderer is concerned. Yeah. Kind of a neat setup, isn't it.
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Huh instead of prosecuting attorney or the star witness for the defense. Yes,
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I support if it came to that, I'd have to be. I
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was there when it, so, that's why she sent me to you,
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so I could hear it straight from the horse's mouth. That's about it.
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Well, she couldn't have a much better alibi than the city attorney himself,
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thank you. Or she's in the clear, mister Dollon. How did you
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happen to be there at two o'clock in the morning. I was spending the
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night, Ed and I were planning to leave early on a fishing trip.
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Oh, I see, like to tell me all about it. Certainly we'd
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all gone to better on midnight. This is a few minutes before too.
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I woke up. I heard Marty and it out in the hall just outside
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my room. I opened my door, and just then Marty snapped on the
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hall lights. A second later the shots blasted downstairs, five quick ones.
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Where was she standing at the time, by the door of her room,
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not ten feet away from me. So you see, mister Dollar, she
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couldn't have done it. So that's that she can thank her lucky stars.
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You were there. Oh, Marty's always been lucky. Have you known her
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a long time? Three or four years? Ever since she came here to
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Green Sport? You and Blake were pretty good friends, I suppose no.
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No, As a matter of fact, we didn't have too much use reaching.
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Oh. I know it doesn't make sense going fishing together and spending a
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night in his home. But well, I know what you're thinking, mister
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Dollar, do you. Yes, you're thinking maybe I need an alibi as
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much as Marty does. Well, it is that kind of an alibi.
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It works equally well for either of you too. Yeah, only I don't
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need an alibi. Blake and I had our little differences, that's true,
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but they weren't serious enough to be a motive for killing him. Maybe Mighty
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yourself could be a motive in what way? How old are you, mister
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Sherman? Thirty three. Why and Marty Blake is twenty seven and a beautiful
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girl. Her husband was around fifty two. Wrong, Guess again, mister
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dollar. I've known her too long, and what's more important, I know
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it too well. Meaning. Sure, she's a knockout. I was nuts
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about her once. She's a my summer night wild honeysuckle and a handful of
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stars. But there's one great, big catch to it, and that is
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she's got a building jukebox hidden way inside of her, and when you put
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in money, it plays real pretty music when you don't nothing ed Blake found
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out and still went on putting in money. You liked the music, and
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that's why he got mixed up in the rackets. Please, she's sorry.
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What well, well, mister dollar, you do get around, don't you?
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Was Blake running them or just taking on? Now? What makes you
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think there are any rackets here? Maybe it was just a guess who told
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you about them? It's funny. I can't seem to remember at the moment.
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I just bet you can't. Suppose you answered my question, mister Sherman,
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who's behind the rackets here in green Sport? Just a minute? I
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didn't get is from or was he the one who gave me Wait a minute,
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mister Dollar, just take it ease. Gave I wonder if you'd mind
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going over that report. Oh sorry, I didn't know you had. No,
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that's all right. Well, come on in. This is Johnny Dollar.
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Dollar's mayor llons a Dollar, mister Dollars, an insurance investigator. Will
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he's here to look into Ed Blake's death. Terrible tragedy, mister Dollar.
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We'd appreciate all the help you can give us. Well, so far,
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Mayor, I'm afraid that doesn't mount to very much. The only theory I
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had just blew up in my face. Oh what was this theory? Mister
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Dollars suspected Martin Blake of the killing. Well, Dave, didn't you tell
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him that you? Yes, yes, he told me, Mayor. That's
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when I blow up in my face. Well, at various times in the
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past, missus Blake might have been there's one might say, a bit indiscreet,
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but consider her capable of cold blooded murder is utterly unthinkable, sir,
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particularly when she was standing just ten feet away from the city attorney at the
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time. Well, yes, that's true, of course. Just what is
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the official theory on the shooting, gentlemen, Well, at the moment,
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I'm afraid we haven't anything. I'll tell you, mister Doller. When we
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find Shorty Wells, we'll have the killer. Shorty Wells a local hoodlum.
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Blake got him sent up the river a couple of years ago, and Shorty
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swore that he'd get Blake for it if it was the last thing that he
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ever did. Oh well, that's a fairly common threat to offer a criminal
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to make, and usually it's nothing but talk. But Shorty was po just
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last week, mister Daller. He was seen around town the morning before the
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killing, and we haven't been able to locate him since. I see,
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Wells did it all right, there's not the least doubt in the world.
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Yeah, it seems to add up, doesn't he Yes, And we've got
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every available man on the lookout for him, but so far, no luck.
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There's not even a trace of him. Tell me something, mayor would
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mighty Blake know anything about the rackets? Her husband was tied in with rackets?
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Why that's the most pretty well, well, it's no use. Mister
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Dollar has been talking to somebody and he's found out that our little city isn't
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as lily white as we'd like to pretend. Indeed, it's true, isn't
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it? My air? As I hear at Greensport is a wide open town
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as well admitted? Will he knows it already? There's no point in trying
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to lie about it. All right, it's true, mister Dollar. But
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it's not wide open as you put it. But there are rackets, as
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unpleasant as it may be to admit it. Do you have any idea who
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was back of them? I wish to have an idea. What about you,
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mister Sherman. I'll find an idea strong enough to talk about. I'd
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be talking about it in court. What about this Shorty Wells? Was he
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in on them before Blake sent him to prison? Yes, supposedly, but
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he wouldn't spill a word about the setup at his trial. Afraid you may
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be huh. Probably Wells is the key to this whole thing, mister Dollar,
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the rackets as well as the killing. Find Shorty Wells and we can
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wrap this thing up in ten minutes. Then I guess we better find him.
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Standard theory number two. A next convict with a grudge. Number one
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young pretty wife, middle aged husband, big insurance policy hadn't panned out too
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well, and I wasn't too sold on the second one. It was just
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two pats somehow, and the fact that Shorty Wells was missing didn't mean much.
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If I were an ex khan just out of prison and had threatened a
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man who was later murdered, I'd be missing too, And yet the penancy
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was sometimes the right one. The case was still, like the town itself,
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wide open. I walked out a city hall, started down the sidewalk
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toward the taxi stand. I didn't know what move to try next. Technically,
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of course, I was out of it. Since the beneficiary had an
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ironclad alibi, she'd get paid regardless of who actually did kill Blake. I
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didn't pay any attention to the horn the first time, but when it sounded
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again, I turned to look. She was part of the curb a few
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yards away. Whydy Blake. I've been waiting for you, Johnny, have
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you yes? I wanted to talk to you. You didn't earlier. I
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guess you just rubbed me the wrong way. You weren't very nice to me,
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you know. Sorry, you've talked to Dave Sherman. I suppose,
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yeah, yeah, he gives you an airtine alibi. Why didn't you tell
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me he was there that night? When I talked with you this afternoon,
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I might have if you'd been nicer to me. I see you'd have checked
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it with him anyway. Yeah, I suppose I would have done well.
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Now that you know I'm not a murderess, maybe we can get to be
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friends. Johnny, you think so, you're still not being very nice.
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I am always politely respectful toward new widows, Missus Blake, at least until
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after the first week. I told you I didn't care about Ed. Who
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do you care about besides yourself? Shorty Wells? By any chance? Shorty
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Wells? Who told you that? And you know him? Of course?
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I know him? Is I used to know him? Where is he now?
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How should I know? What are you trying to pull? If you
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think for one minute that you're get on quick? Are you all right,
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Missus Wake? Yes? I guess shots, Johnny, somebody was trying to
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kill you. I didn't know it was me that were shooting at it.
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Maybe they were out to kill you, Missus Blake. Now here's our star
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to tell you about tomorrow's episode of this week's story Before I do that,
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please let me say thanks to all of you who are so kind about writing
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and telling us how much you like Johnny Dollar. It's very gratifying encouragement to
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all of us who are involved in production of the program, and we appreciate
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your letters more than you know. As always, I'll try to answer you
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promptly, but sometimes the male does pile up in any event, Thanks,
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thanks very much for writing. Tomorrow an old flame and a new one,
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and two men get burned. One becomes an alcoholic, the other a human
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torch. Join us, won't you? Yours Truly? Johnny Downard. Yours
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Truly Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood, written by
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Less Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to
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join us tomorrow night at the same time in station for the next exciting episode
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of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking welcome back. I love the
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part in the prosecuting attorney's office between Johnny Dollar and the prosecuting attorney. You
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could kind of feel the tension start to build there, and I think there's
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definitely going to be some reaction in that direction. Definitely an interesting case,
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and I like the reference to previous to previous episode of course, referring back
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to the quay bono matter of course, in that case, Johnny needed a
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glow in the dark Nettie in order to close the del All right, well,
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now to listener comments and feedback and receive from Brian. Hi, Adam,
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I thought i'd drop you a line and tell you about our unique listening
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situation. My wife and I are listening to the Modest Touch Matter while driving
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through real life Kingman, Arizona. This, along with the fact that we've
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made the trip several times between Vegas and Kingman, Len's an extra layer of
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realism and fond of this particular story. It's interesting slash depressing to know that
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the side roads haven't gotten any better in the years since this story originally aired.
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Well. Thanks so much for the email, Brian, and definitely a
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fun listening situation. I've often wanted to go and record one of these programs
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in the city where it was, where it was actually set. It was
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something that I had the idea to do early on, but just because of
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not getting actual sponsors for the show, didn't actually pan out. But maybe
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one of these days. Thanks so much, Brian, and that does remind
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us. The listener support campaign is coming up and we'll have some exciting additional
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features this year, with some more physical posit or thank you gifts available.
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One thing we're also going to do is play some previews. You know,
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we've got so many shows to get to and so we will play one episode
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a show of your choice, three weeks in a row in the month of
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February. And basically what I need from listeners is to email me at Box
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thirteen at Great Detectives dot net with the name of a program we've not played
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on the series before and it's not one we're about to play. So we
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won't do the Saint or Dragnet or Pursuit since we're going to be playing those
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shows anyway fairly quickly, or Philip Marlowe. But if you want Richard Diamond
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or Broadways my Beat, or you'd like to hear Mysteries, my Hobby,
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anything we haven't played and we've got on the Big List, just email me
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at big List dot great or actually that's big List dot Great Detectors dot net.
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It's the address the web address, and send your comments to Box thirteen
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at Great detectors dot net, and I don't really also look at the kind
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of quality and not necessarily just the quantity. But if you've got a good
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argument or you've got a good case for why you like this series that we
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intend to eventually play but don't quite have it on our list yet, just
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send it to me Box thirteen at Great Detectors dot net. All right,
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well, that will do it for today. Join us back here tomorrow for
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the Casebook of Gregory Hood and we continue on with the Open Town matter on
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Wednesday. In the meantime, sendor comments to Box thirteen ratedetectives dot net,
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