 That's McCracken Johnny universal adjustment bureau. Oh, hi Pat. What's on your mind a beautiful model name of Darcy Blair? Oh, hey wait the girl with a million dollar face. That's the one. Well, you probably got company She's on a lot of people's minds. Well, she's no daydreamer. Oh, go the policy. No At her sure, I'll be right over Exciting adventures of the man with the action-backed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance Investigator yours truly Johnny dollar And now act one of yours truly Johnny dollars expense account submitted by special investigated Johnny dollar to the home office universal adjustment bureau Hartford, Connecticut Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the model picture matter Expense account item one a dollar twenty for a taxi from my apartment to your office, Pat Where I picked up Dorothy Blair's address and headed for New York that's item two thirty six twenty I arrived at her apartment just as the doctor left Even with a couple of bandages on her face I think you've got a bargain Pat ensuring it for only a hundred thousand. I guess I'm lucky, Mr. Dollar My doctor says there won't be any permanent scars. Well, just what happened Miss Blair Well, I came home last evening about dinner time. I opened the door to my apartment here and Started to reach for the light switch then suddenly I saw a shape beside me in the dark Before I could do anything He hit me on the side of the head. I think it was a gun. It's done me and I fell to the floor then what I I remember hearing the door slam When I could get on my feet and turn on the light whoever it was it's gone. I see You think it could have been a burglar looking for money or valuables? I Don't think it was a burglar, Mr. Dollar. You mean you have some idea who it was Well Jerry Dunn's me or who's he a fashion photographer a creep, Mr. Dollar. Oh The real article believes me They ought to put that guy's eyes in jail. You model for him before about a year ago I swore I'd never do it again, and I didn't until yesterday Yeah, what go on? Jerry gotten a commission to do a spread on winter fashions You wanted to make some street shots with me and tweens Things like that teacher. Well, I figured the street would be a lot safer for me than his studio But it didn't turn out that way, huh? No After the second picture he started in again with the same old line, and he's not very subtle believe me so So I walked out on him. He didn't like it But is that enough reason for him to break into your apartment and slug you it wouldn't be for most people But like I say he's a creep Yeah, okay, Ms. Blair. Thanks. I'll have a talk with Dunn's mirror And that was easier said than done I took a cab to his address. That's I'm free a dollar sixty But the studio is locked up tight So I contacted my old friend detective lieutenant Al Rico at 18th precinct headquarters You think you've got troubles Johnny try some of mine on for size all like what out like an unsolved murder I got tossed in my lap. Oh that one. I've been reading about the girl open. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Edith summers No lead sure real fat lead except. It's no good her ex-boyfriend Ed Chatsworth lots of motive, but no case alibi airtight So I got troubles now. Tell me yours mine Well, I'm trying to get a lead on a fashion photographer named Jerry Dunn's mirror Dunn's you I Never heard of how come you're interested Dorothy Blair got slugged last evening. Oh, yeah Yeah, the girl with the million-dollar face. I heard about it. She thinks Dunn's mirror might have done it I went up to a studio to have a talk with him, but it was locked up. Well, I'll have a file check But if we had anything hot on him, I think I'd remember. Yeah Well, here was just a chance Excuse me Rico What? Yeah, okay, I'll be right down. It was about your Jerry Dunn's mirror Johnny. Oh Couple of my boys have found him great. Yeah They found him floating face down in the river Act two of yours truly Johnny dollar in a moment and now act two of yours truly Johnny dollar and the model picture matters Expense account item for a dollar-eighty camphor back to Dorothy Blair's apartment. She had company I'd like you to meet Edward Chandler Johnny. Hi. Glad to meet you, Mr. Dollar Dorothy, I wonder if I could talk to you for a few minutes Why? I've got to be running along anyway. Is still okay for dinner, honey. Sure. Eight o'clock. I'll pick you up. Bye, Mr. Dollar Yeah, so long Chandler Dorothy, did you talk to Jerry Dunn's mirror? Now look you say Dunn's mirror tried to get a date with you when he was taking some fashion shots I'd be on the street just that's right. He was pretty persistent about it That's putting it mildly John and you think Dunn's mirror is the one who was hiding in your apartment and slugged you last evening Yeah, I Think he must have been the one like who else could it have been and why are you asking me all this again? There's There's nothing you haven't told me Dorothy. Of course not. Why? Well the police just fished Dunn's mirror's body out of the river He was I haven't seen the medical examiner's report yet, but it's a good bet people don't usually go for a swim with all their clothes But who could Johnny you You certainly don't think I had anything to do with it. I didn't say that Dorothy, but you told me boys the question Look, I'm telling you the truth Johnny. Can you prove it? I can prove the part about him taking pictures of me yesterday This Manila on fellow it came in the mail today Here It's from Dunn's mirror studio. He always sends me print See here's one of me in a tweed coat Here's one in a fingertip. Okay. Okay, so he took pictures. I Still want to know why you think it was Dunn's mirror who slugged you if you couldn't see his face in the dark Hi, I Guess because of the way he looked at me yesterday afternoon when I told him to stay away from me not to call me again for a job Well, Johnny believes me you didn't see him after that, huh? Unless of course he was the one who slugged you in the dark No, I didn't have anything to do with With what happened to him and I don't know who did it's the truth Johnny Okay, Dorothy if it is I'll find out sooner or later, but if it isn't I'll find that out too Maybe Dorothy Blair was leveling with me But there were a few pretty important facts. I didn't know Was it really Dunn's Muir who'd slugged her and who killed Dunn's Muir and why? Also, this fellow I'd met at Dorothy's apartment Edward Chandler Where had I seen his face before? Item 5 $1.75 can't fair to Dunn's Muir studio a blonde secretary named Susan Billings was just closing up when I got there She looked pretty dragged out Please please mr. Dollar. I've already told the police all I know Right now. I don't exactly need any more questions. What you need right now Susan is a drink. Come on Feeling better Susan. Oh, yes But I I really don't know anything it would help you mr. Dollar How long did you work for Jerry Dunn's Muir? About a year and you can't think of anyone who would have reason to kill him nobody You know he had quite a reputation for being sort of Eager with some of the models. That was a long time ago, mr. Dollar He'd change not according to Dorothy Blair. I'm not interested in Dorothy Blair lies about Jerry Tell me do you have to know a man named Edward Chandler? I met him at her apartment. No The Jerry Dunn's Muir ever mentioned him not that I remember So you think Dunn's Muir had straightened himself out that I know he had How can you be sure he told me? Oh, you say mr. Dollar? Jerry and I We were going to be married Dorothy had been lying to me about what kind of a guy Dunn's Muir was or else Susan had been living in a dream world Either way, I was fresh out of the I Had it back to lieutenant Rico's office hoping I'd find some there Johnny the only thing we know for sure about Dunn's Muir is that he sure had a weakness for women Yeah, but Susan Billings believes that she was his one true love. I know and I've been thinking about her Maybe she found out about Dunn's Muir's activities and didn't like it Possibility but if she knows more than she's told us she's a pretty good actress The same goes for Dorothy Blair, which reminds me. I want to have another talk with Dorothy I picked up a couple of names out of Dunn's Muir's past I want to see if they mean anything to her want to come along sure but we'll have to hurry hurry Why she has a dinner date with a guy named Chandler at eight o'clock, and it's a quarter two right now. Okay, let's go Your apartment house right ahead isn't that Dorothy coming out the front door? Yeah with Chandler. Come on. We can still hold it What's there? Would you say he was a friend of hers? His name is Chandler. I met him in her apartment this afternoon Johnny Remember when you came to see me today? I told you had a murder case in my lap I mean before the Dunn's Muir murder sure a girl either summers I told your ex-boyfriend with the logical suspect except that he had an alibi Ed Chatsworth. Oh Hey, wait a minute. I knew I'd seen that guy's picture somewhere. It was in the paper Dorothy introduced him as Chandler, but his real name is Chatsworth And now it turns out he's a friend of Dorothy As you said either Dorothy had told us all she knew or she was a pretty good actress. Yeah It looks to me like she's a pretty good actress Johnny dollar in a moment act three of yours truly Johnny dollar and the model picture matters Started out as a real simple assignment, but it hadn't stayed that way long All of a sudden we had two murders on our hands and it looked like there was a connection between them Now watching Dorothy Blair leave her apartment with Ed Chatsworth. We realized that she was somehow right in the middle of them Driving off in his car on the tail of him. I won't be necessary The reasons I questioned Chatsworth about the either summers killing. I've had a tail on him No, Johnny what we better do right now is start putting some pieces together and see what they add up to okay The first victim was either summers killed in her apartment the black in arms And you figure that her ex-boyfriend Ed Chatsworth had the motive we heard that Chatsworth wanted to drop her But she wouldn't drop but you say has an alibi two people swear He was out of the city the day that she was killed. All right, all right Dorothy Blair gets slugged in her apartment. She thinks the photographer guns mirror did it then guns mirror winds up dead that night Right, and now we find out Dorothy and Chatsworth are friends We can stand up Johnny. Yeah, you think Chatsworth was trying to drop either summers for Dorothy If so, maybe they rigged the deal Chatsworth was to get out of town while Dorothy handled it summers Oh, in that case, you're figuring done smear found out about the deal and came to blackmail Dorothy, right? She won't go for it. So he slugs her then either she or Chatsworth or both of them decide to close done smear's mouth for keeps So possibility now. Yeah, it is a possibility, isn't it now drop me off at my hotel and headed back to his office Item six two dollars drinks When I thought about the picture Al and I had built up to explain the killing Well, it was all pretty logical, but somehow I couldn't buy it Maybe like Alan headed that million dollar phase had gotten to me If I could only talk to her alone I thought I could find out if she was lying About ten o'clock. I went back to her apartment. No answer Probably still out to dinner. I was about to leave when she stepped off the elevator. Why Johnny? What are you? Hello Dorothy? I'd like to talk to you. Well, I'm afraid I haven't time right now Mr. Chandler's just parking his car. He'll be up in a few minutes. We Have business your friend will have to wait. I want to talk with you. Why all right for just a minute Don't understand all this Johnny. Well, let's start out calling your friend Chandler by his real name, huh? Why it's chance with I Don't understand. I thought his name was Chandler. Oh, yeah What's this all about John? Oh drop the act Dorothy. I suppose the name Chatsworth doesn't mean anything to you I know it doesn't how about eat it summers wait She was the girl who was killed the day before yesterday. She sure was I read about it in the papers But I didn't know her Johnny. You're sure you and Chatsworth didn't happen to arrange her death Johnny what's this all about and your friend Duns Muir. He wasn't by any chance trying to blackmail you I don't know what you were talking about please Believe me. I could net anything to do with either of those killings Johnny I swear it Okay, okay, Dorothy. I I guess I never could buy it But I don't get this buddy buddy routine you and Ed Chatsworth. I Only met Ed Chatsworth or Chandler. He called himself yesterday. You Let's hear that again. That's right. He said he was organizing a big good motion and wanted to feature me in it Why would he give you a line like that? I didn't realize it was a line He sounded very convincing. He said he wanted to see some of my pictures to see his pictures pictures. Wait a minute Those pictures Duns Muir took of you Ed's coming up any minute to see them He wanted to see some outdoor shots. He said when did Duns Muir take those shots the day before yesterday The day Edith was killed. Where did he take them? we Who moved around from place to play you still have the pictures right there on the table? Come on. Let's take a look Are these all that he took as far as I know Nothing here except you why Hey, wait, wait this shot Looks like the front of an apartment house Part of the name in the picture black Blackton arms the apartment where Edith was killed Johnny Look in the background a man stepping out of the apartment house. Yeah out of focus hard to Hold it. What is it? Is there a service entrance to your apartment? Yeah, somebody just came in get down I Shove her to the floor and hit the light switch none too soon I eased out my gun, but couldn't see a thing and I knew I had to locate him before he located us It was a cigarette lighter on the coffee table. I heaved it toward the kitchen of my aim was pretty good The flash of his gun pegged him for me It turned on the lights It was chance worth all right, I'd hit him in the shoulder, but he'd keep for the state Johnny He's the one who killed us either summer. Yeah, sure He had an alibi rig, but he spoiled it by walking out of her apartment Into the background of that picture Duns Muir took of you Then he's also the one who was in my apartment. He probably recognized you by your face Figured he could find the name of the photographer here slugged you when you came in and I thought it was Jerry Duns Muir Jerry yeah Well, I imagine when Chatsworth comes to we'll find that he killed Duns Muir to get the negative He certainly wanted that picture. Yeah Most pictures don't do people justice But I guess this one will do him all right By the May thirty six dollars eighty cents transportation back home Expense account total a hundred three dollars even remarks Well, there's a little snapper to the story Pat You know that picture Chatsworth was knocking himself out to get He didn't realize it, but his face in the background was far too blurred to make an identification yours truly Johnny dollar Our star will return in just a moment Now here is our star to tell you about next week story next week Well, the darling of me heart comes back to plague me again my old friend make McCarthy so join us Won't you yours truly Johnny dollar?