 Johnny dollar that McCracken Johnny at Universal Adjustment Bureau greetings master Johnny I believe you spent a couple of weekends down in Sarasota Florida early this month that you know darn well I did have a chance to get in some fishing you know darn well I didn't that's why I've been sitting here dreaming about those lunker bass at the Lake Mojave resort out in Arizona what's the matter with Lake Mead you know the huge Merdan yeah I know a few miles this side of Las Vegas Nevada a lot of big ones in that water I had okay Prince you got me all excited I want it all about I told you fishing yeah and that's all except yeah except what in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar here's actress Joan Bennett it's terrible to try to act with a dreadful cold to feel better quickly I take four way cold tablets the fast way to relieve nasty cold distress yes tests of four leading 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Hartford Connecticut following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Lake Mead mystery matter you said murder can you give me any details no you'll have to get everything from trimmer all I know is there's a $20,000 policy involved okay Pat I'll grab the first one I can't expense account item one two bucks even for a fast taxi to the airport item to 670 plane fare to New York item 3 145 05 another plane ticket and I barely made the 12 o'clock noon mainliner which probably took off and headed west to Las Vegas Nevada it was 9 45 p.m. Pacific time when we started the long glide down from a starlit sky to the landing strip at McCarran Field in Las Vegas Nevada I'll never cease to marvel at the nighttime view from the air that fabulous city of chance sitting alone out there in the middle of the vast Mojave desert the sky-filling glow from its millions of lights it had put a rainbow to shame oasis in the desert yeah and very beautiful I know that Roscoe Trimmers office would be closed this time and night so I look for a place to rest my worry head item for a buck and a half for a cab into the flamingo and I just happen to remember that the flamingo has an excellent casino I'm really not a gambling man in the usual sense of the word but who can resist the lure the dice and roulette table with the blackjack even the slot machines on a setting like this sure the house always wins and the sucker works out as hard on money doesn't stand a chance but you know something after a few hours of play I came out so far ahead that I won't even bother to list my food and hotel room on this expense account I really cleaned up how much well if I told you you'd probably want me to absorb the whole thing so I won't then early the next morning I met Roscoe Trimmer at the office of Greater Southwest Insurance and liability I'm glad you could make it I don't like this one at all how are you Roscoe sit down with you yeah sure not for long huh I've arranged to drive it yourself car for you and the sooner you can get over to Lake Mead the better well just where Roscoe that's a pretty big lake Overton a little town 50 60 miles north and east of here at the upper end of the lake so what's happened up there Johnny a client of mine Thomas Mayfield Thomas came out here from Chicago last year retired here I don't know much about him except that our Chicago office sent me his file when he came and asked me to look out for him go on about a week ago Thomas and a friend went fishing together out of Overton landing they went out with how full none is charter boat incidentally if you ask me how's the best guide on the whole lake good I remember that only you're here on a case remember oh sure but go on well the fishing must have been pretty good because they stayed on at the Overton motel then the next morning they went down to the landing rented a little Arkansas traveler and a 10 horse Johnson and went out fishing on their own Roscoe I may try that very thing myself but about the middle of the afternoon a big East wind came up you know what that means I know that when a big Easter hits one of those desert lakes there's only one thing you do get off it quick well they didn't Johnny at least not quick enough the following morning when the blow had died down how Fulton went out to look for him and he found the boat all right beached on a point down near Goat Island and Mr. Thomas his friend what about Thomas his friend says that Thomas went overboard when the squall hit him well it's certainly possible yes it is possible the chop and a leg like that can build up ways eight and ten feet high enough to throw a man off any kind of a boat yes I know but you don't think that's the way it happened I didn't say that Johnny it's just that well okay Roscoe what was this fishing power's name Charlie went with does that mean anything to you no well I'm afraid I don't know very much about him either except that he too came here from Chicago arrived in town about two weeks ago I take it that's where he knew Thomas back in Chicago yeah apparently well what about him what does this Charlie went with do apparently nothing but hang around the gambling joints oh he does a little dealing and shilling for some of now and then there's talk he's been making illegal book on the races and nobody's pinned it on him so in your book he's an undesirable character that's right but is that reason to suspect he took Mr. Thomas out on that lake and murdered him now Johnny there's been a lot of worry around this town about some of the people who've come out here recently from Chicago you know ever since those investigations began back east so what does that mean everybody who comes from there is a killing no of course not but a man who doesn't really work for a living you know just spends all his time around the gambling tables has no visible regular means of support Thomas was retired maybe Charlie went with his tool Johnny besides who knows maybe Thomas will show up maybe he swam to shore and is plotting his way back through the desert now you know the odds against a city man surviving out there well as anybody really look for him everybody the police the National Park boys everybody not only in boats on foot but they even use planes and helicopters they found no trace and that still doesn't prove anything tell me this are the police holding Charlie went with no they're not which means they don't feel they have any reason to what you still think I ought to investigate yes I do Roscoe so do I of yours truly Johnny dollar in a moment a dad did you check your car filters today no son I didn't why because it might pay you a thousand dollars a thousand dollars for a car filter that's right folks you may have a filter under the hood of your car worth one thousand dollars and not even know it a pram filter worth one thousand silver dollars a regular filter change is important to today's cars so important that pram corporation is 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reporter on the Chicago citizen news Thomas Thomas yeah that's right Ken what can you tell me about him well not everybody knew it Johnny but day it was a mouthpiece for the old some years ago when they started the big cleanup well he's certainly not there now Ken why you know every here at Charlie Wentworth you know where he is now I got a hunch it means everything like what Johnny thanks a lot Ken next up was the public library the old newspaper file getting some info on the almost forgotten already mob was a lead pipe cinch especially about the time when the gang was broken up and apparently when lawyer Thomas saw the jig was up for his boys having made his pile and to keep himself out of trouble he left him flat he'd let him get sent to the pen without raising a finger in their defense so don't tell me that a mobster wouldn't want to get even with a guy who'd let him down sure Charlie had killed Thomas I was sure of it without even seeing but to prove it without the corpus delective I spent items six thirty two dollars even on some equipment of the sporting goods store then I drove north on the highway 91 to the quiet little town of Overton there I learned that for once half-full from the fishing guide had a free day on his hand but he was down at the lake some 12 miles east of the town I meant up at the dock and within a few minutes we were on board as Higgins run about and heading south something like a 550 miles shoreline the biggest man made body of water in the world I believe just thinking about the record breaking large mouth baths that have come out of that lake really made my mouth water I carefully checked out the equipment I brought good money right now stuff and she'll be sporting where's the spear I don't think I'm gonna need a spear I don't think you can need any of that stuff you ask me if you want to catch fish for those rigs I brought along I just want you to take me to the same spot you took Mr. Thomas and Charlie went bad about that Mr. Thomas got a lot of nice past so you know fishing on a real deep hole that's where they are this time of year that's what I figured only they had that's enough to come back in that next day when the wind start to blow they seem to get along all right hob I told police about that Mr. Dollar but I guess it didn't mean anything told him about what well you asked me Mr. Thomas wasn't any too happy fishing with Charlie Wentworth but Charlie kept saying let by guns be by guns and let's enjoy the fishing so when you when you found Charlie in the boat the next morning was their tackle still in it you ever seen this lake when there's a big blow for me I've seen Lake Mojave when it's been that way but you haven't answered my question tackle boxes got thrown overboard along everything else even that big one of Charlie he had enough stuff in that thing to sink the Queen Mary he did not like what I'm well I didn't poke around in it I sit down for the first place to stop for him so if that's what you want that's where I'll start I'll do visit I'd say about a tree and a half a tree and a half well you know how a fair size tree is glory holds about a tree and a half I see the tiny if you're gonna use that rig you brought along just pull up to the same spot you showed them where to fish right at least half a dozen of the holes were harbored taken Thomas and Charlie no luck then we went four or five miles further down the lake and pulled up just below Goat Island just below the big rock slide I covered every inch of that with the aid of a powerful waterproof headlamp I brought along and finally I came back up to the surface that's right I said I came back up to the surface thanks I'll rest you in the water for a minute that's a pretty deep hole yeah but are you ever expect to catch bass in that skin diving rig without even a spear and me and me along rope I found it down there yeah on a ledge about 50 feet down last under that heavy tackle box you were talking about that's what made it sink what are you talking about Johnny the body of Thomas Thomas what yeah and as a bullet hole right between the eyes Johnny dollar in a moment in the modern manner you know you try to Pepsi lately and now act three of yours truly Johnny dollar I took the body of Thomas Thomas back to headquarters in Las Vegas and hung around long enough to hear dr. Richard Fallon say the bullet hole was definitely made by a 38 and at close range to hear police captain Willis say there'd be no action taken until the bullet could be removed for study but I knew he'd change his mind when he had time to think about it so I left headquarters and started making the rounds of the gambling casinos luck was with me the second place I stopped one of the public joints on Freemont I'm going to everyone that's 34 red and even well you see them around here today yes Charlie what's worth it just come in at all thanks all right ladies excuse me please all right me will you make it through here please Charlie Charlie what work yeah but Johnny dollar insurance getting here's my potential guess you want to talk about my pal Tommy Thomas got drawn over like me last week said it yeah something like that but that was an awful thing in going like that he was an old buddy of mine was he sure was nobody talked over my room too much noise okay by you sure why not I'm not kidding no listen dollar I haven't packed the rod since the old days of the meretti mob back and shy I'll bet that's a fact it's a truth you think I want to get in trouble again well you're wrong see maybe look I did my stretch and it learned me a lesson I'm all through it I kind of stuff I'm all through with it oh sure it's a fact it's the truth I'm strictly legit now you understand what about making book around town without a license who said that well you can't prove it you're nobody else what's that got to do with Tommy Thomas and the poor guy getting drawn up tell me that huh what is this dollar anyhow you really hated his guts didn't you sure wouldn't you if well sure because when the chips were down he didn't give you a hand he lets you when the rest of the mob take the wrap kept his own skirts clean at your expense listen what are you trying to do get me excited say something I shouldn't say I mean I don't mean you talking Charlie sure I hate it I could have killed him the first that is only at first anybody would have felt that way but you know after a few years in the clink you learn better what good to do you those things don't matter you've learned your lesson I know I did or you became a paragon of virtue I suppose I don't know what you're talking about but that's all over you hear me when I just happened to find him living here in Vegas that was all over let by gone be by gone I mean it we was pals Charlie there's about as much truth in that that's a fact that's the truth and why did you kill him that's a lie you can't prove it that's where you're wrong I have absolute proof oh yeah yeah I found it on his body is his body I fished it out of Lake Meade this morning and now now listen you had half fault and show you all the deepest holes when you went out fishing with him then the next day you took Thomas out there alone you killed him tied that weighted tackle box to his body and let him sink down in the deepest hole of all down below the rock slide that that will still yeah yeah gave you the greatest excuse in the world for coming back alone didn't it you couldn't have had it better if you'd planned that storm yourself but it didn't excuse the bullet hole and Tommy Thomas's head from your gun from my gun yeah no longer packing a rod dollar maybe I sort of kind of well maybe I forgot about this one trigger man huh you're a lousy shot and pretty slow draw thank heaven you know something now I think I have got proof yeah this gun of yours down at headquarters the ballistics team took less than an hour yep the bullet did founded Thomas Thomas's body came from the same gun Charlie had tried to kill me with so it's back to prison for him for a long long time oh and the company will not have to pay double indemnity for accidental death expense account total including a couple of days of excellent fishing with Hobb Fulton and the trip back to Hartford one ninety six forty five yours truly shiny dollar will return in just a moment I've 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