Get this and get it straight.

Crime is a sucker's road.

And those who travel

it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

The story you were about to hear is true.

Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.

The Adventures of the Saints,

starring Vincent Price.

Bob Bailey, in the exciting adventures

of the man with the action-packed expense account.

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator...

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to Down These Mean Streets and our bonus series spotlighting the serialized adventures of Johnny Dollar.

We continue today with one of my favorite five-part storylines, originally aired on CBS between October 17th and October 20th,

1955, it's the Chesapeake Fraud Matter. This was the third storyline to air after Johnny Dollar was revived in a 15-minute format. And like the two stories that aired before, the Chesapeake

fraud matter continues to set the table of the types of cases Johnny Dollar can tackle.

In those first two stories, we had a burglary and the sinking of a ship. And today, Dollar is

asked to investigate when a man who died five years earlier is

apparently seen alive and well. It's a case that takes America's fabulous freelance

insurance investigator from Hartford to Baltimore and then all the way to Denver as he tries to find out if a man in Colorado

is actually the one who died in a boating accident years ago on the other side of the country.

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