i'm being honored with an official call sort of in that case you can leave no seriously candy you can help me if you will where the mountain coming to the mountain oh you're not so large now you can lean on me kidding here's a pitch an acquaintance of mine gordon ayres has a little problem on his hands and needs your help what is this don't get excited and if he's an insurance adjuster for an aviation offer here in san francisco a couple of months ago a guy and his wife took off in a private plane from one of those little airports down the peninsula and crashed she burned to death airs investigated and okayed claim or other fancy amount but his company doesn't like it they don't think the crash was legit it gets interesting he has to prove he was right he came to me he wanted us to verify the facts but we're the san francisco police and that's out of our jurisdiction so so i mentioned you know he wants to make sure and have a little talk you can reason why i'm going to take you to must be the rabbit in me i left a nibble on large hunks of cabbage do you recall the lyrics from that old song the one that goes he floats through the air with the greatest of ease well that's what happened i can't imagine one of san francisco's better known private investigators she found herself floating through the air all right but not with the greatest of us as a matter of fact it was one of the most her raising experiences this pert little gal detective ever run into well why go on about it here she used to tell you about  well that's the way it started inspector rainout an old friend of mine and that's all i can call him down to an old friend of mine dropped by and insisted i meet this gordon there is an aviation insurance adjuster two things induced me to take the deal now it's big spaniel of pardon me i want to talk of course by the way we oversold on commercial airlines many times why would you like to take a little hop this afternoon what's that got to do with why i'm here plenty i and i also flew for uncle sam and larry late mess over germany ok i'll take your word for it good let's go to the office he told me there would be days like this candy she used to say never leave the house without your pa and assorted certificates tucked his wallet and the counter in the chap proceeded to check him out we went out on the field and climbed into the plane then air is going the motor and we were taking  run by a man named folgers we're going to simulate a landing at that field i'm still not with it i want you to notice all the physical qualities that i feel as we come in for a landing notice the boundaries the hazards and the amount of free space a plane especially a li i thought aries and lost control of the ship but no it was just a routine bank then another bank right in we were nosing into order airfield down in front of  waterfront and if i let the plane taxied out i'd be up by those hangars any problems about that none that i can see at the moment look carefully to see anything at all anything nope if i didn't know better i'd say we're in caught fire escape is like that i was the adjuster on the case i voted straight accident as my company to pay the claim they didn't like the idea well you know how insurance companies are as math and i for them have to be suspicious but in this case their fears yourself you son were there boy wait a minute video prop your i mean you won't sign i didn't say that but i don't sign anything until i read the fine print not even from my pal mallard i'll tell you what i'm going to do warm tub some warm soup and then some warm blankets and blacked out for the night in the morning i drove over to california st year old st mary's i wanted to see a good luck piece of my rembrandt what and rembrandt the photographer and tops in his profession now that he's not supplying the rent for all the i'm sure we have a lot to talk  asked admit this is somewhat of a shock i thought it would be now is there anything you can do to help me pictures diagram and anything i can yes i have a complete by including a newspaper photograph of the argue i like the insurance company i made the same mistake myself that fuselage you saw was a training plane it cracked up on a routine flight no one hurt the plane in which mrs soldier was killed was sold for scrap a week after my form pull the trigger on the wrong target now it's all right as i said i made the same mistake myself however i don't think it was advisable for you to go down there without consulting me first oh fold or call me on the phone right after you left and you have given him out fine case of the jitters l ayres i operate in my own manner if i saw a reason to give folgers co pastor the once over that as it should be and if that isn't agreeable to even get another boy or girl now wait a moment i'm sorry no no you continue doing as you are good naturally you want to be fair about this thing and i can't blame you right now then what's the next step mismatches well off hand i really don't know i'll call you first thing in the morning first thing in the morning f you're new with the next step was that i wasn't telling errors or anybody this was more than just working for a commission i thought i was on to something and i was going to fall through i called a friend of mine at an aviation insurance brokerage and got enough night work to keep me going until next thinks within a day i took my material home and started in it was a history of every fatal plane crash in the united states for the past ten years but eleven i think some coffee about to i started no now because it only needed a little tightening i stretched out on the couch set the alarm for nine and woke up right on schedule once again i got errors on the phone now i had to work then i called mallard explained the situation and he agreed to get one of his radio technicians and come along with me we drove back down the peninsula and i left them both to cranston's plying service where they went to work then i continued to folders their board was a little before noon and told you had the ship out on the runway warming  because got a license plate under named i approved his half of the plane also the passenger safety them then one fine day came in for a landing deliberately pancaked the ship left the motor running and let the great burn with folger's life in it they collected plenty in those days they had the names of smith and jones or something like that and heirs with the insurance adjustor they moved on to california to the names of heirs and folger and set about to do an encore on the same old act oh you met another wealthy gal married  setting up in the airport business areas got himself a job with a san francisco insurance outfit and while off they were ready for another crack oh my suspicions were first lit up when i saw ayres face he had more scars and stitches than a well seasoned hockey player and that broken up his life behind folders airport that was another giveaway it was a test model they'd used to make sure their plans were all but the real giveaway was the pair what a memory n c ninety eight  actual people is purely coincidental the program came to you from san francisco dudley menlove speaking