The owner of a fashionable Wilshire Boulevard auction house is slugged and robbed of $1200. Searching f or clues, Friday (Jack Webb) and Ben Alexander (Ben Alexander) find some partially burned matches. A rundown of the companies manufacturing these matches leads the detectives to the elusive--but fatally careless--bandit. Featured in the cast is starlet Jill Richards, who later left acting to become a top fashion designer. This episode was adapted from the Dragnet radio broadcast of July 27, 1954. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi