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Nick Carter: The Numbers Murders (EP1152) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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offer Today's Mysterious Adventure with Nick Carter. Our story opens in a dingy little
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saloon on a backstreet. So, yeah, you finally hit it in bunny.
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Yeah. Three years have been playing their numbers and doing nothing but lose.
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But today, oh boy, fifty thousand dot? Which numbers? Was?
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You're playing? Benny Duke Dawsen's your lucky combe the Dukes. He's a
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square shooter, always pays off on the nose when you win. He's a
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great guy, the Duke. You think it's safe to go around telling everybody
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you want to let dough, there's something might happen to you before you get
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to spend it. I ain't no fool, butch. I ain't told only
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a couple of mom and the dude could want me to tell him. He
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likes to have the guys know he pays when he loses. Fifty grand all
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mine. Gee, I can't believe it yet. Yeah, but as long
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as you got it in your pocket, it's easy to believe it. Yeah,
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you're right there. Well, it's a long time. I gotta be
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getting on home. I ain't got to tell the old lady. We're rich
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now on cheevy tickle. So long, Benny, don't spend it all on
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the way home. Spend it all. Hey, you can't spend that much
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dough without you do some thinking about it. Fifty grand. That dude's a
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swell guy. Ever, lets a fellow down. When you got the winning
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ticket, you know you got to go. Oh it's you, glad to
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see you. Haw's a boy. I got your luck, Benny. When
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he congratulate you, Oh, yeah, thanks, the best luck I've had
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in years. Got it with you? I suppose sure I got it with
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me. You don't think I. Hey, put down that gun. You
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can't stow fifty thanks, pal, which, together with the evidence already set
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forth above, proved conclusively about the man Nick. Not so fast. I
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can't keep up with you. What's the matter, Patsy? Got cramps in
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your fingers? No, no, Nigga's not that. We've been working on
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this report for over three hours without stopping. I can't keep it up all
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day. All right, Patsy, let's rest for a few minutes. It
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wouldn't be so anxious to finish this week before it, said Nicholas Cotter's office.
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Hello, pussy is Nick clear? Oh yes, Lieutenant, just a
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minute? Thanks? Hello, Riley. What's on the royal mind this evening?
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I know, Nick, lay off the kidna a minute. Just because
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you're called the masterminding all the yellow journals in the city, don't mean the
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tie ride? All right, Riley, I withdraw my rewind. What's wrong
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with the world now? Just a murder, Nick, Just a murder.
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Nothing new about a murder, Riley? Why'd drag me in now? Nick?
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I'm asking you as their personal fever? Will you give me your hand
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on this. If we don't get this one solved and solved quick, the
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commission is going to be done on It's like a ton of bricks. What's
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the special about this particular murder? Meet me in front of seven five six
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Brownly Avenue as soon as you can, and I'll tell you all about it.
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What do you say, Riley? It's after eleven now? Can I
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wait until tomorrow? Nick? It can't. We got to get to it
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right now. Will you meet me? All right? Meet you then five
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or ten minutes? Thanks Nick, and I'll be seeing you so long?
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So long? Who going? Yes, Patsy, We're going to have a
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look at somebody who just suddenly and violently passed out of this world. Get
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your hat and let's go there. Nick. But how are you? Patsy?
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Okay, thanks, lieutenant. Where's the remains? Rallying? Right over
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here? Nick? Just the way my men found him, I see two
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shots right through the heart. Never knew what hit him. Looks as if
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they might have come from a forty five? Right? Nick? All right?
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Rolly? Who is in? Why should I care? His name's Benny
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Smith. He's one of the characters that hang around the edge of the underworld.
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No record, but a great guy for playing the numbers. He's been
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playing them since they were tarted, and I think that's what killed him.
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Oh now, Lieutenant, how could the numbers kill him? Benny connected today?
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Patsy. He won himself fifty thousand dollars and they had it on him
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when he started home, they tell me. But he ain't got a cent
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of it. Now. He's as clean as a whistle. Very interesting,
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Probably talk too much about his luck? Why do I come in? Benny
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played Duke Dawson's numbers. Nick and Dukes had two heavy winners this month.
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Both of them were killed in the same way before they got home and both
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of them lost their roles. Once could be a play and hold up,
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but twice it's like a regular thing, and I want to find out the
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killing's like this has got as tough. That's where you come in, Nick,
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I need some of your fancy ideas on how to stop them. Lucky
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Coombs runs the other numbers game, doesn't he? Yeah? Yeah, him
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and the due you who have been at each other's through us for the last
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six months. Maybe Lucky think this is a good way to persuade the public
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that if you win with the Duke, you don't live to spend what you
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win. It could be Nick, and it could be Tool that the Duke
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needs the coin bad enough to want to get advance. I'd hate to play
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any numbers game where I had to lose my life when I want any money.
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Has no percentage in the numbers game. From any point of view,
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Patsy, it's a suckers game. Well, Riley, why do you want
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me to start? Good for you? Nick? I knew you couldn't stay
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out of it, But what do you say we go to call on the
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Duke and see what he's got to say for himself. Okay, Rilly,
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you drive on ahead. We'll follow you. I don't let the cops catch
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your speeding. Never was in a place like this before, and you probably
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won't ever want to be again. Patsy is a piano the only music there
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is. Yes, Well, Steve Corey is a good piano player. None
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better. He not only is a good piano player, he also serves as
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a lookout for the Duke. See how the piano is right at the foot
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of the stairs the second floor. Well, that's where the Duke's officers are,
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and no one can get up there without Steve seeing it. Oh,
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he signals ahead with his piano. Let the Duke know whether it's a friend
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or an enemy who's coming up? Hey, how do you know so much
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about this place? Nick? Oh? I get around righty now and then,
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and I suppose it's Steve signals that it's the wrong kind of company coming
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to call. They get the wrong kind of reception. That's about it,
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Patsy, Hi, Steve Duke in, Yeah, go on up. Hey,
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what do you smoke in that pipe of yours? Old cabbage leaves,
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shoe leather? It smells like the deuce whatever it is. One, Come
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on, Nick, we got to be moving right, which is his office?
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He Nick, good one here, it's funny. Try the door.
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Maybe he's not in there. It must be. He told us to come
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up, and I can see there's a light inside. Maybe there's something wrong,
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like, let's here, have a look, Dawson. I think we
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better come on. Come with me. Now, come on again again.
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I got breaking it, Rally, breaking it? You hurt? Raley?
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No? Did he get you? No? What's going on in here?
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Nothing? Now, Patsy can come in. He look at your Nick,
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dead capt right through the forehead. Is that the duke, asked Patsy.
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That was the duke? Hey, Look that's where the killer went back through
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that window there, yes, and down the fire escape below. There's a
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dozen ways he could have gone. We'd never see him. If we'd only
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gotten in a little sooner, Nick, that wouldn't have made any difference,
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Raley. I suppose not. He was out to get the Duke, and
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he had gotten them anyway, And it was just as easy for the killer
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to get out on the fire escape and wait for us. The good thing
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he was a poor shot. He'd both be dead. I don't think so,
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Betsy, What do you mean? Look how high as bullets went up
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above the door there. We think he was just trying to scare us.
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Nake looks that way, and they shoot straighter than that. Now we've got
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two murders to solve instead of one. Yes, I'm beginning to get interested
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in this. Now, let's see what the duke can tell us about this.
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Duke had no weapons, so he apparently wasn't expecting an attack. Must
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have known the man who killed him. Hey, Nick, I thought the
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Duke didn't smoke. He didn't. There's an awful lot of burned matches here
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in this ash tray for a guy who don't smoke, and they're all burned
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pretty well down too. And here's a cigarette, but it's you a door.
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I never heard of that brand, mate, Very few people smoke them.
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And Lucky Coombs is one of them. Lucky Cools. Maybe he doesn't.
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Let's not jump too fast. I'll just take this, but and these
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matches along with me. They may come in handy before were through. I
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better call headquarters and get some of the boys up here right while you take
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care of this. And if it Patsy, now'll go and call Unlucky.
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Maybe he can tell us something about this. Okay, Nick, but be
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careful Luck. He's a tough fete. I will I know how to handle
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him. Oh, Steve, Yeah, did the Duke have many callers tonight?
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No? No, how about Lucky Coombs? He wasn't away here,
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was he? Yeah? Yeah, he was? What of it? Nothing?
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Maybe? By the way, you better get this crowd out of here.
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The Duke's been murdered. This place is going to be filled A copp
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reporter's photographer's fingerprint meant a detective in about ten minutes, duke murdered. Yeah,
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so long, Steve, Come on, Betsy, Let's see what Lucky
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has to say. Eleven please. Oh I thought to put an end of
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the numbers racket in the town, Nick for a while. Anyway, with
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the Duke dead and Lucky in jail for his murder, maybe, but let's
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not get ahead of ourselves. Oh, Thatt, just stay in the car
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outside, maybe go in someplace Clintford. Why, yes, that's a friendly
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visit. I want to see Lucky a minute. Lucky, he's not receiving
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tonight, not cops anyways, I'm no cop. It's one of friendly talk
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with him. Well you can't, no, I think I can. Well
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me and my buddy here is gonna see that you're down. We sure you
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got a search warrant? Have you? Oh? You want to see my
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search warrant? Do you well? Here A damn yeah, and I'm gonna
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drudge you fall well. Nick seems to be having difficulty into sea Lucky.
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our story. We left Nick fighting it out with one of Lucky Kum's gunmen
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as he tried to get into Sea Lucky to question him about the killing of
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Duke Dawson. I'm gonna try yourself. Well, shut my hand off.
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You're all right. I just knocked your gun out of your hand. That's
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all here. I'll take it, and just to be sure, i'll take
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your pal gun too. Now you'll both be good little boys. I won't
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tell Lucky on you. Oh hello, Lucky, I've enjoyed meeting your welcoming
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committee sometimes very ambition get the better of the common sense. They told me
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it was you coming up, Cutter. I would have advised them to let
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you in and see themselves a headache. Here your boys pop gun, give
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them back to them after I go. You can come out now, Patty,
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Well after daily doesn't for this evening. I always enjoy watching you exercise.
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It does need so much good. What can I do for you,
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Cutter? I suppose you know Benny Smith was killed tonight, right after he
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collected the fifty thousand he won in Duke Dawson's numbers game. Yeah, I
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heard about that. You don't think I had anything to do with that,
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do you? And did you also hear that Duke Dawson himself was murdered a
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little while later, So you think you can pin that on me? We
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found one of your cigarettes half smoked in the ashtray on the Duke's desk,
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Lucky Well, and the Duke didn't smoke. Not three people in the city
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smoke your brand. How did your cigarette get in the Duke's astray n cigarette?
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You could easily be held for the murder and the evidence we have,
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Lucky, But I suppose you have an alibi. If so, let's have
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it. Well, why and then that of my apartment will even no alibi?
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Well, well that's very interesting. No alibi and a shame to admit
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it. Then he must be the one. If you think I did it,
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why don't you run me in? No, Lucky, we're not going
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to run you in. But you will stick around, won't you, just
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in case we need you for a witness or something. Oh, make surely
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you're not going to let him go? Why not? You will stick around,
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Lucky? Yeah? Fine, Yeah, I'll stick around. Then let
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me know when you need me for something. Thanks, I will Well,
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good night, Lucky. Mo On, Passy, let's be going. Why
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is it quiet, Bessy? You haven't said a word since we left Lucky's.
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Well, I can't understand it. Nick, You have what looks like
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good reason to believe Lucky killed the duke, and you let him go.
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That makes sense to me. Why, Patsy, That's all part of my
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plan. I think I have the answer to both killings now, and leaving
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Lucky loose is part of my way of proving it. And I suppose that
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phone call you made after we left Lucky's was part of your plan. Too
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right, Bessy, all part of my plan? And did your phone call
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accomplish what you hoped it would? Aida did? Patsy, and Aida did?
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I asked what it was you may, Oh, Nick, why don't
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you tell me what's going on? I don't get it at all. I
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phoned a certain party to get a certain address, and I got it.
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That's all. You know who the killer is? I think so well that,
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unfortunately I am not prepared to divulge at this precise moment. Oh Nick,
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Well, here we are, here, we are ware the address I
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got on the phone. It's the third house up there, the rooming house.
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And what do we do there now? Patsy, listening carefully what I
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tell you? I'm going inside that house alone, Yes, alone, And
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as soon as I do, I want you to go to the phone and
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the drug store across the street and phone Riley. He'll be back at headquarters
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by this time. Tell him to come up here just as fast as he
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can. I may need him. Tell him to bring some of his men
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in the hurry up wagon, but not to use the siren when he gets
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here. Tell him to wait out here with you until I come out,
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or if I don't come out, tell him to rush in after me,
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just as soon as he hears gunshots, Nick, haven't you better wait until
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he gets here before you go in there? You can't do it, Patsy.
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I've got to get inside before the next visitor does. That's the important
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part of my plan. Now you have a straight I think so good.
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I'm counting on you, Patsy. Don't fail me. I'll wish me luck.
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I may need it. Oh, who's there? Nick? Carter?
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Got a few questions. I'd like to ask him questions. Yes, I'm
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alone. Well, I see you're packing your suitcase. Steve, you weren't
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getting ready to leave town with you? What if I was? You shouldn't
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do that. We might need your testimony and clearing up Duke Dawson's murder.
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You're the only witness we have to testify that Lucky Komb's called on the Duke
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just before he was murdered. Yeah, that's that's why I'm getting out.
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I'm not staying here to be taken for a ride by Lucky's guerrillas. And
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that's what it happened to me. If I said anything against him, you
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won't be taken for a ride by Lucky's gun, and I'll guarantee you that
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I ain't taking out chances. Yeah, got a match? Sure, thanks,
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still smoking old babbage leaves in that pipe of yours. I see why
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don't you try to back of for it? Chain? I ain't taking no
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more writing from you, no from nobody. Okay, Steve? Oh do
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you mind if I keep this match? You just used? What do you
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want it for? I think I can use it? Hey, what's going
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on here? Carter? What can you use a pointing match for? For
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one thing, I can use it to send you to jail. To jail,
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yes, for murder. You won't send me to jail for murder.
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Up that gun, Steve, Yeah, that's not from you. Give me
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that die. I will give me that. I didn't have to break my
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arm, did you? Lucky for me? You're shot in a hurry.
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Otherwise you might have got me somewhere else and just in the pleasure part of
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my arm. Oh, let's see what's in that suitcase? Are you keep
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on saying where you are? Steve? I've got the gun. Now set
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out on a chair. I'll be quiet. Huh. Quite a nice roll
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of bills you have here, at least fifty thousand dollars, I should say,
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by the size of the roll, eh, what's it to you?
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It was a nice racket you were working, Steve. Whenever the Duke paid
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off any big money, you knew who got the money, laid for them
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and killed him. The Duke knew it was bad business to have his winners
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killed that way, So somehow he must have gotten wise to you, probably
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by having someone trail Benny, someone who saw you kill him. So he
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called you in to have a talk with you, and you killed him,
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and he true, I didn't. I didn't. Lucky Coombs did it.
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That's so we'll see what Lucky has to say when you tell him that he'll
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be here in a few minutes. If I'm not mistaken. No, No,
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I couldn't. He'd kill me. He killed Stay where you are.
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I'll stand behind the door, you daddy, double crossing rad That's enough.
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Lucky got that gun? Is he is? He? Did you kill him?
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No? I just shot him through the shoulder. The shot knocked him
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out. He'll live to go to the electric chair with you. A right,
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all right, it's all right, everything's under control. Goodness, all
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right, Riley, there are your two murderers, Steve in the chair and
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Lucky on the floor. Glory, b yes, Rally, two of them.
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You better get your handcuffs on them before they decide to run out of
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here and do just that. Now we find friend Steve, hold out your
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hand and you Lucky, you can't help. Basically, just put them on
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your your fleet and right when you wake up. Then it was Lucky,
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Nick, Yes, Bessie, Lucky and Steve together. This is a great
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day for the police department. Two men killed and the two murderers caught.
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Lieutenant, are you giving all the credit to the police department, It seems
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to me. No, No, no, of course not. I just
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meant it all right, Rally, it's all right. My part of it
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is, John, your precious police department can have all the glory if they
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want it. You tell me about it, How did they do it,
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and who killed who? I'll meet you down at your office and half an
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hour and give you all the details the evidence you need. Right now,
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I want to get my arm fixed it. Oh, Nick, you're her?
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Is it bad? Let me get a doctor quick. It's not serious,
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Patsy. It's just a flesh one and it's rather painful. I like
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to get it taken care of. Come on, Betsy, I guess you
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would have to drive. I'll see you later. Rally. Well that feels
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better. Good. Doctor's a wonderful paying when you need him. And doctor
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Sturgees is as good a man as there is. And now, mister Carter,
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I want to hear all about it? Oh, Patsy, can't you
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wait until we get to Rally's office. I don't want to go through the
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story twice, nik Kotta. If you don't give me all the details right
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here and now, I'll stop this car and we won't move an inch until
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you decide to tell me what I want to know. All right, all
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right, you're a hard woman, miss Boone. I guess i'll have to
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give in. Well, what do you want to know? First? First,
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where does Steve come into this? He did the killing? Then what
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about Lucky? He was the man behind the throne, so to speak.
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Lucky wanted to cut in on the Duke's customers, so we had the Duke's
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winners killed. Steve, however, did the actual killing and got most of
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the money for his reward. And when the Duke caught on to Steve,
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Steve killed him and double crossed Lucky. How do you mean double crossed?
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Steve planted one of Lucky cigarettes in the Duke's ash tray. He undoubtedly had
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some of them from being associated with Lucky, so he just smoked one half
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way down and left it where we'd be sure to find it. Then who
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shot at you on, Lieutenant Riley when you broke into the Duke's room earlier
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this evening? That was Steve? That next Steve was downstairs playing the piano.
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He was there when we left him, yes, and he was there
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when we went back. But in between he slipped out the back up the
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fire escape, fired over our heads as we entered, to make us think
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the killer was just leaving, and then went back to his piano. He
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thought he had a perfect alibi. How did you know that it was Steve?
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By the matches and the ashtray? How could they tell you anything?
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Patsy? How'd you light a cigarette? Here? Here's a match? Try?
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Okay? Well, I suppose you'd light the match like this, light
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your cigarette and put out the match like this exactly. I look at that
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match you just used, it's only slightly burned at the end. I look
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at this match which I took from the ashtray that's burned almost all the way
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down exactly twas he used to light a pipe, not a cigarette, and
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Steve's a pipe smoker. He probably smoked as he talked to the Duke before
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he killed him before we got there. You see, Patsy, I knew
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the Duke was dead when we got there this evening. If you knew Steve
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did the killings, how did you find out about Lucky? Well? I
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felt sure Steve wouldn't dare to do it without strong backing, But there was
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no evidence against Lucky. So that's why I went to him and told him
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about one of his cigarettes being left in the Duke's astray. And that's also
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why I didn't want to take him in. Oh no, I see.
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I felt sure he'd go to see Steve and give himself away, and he
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did. Nick. I just realized what you said a minute ago. You
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said you knew that the Duke was dead before you went upstairs to his office
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to night. How could you possibly know that? Very simple, Patsy,
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Steve was the Duke's lookout man. He used the piano was a signal.
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The top key on the piano was wired to a buzzer that sounded in the
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Duke's room that meant someone was coming up. But when we went up tonight,
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he didn't hit that note. I watched him carefully, and he didn't
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hit it because he knew there was no one alive to hear it. He
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hit the wrong note. I'll say he hit the wrong note in more ways
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than one. How do you mean, Patsy, Well, considering that tonight
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you've sold three murders, ended the numbers racket, and recovered the stolen money,
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I say that Steve hit the wrong note when he tried to fool you.
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In just a moment, Nick and Patsy will bring you a preview of
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next week's exciting case. But first, here's a thought for all of you
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how about next week's adventure? Well? Can the main ingredients of next week's
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story are a small boy and a sling shot. Well, I didn't know
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you went in for cases of juvenile delinquency. He doesn't unless you call it
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juvenile delinquency. When an organized gang of thugs holds up an armored car kills
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the guards and gets away with thousands of dollars of the bank's money. Well
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that's a really big time stuff. But where did the small boy and a
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slingshot come into it? They were the means of my being able to catch
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the killers, get back the money, and break up the gang. And
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it gave Nick one of the most unpleasant and dangerous two hours he ever spent.
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Well, I'll certainly look forward to hearing that. Any further hints,
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Nick, Oh, that's all for now. Can I'll tell you the rest
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next time? I call the story the sling Shot Murders or the Mystery of
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the Broken Window. So long, So long everybody, and so long to
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you Nick and Patsy. We'll be looking forward to seeing you again next Sunday
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afternoon. Next week at the same time, listen to another curious experience of
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new sponsor. All right, well, now we turn to some listener comments
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and feedback, and I have a question from Kevin, who says, very
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Merry Christmas to you. This was sent on the twenty fifth. First,
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why are the Adventures of Nick Carter always referred to at the close of each
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program as the Return of Nick Carter. It's almost like an afterthought. And
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the answer to the question, Kevin, is Nick Carter was actually and I've
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mentioned this before, but sometimes maybe I haven't dwelt on it as much.
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Nick Carter was first a character in pulp fiction. He ran, actually predated
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Sherlock Holmes by Little Bed and ran from eighteen eighty six to nineteen fifteen,
32:27
so for nearly thirty years, and then he got a three year revival period,
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and certainly people went out and they bought these magazines, these pulps by
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the millions, and certainly a very popular and important figure in de tactive fiction.
32:47
I don't know some people may have even checked the series out at the
32:52
library. So of course they used the phrase the return of Nick Carter because
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they're evoking the fact that this character has his roots in pulp fiction, and
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he was very popular, and now this great detective is back on the radio,
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and that's what the returna M. Carter is about. He also shares
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a link you can go to Kittie Records dot com. That's k I D
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D I E R E c O R d s dot com and he points
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to a section under the two thousand and five uploads. This is a website
33:30
that contains children's records from the Golden Maids so old kids records, and among
33:38
them is a double feature of read by Bob Bailey, of Yours Truly Johnny
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Dollar, the Fisherman and the Flounder and the Els and the Shoemaker, and
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pretty neat. Really would not associate Bob Bailey with that. And there are
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quite a few of these kid records for those who enjoy that over at kiddirecords
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dot com. Okay, And also I did want to mention that I have
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seen another Nick Carter movie. This was actually the third of three chronologically.
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It doesn't really matter too much because it's not like you have to see one
34:30
to get the other, though seen the first is kind of helpful just because
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it introduces his sidekick. This was a film that really was one of those
34:43
Hollywood efforts introducing the idea fifth columnist ahead of World War Two. It was
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released in nineteen forty and the title is The Sky Murder, and there's some
34:55
blackmail and other shenanigans going on, and then a body is found on an
35:00
airplane compartment and it's up to Nick Carter to solve it. I have to
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say this was actually a pretty clever mystery, and they had some great action,
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particularly for a B movie in nineteen forty, but still a little bit
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of the sense of Screwball, a comedy that was in the first film,
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and he still has his sidekick, Donald Meek playing the role of Bartholomewle the
35:27
Beekeeper, and there's was actually a great scene where Bartholomew was fighting the bad
35:34
guys in this great comic fight scene. It was really just an enjoyable movie.
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So if you like a Golden age cinema, may want to. If
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you have Turner Classic Movie and it's on watch it, or you can also
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purchase the DVD of the Nick Carter Triple Feature, which is what I did.
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But yeah, I highly recommend it. Sky Marder was just pretty,
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really entertaining, So a great Nick car movie. Listener comments continue. Comment
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from Chris on Twitter. Awesome show. Love your podcast and you're fascinating inside
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into the shows. Keep up the awesome work and happy New Years. Right
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back at you, Chris, and thanks so much for your comments and your
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support. It's truly appreciated. Then we have a comment on podcast Ali a
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great listen. I listen almost every night. Keep up the good work.
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All right, Well, that will actually do it for today. Join us
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back here tomorrow where we'll bring you the last part of the Long Shot Matter
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and the first part of our new car our last actually the Carter Brown Mystery.
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