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Ellery Queen: The Man in the Street (EP1654) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time for today's episode
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  Speaker 1: of Ellery Queen. The original air date December the fourth
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen forty seven, the title The Man in the Street.
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  Speaker 2: Ellery Queen. In the interest of a safe for American home,
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  Speaker 2: a happier American community, a more United States, the American
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  Speaker 2: Broadcasting Company and it's affiliated stations bring you Ellery Queen.
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  Speaker 2: I dedicate this program to the fight against crime, not
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  Speaker 2: merely crimes of violence and crimes of dishonesty, but crime
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  Speaker 2: of intolerance, discrimination, and bad citizenship, crimes against America. The
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  Speaker 2: American Broadcasting Company presents a new series and the Career
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  Speaker 2: of Ellery Queen, celebrated fighter of crimes. As usual, Ellery
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  Speaker 2: invites you to match wits with him as he relates
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  Speaker 2: the mystery, and before revealing the solution, he gives you
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  Speaker 2: a chance to solve it. Tonight, Ellery's guest armchair Detective
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  Speaker 2: who will represent you home Armchair Detectives is the prominent
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  Speaker 2: radio and motion picture actor Gerald Moore. And now here's
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  Speaker 2: Ellery Queen himself, your host for the next half hours.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Paul Masterson, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight we tell you the story of a man who
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  Speaker 2: was surrounded by enemies, ten thousand of them. I call
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  Speaker 2: it the man in the Street. I'm not tickling your mona.
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  Speaker 2: This is a frisk stand still. I'm a little nervous sergeant.
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  Speaker 2: He's a little nervous inspector. Now it's that crowd outside.
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  Speaker 2: Stand still, maner, Why don't you chase them away? With's
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  Speaker 2: my brother Joel. Why didn't Joel come home from my
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  Speaker 2: office tonight because he was smarter than you, liars, leaving
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  Speaker 2: me to face the marb alone pickle length they manor
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  Speaker 2: stand still? Yes, Elias, only a few days ago the
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  Speaker 2: man in the street was calling you his benefactor. You
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  Speaker 2: and your brother had a great idea, liars. Build a
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  Speaker 2: model town, mana city, cheap good housing, co op stores,
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  Speaker 2: fine schools and playgrounds for the kids, a great modern hospital,
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  Speaker 2: everything shared by the community. Utopia for Joe Doaks. Now
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  Speaker 2: wonder they were giving you and your brother testimonial dinners. Please,
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  Speaker 2: they'll try to play in me. It it's only that
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  Speaker 2: window and still, Mana, how many people did you and
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  Speaker 2: Joel rope in, Elias? Ten thousand from this area alone,
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  Speaker 2: wasn't it? Ten thousand suckers? You're gonna stand still? MANA
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  Speaker 2: city turned out to be some rotten marsh land and
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  Speaker 2: a long island swamp. Those ten thousand investors will never
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  Speaker 2: say a cent wiped out a liars. Only it came
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  Speaker 2: out too soon, didn't that? They're going rocks? That one
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  Speaker 2: almost hit me. You've gotta get me out of here
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  Speaker 2: through that, mom. We'll wait for the reserve. Liar, tell
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  Speaker 2: me the pieces there if it will make you feel
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  Speaker 2: any better, Lock the shoppers, lock them, Okay, Inspector, there's wallet, papers, jewelry, everything,
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  Speaker 2: even a small change. Better get him ready? Where's that butler? Butler, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 2: you come in here. Yes expected queen, sir. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: an employee. I assure you. Yes, You've got nothing to
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  Speaker 2: worry about. Get Elias Mana's hat and called, well, come on,
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  Speaker 2: whom are you staring at? Why? Mister Marner, you're frightened?
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  Speaker 2: Didn't you hear the inspector? The boys said the people?
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  Speaker 2: How you and your brother used to laugh at them?
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  Speaker 2: Suckers you called them, And now the suckers don't make
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  Speaker 2: you laugh anymore. Mister Marna, get my hat and coat.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Marma, sir, get your own hat and coat. Take that,
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  Speaker 2: mister Mana, Sir, I'll get my things myself. They're just
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  Speaker 2: in the hall out to bat. His brother smell the
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  Speaker 2: rat feeline and took a powder before we could grab him.
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  Speaker 2: Look at this role I just took off a liar's
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  Speaker 2: inspector chicken feed yours got the real poke. I'm afraid
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  Speaker 2: really getting ugly out there. He Mana, Hurry up, I said, mana,
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  Speaker 2: hurry up, there's the reserves. This is our chance. Mana,
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  Speaker 2: where are you? Mana maner bunner in the hall? He
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  Speaker 2: hate you? Butler wait mind ago you see him? Why
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  Speaker 2: you said he went to the via the kitchen five
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  Speaker 2: not in the kitchen net back of e It's open
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  Speaker 2: alley runs right through to the side street. And spector
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  Speaker 2: he got away like his brother. Send out a general alarm.
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  Speaker 2: I see okay the specter was that? Nothing really?
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  Speaker 3: But I don't understand it. Where can he be?
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  Speaker 2: I don't get it myself. A first and dry Elias
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  Speaker 2: didn't have a red sand on him when he gave
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  Speaker 2: us a slip, miss Port.
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  Speaker 3: A man needs money in New.
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  Speaker 2: York, especially one on the lamb lesson Inspector. Elias and
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  Speaker 2: Joel had fixed up a meeting place beforehand, and Joel
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  Speaker 2: had plenty of moolah. I don't think so it happened
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  Speaker 2: too quickly.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe a friend.
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  Speaker 2: He ain't got a friend. A western hammer's miss Porter
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  Speaker 2: and any relatives lasted, covering every car, road, bridge, tunnel,
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  Speaker 2: railroad station, airport, city seal tight Where is he? Ellery? Huh?
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  Speaker 2: School cop man? I'm floating around the city with ten
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  Speaker 2: thousand yowling suckers after their highs, and you sit in
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  Speaker 2: your spine in my office reading the morning paper. Aren't
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  Speaker 2: you interested la and saving the monas lives? Nikki? Oh, yes, well,
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  Speaker 2: don't sound so sincere mine stroke, they're hardly worth the effort. No,
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  Speaker 2: I just agree, Sergeant, saving their lives is one of
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  Speaker 2: the most important jobs you'll ever be called out to do.
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  Speaker 2: Why my stroke keep a couple of high binders from
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  Speaker 2: getting what's coming to them so they can lay around
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  Speaker 2: the south for a few years and think up some
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  Speaker 2: more for nagles. Oh, Sergeant, the the Monas didn't really
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  Speaker 2: steal money. They stole hopes, plans, years of hard work,
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  Speaker 2: and the part of a lot of ordinary people. They
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  Speaker 2: stole Johnny Doe's first payment of the house, Mabel Brown's
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  Speaker 2: wedding money, the operation that Bill Smith's wife may need
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  Speaker 2: a year from now. That's why the miners must be
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  Speaker 2: kept alive. Sargeant got the live to give back that house,
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  Speaker 2: and that's true. So and that operation. Oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: that seen this ad in the personals color.
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  Speaker 4: Why let me see it's addressed to dear Dot Dot.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose that's short for Dottie or Dorothy and signed
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  Speaker 4: dsh dot Dash.
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  Speaker 2: Who cares? I went from honor Brothers dot dot death. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: that's the basis of the Morse code. Goelegraphy Joe wat
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  Speaker 2: my stroke. I believe the maner Brothers used to be
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  Speaker 2: telegraph operator. A code hidden message read that Adne.
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  Speaker 4: Dear dot sorry he had to run off before get together.
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  Speaker 4: If p X Jones will engage room at Haven Hotel
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  Speaker 4: between two and four this afternoon, we'll contact him there
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  Speaker 4: to arrange export details.
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  Speaker 2: Dash. It's from Joel Marna to Elias. Joel must have
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  Speaker 2: read in the late extras last night that Elias's cap
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  Speaker 2: without a sense.
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  Speaker 3: Not knowing where Elias is hiding, Joel put this.
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  Speaker 2: Ad in the paper to get brother Rath to come
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  Speaker 2: to the Haven Hotel under the air here so p
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  Speaker 2: X Joel Joel will join Elias and arrange export sales
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  Speaker 2: for both of them.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna skip the country.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that's what Joel had in mind, nicking. All
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  Speaker 2: we have to do is watch the Haven Hotel, keep
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  Speaker 2: an eye on Elias when he checks in his p
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  Speaker 2: X Jones this afternoon, and wait for Joe to contact him.
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  Speaker 2: Sense feeling maybe not inspected the Haven's like Grand Central,
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  Speaker 2: a thousand rooms, crowds pouring in and out all day.
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  Speaker 2: Even if we spotted Malias knows our pusses, he'd run
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  Speaker 2: like a rabbit. Maybe we'd lose him again, and Joel too.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't feel like trusting this one to the boys.
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  Speaker 2: Our spotter has to be somebody, smile, somebody. The miners
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  Speaker 2: don't know, somebody who can keep him alive long enough
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  Speaker 2: for rust. They get him safely in a cellar. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: what do you say, s I would consider it a privilege? Hey,
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  Speaker 2: but how much show a you're gonna hawk in my hack? Here?
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  Speaker 2: My friend ought to be along any minute now, driver,
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  Speaker 2: and it's your dough Hey, hey, what are you thinking?
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  Speaker 2: His Mona des Look at here, Look at m MUSHes
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  Speaker 2: in the paper at thirty Crooks Gallery. No, Nikki, the
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  Speaker 2: Mona brothers. All the cops will catch him and they'd
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  Speaker 2: better work face.
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  Speaker 3: Why what do you mean, driver Tennis in a A lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of people in this town got hooked, lady. If one
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  Speaker 2: of the victims spotted those trucks.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Ellery, you suppose that's why Elias saysn't shown
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  Speaker 3: up at the haven here?
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  Speaker 2: Could be he knows he's surrounded by enemies. Ten thousand
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  Speaker 2: of them might be too scared to come out of hiding.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine not knowing who your enemies are. Might be a newsboy,
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  Speaker 3: a stenographer, even a policeman, anybody on the streets.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, Nikki, what's the matter That old man shuffling toward
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  Speaker 2: the hotel entrance right.
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  Speaker 3: There, dwundled up to the ears dark glasses.
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  Speaker 2: I pulled on his eyes several days growth of bed, Nikki.
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  Speaker 2: That's Elias Mona.
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  Speaker 3: He's carrying a suitcase salary. He had no money.
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  Speaker 2: He's an old piece of junk. Nick he might have
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  Speaker 2: picked it up. Here he comes.
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  Speaker 3: Gallery that fat woman with a shopping bag. She's going
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  Speaker 3: to stop him.
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  Speaker 2: Keep nick I may have to jump out much.
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  Speaker 3: Could you be telling me which way to the subway?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Second, I thought that woman was gonna there.
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  Speaker 2: He goes into the Haven drive. Driver. Yeah, yeah, what
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  Speaker 2: is it?
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  Speaker 5: You are?
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  Speaker 2: Keep the change?
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Nicky, butmil.
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  Speaker 2: Calm down, Nicky. There he goes. We're heading for the desk.
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  Speaker 2: He's Nicky. Maybe he's not a lot he is if
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  Speaker 2: here registers as p X Jones. No, no stop writing nicky.
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  Speaker 2: Pretend to be looking at the magazines.
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  Speaker 5: I'm on the wrong please, yes, single, do you have
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  Speaker 5: a reservation for me?
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  Speaker 2: What's the name, sir? P X Joe Gallery read that magazine?
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  Speaker 2: Nikky Joe? Why know, mister Jones, we have no reservation
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  Speaker 2: in this for you know? Well, give me a room,
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  Speaker 2: any room you figure? Yes, yes, yes, you know you're
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  Speaker 2: lucky at that a convention? Just check. I don't want conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Room clock. Where is my room? Yes, sir Franz, Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Fourteen o nine boy, here's yes, sir, I'll thank your back, sir.
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  Speaker 2: All right, elevators right this way. But yet Nikki, all
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  Speaker 2: right now, fourteen flower? Watch a step? Playin't you? Nickame?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you? Fourteen o nine was yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: To the left? I think. Oh there Nikki Bell boy
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  Speaker 2: just came out.
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  Speaker 3: Wait why Ellory, he's putting his ear to the door.
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  Speaker 2: Here, you boy, how do you think you're doing?
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Hey you see that old crumb I just brought
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  Speaker 2: up to fourteen o nine? Yes, no, why I think
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  Speaker 2: he is?
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  Speaker 3: Whyas Marner wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: Be, of course, not press me all of it, but
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  Speaker 2: I tell you he is. I just heard that Mona
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  Speaker 2: was seen heading for Mexico of horse feathers. I tell
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  Speaker 2: you that guy looks just like the newspaper photos of
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  Speaker 2: Elias Marner. I wouldn't spread that story around, young fellow.
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  Speaker 2: You might get a harmless old man into a lot
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  Speaker 2: of trouble. Yeah, but gosh, he sure looks like him
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  Speaker 2: going down. Please, Yeah, Joe said, Jue. You know that
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  Speaker 2: old boy?
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  Speaker 3: Not so good?
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  Speaker 2: Ellaie, he'll talk, Yes, Becky, I'll watch fortyen oh nine.
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  Speaker 2: You run over to that hotel across the street, the
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  Speaker 2: universal Dad and Villia wedding in the lobby there. Tell
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  Speaker 2: him to join me up here right away. So in
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  Speaker 2: a case like this, I always go to the manager
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  Speaker 2: the top. Can you do it well, inspector, I just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, give me the desk. Naturally, hotels aren't crazy
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  Speaker 2: about this sort of thing. Hello, desk managers, be is
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  Speaker 2: fourteen oh seven out to five? Then how about fourteen eleven?
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  Speaker 2: Hold fourteen eleven? Open all right, infected queen, you can
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  Speaker 2: watch fourteen oh nine from fourteen eleven. It's next door,
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  Speaker 2: thanks a lot. There wouldn't be a communicating door between them,
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  Speaker 2: would there? Why? Yes, it used to be a two
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  Speaker 2: room suite. Wouldn't be better. I want the key to
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  Speaker 2: fourteen eleven manager, and also the key to the door
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  Speaker 2: between the two rooms. And keep this under your hat,
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  Speaker 2: please naturally, mister queen. But tell me is it true
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  Speaker 2: this man Jones in fourteen oh nine is Elias Marler?
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  Speaker 2: Huh mon? One of my bell boys claims he is
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  Speaker 2: nothing so exciting she were. Now get me the kese. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be glad to do. You should have strength, all
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  Speaker 2: that bellop ellery all over the hotel by this time,
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  Speaker 2: a half hour, all over New York. I only can't
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  Speaker 2: take a Lias away from here either. How if we
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  Speaker 2: expect to nab Joel too, maybe it'll work out with
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  Speaker 2: Zeal in the squad covering the fourteenth floor. You and
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  Speaker 2: me in fourteen eleven listing it where you're going? So
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  Speaker 2: I have a little talk first with the chief operator
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  Speaker 2: of the hotel.
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  Speaker 6: You want to be notified the second there's a phone
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  Speaker 6: call two or from fourteen o nine.
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  Speaker 3: Is that it, mister queen?
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  Speaker 2: That's it? Operate.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be in fourteen eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Not you, nicky, you'll be in She's forteen nine. Now
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  Speaker 2: see what Jones wants? Operating?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, please, this is the.
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  Speaker 2: X Jones in forty or nine. Have there been any
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  Speaker 2: phone calls for the operator?
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  Speaker 6: Well, phone messages are sent to your room box, to
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  Speaker 6: the desk, mister Jones.
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  Speaker 2: But I just spoke to the desk.
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  Speaker 5: They say there's no message.
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  Speaker 6: Then I'm sorry, mister Jones. Is there's been a call?
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  Speaker 6: You either have got it directly or found a message
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  Speaker 6: in your bout?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, well bring me hearing forty nine, I get
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  Speaker 2: a call? Do you understand?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, mister Jones.
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  Speaker 2: Operator. How later are you on duty? Well?
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  Speaker 6: All the day shifts in the hotel are from noon
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  Speaker 6: to eight pm, mister queen.
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  Speaker 2: Then I'm leaving miss Potter here with you doing what Yes, Nicky,
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  Speaker 2: you can operate a switchboard, and this young lady can
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  Speaker 2: arrange leave you in charge when she goes off duty tonight.
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  Speaker 2: If you all who know about this, the better I'll remember. Operator.
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  Speaker 2: I'm relying on you to keep this Jones business absolutely
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  Speaker 2: hush hush.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, why won't tell anybody, mister queen? I realized, mister monor.
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  Speaker 6: Why I mean, mister Jones mustn't know he's being watched.
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  Speaker 6: Oh pardon me, hotel Haydn, good afternoon, glory.
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  Speaker 2: She's heard the rumor too, and you'll keep her from
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  Speaker 2: shooting off her mouth. Nicky, I'll begin fourteen eleven with Dad,
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  Speaker 2: don't tell me you haven't heard a thing through that
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  Speaker 2: door since he phoned room service with food and just
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  Speaker 2: keeps walking around him man like a case. Wheezl levery yah?
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  Speaker 2: What time is it? Dad? Six? Why no word from
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  Speaker 2: his brother. I don't understand that miss Jones got cold
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  Speaker 2: feet on some of these. Blame rumors to his ears.
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  Speaker 2: Oh way, take another look into the card. Not a thing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, he comes a hotel waiter pushing the table.
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  Speaker 2: Must be that Cholias ordered, little wider son. Okay, Dad,
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  Speaker 2: so wild? That waiter be joel Mona in disguise. No, no,
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  Speaker 2: that too short?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, who is it the way? Oh food I ordered?
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  Speaker 5: Just leave it outside my door with I'll take it
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  Speaker 5: in myself. I got to collect, sir, What is on
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  Speaker 5: my bail?
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  Speaker 2: Well, then you gotta sign up for it? Oh yes,
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  Speaker 2: one second, all right, wait quickly, it's just through what
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  Speaker 2: they tell you all, and I to mine. No. Wait,
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  Speaker 2: you're mistake. I'm making a mistaken way. Make a break
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  Speaker 2: for it. That can lose him again. Help the grow tongue,
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  Speaker 2: stop it, mana in here. Let me kill me?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, buddy, is killing you? Mana shut down waiter? Yes,
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  Speaker 7: where police? This is not Elias mana he Santa Claus.
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  Speaker 7: You understand, you forget this.
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  Speaker 2: Don't shoot off your mouth? Yes, he fasten along to
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  Speaker 2: the boys. Come on well, mana the cats out of
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  Speaker 2: the bag. We may as well keep you company here.
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  Speaker 2: Tell your brother shows up, yes, yes, only don't leave me.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know what it's been like. Man can face
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  Speaker 2: anything when he knows who's after him. But this mean
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  Speaker 2: that a trousers after me. Don't let him get me. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: then you play all the lines. You'll help us. Grab
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  Speaker 2: your brother when he contacts anything, inspect for anything. Only
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  Speaker 2: don't let them get me. That's a mighty fine spirit.
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  Speaker 2: There's ally. Where's Joel? Where is Joel? M h stop
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  Speaker 2: at ellery. It makes me tired just to look at you.
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  Speaker 2: What time is it now, dad? Ten minutes to nine?
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  Speaker 2: Wait a while longer. You're not going to leave me.
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  Speaker 2: We're just about sir. You'll write a liars. Why doesn't
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  Speaker 2: Joel call? Why doesn't he for the phone? In forteen
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  Speaker 2: to eleven? That's Nicky from the switchboard. Thicky just got
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: a call on the board for p X Jones.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Not even sure it's a man's voice.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Oh may I tell him you're trying to reach mister Jones. Thicky. Meanwhile,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: ring operator and have her trace the call. I'll hold
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: on here, dad, Joel mona. I think so, my brother, Elias.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: When that fall in forteen oh nine rings, you answer
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: and stall you understand, Hold your brother on the line.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Try to find out where he's calling for. I'll do
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: my best, Nicky. I've been the call traced. Good now
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: ring forteen oh nine in the other room, Elias, and
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  Speaker 2: he won't have to do what you say. Now, he
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: won't say where he is, Elias. Get him to come
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: to the Haven's all right now? Answer it? Yes, yes, Hello.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: You'll have to speak up. You'll have to speak loud.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I can't hear you. Shut up. That's Joel man? Oh yeah,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: where's he calling from? Slab eight? What are you talking about? Salting?
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Joel Marner's body has been fished out of the East River.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Why hurt me? Three rifle slugs in him? Rubbed out.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Joel's been dead at least forty eight hours dead forty
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: eight hours? Who put that ad in this morning's paper?
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Who's that on the phone. Mama dropped that phone. Get
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: away from that window. What mister queen you do right
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: a window of the hotel across the street. Did he
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: get over there and grab the site? Right? Hillary is Elias?
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: It's dead?
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: No, no, no. All we know is we found a
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: smoking rifle in this room at the Universal Hotel, under
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: an open window, same gun that killed Joel mana night
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: before last. Keller got away before my boys could cross
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: over here from the Haven. Now lay off and let
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: us walk where you have spector.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: It wasn't anybody's fall from.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: This fourteenth floor window. The killer had a perfect view
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: of Miner's window on the fourteenth floor of the Haven.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Of course, that narrow street, you could have plugged Elias
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: with this rifle. Niggas whoa slow down the nikki's right.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: No one could have foreseen this. Bila must have trailed
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Joel Mona two nights ago from his office, shut him
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: and dumped him into the river.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Then he must have gone gunning for a liast. But
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: by that time Alis had escaped and disappeared.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Somehow this killer found out, maybe from something on Joe's body,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: that the brothers used the code words dot and dash
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: for secret communication.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: So he got the idea of bluring alife out of
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: hiding by placing that ad in the paper?
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Is it from Joel Alias? Fell for the trick and
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: checked into the Haven. The killer simply waited for nightfall,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: drew a liars to the phone at his window by
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: calling from this room at the Universal clever touched that,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: and then when he was sure it was Elias and
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: the phone, simply shot him from across the street and
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: made his escape. But who signed? No clue in this
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: rifle is a hock shop job. Killer must have brought
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: it in dismantled in this suitcase we found here, But
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: the suitcase is also a pickup. There's not a print
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: from the rule or a single witness saw the killer
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: after he checked in. Come on, really, inspector, Yes, really,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: here I find out anything else? Yeah, I got his
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: hotel registration card, Inspector. Now gimme when did he check
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: into the Universal? Death from a stamp day down here?
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Same ninety bump Joel two nights ago too. J. J.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Jones Chicago and Black Planter Phony.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: But there must be a description the bell boy who
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: carried his bag up here?
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: What's on that vally? Description short of short, bell hopshare
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: or maybe not so sure, age round twenty five to
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: fifty four, dark glasses, sort of medium colored hat and coat,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: hat pulled over his eyes, held a handkerchief over his
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: mouth when he talked. Bellhop remembers him five.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: That might be anybody, even.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: A woman dressed up of the man, any one of
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: the ten thousand victims of the miner's con game, blasted,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: What do we do now, inspect to start checking ten
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: thousand alibis? I don't think, sergeant, that's going to be necessary.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: You don't what other way is there? I suppose then
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: you picked the killer of the Mina brothers out of
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: the whole city of New York, just like that. It's
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: one of the people we met in the course of
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: the investigation. It is How do you know?
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: And what people whom have we met? A butler, a
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: taxi driver, a woman on.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: The street, some hotel employees.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Room, click, manager, waiter, telephone operator, bell, but elevator man,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: I'll come off at elarette.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: We didn't even get their name. We don't even know
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: if any album was a victim of the swindle. Maestroke,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: that's the same. I know exactly who murdered the Mona brothers.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: And there, ladies and gentlemen, you have the mystery. Now
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: suppose you home, Mom, Chatt detectives and our guests in
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: the studio compare solutions. He would you do the honors gladly?
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Ellery. Our guest tonight is mister Gerald Moore, the prominent Wolf.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Thank you that night.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: No, but it's true, Ellary. Mister Moore plays the title
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: role of the Lone Wolf in the Columbia picture series
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: It the same name.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Thanks for the explanation, Nikki. I hate to have anybody
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: get the wrong idea. I know radio microphones are known
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: new experience to you, Jerry, who also played the part
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: of Bill Lance and The Adventures of Bill Lance over
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: ABC every Sunday, don't. Yeah, that's right, Ellary. We do
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: our share of tracking down criminal too good. I suppose
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: you draw upon your experience as a clue chaser and
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: well it has to be done, and expose the killer
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: in tonight's mystery. Tell me now who killed the Mono brothers. Well,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: your solution was incomplete. You seem alibying myself in advance.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I see, but my solution is not yet been offered.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: And no, that's what I mean. I have two favorite suspects.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Tell me quickly, yeah, I have the butler and the
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: bellhave all right, Thank you very much, mister Oil. You'll
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: find out in just a moment if your solution is
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: the correct one. Now Here is Paul Masterson, Save wheat,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: save meat, save the piece. This, in simple terms, is
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: the slogan adopted for the World Food Emergency campaign. We
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: little realize here in America the rather grave food crisis
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: and the majority of countries throughout the world, a world
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: food crisis that could easily precipitate another major conflict among
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: nations because the seeds of discontent our forerunners of intolerance
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: among nations, and are greatly influenced by hunger and malnutrition.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: A healthy, properly educated nation breeds healthy, intelligent minds, minds
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: that work in unison for a better understanding of world
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: problems and world peace. Each individual in this great country
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: of ours is an integral part of the whole scheme
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: of things. Your responsibility now may avert an irresponsible act
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: in the future. Your part as an individual may seem
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: small and an adequate compared to the greatness of the
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: task ahead of us, But it is to you mister
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: and Missus America that a world struggling in the agonies
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: of hunger and despair looks for hope. Think over this slogan,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: save wheat, save meat, save the peace, and you will
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: begin to realize the pressing need for food conservation at home,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: a conservation that will help make world security a reality today. Logical. Now,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: what do we know about those two hotel rooms involved
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: the room the killer checked into a Universal and Elias
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Manna's room at the Haven. But we know that both
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: rooms are on the fourteenth floor of their respective hotels,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: that their windows face each other across a narrow street.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: In fact, that the killer's room commands a perfect view
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: of elias room, as you yourself pointed out there. Now,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: could that have been chance accidental? Hardly? Obviously, the ideal
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: relation of these two hotel rooms to each other was
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: a planned element of the killer's plot, and that tells
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: us who the killer is. Not me though, well, that sergeant,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: plus one other fact which room was hired first, the
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: killers are Elias Manas killer's registration can't indicate that he
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: checked into this room at the Universal two nights ago, and.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: We saw Elias check into the Haven. This afternoon, Mallory.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: So the killer's room was hired first. But if the
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: killer checked into this room two nights before Mana checked
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: into the one across the street, how could he know
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: in advance that Mana was going to draw a room
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: at the Haven on the corresponding floor, a room from
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: which Mana would be a perfect target. Sure, In other words,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: how was the killer able to control Mana's getting room
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: fourteen oh nine in the Haven Hotel? Maybe he reserved
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: fourteen oh nine for Marna.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: No he didn't, Sergeant, We actually heard Elias Manor asked
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: at the desk if a room had been reserved for him,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: and the clerk said, now.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Man, if there was no reservation, it's in arcipal arry.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: When a tranch and walks into a hotel, there's only
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: one person controls a room. We gave a man behind
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: a desk, a room clerk, scroll exactly. The room clerk
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: undoubtedly one of the ten thousand victims of the Monas swindle,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: and the present repository of all that stolen money. Well,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: it's another example of the folly of taking the law
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: into your own hands, and it's going to land mister
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: room clerk in the usual place, and there, ladies and gentlemen,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: you have the solution to our mystery. Thank you again,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: mister Gerald Moore for occupying our guest detective's armchair this evening,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: And as mementos of the occasion, I have for you
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: a copy of my latest mystery anthology, The Queen's Awards
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: nineteen forty seven, and a subscription to Ellery Queen's Mystery magazine,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Ellery Don't Go Away. Huh oh, Paul, what's the matter? Uh?
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: I don't want to put you on the spot, fellow.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: And maybe it's none of my business, but how long
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: is that young girl, Nicky Porter been your secretary? NICKI? Oh,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: quite a while?
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: Paul.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Why maybe it's news to you, Ellerie, But I'm told
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: your friends out there are sort of worried, worried about
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: what about? What gives with you? And Nicky? So you
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: too don't seem to be getting anywhere? Oh oh, Nicky.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: As a special favorite of Paul, Nikki, would you announce
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: the title of next week's case?
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Yes, next week, ladies and gentlemen, Ellery Queen presents the
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: case of.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Niki Porter.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Right, this is Ellery Queen saying good night until next
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: week and enlisting all Americans every night and every day
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: in the fight against bad citizenship, bigotry, and discrimination, the
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: crimes which are weakening America. All names used on this
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: program were fictitious and do not refer to real people,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: either living or dead. Among the members of tonight's cast
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: were Larry Dobkin, Virginia Greg Alan, Red Herb Butterfield, Ruth Parrott,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Jack Lewis, Charlie Seal, Peter Leeds, Paul Freeze, and Janavello.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Music was by Rex Corey, direction by Dick Wollen. This
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.
• 30:49
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• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, there have been few murderers given less
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: characterization than mister room clerk. But in defense of the show,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: when you have ten thousand suspects, it can be hard
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: to fully flash out every single one of them. And
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I did find the concept and just the suspense of
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the show as to what was going to happen interesting.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: And I do find this whole format of the ABC
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: version very intriguing because we're not getting to find out
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: even the exact crime that we're being going to solve
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: at the beginning. Rather, the crime happens towards the end,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: and we have to have been paying really close attention
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: to solve it, and certainly that is a challenge. Also,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I really hope listeners appreciated the easter egg of our
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: armchair detective as Gerald Moore. True, he didn't come up
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: with the right solution, but I doubt anyone would have.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Of course, Moore was known for the Lone Wolf films,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: and he even did start in a Lone Wolf radio program,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: though the episodes with him and the lead are missing.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: We definitely do need to get around to the Lone
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Wolf one of these days. Also, I wish we had
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: the program they played on December eleventh of nineteen forty
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: seven with Nicky Porter. I guess it was Virginia Gregg's
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: fate to play long suffering secretary slash wannabe love interest,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: also playing a similar role with Brooksy in let George
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: do it, though Brooksy's a stronger character to be sure. Also,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: I do want to let listeners know received some request
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: to be armchair detectives and I have those and I
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: will email you, hopefully the week before you're needed. I
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: know that we will need at least one more group,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: and what we will do is I'll send out a
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: notification to everyone who has asked to be an armchair
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: detective and it'll basically be a first come, first serve
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: the top two. So watch your email. And now we
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: turn to listener comments and feedback. And we have this
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: from Lawrence, who writes, Lawrence Dopkin was such a staple
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: of old time radio. Indeed he was, Lawrence, And thanks
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: so much for the comments. All right, Well, that will
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with
• 33:47
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• 33:50
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• 33:54
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