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you enjoy the show, would love a rating. Well. We celebrated one
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and fifty episodes on Thursday with Nick Carter and now we're going to give you
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a special thank you for as we celebrate this, and it's an episode of
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The Crime Club. There were a couple of imprints, one by Collins,
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one by a Double Day called The Crime Club. This particular program that we're
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going to play was based on The Double Day a Crime Club, and these
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were basically every week there would be a new mystery release, so you could
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go down and pick up pick up your copy to enjoy some quality detective fiction
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and the book the stories in the Crime Club are based on are based on
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these books, and this series aired over the mutual work in kind of the
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same, adjacent to the case book of gragory Hood, which we'll play later
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on this year. We have the first broadcast of the series and it definitely
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takes that book club approach as you're about to see. So we're going to
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play this episode. This is from December second, nineteen forty six. Before
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we do get started, though, I do want to let you know that
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I've added my own little addition to the world of crime fiction. Published a
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short novel that in title is an ounce of Prevention by Adam Graham. You
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can get that on the kindle. All right, Well, that little plug
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out of the way here now is today's story. The title is Death Blew
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Out the Match. Bye, you're here. Good. Take the easy chair
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for the window. Comfortable. Good. The book is on the shell,
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Yes, sir, it is Death Blew Out the Match, A very absorbing
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story of death and mystery on a small island. Let's look at it under
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the reading lamp. It was an evening early in May, and the waters
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around the cape just off the coast of Massachusetts were buried under a fog as
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thick and as massive as any you'd want to see. Moving cautiously, a
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small boat makes its way slowly toward one of the islands off the cape.
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In the boat there, Elisa Mucumber and Anne Waldron, Well, this is
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something. I'm glad we're almost there. If he's scared, Miss Walden,
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We're not scared, Elisha. But if I hadn't done into you and your
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bedrod out of sense and out there not even knowing himself, could have persuaded
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me to take a boat ride in this bog. What's you on the island?
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Oh, not as much, unless you're counting a mysterious stranger. Mysterious
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calls himself David Hyland gets mailed from New York, Washington, Boston, but
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new every day. Nobody knows what's in it. You don't talk. Maybe
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he's an ex sale or with a sweetheart in every report. This could be
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when I'm chairman of the Board of Selectman and it's my duty to keep the
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peace on that island. You've always managed, Eliza, What else is new?
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Leonard Case is there too? Leonard? Yeah? All weeks now?
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Then Mara, then Rick must be there. I guess mister Case will be
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mighty glad to see you, Miss Walden. Par should he be glad?
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I reckon the feller gets pretty longch with a plaid cast on each day castor
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cast got both his legs broken and automobile action a few months ago. I
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figured you might know about it. No, No, I didn't know,
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Elijah. Are you sure Mara isn't on the alumn? You're still sweet on
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the fella. He doesn't mean a thing to me. Maybe not for summer
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last year when mister Case turned from you to that van wickwoman. Isn't the
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yep? I was mighty glad the season ended without the killing. Thanks very
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much, Elisha. I'll go the rest of the way alone. I don't
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mind taking your door, Miss Walden, you don't have to. I'll just
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follow this path around marvin with house. That'll take me right home. Good
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not Elisa, and thanks for everything. Good night, Miss Walden. Be
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careful. Maybe I should have. Oh well, nothing ever happens to you?
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M h mars house and it's whose tight? Someone something fancy meeting you
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here? Who are you? What do you want? You sound like a
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native because I answer your first question first? Who am I? David?
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Why don't you call me, David, and I can call you. And
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your house is about two hundred feet from here, isn't it? Yes,
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you expect to live there alone? What business is it of yours? You
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won't tell anyone that you met me tonight, will you? That's what I
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said, because if you do, one of us will come very use.
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Hey, mister Case, is the dame here to see you? Okay,
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Tete, help yourself to the board. Don't make him nervous. He's in
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a very delicate condition. Like I'm still glad to see you. Look beautiful,
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beautiful the case? Is it all right if I take the car and
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go for a driving to town? Yeah, speat it to any place.
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I'll pick up some chow for the icebox when i'm there. You got a
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couple of preferences, maybe why anything you like, but for pezza, Okay,
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don't look the surprise. Then the guys saved my life from me out
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of the record of the car and up been plane hanging. If he doesn't
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turn out to be the best cooking. But letther side of the Atlantic,
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I was hoping you'd come in. You were What do you mean? I
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knew you were on me. I saw you from here Leonard, what have
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you done to this role? I have these walls ripped out in the glass
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put in their place. Ah, it was a trick. Simply looked through
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this telescope in the island as I see Leonard and mar coming. She isn't
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too busy in your y. The fact is Maria and I are washed up,
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so isn't it? Is it? The crazy thing about it is that
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I really thought I loved it. It must have been out of my mind.
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Did you marry her? Wasn't that crazy? Put that? I want
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you to meet Mabel. My little health made and Sam's away. Mabel does
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a little odd job to make me comfortable. Watch. Oh my, oh,
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you're slipping a girl. If I got my to back upout, thank
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you. Ali. You may go out and get your lunch, and don't
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pick up anyone's got kitty? Say why did you pick that up? Everyone
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to his days. I don't think up. What's that on your bed?
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I has a buckle off a woman's shoe. What do you know? Think
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that bird will bring home with her? Wit a minute live? I've seen
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this buckle before, haven't you. I don't remember that's marsh Are you talking
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about mars in New York. We'll soon find a given that's how it's going.
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Hello, Yes, yes, she's here. Would you like to talk
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to her? Uh? Huh? What good? Heaven? Of course I'll
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tell her right away and you can stop. What is it? Lena's here
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on the island. Lysi Maccomba just phoned. He wants you to go over
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to her house. She's been murdered. Elijah, Oh, miss Waldon,
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you got here pretty quick, didn't you. I can't believe it did.
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When did it happen? Sometime last night? Last night? The corner says
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it much took place between eleven and twelve. That's impossible. Why it was
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close to twelve? One hour? Elevel? I took the path that runs
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around this place. The house was locked up. Did you look to see?
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No that there was no reason for me to look. You yourself told
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me Mara wasn't on the island. I reckon, I was wrong, Miss
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Walden, Miss van Wick must be got here while I was a new bed
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for and that must have been it. What was that, Miss Warman?
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The door? As I was passing by here last night, I heard the
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door open and closed twice. Of course she didn't see anyone, did you.
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As a matter of fact, I didn't too bad. Would you like
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to see the body? Must I? It can't hurt you. It's right
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there in the living room. Come along there she is just like I found
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there. Okay, head's almost in the fireplace. Yep. She's just about
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to light the fire with that match when death blew it out. Is that
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the idea of what killed him? I thought you might have it was cyanide
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to patassium. Oh awful? Uh huh. But the one thing that puzzles
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me, miss Waldron, how did the killer get her to take it?
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All right? I don't know, Sha. There ain't a sign of a
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struggle in the room, and there ain't a mark on her shina. It
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works like like that means she was killed right here in this room. But
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Elisha, you keep talking about murder. How do you know it wasn't suicide?
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Of course, I never seen a corpse get up. I supposedly evidence.
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Maybe she cheated? Uh how would you be known about that, be
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Walter? That piece of gum near the fireplace, I guess I must be
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slipping. I will see what the coroner had to say about this gum.
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It wants suicide, Elisha, I'm sure, why ask Lenny? He can
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give you all that I'm asking, Hugh Swalk, I don't know them now?
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Why did you send for me? I wanted to hear what you had
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to say in the presence of the corpse. But what I mean to my
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way of thinking, Miss van Wick was murdered and I thought maybe I ought
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to have a talk the one person that had both motive and opportunity. That's
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Humeswalk. Well, you're trying to break down the door. I must you,
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mister Harland, all right? Would you like to look at me here?
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Or would you rather come in? I'll come in, sit down?
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No thanks, mister Harland. What were you doing out in the fog last
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night? You won't call me David Water? Will you answer my question?
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Please? Sure? What were you doing out in the fog last night?
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I was going home? That makes us even, doesn't it? Not quite
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Mayra than wicked and murdered? You don't say on this quiet, peaceful island.
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Did you tell anyone you met me? No? Good? It's always
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play it smart, But I will mister Hyland. Will would you like to
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hang for the murder of Mina van Wick? Suppose I told her license I
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saw you coming out of her house last night. But I do you know
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I didn't. I didn't go in after I left you, I went right
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home. Do you prove it? No? Look here, mister Hyland,
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what are you to do? I don't want you to make any mistakes.
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You'll protect me and I'll protect you. You killed Myra, don't point miss
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Waldon. It's bad masters. Why did you do it? All right?
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I'm going to find out, mister Island and what you came to the s
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Island boss. And when I do, yes, that that letter armor desk,
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that's Myra's handwriting on the office. Put it down, nail from New
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York. Yes, didn't have to break my arm. I'm sorry. It's
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such a pretty arm too. And that's such a pretty neck. What what
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are you going to do? Nothing? If you say one word about this
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letter to anyone, I'm going to put a rope around that neck for keeps,
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Leonard? What am I going to do? Lots of things? I
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killed Myra and I can't prove that I didn't. I know you didn't,
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No matter what you killed Myra. Oh, Elisha was here. I told
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him that she wanted to marry me, but well I couldn't do it.
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And she loved you. I'm afraid, sir Leonard, it's possible, didn't
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it? Mara committed suicide? Now, just before you came in, elijahs
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phoned me. That piece of gum you've found, there was no poison in
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it. Oh, don't don't worry, darling. We'll find a way to
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get you out of it. But Leonard, who left that gum there?
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Killing? Nor doubt? Listen, man, what about David Hyland? Who?
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Don't pretend you don't know him. I saw you within a little while
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ago. You saw me this telescope? Why did you go to his house?
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All right? Then maybe you can tell me what you and he were
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wrestling over. It was a letter, wasn't it, Leonard? Please don't
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ask him, wasn't I? Yes, from Myra, Myra. But what's
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he got to do with him? I don't know, but I'll promise you
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won't tell anyone, Leonard, your promise, that's all all right? So
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we've got to know what was in that letter? Yes, but how are
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we going? That is? Now? Keep? Might tell us go train
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on his house? David Hallam goes out, sad Mabel Leonard, that shoe
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buckle she brought in here this morning? Yes, that was Myra's. Oh
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what a dune the head? I am Why didn't I see it before?
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See? What where did Mabel find that buckle? Certainly not at Myra's house.
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She must have found it outside somewhere. Don't you see what that means?
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Huh? Admyra wasn't killed in her own house. Now we have to
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is find out where she was killed? Leonard? How well have you got
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that crow training? Pretty well? Why that? If you told her to
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put it back where she found it, what's she doing? I don't think
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so. She's not that smart. It's safe than hours, and she brought
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it here all I then that letter from Mara might tell us what we want
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to know. I want to know the minute that man goes out, let
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me see the desk. Oh, he would keep it locked. I don't
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think he'd be so careless as to leave it under the chair cushions. Well,
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that would be too opy. Hello, Oh what is it, Leonard?
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Is he coming down? I haven't seen it, but it's getting dark,
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and I'm afraid I won't be able to keep watching for you much longer.
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I can't be not got to find that letter. It might be dangerous
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he walks in on you. Well, I'll have to take that chance all
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the while, I'll go look some more, all right, but hurry chair
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cushions, Oh no, of course, not liquor cabinet. Who would think
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of looking in a liquor cabinet for a letter? Only it didn't get dark?
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So that there? Hello, Leonards, bring it over here right away,
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Leonard, Why don't you get hurt of there? I'm afraid it's too
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late. Well, Leonard's end for a live from a comic quick, I
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can't say it's dark. Get a light? Sure? Hey, hey you
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mister h why like excitement about? Where do you think you're going? Not
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thinking you're honor? I'm going for a walk. Where's miss walden Ann she's
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supposed to be here? Yeah, let's go into your house, all right?
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If you like why we're doing that little thing? Would you mind telling
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me what this is all about? In time? Where is she? I
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don't know. When I left the village, the house was empty. When
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I came back, it was still empty. She spoke to mister Case on
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the phone from here. Really, perhaps I should lock my door when I
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go out. I think my neighbors would disapprove in none of my business,
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but this matter to miss Walden. Mister Hyland, would you be a gum
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chewing character? Gum chew sometimes and I want to get rid of a bad
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taste. How did you get rid of the gum? Spit it out on
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the floor? What you mean over there by that table? Well, maybe
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you will a lot sooner than be expecting. Are you ready to talk about
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miss Walden? Of course yes, I think she's beautiful. I think she's
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a charming girl. Now she only a bit more? Is that all you've
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got to say? No, But for the moment it'll have to do.
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Well. You better come with me miss van Wick's house. Why there,
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my boys, and giving that place a mighty fine one sober? Somebody that
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had done to kill him could think that we'd have no more reason to go
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back there, but we have, mister Hyland, come on, well,
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are you satisfied Elisa the trace of Ann Walden upstairs or even down here in
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the cellar? I ain't through looking yet, mister Hyland. What do you
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expect to find her in the coal bend? Maybe send me that shovel.
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On the other hand, maybe you better do the shovel. I don't deny
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well anything to make a select man happy, especially if he's the chairman of
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the board. You are mighty calm, young creature. But assure yourself.
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I was brought up right. What do you know about miss van Wick?
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She's dead. Postman mentioned she got a letter from New York this afternoon.
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It was a woman's handwriting. I get lots of letters from dead people,
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and you can never tell about that, Elisha. Sometimes you can swear a
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person is alive, and then after you've known him for a while, put
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this letter and mister Hyland, the postman had an idea. It was miss
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van Wick's handwriting. Eh, somebody remembers of her handwriting. I didn't kill
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her. That's what you're leading up to. Yep, that's what I'm leading
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up to. You got that letter? Nope, I'll suit yourself, mister
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Tyland. You don't have to talk now. Wait about a time that suitcase
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was buried in the cold well lu schwamp junk ju diamonds million dollars worth.
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So that's it. That's why miss van Wick was killing Huh. She come
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back here too soon? Whoever it was heighten this stuff here, figured that
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you'd be in New York maybe and maybe not, mister Hyland, no,
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maybe that person knew she was coming back. Maybe him and miss Vanwick were
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sort of partners and the business that wasn't legal, If that makes sense to
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you, mister Hyland, I don't know. I don't go in, but
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I guess work. How about Cyanide Potassiu singing way off key el, you've
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got the right tune? Int you put your hands understand? All right now?
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Just you walk up them stairs. No monkey business, my friend.
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I got an eye like an ego operator one through four. Hello, all
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right, so this is Leonard case Devon ann Walden. No heavens, what
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are you doing about it? I got searching parties out all over the eye.
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What about David Hyland from his house that she called for help? You
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talk, mister Case. Stop miss Waller about miss van Wick too. You
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mean that he killed Mara Well, oh, mister case. Yes, folks
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here in the village, tell me your car's been popped all day with the
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general store. I know my bucket samurai took it this morning. Send him
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back to see him with him. Nobody's seen him since two o'clock this afternoon.
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I reckon you will have to be advertising for the new butler, mister
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case that's ridiculous. Sim wouldn't quit me without notice? Maybe not, but
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he ain't on the island. Okay, sister, on your feet, shut
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up. They're gonna take a ride now in the open sea, fresh air
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and just enough fog to keep me. And you are to say nice in
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it the way that five comes in over the water, perfect tighter. You're
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better than the stinking old tool shed. Oh no, you got so much
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to say with that gag, you don't let it. Yeah, okay,
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get on. I done in the boat, and maybe when we get way
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out in the ocean, I'll tell you a nice interesting bedtime story. Okay,
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maybe this is it? Yeah? You're dying to talk, ain't you.
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Okay, I'll take off the gag. Hey, you can scream too,
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and it showing around here to hey eight, mine's got yours. One
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letter case finds out about this? What's he gonna do? Fire me?
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You've got against me? Why did you bring me out here to kill me?
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I don't like snoopers, baby, I was only trying to detect myself.
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Elisahm. Congress respected me of killing Myra ben Wick. I didn't do
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it. I had to find out who did it. Went after a letter.
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I thought it might give me a clue. Yeah, did that letter
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contain any evidence? Then lend me what kind of evidence you should Damn,
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Anti can't be afraid to tell me now I'll never have a chance to All
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right, you are well? Are you going to tell me? Oh?
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Aren't you? Baby? That let him at the difference between a Mania bucks
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and zero, that highland guy, and he wanked me of the death of
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Myra. What's the matter? Take a vote out there, you make one
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shine? You are you little? I'm gonna finish you off right now,
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get out of here ahead. And that's the whole story. Linnis. Haven't
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been for Elijah, I'd be a hum of the ocean now. And Darling,
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I don't know what to say to you, So it's all my fault
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and worked for me. I trusted him because I don't know that he was
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a diamond thief and that he killed Myra. He did kill Myra, didn't
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deal all right, reckon show. We've got in the way of knowing now
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with him at the bottom of the ocean. Well, all I can say
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is thanks for saving Anne. Now, how about a party to celebrate Sam
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Gone? I gets left her a lie on Mabel to be honored. Mabel,
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Candy, Candy, Mabel for the lead. If she could only Mabel.
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She threw out the window then and she's flying for Mar's house, Andy
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for the lady. Mister Kane, I don't understand I got into that bird.
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It's never disobeyed orders, and I reckon she ain't disbeying him. Now
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he's flying to the only lady she knows. All right, mister cash and
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talk, Oh gotta mind it. But I got nothing to say. That's
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your privilege. But you killed Mera van Wick by sending that bird out last
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night with a piece of poison candy. And you've done it because you knew
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the lady would take the candy from the bird. Maybe is an omen of
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reconciliation. Miss Warren, did you know that? Mister case and miss van
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Wick? Which husband and wife? Nor? Yeah? I asked the police
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in New York to do a routine check on this family. Can they come
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up with a dude? Lennard? All right? So what I didn't want
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to around? I here to stay away from the island, leave me alone.
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You had good reason too. She might have found them diamonds and they
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called him. That would have been too bad. It wouldn't been for you,
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David. And wow, what brings you down to the beach at this
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hour of nights? You and some of the things you can explain to me
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about Leonard? Oh oh, the ned case was a smuggler Sam Ray worked
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for it, got a lot of others. It was my job to round
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up the gang from the top down. Your job. I'm an agent at
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the Treasury departments. Oh oh, that tells me a lot. Well,
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that's why I had to be so tough with you on occasions. I couldn't
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take the chance of being implicated in a murderer. I would have had to
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explain my position to Elisha. But he's an officer of a law rounding up
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a gang of Smugglers's my job? Finding a murderer was his? Yes,
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But what about that letter you received from Maara that my dear was an authorization
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for me to enter her house and search it. Oh but little dope you
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are. Dad. Come on, let's take a walk, And so closes
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to Night's Crime Club book Death Blew Out the Marriage, based on the story
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by Kathleen Moore. Stedman Coles did the radio adaptation. Roger Bauer produced and
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directed. Oh I beg your pardon. Hello, I hope I haven't kept
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you waiting. Yes, this is the Crime Club, So I'm the librarian.
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Ah, I'm over a week from tonight. Good. We have a
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very unusual story about a murderer who was revealed by post these stands. It's
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called for the Hangman. In the meantime, well, in the meantime,
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there's a new Prime Club book available this week and every week at bookstores everywhere.
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It's available now. Quite all right, and we'll look for you next
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week. This program came to you from New York. Mutuals. Mystery Are
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continues immediately out of the station night adification with a casebook of Gregory Hood.
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This is the Mutual Broadcasting System. Welcome back. While I have to be
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honest, I didn't recognize most of the actors. Uh. Future episodes of
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the Crime Club do include a cast list, which is helpful. But this
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was this was an interesting story. I recognized one voice for sure, Richard
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Colemore, who's better known as Boston Blackie. And this this was just a
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nice story. And they did a good job because, you know, taking
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an entire mystery novel and condensing it into half an hour that is a challenge
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UH, and they did a great job, I think, establishing atmosphere and
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covering just enough of the complexity to make it an interesting story. So I
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hope you enjoyed the Crime Club. And actually this will be next Sunday,
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will be the last Sunday we haven't brought you something. Between the video theater
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programs UH and the UH and UH the specials we did. We we've had
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something going every Sunday for six weeks. So we won't be back next Sunday,
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but tomorrow, be sure and listen as we start again, off with
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yours truly, Joni Dollar, and then we continue on through the rest of
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the week, and I hope you'll be listening to us throughout. Send your
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graham Son and off