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And I'm going to read I've got an email from Nicola, who rides
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Adam. I discovered your podcast a few years ago when my mother in law
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when I'm on the bus to work at the grocery store and doing various other
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chores. Every Friday, I anxiously await the last episode of Yours Truly,
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Johnny Dollar, so that I can listen to the entire story. I am
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enjoying Gregory Hood and Nick Carter. This time. I heard you comment on
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the titles of the lineup and agree one hundred percent. I wanted to suggest
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that you consider an episode of Mister Keen Tracer of Lost person Not only do
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I enjoy this program, but since it is my husband's last name and has
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been for mine for almost twenty eight years, it is a particular interest to
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me. And she concludes with thank you for your great shows and informative commentary.
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God bless from Nicola Keen in Ontario, Canada. Well, that is
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definitely a letter that's hard to beat, and so we will honor your request
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with an episode of mister Keane's Racer of Lost Persons now, Mister Keen for
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those of us those listeners who've not heard of it before. Mister Keene was
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one of the longest running programs during the Golden Age of radio, and certainly
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the longest running detective show. The series ran for sixteen and a half years.
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That's more than four years longer than Carter. And considering that yours truly
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Johnny Dollar was off the air for a whole season, it's also four more
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years than Johnny Dollar. So this was an enduring program and probably the only
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program that came close to it in terms of longevity was The Adventures of Sherlock
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Holmes, I should say the New Adventures, which first began running in nineteen
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thirty but had several periods of being off the air in both the late thirties
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and the early forties. There were a total of one thousand, six hundred
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and ninety broadcast of Mister Keane's Racer of Lost Persons. There was a serialized
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era, so that helped with the episode count, but less than sixty s
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survived to this day, and some of those are partials. The series was
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produced by Franken and Hummer. They were best known for their soap operas things
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like Honeymoon Hill, Backstage Wife mau Perkins, and in many ways, mister
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King carried over some of those soperotic elements in storytelling in terms of some melodrama
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and some dialogue. Well, the series isn't perfect. I definitely enjoy it,
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and I appreciate what it took for a series to make it that long.
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Well, here's an episode of Mister Keen from June the ninth of nineteen
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forty nine. The title is The Case of Murder and the Star of Death.
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It's time now for Mister Keen, Tracer of Lost person radieson Tablemen,
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Anison and Colonos present Mister Keen, Tracer of foss Persons, one of the
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most famous characters of American fiction. In one of radio's most thrilling dramas Tonight
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at Every Thursday at the same time, the famous old investigator takes from his
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file and brings to us one of his most celebrated missing person's cases. Tonight's
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Keene and the case of Murder, I'm the star of Death. Our scene
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opens in a large and fashionable home in a New York suburb. A dinner
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party has been in progress, but now the three guests of gathers in the
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library, where the host, Mark Adams, observes with some amusement that they're
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all looking forward to a surprise. He's been hinting about a surprise he is
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soon to reveal to his regret. Oh yes, yes, sah, what
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is this remarkable surprise you had for us? What's the big secrets? You've
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got something up your sleeve, old man, Oh, no doubt about it.
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I have, Paul. As a matter of fact, that's why I
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invited you all to dinner this evening. And please don't keep us into stead.
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I shan't eat this, my dear, But first I'll tell you to
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my little exhibit. The right. You're a conoisseur pressure stones. Tell me
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what's your favorite stone? Well, Mark, I suppose most women would prefer
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a diamond. I'm partial to sapphires, big ones. Study you getting it?
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Mark, Paul, you're as well known a collector of pressure stones as
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I am. What would you say was the greatest sapphire in existence? The
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star of death? Of course, start of death, but a dreadful name.
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Would you like to see it? You mean you have the star of
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death here in this box on this table. What I sold over three quarters
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of my own collection of joels to buy the sapphire from the Hancock of State.
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But it was worth see for yourself there. Oh, it's beautiful.
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Mark. When I said I had a tweet in store for you, I
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meant it. I What happened to the life with the lights on? Somebody?
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Wait, I'll find the switch here it is. Oh, someone must
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have accidentally brushed against the wall switch and turned the lights off. The sapphire
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it's gone. The scar of death is gone. Ay, well I can
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go along with a joke. Well, the one who took the stone please
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replace it in the box on the table. Look here. A practical joke
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is one thing, but that sapphire is worth a portrait. Mark. Just
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a moment someone in this room is evidently a fool or a thief, but
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I'll give him or her a chance to save face. I'm going to put
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the lights out once again, and when I turn them back on, I'll
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expect to see that sapphire replaced inside this box with no questions asked. Otherwise,
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I'm calling the police. You'll have just five seconds. I turn out
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the lights. Here goes remember five, Let me have that light switch mark.
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He's on the phone. He's dead. My father had been stabbed to
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death with a letter open to mister King, taken from the desk. He
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was noted for that sapphire at the star of death. I read about the
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case this morning, Kay, in the newspapers. My partner Might Chancy brought
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it to my attention, sure that it was one of the strangest cases in
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years. All three suspects were arrested, Boss, but the police don't know
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which one murdered. Miss Adams installed that sapphire. Where were you at the
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time of the tread? Did the Kay away for the weekend at the friend's
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house? Who's dead and only taken high advice? I thanked it not the
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test, but why were you against his buying it? Kay? You've heard
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about the stone. I'm sure, mister King. Its history is horrible.
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That's how it got its name, that star of death. Three people died
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while it was in their possession, all violently. Father was the POSI tell
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me something about your father's guests. Who was present that night? That was
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Edith, Edith Sims. I thought it was very fond of her. I
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even think there was a possibility who might have married her. He'd been very
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lonely since mother died two years ago, and the other guests all deadly.
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Is a dual important like father was. They were close friends. And missus
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Loretta Reynet is a well known social life a widow. She's very rich,
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mister Kean, and she'd never have any recent to steal. And that was
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all, yes, mister Keane. The servants had all left for the night.
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No one else was there but father and its three kids. The jewel
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apparently is never found on any of them. All three persons swear they're innocent.
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It's hard to me to believe than any one of them could have done
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anything like that. How does it strike you, Mike Well, it's a
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puzzler. Mister Keny Shore, what happened to the sapphire. It couldn't have
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just disappeared, no, Mike. And yet I'm sure all three suspects were
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thoroughly searched by the police, mister King. Couldn't it have been someone else,
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a thief who sneaked into the house. It's possible, Kay, but
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I doubt it. By the way, who described the details of the murder
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to the police. All three of father's guests and their stories were identical in
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every detail. Will you help me, mister Key. I have faith in
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the police, naturally, but this case is so mysterious. You're the most
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famous investigator in the country, and if you could work with the police,
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I'll try my best, Key, and I'll also try to recover the stolen
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sapphire at which your father was murdered. Oh, thank you. I suggest
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to go home now wait for my call. I'll want to look the house
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over. But before I do that, I think I've got an idea.
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What is it? It's rather unusual, but if Lieutenant Hale of the homicide
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squad is willing to cooperate with me, maybe Mark Adams killer will pay far
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more for that sapphire than he have a bargained for. But what you're suggesting,
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mister Keen, dain't I know that Lieutenant Hale, one of your three
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prisoners is a killer. But I doubt if you'll ever find out which one
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is guilty unless you release all three. But what good will that do?
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That sapphire the star of death hasn't been found yet, has it, no,
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Miss Keen, then it must be hidden somewhere. Obviously very well,
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your police officers were with the three suspects from the time they left the Adams
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house. Isn't that right? In other words, the sapphire is still inside
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the house exactly, But we've searched the place thoroughly, mister Kean. The
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murder wouldn't have been foolish enough to stab Mark Adams to death if he or
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she didn't have an excellent hiding place. Father saphi Am, And how will
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we get the strong We'll let the killer find it for us and expose himself
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at the same time. That's quite a good idea. It works. You
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can have the three suspects trailed by your plain clothesman, but I prefer you
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wouldn't. Any slip up would make the killer suspicious and spoil my plans.
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All right, I'll go along with you, mister Keane. On one condition.
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What's that, Lieutenant, I'm going to station the man at all the
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airports and a railway terminals. I don't want my pigeon to fly the coup.
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I'm sure your pigeon will stay right here, Lieutenant, until he has
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his hands on that sapphire at the start of death, and when he reaches
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for it again, we'll have our hands on him. This is the library,
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mister Kean, my father was murdered. All right, kay, we'll
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examine it thoroughly for any trace of the missing satire. Well, I'll grow
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up with a fine tooth called mister Keenhod Mike. I suppose that heavy desk
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has been gone through King at least a thousand times. The police looked under
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the carpets and opened up the upholstery in the chairs. There isn't a spot
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in this room that hasn't been searched. Isn't that the door? Then?
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Yes, excuse me, mister Kean night, yes, boss, never mind
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the search. After what k has just told me, I'm sure we'll have
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to wait for some kind of a break, and we may be getting one
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right now. House. I've been expecting the murder to make some excuse to
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return to this house for the stone. Let's see who's at the door,
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mister King. This is Paul Dusney. How do you do, mister Dudney,
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mister Keane, this is a great pleasure, sir. I'm very glad
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to know you. My partner might plancy. How do you do? Please
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do let you mister Keene. Lieutenant Hale at the police headquarters told me you
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were responsible for my release. I thought you'd be here with Kay Adams,
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and I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your confidence
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in me. Ye, it's quite all right. The murder was a shocking
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thing, and Mark Adams was my friend. But I trust the police.
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I realized who the guilty woman is. Oh, you believe they had the
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killer. Actually, that's the only reason they let me go, isn't it?
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And who do you think she is, mister Dudley? Why eat it?
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Sims? Of course? Oh no, Sims. It's a horrible thing
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to say. I know, okay, but I know more about Edith and
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your father than you do. Just what do you know, mister Dudley.
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I know Edith was poor, mister Keane, and she wanted to marry Mark.
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I also know heat made up is mine not to marry again because of
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his daughter. Okay, I see sounds like Marc coumpany, Boss. Yes,
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you stay here with mister Dudley. Mike. I'll go to the door
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with Kay. This way, mister Keane. Is it true, mister Keane,
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that Edith Sims is being held by the police for father? Isn't it?
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Okay, No one's being held at the moment, they don't, Edith?
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Are you all right? I know how you must feel me when your
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father died. Everything I lived for went out of the world. This is
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mister Kean, Edith, Mister Keith, he's investigating father's death. May I
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ask what brought you here, Miss Simms? I came to comfort Kay,
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mister Kean, and I want to stay a few days, Darling here with
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you. We can console Ea till he perhaps just a little. Of course
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he did. That woman isn't here? Is she? What? Woman?
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Miss Simms? Way? Oh? No? No? She? Oh?
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Thank goodness? Why are you so relieved? Miss Simms? Oh? Did
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I sound relieved? I didn't mean either to tell mister Kean everything. You
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know. He's here to help me. Well, I have no right to
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say this, mister Kean, But then I have no right to hold it
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back. I overheard Loretta Wayne and quarrel with Mark Adams on the night he
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was murdered. Yes, they were in the study just before dinner. Loretta
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told him she'd learned that he wanted to marry me, and she said he
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was out of his mind. They must have been close friends, and I
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thought the rather despised me. I know it, but I didn't care.
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It was what she said to Mark her and what was that? She said?
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A man would be better off dead than married to a fortune hunter like
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me. Mark became angry and she apologized. Mister key, Miss Simms,
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would you wait inside for me? Please? Here's my partner. Mike can't
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see. I want to have a word with him in practice. Come with
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me, Oh boss, we said, preserves a lother customer, Yes,
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Mike, and I believe this one will be the last. The third and
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last guest at the dinner party where Mark Adams was murdered, and the Fabulous
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Satire told them I opened the door. You are missus Loretto Waynard. Yes,
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is Keay Adams here? I came to pay my respect and have a
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read it. Please come in. My name is Keane, Missus Lennan,
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mister Key, the famous investigator. Wow, this is a lucky coincidence.
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I'd heard you were in this getting Mark Adams murder, and I was coming
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to see you. Why because I know who murdered Mark. I realized that
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after I left police headquarters. I remember the remark at dinner the night Mark
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was murdered. Paul Dudley said it, mister Keane, and I remember his
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exact words. What were they, Missus Wyna. He said he give anything
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for possession of that sapphire, mister hor of death, and that it was
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a due any man would murder for. Did Paul Dudley know mister Adams had
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it in his possession at the time. Well, I couldn't say, mister
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Kean. But I'm telling you the truth, and it is. Simms is
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my witness. Very well, we'll give you a chance to prove it.
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Now. Miss Simms is inside along with mister Dudley. Will you join them,
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Missus Rayman, certainly, I'm quite willing to make that statement to Paul's
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base. Well, Mike, sure, we've got a fine jigsaw puzzle on
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our hands. Boss. Each one accuses another, and there's these are all
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equally strong. The thing to do now is to find out who's lying,
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Mike, and put our hands on that tidleus sapphire. And when we do,
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the style of death can claim another victim. When the killer gets the
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electric chair for murder. Just the moment we're returned to mister Keane and the
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and the Case of Murder and the Star of Death. The murder of Mark
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Adams, the prominent jewel merchant, brings mister Kean, the Great Investigator,
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and his partner Mike Clancy, on the trail of one of the cleverest jewel
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teeths in the country. But Mark Adams was murdered for the Star of Death,
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a fabulous sapphire that mister Keane believes has been hidden inside the Adams home
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by the killer. Now the three people who were with the victim at the
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time of his death are in the house, along with Kay Adams, the
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victim's daughter, and as mister Kean and Mike gather them together in the room
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where Adams was murdered, we seem to have reached an impasse in the mystery
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of Mark Adam's death. Ladies and gentlemen, all three of you are under
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suspicion of murder. A moment, mister Dudley, we mister Kean, you
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told me a few moments ago that, in your opinion, Edith Simms committed
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the crime. Oh how could you say such a thing of new loved him?
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He doesn't he some aria that isn't true. Mister Dudley is also among
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the accused. You mean someone says that I'm the murderer. The right of
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Wayner, why is mister Dudley? The boss wants me to keep this conversation
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on a friendly level, so to speak. And lastly, Missus Waynet joins
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the list of suspect who could have blamed me for it. Mister Key,
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I did, Missus Wayne, it is you. I overheard what you said
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to Mark. You told him he'd be better off dead than married to me.
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You loved him doing you were curious because you loved me. Oh dare
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you say that, mister Key? She stuck her head against the floor,
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but she's unconscious. You carry her inside, mister Dudley. I'll call it
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uctor. No, I'll be all right. I don't need it, duck.
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She's coming around better see that she rests for a few minutes. Anyway,
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here, let me help you, missus Wayne. In quite of what
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you said about me, I'm not angry with you. Help her in here,
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Paul. All right, Kate, there's a studio couch in his room,
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Nike. I just noticed something, what was it? Boss? Just
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before missus Wayne tripped, I saw Paul Dudley bending over the desk looking at
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something. But there's nothing on the desk but a blotter and a pen.
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Mister Key, Wait, don't think jamine it now. I think someone's coming.
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Okay. Adam says there was some water out here, and I thought
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missus wayner. Oh, here's the picture on the table. How's she feeling,
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mister Dudley A little better? Oh, by the way, miss Keene,
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I'm remaining here in the Adams home the night. I live upstate and
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the next train is very late. Hey, Adams has offered me a room.
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I see, excuse me, that's two of them. Boss. Miss
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Simms made an excuse to stay here, and so is Paul Dudley. I'm
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also quite sure that Loretta Wayne will be too ill to go home this evening.
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That makes three suspects all trying to stay here in the house where that
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sapphire is hidden. Come over to this desk again, Matt, I want
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to see what interested mister Dudley a moment ago. It's a very fancy desk,
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sir. Look at the leather Coverrent. It's getting place by nail studs,
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and one of those studs seems to be loose. Yes, this is
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the one Paul Dudley was, mister Keane. When you touch that nail head,
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a secret panel opened in the side of the desk, Look, yes,
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and look what it contains, Mike Saith perservs it's the sapphire, the
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star of Death, the most magnificent jewel I've ever seen. Will take possession
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of it for the time being, Mike, and close this secret panel again.
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Don't say a word about this to any of them as far as they
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are concerned. The saphire is still missing, sure, and one of them
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is going to get a surprise. Boss. That's what I'm counting on.
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That secret panel in The desk is an ingenious contraption. It must have been
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specially made for someone. W do you think Mark Adams has made mister King.
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No, if he'd known about that secret panel, he'd have looked there
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the moment the jewel was missing. Then who could have known the desk's original
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owner. Mister Adams probably brought it from someone else and his daughter kaid No
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supossibly, but I don't want to ask her in front of the others.
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I'll wait for an opportune time. Are we staying here for the night?
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Everyone else seems to be. We may as well joined them. Well,
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what's the next movement? Kid? We found the star of death, Mike,
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but we still have to find our killer, Thanky. I think I
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can almost do that now, But let's wait for overwhelming proof. And I
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wouldn't be surprised if we obtained that proof tonight, mister Key, not so
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loud, kay? I hope I didn't waken you. No, No,
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I've been trying to read. Are the others asleep? Apparently all but Might
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Clancy and myself. He's in the library waiting for me. What is it
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you want, mister Keing. I didn't get a chance to talk to you
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alone, Otherwise I'd have asked to this before. Where did the furniture in
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this house come from? Did your father buy it himself? No? It
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came with the house when we brought it. How long ago was that?
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Two years, mister King? And who sold it to you? Father never
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told me. I was in school in Switzerland at the time. Where's the
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deed to the house? I don't give the person's name. Why the deed
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must be in father's safe And where's there in father's study? Do you aut
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the combination? Mister Key? If you know it? Kay, I do
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left? One, right, six, left, four right now? I
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just jumped that down. All right, Kay? What are you going to
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do, mister King? I'm going to put my hands on your father's murderer,
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mister King. Yes, Mike, put the lights on here in the
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study. Did you get what you were after? Boss? I have it
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right here, the deed to the house of the seller's name on it.
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Everything seems to have worked out according to my suspicions, Mike. But there's
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one more thing we have to do. What's that? It's going to throw
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a scare into a few innocent people, but it's the only way to get
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final proof. You go upstairs, Mike, knock on every bedroom door and
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spread an alarm that the house is on fire. Boss. Are you joking?
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Oh, Mike, I'm serious. Don't be hinted as if anyone's life
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is in danger at the moment. Just say the fires in the cellar and
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they have plenty of time to leave. Then tell them that the fire has
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burned the telephone wise and that I've left to get the fire department. And
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where will you really be, mister Keane, I'll be in the library waiting
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for the killer to recover that sapphire the star of death. You'll take it
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easy for wanting to get alarmed about mister King's called off the fire department.
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All right, though, I'll put the lights on, missus Waynard, so
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you can see that secret panel a little better. Mister k I was expecting
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you to drop by for the sapphire. No, no, I see you've
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got a gun. You planned this. There isn't any fire. You'll sitch
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me Kane. I began to suspect you this afternoon, Missus Reynad, when
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you tripped and fell at the psychological moment while you were shouting at Edith Sims.
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You saw that Paul Dudley was interested in the desk. He noticed that
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loose nail head by accident, the one which opened the secret panel, and
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you distracted his attention and mind by falling suddenly and pretending to be hurt.
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So I did, mister Kean. Secondly, I found this deed. You
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were the one who sold this house and all the furniture in it to Mark
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Adams, so naturally you must be the one who knew about the secret panel
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in that desk. When you murdered Adams, you knew you would be searched
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for the sapphire you stole, so you hid it there. I sold Mark
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Adams this house because I lost my money, mister Keane, and I'm the
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kind of a woman who needs lots of it to live. He paid you
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quite a sum for this house, according to the deed, one hundred and
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fifty thousand dollars. But I'm used to having millions, mister Keane, who
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must be quite a gambler to get rid of it. So first, yes,
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I love to gamble on anything, a roulette wheel, a race horse,
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of a turn of a card. I also like to live the way
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a woman of breeding is accustomed to live. That's why I wanted that sapphire.
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No woman of bleeding Eye ever knew was a cold blooded murderer, missus
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Rena. The star of Death isn't inside that secret panel, mister Keane.
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I know it isn't, which means you have it. Turn it over to
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me. I'm not playing games now, Keene. You'll either turn that sapphire
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over to me or you'll get a bullet in your head. How would you
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get rid of the sapphire? A stone that side not stalling for time?
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I want that sapphire, now, do you. I'll count to three if
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you don't place it on top of that desk, I or kill you one
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tall before you put a bullet in my wrist. Look you didn't get one
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in your heart. For a moment, Mike, I thought you wouldn't return
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in time. I wouldn't have missed you if I'd had a chance. I
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know that. Yes, Boss put in a call to Lieutenant Hale at Police
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Headquarter. It's okay, mister Keane, telling we've managed to repay his patients
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and cooperation by solving this case. Say we found the star of death and
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the woman who murdered for it, and he can have them both at his
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when the Kind of the Old Tracer turned to the African Blogan murder case,
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Welcome Back. An interesting episode. I had to chuckle a little bit
33:29
at the killer saying I wouldn't have missed given that they were standing in the
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same room and that she was probably two or three yards away. I think
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it's safe to say nobody would have missed if they had actually fired without their
33:44
armbean jiggled or something of that sort. And mister Keane may have gone overboard
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and trying to prove this one, because I think he would have been okay
33:52
with the deed and the inference from the desk without having to go all up
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purloined letter in this case. But overall, a pretty a pretty good episode
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and just a classic setup with everyone pointing the finger at everyone else. And
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we will eventually get around to this series. I'm kind of working through the
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Hummered and hummer Esque series in order of size. So the next one will
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do in this vein will be Inspector or Stone. All right, Well,
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