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Here Comes McBride (EP1211) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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campaign. It's really appreciate that. All right, well, we're going to
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bring you another series for which we only have one episode, and to be
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honest, I don't know how long it remained on the air, though it
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couldn't have been too long, as eight months later it star was auditioning to
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appear in another program. The title of the program was hit Here Comes McBride,
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and it starred Frank Lovejoy, who two months before had ended his run
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on The Amazing Mister Malone after two years in that character, with the series
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being pulled and replaced with Pat Novak for Hire, which we'll hear on Tuesdays
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in just a few weeks. Here Comes McBride was from a series of books
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by Cleave Adams, though, as we'll talk about after the show, the
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books didn't have a whole lot of impact in how the story was told.
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So here from May nineteenth is nineteen four of nineteen forty nine is Here Comes
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McBride. Here Comes McBride mac listen short for one hundred thousand dollars told them
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from Beverly Hills, residents of Cyrus Chamber, San Francisco Police second report Sean
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o'harrell former gambler in town quote on business unquote a rollboard revealed Jimmy Severn convicted
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quell thief, has violated parole, going into hiding police see bum Hello.
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My name is McBride, Rex McBride, an all four fourteen coaching Hotel Gott's
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and a policeman over there as a man here in my room and he's pretty
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dead. Out of the pages of three f Adams popular novels and VC presents
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an exciting you detective series. Here Comes McBride starring quite Love Joys. Hello,
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miss McBride, I'm Susan. Hello is mister mcgilli carry the hotel manager?
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Fine, miss McBride. Two minutes ago you telephoned down to the guest.
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Susan here took your call. You said you wanted a policemen. That's
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right. Why I mean, if there's been a disturbance of any sort,
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commanding him both of them tay a look that guy in the chair, wouldn't
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you want to police him? He did? That's right? Oh, oh
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my god, Oh fine, great time to kill over. That's mister seven
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the dead man. Yes, who's mister seven fourteen? Well, look he
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isn't in five fourteen now he's in four fourteen and four fourteen is my room.
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That's what I wanted to see the policeman about. Maybe better sprinkle a
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few smelling saws on poor mister McGillicutty here. Oh my, almost forgot mister
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mcgiller. Cuddy, mister McGillicuddy, Well, don't just stand there. Get
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some water for it. Not me. I've already got fingerprints on the door
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knob, the light, switching the phone. That's enough, all right,
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I'll get it. Myself. You say this dead guy lived in five or
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fourteen. Huh that's directly over this room. Yes, okay, you better
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stay here and give mcgilli cutty a little artificial respiration. I'm going upstairs and
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take a look. Where do you think you're going? Well upstairs, if
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it's all right with you, it isn't. Well, that's too bad,
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And I suppose you keep your big nolse out of my big nose belong here
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police, Oh for my mistake. Captain, you're a mistake again. It's
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lieutenant, Lieutenant or saddie. That's your room you just came out of.
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Yeah, and it's also the room where the dead man is. Yeah,
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come on, mister. As soon as we threw him there, I want
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to talk to you. Well. Mc red We've got your room all tidy
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to you again. Now do you care to add anything to your story?
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There's nothing more to add us. Sorry for the third time. I went
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out to dinner tonight, I left word at the dead gotta back at eight.
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About five after I came in, came up to my room, opened
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the door. There's this seven sitting in the chair, stabbed. That's when
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I found the polie. You were going upstairs when I stopped you, Where
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were you heading back to his room to see if you'd left anything. Look,
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if you're trying to insinuate eye chilled, you're a pretty likely suspects right
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now. Oh sure, sure. I stabbed seven up in his room,
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then carried his body down here, so nobody suspect me. Sounds real logical,
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doesn't it. You'd either be pretty stupid or pretty smart to work it
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like that, And I don't think you're stupid, Thank you McBride. That
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suitcase in the corner is yours, isn't it? Yeah, somebody slashed the
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side of it. I noticed that. I also noticed the gun in it.
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It's mine and I have a license for it. A sunny you like
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the hunt. I'm an insurance detective. Oh I see, No, you
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don't see. I came to Frisco on and Francisco. Okay, okay,
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I came here on business. You're from La Los Angeles? Oh yeah,
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we heard you in town. What kind of business are you here? On?
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I don't have to tell you that. We got to complain from a
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guy named Chandler about you, Cyrus Chandler. He claims you've been following him
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and his family. Isn't that the same Chandler who reported the theft of a
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diamond necklace down in Los Angeles? That's right? You know, I don't
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get it, Nick Bride. If you're trying to recover the necklace, why
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are you following them? Did I say I was following them? Will you
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manute? You? Maybe figure one of them faked the theft to collect the
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insurance. Look for Sadi. I'll make a deal with you. You worry
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about the dead man, I'll worry about the chandler's And then the Chandler's happened
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to be our worry right now too. Oh so this ward of his what's
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her name? Celeste? Yeah, she's pretty wild. Oh yeah, she's
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done pretty well already. She's gotten herself in a couple of scrapes and bars.
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It's got Chandler funny to get her out of them. I guess she
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hasn't changed. Oh yeah, and another thing. As a gambler named Sean
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O'Hara came into town a few days ago. We've been keeping an eye on
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him. You know her, didn't Chandler's wife used to run around with him?
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Did she? I wonder if missus Chander lost money to ohera interesting though.
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You're talking. I'm listening. Okay, play it your way. So
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a guy named Severn turns up in your hotel room? Did? By the
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way, how do you happen to get a room in this joined? Anywhere?
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You want to read the papers? There's a convention in town. I
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couldn't get any reservations. Cab driver told me the Tropan Hotel wasn't too bad.
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He was so wrong, May Bride. Maybe you're telling the truth and
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maybe you're not. Sooner or later we'll find out which we'll want you at
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the end quest and in the meantime, don't be too hard to find.
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You know. San Francisco is a nice town. Stay in it? Isn't
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the regious roof store of an expensive place for a poor struggling detective to take
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a girl to din? The Mislip brad expense account Susan, Oh, what
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item do I come under? I think it's I'm sure you will. I
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could put it under special occasions. Maybe isn't every day I find a dead
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guy in my room and meet you? Yeah, mister, I'm afraid the
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Trojan Hotel has not a very nice place. How did you ever happen to
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get a job and a joint like that. Oh, I don't really work
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there, I understay a part time. See. I worked for a book
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keeping service and the Trojan Hotel is one of our accounts. As far as
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I'm concerned, the company can cross it off their list anytime, except mister
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mcgilli carry. I've always rather liked mister McGillicuddy. Yes does he? Oh,
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now that's not fair. See do you know that man over there,
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the stocky, gray haired man at the corner table. He hasn't taken his
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eyes off you all through dinner. His name is O'Hara, Sean O'Hara.
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No, who's he? Gambler and started other enterprises you name it, he's
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done. It sounds interesting, befaul, Yes, who is that? All
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right? I beg your pardon, mister Brian. Yes, I believe you
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asked at the desk by the room at this hotel. Yeah, they told
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me no soap. You may have one now if you like. Well I
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like. But how come mister Shaan O'Hare is turning his room over to you.
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Well that's very kind, as lister O'Hara, he wanted to know if
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you step over to his paper for a minute. Okay, I guess excuse
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me. He must be quite a friend of your. Yes, yes,
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he must be. Well, it looks like the party is complete. The
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Chandler family just came in. And who are the Chandler Oh, there's friend
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of mine. I'll be back in a minute soon. Excuse me, please
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thank McBride. Whoa well, mister Chandler and missus Chandler. This is a
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surprise McBride. Hello, Rick like to buy him a drink, I said,
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lady lady, Now what are you people doing in San Francisco. Well,
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I don't know about the other's Rick mcbrian, you deliberately followed us here
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for me. I'm just hearing a pleasure. I warn you if you persist
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in your ridiculous suspicions that any of us take the fact that Missus Chandler's necklace
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islands, your temper is showing Chandler and missus Chandler. So lest if you'll
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excuse me, and as someone I have to see Sean o'harris. Oh yes,
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sir, Missus Chandler. Remember what I said, McBride. I'll be
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seeing you. Don't forget that drink later. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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so long now, I'm not going to SPAMD for this any longer. It's
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not my fault to be following us, Sara, Are you sure that it's
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as following boy? Hello, o'harah. On McBride's I ran in with an
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old friend of yours on the way to your table just now, Delilah Chandler,
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I saw her. Thanks for the room. I didn't give it to
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you for nothing. Yeah, I figured that. What do you want?
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McBride? You're trying to recover the Chandler's nextlik where'd you hear? Then?
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I got big ears? Hell, I don't show must be the way you
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comb your haird So what about the chandeler necklace? You work for an insurance
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company? Tou'd be glad to pay a considerable amount of money to get it
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back, maybe as high as twenty five thousand. Those big ears are showing
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now, o'harah. How'd you arrive at that? For you? Never mind?
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Closesn't maybe trying to tell me you've got the nextnik. I think you
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know better than that, but I might be able to put you on the
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trail of him. What do you get out of him? Simple? Twenty
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five thousand? How about it. I don't know. I don't know.
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You have to have some time to think it over. I can't give you
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much tells. I know what I mean. Enough, Okay, Look,
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I'm running a little place down of the peninsula. It's an old house off
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by it felt you gotta lay out there, small one, A couple of
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crap tables in the wheels. Here's the address. You'll be down there at
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too tomorrow afternoon. I think we can do some business now. It could
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be well. I better be getting back to my table. See but I
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whoa, it's a good thing I didn't hold my breast for that just minutes
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you were gone. I'm sorry so long ter. That's all right. Matter
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of fact, they had quite an interesting time. Oh. Those three people
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who stopped you when you got up from the table had an argument after you
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left them up. They seem to think you've been following them. They were
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pretty mad about it all, except the younger of the women, the run
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with the sunny eyes light drown sort of sort of like a check. Oh
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no, but I mean, and she also had or there were strange eyes.
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Yeah, that that would be celest. She didn't seem at all mad
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that you were following them. Yeah, that would be Celest. She's a
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chandler's work. She inferred. You've been following her quite a while. You
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wouldn't have to follow Selest quite a while. Oh my here all this time,
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I thought you had brought me here to be with me. The strong
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unions, they demand pleasant working conditions for she wanted that. Oh it sort
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of crowded. Why don't we go to my place? We could have a
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drink there. You know, I've got a stronger union than I thought it.
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Go min, that's a prognant you've got here. Thanks about to drink?
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What would you like? Hey? You come here? Got or maybe
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driven? Keep going? You haven't come to it yet. That's nice.
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Sure you can't break that date tomorrow. I don't know. It's with Arthur
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and Arthur Medgiller cutting? Oh you mean fainting Freddy. I like Authur.
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He's very nice. I'm sure then, Well, I and they got better
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fix than drinks. You got a cigarette? M oh yeah, yeah,
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if I think there's one left? Yes here you call that a cigarette?
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Where have you been keeping it in your shoe? My last one? And
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I forgot to get in in this afternoon. Rex, there's a stand right
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across this cheek. Oh no, look, it's midnight. They're not gonna
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send me out into that fog when it's so comfortable here. I will normally
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take five minutes, and i'll have the drinks ready when you get bad.
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Besides, I think you could use a little cold here anyway. Okay,
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i'll get the cigarettes, but i'll give you a coal. I don't think
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five minutes i'll make much difference. Hey, ah, mister, two packs
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thirty six? Then okay, thanks? Real fog tonight, huh Yeah,
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it seems like it gets worth every year. I'm thinking of him. Stolen
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radar maybe a good idea. Nine nine Hey hey mister, that car you
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feel him better than now? Yeah, little ship my head? How long
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have I been out? Almost fifteen minutes. I think you hit your head
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when you dove with the sidewalk. Yeah, that was really a close one.
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I didn't even see the car, so it was almost on you.
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You know, guys who drive like that shouldn't be allowed out on a foggy
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night. You happen to get a look at him? No, no,
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he didn't even slow down. He was driving a green ash but I didn't
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see his face. Why, oh, no, no reason, thanks to
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learn. Where or where did you go for the cigarettes? Oakland? Yeah?
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Just about giving you up wick. What's the matter with your head?
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Where have you been opened? Oh? Come on in and let me put
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something on your head. No, no, I'll be getting along. But
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are you sure you're all right? Yeah? I'll call you tomorrow. Oh,
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here's your cigarettes. I hope you enjoy them, baby, And it
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cost me some worms. Okay, okay, Well, missus Chandler is an
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eight am, a little early for tea. I found out you were staying
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here at the Regions. I just had to talk to you. That's on
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your mind? Well, to McBride, I know you suspect the sept that
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my necklace was arranged by one of us. Well well, as far as
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my husband and myself are concerned, it's not true. But as the Celeste,
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I'm not. Oh well, that's interesting. He never cared very much
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for your husband's ward, have you? But she's caught out nothing but trouble.
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She's wild, She gets into scrapes and we have to pay for them.
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And that's not the worst of us. What is the worst of us?
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She's been making a play for my husband I'm sure of it. Really,
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I don't know what it is with her. She's all twisted around inside.
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It's a complex. Everything I have. She wants require you telling me
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always, well, because I think she took my neglorok And I want you
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to search her room. You know she might object. She's not there now,
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I'll come. We don't know where she is. The last we saw
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it was about eleven o'clock last night. She's probably out on what she calls
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a party. Please such a room? Well, I don't know. It
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means a lot to me. Well, I mean, I mean if it
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would help clear? Say you up. Incidentally, do you know anyone who
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drives a green nash? No? I don't skip it. Okay, I'll
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take a look at celestial. Have you got the king? No? But
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I can get it. You go ahead, I'll stop rying about ten minutes.
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Yeah, let me well, mister mcgillicut, all right, I beg
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your pardon. What are you doing in the hall? I came here to
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see you, mister McBride, but I didn't know you would entertain girly business.
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Mister mcgilli cutty, I'll see you in a few minutes. Missus champion,
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come in mcgilly cuddy. But down your mind, I have to get
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to pay my bill, and I checked out of the Trojan, Miss McBride.
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Perhaps I arrived at an embarrassing time, but I must say it confirms
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my opinion. What opinion? That's what I came to talk about. Susan
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has apparently taken an interest in you. Oh good. Susan is a nice
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girl, Miss McBride. You may not be interested in that phase of her
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character, but she is an skirl and I'm sure of it. I'm very
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fond of that. I've always thought that one day i'd ask you to well
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what I mean, you're very fond of it, But I'm not going to
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stand biat you're made unhappy by a man of your type? My type?
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What is my type? Just now with a perfect illustration, A lady leaving
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your room at eight in the morning. Yeah, that does look better,
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to say nothing of the notoriety you've gained the matter of the seven killing.
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I want you to stay away from Susan, Nick McBride, well, just
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for my own information, gall ahead, what happens if I don't stay.
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I'm probably no match for your physically, but I warn you I won't let
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that stop me, and I suspect you're more deeply implicated in that seven killing
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then you admitted to the police. Huh. If you don't stay away in
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these times, it's full as possible. I'll keep at it until I find
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something which will intimidate you, and I'll stop at dating. You're really all
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out on this thing, aren't you? Yes? I am, well,
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this is really open house days. I guess I should have bordered some cocktail
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leaps. Hello McBride, Lieutenant ORSHATI, how's the police department? I'm on,
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I'm taking you in. You're taking me in the seven inquests tomorrow.
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I'm taking you in now. Why oh, a girl named the last George's
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chandlers Ward? What about her? He disappeared last night, That's what I
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heard. Look, I don't know where she is. We do. We
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located her this morning, and why don't you ask her where she's ben wouldn't
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do as much good. She can't answer. She's real dead. Lord McBride,
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you're gonna stay right here in headquarters until you open up. You were
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after the chandler's necklace. I still am. You figured to last it fake
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the fifth and that she had it. You knew you'd have to push her
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around a little together. That's hawk you pushed too hard. I told you
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once I didn't have anything to do with her death. I'll tell you again.
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I'll keep on telling you because it happened to be the truth. Assume
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what do you want I do? I just heard about the Chandler girl being
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killed last night. I understand the time of death was between midnight and one
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o'clock. What's all this got to do with you? Just that, mister
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McBride couldn't have killed Celess Chandler. He was with me all evening up until
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almost two o'clock. Well, wait a minutes, Wait a minute, you're
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willing to sweater that. Yes, you know what the penalty for perjury is.
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No, but I'm sure it's quite severe. How about McBride. You're
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telling the truth. You heard the lady. Okay, okay, I guess
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you can go. Then I'll have you. I don't get it at all,
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Susan. I'd rather not discuss it. I left your place around midnight
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for the cigarettes. That was gone almost half a night. I said I'd
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rather nothing, And yet you told or sorry that I was with you all
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evening. It really stuck your neck out for me. Baby, you know
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that? Yes? Why does it matter? Why? And may it does?
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Well? I because maybe it doesn't take more than one night, one
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date for a girl who's Oh, what's the good of talking about it?
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You're a nice girl, Susan, You're a real nice Macgillicutt was right,
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a gill cutter. He came to see me this morning, tell me to
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stay away from here. Well, I guess the right day to talk without
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this, and maybe you should. Yes, are telling me he doesn't have
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anything to worry about anymore. I don't ever want to see you again,
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Rich What are you talking about? Why not? And I wait a minute,
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Susan, do you think I did kill celat Dunton? I don't know
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what. I think you'll think that I killed her? And yet you gave
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me an alibi. A strange kid, Susan, Yes, let's just leave
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it at that. I'm a strange kid. Goodbye. Wait a minute,
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Susan, But I've got to seen as a chatter about a little unfinished business.
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Then you will no wrecks. I mean it. Goodbye, Oh almost
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McBride. I've been waiting for you. You said ten nights. I got
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to tame. You still want me to search celest room? Yes, more
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than ever an hour. They just told me about thee lest. If that
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necklace isn't her room and going to be discovered by anyone else, that would
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be a lot of terrible publicity. Yeah, here's the key. How shore
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you with her room here? That's to sixteen. You want to come in?
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No, I define not. I'll wait for you in my room.
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Okay, I'll check with it. No rights, Uh okay McBride, end
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of the line. Get up, plut with a head like mine. I
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don't feel like walking. You don't have to walk far. Just my front
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door. Who lives here? There's just a nice quiet place in the country.
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You'll love it. Hell oh McBride, Oh Haarah Sean o'harah. Sure
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I should have figured it. Sit down. Where's the necklace? McBride's necklace,
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the Chandler necklace? I want it? You think I got it?
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Uh, you're playing it really smart. Worn't the last squares? I gambling?
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That's by giving me the necklace, and she hires seven to hijacket for
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my strong box seven, So he's killing ties in after all, you killed
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seven and got the necklace from here. Okay, so you're a smart boy.
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Now let's at it. So it was celest who gave you the necklace.
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All along, i'd take missus can you're wasting my time, McBride.
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I should have spotted it. It's a channel he used to run around with
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you. She told me Celestia had a complex about wanting anything to belong to
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her. Are you, for instance? You're a real deep thinker, so
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you can probably figure out what's gonna happen to you if you don't turn over
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that next When you came to me last night with your phony deal, you
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weren't sure who had the necklace. He decided to pick up Celesti roughed her
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up trying to get her to talk, and you were too rough, she
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died. Okay, all right, but there's not going to bring any good.
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I don't have the necklace. Go on quite a while, McBride,
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I'll tell you it's not gonna bring any good you or something not gonna do
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you any good? Eat. Okay, I'll go ahead, a pleasure m
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Nine o'clock. How is heah? Ste a lot of le a light?
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They're not quite a while now, Okay, put him on a bed we'll
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let him rest a while. Okay, you stay here with him. I'm
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going downstairs. Right Uh, what's a matter of rugged? Boy? Not
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so rugged? Right now? Not so rugged? Too bad? Too bad?
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Look? Can you get me something for these cuts? And I think
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my hand is broken? Isn't there's a shame? Oh no, really,
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they take a look at it. I don't see anything wrong with quite.
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You stay there, face down, or I'll trill you with your own gun.
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Yell for o'harah. You heard me call O'Hara. Come on, songbird.
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You can do better than that. Say you can. Here he comes.
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I keep your mouth shut. What's the matter? How feels awful,
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doesn't it? Ohiah? Well, studdy, you've got O'Hara on ice.
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I think he can get the whole story of Celet's killing out of him.
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Yeah. Soon as I know o'harah didn't have that necklace, I realized that
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he wasn't the guy who killed seven. If he had, he'd gotten a
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necklace from the word. Does that leave you with the guy who had the
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perfect opportunity to kill seven and plant his body in my would the guy who
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knew I wouldn't be back until late last night? Mcgilly cuddy, the man.
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Sure. He figured I was just trenchant, so he thought he'd plant
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the body in my room. And he found out I was a detective working
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on the channed loacasion. He got worried. That's why he threatened me this
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morning and tried to get me to leave town. You know, mcred you've
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got a very annoying habit of leading it to empty hole. What do you
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mean? A little while ago I came up with the same idea about mcgilly
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cuddy. Right now, it's not doing as any good. Why not mcgilla
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cudd he's disappeared. Well, I hardly thought i'd be seeing you again,
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Rick, Well, I figured now you know, I wasn't a big,
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bad killer, Susan. He wouldn't slam your door in my face if I
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came over. So I'm really sorry. It's just thinking what I did,
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Rick, Oh, poor Arthur. I still can't believe he was capable of
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killing anyone from mc giller cutting. You'd a good hired first, but it's
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pretty large to go and you look back on it. He was in the
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perfect spot for him. Anyone who runs a joint like the Trojan Hotel keeps
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his ears pretty close to the wall, if I not, tull Less hired
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seven to hijack the necklace off o'harris, so he killed seven and grabbed the
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necklace himself. Well, I know it looks softly bad for him, but
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I just can't believe it. I can't help hoping that he'll come out of
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hiding and clear himself. M he isn't hiding, Susan. He's dead.
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Hush. How do you know That's the only way it figured? The Gillicutts
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and a weak sister all along, and you finally got to the point where
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even you couldn't pop him up anymore, Sophie, your own safety and not
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the more. I, oh, wretch, you can't know what you say.
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Pa your hands away from your purse, Susan, gun isn't going to
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do any good. No, well, no, you're not even funny anymore.
29:18
I was just reaching for a cigarette. There are plenty right there on
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the table, baby, the ones you sent me out for last night so
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that your friend McGillicutty could run me down. It's not true. Then,
29:26
when McGillicutty missed, you figured the smart thing was to cover up. That's
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why you gave me that Forney alibi for Celes's murder. Rick, Please,
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do you know none of this is true. It's just some horrible idea of
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a joke you had. Well, I know, Milton burw, but you've
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got no proof, no proof at all. Look, you haven't had time
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to get rid of a Gillicuddy's body, not as thoroughly as you intended to.
29:47
He's supposed to have land with a necklace. And remember, so the
29:49
chances are the body still in your car or Faday's looking at over right now
29:53
that Susan dropped that gun, I'm going out of here. Wreck No,
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stand still, stand quite, put the gun down soon, stay away from
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me? Put it down, I said, stay away? Sorry mhm,
30:08
pretty for trying. Now your timing is lousy or study you nearly got me
30:15
killed? How about her? Did you have to hound? No? No,
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she's just taking a little nap. Well, don't you stand there with
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your bare face showing did you find the body? It isn't you? Yeah?
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Right, what you said? Oh speak of body? Baby? Here?
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Really isn't isn't He had the soul of an artist, Sney and wearing
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a Derby. Yet you have been listening to the first in a new mystery
30:55
series, Here Comes McBride Darry Frank Lovejoy. The script was written by Bob
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Wright, based on the popular fiction characters created by Kleeve that Adam. The
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program was directed by Warren Lewis. This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.
31:22
Welcome back. Well, this was actually pretty decent. The air really
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was in nineteen forty nine was really flooded with the hard boiled detective and so
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even a decent show. I think that was solely written with a good star.
31:42
I was going to have a time making it, but this was I
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thought pretty entertaining. The series also serves as a reminder of the limited relationship
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between the novels and the radio character. The character of Rex McBride in books
32:00
is not particularly popular with a lot of critics of mystery fiction of the era,
32:05
even though McBride was a contemporary of Raymond Chandler, who wrote Philip Marlowe
32:10
who will be hearing in a few weeks. Critic Richard Moore said McBride was
32:15
a Cretan famous for a statement that American gestopo is what we need. Marlow
32:23
became the model for the future. The classic Tarnish Knight McBride, for the
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few who have read him, is one of the most repugnant characters in detective
32:32
fiction history. Lessons learned. Well. To be fair, I should be
32:37
clear that McBride wasn't calling for any sort of American Nazism, mainly calling for
32:45
a secret police as powerful as the Gestapo in the midst of World War Two.
32:52
Both of that's not a bad thing, but just to be clear,
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we're not miscommunicating. However, over a radio there's a limit to how a
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character can actually be, and certainly Rex McBride in this episode wasn't as anti
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social or difficult to say Pat Novak, which tends to define kind of the
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outer edge, and the same thing is true of my camera, who tended
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to be a bit more edgy and extreme in books, but not too extreme
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on the radio. So it's kind of an interesting contrast if you study the
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actual characters. All right, Well, on to some listener comments and feedback,
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and we begin with this from Mark. Thanks for your dedication to keeping
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this podcast going for so many years now. Most similar projects fizzle out within
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a year. I know I've done one myself once upon a time. That
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you've been doing going at this for the better part of a decade is truly
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noteworthy. Well thanks so much, Mark, and yeah this is I meant
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to mention it on the podcast, but March the third was the seventh anniversary
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of the first podcast I ever did related to old time radio. I've dofnere
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some political stuff, but that's an entirely different animal, and I think everyone
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supports really kept these going. Plus I like to see things through towards the
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end. Growing up as a kid, I was the one who would never
34:21
concede a game, and I would get upset if you tried to quit a
34:24
game before everything was played out. I have this belief in the importance of
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finishing. With Dragon and Superman, finishing is pretty easy with this series.
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You know, I think it's different. It's really I think a you know,
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it's just everybody's continued support enjoyment of the programs, plus the fact that
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there are more series that I can think of wanting to do that really keeps
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it going. And and again I appreciate all your remarks. And then just
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a simple note from Mirth who says, thank you. I've been listening to
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your show for a few years now and it brings me great pleasure. Well,
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I'm glad to assist and thanks so much. Appreciate everyone listening. We'll
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