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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Tears of Night Matter, Parts One and Two (EP1107) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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War Dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, folks, it's time to get
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into today's episode of Yours truly Johnny Dollar. It's The Tears of Night Matter,
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Parts one and two from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar.
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This is Hillary Fukes, CPA. You left word for me to call,
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mister Dollar. I don't seem to recall a name. I'm with Universal Adjusters.
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They asked me to look into this Windover claim. Universal Legit Insurance Adjusters.
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That's right Insurance. I understand you filed the claim in Missus Windover's name.
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Missus Wendover hired me to handle her affairs a few days ago. Who
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do you want to talk to me or missus Wendover, anybody who can make
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me understand why Missus Wendover let a fifty thousand dollar policy lie around for two
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years before she filed a claim. I'll try. I don't know whether I
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can convince you or not, but I'll try. Good Night and every weekday
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night. Bob Bailey in the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action packed
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expense accout America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Gars Truley. Johnny Dollar expense account submitted
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by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Universal Adjustment Bureau, five eighteen Spearit Boulevard,
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Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation
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of the Tears of Night Matter. Expense account Item one ninety two dollars and
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fifty cents air fair and it. So that's Hartford to Miami Beach, Florida.
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My plane got in at eleven PM, so I went to a hotel,
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I got some sleep. I put in a call to Hillary Fuchs,
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certified Public Accountant as soon as I woke up. Then I had some breakfast
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and took a cab out to his office. It was a pleasant four mile
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trip along a beautiful white sanded ocean front, and it cost me at him
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two three bucks even coome on in here. Dollar the air conditioners working here.
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Hillary Fuchs was a big man in his late forties. He was semibald,
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had a good sunburn, and smell faintly of Scotch whiskey. The office
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he led me into was cool and dark and elegantly furnished in bamboos. The
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desk was cluttered with a stack of financial statements of legal papers. This is
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quite a thing, I guess, Dollar. By the way, I didn't
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find any Universal Insurance adjustice and the phone book well located in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Hartford, you're a long way from home, Dollar, They sent you
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all the way to Miami Beach. About this, yep, seems like a
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pretty expensive way to handle it. Pretty expensive claim fifty thousand dollars. Would
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it do any good to tell you it's legitimate? Sure, but I'm hired
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to check it out just the same. In other words, you don't believe
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me, Well, look at it our way, mister Feuchs. The claim
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came into the office day before yesterday, and we have seventy two hours to
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act on it. Okay, what can I do? First off? Tell
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me your connection with missus Windover. She hired me to put her business affairs
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in order about ten days ago. First time I ever saw she said the
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Treasury Department that advised her to get some expert help. They were honor about
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back taxes. And that's it. I see. Tell me about Noah went
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Over's death. He died two years ago, last April fourteenth, the way
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it's just coming to me. Did you people, I mean, did the
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insurance company know anything about him being dead until that claim came in? No,
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no wonder they sent you all away from Hartford. Well, Wendover and
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his wife took a party of eight out on their boat for a ten day
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cruise. Went Over had an attack of appendicitis at sea. There wasn't a
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doctor aboard. The appendix burst, and he died before they could make the
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nearest port. Let me get back to the original question, why all this
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time before Missus Wendover filed claimed for benefits? Well, you really got to
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know missus Wendover. I guess she's a little crazy, little wacky, a
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little strange. These are your impressions of her. It's a consensus. I
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asked her around after she came here the other day. The story is that
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she and went Over had a pretty good thing in their marriage. They were
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wild about each other. They spent money like water, and they had plenty
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of it to spend. Then one day he died. Kind of threw her.
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Maybe you'd still throwing her item sure, Somewhere along the line. In
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the last year, missus Wendo met somebody else. I don't know who he
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is because I wasn't paying any attention when she mentioned his name. But she's
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sort of coming out of it and she's going to marry him, so she
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wants to get her business affairs in order. From the look of things,
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nobody's done much about them since went Over's death. You see all that stuff
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in the desk, Yeah, I noticed it. It's all hers. She
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brought it to me in three big hat boxes. Stocks, bonds, bills,
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deeds. I don't know what all. I know she's in a little
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trouble with the government, not because she hasn't got the money to pay them,
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but just because she hasn't bothered with anything like that. Anyhow. One
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of the first things I came across was the insurance policy thrown in there with
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all the rest of the stuff. And look you see these checks, almost
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ninety thousand dollars dividends on some oil stock. Doesn't even bothered open her mail
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of Casher checks. Well, a lot of people around the country, including
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your insurance company, are going to be startled. When I finished straightening all
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this out, I sent the policy claim in as a matter of course,
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that's my explanation for being two years late. Oh, that's a pretty good
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explanation. Look here, she completely forgot. You loaned an eight thousand dollars
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automobile to a friend in Tampa fourteen months ago. I asked her about it,
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and she said she thought she'd left the filling station for it. And
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here the boat went over died on worth sixty thousand dollars. She sold it
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to a fisherman last year for five pounds. Yeah. I get the idea,
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mister Fuchs. Yeah, so you will file the insurance claim in her
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name, along with a dozen other matters that should have been taken care of
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two years ago. Yeah you played golf. No, well I do,
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and I'm tired of looking at this pile of stuff. Mind if I look
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at it, I help yourself all yours. I'll be at the club.
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Do whatever you have to. By the way, what do you have to
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do? Verify this death certificate in the coroner's report. Then you will honor
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the claim. I'll file my report and it's up to the insurance company to
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do as they see fit. You got a cagy, aren't you. That's
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why they pay me, Oh, mister Fuchs. Yeah, is there's some
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kind of bank balance and this stuff current. You'll find it there, but
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I'll tell you in cash, missus Wendover's worth about nine hundred and fifty thousand
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dollars. I doubt very much if she's trying to cheat the insurance company out
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of fifty thousand, you can ever tell, though, Keny, mister Fuchs,
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O can't ever tell. After he left, I got on the telephone
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and talked to officials about the Karnis autopsy and the death certification on Noah Wendover.
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They all seem to be an order. Then I went through the papers
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on fuchs disk. They seem to be in enough disorder to verify what he
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told me about at least Windover. I left fuchs office about four thirty and
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went back to my hotel carrying a picture of a woman who had existed in
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a state of limbo for two years or more. So far as responsibility and
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attention to business went, Johnny Dollar, Hillary Fuchs, can you come over
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to my office right away? I just left there. What's up missus Wendover.
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She's having a fit. Come on over, Expenser, con Adam three
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three more bucks more cavfair Back to Hillary Fuchs office I put up in front.
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At exactly five thirty, I noticed a nineteen fifty six white Cadillac convertible
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parked in front for no reason at all. I took thirty seconds to peek
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inside. The registration told me the car belonged to Alie Blair Wendover. She
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had left her purse on the seat and the keys in the ignition a mink
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stole was thrown carelessly over the back of the seat. Anybody could have taken
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a stole, the purse, the car, the hallworks. Missus Wendover was
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living up to her advanced notices. Come in. Fuchs looked pale and shaken.
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He fumbled around for a cigarette until I handed him one of mine.
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He lit it up and tried to get a grip on himself. Missus Wendover's
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in there, Oh, what happened? I had some papers for her to
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sign, and she dropped in a little while ago. Uh. I told
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her about you. I explained to her it was certainly reasonable the insurance company
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would want to investigate a claim that had been delayed twenty five months. She
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blew up, got kind of hysterical about it, said she wanted to see
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you right away. That she had something to tell you. Go easy on
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her, William. Why do you say that, Oh, it's just well.
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If I'm wrong about her, I'm glad, but I don't think I'm
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wrong when I say she's right on the edge, just on the edge of
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it. Feeling better, Missus Wendover. The pale girl with the coal black
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hair, seated stiffly in a chair in front of Hilary Fuch's desk was not
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feeling better here. She could have been sixteen or thirty six. It depended
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on where you were standing when you looked at her. She had a mouth
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that was too full, shoulders too wide for the strapless sundress, Paris sandal's,
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a clanking costume bracelet, and black eyes around big bright, too bright.
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This is mister dollar, Missus Wendover. I understand you're investigating my husband's
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death. I'm here to verify the facts so that Eastern States can act her
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your claim. Don't you believe he's dead? Yes? Don't you? Oh?
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Yes, I saw him die. Yes, he's dead. How much
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money do you owe me? The claim is for fifty thousand dollars. Will
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you pay it? I presume it will be paid from all I've seen so
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far. Of course, that part of it's up to the insurance company,
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of course, And they have men sitting at desks reading reports about claims all
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day long. Yes, my dad owned an insurance company once. You know
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those men sitting at their desks. Even my dad set at a desk.
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I wonder something, would one of those men sitting at one of those desks,
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right, okay, on my claim for Noah's benefits, if he knew
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about me? Sit down, Missus Wendover. Maybe you'd like a drink?
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You have one, mister Fuchs, would they? Well? I have to
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be indefinite about that too, Missus Wendover. What would put a question in
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the mind of an adjuster if he knew about you? I'm indolent and I'm
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irresponsible. Mister Feuchs can tell you that I'm not quite dependable, am I,
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mister Fuchs. Oh, we're getting straightened out, Missus Wendover. And
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then, of course that wouldn't make a difference, I mean not really.
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A great many are responsible, indolent, undependable people, while there's something else.
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I'm a curse, are you. Oh yes, it's a very bad
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thing. A curse people around me, people I love just seem to die.
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Why do you think you're a curse? Noah died and I loved him,
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and Daddy I loved him and my brother Jim all dead. No one
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can stay alive around me. I thought I should tell you that. Yeah,
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well, I appreciate it, missus. Windover well, and we don't
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have anything more to discuss. Goodbye, mister dollars fus. Oh wait a
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time minute, Johnny, Hey, where are you going? I'm gonna drive
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her home. You are right, she's on the edge of something. I
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can't quite figure it yet. Brother was killed in Korea. Her father died
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of a heart attack ten years I got that much from the papers on your
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desk. Lord, would she ever get the idea? I don't know.
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I've heard of things like this happening. I'll find you later. Right,
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Wait a minute, I'll drive you home, missus my door. Oh that'll
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be nice. She smiled brightly, still too brightly, and we drove along.
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She didn't tell me which way to turn, what direction to go,
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and I didn't ask her. I liked it that way. No one's saying
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a word. I was listening to something else anyhow, something inside of me
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loud, like a cannon firing twice a second. It was my heart making
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all the noise. Oh, it's happened a couple of times before, and
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I met trouble coming home. I knew it's my heart. Never makes a
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mistake. Mister Dollar. Do you think he'll die too, Johnny Dollar,
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you'll refukes Dollar. How's missus wendover? So far, so good? Yeah,
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sure, she's in the other room. Do you think she's all right
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mentally? I mean, I think she's all right enough to get by.
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I think she's scared to death of something or somebody. That business of the
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curse. Yeah, you know, there isn't anything to that. There's something
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to it for her. She thinks she's somehow responsible for her husband's death,
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for her father's death, and for her brother's death. On the way here,
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she mentioned just like that that someone else was going to die awards to
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that effect, I don't know. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar
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to the Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting
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of expended yours during my investigation of the Tears of Night Matter. It had
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started as a routine investigation a claim file for fifty thousand dollars on the death
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of Noah wendover Miami Beach, Florida. The question why the two year delay
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in making claim? The answer turned out to be interesting. Briefly, it
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involved a distraught woman who had neglected not only in the insurance but everything else
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in her life for two years, A woman obsessed with the idea she was
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a curse. Do you like soda? Water? Soda? Prise? Thanks,
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cheers, good luck. What's your name again, Johnny Dollar? Oh?
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Yes, that's right. Mister Fuchs introduced us to me. Do you
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think he'll be able to straighten out all my business affairs for me? Yes?
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I think so. Missus went over, including the insurance, including the
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insurance. Yes, you're worried about the claim, aren't you. Well,
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I'm paid to worry about it. I'm not so worried now as when I
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first came to Miami Beach. I think I understand why it took all this
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time for the claim to be filed. You mean you've met me, and
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you think I'm kind of, you know, not all there or something.
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Well, I suppose mister Fuchs explained how badly I've managed things for the last
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two years. He showed me how you've let your affairs go to the devil.
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If that's what you mean, I'm glad you finally turned it all over
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to him. I think he'll take care of it for you. I behaved
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rather badly in mister Fuchs's office, didn't I. Well, I wouldn't say
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that. Poor mister Fuchs. He was frightened. I think I don't know
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what it is really. I mean, he mentioned that you were in town
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investigate my claim on Noah's death. I felt I should talk to you.
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That's why I had him call you. I wanted to tell you about the
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curse. There's no such thing, you know, missus Wendover. I know,
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I know. I couldn't have been responsible for Dad's death. It was
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a heart attack many years ago. It was a whit school in New York,
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and Jim my brother being killed in Korea. I couldn't have had anything
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to do with that. And Noah, Oh, I loved him very much.
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I'm not cursed, am I. No, No, you certainly aren't.
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All of these deaths around you have been tragic, doubly so because you
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seem to have been very fond of the people. But you aren't responsible in
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any way. I like you. You're very nice. If you have any
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questions you want to ask me about Noah, I'd be glad to answer them,
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I really would. I'm all right now, really, I am well.
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When we left mister Fuch's office, you talked a lot about that.
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Yes, I'm ashamed. Were you still thinking of that when you spoke to
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me in the car? Did I speak to you in the car? Yes?
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You know, I can't remember riding in the car at all. I've
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been standing here talking to you, and I've been wondering all this time how
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we got here? Do you mind if I help myself? Oh? We
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drove over together from Hillary Fuch's office. I drove you here. Oh.
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Oh, some things I just blank out. I've talked to a psychiatrist,
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you know. I mean, I've been under treatment for several months. He
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says. I established a strong pattern when Noah died, shutting things out of
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just forcing my mind to become blank. He's trying to help me get over
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it. What did I say in the car? You said you were cursed
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and you wondered if he would die? Oh, dear, who's he?
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Teddy Teddy, Teddy Davis. I'm going to marry him. When he asks
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me, and I know he will. I love him very much. Well,
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why do you think Teddy might die because of people dying around me that
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I love? He doesn't believe in the curse, does he? Oh?
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No, he's something like you in a way. Nice. He makes me
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laugh at it. He says it's ridiculous, because it is. Somehow I
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feel comfident. Now, look, you marry this fellow in the minute he
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asks you, and forget about being cursed and everything else. He'll take care
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of you. I better go now, mister, Yes, thank you.
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I need sometimes very much to talk to someone like you. Thank you,
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Jay Dollar oricle On. Go out and marry so and so and live happily
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ever after. I like the little kiss she made me. I like the
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way she squeezed had I liked to perfume she was wearing. I liked the
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way the intense heart brightness had gone out of her black eyes. And she
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was just a nice woman being a woman. I liked all that. What
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I didn't like was the idea that she could be the other way, believing
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in the curse and believing she was somehow responsible for people dying. When I
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left her, I knew that part wasn't ended. I knew it would come
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back. Come on in, Dolly. I sort of stuck around, wondering
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if you'd come back here? How is she? She's okay now, Fuus.
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I'm sending in my report on this policy tonight. I'm recommending they honor
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it. I've got enough verification. Okay, that's fine. Sure, appreciate
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your help on this, Dolly. Let me buy your dinner. No,
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no thanks, I'm getting the first plane back to Hartford. Why not wait
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until tomorrow. You've got a reason, haven't you. Yeah, I guess
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so, Missus Wendover. Oh, I've met people like her before. Don't
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ask me where or when, but I've seen him. And there isn't anything
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to a curse. But trouble seems to follow them. Big trouble is practically
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finished. I just want to get out and get away. Can I use
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your office for about an hour? Sare tell yours dollar? I feel the
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same way. I spent half an hour typing up my report on the windoverclaim,
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in another ten minutes on the phone asking for an airplane back to Hartford.
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They said they'd call me right back, and I poured myself some of
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Fuchs whiskey and sat down to stare out at the knights. Lights burned up
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and down the white beach. People strolled up and down looking at the water,
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holding hands, and I was sitting alone in Hillary Fuch's office waiting for
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a phone call and thinking about a curse. Hi, Hi, who are
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you anybody else? Ey? Oh? Why you were kind of late?
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So do you what's in your mind? You costa and want to see you
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right away. I'm supposed to take you over, whoever costing it is.
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Tell him he doesn't want me. You don't tell saying things like that.
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You know, it's been a long time since I shook in my boots when
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a skinny hood like you stood around acting tough. If you've got some business
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with Hillary Fuchs, look him up at his home. This is fuchs office
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here behind his desk. You'll do Come on, missed, then don't show
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me how loud to say. If I have public account and can growl,
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I just might swing this thing on your head. That's better. You got
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a hat? No. I know Costigan wants to talk to you, but
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I you like the belt? You one just for the practice. I'm not
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Hillary Fuchs. Come on, let's go you're gonna make my eart. I'd
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like to just for the practice. Now. Then it's Constigan. Is he
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the one for Chicago? Sam's been there? Answer the Sam Costagan kicked out
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of Chicago a few years ago? What does he want to see? Fuchs
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about it? Hit the wind Over Dame? What something about the wind Over
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Dame? I don't know what it is. He just wants to see you.
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Okay, what's your name? Frank Skellen? Here? You put this
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thing in your pocket, pull it out again in front of me and I'll
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brain you. Now let's go. Huh Now I want to see Sam.
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Shoot sure, anything you say? I followed Frank Scannon out of the building
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to a waiting car, a black package with side curtains. It was a
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nice touch for this day and age. But it didn't make much sense.
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None of it did. It was illogical in the beginning, middle, and
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end. Most of all, I didn't make much sense. I should have
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been in my room packing instead. I was on my way to see an
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old time grifter and hoodlum named Sam Costigan because someone had mentioned the name Windover.
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You want to smoke? I used my own suit yourself, fellow Scannon
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was a thin one with sharp narrowed eyes. Too much patting on the shoulders,
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too much, stamped at the brim of his hat, too much point
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to the toe of his shoes. The thirty eight had taken away from him
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and handed back me in a considerable bulge in the front of his coat.
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About six miles out of Miami Beach, he turned off the main highway onto
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a dirt road about a mile of that, and up ahead we saw lights.
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The lights became a fine old colonial mansion. Every room aglow. Two
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or three guards were watching the entrance to the front. They all needed shaves.
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No one said anything. Yeah, it's me Phelly. Oh this serious,
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Hilary Fuchs say, Sam wants to see him my name? How are
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you feeling, mister Pheeley. What kinds of punks are on now days?
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I wouldn't give frisky with him, I follows you guys are a pretty touchy
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fella. So yeah, I just wait. Come on. He led me
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into the main foyer or a hatshit girl with a lot of red hair stood
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ready for the evening's business, which hadn't begun yet. On the right what
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had been the dining room of the old house, was now a circular bar
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that could see twenty five or thirty to the left, and what had been
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the parlor and library. I counted two crap tables to relet tables, and
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two black jack stands. Beyond all this in a screen porch of five piece
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combo made music. A few tables and head waiters stood around looking forard.
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Scanner led me upstairs. We stopped in front of a wide white door mark
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Private. I thought he was gonna knock, and Steady whirled around very quickly
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and stuck the same old thirty eight about two inches into my ribs. Now,
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let's stand Steady pel e. Heyay, you giving your trouble, Frankie,
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Nah, I will Buster. I'll give you plenty of trouble if you
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want it. Here all he talks to me, I'll crack him up a
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little for you if you like. Frankie. Nah, you got business with
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Sam right now. We'll take care of our business with him later on.
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However you say it, Frankie, I just wanted you to remember that I
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will the same way I remember a dirty newspaper story. You know something I'm
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looking forward to you. Now, here's our star to tell you about tomorrow's
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intriguing episode of this week's story. Tomorrow, there is a curse that goes
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with a wind over name goes forever. It is john Us. Won't you
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Yours Truly? Johnny Dollar? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey,
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is transcribed in Hollywood, written by John Dawson. It is produced and directed
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by Jack Johnstone. Be sure and join us tomorrow night at same time in
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station for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy Rowan speaking
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Welcome back, Well Johnny. I've never seen Johnny so eager to get out
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of town. I do also have an idea of where he's coming from.
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I don't get why he went ahead and gave the loaded gun back to the
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thuck. It seems like they could have emptied the gun and told him I'll
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give it to you after I see your boss. But that's just me.
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I don't have an action packed, expensive count, So we'll see how this
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works out. Join us on Wednesday for the next part in this series.
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Well, we do have some listener comments in feedback regarding john I'll go ahead
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and start out with William, who provides a thought on the silver Blue matter.
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William writes, I've really been enjoying the Silver Blue serial. One thing
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that bothers me about the story, though, is whoever does the voice of
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Lieutenant Garcia. He's attempt at Hispanic accent is horrible. It sounds more German
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than Hispanic. In fact, I'm certain I've heard this actor do German accents
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on other OTR programs. When I was listening to him interrogate the boy in
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episode four, I expected him to shout, tell us the formula, Okay,
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I probably not. My German accent is probably not any better than his
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Spanish accent, but it was not the best I've heard, but probably on
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par with most other attempts at Hispanic accent in old time radio without sounding two
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stereotypical. We also have an email from Paul says, I wonder if you've
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noticed a shift recently in Johnny Dollar script tiles style, specifically, episodes from
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about a month ago portrayed at Johnny Dollar, who was confident early in the
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show, even arrogant about who was the guilty party. It was sort of
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annoying the character browbeat suspects based on little evidence. The last few shows,
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for example, The Lonely hearts matter, Johnny Dollar was more ambivalent throughout the
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show until nearer the end. If this rings true, thoughts on reasons for
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the differences in style, It's tough to say. I will admit now that
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you mention it, that he hasn't gone on gone off in the same in
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the same way as he did at the start. The only big difference I've
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noted here is that towards the beginning there was more scripts that were adapted from
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E Jack Human thirty minute scripts. Though why that would lead to Johnny coming
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off as arrogant or just too sure of himself without any evidence, I'm not
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certain, because I've listened to many of these same E Jack Newman stories and
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you don't get that from you don't get that from most of these stories.
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This may have been a directive from Jack Johnstone. We'll have to see.
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Probably the best way to tell is if we see a series that does have
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him, or we start seeing a series of programs where he does start getting
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overly sure early on, That'll probably be more indicative as to what change may
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have occurred. I'd assume if it's something that's more or less permanent, that
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it was some directive from from Jack Johnson Stone, the producer and director,
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rather than anything specifically from the writers, but we'll see comment from iTunes review
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by biggest RCP fan. I know Adam likes to hear about younger listeners.
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I'm nineteen and listen to this daily. I've been a fan of the early
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hard boiled crime noir detective writers like Hammett and Chandler for a while now,
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but since I started college, I haven't had time to read extra books unrelated
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to school. This way, I will still fit in my fix of crime
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noir while doing dishes, but I'm almost caught up, not looking forward to
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having to wait for new episodes. I only listen to the Bob Bailey one,
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so I might have to check out the other ones. Also, speaking
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of crime noir, they steal from Hammon and Chandler, as well as film
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war movies in these all the time. The first Bob Bailey was almost the
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same story as Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely and Episode ten eighty nine steals chapter
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two of Hamlet's Red Harvest. Everything from rich and powerful, bedridden old man
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to the physical description of the assistant a threat to throw the detective out.
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The assistant knowing he's not strong enough to do so everything. Also, I'm
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a composer studying film scoring, and the music is fantastic. It's so great.
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The main theme is very dramatic, and there's lots of other great cues
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throughout, like the dreamy chromatic clarinet theme example in episode ten eighty nine at
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twenty two thirty. Keep it up, Adam, such high quality entertainment.
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I hope it never ends well. Thanks so much for the comments. A
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lot to talk about there. First of all, if you're really into hard
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boiled detectives and you've run out of this, there are two things I would
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definitely encourage you to take a listen to. First would be the Edmund O'Brien
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programs. O'Brien definitely very hard boiled, and you can enjoy all those episodes
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at Archives. Dont great detectives done at particularly the first couple ones. In
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addition, I would also call out Rogue's Gallery, Candy Mattson The Fat Man,
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Pete Kelly's Blues and Ideal and Crime to meet your hard boiled needs.
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I'd also recommend Pat Novak for hire, but we're going to be doing that
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on the main show. In a few months. Anyway, in regards to
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Chandler and Hammett, it's no doubt I wouldn't say that they necessary that they
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necessarily stole from Chandler and Hammett, what with some exceptions. I mean,
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we had one episode we played of Cases of Mister Ace where they just out
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and out ripped off the Maltese falcon. But you know, we're all influenced
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by those who have come before us, and certainly they inspired quite a bit.
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I think I could definitely see how the McCormick matter drew on Chandler's work,
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even though it went in a few different directions. And yeah, the
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music is great on this show. It was not quite as good in the
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previous incarnations of Johnny Dollar, but this theme is just it's just great.
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So thanks so much for listening, and I appreciate you being out there and
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all the best with your studies. All right, Well, that will do
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it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with the final American episode of the
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Amazing Mister Malone, and then we'll be back on Wednesday with the next part
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