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Nick Carter: The Case of the Nameless Blonde (EP1632) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: today's episode of Nick Carter. We do have three weeks
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  Speaker 1: worth of lost episodes, so today's program actually comes from
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  Speaker 1: May to ninth, nineteen forty eight, and the title is
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  Speaker 1: the Case of the Nameless Blonde.
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  Speaker 2: War.
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  Speaker 3: Old Dutch Cleanser, Famous for Chasing Dirk presents.
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  Speaker 4: Nick Carter, Famous for Chasing Crime.
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  Speaker 3: Every week at this time, two great names are joined
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  Speaker 3: as new post War Old Dutch Cleanser brings you one
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  Speaker 3: of the most resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction,
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  Speaker 3: Nick Carter, Master Detective.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Nick had only come. He's ten minutes late.
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  Speaker 4: Now I want to see him just as much as
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  Speaker 4: you do, Patsy. I sure hope he can tell us
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  Speaker 4: what we want to know.
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  Speaker 5: Twelve hours on this case and we don't even know
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  Speaker 5: the victim's name.
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  Speaker 4: That's true, Patsy.
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  Speaker 6: Fright scratch, Nick?
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  Speaker 5: Is he did?
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  Speaker 3: They?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Patsy, they did. He'll never tell us anything now
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  Speaker 4: he's dead now.
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  Speaker 3: The Case of the Nameless Blonde Today's Exciting Adventures starring
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  Speaker 3: Long Clark as Nick Carter, rough to you by new
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  Speaker 3: post war Old Dunge Cleanser. As our story opens, Nick
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  Speaker 3: has just returned to his office from lunch. Finding no
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  Speaker 3: one in the reception room, he makes his way back
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  Speaker 3: to the laboratory, where Patsy Bowen greets him.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Nick, you have a visitor in your office.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: He came right after you left, A very attractive blonde.
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  Speaker 4: I who is she?
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  Speaker 5: She wouldn't give me her name.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, let's see what she wants. Well, Mick, why she
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  Speaker 4: isn't here?
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  Speaker 5: Nick, Look behind your desk, Christ Scott.
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  Speaker 4: Have a look This woman hasn't fainted, Patsy, She's dead.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the story on your mysterious blond. Nick. Medical
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  Speaker 4: examiner finished his autopsy about ten minutes ago. So her
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  Speaker 4: death wasn't from natural causes, not with that much poison
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  Speaker 4: in it. Huh. We don't even know who she was.
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  Speaker 4: There was nothing on her to identify her. Well, I
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  Speaker 4: let the newspaper photographers take her picture. Edition should be
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  Speaker 4: on the streets by now, have you seen them now?
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  Speaker 4: Patsy's not getting the papers now, uh huh. Well, somebody
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  Speaker 4: may be able to identify her. I'll let you know
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  Speaker 4: if anything develops. Okay, Maddie, thanks for calling. Man.
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  Speaker 5: Her picture's on the front page of all the papers. Nick,
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  Speaker 5: let me see what the sergeant have to say, just.
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  Speaker 4: That our nameless blonde was poisoned.
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  Speaker 5: Poison.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, she was fed arsenic three hours before she died.
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  Speaker 3: Nick.
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  Speaker 5: I thought arsenic resulted in violent death, but she looked
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  Speaker 5: more than she suffered a heart attack.
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  Speaker 4: Or sometimes it access way.
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  Speaker 5: Then she just came in here and toppled over without
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  Speaker 5: uttering a sound.
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  Speaker 4: That's why you didn't hear it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, and I guess they'll straightened up this office. The
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  Speaker 5: sergeant's men certainly made a mess of your desk. You'd
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  Speaker 5: think they'd Nick, h what is it? These aren't your keys?
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  Speaker 5: Are they?
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  Speaker 4: Let me see? I know I never saw them before.
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  Speaker 5: And they must belong to that woman. She was sitting
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  Speaker 5: here before she died.
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  Speaker 4: And oh look here, Oh what is it? Has a
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  Speaker 4: name printed here on the case. The keys are in.
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  Speaker 4: Oh it's almost worn off.
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  Speaker 5: But don't you make it up?
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  Speaker 4: Nick just simeon Grander?
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  Speaker 5: Grander? Yeah, well that's an odd name, is that all
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  Speaker 5: it says?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just to name how many the city directory? William?
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  Speaker 5: Yep, see it.
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  Speaker 4: No, let's see what we can find, and we are
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  Speaker 4: gee grimly grimm Uh, there's no Grenander at all.
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  Speaker 5: Oh then we oh, I'll get it.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Nick Carter speaking Nick, This is Maddy again. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we got a nibble on that picture in the paper.
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  Speaker 4: You mean somebody identified her? No, but a cab driver
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  Speaker 4: just came into my office, he says he recognizes her.
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  Speaker 4: Is a fair he picked up downtown yesterday. Good. He
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  Speaker 4: took her out on Lafayette Road. Laffayette Road, Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 4: a pretty swank neighborhood. Yeah, I'll say how the street
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  Speaker 4: number was seventeen twenty seventeen twenty. Yeah, I'm on my
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  Speaker 4: way up there now, Patsy, and I'll meet you that
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  Speaker 4: twenty minutes. Here I am over here, Nick, Okay, Maddy hidagain?
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  Speaker 4: Oh hi, I see, Well this is the place neck.
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  Speaker 4: I thought i'd wait for you two before I did
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  Speaker 4: any investigating.
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  Speaker 5: See, the house is completely dark.
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  Speaker 4: Don't look like anyone's whom not the friendliest place I've
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  Speaker 4: ever seen. Bring the belt on your money, right, there.
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  Speaker 7: Is no use trying to get in right where you are.
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  Speaker 7: Don't try anything because I have a gun.
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  Speaker 4: Hell, look, who are you? Who are you? And what
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  Speaker 4: are you doing?
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  Speaker 7: Trespassing on private property?
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  Speaker 4: Will you happen to be the police?
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  Speaker 6: Mister the police?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, Now who are you?
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  Speaker 6: I am the care taker.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Weba.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody home here?
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  Speaker 7: No, there's no one living in the house now, hasn't
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  Speaker 7: been since the funeral?
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  Speaker 4: Funeral? Whose funeral?
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  Speaker 7: Mister Stokes? He died just last week? He lived here alone?
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  Speaker 5: Do you mean Mordern Stokes of Stokes in Winick at
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  Speaker 5: the big real estate company.
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  Speaker 6: Let's right?
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  Speaker 4: Are you here all day yesterday? Webber? Sure, I'm here
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  Speaker 4: all the time day and nine? Maybe you can tell
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  Speaker 4: us the name of the visitor you had yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: Visitor.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, I I did not have any visitors yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: We know a woman came to this house in a
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  Speaker 4: taxi cab late last evening. Now who was it?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? Crazy, No woman came here.
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  Speaker 4: The cab driver says. He led her around here and
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  Speaker 4: she walked up the steps before he drove off. That
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  Speaker 4: is not so. Who's Simon Canander?
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  Speaker 7: Simon Cananda? I have never heard of anyone by that name.
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  Speaker 4: All right, you have the authority let us in this house.
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  Speaker 6: No, I cannot do that.
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  Speaker 7: You would have to see mister Stokes partner, mister Whittaker.
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  Speaker 7: He is the only one who could let you in. Why,
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  Speaker 7: mister Whittaker, because he is in charge of this property.
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  Speaker 4: Now okay, yes, that means we drop in on mister Whittaker.
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  Speaker 4: Well you go ahead, Nick, I gotta get back the headquarters.
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  Speaker 4: See you later than marry. Okay, come on passing of course,
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  Speaker 4: mister Carter. You can get into the Stokes so many
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  Speaker 4: time you want. Thanks mister Whittaker. However, I doubt that
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  Speaker 4: it will throw any light on this mysterious woman you've
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  Speaker 4: been telling me aboun.
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  Speaker 5: Well, why do you say that, mister Whittaker.
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  Speaker 4: Because miss Boonene, it's hard for me to believe that
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  Speaker 4: Marvin Stokes had any dealings with a woman. Oh, he
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  Speaker 4: and I were partners for twenty years, mister Carter, and
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  Speaker 4: in all that time he had no interest in women
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  Speaker 4: at all. In fact, he was woman shy was an
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  Speaker 4: obsession with him.
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  Speaker 5: But this gets screwlier and screwier.
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  Speaker 4: Nick.
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  Speaker 5: The only thing we're sure of about that woman is
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  Speaker 5: that she went to Stokes's house, and now we find
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  Speaker 5: that she had no reason to go there, and that
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  Speaker 5: nobody saw when.
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  Speaker 4: She got there rather away, mister Whittaker, does the name
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  Speaker 4: of Gernander meant anything to you, Simon Bernander? No, No,
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  Speaker 4: I've never heard the name before the best of my records.
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  Speaker 4: Excuse me. Hello, there's this Sergeant Mathison, the homicide snack
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  Speaker 4: Carter there, Yes, that's the moment with thanks Hello, Nick, Maddy,
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  Speaker 4: we're got another bike on that newspaper picture. H A
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  Speaker 4: guy named McIntire just called to say he thinks he
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  Speaker 4: can identify the name. Say his name's McIntire, Captain Ernest
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  Speaker 4: McIntyre meeting him at the Morgan twenty minutes. Okay, Maddie,
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  Speaker 4: we'll get over there right away. Oh, what the devil's
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  Speaker 4: keeping that guy? He's fifteen minutes late already.
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  Speaker 5: Taking easy, Sergeant, he'll be here.
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  Speaker 4: You have any idea who this Captain McIntyre? Oh he
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  Speaker 4: just said he was a retired sea captain. I asked him.
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  Speaker 4: What's we spoke? Folks were shots and they're right outside.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, come on right.
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  Speaker 7: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Look a man line Day has been shot. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Killer must be in a car that just pulled.
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  Speaker 4: Away, Nicky. The only way I could get out of
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  Speaker 4: here so fast. Well, we're we're blessed. This guy did
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  Speaker 4: a good job.
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  Speaker 6: He's dead.
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  Speaker 5: Nick, Do you think this is Captain McIntyre?
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  Speaker 4: Wait? Do I see whether there's any identification on him? Yeah? Hey,
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  Speaker 4: what's that, Nick, Bailford?
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  Speaker 5: Find anything you know?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's Captain McIntyre. All right, Well, how do you
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  Speaker 4: like that for a lousy break? Well, now we know
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  Speaker 4: somebody determined to keep us from identifying that woman, so determined,
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  Speaker 4: in fact, they'll even commit murder to do it, and
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  Speaker 4: soul once again, Nick is frustrated and his desire to
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  Speaker 4: learn the identity of the nameless blonde. We'll see what
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  Speaker 4: happens next in just a minute. And now back to
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  Speaker 4: the Case of the Nameless Blonde. The day's adventure with Nick.
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  Speaker 3: Carter brought to you by new postwar old Dutch cleanser.
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  Speaker 3: As we pick up our story, two hours have passed
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  Speaker 3: since the death of Captain McIntyre, the man who promised
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  Speaker 3: to identify the mysterious woman Nick found murdered in his office. Now,
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  Speaker 3: in the bright moonlight, Nick, Patsy and Sergeant Madison approach
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  Speaker 3: a small waterfront shatty.
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  Speaker 4: The next shack down the beach would be the one
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  Speaker 4: where McIntyre lived. If what do you expect to find
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  Speaker 4: in the capital, Sherry, Nick, that's just a chance married
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  Speaker 4: that McIntire had something in his possession that'll tell us
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  Speaker 4: what he himself would have told us if he'd lived,
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  Speaker 4: Like what the.
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  Speaker 5: Dead woman's name was? I'm the poisoner.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the key to a death must be your name. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 4: why would somebody be sadan anxious to keep it from
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  Speaker 4: learning what it was? Well, that makes sense, but oh, oh,
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  Speaker 4: that's my entire shack over there. There's somebody in it.
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  Speaker 5: Like, yes, the lights are on, it looks as though
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  Speaker 5: somebody's moving around inside.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, we gotta hurry.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, hey, the lights went out.
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  Speaker 4: Better watch it. It make swell targets in this moonlight.
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  Speaker 4: Get down, Patsy, put this hand. Whoever's in that shack
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  Speaker 4: spotted us and doesn't want us to spot him.
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  Speaker 6: Eh, he's staying in the shadows.
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  Speaker 4: Nick must have gone running behind the shack. I'm going
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  Speaker 4: the hold him. Many what, I have a feeling those
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  Speaker 4: shots were meant to cover a getaway. There's no use
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  Speaker 4: trying to catch him now.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I guess you're right.
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  Speaker 4: Nick.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I hope we're gonna take a look in that.
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  Speaker 4: Check you bet we are. Watch your step, Patsy. I'm okay, okay,
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  Speaker 4: care for now, Go and open the door. Keep your
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  Speaker 4: gun ready. Many, Uh, don't worry, it's open.
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  Speaker 5: Oh gee, it's dark and here, can you find a light?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe there's a sweach by the dark. Yeah, here we are.
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  Speaker 5: Oh boy, I look at this place.
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  Speaker 4: Looks like a cyclone hit it. I expected something like this. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: If we're right in thinking that McIntyre was killed to
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  Speaker 4: stop him from telling us who the woman was, then
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  Speaker 4: the murderer was pretty sure to have the same idea
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  Speaker 4: we have.
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  Speaker 5: Certainly he's come here to look for evidence that might
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  Speaker 5: help us to identify her, and it was probably the.
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  Speaker 6: Murderer who took that pot shot at us.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's someone on the porch.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, you guys, what's going on here? Take it easy, brother,
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  Speaker 4: This thing in my hand ain't no water pistol? WHI
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  Speaker 4: the police?
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  Speaker 6: Police?
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: What's the idea of turner? Join a part?
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  Speaker 4: What's that to you?
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  Speaker 6: It so happens. I bunk here, Copper.
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  Speaker 4: Thought this was Captain McIntyre Shack.
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  Speaker 6: It is him and me. We live here together. I
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  Speaker 6: was Mac's first mate before he quit shipping out.
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  Speaker 4: What's your name?
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  Speaker 6: Gunsare?
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  Speaker 4: Oh uh huh, Well you better start looking for a
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  Speaker 4: new roommate, Gunther. Captain McIntyre's dead. Of course, you wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: know anything about that. No, I wouldn't or about that
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  Speaker 4: woman he was going to identify when he was murdered.
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  Speaker 6: You mean somebody bumped back off?
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: Well I'll be done.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, you don't seem exactly broken up about it?
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  Speaker 4: Where you want me to do?
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  Speaker 6: Sister? Bust out and cry we're all gotta die sometime.
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  Speaker 4: I gun there. You ever hear a man named Simon
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  Speaker 4: Grenander Simon, Well, it looks like he has Nick no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 4: don't mean nothing to me. What do you do for
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  Speaker 4: a living?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 6: Gunther me? Who else? I'm working on a private yard.
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  Speaker 6: It's owned by a guy named Whittaker.
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  Speaker 5: Whittaker.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, what's wrong with that?
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  Speaker 4: Not a thing good?
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  Speaker 6: Anybody got an objections? If I fill my pipe?
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  Speaker 4: Not at all? Go right ahead?
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  Speaker 6: Thank you?
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  Speaker 4: Very expensive humor? Are you keeping tobacco in?
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  Speaker 6: That's mine?
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  Speaker 4: It's smacksy? I see it a minute, Gunter.
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  Speaker 6: I can't stop, you can? I?
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, what is it?
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  Speaker 5: Nick?
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  Speaker 4: It's a very interesting inscription on the lid of this
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  Speaker 4: human dog. Yeah, that wasn't saying. Nick. June nineteen thirty
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  Speaker 4: eight to Captain Ernest McIntyre, with deepest gratitude from Marvin Stokes.
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  Speaker 4: You say we can get in the Stokes house this time? Nick, Yes, Perry,
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  Speaker 4: I called Winnaker's home. His sister Elizabeth said she'd meet
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  Speaker 4: us there and let us in.
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  Speaker 5: Well, why do you think that'll get you?
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  Speaker 3: Nick?
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  Speaker 4: I love Pansy. Two people have been murdered and the
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  Speaker 4: only link between them is that somehow they were connected
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  Speaker 4: with Marvin Stokes. I know one thing. I hope I
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  Speaker 4: can find something in Stoke's personal papers to tell us
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  Speaker 4: what kind of paper Captain McIntyre did form ten years ago. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and maybe we can find out why the woman who
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  Speaker 4: died in your office went to his house there, for
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: he was dead, I hope. So the answers to those
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  Speaker 4: questions would tell not who the woman was and why
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  Speaker 4: she was murdered.
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  Speaker 5: Do you find anything as interesting, mister Stokes corresponding.
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  Speaker 4: No, not yet, my dre. But not even halfway through yet?
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  Speaker 4: Where the starting I have to find? Webber said he
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  Speaker 4: was going to see.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, okay, Webber get in there.
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  Speaker 5: And it sounds is though he found him.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I finally got the truth out of this guy, Nick.
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  Speaker 4: He was lying, all right, he was. Yes, the dame
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  Speaker 4: who died in your office was here in this house. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: who was he? Webber?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know her name.
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  Speaker 6: She did not tell me.
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  Speaker 4: Why did you lie about her being here?
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  Speaker 7: I had orders not to let anybody in. She gave
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  Speaker 7: me twenty dollars to forget them.
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  Speaker 4: And whether you take the bribe, and then we're afraid
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  Speaker 4: to admit it?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I was afraid mister Riddeker would fire me.
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  Speaker 5: Snake. Look what I found?
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  Speaker 4: Let's see? Well, well, what is it Dick. Is that
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  Speaker 4: woman in this photograph, Matty, Holy smoke, it's the blonde
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  Speaker 4: that died in your office and listened to what's written
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  Speaker 4: on the bottom Marvin from Marjorie with all my love always? No, No,
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  Speaker 4: what's the matter you know this woman?
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  Speaker 5: No before? Sit down here, Miss Whittaker, Hey.
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  Speaker 4: What's eating hurt? Really? You better tell us the truth?
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  Speaker 4: Miss Whittaker, I.
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  Speaker 5: Don't want to talk about it.
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  Speaker 4: You say you never saw this woman before, and yet
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  Speaker 4: a picture of her almost makes you faint? Why?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I always sustake that there was another woman. That's
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  Speaker 5: why Marvin wouldn't marry me.
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  Speaker 4: What.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I love Marvin Stokes. I loved him for you,
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  Speaker 5: but there was something standing between us. No, I know
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  Speaker 5: it was.
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  Speaker 4: And it also gives you a pretty good motor for poisoning,
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: Miss Whittaker.
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  Speaker 5: Poisoner. Yeah, and if it said I never had.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Eyes on her, how could there be a woman in
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  Speaker 4: stokes life that neither you nor your brother knew wan
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  Speaker 4: thing about?
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  Speaker 5: There's only one answer to that, mister Katta.
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  Speaker 6: He must have met it the year he spent abroad abroad?
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  Speaker 4: What year was that he went to Europe?
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  Speaker 5: In the summer of nineteen thirty eight.
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  Speaker 4: No, this is beginning right up. Hey, Patsy, give me
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  Speaker 4: the Stokes papers for nineteen thirty eight.
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  Speaker 5: Uh huh seven yep, nineteen thirty eight. Thanks, here they are.
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  Speaker 4: Nick, let's see alright, man, yum, Hey, what's this? What'd
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: you find? Nick? Cablegram center Stokes signed by Alfonse de Grasse,
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  Speaker 4: manager of the Hotel Louis Coutt.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: That's the hotel where Marvin always takes when it is
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  Speaker 5: in Paris.
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  Speaker 4: Congratulations. Reservations changed as requested, and it's addressed the Stokes
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  Speaker 4: on the S. S. Simon Grenander. Simon Grenander. Hey, Nick,
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: that's the name that's on the dead woman's key case.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: Well, I'll be done. It's not a man at all
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  Speaker 5: at the ship.
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  Speaker 6: Oh brother, No, this case is more balled up than ever.
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  Speaker 4: Not at all, Maddie, not at all. I'd say it's
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: beginning to clear up quite nicely. Nick.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: If you really know who the murderer is, why the
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: dickens don't we go get him instead of sitting around
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  Speaker 5: the office waiting.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: We're waiting for Maddie to track down the.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: Proof, meaning the log of the S. S. Simon Grenander.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's going to call us from the Harbourmaster's office.
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: What do you expect to find in the log?
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: All, look, Bessy, we know the ten years ago, in
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: nineteen thirty eight, a ship's captain named McIntyre performed some
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: sort of service for Martin Stokes, something that Stokes was
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: grateful for.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: Right, yes, But we.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Also know that Stokes met a woman named Marjorie in
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: nineteen thirty eight and that she was love with him.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: But no on so what remember what the cable Graham said?
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: Of course congratulations, reservations change is requested?
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Right now? Why would a hotel manager cable Stokes's congratulations
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: and why would Stokes want his reservation change?
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: She's think, what's one of the functions of a captain
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: on a ship at sea.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: One of the why he can marry people? And that's
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: why the congratulations and catching on.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: In other words, I believe captain McIntyre married Marvin Stokes
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: to this Marjorie, whoever she was.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: But can you prove it?
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: I hope I can, and I think the log of
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: the Simon Bernandro will bear me out if we can
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  Speaker 4: find it.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Marjorie and Stokes must have separated. We know she didn't
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: come back to.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: America with him, badly not. But now after Stokes is dead,
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: this Marjorie suddenly bobs up. Now, who's the one person
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: who'd be most anxious to get rid of her?
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: You tell me of this?
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Marjorie could have proved that she was Stokes' legal wife.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: She'd have had a claim to was a state. No
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: matter what kind of a will.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: He left, I get it, whoever inherited Stokes's property would
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: have had to get rid of her or lose his
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: inheritance right, and Thomas Whittaker was the sole heir to
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: Stokes as a state.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: That's what the will says.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Then then with aka is the murderer? I believe he is, Well,
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: I'll be done.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Of course, it's still just a theory. There's no record
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: of the marriage and the log of the SS Bernanda.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: Then oh that the target?
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Now Nick Carter speaking, it's Maddy Nick, Yes, yes, guerinand
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: there was jumped a couple of years ago. What don't
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: tell me the logs lost? Maddy? No, no, no, I
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: just spoke to the manager of the steamship coming to
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: own it. He says. All the ship's papers are stored
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: in the warehouse on Pier thirty two, and he got
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: the log for us. He says, you'll give me the
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: key to the warehouse, so I'll pick it up and
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: meet you there. Huh. Okay, Maddie. Here thirty two fifteen
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: minutes and the warehouse is down.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: This way, Nick boy, this young sog is rolling in.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: I can't see a dumb.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Thing hold on of my arm. Hey, you're pretty sure
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: whitakers are man? Huh? They all adds up that way, Maddie.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Of course I can't sweat to it, but I said
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: I can against the walk quick? Can you see anim
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: with Nick? No? Dog's too heavy. He got a gun, Maddie, Yeah,
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: I got it all, wife. What am I gonna do
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: with it? When you can't see what you're going to?
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: Nicky? Someone's running till the end of the dog.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: You see your shadow stop or our shuit? Okay, if
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: that's what you want.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Patty, I think you're drunk. Yeah, come on, do you
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: think it's witt Nick? There? He's right it should be.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: He came down here after the log too, with a
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: nice piece of evidence he had to dispose of all
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: right here he is your dead many, oh blass? Yes,
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: I didn't want to kill him. Oh crack this fog, Nick,
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Look what isn't pay.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: This isn't Thomas Whittaker, but no, it's Captain Nacintire's first mate,
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: Al Gunher.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Bewildered, Nick, Patsy and Matty stare down at the body
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: on the dock. Does this mean that Nick's deductions were wrong?
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: That it was Gunther and not Thomas Whittaker who committed
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: the murders. We'll bring you the conclusion of this adventure
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: in just a minute. Now, for the conclusion of the
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Case of the Nameless Blonde. Today's adventure with Nick Carter,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: brought to you by new post war old Dutch cleanser.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Standing in the ghostly glow of a small electric lantern
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: on a log shrouded duck, Nick, Patsy and Matty stare
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: down at the man who has just died, surprised to
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: learn that it is not, as Nick had predicted, Thomas Whittaker.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: Me this means Whittaker wa was a killer. It must
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: have been this man.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Gunter as he's right, Nick, looks like your big theory
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: kind of blew up your face. Maybe, Maddy, and then
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: again maybe not. Well, take a look at Gunther's body.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: It'll be shot once in the head.
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: So what I fired three times?
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Two of my shots missed one did he? Sorry? Maddy?
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: But all three of yours, Miss paw at Hill. Gunter
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: wasn't fired from your gun, now, Nick, your guy has
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: a forty five police automatic. A wound in his head
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: was obviously made by a gun of a much smaller caliber.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Holy smoked, Dick, you're rife, which means that Gunter was
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: the goat for somebody else. We're down here with the
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: murderer and the murderer him hoping we'd think we'd caught
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: our man, and that.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: Means the murder is still somewhere on this dock.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Right, and that's too far away from that's Whittaker, Nick,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I know his voice.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, wherever he is, I can't see him because of
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: miss darn Pam.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: I can see you, plainly, Carter, under that life hands all.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Of it wis he says, So he's already killed three
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: people to protect his interest in Marvin Stokes's estate.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: So you're figuring it all out, did your Carter? I'm
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: sure you agree that I had no choice once I
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: learned that Marvin.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Was married and Martinie law Yes, and once she threatened
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: to prove that fact by hiring me to finally the
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Captain McIntyre the log of the Simon Bernander.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: But he made the mistake of paying a call on
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: before she went to your office.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: I treated her well, In fact, I gave her a
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: couple of calls with Arson Akennett. Unfortunately, game and then
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: when you heard that McIntyre was going to meet us
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: at the Morgue, you ambushed him outside and shot him
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: before he could tell his story.
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: Right again, just as I'm going to shoot you.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: I don't think so, Whittaker. He told us to raise
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: our hands, but you forgot to say anything thing about
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: dropping our gun.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Nice work, Nick, shooting out at life.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: We can't see Yes any better than we can see him.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: They trying to get a ruse. You can see it.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Slowey, stop, Whittinger, stop for us, Like what took you
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: so long?
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I had to stay at the hospital. While Whittaker made
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: a statement, Oh what do he say? Everything was pretty
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: much the way we figured it. Passy we well you
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: know what I mean. Audreie Lawson, Mardorie Stokes, I should say,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: arrived from London last week. You've been living there ever
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: since she left her husband.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Why did you leave him?
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: From what Whitaker said, they came from different social levels.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Stokes was wealthy and she was a shop girl. Apparently
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: after the honeymoon was over, he was ashamed of it.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Well that's a fine thing, wri.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: They broke up only a few months after they were married.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: And that must see why Stokes never mentioned the marriage.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I suppose so. And the only proof Marjorie had
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: of that marriage was in that ship's log.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: No marriage certificate.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Oh, Whittaker says. She told him all her papers were
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: destroyed in the London blitz during the war.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: Oh, what a break, wasn't it.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: She was probably looking for some kind of proof and
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: Strokes papers the night she bribed Weber to let her in.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Uh huh.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: But she didn't find it, so she came to see me.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: It don't makes sense, Nick, that is except for gun
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: So where did he fit in the picture?
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Why you put him in the picture, Betsy? I did
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: by your reaction when he said he worked for Whittaker,
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: But it made him curious. He went straight to Whittaker
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: tonight to find out what it was all about.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: Uh huh. And Whittaker persuaded him to help him find.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: The log book, so it seems.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: But how about Whitticker? Nick? Was he badly hurt?
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Mattie's what got him in the right leg? I think
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: he'll be up and around in time to go on
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: the last walk he'll ever take?
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Well, Nick, what about the adventure new post war old
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Dutch Clem's is going to bring us next week?
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Mike, It's one of my most unusual cases about a
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: man who prayed people to death. Prayed them to death?
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Did they really die? I'll say they did?
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: And before it was all over, Mike, this man started
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: praying for Nick to die.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Well. I guess a lot of criminals that felt the
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: same way about Nick.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: What do you call the story, Nick? I call it
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: a case and a salesman of death.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Nick Carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
• 26:42
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• 26:45
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• 26:48
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• 26:52
  Speaker 3: ed Latimer plays Matty. Today's script was written by Ken
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Pettis and Louis Goofield. Original music is played by Henry Silvern.
• 27:00
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• 27:03
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• 27:07
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• 27:11
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• 27:16
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• 27:20
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• 27:23
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• 27:28
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• 27:31
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  Speaker 1: This is Andrew J.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Graham, author of The Words and a Man of His Wife.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: You're listening to the great detectives of Old time Radio.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, definitely a good, solid, challenging mystery for
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Nick to solve. By the way, those lost episodes, the
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Case of the Black Magic Murder, the Case of the
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Fetal Redhead, in the Case of the Supercharged Corpse. Well,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: we turn now to listener comments from Twitter and cynecal
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Omleteer writes, one thing I've learned from listening to your podcast,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Nick Carter will get himself out of any seller people
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: try to kill him in.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: It's true of not only sellers, but a wide variety
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: of location. He's the master of putting himself and whoever
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: is with him in harm's way and then getting himself
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: out of the situation. It's a good trick to know.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I guess all right, Well, that will do it for today.
• 29:02
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• 29:06
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