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Nick Carter: Death in the Pool (EP1176) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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can support the show at support dot Great Factors dot net. Well, now
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it's time for today's episode of Nick Carter Death in the Pool. What's the
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matter? What is it? Is? Not a case for Nick Carter,
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now for today's mysterious adventure with Nick Carter. As our story opens, Nick
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and Patsy, his assistant, are driving home a girl who is not feeling
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well. Where does she live, Patsy? In the gray Barr apartments?
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Nick, it's the one with a big lily pool in the court. Oh,
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that one. She would live in a place like that. I'll show
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nothing else. Just like Sally, I wish you wouldn't talk that way about
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her, Nick, she used to be one of my best friends years ago.
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Well, she's no friend of mine. I have no use for girls
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to drink the way she does. She's had a lot of trouble recently,
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Nick, and she just drinks to make herself forget. Her husband divorced her
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about a year ago just because she went out on a few parties he didn't
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approve of. She's been alone ever since, Honny. You standing up for
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her, Patsy. Usually you'd be the first to condemn anyone who plays around
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the way I understand she does. All right, Nick, think would you
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like? Just as long as we get her home to her apartment so I
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can put it a bit, who's going to bed? Evan's young yet,
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let's go somewhere. The only place you're going, young lady is home to
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bed. Who's that? I don't know him? Oh? Yes, you
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do, Sally. That's Nick Carter, the man I work. We've never
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heard of him. It's the place just ahead, Patsy. Yeah, stop
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at this first entrance. She lives on this side. Okay, got come
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on, Sally, this is where you live. I'll get out first and
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give you a hand. Let out, miscella. Don't need a hand,
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and take care of myself. I want me to go up with you.
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No, Nick, you wait here. She'll be all right, all right,
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But don't let her keep you up there all night. I won't.
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Oh, I better go after us. You're falling the lily pool if she's
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not careful. Yeah, she's getting pretty close to the edge of it.
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Here. Man, he's dead. That's Raley over here by the edge of
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the pool. Patty formed me that she found a man's body in the pool.
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John goes. He flash your life this way, Rally? Okay?
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Oh he small snick look in his back. Yes, a knife right between
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the shoulder blade. Did you find a buddy, Nick? Not exactly?
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Does Patsy's girlfriend have found it? Really? What's your name? Sally Reeves?
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Where is she now? Oh? Patsy's putting in her bed. She
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lives in this house. She's well slightly under the weather. She happened to
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find him. Oh, Patsy and I were the small friendly gathering, having
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a quiet evening, and then she walked in, got well lit up and
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wrecked the party. Patsy wanted to bring her home, so we did.
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She went by the pool. She started screaming, I came over here and
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found on this. Ever, look at him, Nick, that's Arthur Reeves.
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What that's Sally Reeves? Hate husband? And you say she found him?
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That's right, very interesting. Maybe she's found him because she knew just
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where to look for him. And Tenant Riley seems to think Sally did it
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herself. He's a dope. Well, you said she's hated her husband ever
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since she divorced her, Patsy, maybe she did kill him. Oh,
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Nick, Well, she certainly acted guilly enough when they questioned her. That
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doesn't mean anything, and you know it, maybe maybe not. Well,
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Riley'll find out. Oh, Nick, you can't leave it to Riley.
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That's certainly what I'm going to do. This is not a by affair,
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Nick Carter. You've got to make it your affair. No, Patsy,
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but I'm not going to see Sally put in jail for something she didn't do.
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You've got to help her, Nick, and why because I ask you
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to? That's why. See? Oh Nick, will you do it?
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I suppose I'll have to if you put it that way. Oh Nick,
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I knew you would, but it's against my better judgment. I don't care
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why you do it, just as long as you do it. Now,
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where do we start? I guess the best thing is to go down and
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see Rally in the morning, find out just how the case against her stacks
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up so far, and we'll see where we go from there. Good morning,
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Nick, and Patsy. Lieutenant, have you let Sally out of jail
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yet? Let her out? I should say not, Patsy. She's in
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for good the way it looks now, she did it all right, Raley?
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Do you mind telling us just what the case is against her so far?
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No? Mind it talk? Who would you say? Do you on
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in this name? I'm on the side of the law, just as I
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always am. You know me well enough of that by now? Well?
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Here it is. Reeves was Sally's ex husband. He'd divorced her for seeing
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too much of other guys, and she he hated a party in spite of
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the five hundred bucks a month alimony he was painted or supposed to be paid.
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She said he hadn't paid her anything for the last three months. Exactly.
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You've proven my case for me, Patchy. Now, Reeves's partner tells
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me that Reeves was having a tough time making both ends meet, and that
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alone pain is alimony. He's spent too much on his second one. And
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here's another thing. Reeves just took out a fifty thousand dollars insurance policy in
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this Sally's favor is that so he had to that was part of the divorce
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settlement. He should have died before then. Yeah, I know, but
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that insurance policy is another swell motive for Sally to want Reeves dead. She
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wouldn't kill anybody. Well, here's another point. Then, she says she
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got to your party about nine thirty or ten o'clock. The medical examiner says
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the guy was killed at least by nine o'clock, so she could have killed
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him and gone to your party for an alibi. Where does she says she
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was from say, eight o'clock up to the time she got to our party.
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She says Reeves called her and asked if he could see her about hay
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thirty. So she said yes and sat in her apartment waiting for him,
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but he never showed up. So she says, it's a fine alibi.
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I don't think it's no alibi at all. Who was the last one to
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see Reeves alive? Oh? His partner, workman. He said, Reeves
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was at the shop but left to go to see Salry about something amazing.
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How everything points to Sally. Isn't it all changing me? Isn't Nick?
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It's natural she did it? She didn't do it, and Nick's going to
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prove it. Noisy now, Betsy, Well, how's he going to get
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around the facts? Nick's going to dig up some new facts, Lieutenant,
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then you'll see how wrong you are. Maybe, but I doubt it.
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Look, Lieutenant, can I see Sally? Oh? Sure, sure,
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I guess this'll be all right. Would you like to see her now?
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If I can? Okay, I'll fix it. You go ahead with your
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investigation. Nick. I'll go back to the office and wait for you when
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I'm through here. All right, I'll see you that in a little while.
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Think I'll go down and have a talk with Reeves partner. First,
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How, mister workman, you say Reeves was here in the store last night
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after dinner. He he is, mister Carter. He was chicking, stuck
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with me. Then he left to see Sally. That was about eight thirty.
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He said he'd be right back to help me finish checking. Did he
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say why he wanted to see her? He said he was going to ask
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and to let him out of some of the alimony he ordered. I see,
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but he didn't come back. No. I stayed here by myself until
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about one o'clock. I should judge about the type of furs you carry here,
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mister workman, that you must do a pretty good business. It's ride,
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mister Carter. Then how do you account for mister Reeves having such a
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hard time keeping up his alimony payments? Well, mister Reeves is a heavy
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spender. He spent money freely himself, and his second wife was extravagant.
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Did Reeves have any insurance in the partnership, the kind I mean that leaves
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you any money if he dies? Oh? No, mister Carter. We
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talked about it but decided it wasn't necessary. Have you and he ever had
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any trouble, Not the slightest. We've always been the best of friends.
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Mm hmm. Well, thanks, we in trouble, mister workman. I
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guess that's all for now. Any time I can help you let me know.
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Oh, by the way, mind if I use your phone? Not
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at all. It's on the desk over there. Thanks, that's gonna call
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my office. I'll be in the back room if you want me. Thank
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you, Oh passie. How'd you find Sally? She's so mad at Riley
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but thinking she did it that she hasn't had time to be depressed. How
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do you make nothing new? That is nothing definite. I'm going to see
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Reeve's wife. Then I have to drop in on the DA, so I
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may be tied up the rest of the day, Nick, because Sally wants
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me to go and stay at her while she's away. She has a cat
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and a canary and she wants me to take care of them. And I
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think that's a swell idea. What's a swell about it? Don't you see?
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He'll give me a chance to go all through a thing. I'll bet
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you I find something to help prove she's innocent or guilty. Now, Nick,
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don't be like that. You'll drop over there around eight o'clock tonight.
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I'll show you what I found okay, see about eight then and Sally's apartment.
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No wonder Sally couldn't afford a enity of the alimony in this place.
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Let's go Patsy, Petsy, Patsy, Betsy, where what happened? Patsy?
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Can you hear me? Yes? What's the matter? Man? He
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tried to Patsy? Well, what started out to be for naked least?
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The routine investigation has suddenly taken a strange turn. What's happened to Patsy?
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And what does this have to do with Nick's attempts to find out who really
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And now back to our story. We left Nick trying to revive an
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unconscious Patsy so we could find out what had happened to her and Sally Read's
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apartment. Feeling better now, Patsy, Yes, Nick, I'm all right,
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steps the crack of my head. Oh what happened? Can you tell
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me? I don't quite know? Nick standing here in front of the bedroom
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mirror, trying on Sally's new first coat. Oh, Nick, isn't it
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heaven? Yes? Yes, it's certainly a valuable piece of her But what
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happened, Patsy? Well, as I was trying on the coat, a
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man came through the door. He's wearing a mask. Told me to take
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off the coat and give it to him, or he'd kill me. I
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told him I wouldn't do it. Did he have a gun? Oh?
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I didn't see one. How do you talk? It's sort of funny,
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is it? If he were trying to disguise His voice sounded as if he
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might have had something in his mouth. Probably did. It's an old trick,
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well, that your best friend wouldn't recognize you. Then what He tried
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to jerk the coat off me? So I scratched his face for him.
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Good for you? Not so good, Nick. Look at my fingernails,
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they're all broken. Oh they'll go in again. Then what happened? We
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hit me and knocked me down just as you rang the buzzer. Must have
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gone out the back door you came in the front. Then I must have
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gone out cold. He was certainly completely out when I found you. What
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does all this mean? Nick? Where did Sally get this coat? You
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know? Oh? Yes, her ex hubby gave it to her and set
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us back alimony to the Odor. He took it out of the stock at
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the store about two weeks ago and brought it to her. Took it out
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of the stock at the store. Huh, what does that mean something to
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you? I don't know, Betsy, but either this coat is tied up
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with a murder or it's an extraordinary coincidence. How can you find out?
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You get the history of the coat? First of all, how do you
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do that? For heaven's sake? I know a man who can tell me.
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Come on, I'm glad you phoned him in advance. I take to
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nate all this trip for nothing. Hello, mo, me, how all
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you come in? Come in? This is pat On, my assistant.
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Mow Hello, live to see you. And now what is this puzzle you
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say you got for me? Here's a fur code more have a look at
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it? By beautiful, Nick? Beautiful? What can you tell me about
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it? Weird? It is at least four thousand dollars. That isn't what
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I mean? What can you tell me about the code itself? So everything
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I could tell you about it, Nick, but I might ab to reap
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a bout a little here where it sold. Go ahead, I want to
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know as much as you can tell me. Sure, Nick, Sure,
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the little of the laning here in my got a few skin together. Now
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look me seen his little blue mark and the skin here. Yes, that
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means the coat was sold by fish Pond Brothers, dear mark. The skins
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were sold together by Herman Shorts who works for them. Nobody else in the
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business, which is like hermon anything else. When Fishpond Brothers make up the
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coat, they said it to a retailer. That's all I could tell.
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Suppose they could tell me anything else about it, you can estim they got
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a store right on the blog from me, I could telephone them that you
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are coming and they should take good care of you right away. Thanks.
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Oh. By the way, that knife there on the counter, is that
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any particular kind of knife? All for yours who make garments use them?
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Nick, That is a good knife for training the skins ideo ads. Oh
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just saw one while ago when I was curious. Come on passing, let's
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go see Fishburnt Brothers. I'm sorry to keep you waiting, mister Carter,
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but I wanted to be sure of the facts. This coat was sold by
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us to Perry Loan in Perry Loan sold the coade to a missus Jackson Moody
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who lives in Boston, but three months ago she reported it stolen and offered
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five hundred dollars reward for its return. Five hundred dollars, Oh, Nick,
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we can flind every ward. We found the code. You found it,
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Patsy. The reward's yours if you want it. Is that what you
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wanted to know, mister Carter? Yes, thanks, that's exactly what I
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wanted to know. Oh, Patsy, call Riley and tell him to meet
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us at Reeves and Workman's Place. What are we going back there for?
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I want to see if workmen can add anything to what we already know about
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this stolen code? Goodbye, Oh, goodbye, mister Carter. I didn't
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expect to see you again tonight. I just want to ask you a few
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more questions, if you don't mind, No, no, come in.
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All of you working pretty late, aren't you? Yes? I am you
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see without mister Reeves. There's so much more for me to do, pretty
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dark in here for you to be working, isn't it? Oh? No,
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I can see plenty well in this life. Well, Lieutenant Riley has
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to make some notes, same notes, and what Nick? Why? And
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mister Workman's answers to my questions. Naturally, Sure you won't mind if I
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turn on another light, will you, mister work Really, mister Carter,
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his face is scratched right across the cheek. Yes, there was a cat
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sleeping on a pile of firs a little while ago. I didn't see him,
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and when I tried to move the furs, he jumped at me and
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scratched me. What a hell about it? Now? What was it you
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wanted to ask me? Well, first, mister workman, I'd like your
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permission to look around your shop a bit, and I'll see here, mister
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Carter, I don't see what rights you are coming here. It see that
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mister workman stays where he is. Well, I take a look around the
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plane. Oh okay, you can't come in here a workman. Nick knows
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what he's doing, but I don't understand what you're tight. Nick will tell
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you when he's ready. Wow, this is an interesting baggage. Workman.
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Address of some firm out in San Francisco needs to be full of pieces of
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fur coats, some odd neck pieces and other piece of all expensive too.
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If I'm not mistaken, that's just some pieces I had left over. I
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don't think so workmen. What do you think they are, Nick? I
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think workman is a receiver of stolen fur. He cuts them up and ships
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them to the West coast. His accomplice out there ships his stuff east and
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they put them together and mix the furs up so they can't be identified.
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You're crazy. I wouldn't get mixed up in anything like that. Ever see
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a knife like this one before? Wait, golly, Nick, that's the
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same kind of knife that killed Reeves. You're quite sure, of course.
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I am that same dark colored handled, the same two metal bands around it.
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I know that anywhere that's the same kind of knife. We thought.
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No, it was a little while ago, said that the handle is different,
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exactly, Passy, a knife's a regular furrier's knife. But I imagine
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at some time in the past year mister Workman had new handles put on all
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his old knives. Right, mister Workman, say, now look here.
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If you're trying to connect me with Reeves Murdy, you're all wrong. I
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didn't kill him ever. See this fur coat before? No, and I
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suppose you weren't the man who tried to take it away from Patsy to night
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at Sally's apartment. Of course, not what's that about, Nick, You
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didn't tell me about anybody trying to rob Patsy. Reeves gave Sally a very
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expensive fur coat out of the stock here at the store instead of paying her
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some back alimony. But Reeves didn't know it was stolen. And when you
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arrested Sally, Workman knew he had to get that coat back before you found
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it, recognized it from the description that's been sent out, and trace it
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back to him. So we tried to steal it from Patsy to night and
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Sally's apartment lies all lie Ni came beginning to see what you're leaving up to?
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Do you, Rally, I'll say I do. Reeves finds out that
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Workman is dealing his tolen. First, they get into a fight about it.
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Workman tells Reeves the coat he gave to Sally was stolen. Reeves his
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sword and starts for Sally's house to get it back. That's where he was
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headed when he was killed last night. I bet that's it on Riley doing
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well so far, But when Reeves leaves work when gets scared. He doesn't
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want Reeves to tell anybody he's selling his tolen first, but the only way
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he can stop him is to kill him. So he grabs one of his
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fire knives, beats it up to the apartment house before Reeves gets there,
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waits for him, and kills him. Why it's as plain as the nose
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on your face. Oh crazy, all of you. I didn't kill Reeves.
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Where were you between eight and ten last night? I told you I
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was here in the store taking stock alone. That ain't no alibi. Come
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on, work when I'm taking you down to headquarters. We got ways of
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making fellows that have nothing to say. Talk a lot down there. I
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was right, Nick, Sally didn't do it. Oh, Nick, you're
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wonderful. Well, thanks for those few kind words. Patsy Okay, Rally,
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take him down a headquarters and wait for me there too. Come and
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Nick, Oh there's one last bit of evidence that a clench this case,
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Riley, And I think I know right where to put my hand on it.
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Mate, You in your office in about half an hour. Oh there
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you are, Nick, glad to see the four of you gathered here to
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welcome me. Riley, Patsy, Sally and mister Workman. Now let's sit
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down and be real cozy. What's all this about? Mister Carter. They
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won't tell me anything except that you've got some use for me. Okni okay,
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right ahead, will Shelly. It's like this, mister workman, here
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is the man who killed your ex husband, Narthur Reeve. Oh not it
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selling stolen furs, your knife, Sally having a fur coat that was tolen,
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and you're trying to get it back. It all adds up this way
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till the jury gets it. Then you know I didn't do it. Of
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course, Well you know it, And I'm apologizing right here and now to
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booth you and Patsy for being such a dumb idiot as I was. I
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should have known you wouldn't kill him. It is no wonderful sell it.
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You're free. And Nick did it. I knew he would. Now I
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can collect the five hundred dollars reward for recovering the stolen for a coat.
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Oh it's just super super, Patsy. You collect that money, and I'll
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collect one hundred thousand dollars on the insurance that also took out for me.
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I don't think you will, Sally. Mister Carter, why not? Yes?
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Nick, why can't you get that money? Salem? Yeah, you
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told me. Reeves never got to your apartment last night. But you didn't
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see him at all, didn't you. Yeah, Yeah, that's right.
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I waited and waited, but he didn't come. Really got the things you
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found in Reeve's pocket? Sure, Nick, Sally. In Reeves's pocket was
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a bill for women's clothes addressed to you, postmarked the morning of the murder.
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It must have been delivered to you that afternoon. If you didn't see
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Reeves, how did that bill get in his pocket? You did see him,
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didn't you. Yes, he tried to take my firt coat away from
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me, but I wouldn't let him, and you got into an argument about
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money, didn't you. He was broken and couldn't give you any so you
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gave him this bill and said he could at least pay that right well.
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And by the time he left you you were so mad you could have killed
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him, weren't you. But I didn't kill him. Workman did. Workman
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didn't kill him, Sally, you did. After he left, you grabbed
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up that furrier's knife random on the stairs, rushed over to where he was
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still standing beside the pool, and puns the knife in his back before he
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knew you were there. No, No, I never owned a knife.
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Like that. I couldn't have done it ever. See this picture, Sally,
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I found it in your apartment a few minutes ago, A flashlight shot
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of a tea party you had in your apartment they did three months ago.
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And on the table is one of workmen's fur knives being used as a cheese
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knife. So you did own a knife like that, all right. I
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did kill author. I had to have money quick, got out of bills
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that have to be paid. He wouldn't give me any money. Sure,
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it was all I could get, so so I killed him where Nick,
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So she did do it. I was right all the time. I told
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you I didn't do it. I knew you didn't do it all along,
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workmen, but I had to do it this way to break down the case
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against Sally. Sorry you say you knew all along, Knick. Certainly a
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new workman couldn't have done it, because he'd never chosen such a public place
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as the court inside a large apartment house at nine o'clock on an early fall
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evening. There's all I got too much chance of his being seen. He'd
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have picked him much safer spot. Furthermore, he never would have killed him
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before I got that stolen coat back from Sally No Riley. Only someone who
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was so mad they didn't stop to think would kill a man in such a
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public place. I gotta let workmen go. He was knealing in stolen furs,
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wasn't he? Why Gully, you're right, Nick, has he that
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he gets his for that? I will come along you and you too,
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Sonny reason, I'm gonna put your boat right where you've along. I knew
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it was your well. I was certainly wrong that time. You certainly were
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passing completely wrong. She wasn't like that one. I knew her years ago.
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Times changed, so the people you couldn't know what she's like now.
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I'm sorry Nick, she I suppose I'll never hear the end of this.
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You probably won't passy. They don't feel too bad. If it hadn't been
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for you, we'd never have caught workmen and broken up his racket and stolen
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furs. And the right person is going to pay for Reeve's murder. Those
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are the things that really matter always. In just a moment, Nick and
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Patsy will bring you a preview of next week's exciting case. But before they
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We'll see that he gets them and you get them as quickly as possible.
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And now let's hear from Nick Carter himself. What exciting story if you
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got for us? Next week? Nick, can you tell us a little
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about that? Well, Ken, next week, I'm going to tell you
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about a murder in a little country town. You and I had gone there
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for our vacation, but for that one day we got very little vacation.
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A friend of the sheriff's was shot to death in his home in the early
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morning, and the sheriff made Nick take over. The sheriff found one big
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clue that satisfied him, but Nick found a number of small clues that really
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solved the murder. What do you call a story, Nick, I call
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it murder in the Night or the mystery of the Milkman's discovery. So long
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for now, so long everybody, and so long to you Nick and Patsy.
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We'll be looking forward to seeing you again next week. Next week,
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at the same time, listen to another curious experience of Nick Catter Master Detective
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entitled Murder in the Night or Nick Carter and the Mystery of the Milkman's Discovery.
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It is presented at the same time and over these same stations by the
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Quality Paints. In the Nick Carter Adventures, Long Clark has starred as Nick.
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Helen Schote is featured as Patsy. Original music is played by Lou White.
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The programs are written and directed by Jack McGregor. This is Ken Powell
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speaking for the thousands of Linux dealers all over America and saying, so long
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until next week. This is mutual welcome, Mark All. Nick Carr remains,
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I'm afraid to defy the typical logic of radio detective programs by proving that
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yes, Patsy's friend did commit the murder, and Lieutenant Riley Billy does seem
31:17
to be not as competent in these episodes as he was in the first few
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ones of the series. Here he needs Nick to remind him that his prisoner
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has been charged with other crimes. Who watches Lieutenant Riley when Nick's out of
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town? That's what I want to know, all right. Well, now
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on to Actually I'm going to talk about the last of the Nick Carter films
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that I saw. It's Phantom Raiders. That's third on the DVD. It
31:48
was actually second among those released, and the basic plot is that Nick Carter
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takes up an investigation in all in this nineteen forty movie as he looks into
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a series of apparent ship sabotages followed up by big insurance claims. Overall,
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this was a decent movie, but it was probably the weakest one in the
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series. It felt to me like the entire first ten minutes really could have
32:23
been cut and it would not have affected the movie at all. So it
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was padded there and a little rushed at the end. But really there's a
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lot of suspense and chills, though less violence than in the other two Nick
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Herder films. It's much less of a who Done it and more just figuring
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out how Nick Carter is going to manage to capture the bad guys, since
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we know who they are right from the beginning of the film. Donald may
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turns in another great performance as Bartholomew, and I have to admit that the
32:59
character of Bartholomew the Beekeeper was surprised was a surprise because the way he was
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introduced in the first movie, I really thought this was just going to be
33:09
one of those comic relief characters that wasn't that funny and was just bumbling into
33:16
things and somewhat annoying. But no, Actually, Donald Meek's character of Bartholomew
33:25
is a solid sidekick and pretty competent, if a little bit eccentric. So
33:31
kudos to the producers on that. This is much more of a comedy,
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a detective comedy than it is anything that lines up with the traditional Nick Carter
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stories, and that may be one reason why the film series didn't last more
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than the three films. Usually Golden Age detective film series tended to run too
33:58
long. Both in the case of The Thin Man and Mister Moto, two
34:06
franchises I watched all the way through, I felt like they went one or
34:10
two movies too far. This one, I think had plenty of life in
34:15
it, but like a lot of the nineteen thirties, early nineteen forties films.
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They took a character, Nick Carter, just as Hollywood did films about
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Nero Wolf and Nancy Drew that really had a very tenuous tie to the source
34:30
material. The Nick Carter of the pulp books was really a detective's detective with
34:38
a lot of other operatives working under him, Walter Pigeons. Nick Carter is
34:45
still a competent detective, but he's a bit of a ladies man, and
34:50
in this movie is very reluctant to actually go to work. The neck Carter
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of the radio show, while still revised from any of the early books,
34:58
is still more in line with the character, and that may have been why
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it just did not make it beyond the three movies. But it's an interesting
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film series, and I think we'll definitely offer an opportunity to include that in
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our upcoming listener support campaign later on this month. All right, well,
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now that we've talked about a Nick Carter movie, and we'll go ahead and
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get to some listener comments. And I received a tweet from a listener justin
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tweets in who do you like Basil Rathbone or Jeremy Brett is Sherlock? You
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know that is a very tough question. I've seen all of Jeremy Brett Sherlock
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Holmes. I've seen all of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movie, and listen
35:45
to all fifty plus existing Sherlock Holmes radio programs with Brett with Wrathbone, and
35:52
they're fairly evenly matched. But I would still give the edge to Wrathbone.
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And in many ways, Brett is probably a bit more traditional, if for
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no other reason than his characterizations, maybe a bit more aligned with the book
36:09
bras. I think Wrathbone's homes is a little bit more likable. And I
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think Wrathbone really had a great ability to make the new Adventures work and it
36:24
feel right, whereas some of the later actors struggled, which I think was
36:30
a testimony to the rare talent that he was. And I definitely get people
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who take the other side of that question. Like I said, it's close,
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it's fifty two forty eight, But yeah, I'll say Wrathbone for now.
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All right, Well, that'll do it for today. We'll be back
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tomorrow with the premiere of Manhunt. Please be sure and send in shows that
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