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Ellery Queen: Nikki Porter, Suspect (EP1684) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: episode of Ellery Queen, we are headed down Under. As
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  Speaker 1: I've mentioned before on this program, many great detective programs
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  Speaker 1: and radio of all genres, including programs like The Shadow
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  Speaker 1: and Superman, were reperformed in Australia. In fact, for many
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  Speaker 1: years Australia had a ban on directly importing foreign produced
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  Speaker 1: entertainment into Australia for fear it would destroy the local
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  Speaker 1: entertainment industry. The actor tapped to play Ellery Queen was
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  Speaker 1: actually one of Australia's finest Charles bud Tingwell. Kingwell was
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  Speaker 1: in the early stage of his career at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Less than two years later he would head to England
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  Speaker 1: and spend nearly two decades there doing a variety of work,
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  Speaker 1: including voice work on Jerry Anderson's series The Thunderbirds, before
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  Speaker 1: returning to Australia in nineteen seventy three, and his distinguished
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  Speaker 1: acting career earned him the Order of Australia. He was
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  Speaker 1: a point You're a member to that and he was
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  Speaker 1: also inducted into the Australian Film Walk of Fame. So
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  Speaker 1: he was a very noted Australian actor, though not quite
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  Speaker 1: at this point in his career. The original airdate on
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  Speaker 1: this episode of the Adventures of Ellery Queen is November nineteenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty four, and the title of this program is
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  Speaker 1: Nicky Porter Suspect.
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  Speaker 2: The Adventures of Ellery Queen. Tonight we bring you another
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  Speaker 2: thrilling adventure of Ellery Queen. The celebrated fighter of crime
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  Speaker 2: representing you home, I'm cheer Detectives is world famous personality
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  Speaker 2: Gypsy rose Lee. You'll hear from her later, but now
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  Speaker 2: here's your host, Ellary Queen, thank you, I'm good Evening,
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  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen. In tonight's case, my secretary of Nicki
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  Speaker 2: Porter finds herself hunted by the police.
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  Speaker 3: She has one for murder. I call it the Adventure
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  Speaker 3: of Nicky Potter Suspect.
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  Speaker 4: I had a song down there.
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me, mind letting me through hell? What's going on here?
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  Speaker 3: To warn the attention of inspected Queen of the New
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  Speaker 3: York Police. No, just a thing. You are pretty early
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  Speaker 3: so homey, I overslept. I'm supposed to meet this train
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  Speaker 3: somebody you know coming in. Nicky Porter. She's been visiting
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  Speaker 3: her family and now I've missed her. All the passengers
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  Speaker 3: around yeah, not all Hillarie. Yeah, well here to the train.
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  Speaker 3: H what happened here anyway?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Guy just down here with have his head blown off.
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  Speaker 3: It's in a compartment, sick slugs in his head. Who
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  Speaker 3: was he? Then? Ernie Buffalo Midwest Bank robber gun taking away?
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  Speaker 3: As for us, but we found these three one thousand
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  Speaker 3: dollars bills all on the floor of this compartment. Let
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  Speaker 3: me see those boots then, h that's so it could
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  Speaker 3: be serial numbers. These thousand dollars bills are part of
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  Speaker 3: the money. Yeah, stole from the second Commercial Bank of
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  Speaker 3: Chicago night before last. Correct, So it was Buffalo pulled
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  Speaker 3: that banks up. Huh, I'm the line with his loot.
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  Speaker 3: I must have got away with them two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: fifty eight thousand dollars. That leaves only two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: fifty five thousand we've still got to recover. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: looks like is this Buffales compartment seeing carwell free? No,
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  Speaker 3: this compartment was occupied by a lady. The porter noticed
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  Speaker 3: her get off before he and the conductor found Buffalo's body.
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  Speaker 5: Buffalo had a.
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  Speaker 3: Lower in the next car, young about five pot three
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  Speaker 3: in the twenties, pretty red hair, wore muskrat coat carried
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  Speaker 3: a dark blue suitcase, and the department is full of
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  Speaker 3: her fingerprints. No, no, no, don't touch that compact gallery. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: the compact belonged to to the girl bad Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 3: where it's easy enough to figure with this compact of
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  Speaker 3: hers the prince a description. We've got only a matter
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  Speaker 3: of time, all right? Where are you going? Well? You
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  Speaker 3: you don't need me and honest Dada going to Nicky's
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  Speaker 3: place to take your medicine from missing her.
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  Speaker 6: Eh, Nikki, Nikki, wake up, Nikki?
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmm, Nikki is ellery?
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  Speaker 7: Ellery?
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  Speaker 3: He listened to me, Nikki, Will you listen to me?
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  Speaker 3: I was in Kansas City, Nikki, you left Kansas City.
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  Speaker 3: You wired me yesterday from Chicago that you'd arrived in
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  Speaker 3: New York at eight thirty.
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  Speaker 7: This morning the train.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you in a compartment?
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  Speaker 5: He tell me?
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  Speaker 7: Compartment car one O.
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  Speaker 3: Three, Compartment C. Yes, I see, I'm so sick.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Ellery, what happened?
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  Speaker 3: Don't you know, Niki?
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  Speaker 7: I can't seem to remember anything.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you remember leaving the train?
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  Speaker 7: No? Oh, look at Lee.
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  Speaker 3: You were in a struggle of some sort of Niki tackle.
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  Speaker 3: You suffered a violent physical as well as nervous shot.
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  Speaker 3: It brought on a temporary amnesia, Ni trackle. That mean
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  Speaker 3: then you're beginning to remember? Now when did you first
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  Speaker 3: see this man Buffalo, the man with a broken nose.
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  Speaker 3: He's a criminal wanted for bank robbery, so that's why
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  Speaker 3: he Nikki, he's lying on the floor of that compartment dead,
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  Speaker 3: shot to death. You left your compact there. Your fingerprints
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  Speaker 3: are all over the place, Nikki. You're in a jam.
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  Speaker 5: So talk when you're.
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  Speaker 8: I killed him?
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  Speaker 5: I killed him, Nikki?
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  Speaker 3: How did you kill him?
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  Speaker 5: Niky?
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  Speaker 3: Any minute, how Dad'll realize that the compact, the prince,
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  Speaker 3: the description all ad up to you. He may be
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  Speaker 3: on his way here. Now, will you tell me what
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  Speaker 3: happened before he gets here?
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  Speaker 7: All right, Ellie?
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  Speaker 9: The train had stopped at one hundred and twenty fifth Street,
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  Speaker 9: then it started again. I'd already packed my suitcase and
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  Speaker 9: I was about to close.
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  Speaker 7: It when my door opened. And is that the border
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  Speaker 7: on my back?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 7: What do you want?
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  Speaker 10: I don't call for help, and you don't shut that suitcase?
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  Speaker 7: Would you find it waiting that gun elsewhere?
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  Speaker 3: So what I say? And you won't get hurt?
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  Speaker 4: Did this package package?
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  Speaker 3: Put it in your suitcase? You're giving real suitcase. Now
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  Speaker 3: what do I do?
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you?
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  Speaker 5: Not close it up, close it back?
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  Speaker 7: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 10: I get this in five minutes, will be in New York.
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  Speaker 10: You'll carry your suitcase off the train yourself. Don't give
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  Speaker 10: it to a red cap understand. Walk up to the
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  Speaker 10: checkroom at the west end of the station and check
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  Speaker 10: the bag. I'll be right behind you.
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  Speaker 7: I suppose somebody I know is meeting the train.
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  Speaker 10: Bitch, when you get the baggage check caught it. The
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  Speaker 10: nearest cigar stand and buy a packet of cigarette. Read
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  Speaker 10: the check on the counter careless like you up and
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  Speaker 10: go on about your business.
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  Speaker 7: And you will pick it up.
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  Speaker 3: That's the idea, baby.
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  Speaker 7: Oh well, there's not very much I can do with.
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  Speaker 3: Their smart down.
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  Speaker 7: We're in the tunnel. I'm actually shaking. Do you have
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  Speaker 7: a cigarette?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's just very kind of you to look through
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  Speaker 9: your pocket, so one, because it gives me a chance
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  Speaker 9: to grab your guy.
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  Speaker 8: Okaya of way, get about that floor.
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  Speaker 3: We're almost in.
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  Speaker 11: Get up, yes, go on here.
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  Speaker 9: All I know is I was reaching for the gun
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  Speaker 9: as he was bending over me. Wh's the last clear
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  Speaker 9: recollection I had ellari that and the shots all.
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  Speaker 3: In his head, all a close range.
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  Speaker 7: I see I bought the suitcase home. Is the packaging
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  Speaker 7: a nry.
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  Speaker 3: But there's no question what it contained. The two hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifty eight thousand dollars Buffalo stole from the Chicago.
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  Speaker 5: Back back before last.
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  Speaker 7: I wonder what I did with it.
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  Speaker 3: Three thousand dollars of it was don on the floor
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  Speaker 3: of the compartment.
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  Speaker 5: And Nikki, what now?
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  Speaker 3: I just found this in the pocket of your third
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  Speaker 3: couder gun all six shots fired. I'm afraid, Nikki, this
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  Speaker 3: was the gun that killed Buffalo his own gun. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: can't you remember anything what you might have done with
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the money.
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  Speaker 7: I only could before the inspector and Harry the police
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  Speaker 7: after me.
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  Speaker 3: You're to tell to have the truth. Meanwhile, I'll be
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  Speaker 3: back tracking trying to find the money. Don't give up, understand,
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  Speaker 3: Just hang on.
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  Speaker 7: All right, Harry, that's the stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I'm coming coming.
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  Speaker 12: I'll come right in.
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  Speaker 3: Dropped the rod, drop the right, Sure it's not loaded anyway,
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  Speaker 3: I got it, reader, Yeah, it's he's goin all right.
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  Speaker 3: It was a good hunts free following this guy from
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  Speaker 3: the station.
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  Speaker 4: You shut the door, Erry, I don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: Who are they you followed me here from Grand Central.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Hm, we have three friends of Ernie Buffles.
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  Speaker 3: We came in on the same train from Chicago.
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  Speaker 4: We hung around the station where Ernie didn't get off
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  Speaker 4: the train. You, the baby doll, Come here me.
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  Speaker 5: What do you want?
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  Speaker 4: I spotted you on the train. You were in that compartment.
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  Speaker 4: How'd you get Ernie in there?
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  Speaker 7: Huh? I didn't you knocked.
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  Speaker 3: Off my.
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  Speaker 4: Tie him up?
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  Speaker 3: Don't stare with you, baby doll.
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  Speaker 4: Before I go to work on you, tell me what
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  Speaker 4: did you do with the dough?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You're lying, can't you see she's telling the truth? Study
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  Speaker 3: I ain't quite finished tying yet.
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  Speaker 4: Girlfriend. I'm going to give you one more chance. Just
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  Speaker 4: tell us where you hid that dough from the bank.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, can't she's fainted nuts, thank you?
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  Speaker 4: Sure it ain't here?
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  Speaker 3: Wait in a room.
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  Speaker 5: It ain't on either of them. Ye wake.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I'm not ay queen the detective. This is my secretary,
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  Speaker 3: Nicky Potter. I give you my word. Niki doesn't know
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  Speaker 3: where that money is. Amnesia. She can't remember a thing
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  Speaker 3: since she left that compartment. Well, let's knock up these
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  Speaker 3: two and blow we'll find that doll ourselves.
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  Speaker 4: Where Frank, But you just gave me an idea. Mister Queen,
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  Speaker 4: you got quite a rip. You're pretty good at finding
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  Speaker 4: out stuff. Okay, you'll find that dough forest.
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  Speaker 5: Wait a minute, you knocked it up, Frank, I did,
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  Speaker 5: figure reader, Why.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you still find the dough forest? Because we're
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  Speaker 4: going to be keeping this doll of his companies in
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  Speaker 4: a nice safe place. Get it, miss Queen, I get it.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't, Nicky gets what she gave Ernie Buffel.
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  Speaker 5: That's slower.
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  Speaker 3: I'm probably convinced Riata and you don't get all the
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  Speaker 3: time in the world, twelve dollars clean. That's all I understand, French.
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  Speaker 3: How I get in touch with you?
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  Speaker 4: You'll get a phone call at midnight tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Drops reader.
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  Speaker 4: Let's cram grab the doll, juke, carry it to the car.
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  Speaker 10: Come on, baby, you cover us, step on it.
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  Speaker 4: She ain't no back way, duke.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, I'm coming.
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  Speaker 9: But before I go, mister queen, I'm going to give
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  Speaker 9: you something down then, my spoy, so you'll know when I.
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  Speaker 3: Can't wish my hands were free. So here's the midnight
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  Speaker 3: and now, ladies and gentlemen, you have the first part
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  Speaker 3: of it, mystery.
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  Speaker 12: You'll hear more shortly, Dad, they phone yet it's midnight,
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  Speaker 12: No seven, no call, Yeah, but I wouldn't get back
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  Speaker 12: in time.
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  Speaker 3: How's your head? So I don't never mind my head now?
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  Speaker 3: And I found the camp driver who drove Nicky from
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  Speaker 3: the stage in just a minute. That was the matter
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  Speaker 3: just thirty seconds ago. Look what I found in the
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  Speaker 3: suit you were wearing this morning. All that to one
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollar bill, one of the missing bills from Buffle's hall.
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  Speaker 3: Where did you get a lettery? Oh, don't act the
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  Speaker 3: inspector with me, Dad. I found it in the pocket
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  Speaker 3: of Nicky's fur coat, along with Buffle's gun. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: even tell Mickey about it. I don't like you said.
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  Speaker 3: Bubble's pails searched you, they did, but I palmed the bill,
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  Speaker 3: and after they got through fristing me, I simply put
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  Speaker 3: the bill in my pocket. It all adds on. I
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  Speaker 3: know what it adds up to ear once we get
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  Speaker 3: Nikki back, I'll do what I can for But sure,
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  Speaker 3: where's that call? Now? What were you going to tell me?
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  Speaker 3: I never mind, that's just good MH. The autops report
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  Speaker 3: on Buffalo MM hmm, very interesting. What's interesting about? I'll
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  Speaker 3: get it? How the queen speaking? How's Nikki? Stop starling's okay?
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  Speaker 3: So far? Do you find out where the doll is? Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you when I see you. Frank, you and
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  Speaker 3: Dupe and Rita. Do you have to go with you? No,
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  Speaker 3: but I'll tell you where you can find it. Where
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  Speaker 3: do I meet you?
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  Speaker 5: Haven't done?
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  Speaker 3: Don't like it? So it just helps Frank, goodbye?
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  Speaker 5: Don't you care about the day?
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  Speaker 3: Would help me? Sir? Obviously it's too late, Okay, tell
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  Speaker 3: me what to drive.
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  Speaker 4: First?
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  Speaker 14: There is too inside having an okay, Frank, Georgia. No
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  Speaker 14: cop siding in his car? Nobody title us. I'll guarantee it.
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  Speaker 3: Where's Nikki? I didn't see you there? Where's Nikki Porter?
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  Speaker 4: Where's the dough?
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  Speaker 3: No? Nikki?
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  Speaker 5: No talk? Uh huh.
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  Speaker 4: In here?
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  Speaker 7: NIKKILLI hi?
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  Speaker 3: Hi? Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 7: All right, they've handled me like the pizza china. Okay, oh, ellery,
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  Speaker 7: I'm so.
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  Speaker 4: Glad to hold it. So here she is clean them
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  Speaker 4: in one chuck. Now where did she hide the dough?
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  Speaker 3: She didn't?
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  Speaker 7: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 3: I was able to trace your movement, Nikki. You carried
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  Speaker 3: your suitcase right from the train to a station cab.
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  Speaker 3: You spoke to no one. No one came near you.
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  Speaker 3: He gave the cab driver your home address. He drove
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  Speaker 3: you right there. You got out, and your landlady saw
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  Speaker 3: you come in and go to your room. He didn't
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: drop anything, He didn't leave anything in the cab. The
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  Speaker 3: bulk of that stolen money wasn't found in your room
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  Speaker 3: because you never brought it there. You never took it from.
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  Speaker 5: The train, Nikki, someone else did, someone else.
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  Speaker 3: Last, next thing we know, you'll be telling her she
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  Speaker 3: didn't bop off her any Buffal. She didn't. I didn't tell, oh, Nikki,
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  Speaker 3: I just saw the autopsy report.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: At the time of the shots, you were on the
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  Speaker 3: floor and Buffal was coming at you, leaning over you.
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  Speaker 3: The autopsy report shows that all six bullets struck Buffal's
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  Speaker 3: head at the top and at the back. Only someone
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  Speaker 3: higher than Buffle could have fired those shots.
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  Speaker 4: Someone else that sneaked into the compartment.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, rider, now it's perfectly clear, isn't it. You were
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  Speaker 3: all in on that Chicago robbery with Buffalo. You all
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  Speaker 3: came in on the same train, Buffle carrying the money.
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  Speaker 3: At the last moment Buffal decided to double cross the
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  Speaker 3: rest dog you. He got into Nicky's compartment and tried
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  Speaker 3: to get her to carry the money off the train
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  Speaker 3: for him so he could recover her suitcase later and
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  Speaker 3: have the whole haul for himself.
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  Speaker 4: Ernie double cross.
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  Speaker 3: To us, Yes, rider, What's more, one of you was
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  Speaker 3: afraid of just that and followed Buffal and stood outside
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  Speaker 3: Nicki's compartment and heard the whole thing. That one ended
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  Speaker 3: the compartment, shot Buffal with his own gun, frame Niki
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  Speaker 3: for the murder, and walked off the train carrying the money,
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  Speaker 3: saying nothing for the other two of them. Not only
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  Speaker 3: was Buffalo double crosser, one of you three is a
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  Speaker 3: double crosser too.
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  Speaker 5: Where's that two hundred and fifty four grand reading?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't take it?
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  Speaker 5: Jupe?
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  Speaker 4: Or why would not kill Ernie? Not Ernie?
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  Speaker 3: Frank, don't put the finger on me, Jube, you got
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  Speaker 3: nothing on me. Maybe you did it yourself. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: swear on that bank job to get cheated out of mind.
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  Speaker 3: I'll put the finger on the one who killed Buffalo
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  Speaker 3: today and hid that money. If the other two of
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  Speaker 3: you promised to let Nikki Porter and me walk out
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  Speaker 3: of here, unharmed when I've done so.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, okay, promise.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, that's too easy. Suppose you all put your
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  Speaker 3: guns on the table first. There's a guarantee you of
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  Speaker 3: good faith. Then I've got as good a chance as
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  Speaker 3: any of you to grab just in case you were
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  Speaker 3: you know, forget your promise.
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  Speaker 4: Here is mine.
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  Speaker 5: Joop. Okay, come on, Frank, I got a clear conscience.
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  Speaker 4: One of those is a charkard desire. Okay, Queen talk
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  Speaker 4: who killed Ernie?
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  Speaker 3: And there, ladies and gentlemen, you have the mystery? NICKI,
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  Speaker 3: would you introduce our guest armchair detect No, Sir, Nikki
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  Speaker 3: is still a little shaky, so I'm going to help
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  Speaker 3: out while NICKI rest That is that the real reason
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  Speaker 3: you want to be in on this interview? Why?
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  Speaker 5: Of course, Elery.
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  Speaker 3: Well, anyway, it's a very great pleasure to introduce our
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  Speaker 3: guest for the night, that world famous personality currently appearing
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  Speaker 3: at the Palladium Theater in Sydney, missus Gypsy Rose Lee.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the show, Miss Lee.
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  Speaker 5: Well, thank you Ellerie, and thank you Inspector.
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  Speaker 13: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Of course, Ellary, you're much
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  Speaker 13: more fortunate than I am. You have your wonderful father
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  Speaker 13: to help you solve your solutions.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, miss Lee, I am. I'm very fortunate. However, before
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  Speaker 3: we proceed with your solution to the mystery, we'd all
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  Speaker 3: like to meet you personally. Yes, indeed, you've certainly been
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  Speaker 3: a smashhit at the Sydney Palladium. Are you visiting any
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  Speaker 3: other Australian cities, Miss Lee? Oh?
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  Speaker 13: I wish I were, but I'm going to have to
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  Speaker 13: get on back home, I'm afraid. Although we'd like to
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  Speaker 13: play Adelaide and Melbourn and particularly per huh, I'd love
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  Speaker 13: to see Perth.
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  Speaker 5: People who told me it's so beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Well then we do, Miss Lee.
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  Speaker 5: How do you like the audience is here?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 13: I think they're just simply wonderful.
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  Speaker 5: I think you're pretty cute too, you know that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's miss Lee. Of course you're a well
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  Speaker 3: known mystery right yourself too, aren't you. I mean I've
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  Speaker 3: read your mysteries Their Mother finds the Body and the
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  Speaker 3: strip Teas Murder a.
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  Speaker 13: Wonderful Well, thank you, honey. Actually, you know at home
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  Speaker 13: the Stripteas Murders wasn't called that at all. It was
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  Speaker 13: called the g String murders. They figured that in Australia
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  Speaker 13: they wouldn't know what a g string is, so they'd
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  Speaker 13: probably think it was something to do with the violine.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you're quietus. I think there's marvelous miss And
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  Speaker 3: do you have any particular hobbies outside the theater?
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  Speaker 5: And well, yes I have. What is your favorite hobby?
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  Speaker 13: Well I could sort of match it maybe, and we
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  Speaker 13: could compare hobbies, Well, wherever you like. I like to
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  Speaker 13: collect stamps.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, for latally it is one of my hobbies.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, I'm thinking of taking it up full time
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  Speaker 3: on't so. Yeah. Sure now, thank you very much, miss Lee.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it's about time we got to our problem.
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  Speaker 3: I'll do it. I'll do it now, Miss Lee.
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  Speaker 5: Who killed Buffalo and hid the money?
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  Speaker 13: Oh dear, I'm not really sure, you know, but I
• 24:56
  Speaker 13: have a very sneaky hunch that Rita.
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  Speaker 5: Might have on it, just on general principles.
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  Speaker 13: That is, I don't have any evidence against her, not
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  Speaker 13: even circumstantial evidence, but I don't like her.
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  Speaker 5: Personally, I see.
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  Speaker 13: And of course I do think that whoever got rid
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  Speaker 13: of buffal was doing an awfully good deed.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, Yes, well, thank you, thank you, miss Lee, and
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  Speaker 3: in just a moment we'll learn if your solution is
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  Speaker 3: the correct one. I'm on your side, miss Lee. If
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: there's anything I can do, you can be sure. Reader,
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  Speaker 3: how much money was in that hall two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: fifty eight grand, two hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 3: But Buffle's killer left some of that money to frame
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  Speaker 3: Nikki Potter, so he didn't get away with the whole amount. Yep,
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  Speaker 3: how much did the killer actually get away with? I
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  Speaker 3: just said a mended though. Two hundred and fifty four grand,
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  Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty four thousands. Thank Is that right?
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  Speaker 5: Huh ah?
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  Speaker 3: It ought to be two fifty five. The papers that
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  Speaker 3: I said three one thousand bucks goes will have done
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  Speaker 3: a Florida train. The papers were wrong, Frank, because the
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  Speaker 3: papers didn't know that the killer left an additional one
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars bill in Nikki Porter's coat pocket where I
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  Speaker 3: found it. So that does make four and four from
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  Speaker 3: two fifty eight is two fifty four, As Duke correctly stated, Hey, Frank,
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  Speaker 3: he sees you for the fandly you don't because only
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  Speaker 3: three people in the universe know that the exact amount
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  Speaker 3: of the killer's possesion is two hundred and fifty four
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars. Juke, I'm one of them. My father inspected
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  Speaker 3: Queen's number two and he didn't know the thirty seconds
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  Speaker 3: before Frank's phone called him tonight. And Buffalo's killer is
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  Speaker 3: the third. And how did you know, Juke? It's Damieyes, Nikki,
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  Speaker 3: she spelled it today. Impossible to Nikki yourself didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: I never told her. No, Duke, There's only one way
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  Speaker 3: you could have known, and that's if you planted that
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  Speaker 3: bill in Nicky's pocket.
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  Speaker 15: Goolo, did you double cross let on the side of the
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  Speaker 15: room money, I'm gonna take you.
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  Speaker 3: God, I'm gonna get that the one. I'm gonna scram
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: out of here. But when it comes back to me
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  Speaker 3: gets don't move you God get him. I'm letting you.
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  Speaker 3: When he said la, he's gonna get the door and
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  Speaker 3: scram out of here, that means he's hitting in miss house. Man,
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  Speaker 3: search the house. Take these two cuties in two Nicky, Nikky.
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  Speaker 3: I can't tell you how I feel thinking all day
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  Speaker 3: to day that you, Oh, Nikki, will you forgive me?
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  Speaker 7: Why Ellerie? It's the inspector. When did he get here.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Good grief, that us another attack of amnesia or nonsense.
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  Speaker 15: Son, She's just out on her feet. Come on, honey,
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  Speaker 15: we'll take you home. Grab her under the other easy doesn't.
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  Speaker 15: And there, ladies and gentlemen, you have the solution to
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  Speaker 15: our mystery. Thanks again, Gypsy rose Lee, and thanks to
• 28:10
  Speaker 15: the directors of the Palladium Theater, Sydney who made it
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  Speaker 15: possible for you to come along and be our guest
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  Speaker 15: armchair detective this evening.
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  Speaker 3: NICKI never mind, Nikki, you rest here, Yes, miss Lee.
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  Speaker 3: I'd also like you to accept this subscription to The
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, which I'll send to wherever you
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: may be.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, thank you, Inspector. Well, good night Ellie, Good night listeners.
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  Speaker 13: Come on, sweetie, let's just go play with our stamps.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Gypsy rose Lee, and now all you
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  Speaker 3: home armchair detectives were Miss Lee man, Okay, good night
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: everyone until next week.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: The Adventures of Enery Queen is a great Skips and
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: radio production directed by John sol.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Welcome back Well. The episode title was a bit of
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: a misnomer, though it was taken from the American series,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: But Nikki's biggest concern in this episode wasn't so much
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: being a suspect as it was being a hostage, and
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the final clue was a bit disappointing, and you can
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: hardly blame Gypsy rose Lee for getting it wrong because
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the key clue was a verbal slip that Ellery obtained
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: after the challenge to the listeners, So as they might
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: have said in Australia and certainly other parts of the
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: English speaking world, that was hardly cricket. The acting was good, though,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I have to say I think Tingwell may have had
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the deepest voice of any Ellery Queen actor we've heard
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: at any rate. I hope you've enjoyed this diversion into
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Australia and we will return next Tuesday, and of course
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: next Monday it's Michael Shane. In the meantime, send your
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• 30:20
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• 30:25
  Speaker 1: this is your host, Adam Grahamson and off