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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Fathom Five Matter, Part Five and Crime for a King (EP1039) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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out did Johnny totally blow the Fathom five Matter? Here? Now is the
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Fathom five Matter, Part five from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dilly
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Bonnie Wilson here. All right, mister Wilson, I embraced rubbing in.
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Well, you were a little over confident, over confident. Let's face it,
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I made a jerker myself. After I apologize to you, I've got
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to crawl out there and apologize to missus Marky, I wouldn't be too hasty
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about it. I've been putting it off for the last two hours. After
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the way I talked to her, I'd rather walk into a cage of lions
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and face her again. But I thought her husband was alive, and I
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thought she knew it. Then your boys have to go and pull his body
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out of the surf. Well, that's why I call. I had a
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tag for an out and out insurance fraud, mister Dollar. The way it
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looks right now, I don't know what it is. It was probably murder.
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What else. Look, if you want to lose your mind, you
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come on over here to the mag Why what do you mean, mister Dollar.
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I've been a detective for twenty years, but I've never hit one before
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that was as crazy as this Tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey and
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the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expenser out America's Fabulous Freelance
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Insurance Investigators, Truly Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, Location Miami
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Beach to the home office, Delta Liability, Hartford, Connecticut Assignment. The
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Phathom five Matter it happened to involve a seventy five thousand insurance policy. It
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am seventeen a dollar and sixty cents taxi from my hotel to the county More.
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I couldn't figure what Wilson meant. When the cruiser Fathom five burned and
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sank and William Marky's body wasn't found, I thought I'd spotted an attempted insurance
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swindle. I'd even warned Missus Markey not to try to file acclaim, and
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then a few hours ago Marky's drown body had been washed up on the beach.
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Wilson should be happy he'd been proven right, but instead he'd sounded more
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mixed up and uncertain than he'd been before. Good morning, mister Dollar.
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You know you don't pick the pleasantest places in the world, the whole conferences.
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I thought you might want to take a look at him, So I'll
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be eternally blasted if I know what anybody could tell by looking. Well,
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there's lad who's given us all the trouble, mister Dollar, William Markey,
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number four twenty three. I never thought i'd see him here. I told
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Missus Marky that the only thing that would convince me he was and alive would
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be to see his body, all right? And I'm convinced, and I'll
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never try to outguess an ocean current again. Everything seemed to add up to
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No, wait a minute, I wondered how long it be before you noticed?
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Doesn't make sense? Like I said on the phone, this one is
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crazy. This was pulled out of the surf this morning, right, and
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the cruiser sank five days ago. That's when Marky supposedly drowned. You're on
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the beam, mister dollar. This body hasn't been in the ocean for five
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days. You win the four day trip to Bermuda and a complete new wardrobe.
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Have you had an AUTOPSYA Doc Morgan just finished it twenty minutes ago.
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That's why I called you. Doc wouldn't stick around himself, No, I
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think he went out to get drunk. How long does he think Marky has
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been dead? Not over eighteen hours since sometime last night. Looks like we
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were both right for whatever good it is. He was alive after the sinking,
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just like you cleimed, and now he's dead just like that claimed what
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was the cause of death drowning? Only you haven't heard the real crazy part
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yet. Why what do you mean You remember we found one of his shoes
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washed in a couple of days ago. Yeah, the body was wearing two
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shoes when they pulled it out. They always make one slip, don't they?
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A couple? In this key, it's the second one that nearly push
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Doc Morgan off his rocket? What second one? Markey was drowned, all
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right, but not notion? Huh. It was fresh water in his lungs,
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not seawater. Was Morgan sure swore by it? Men at it.
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That's what threw him. Yeah. I imagine when you get an eighteen hour
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test on a man who was supposed to have been dead for five days and
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find fresh water wanted out to be salt. I guess the late mister Market
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can't tell as much of anything else. So where do we go from here?
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Mister Dollon, great question. You haven't found the Carriet, the one
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Market bought under an assumed name. No no, but I'd give the boys
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an extra proud to bear down on it. Half the town forces out looking
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for it. Now. Wonder where he was hiding out for those four days.
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What I want to know is who killed him and how and why why?
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It's fairly easy. It's the whole and how that carry the question marks?
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That fingerprint idea was certain. Huh, there's not the slightest stop of
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what this is when you're market Oh you're looking for an easy way out,
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mister dollar. Yeah, I guess Sam at that. Well, then it
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looks like our number one, as the lads you've been after all along,
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young Danny Haynes. What do you say we go and have a talk with
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him. Only one thing was wrong with the idea. It didn't work.
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Haynes wasn't in and the clerk at his hotel said he hadn't seen him all
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day. The night clerk admitted that he'd slept through most of his shift and
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wasn't sure of anything. We searched haynes room and found nothing, so for
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the moment we left it at that. Wilson put a stake out in the
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hotel and went back to his office. I went to my hotel and waited
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Johnny Dolling, Bonnie Wilson, Yeah, what's up? We finally got a
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break. The boys found that car were parked at the curb out on the
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east side of town may have been abandoned there. It maybe where Marky was
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hiding out. It's in front of an apartment house. Have they checked through
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it yet? No, they haven't touched it. I'm leaving to go out
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there now. Want me to swing by and pick up. If you don't,
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I'll sue. Y'all meet you out in front of the hotel. We
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stopped to block away and walked up to the apartments. The car was still
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parked at the curb, and the plain clothes man watching it said no one
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had been near it. We went on inside and found the landlady, identified
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ourselves and started questioning her. Luck seems to still be with us. Well,
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you see most of them, I guess a permanent as you might say,
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or at least as permanent as renters. Ever, all, yes,
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we understand. In fact, the only unit I've let in the last two
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months is number fourteen, that's up one flight with a pull down bed.
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Did you rent that one? Well, let's see now, I think it
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was about ten days ago. He paid a month's renting ava. What was
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his name, mister Jones? A very nice, quiet, middle aged fella,
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blue bombshell. Oh yes, and never went out much after he moved
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in. That is, he didn't stay here for the first four or five
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days after he rented it until the night the father five. When you see
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mister Jones lett, Well, it's a funny thing. He went out yesterday
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evening and he didn't come back at all. Kind of a car did he
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drive? Oh? Good, heavens, I don't know, but you can
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look for yourself. It's parked out there at the curb. A friend of
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his brought it by a while ago. What's the friend's name? Why I
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didn't ask him? He's an awful, nice young fella, he said.
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Mister Jones was going on a trip and sent him to pick up his belongings,
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and he had mister Jones's key, So I decided it was all right.
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He's up there packing now. Well, thirteen, it's next door down
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there. Better take it easy. It's hard to tell what to expect,
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right, he's all right? Try the knob, easy, cluck and there
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isn't much choice. Open up, pains, we want to talk, do
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you? I said? Open up? Watch, I'm warning you. We
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know now what to expect. I'll cover the door here. Do you go
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down and tell Dave to cover the outside windows and call in for a couple
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of squad cars. Hey, he's going out that window. There must be
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a fire escape. Come on, let's hit the door. There he is
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at the bottom of the fire escape. Hold it hands, our hands.
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It's up to you. Go down that gonner, I'll drop you. I'm
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sorry, kid, he's done. Yeah, that second shot was dead center.
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I know. I tried to hold low on A'm going to jumped up
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on me. Well, he said he'd die for her if it came to
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that. It came to that. It was after dark when Wilson and I
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drove out to the Market Beach. There were no lights on and nobody answered
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the doorbell, so Wilson forced entrance and we shook the place down. We
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found evidence of a struggle in the study and in the bathroom. Water from
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the bathtub had overflowed behind the tile and was still seeping out along the baseboard.
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We found a dressing gown of Missus Markey stuffed in the back of a
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closet, soaking wet. Piece by piece, Wilson collected his evidence and the
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picture became more and more clear. He phoned in for a fingerprint crew and
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went on working. I left him there and went back into town to my
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hotel and took the elevator up to my room, mister dollar, what are
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you doing here waiting for you? They've got extras out they say the police
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shot Danny Haynes. I thought maybe you could tell me what it's all about.
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Sure, and what you mostly want to know is how much he talked
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before he died? Isn't that in missus Marquis? I don't know what you
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Then go on out to your house and ask Wilson. He's out there with
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a fingerprint, cruel, and I imagine he can tell you anything you want
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to know. By now, I slipped up last night. I thought it
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was Haines who came to your door, but it wasn't. It was your
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husband, and you told him to come back later. Then when I left,
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you called Haines and had him come over if he said that he lied.
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I even gave you the idea for it myself, when I said,
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the only thing that could convince me your husband wasn't alive would be to see
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his dead body. So you talked Haines into helping you provide the evidence.
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I said I'd have to have. My husband's body was found in the ocean.
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They told me that this evening. Yeah, but he didn't die there.
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He was drowned in the bathtub at your house, and you and Haines
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did it. You're out of your mind. Danny Haines was live, and
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go tell Wilson it's his job now, not mine. Maybe you'll be able
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to convince him, but I doubt it, and I'm pretty sure you won't
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be able to convince a jury you think not. I'll get the best lawyer
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money conbined. Yeah, you do that, Missus Markis, but don't plan
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on using any of that insurance money for it, because there won't be any.
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That policy was already void when you and Haines killed your husband last night.
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An attempted fraud cancels the policy the minute it's committed. In other words,
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Missus Marky, five days ago, when your husband sank the Fathom five
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and tried to play dead, I don't believe it. You've lost out all
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the way around, Missus Markey, your husband, your boyfriend, your insurance
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claim, and now you stand a pretty good chance of losing your life.
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A four time loser. That's really a record expense account out of eighteen,
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three hundred and twenty one dollars and sixty cents. Hotel and incidentals in Miami
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and transportation back to Hartford. Expenser count total six hundred and eighty four dollars
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and ninety five cents. End of account and of report remarks. You quoted
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a line of Shakespeare at the start of this case, Ralph full fathom five,
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Thy father lies. Well you're wrong. It turns out to be the
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widow who lies and lies and lies. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Remember
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there'll be another exciting story of Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, beginning next Monday
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Night. Next week. Well, if I'd minded my own business, I
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wouldn't have heard the girl beg for help, and from that point on I
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needed help. Join us, won't you, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar?
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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood,
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written by Les Crutchfield. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard
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in this week's cast where Mary Jane Croft, Barney Phillips, Carlton Yell,
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Eleanor Udley, Sam Edwards, Shepmanken, and John Dayner. Musical supervision by
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Amerigo Marino. Be sure to join us on Monday Night, same time and
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station for another exciting story of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. This is
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Roy Rowan speaking welcome back. Well, actually, I found it kind of
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funny when you had the district attorney making the point that both he and Johnny
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had been technically right. No, no, you were never right in this
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case because your big assumption, the big basis for the claim was that he'd
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been killed on the Phantom five, and of course that wasn't the case.
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In this episode, we really dealt with probably the worst of them fatales,
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the uh you know, because Johnny made it clear the insurance company could not
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prosecute them at all because they hadn't filed the claim yet, and there would
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have been no legal issues if they just gone ahead and decided to stage husband
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come back. But she got greedy, and unfortunately for her, just I
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did not really think I had that well, but hopefully Johnny learned a lesson
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and he'll avoid ever jumping quickly to any conclusions without evidence and just be very
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cautious and circumspect about everything he says and does. And if you believe that
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now, I don't think we'd even though it's technically a flaw, I don't
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think it's one we would have Johnny Doller without in this Bob Bailey version.
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Now on to some listener comments. Lisa says, I enjoyed great detectives and
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and we're glad to bring it to you. All Right, Well, now
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delved into the setup, the more it made mystery. It was turning out
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a king size problem for a private eye. Call King. My big bewilderment
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was concerned with the date, the eighteenth, on which something was supposed to
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happen, which everyone was worried about in one way or another. But I
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figured I stood a fair chance of finding out what the eighteenth meant. After
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the ultimatum I had delivered to Marcia Olive, I was due to call on
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her at midnight, when I hoped all would be explained. Meantime, I
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headed for the precinct to pick up my car, which had been impounded from
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in front of Paulvey's office. After a long explanation to the police about sick
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relatives and a twenty dollars fine, I got the Dodge back and then it
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was close enough to midnight. And Marcia, Ah, it's you. It's
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not my twin brother. You couldn't have a twin brother. There couldn't be
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two mistakes like you. You're Marcia, You're sweet, like cyanide candidate.
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Cut the compliments and come in. You praised the invitation so tenderly. I
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can't resist. I'm glad. Well, just stand nice and still. This
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is a hair trigger and my fingers twitching shut the door, Marcia. Sure
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we've been waiting for you, Pal. Well, that's nice of you,
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Rodney. It's gonna be even nicer. I'm gonna relieve you of your gun.
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Then your coat will fit better. That's not my gun, it's my
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tailor. I'll have it anyway. I'd hate to put temptation in your in
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your path. Eh, that's better, you know, Roger. I'm surprised
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you forgot about Rodney so quickly. Honey, I'm even more surprised. I
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must be slipping. That can happen when a guy gets close to his end.
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I've still got a way to go, have you well? I thought
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I had, But I guess I could be wrong. You certainly could.
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Pal. You know you're a guy who keeps looking for trouble. Uh huh,
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it keeps looking for me. You should have kept moving south when you
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got off that yacht. A guy can't be that lucky twice, I suppose
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not. You're a problem, Pal, but not too big a one for
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a guy with brains? Oh where is he? I don't don't get smart,
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king, Sorry, you see. Our problem with you is this,
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you're still around. You're liable to tell Paulvey things we don't want him to
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know. He's got a nasty, suspicious mind. So what are we going
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to do. Let's think it over for the next fortnite. Murder isn't a
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rap, i'd care to risk. I'm glad to hear you say that.
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I'll bet you are. You haven't heard it all, Pal, I'm listening.
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Tell me this. Where does Paulvy think you are? Now? Well?
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I guess he that's right, Pal, he thinks you're under the water
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with the rest of the boys who were on his hut. So maybe you
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can figure the answer to our problem now. Huh. If it's what I
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think, you get the prize. Pal. All I have to do is
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put you back where you belong, under the water, and nobody's going to
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miss you. And if anyone does, that's Paulvy's worring, not mine.
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You're forgetting one thing, Rodney. When I took that sea voyage, it
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was planned very suddenly, so suddenly that I didn't have a chance to shift
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my car from outside Paulvey's office. So what so the police impoundered it after
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it had been there a couple of days. I don't get it. Guess
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when I paid twenty bucks to get it back when exactly forty five minutes ago.
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So if you knock me off, it's not going to be Pulvey's worry.
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It's going to be yours. The police know I was alive an hour
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ago. You're alive. Wait a minute, Rodney, he's not. I
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remember seeing a car driven away from out front of the office. What model
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is it? Roger Blue Dodge forty nine. So then that's it. I
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saw it all a Rodney, no language in front of the lady. Well,
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I think this change is the whole thing. What are we going to
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do? I don't know. Well, I think I do. Huh,
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let's have an hour of look at this thing. Now that I've proved i'd
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be a nuisance if you killed me. What about a deal such as you
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tell me what happens on the eighteenth, and I'll tell you what I know.
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How about that? What's your angle? King? I'm not working for
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anyone. I decided tonight to resign from my latest employer. So I've just
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got a large slice of curiosity after Paulvey tried to get rid of me.
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Whatever's behind it, it must be doing it, and I'm not the sort
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of to look sideways at a buck. I'm not even ready to quarrel whether
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it's an honest bucker or not. Oh, monsieur, what you think it
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might be a proposition? Rodney. That's one sure way of keeping his mouth
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shut between now and the eighteenth. And we could use someone else. It
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might make the job easier. Yeah, yeah, you could be right at
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that. Okay, King, I'm putting the gun away. It's a deal.
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Fine, how about a drink to clinch it. I've got a kind
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of dry feeling. I'll bet with my gun steering you in the face and
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fix the drinks. Baby. Sure, that's pretty lucky for you, King.
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That business about the cops in your car, Yeah, I guess so.
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You'd have been laying around the bottom of the sea without it. Forget
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that, Rodney, Here are the drinks. Thanks for you'll forgive me if
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I don't wait? I needed that, Okay, Rodney, suppose you give
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with the story now? Sure? Well? First of all, Paulvey Overseas
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Enterprises Incorporated is import X. Business is just a sideline. His real work
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is jewelry. Paulvey's one of the finest craftsmen in the world. When anybody's
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got something really valuable. They want all of it or fixed. They take
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it along to Paulvey. He's kept his name pretty quiet for obvious reasons.
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Of course, he wouldn't want the boys to collect that kind of stuff illegally
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to get to hear about him. Next we come into a dame, the
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Baroness Finalts you ever heard of her? King, No, when you should
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have. She owns the Carmel Royin diamond pendant. I've heard of that.
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She bought it for half a million dollars. They say it's worth more now.
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It must be nice to have money. The Baroness arrived here a couple
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of days ago. Was in the papers. I never read the social cop
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You should, then you might have figured what that date means. The eighteenth.
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You see, on the eighteenth there's a ball being held in honor of
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the Baroness Finals. Everybody who's anybody in town will be there, and the
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Baroness will be wearing her pend daylight breaks through. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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On the eighteenth you aim to say snatched the Baroness's pendul I'm correcting you.
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Paulv aims to have it snatched. What I may not be the brightest
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private eye in the business. But that doesn't sound smart to me. You
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haven't heard the half of it. I whope not to snatch of pendant like
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that. You have to love it for its own sake. Nobody had touched
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it, it'd be too hot. Sure, you're one hundred percent right.
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Well, well, it so happens that when the Baroness arrived here, she
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found the clip on the pendant needed some attention. So who does she send
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it to. I'll guess pby Paulvey, the expert, who luckily enough,
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lives right here. And Paul ve has the pendant for three days with cops
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and guards sitting all over the joint us. So what you're getting hard to
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follow, Rodney, It'll clear up. Now. Get this. When Paulvey
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knows he's getting the pendant to work on, he makes an imitation pendent,
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a pretty good one, not so good the little fool the experts, but
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good enough to fool a baroness. When the time comes for him to return
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the pendit, he's going to return the imitation and hang on to the original.
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How does he figure he's gonna get away with that? How long does
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he think it'll take before the Baroness finds out she's got a phony. That's
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right. So Paulvy is arranging to have the fake pendant snatched at the ball
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on the eighteenth. Oh you get it now. He has the fake snatched,
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then he waits for the insurance comp to offer a reward. It's insured
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for three hundred thousand dollars and the insurance company won't think there's anything unusual about
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the pendant being offered to them through a jeweler. I tell you this Paulvy
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character has some ideas, very neat, so he collects the insurance on the
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diamond without having to worry about the spoorsing of it, which he couldn't do
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anyway. Saying it so well known, it's really one for the books,
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isn't it. You said it, Marcia, But where do you and Rodney
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come into it? That's simple. I'm the guy Paulvy's paying to do the
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snatch. Yeah. Well, that's interesting, isn't it? But not as
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interesting as they set up between you and Marcia. From what I overheard earlier
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to night, neither of you exactly care for Paulvie. You can say that
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again. So my brilliant mind leads to conclusion that maybe you two are planning
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a little piece of double cross right on the button. Pal We got it
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planned rather cutely, even though I say it myself. You see, I'll
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be at the ball, and so will Paul. But while where busy there,
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Marcia will be paying Paulvey's office a visit and collecting the real pendant.
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And then then we fade quietly into the wide blue yonder and the we can
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collect from the insurance. So that's it, Roger, how do you like
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it? It doesn't sound a bad proposition. There's only one thing I don't
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understand, and that's at least Saint Crease and her boyfriend Johnny. At least
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Saint what Who's she? Marcia? You better pour another drink while I tell
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you. While they sat their drinks, I went through the story from the
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beginning, how Paulvy hired me to follow Elise, and how she hired me
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to follow him, with all the details right up to where we are now
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finished. Rodney looked at Marcia, and they both looked at me. I
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don't like the sound of that. The sa increased name and a sidekick must
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be after the pendant too. You'll have to watch out for them, Rodney,
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don't worry. I'm going to We're all going to what's the situation right
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now? Well, today's the sixteenth. Paulvey's doing to give the fake pendum
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to the Baroness tomorrow, the day before the ball. Uh huh, So
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now we just wait till the day after tomorrow. Yeah. Well, it
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seems to me that this at least increase around it. It might be a
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good idea if I went with Marcia when she plays the wheel pendant from Paulby's
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office. Yeah, it might be at that. I'll think about it and
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let you know. Fine, now, if it's okay with you, I
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think I need some sleep. Sure, Oh just one thing. Yeah,
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I sleep better with a gun under my pillow. Can I have mine back?
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Sure, I'll even hand it to you. But first, after all,
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where partners? Now? Huh? The social columns of the papers next
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morning were full of nothing but the Baroness von Aults on the coming ball.
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There was no photograph, but they gave the name of the hotels she was
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staying at. After coffee, I took a ride over to it. I
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wanted an interview with a baroness. But when I climbed out of the elevator,
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four quiet looking characters move up to me and one of them did they
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talking? Yes, I want to speak to the Baroness von Alts. Watch
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your business. I'm Roger King, a private detective. My business is private
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and urgent. Sorry, mister King. The Baroness is seeing nobody. I
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tell you it's we've got our orders. You've heard what they are. But
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I tell you, please, mister King, don't make a scene. There's
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only one of you and there are four of us, so I see.
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But say, who's that that woman who just walked out of that door and
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crossed the hall? That is the Baroness herself? It is well, in
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that case, let's forget the whole thing. I'll go something amusing you,
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uh huh. And it's no good explaining why, except to say that she
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may be the Baroness von Alts to you, but to me, she's at
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least Saint Crets. Welcome back. Well that's the type of experience that will
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make you thankful for a parking ticket. Uh definitely. Roger doesn't tend to
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joy with the bad join with the bad guys. He's already setting himself up
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for the double cross. But they finding out the identity that definitely adds a
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rink on it. I think we're going to be set up for a mad
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cap part four, so you want to be sure and listen as we wrap
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up Crime for King, and that will also bring a pause in the Carter
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Brown stories to continue to feel that these really do get better over time.
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I think that this one in particular, you know just so much great dialogue,
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a great mystery, and already so many fine twists, and I have
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i expectations for part four, So again, be sure and come back.
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you on Saturday after the program, and we will move back tomorrow with the
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