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Nick Carter: The Make Believe Murder (EP1302) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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net. Well, it's a time for us to go ahead and take a
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listen to today's episode of Nick Carter. This one original air date was July
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the twenty second, nineteen forty five, and the title is The Make Believe
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the history of detective fiction. A man whose name has become a symbol of
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the triumph of right and justice over the sinister forces of crime and love.
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A man recognized as one of the great masters of deduction, Nick Conner,
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Master Detective. Today's exciting case the Make Believe Murder, another exciting chapter dramatized
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from the life story of Nick Cotter. In just a moment, we'll hear
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how Nick Cotter was initiated into one of the most exclusive clubs in the world,
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A single light burns brightly down in the basement deep under the old brownstone mansion
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at the corner of Fifth and Fourth, illuminating a small paper target twenty yards
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away. Nick Catter stands a small automatic in his hand, firing methodically to
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the left about eight feet eight inches. Try again, left again, nine
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feet two inches, nine feet exactly that time. Hey, Hey, nay,
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yes, Patsy, he's firing. I want to come in, Come
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ahead, I'm just about finished. I've got a close up shop today,
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Nick, you'll be late, I see it. Won my bet with Sergeant
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Matheson. What I bet? I'm a dollar The Austrian masser wouldn't eject the
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cartridge more than ten feet. I've just fired fifty rounds and not one cartridge
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is more than nine and a half feet from the gun. I win a
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dollar, and Jensen is clear to the murder charge, which proves that he
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couldn't done it personally. I think I was waiting for you to notice evening.
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God. Uh well, miss Bowen, you look most charming, you
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really think so? Nick? Hey, I asked where you're going tonight?
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Out with you with me? Please? Hurry, Nick will be late.
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Wait for what? Don't tell me you've forgotten and you were so anxious to
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go and let it came. Honestly, Nick, sometimes I believe you're not
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human. Now hurry and get into your dinner clothes. I'll explain the way
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over with Patsy. Where are we going to a murder? All right?
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All right, you can stop kidding me now, I remembered Patsy, I
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was so wrapped up in that ballistics work and slipped my mind. You sure,
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I'll recite it like a lesson. I've been invited to join the famous
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Alphabet Club, the most exclusive gathering of eminent talents in the country, right
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right, Incidentally, why is it called the alphat Club? Nick? Were?
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The first letters are? The names of the charter members are the first
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four letters of the alphabet. Arnold Roger Nelson, Burns the architect, Walter
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Crane, the boy Wonder engineer, and George Dennis the Attorneyidentally, the not
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are the charter members. They're the initiating committee too. They're the ones who
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are going to put me through the ropes before the rest of the club arrived
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for dinner and their initiation stunts A cute idea, yes, the fact brother
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tickles me staging a make believe murder. They swear, I'll never be able
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to break it. Challenge the mastermind. Eh, that's the club over there.
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You can park in, friends, right on, We just about on
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time. Oh please hurry, Nick. I saw Burne the other day.
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He swore they'd cooked up a beauty. You know, I'm really intrigued.
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Yes, please, Miss Bourne and mister Carratt. Oh yes, good evening,
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madam, Good evening, sir. Welcome to the Alphabet Club. Thank
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you. The members are waiting in the lounge room. Will you follow me?
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Please? Could I join too? Nick? No, Patsy if they
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don't admit women. They asked me to bring you along because they said they
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knew I worked with you in my cases. Pretty swang place, isn't it,
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Nick? I wonder how much the club dos right here, sir,
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at just one moment, please, gentlemen, mister Carter and miss bowen.
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Well for the love, gentlemen. Gentlemen, on the door please, mister
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Rocher, mister Burns, please open, mister Crane, mister Tennis er enter
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the house. So dead murder awaits? Nick Cutter, Golly, it's pitch
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dark, Watchers, Patsy, don't trip on any dead body. Noise,
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I hear sounds like we're in a toy shop. Let's close out, miss
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Boone. Lets please, let's have the light of water. That said you
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are Golly, who's that lying on the floor. I assume it's Santa Claus?
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All right, you are the name of this mystery is who killed Santa
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Claus? And if mister Cutter and miss Boyne want any dinner, they'd better
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find out who done it and quick Well, gentlemen, I shall begin with
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the taking of the evidence. My name is Arnold Archer. I love Santa
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Claus, but today I hate him. Why because he brought me this cat
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pistol and I really a horn. My name is Nelson Burns, and this
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horn is a sad disappointment to me. I hate Santa Claus. I really
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wanted the sword he gave Walter Crane, and I wanted the captistly gave Archer.
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Who's Santa Claus. It's George Dennis. He'll say hello after mister Carter
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finds out who's done it. Well, gentlemen, I see you all have
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a good and sufficient motive for killing Santa Claus. I must now examine our
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make believe corpse to discover the method of this brutal fowl and the illegal make
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believe murder. Am I see, Nick? What is it? Get on
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the phone, call Maddie. Get the homicide squad up your fast, mister
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Carter, I'm not joking. Mister Rotcher, you better call the other members
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and cancel the dinner. You'll make believe murder has turned real. Dennis has
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been shocked to death. All right, all right, just a minute.
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I want to get you guys straight. Who's the corpse? Nick, George
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Dennis, the lawyer? You remember him, Maddie. He was retained as
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an expert in the Wilner case. Yeah, I got that now, which
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one is Arnold Archer? I am Archie. I believe me, Sergeant Matherson,
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this must be some kind of ghastly mistake. None of us would want
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to kill Dennis. We were his friend, Sergeant. We couldn't have any
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reason to kill him. Oh you're Burns, huh? Nelson burn Yes,
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And the gentleman over there is Walter Crane. I think this is a pretty
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bad taste Carter and I don't like it. Dennis was killed accidentally, There's
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no doubt of it. It's pretty cheap to try and turn this into a
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murder case for the sake of note rioting. No, listen, why it's
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a crane. You're positive this was an accident. Why well, isn't it
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obvious The four of us were alone in this room when the steward knocked on
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the door. Dennis laid down on the floor. I put out the lights.
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Nelson Burns dried off the blanks. Yes, well, evidently a round
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of live ammunition must have gotten mixed up with the blank. Oh no,
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that's not true. I swear as is right. I checked the gun.
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There are four rim fire blank shells in the chambers. Four. I see
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Patsy understands what I mean. Doesn't anyone else? What is this? Nick?
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When Patsy and I were outside, we heard five shots, five meaning
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that a fifth shot was fired along with those four blanks, meaning that one
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of you three gentlemen took advantage of the make believe murder to murder George Dennis
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place. None of you are to leave this room. Matty, get your
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squad in here SARTs these men and take this place apart if you have to.
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I want to find the gun that killed Dennis. Okay, Nick,
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the murderer wants to save us the trouble. He can talk now we leave
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me, gentlemen, this won't be any make believe search. Nobout having the
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same all right, Maddy, Yeah, going right, we're over here,
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Maddy, done anything to office sergeant. Well, let's hear what you've got
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first. Well, Archer's the famous financia worth over a million. Wouldn't kill
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for money, asn't burn same status plenty of money did over water crane.
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All four men were pretty close friends at college, known each other for years.
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Apparently they're still friends. That might not be true. People grow apart
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sometimes. On the other hand, all three are pretty ruthless kind of men.
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I imagine you have to be tough to make the success they had,
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and you have to have a certain amount of cold courage to pull off a
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murder the way this one has been handled. How about the gun? There
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ain't no gun. What you heard me, Patsy. There ain't no gun,
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Nick. We took them guys apart and put them together again. We
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took the roll apart. There ain't but one gun in the place, the
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one that fired the blanks. That's impossible, you're telling me, Nick.
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We opened every book, We even took the toys apart. No soap,
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and the gun couldn't have been thrown out the window because there ain't no window.
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Look, it's getting pretty late, Nick, and they're getting kind of
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sore in there. Do you want me to hold them? I'll tell you
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what, Maddy. Our bedroom's upstairs. I'll go upstairs if they want and
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try and get some sleep. But they're not to leave the club, right.
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And I want a ballistics report of the bullet that killed Dennis as soon
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as possible. Right, if you want me, I'll be in the kitchen,
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what doing, getting something to eat and pumping the steward. I'm hungry
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for food and facts. Now this is a man that can cook after my
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own heart. Thank you, sir, me too. I'll take lessons from
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you any day, Thank you, ma'am. Too bad at dinner like this
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had to be wasted. Oh it's not the dinner. I mind, sir,
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it's the fact that you're joining the club. We're so inauspicious, the
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very word, sir. You think they'll take me in any way, despite
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what happened tonight, Why, of course, sir. I'm sure the gentlemen
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are still anxious to have the famous Nick Carter as a member, even what
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it means, the famous Nick Carter has become merely an infamous detective accusing the
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members murder. I'm sure it was an accident, sir. You think a
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live shell might have gotten mixed up with the blanks, Yes, sir,
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I see, Steward. You know who loaded the gun. It was mister
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Crane, sir, the engineer, Yes, ma'am. Mister Crane always plans
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our little festivity, sir. He planned the entire initiation tonight, talking about
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it all weekie was sir. I used to see him late at night thinking
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it over in the lounge, chuckling to himself. Was it his gun?
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Yes, sir, I see. Well, thanks very much, Steward,
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both for the excellent food and for the information, especially the food. Come
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on, BETSI, I think I'd like to go upstairs and have a few
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words with Crane. Do you think Crane. Oh no, Betsy, certainly
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he's a likely prospect. I didn't like the way he kept insisting it was
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an accident. What I don't like is the fact that Walter Crane, engineer,
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gentleman with a calculating and mechanical aim of mind, gentlemen who loaded the
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gun himself, failed to notice an extra shot was fired. That's no initiation.
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Come on, upsairs, quicker, hang from upstairs, Maddie, come
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quick. Sounded like crater Nicks might be a trap to get us up here.
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This is Crane's room right here, Glory b it's Crane all right,
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did on the floor with a toy sword in his heart? Who's the man
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who turned make believe murder into reality and then covered it up by a second
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to our story. The make believe murder of George Dennis, which was staged
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as Nick's initiation to the Alphabet Club, suddenly turned real. Nick could find
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no motive for the murder, and Sergeant Matheson was unable to locate the gun
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that fired the death shot. While Nick and Patsy were collating evidence in the
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club, they heard a scream and rushed upstairs to find Walter Crane stabbed to
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death, a toy sword in his heart. Now, with Sergeant Matheson and
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Patsy, Nick examines the dead man as the other club members burns an archer
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rush into the room. What sake, Karda, what is good? Scream?
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All right? All right, don't park here. This ain't no Coney
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Island peep show. Donald it. I think this is a reunion. Go
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on, get out of here. Going back to you, I want to
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ask a couple of questions. Okay, so sure, where were you when
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you heard Crane scream? I just finished bathing. I was in the show
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room. I see as why you're still carrying at bath towel? Yes,
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and you, mister Burns, well, I was in my room, waiting
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for Arta to finish. I was smoking a cigar at my window. Where's
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the cigar? I don't know. I think I dropped it out the window
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when I heard Crane yell. How to get one of your men to check
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that? Right? Be back in a flash, and let's have a look
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at that sword. I barr a towel moment, Dodger. Certainly, I
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don't want to smudge any prince that might be on it. You thanks,
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Just wrap this towel around it, mister Carter. Surely you don't think I
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you what, mister Burns, well, merely because I said ingested I wanted
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Crane's toy sword during the make believe murder, you don't think I did.
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I killed Crane with it. Deductive reasoning, isn't that obvious? Mister Burns,
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You have nothing to worry about on that count, thank you. But
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both of you have plenty to worry about another count. No, mister,
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I don't think either of you want to stand. Two murders have been committed
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in this club. Someone's guilty. That leaves three suspects you, mister Roger,
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you, mister Burns, and the steward. They execute man for murder.
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Gentlemen try to understand that, well, I held go all right,
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Nick, all right, Matty, thanks, These gentlemen may return to their
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rooms, all right, Jens? Well, Nick, what about Crane killed
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almost instantly, just timing up the scream. Whoever killed him? He has
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plenty of power to thrust this dull blade deep enough to penetrate the heart he
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prints on the blade. Nick, I'll take the towel off and look.
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No blades, dry and clean as a mirror. You look at it by
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reflected light, not a latent print, and not even a smut. It
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doesn't help much. Well, I got news. It ain't gonna help much
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more. Yes, they took this slug out of Dennis. Here, I
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look at it. Thanks twenty two. I see wait, hello, you
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see huh? Nick? What is it? No rifling marks on this bullet,
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Patsy, No rifling marks, no lands or grooves on the slug at
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all. Now what's that supposed to me? The killer threw it at Dennis.
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That's impossible, But we heard the extra shot. Mattie's just being difficult,
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Patsy. I think Matti's bad news is the best I've had on this
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case. Well, now, what's that supposed to me. It means I
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think I know where to find the gun that killed Dennis. Come on,
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Patsy, we're going to have a look at Dennis's house. Well, how
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in places did the gun get there? I didn't say the gun was there?
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The guns in this house? Then why do you go into Dennis's place
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find out why it was fired. I'm not a scrap of paper worth looking
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at in his desk. Patsy, looks like we'll have to open that safe.
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Too bad. Dennis was a bachelor. No one here to give us
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the combination. We could wait for a court order to have the safe open,
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but I don't think we bother just to have the stethoscope in my bag.
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Okache, you're going to crack this crib? Okay, where did you
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pick up that jon from a crime magazine? You just scope? Thanks?
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Well, that magazine must have been fifteen years old. Crooks don't talk that
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way anymore. How would they describe what you're doing? They'd say that I
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was exercising a natural facility and delicacy of touch to turn the dial. Meanwhile,
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using a medical device to hear the tumblers ball quiet. Now shouldn't take
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long it's a three job, three bolt job. What made you go straight?
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Nick? Pat Patsy is a base insinuation. My criminal facility always acquired
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having a long career hiding crooks anyway, Are all right, let's go through
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this stuff quickly. Is Dennis's insurance one hundred thousand dollars? Bar associations beneficiary
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packages of old letters? Give them? Oh, here's a note from Archer
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offers Dennis one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the shares of stock Dennis hose
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an Archer's company. Nice. Wait a minute, he's a will. Let's
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see now this is very interesting. Mister Dennis leaves all cash and stock holdings
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to his old ex college roommate, John Wendell. Who's John Wendell? John
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Wendall happens to be the steward of the Alphabet Club. Well, old college
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friend. Eh, maybe that won't interest matty, Nick. Do you think
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it was Wendell the stewart? He he killed Dennis with the stock? Wait,
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let's have a look at that envelope here. Looks like it contains stock
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shares? It does it? Nick? There's only one share of stock in
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here, one single share. Pa. There you five hundred dollars. Someone's
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taking the rest just one share. Huh, Betsy, where's that note from
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Archer? You just read me here? Nick, why let's see you one
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hundred and fifty thousands. That's so you didn't read this correctly. It says
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that Archer offers Dennis one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for his share of stock.
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Dennis only owned the one share, and why should Archer offer him one
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hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a share of stock worth only five hundred dollars.
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You'll find out shortly. Let me have that phone. Oh, why
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do you always have to be so mysterious me? I don't like making statements
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until i'm positive. Alphabet club Charger Mathison speaking Maddy. This is Nick.
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Oh what do you find? Nick? I think I've found all the answers.
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Well, Nick, leave me here, not on the phone. I'm
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going to demonstrate now. Listen, I'm listening. Get the surviving members out
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of bed. Tell them I've broken the case. Tell them I'm going to
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re enact the crime for them. Yeah. When Patsy and I come to
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the door, I want the steward to meet us and we'll play the make
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believe murder all over again, just as it happened. You can take Raine's
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part, re enact the make believe murder. Right. I think you're crazy,
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Nick, Maybe at this time the make believe murder is going to lead
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to an honest to goodness solution. I'll set Patsy. I've got it,
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Nick. We're going to repeat everything we did earlier this evening, right,
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and that repetition means every detail, no matter how small. Right. First
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I rang the bell, Yes, sir, Miss Bowen and mister Carter.
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Good, good evening, madam, Good evening, sir, Welcome to the
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Alphabet Club. Hi. I think I asked you to follow me, mister
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Carter, right, go ahead, all set in them ready, nice,
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ready to go, gentlemen, mister Carter and miss Bowen make life. I'm
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screaming, Nick, that was crazy job. After knock again, then I
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said, gentlemen, please open the door, right, and then only four
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shots that time. Hemosper's opening to the door. Then what I said,
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something about entering the house of death. We came in and herd toy s.
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Then I told Crane put on the lights. I'll take care of that.
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Thanks. I asked who was lying on the floor, and I assumed
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it was Santa Claus, and you started explaining, Archer, So explain the
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name of this mystery is who killed Santa Claus. If mister Cutter wants any
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dinner, he'd better solve it. Gentlemen, I shall begin with the taking
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of the evidence. Ah, this is screwey. My name is Arnold Archer.
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Today I hate Santa Clause. Why because he brought me this cap pistol.
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I wanted a horn. My name is Nelson Burns and this horn one
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minute, mister Burns. Yes, Dotter detail. Mister Archer was supposed to
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snap his cap pistol when he spoke go ahead, mister Roger. I'll go
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ahead, fire that gun. Mister Roger. You'll never get me up.
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That's why gun tory be. That cap pistol was laid. It fired a
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real bullet. And that why still Archer, you'll never break away. That
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matter is a solution of our missing gun. Nick, why the single share
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of stock Dennis held was the answer. You never owned more than one share
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of stock, and yet Archer wanted to buy it back for one hundred and
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fifty thousand dollars One hundred and fifty grand. What for? I'm afraid mister
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Dennis was guilty of an old legal racket. As a stockholder in Archer's firm,
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you had the right of access to the company's books. You seem to
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have all the answers cut her. Yes, he sits through those books until
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he dug out enough of the evidence of illegal mugget operations to ruin us,
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and then offer to sell his share of stock and stockholder's right to bring action
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back to you for an extraorbinant sum. A blackmail, legal blackmail. Mister
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Archer, you were afraid Dennis is going to blackmail you for the rest of
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his life, so you'll kill him. Which is the final irony of the
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case that the make believe murder was committed with a make believe gun. In
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from Nick Carter himself. Nick, I thought Sergeant Mathieson checked the toy gun
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when he searched the room and found nothing wrong with it. That's right,
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Ken. A point very few people know is the fact that that certain types
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of cap pistols can fire live ammunition. The bullet is wedged into the barrel
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through a small hole in the plate that should support the cap. Then the
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hammer snapped and discharges the bullet accurately enough to kill as short rains. So
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Archer killed Dennis with the gun and then pretended it was a toy. Right.
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He disposed of the cartridge by the simple means of swallowing it. I
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guess that, and he admitted it. Well, why do he kill Craig?
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Because Crane's methodical memory couldn't be fooled. He finally recalled where the extra
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shot came from when he called Archer into his room and confronted him. Archer
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killed him, said, he just grabbed up the toy sword and stabbed Do
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you know that before I had a pretty good idea on the pretext of protecting
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fingerprints on the sword. I borrowed Archer's towel. He claimed he'd been bathing,
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but his towel was quite dry, didn't even dampen the metal blade.
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That's right, I remember you mentioned it. I stayed the repeat performance to
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frighten Archer and save us the trouble of a long cross examination. I knew
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that Archer and self defense would probably load his toy gun again, hoping to
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use it to effect an escape. That was what I was playing the scene
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for. Golly pretty clever. What story if you got in mind for us?
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Next week? Nick? Well can Next week, Patsy and I are
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going to meet at corpse that has been shot to death by a person or
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person's unknown. The only clue to the mystery is a letter in the pocket
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of the dead man. But the odd thing is the fact that there wasn't
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any stamp or address on the envelope, and there wasn't anything on the paper
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inside a letter without anything on it? What do you call this story?
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Nick? The Case of the Unwritten Letter, Nick Carter, Master Detective is
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copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications, Incorporated. Van Clark is starred as Nick.
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Charlotte Manson plays Patsy. Original music is played by George Wright and a
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resemblance in these programs to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental. The
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entire production is under the direction of Jack McGregor. Nick Catter. Master Detective
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This is Ken Paul speaking for the thousands of Linux dealers all over America
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and saying, so long until next week. This is the mutual broadcasting system.
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Welcome back. Well, I didn't actually buy the solution with a cap
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pistol, but I think they did make it more applausible, and I'm assuming
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that they don't make pistols like that that can be used that way anymore,
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but experts on cap pistols can correct me. I should mention there were a
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couple of lost episodes in between last week's showing this one, The Case of
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the Near Sighted Picture and A Penny for Your Thoughts were those which were lost
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previously Worth noting. Also here is hearing the name of Charlotte Manson in the
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credits. I don't believe I heard it before, but she was really taking
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over for Helen Chot as Patsy different style. She really was exclusively known for
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radio work, and she continued radio acting into the late fifties. And the
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only information I could really find on hers that she made in appearance on the
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Jackie Gleason Show and also The Untouchables, and that she had a serious accident
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that she had to come back from being stuck in a situation of being in
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a near paralysis. Now on to some listener comments and feedback. Bob says,
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thanks Adam. Loved the Johnny Dollar series in Nero Wolf, but you
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bring it to life with all the background and inside. Thank you very much.
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Bob also received some listener comments regarding the Nick Carter episode that we did,
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the Haunted Rocking Chair. John says Nick Carter a great old time radio
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show, and Brian says, this one sounds fine. I love the Nick
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Carter episodes. They're always not and clear. I know these come off old
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records, so I'll take anything we can hear, but these are so nice.
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Well, thanks Brian. And these are actually some newer ones in terms
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of recordings. I found the older ones I had a lot that were encrypted
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at twenty four kbps, which is very low quality. So this is a
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pretty pretty good improvement and another listener going by Miss Marple says most enjoyable.
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Thank you well, thank you so much. I appreciate all of your comments
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and that you're enjoying the series. We will be back Friday with yours truly,
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Johnny Dollar, and join us back here next Thursday for another episode of
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Nick Carter. In the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great
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