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Mr. Moto: Blackmail (EP0982) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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listener. Thank you so much for your support. Now it's time for today's
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episode of Mister Moto Blackmail. This is mister Moto. Mister I A Moto.
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The National Broadcasting Company presents the world's most brilliant international secretation. Mister I
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A Moto, the popular Japanese character created by Pulitzer Prize winner John P.
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Marquax. Mister Moto is quiet, Suave's infectly groom, and he is fighting
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the enemies of law and order with courage and heroism. His only weapons are
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his mind shark and lightning fast, together with his cool and calculated knowledge of
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the behavior patterns exhibited by every race of people in the world. Tonight's story
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is one of Blackmail, starring mister Moto. Mister I A Moto, I
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mean the tret as none since I was a child in San Francisco. Now
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that she is sixteen, I feel for her almost the same affection as for
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my own revered mother. Still, she has a kind of courage that made
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her keep a scheduled Red Cross engagement the day after she received notification that her
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eldest son had been killed on Battle Canal. Now that she was in trouble
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and she had sent for me, she received me in the morning room of
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her fifth Avenue house. Her fine old eyes were strained with wine and bewilderm
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Mister Loso, I've had the lost incredible shock. I've something to also,
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which waited her. Then turned my dear old friend to me. Come now,
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let me share your trouble. That, after all, is what friends
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are for. Its Paul, What about Paul? I have reason to believe
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that my deldest son is is what if I hadn't seen it with my own
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eyes, I just wouldn't believe it. Please tell me, he last night
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I couldn't sleep. I tossed around till three in the morning. Then I
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put on a road and came down to the library. It was so warm
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I sat outside. Their French doors had opened. From the library to the
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patio, but I was sitting there in the dark. I'm quite Suddenly someone
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switched on the library night. It was poor. He couldn't see me,
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but I could see him quite clearly, and he he store a nettress of
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mine out of the library walls. The store it, mister Moto. He
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was wearing gloves I see. Then he turned off the lights and night upstairs,
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without knowing you had seen him. Yes, it worried me, so
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I couldn't sleep all night. Finally I telephoned you. The netrice is valuable
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begged diamonds, cavish on emerald set in satment one of the emeralds ways study
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four carrots. It was a wedding gift from my husband, but since his
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death, I practically never wear it. And Paul knows this. Yes,
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he knows that all months might go by before I missed it, and you
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want it back. I could probably get it back by going up to his
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room asking for it. That isn't cause I want. I want to help
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him. He's all I have in the world. So our problem is why
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why did he steal it? Yes, he needs money, Perhaps he really
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has a good position and he gets a thousand dollars a month from his father's
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state. He needed to cat Has Paul never married? No Amy, do
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you hesitate? Oh there was a girl once they were engaged. She died.
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Oh I am so, mister Moto. I don't get upset very easily,
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but I'm sure there's something wrong in this house, something evil and terrifying.
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It this honest, I know Paul is in trouble, trouble that I'm
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too old. This motto, Yes, who a telephone Paul is a quarter
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to nine in the morning. How do you know it's for Paul? There's
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an extension in his bedroom. He's obviously answered it, but surely Paul has
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many friends who telephone him. Tell him at a quarter to nine, and
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especially the night after he's stolen Nicklass, I want you to listen to that
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conversation. I'm dear, old friend to you stop on someone else's whoever will
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hang up? I am afraid, but such a then I don't know.
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No, no, if you insisted the receiver yet I'm calling me at home,
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I d I mean it, don't tell on me at home in the
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necklace. Yes, last night hang it to the maul teased room A friently
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in seven. All right, and Paul, if you want to stay living,
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don't try anything. Smile critic when Paul is meeting a man named Riddick
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in the Maltese room of the thir plea at seven, have given the nextace?
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Yes? Why why missus de clat has Paul that I've been arrested.
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No, you're sure towards the mintatic violation and that is all. Yes,
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my dear old friend, this is not my usual line of work. I
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am saving for yours and a world play. As you've got to help me.
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I couldn't possibly go to the police, not about my own son.
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Please, mister Moto, they're the only one I can trust. Well,
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then, of course I will help you. Please try not to worry.
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Let me do that for you. Now do you suppose that Paul coming morning?
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Mother? I'm afraid I'm late for breakfast. But why, mister Moto,
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Hello Paul, good morning, dear How are you Tomoto? Ye?
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Thank you? You and mother hatching up a plot your mother and I need
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for as twice a year like the stockholder. Well, I'm sorry I can't
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join you. I'm late for the office dining home tonight. No, Barbara
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and I are going to the theater. He'll give him my love, have
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a nice time. Thanks. I'm sorry to rush off the Tomoto hope I'll
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see you soon. Goodbye, paulod bye dining, good bye. You must
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admit he's a good act, impeccable. Oh he's so fine, so decent.
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Mister Moto. What can we do? I will go to the Machiese
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room at seven. In the meantime, I'll make a few inquiries. I
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am sure that the trouble is Paul will be all right, mister Moto.
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There's just one thing. Yes, some years ago I needed money rather badly.
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I didn't want him to stay investments, so I sold the necklace of
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fifty thousand dollars and later brought it back. And it seems silly to have
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that amount of money and jewelry I never wore. I had a duplicate made.
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You mean the necklace Paul took last night. Yes, it's worth about
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two hundred dollars. Such man would be very kind of you to see me
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on such short notice, of mister Moto. I'm here to help people,
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especially people like you. Thank you so much. I would like to check
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the police files on a young man named Paul Decresto, Paul decrest Yes,
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do you know him? Yes, I do, and his mother. I've
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known her for many years. I'm very gracious meeting. Yes she is,
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mister Modo. Paul Decretos no prison record. I'm quite positive the files on
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him a negative, but you would have no objection if I checked. I'm
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afraid I would such burns. I do not understand. Look, mister Moto,
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I know you've done some brilliant work for the government. You're a man
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of honor and integrity, and naturally I wish to co operate with you in
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every way I can. However, you are not a license detective in New
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York State. That is true, and if you wish to check politics file,
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you will have to get a notarized statement from him authorizing you to do
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so. But surely, judge burns. Between friends, this formality can be
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dispensed with. I am afraid not, but if its ticket, this license
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would damage my cover as a secret agents. My regular work is done completely
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incognito. I am really trying to assist an old friend. You must do
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so through routine channels. Very well, I am sorry if I have bothered
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to note at all. I assure you our next contact will be along much
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more formaba. Hello Elean Chester, can you talk freely? Yes? Do
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you know a Japanese named Moto? Yes? Yes, I don't. By
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any chance? Is he working for you? Oh? Yes? He is
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an official officially? Have you lost your mind? Do you realize what could
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happen to me if that little man ever reopened the house? In murder case?
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Mister Moto, I didn't expect to see you again today. The multi
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room is my favorite bar? Oh? Is it? Yes? It's moved
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fors gently on one's nerve. By any chance, you wouldn't be following me,
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my dear boy, what a ridiculous suggestion? Will you have a cuptare?
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Well? No thanks, I'm meeting a friend who should be here any
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minute. On fact, furious now down the bar? Will you excuse me
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suddenly and remember to call me some day? So? Yes, yes,
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I'll do that all right, Eank, I's actual what it's talking to a
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friend? Ian on this? Don't be crazy? If sure? Of course,
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I'm sure relax. Got the necklace? Yes, I view the letter
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I said I would, didn't I give it to me? Sure? Thanks?
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Here's the neck question of the bar? You idiot. Listen, Rade
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just finishes it. If you ever phone me or try to get in touch
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with me again, I'll well, I'll you're one. This as the end.
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You understand it's finished. I'll shut up and relax. Put the letter
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on the pocket. I remember, radeck don't call me again. Never sell
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and Paul obviously and keep out in front. But me, Paul, Look,
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mister moto, will you leave me alone? Would you prefer that I
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arrested you? Look modo? Whatever it is you've been drinking, have a
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couple more and go home. Did you give me to rate it under the
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bar? What are you talking about? The emerald necklace you stole last night?
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Listen, motto? Do you write detective fiction? Your mother saw you
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take a sheep? Oh? Now look here, she was upside on the
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patio. She couldn't sleep. I detest scenes in boss. I want a
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few minutes conversations with you alone. You will be so kind as to come
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quietly to my apartment. Now all right, I'm here. What are we
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doing next? Oh? I am your friend? Do you believe that?
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Why should I? I have known your mother since before you were born.
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I know that you are in trouble. I want to help you. Your
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mother saw you take this next. She's worried and upfest for her sake,
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I am trying to protect the honor of the detect Oh, won't give me
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that oriental stuff about honor of the family. If you could see you always
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clear, too, fusty, I have no other movie. Protect a friend.
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I am very fond of your mother, and I am the be fond
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of you. Now, Ken, please you radick for me, didn't you?
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Yes? He returned from letter yes black mail Yes, in following what
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murder murder. I I was in love with a girl named Mary Houghton when
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she she was a singer in a nightclub that that rade owned. They get
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on. He started, I was a baker's helper when he was sixteen.
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He stole and fought and shot his way up to the top. He ended
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up owning the Canyon Club. Mary Houghton sang there. I I was crazy
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about her. I was just a kid and she was do you boy?
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It is a very familiar that we were going to be married. Then I
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found out that Raydick was was paying the rent on her apartment. I wrote
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her a letter here you may as well read it. Dearest Mary, I
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have thought about her phone night. Can't you understand how tortured I am,
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and that I'd rather you were dead than not even to read it. I
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promish you I'll kill you before Paul. How old were you when you broke
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this? Anyone did you kill? No? Well, I don't know.
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There were always a lot of older men. She even had a friend of
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mother's, a judge, Judge, Judge Burns. Yes, do you know
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him? He's like, are you suggesting that Judge Bloom a rayech? It
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could have been anybody. She played the field and you were so in love
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with her you didn't care. Yes. Then what happened? There was an
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inquest. The verdict was suicide. You had an alified. I was at
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my fraternity house to had trouble fixing the exact time of death. Why it
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was winner twelve degrees blow zero. All the windows in her apartment were left
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open, the body was frozen. Who found ye went through her personal effects,
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found this letter and kept it and then telephoned the piece. Oh no,
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no, no. Then he went home. The building is superintendent father.
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The next morning one of the radiators was frozen and had burst at leaked,
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and he went into repair it. And none of this came out of
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the inquest. No, everybody concerned had an alibi and the case was dropped.
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Dropped Why that scene at the time, as though there was pressure from
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higher up? Maybe Radeck had something on the police. I don't know.
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And how long has this blackmail's been going on? Well, this is the
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first time Raydeck lost a lot of money recently, Paul, blackmail is something
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that never ends. What do you mean? I mean that Radeck, in
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all probabiliness, he had made go fer steps of this promised me. He
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gave me his words, would Paul? Besides the nickast you gave him was
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an imitation? Why? Yes, mother told me this morning. But diva
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tour. She sold the original some time ago. She needed money. Then
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when that tries to sell it hills exactly. So if he has not made
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photos deeps the letter, our position is excellent. How can we find out?
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What can we do? We is ridiculus the grom Hotel, Room eleven
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twenty three, Telephonium. Do you know his number? Yes? But but
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what do I say? Nothing? If he answered hang up? I merely
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wish to find out if he is at home. That's Righteck. Please eleven
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twenty three? Thank you? Are they mean yeah, it's not in?
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Then we shall break into his room and such a threat, or you're crazy
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as entry is something about which I know a great deal. I have the
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equipment and the experience. Now come along. We took a textige to Groom
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Hotel. The eleventh floor hallway was deserted, but brilliantly lit. Radex Doll
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was around the corner in a dead ended foot hall while I worked down the
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lock. Paus to God, never hurry up delicacy and haste our poor companions
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very open. It would help if you were quiet. Ah, what the
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way do a raider comes back? We will rely on the inspiration of the
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moment. Come along. If we're caught here, we'll be turned on the
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lights. Now where would a man of rady disposition hide valuable paper at the
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desk? To up? Let me think, Mr Mode or listener? Someone's
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coming which way? I know? That whistle coming the back room quickly and
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throws the door. Just keep out of frighting the crass he carries our gun.
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Mode f the back room quickly and be quiet unless I be careful.
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He's dyning like what please? Mister Rabbick, do not reach for You're done?
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This is a fantic call the Teplould you get in here? Who are
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you? The door was unlocked, so I took the liberty of coming in.
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You can take the liberty of getting up. Fair, mister Riddick,
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would you like to make a great deal of money? Faded? I am
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serious? Surely there is no harm in our discussing it. There is something
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I want done that's so like? What? May we talk it over?
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But two minutes? Talk? Fair? You are most kind? Uh?
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May I have a cigarette? What goes? Are? I have come to
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you because you have a reputation for being a tough man, and mister Riddick,
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I need a tough man. I need him so badly. I am
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willing to play twenty thousand dollars for his services. Yes, are you interested?
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I might pay? What is it? May I have that cigarette?
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Sure? Yeah? Thank you so much. You have a match lighton?
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Thank you? Ju jitsu is very handy for dealing with tough men. Mystory.
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Listen, what is nice? You will observe that a few ances more
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pressure on your elbow will tear the shoulder bones from the stucket. Paul,
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come here quickly, I listen, PAULA, you're drained up Jetty's gun quickly
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right, got it? It's already. We have very little time. You
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will never use this arm again unless you give us what we want. Where
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are the focus stets of that left? Wouldn't you like another half inches of
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radic and you will be a cripple? Where are they in an envelope?
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Get them? Paul? Yes to hear? Is that all of them?
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Medic? Yes? I would believe you. It's true. I had a
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dozen men. That's all, canthom? Paul? I am that's right as
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it doesn't the negative it's here too, keeping covered, Paul, i'ld like
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Rick get up. I would advise you not to try blackmail again. If
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it's a revoting profession, go ahead, Paul. What's your name? I
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am mister Moto. Mister I ay moto. If you wish to see me,
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I am in the manhappened directly. Good night, mistree, mister Motorway.
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I don't know how to thank you. I don't something is radically wrong
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wrong. Why give me mister Dick's gun? Bro? Thank you? No.
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By the way, here is your mother's next you took it from her.
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Its most extremely simple, Paul, I have some other calls to make
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go home if radio getting such with you again, telephoned me at once at
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my apartment. But why would we've gotten the photo stature? Unfortunately, I
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am quite quite sure that I have bundled Judge Burns. I too have friends
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in high places in this city. I was given access to the files on
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the Merry Housen Murderkido, I'm not interested. I told you that. Nevertheless,
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you shall listen. The bullet which killed Mary Hutton was fired from a
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German Luga automatic of nine millimeters caliber. The gun was never found until to
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night. What do you mean in Carl Radeck's position? I come too.
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A single strand of short gray hair was sent to the Priest's laboratory. It
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had been found on the marrying Houghton's fingernaire the cellular arrangements that amateur and general
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condition of the hair was being examined when the laboratory attendant was suddenly called to
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the priest Commissioner's office. When he returned, the hair had this appeared.
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Why get out of here, that's been Your hair is both great and short.
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Hello, It's called the cliff. How good money? Paul? Did
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you sleep well? I just heard from raining kick on his way over to
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your house. Yes, right now, he's your mother. I will be
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there in fifteen minutes. You were too taking get away with this your prazy
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there's nobody puzzle trick right that on me. He's commediately beto the talking.
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Will you murdered? Mary Hart? I didn't all right by explaining that letter
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in court, how he'll pay me? You offer it goes to the police.
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By know, there were more than a dozen folf of tech needs.
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As a matter of fact, that word, mister murdo, what's he means?
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We got twelve of them? I think he's bluffing all. I used
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to be a baker, remember a bigger that's a thirteene. Now let's crack
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the form around and I'll try offering me that phony neck was fifty thousand in
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cash. By known, you've got two thousand a half. Anybody gets started,
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I can't possibly get fifty thousand dollars in cash. Bye, you will
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wake up your old lady and tyler cash a check, will mother? It
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is needless. The contrary, mister knowlto It's very important that i'd be included
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in this discussion. I've been listening at the door. Mister Raydeck get out,
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Love Graham, I join your here, said Kelly, it comes out.
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I'll get high and mighty strong. Mother. I didn't kill her.
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I didn't. That letter will send you with a chair so fast you won't
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know what hit chick. Hen mister, all right, let's cut out the
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talk. Fifty thousand in cash, bye on our sunny boy can take the
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consequences. Mister Moto, you have guessed the flea. Judge Burns telephoned me.
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I hate to do this to him that I have no other storie.
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What do you mean, Judge Burns? Mother, Are you trying to say
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that Judge Burns killed Mary? No, Paul, she is trying to say
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that she did my dear old friend. If only you had told me everything
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from the the ginni oh. I didn't think it would be necessary. I
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never connected Paul Steve the netlace with mary husband's murder. She was cheap and
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coming desperable For ten thousand dollars, she promised to end her engagement with Paul,
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and the day after I paid her, she broke that problems. I
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went to her apartment. We had oh her dreadful scene She took a gun
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from her desk Ydex gun as you know now, and ordered me out.
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I tried to take the gun away from her. It went off like why
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did you put the windows up? I was wearing heavy persume. I thought
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it might be noticed. I had no one to turn to, so I
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went to Judge Burns and he managed to obtain the only bit of evidence against
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the gray hair under Mary hoppin Syndony. Yes, please do not worry for
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me. I am an old woman. I've had a rich, full life.
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I have a fine boy. But a murder tire is so terribly unpleasant
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of mister Moto. I'll never live through a murder tryer, Please do not
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worry about I would Judge Burns students. Why would he conceal evidence of this
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nature? And he felt obligated to me. In the crash of twenty nine
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he lost everything he had. I saw the necklace and gave him fifty thousand
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dollars You mean mont Oh, No, No, it was a gift.
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So when I was in trouble he tried to help me. I'd so like
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him not to be disgraced. His partners must never been known. He wouldn't
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have done it if he believed that I well, that I wasn't innocent.
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He is in love with you, didn't you? We never see each other.
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He has a wife and family. I see, mister motto. Yes,
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those who thinks he'll convict me, And gentlemen of the jury, have
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you reached a verdict? We have your honor. We a jury find a
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defendant, highly decret guilty of murder. But I leant destiny was not long
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in the hands of justice. Before she could begin the spending of imprisonment for
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the rest of her natural life, her tired but still spirit faded as the
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insensitive temple quietly and gently, He's the strange, said, mystery of the
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world beyond. You have just heard the world's greatest international secret agent, mister
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I a motto. In Blackmail, James Monks starred as mister Motto. The
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script was written and directed by Harry W. Junkin, produced by Carol Irwin.
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Other members of the cast were Bill Lipton, Grace Cuddy, and Ralph
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Fell. The music was transcribed welcome back. Yeah. I have to say
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that I meant A Baker's Dozen has to be one of my all time favorite
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clues. I think in the position mister Moto was kind of on the intense
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side in terms of interrogators. You know the position he was in, and
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he was gonna lie. He wasn't gonna be able to. I don't think
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he was thinking, let's oh, I've got to find some way so that
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later on I can say technically, I told you correct. But it was
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a baker's dozen and also kind of minimalist on the effect. This has the
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feel. I don't know whether it's a rehearsal or a badly edited tape,
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but we do our best with what we have available. So I apologize that
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some of these key things are missing from this. A lot of the transitions,
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and we just kind of get action upon action here. So kind of
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odd, but all right. Listener comments and feedback, Bobby says, my
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wife and I've watched all the Mister Moto movies. This was our first time
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to hear the radio show. I enjoyed it, but I wanted to hear
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a few more episodes before I'm making my mind. Thanks for sharing. Well,
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thanks, Bobby, and I will say that I'm actually enjoying Mister Moto
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the second time through some of these episodes. I haven't listened to all of
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them. I think I listened to four or five of the thirteen we're gonna
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play, but these first three i'd heard and I actually like them better the
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second time through. And then I want to have a comment on Facebook from
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Bill Wise Guy Palucci, who says, listening to the Thin Man tonight,
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Well, thanks Bill, and I love it. Folks availed them, say
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of our archived which is available at archivestat Great Detectives dot net. We have
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so many shows we've been all the way through over the past four years that
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if you didn't hear it the first time, you just go to constat Great
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Detectives dot net and you can listen to any of the shows we've done.
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All right, Well, that will actually do it for today. We will
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be back on Wednesday with the next part of the Forbes Matter, and then
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join us back here next Tuesday for another episode of Mister Moto. In the
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