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Ellery Queen: Nick the Knife (EP1630) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time for
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  Speaker 1: today's episode of Ellery Queen. We have a change of network.
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  Speaker 1: The series moved from NBC to CBS and Barbara Terrell
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  Speaker 1: takes over as NICKI Porter. So with those casting changes
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  Speaker 1: in mind, here now is today's episode of Ellery Queen
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  Speaker 1: from August first of nineteen forty five. This one is
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  Speaker 1: called Nick the Knife and it's taken from the Mystery
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  Speaker 1: Playoffs program.
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  Speaker 2: Tell is turned with a terror that ravaged the city
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  Speaker 2: for many months. Solved finally by your good friend Mellerie Queen,
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  Speaker 2: who's here to tell you all about it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, to Night's mystery is the grim tale of a
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  Speaker 3: crime that terrified the city. I call it the adventure
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  Speaker 3: of Nick to Night.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll say good night here loud, but glad, it's
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  Speaker 4: your house is a block away, you know, Pa, he
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  Speaker 4: gets awful mad when I stay.
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  Speaker 3: Out this late with a fella. No, but I don't
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  Speaker 3: like you walking the rest of the way alone in
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  Speaker 3: this dark neighborhood.
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  Speaker 5: Glad, Oh you're sweet. Well, good night, Loue, Okay, good night.
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  Speaker 4: Gee o shu it is a dark mine. I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: hope plant waiting up for me. I don't who's that
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  Speaker 4: under the tree, paw paw that you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's the line, beautiful, here's my shovel. You get
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  Speaker 3: on my life. Kevin's pretty finny and I want to
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  Speaker 3: find that night And you care a lot, wouldn't you?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing happened so dark? Like hey, now of course come back?
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  Speaker 6: Oh Jimmy could be something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Jimmy, is that you? What?
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  Speaker 6: I'm hearing things that I gotta be getting back home?
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  Speaker 4: What is is somebody? What is.
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  Speaker 3: You?
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  Speaker 7: Never step by me?
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  Speaker 4: Lap who.
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  Speaker 8: Mhe fron against life?
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  Speaker 9: Maybe his thirty first weekly mis since he launched it.
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  Speaker 9: Mystery upon that tearaway. Last Christmas Eve, twenty year old
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  Speaker 9: Henriette Rubberood of the Bronx was found unconscious on a
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  Speaker 9: dark path in Central Park by a park.
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  Speaker 3: Patrol unless than three hours ago and.
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  Speaker 9: In all previous cases take the knife attack consistent and
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  Speaker 9: splashing his victim's wrist, that face.
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  Speaker 3: With a sharp instrument. Sorry, investigating still as usual?
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  Speaker 9: Don't clues have been turned off to the identity inspector.
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  Speaker 3: You were pretty late yourself tonight, Dad, do snoc the radio?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Well he yeah, should have late news on that.
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  Speaker 4: Any clue in this one?
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  Speaker 3: Inspector turned that without recovering consciousness. In fight of all
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  Speaker 3: our warnings, these girls will keep frequenting lonely spots after
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  Speaker 3: don and he.
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  Speaker 6: Gets me, hilly, couldn't you help find out you?
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  Speaker 3: I wish I could. Of course, it's seen the papers
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  Speaker 3: of named Nick. The knife is psychotic, probably coronoiad, but
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  Speaker 3: that's not much help. As very as victims, there's nothing
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  Speaker 3: in common. Ex they're all female and attractive. Afraid, Dad,
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  Speaker 3: the best you can hope for is a lucky break
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  Speaker 3: better come soon center, I'll be out of a job. Hey, well,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to bed, which reminds me I'm tired. Would
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  Speaker 3: you handy my head?
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  Speaker 2: Lery?
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  Speaker 3: Just where do you think you're going home after midnight? Hello? Nikki? Oh, Ellerie,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's ridiculous. Then come on, I'll be at home.
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  Speaker 4: This is the first time we've been out together since
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  Speaker 4: you took me home last week. We gotta make it
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  Speaker 4: it happen. Oh, this new park is beautiful, Larry Hillory, Oh,
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  Speaker 4: never mind. When you're thinking up a new mystery pot,
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  Speaker 4: a girl may as well be playing sawgs here. What's
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  Speaker 4: that over there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the entrance to the maid entrance to the
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  Speaker 3: wat the maize m A z e species killing them
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  Speaker 3: in the tongue. Oh you mean a labyrinth in park?
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  Speaker 3: They're called me this, Nikki, a crazy arrangement of crisscrossing
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  Speaker 3: paths and get nowhere. This was enclosing high walls and
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  Speaker 3: I was a glass roof over it killing. Oh it's
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  Speaker 3: fun and so many one at the gates there where
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  Speaker 3: the policeman his tucking. He's talking to Sarde and Billy
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  Speaker 3: George is the sergeant. Hi, Sergeant mine a new park.
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  Speaker 3: How about you next to my case? They inspect their
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  Speaker 3: figures the opening of a new park. I'm drawing neck
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  Speaker 3: like a fly a mustard. The place is I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's filled with extra datail. It's a good thing too.
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  Speaker 4: Sergeant, who is that handsome young copy you were just
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  Speaker 4: jabbering with that at the entrance twice disappears.
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  Speaker 3: I told him to go inside and have a look.
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  Speaker 3: And a nice kid on the conty. He's just been
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  Speaker 3: reinstated in the forest. He stopped on that see snipers
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  Speaker 3: bulled a couple of weeks before me day and got
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  Speaker 3: his honorable discharge. Some hunk of name. I'm sure if
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  Speaker 3: you want to meet officer, indicate nege surgeon lea girl screaming,
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  Speaker 3: you say, wait, hold on, hell, you're not going to
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  Speaker 3: be doing I stop it. I turned at gonna be late.
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  Speaker 3: Hey what I'm going in for me? No? No, you
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  Speaker 3: stay there. This is the only exit from a maze.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody's come out as that drill screams next sun. I
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  Speaker 3: stopped inside, like damn, I've went for out. Joke. If
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  Speaker 3: anyone get out, another dead end's dismayed. And because amica,
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  Speaker 3: are you clow the whistle again, swagg twist, stands still,
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  Speaker 3: or I'll blow a hole through your back drop the
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  Speaker 3: gun drop it. Huh okay, I'll turn around and keep
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  Speaker 3: your hands high. Oh, policeman, I thought you're You're indicate,
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  Speaker 3: aren't you. I'm ellery queen, inspector, Queen's son. Yeah, where's
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  Speaker 3: the girl? You've seen a man? Officer? Officer? For heaven's sake,
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  Speaker 3: we're wasting time. Only man, I've seen him here as you.
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  Speaker 3: How do I know this isn't a trick? Reach in
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  Speaker 3: my pocket you'll find my wallet identification? Yeah, uh, satisfying. Okay, Sorry,
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  Speaker 3: he's your gun, Miss Queen, follow me. Did you find
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  Speaker 3: a girl? Yeah? Chack this turn she did. No, she's
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  Speaker 3: bleeding bad though. Had to apply tourniquets to bolt her wrists. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: through this head, mister Queen. There she is m a
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  Speaker 3: pretty fairly to the trick officer. Good work, nice unconscious.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder who she is. I can tell you, mister queen.
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  Speaker 3: Name is Jane Stepley. How do you know I recognized her?
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  Speaker 3: She lives in the boarding house where I room. I
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  Speaker 3: passed her in the hall lots of times. Not much
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  Speaker 3: to look at her. Well. Exchange is petter. All right,
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  Speaker 3: daylight attack and a homely girl. I better take a
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  Speaker 3: look around, all right, but watch yourself and watch yourself,
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  Speaker 3: Jane stiffly lead it to your face. Ambulance billy that
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  Speaker 3: you follow I liked?
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  Speaker 8: How did you get here so quickly?
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  Speaker 3: Right here?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Nick check it was cruising in a spot car
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  Speaker 4: right in the parkway.
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  Speaker 3: Oh eminence, men, hey, you better get into the hospital fast.
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  Speaker 3: Her name is Jane Stipley. Dad, I can wait? Where's
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  Speaker 3: the opposite?
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  Speaker 7: Was here?
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  Speaker 3: And again searching the maids A sergeant, did you have
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  Speaker 3: any look at the intern? Just one guy, I start
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  Speaker 3: trying to get out. No do you're thinking?
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  Speaker 10: Ass?
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  Speaker 3: All right, ambulance men, we'll see at the hospital. Come
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  Speaker 3: in drinks No summers, other head, no summers? The hophead
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  Speaker 3: dead guys in, doesn't it do?
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  Speaker 4: What a ready little man? And look at his eyes?
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  Speaker 3: L Rey just pinpoint the thanks of the drug he
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  Speaker 3: takes me ge snow summers.
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  Speaker 10: Let me go.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta be wrong, can after the airbars? What did
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  Speaker 3: you do with the knife?
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  Speaker 2: Knife?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, p trap on me, let me go. Let me god,
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  Speaker 3: I just found out that shrub tossed away. Oh what
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  Speaker 3: a wicked looking thing got your knaves though, isn't it? No, No, no,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't come off. I waste time and spectories on hop.
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  Speaker 3: He was the only one on the maid's always nick name.
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  Speaker 3: I'll come here this pick up some price. Yeah I
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  Speaker 3: want Maddy. I'm a tipsy Okay, Dame Cutters. I picked
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  Speaker 3: up what the princes top with another prisoner. Oh but ellery.
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  Speaker 4: That little man can't be nick to knife.
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  Speaker 6: He's he's so jolly looking.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, inspect I found this one here on the maids
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  Speaker 3: roosting up in a tree. That's your name, Hodges, Joyce
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  Speaker 3: Kay Hodges. The K is for Kennicutt, but I changed
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  Speaker 3: the K for Kilma Joyce, Kilma Hodges. You see I
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  Speaker 3: love trees, love trees. Yes, trees are so green.
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  Speaker 8: You know he is so.
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  Speaker 3: Joyce k Hodges. Ellery that case in the papers two
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  Speaker 3: years ago. Yes, that's dad. I recall it's man's wife.
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  Speaker 3: Let him for another man, particularly nastiness. I just try
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  Speaker 3: to kill him with a knife. Now look at him, yes,
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  Speaker 3: miss Dodgers. Yes, have we've been in a big short
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  Speaker 3: of hospital. Oh that I'm perfectly well now you know
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  Speaker 3: you regard your wife God glory? Oh yes, yes, indeed
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  Speaker 3: she was young. I suppose pitty. Okay, here, oh parks, parks,
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  Speaker 3: how I love parks and trees. Isn't that tree green?
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  Speaker 3: What tree? Or he's looking at me? Take him away?
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  Speaker 3: Come on in the lake horn cannot only be snow
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  Speaker 3: summers by hophead. But mister Joyce Kilma trees Hodges just
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  Speaker 3: found another one? Sure anymore, asked one of the boys
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  Speaker 3: found under a boy's sleeping sleeping Okay.
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  Speaker 4: That the man, that tremendous bat man, look at his hands,
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  Speaker 4: is the.
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  Speaker 3: Fruit, isn't he? What's your name? I love Blutner Litner
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  Speaker 3: for a living goodnor Butcher Butcher. Yeah, you're working at
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  Speaker 3: your trade, Bluetener right late off, not for months already?
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  Speaker 3: No meat, no me, it's stupid. You were joank you
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  Speaker 3: way yeah, sharp knife cut meat wood? But now no meat,
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  Speaker 3: no good? What were you doing in here today? Blutner
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  Speaker 3: man head hurts and loansome. I like the people.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty girls, yeah, pretty girls.
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  Speaker 3: Like f uh take him away right? No all that
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  Speaker 3: it looks like a job. And as this latest victim
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  Speaker 3: can identify one of the three as her saying, soon
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  Speaker 3: as James Stepley can be questioned, we'll take some as
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  Speaker 3: hodges and bluted down to the hospital and have a pick.
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  Speaker 3: Take the knife.
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  Speaker 4: You're sure they can't do any harm, liking so close
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  Speaker 4: to me, each.
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  Speaker 3: One his hand cut through. Detective, you understand, no, no.
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  Speaker 6: Please please hep.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody please, no, no, no, just calm down, mist may
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  Speaker 4: I Jane, Jane, listen to me. Nobody's going to hurt
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  Speaker 4: you anymore. They just want you to.
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  Speaker 3: Look at these three men. That's cut me. Take it easy, hear,
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  Speaker 3: no time at all? Step On. Do they take a
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  Speaker 3: good look at this man mis stepping? When's this the
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  Speaker 3: man steppy?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: Take him away, please, take him all away.
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  Speaker 3: I need to shut by hide it over here. Can
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  Speaker 3: you look at this one? Please? She is a very
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  Speaker 3: good green tree. Was it this man, miss Stepy, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, I don't know. Shine, Okay, you're gonna touch
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  Speaker 3: me back, Jeane, Just this last one.
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  Speaker 4: It was this big fat man, wasn't it? How can
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  Speaker 4: I tell him?
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  Speaker 8: It was?
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  Speaker 6: When I didn't see what.
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  Speaker 4: I was walking along in the maid when all of
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  Speaker 4: a sudden I was grabbed him behind.
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  Speaker 6: Something very strong, a man's petty hand.
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  Speaker 4: I screamed, and I struggled him in my face and
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  Speaker 4: my wrists, and that's nice my face.
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  Speaker 3: They won't see my face your face to be all right,
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  Speaker 3: I've spoken to the doctors and they say you'll be
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  Speaker 3: out of here in a week when you're all rested
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  Speaker 3: and heel a little plastic surgery. I knew it. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: finished is right. The medics can tell us which one
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  Speaker 3: of them is Nick the Knives.
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  Speaker 4: Or the eminent mister Queen can come up with one
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  Speaker 4: of his brilliant suggestions.
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  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, I have one, but no, Dad,
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  Speaker 3: you turned some as I doesn't blute know the psychiatis first.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to make this suggestion except as a
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  Speaker 3: last resort. The men into just take a dinner.
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  Speaker 4: When we got your call to come to headquarters.
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  Speaker 3: Doctors are time and I make the knife Jake Ship, Summers,
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  Speaker 3: Blueto and Hodges up to the State Hospital in Stone
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  Speaker 3: with ten days ago and they've been under observation ever since.
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  Speaker 3: We got a lot of fancy and reports on't but
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  Speaker 3: nothing that says this guy Isnck the Knife.
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  Speaker 4: So it's your move, mister Queen.
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  Speaker 3: Now what do you have in mind? Strong trap but
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  Speaker 3: kind of traps? What's obvious that Nick the knife isn't normal.
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  Speaker 3: He gets murderous impulses on the impulse sets them. He's
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  Speaker 3: you have to use his knight. He coun't resisted. What's more,
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  Speaker 3: he gets those impulses regularly, all thirty two attacks for
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  Speaker 3: one week apart. But now it's two weeks since he's
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  Speaker 3: attacking a step light there girl, he's overdue. If right
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  Speaker 3: now tonight he thought he was free and had a knife,
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  Speaker 3: well then I'm glad he's not. Oh you mean yes,
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  Speaker 3: we can wink up at a trap right at Stone
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  Speaker 3: which state hospital on it? See it's seven o'clock now
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  Speaker 3: a fast co We can make it in two hours,
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  Speaker 3: so it'll be dark by the time we get there. Darkness,
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  Speaker 3: lonely country woods all around. It's a perfect setup. Saying
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  Speaker 3: that is an idea inspector, you can take up a
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  Speaker 3: big squad. It is bluteness and missing nodges. Say that
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  Speaker 3: there's some knives around they get swipe before we turn
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  Speaker 3: them close. Have each one tailed by three or four
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  Speaker 3: of our best men. Son, Hi buy it? Uh, there's
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  Speaker 3: only one thing.
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  Speaker 4: You bet You've got everything for your trap up there,
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  Speaker 4: But the bait, mister queen, a pretty young girl.
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  Speaker 3: Well, are you looking at me.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, I should say not if you have any
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  Speaker 4: fantastic idea.
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  Speaker 3: That I got it all figure out. You don't think
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  Speaker 3: I'll put you in any real danger.
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  Speaker 6: Now, there's no use talking.
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  Speaker 3: I can refuse to do any danger, but you don't
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  Speaker 3: have to be.
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  Speaker 4: Relax Sits me here in this glade, all alone under
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  Speaker 4: a bright moon at midnight, with a nice towing maniac
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  Speaker 4: probably in the woods looking for me.
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  Speaker 6: He expects me to relax.
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  Speaker 3: Right here behind this so close I can touch you.
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  Speaker 4: So why did I have let you talk me into that?
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  Speaker 3: Myself? Detective tree surrounding the slave, all of us on
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  Speaker 3: the knight has a chance to get near you. You.
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  Speaker 4: I suppose he's given you a written guarantee.
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  Speaker 6: Sorry, someone coming right here.
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  Speaker 4: Something's gone wrong?
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  Speaker 3: You got your guy?
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  Speaker 8: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? Keep behind me here he comes. I oh, it's
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  Speaker 3: like to feel what it's like. So I just got worried.
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  Speaker 3: Then I struck again again, another successful attack. Their dad
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  Speaker 3: back in New York and the same park with the
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  Speaker 3: Stepney girl got it in the city. But how I know? Io?
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  Speaker 3: Who knows? How? Come on back the head quarter? Pity? Well,
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  Speaker 3: what's the hospital say? Girl just died and spruck the Oh,
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  Speaker 3: this is a copper parler. Alight, it's officer. Indicate again, Oh, sir,
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  Speaker 3: Inspector Queen, I've made my red report. I want to
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  Speaker 3: hear it. Yes, sir, I was making my usual quarter
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  Speaker 3: of ten rounds in the park there in the park,
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  Speaker 3: in the amaze, Inspector, I wasn't in there three minutes
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  Speaker 3: when I heard a girl scream from inside the Mazon. No,
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  Speaker 3: no sergeant outside in this case. I ran out and
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  Speaker 3: started looking, screamed and stopped. Took me a few minutes
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  Speaker 3: to locate her. Finally I found her Francis Colbert, the
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  Speaker 3: first Avenue, Manhattan. By that time she badly no that
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  Speaker 3: I it was Nick the Knife's work. And again both
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  Speaker 3: wrist slashed and the girl's face all cut up, just
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  Speaker 3: like the others. It was Nick the Knife, all right?
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  Speaker 3: That was that time again, I was, She screamed at
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  Speaker 3: ten minutes of ten, Inspector, don't tell me eth Nikki.
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  Speaker 3: Now I know who Nick the Knife is.
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  Speaker 7: All right, So Ellery Queen knows enough to salt the case,
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  Speaker 7: do you. Well? We're going to see if one of
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  Speaker 7: our armchair detectives, uh knows joining us now? Is Daniel
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  Speaker 7: Burke from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, marking Queen analysts. Thanks so much, Dan,
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  Speaker 7: coming on and you've listened to the story. Could you
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  Speaker 7: tell me who you think is Nick then?
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  Speaker 10: I sure, Adam, Well, I think it is actually officer Endicotte.
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  Speaker 10: He was the only other person in the park in
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  Speaker 10: the maze at the time of the of the murders,
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  Speaker 10: and Hillary Queen was very clear about going to the
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  Speaker 10: I guess it's the hospital, the asylum where the suspects
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  Speaker 10: were being held. He said he was left at seven,
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  Speaker 10: would be there by nine. By the time Endicott said
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  Speaker 10: the murder happened, it was around quarter to eleven, So
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  Speaker 10: there's no way that the suspects in the hospital, in
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  Speaker 10: the hospital could get could get back to the park
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  Speaker 10: by that time. So I think it's the I think
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  Speaker 10: it's actually the police officer.
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  Speaker 7: All right, Well we will see if you're right. Dan.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks so much for joining us.
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  Speaker 8: And I do.
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  Speaker 7: But now let's go ahead and get back to ellery Queen.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't understand it. Then, about three suspects can possibly
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  Speaker 3: be nick the name?
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  Speaker 4: Why not inspectors? Suppose one of them managed to give
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  Speaker 4: his trailers a slip tonight and came back to the
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  Speaker 4: city impossibly Nikki.
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  Speaker 3: Just before we started out for Stonewood State Hospital, Ellarry
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  Speaker 3: said it was seven o'clock, that it was a two
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  Speaker 3: hour drive by fastcar. That means the earliest we could
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  Speaker 3: have got there was nine bin. Even if you're figured
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  Speaker 3: that we let them go as soon as we got
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  Speaker 3: there at nine o'clock, what's the earliest one of them
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  Speaker 3: could have got back to the city the same two
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  Speaker 3: hours as drive we eleven o'clock? But when was the
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  Speaker 3: attack of the city park tonight at ten minutes to
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  Speaker 3: ten over now before any of the three could possibly
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  Speaker 3: have gotten there? Boy, three suspects and three alumni. Wait, oh, what.
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  Speaker 4: Idiots we've been there? Weren't just three suspects, there were
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  Speaker 4: four four, But the.
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  Speaker 3: Only ones we found in the maze after the attack
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  Speaker 3: on Jane stopped. They were snow summers, trees, hodges, and
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  Speaker 3: butcher Butner.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, Sergeant, there was one other man in the maze. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: you never dream of suspecting him, the policeman who supposedly
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  Speaker 4: found Jane's unconscious.
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  Speaker 3: Body officer in the cort me, miss me Nick the knife.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, with three of the four possibilities eliminated, the fourth
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  Speaker 4: must be guilty.
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  Speaker 3: And that's you. How's the logic, mister Queen? Tell her
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  Speaker 3: dad and the cut can't possibly be nicked? The knife?
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  Speaker 3: Nick the Knife began operations in New York City lest
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  Speaker 3: Christmas Eve. And I told you myself, mess p that
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  Speaker 3: and the Cot had just rejoined the force. He stopped
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  Speaker 3: the Nazi bullet a couple of weeks before v Day.
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  Speaker 8: And that was my head.
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  Speaker 3: So he was in the American Army in Germany at
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: least until he end the rapersh could Endicot have been
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  Speaker 3: making attacks in New York once a week for over
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  Speaker 3: thirty weeks beginning last Christmas Eve.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Exit Officer Endicott.
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  Speaker 3: I'm awfully sorry, it's quite all right. Miss Where does
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  Speaker 3: that Leavis for suspect and all four eliminated. Why do
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: you say there are four suspects that m because there
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  Speaker 3: are only four people in the mage during the attack
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  Speaker 3: on Jane Stepley, there were five. I'm who is the fifth? Salary?
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  Speaker 3: Jane Stepley, herself, James Staplay, herself, but her stroll. She
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: was the one attack for the knife, and she attacked
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  Speaker 3: herself for the knife. Really, no other possible conclusions. Only
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: five people were in the maze during the attack and
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  Speaker 3: four eliminated it. So the fifth must be Nick the knife. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: even if the fifth was the victim, It's not so strange.
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  Speaker 3: This homely woman, brooding over unattractiveness, became psychotic and began
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  Speaker 3: hunting an attacking girls who were pretty. And what happened
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: into the boarding house at which room came a new
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  Speaker 3: border a policeman. Now you yourself, Eticotte told me how
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  Speaker 3: you'd keep running into her in the house. That's how
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  Speaker 3: you recognized her in the maze. To Jane Stepley's disordered mind,
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: the sudden arrival of a policeman to live in her
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  Speaker 3: boarding house meant only one thing that she was being watched.
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  Speaker 3: In cunning desperation, she decided to banish the policeman's non
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  Speaker 3: existent suspicion that she was nick the Knife by staging
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  Speaker 3: an attack on herself on his beat, for he'd be
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  Speaker 3: sure to find her bleeding and unconscious, and she very
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  Speaker 3: nearly got away with it, poor thing.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, ellery queen, and good night. There's the state
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  Speaker 2: for a why now closing the scarred doors of the
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  Speaker 2: mystery players and saying good night to your own sleep tide.
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  Speaker 4: This is Andrew J.
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  Speaker 3: Graham, author of the web surface series Oh and a Man.
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  Speaker 1: And his Wife.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the great detectives of Old time radio.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Welcome back once again. Thank you so much to our
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  Speaker 1: armchair detectives. Definitely appreciate you. As I'm recording this segment
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  Speaker 1: before we actually record the armchair detective segment. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure where they were right, but I'm certain they did
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  Speaker 1: a good job and appreciate them filling in for what
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  Speaker 1: the Armed Forces Radio Services cut out. This is an
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: interesting case, a kind of softer attempt at a Jack
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  Speaker 1: the Ripper story, and an interesting murderer, even if it's
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: a somewhat a weak motive. I liked Nicky's theory. It
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: made perfectly good sense until you considered the fact that
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: we had all been told earlier in the program didn't
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  Speaker 1: think too much of the motive or the modus operandi
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  Speaker 1: of the New York Police Department. Let's find out what
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the victims saw before we bring in all of our suspects. Now, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: that'd be silly. Let's just bring the suspects in and
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: see if she can't identify them, whether she claims to
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: have seen them or not. And then poor Nicky getting
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: called in as a decoy. You know, you have to
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: do that sort of stuff when you work for Nick Carter.
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  Speaker 1: But the New York Police Department they have policewomen even
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: back then who could do that sort of work. And
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: a final note, when you're doing voice acting and you're
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: playing a murder suspect, that's not really the time to
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: break out your lu Costello impersonation. I mean, I was
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: sitting there listening to that, and I was laughing too
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: order to take it seriously. Well, we turn now to
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: listener comments and feedback, and David says, am, I I'm
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the only one who's creeped out by the promo Seltzer train.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's supposed to be a train chanting the
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  Speaker 1: product in a happy way. But to me it just
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  Speaker 1: sounds eerie and disturbing. Of course I'm basing that on
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  Speaker 1: current standards. Who knows, maybe people like that sort of
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: thing oh so many years ago. Well, thanks so much
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  Speaker 1: for the comment, David, and I think people had mixed
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: feelings on trains. I find it kind of cute and endearing,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: but I can get people who don't. And actually, there
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: was a series, a horror series known as The Mysterious Traveler,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and there's a train at the part of that, and
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: it's a bit more of a sinister feel, so it
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  Speaker 1: does depend on the context of it. Thanks so much
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  Speaker 1: for the email, David, and that will do it for today.
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