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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Molly K Matter Part Five and Call for a Columnist Part One (EP0924) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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going to begin a new series, the Carter Brown Mysteries. Carter Brown Mysteries
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were based on the on the books by the novelist Alan Jeffrey Yates, who,
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when writing mysteries, went by the name Carter Brown. He went he
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wrote under some other names, Todd Conway when he wrote westerns, Caroline far
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when writing romance, and Paul vowed Ass, but Carter Brown Mysteries some of
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the most prolifically written. And this Australian series from the late fifties actually serialized
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Carter Brown stories in a series of fifteen minute episodes plus, with each serial
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featuring a different detective. This will work well because there are some fridays where
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we're not going to have four straight weeks in a row because because of missing
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episodes or some quirk in the Johnny Dowler serial that we're playing that week.
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So we can so each serial can be listened to as a detective in and
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of itself. Series started airing in nineteen fifty eight, and we've got the
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first series. So we're going to present for you tonight Call for Calmness,
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Part one and then when we return, we're ready to find out the end
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of the Molly came Out. Carter Brown Mystery Adventures in Excitement and Suspense,
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based on the best selling novels by the slick storytelling sensation Carter Brown. We
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take pride in bringing you the first of a new series, the program drawn
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from the celebrated books by Carter Brown, which have sold more than ten million
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copies and continued to sell at the rate of over a million copies a year.
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Each week you'll hear a complete story dramatized in the smooth modern style which
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has been responsible for Carter Brown's enormous popularity both in Australia and abroad. And
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here who introduced the Carter Brown Mystery Theater is Carter Brown himself. How do
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you do, ladies and gentlemen. I'm very pleased indeed, and I must
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have met flattered too to have been asked to present my stories to you.
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And mister Brown, I know you've led a pretty adventurous life yourself. You've
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traveled around the world as a salesman, publicity writer, film technician and now
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finally as a best selling author. And quite a number of people seem to
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think that the heroes in your stories are really yourself. Now is that true?
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No, it's not. And if I sound very definite about that,
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it's because my wife's listening to me, And I don't think she liked the
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idea of my running into so many gorgeous blonde brunettes and redheads as a gentleman
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in my books, Nor are I suppose there as much trouble as they do
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now. I don't think she liked that either. I hope yes, your
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hero certainly do wind up in stife, don't They like Johnny Lane? For
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instance, Johnny is a newspaper columnist, and they've got a premium on problems.
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Not that they all run into the same kind of bother as Johnny.
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They wouldn't want to. Well, he's a cocky with an eye for a
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beautiful babe and prints inc instead of blood. But suppose you find out for
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yourselves. Here's Johnny Lane to tell the story, which we've titled call for
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a Columnist. I was feeling pretty pleased with myself and hence with the world.
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I had the best table in Jule's night spot, courtesy of Messieurs Juel
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himself, and on the table was my favorite drink and my favorite reading matter,
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a copy of the news open at the best part of the paper.
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My own column Damite with Johnny Lane, Syndicated in sixty eight newspapers throughout the
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United States with an estimated four million readers. Yes, as far as I
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was concerned, life was a great big rosy bubble with Johnny Lane writing on
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top of it. Then the bubble burst. Excuse me, Missie Lane.
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Yes, you and my friend Wetters. You got two gentlemen to see him
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this year in my private office, Julee, I never see anyone in your
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private office. You know that these gentlemen afrom the police. Oh well,
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that thanks the difference. Let's Eline. I would not like any trowelery.
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I'll handle them. You stick with your customers. Thank you, Missie.
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Well, well, I feel I'm a gentleman. Chief of Police. Are
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Burn and Captain Stanger in person and together? Whose piggy bank has been right?
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Doctor Clone Lane? Necessarious? Will you intrigue me? Captain tell me
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more? We wanted to talk about your column, Johnny, a subject I
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am always happy to discuss. Chief. It's about the item concerning Albert Ferraro.
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I got a copy here, huh, you said, mobster happy Albert
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Ferrara won't get around much anymore, not since he had unexpected visitors. At
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two am this morning, rumor headed that Albert was going to sing to Senator
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Rowland's committee investigating Vice and Allied records in our fair city. This morbid columnist
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is betting that Albert sang his swan song in the small hours to an unsympathetic
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audience with a hay in a hall and no flowers by the quests, Who
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is the mister big who's worried by Senator Rowland's questions? Keep reading these column
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folks, and I'll let you know just as soon as I find out that
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bead chief, you really haven't got the style for it or the voice.
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This paper was out on the streets at three am, just one hour after
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fer our head. He's unexpected visitors. It takes more than an hour to
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print your paper, Johnny. And that means you put that item in before
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it happened, just a Hern's chief, but to proved wrong, to ring
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all out of it in the Borrow's column. But you haven't been proved wrong,
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Johnny. As soon as we read your rightem we called on Albert.
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Guess what he was at home with a nil on stocking wound round his throat
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tight. Oh that's what you get for sticking your neck up. Maybe you
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should see things the way we do, Johnny, we have to take Senator
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Olan's investigations seriously. The more he uncovers on the vice activities in this city,
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the worse it looks for the police. Sure, we've bust up a
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lot of small stuff, but the big stuff still goes on and we can't
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get a lead. So when we read our paper, we find that the
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one lead which might really have opened things up for us wasn't ever given to
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us until it was too late. Oh come, gentlemen, let's be fair.
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You get the same opportunities as I have forgetting information better if I happen
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or have outsmarted you on this one. It's Smara is feeling sore about it
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as it. You just have to do better next time. Chief, Let
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me bust him on the jaw, just once ed wouldn't look good to his
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four million readers, Johnny, All I want to know is where you got
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your information from? Sorry, Chief, that's confidential. Well, look up
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more than a hundred people in the city, or hemmy information. Two things
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that are always sure of they are money in my discretion. What happens if
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I tell you where the whisper about Albert came from? Where it goes around
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a laying cap. He trusted my column gets shot the heck. Okay,
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Johnny, I guess we'll just have to plug on with our own plotting methods.
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I see you're going to let us know pretty soon who the mister Big
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is. Will be really interested in that. You've got a life insurance,
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Johnny, life insurance? Well, I was just hoping you've got plenty,
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because I don't think you'll find anybody willing to give you more. You're a
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bad risk. Now, oh Friday, don't quite follow. If we're interested
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in your story about Ferraro, how much more interested do you think mister big
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is going to be? And when he gets around or asking you about it,
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I don't think he'll take that confidential routine as an answer. Let's go,
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Captain, it's a long time, or should it be goodbye? I'm
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not a nervous character, but as a burn and stranger walked out, I
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sudden me found myself dabbing my forehead with a handkerchief. There ought to be
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a law against policeman gun around frightening people. Well, I decided I could
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use a drink back at my table. Didn't waste time apologizing to the people
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I knocked over to get there, Miss your Lane, everything was all right.
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Oh yeah, as sure as you don't give it another thought. I
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am great, Miss your Lane. Yeah, it's someone who would like to
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say hey. Look, I never say hello to anyone. That's one of
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my principles. Hello. I turned to look at her, A stutlingly beautiful
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face, frame by close cropt black hair and a set of curves that it's
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in a racing car driver dizzey. My principle shut through the ceiling. Well,
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hello, This is the feminine half of the new actim President, the
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Adagio dancers Simon and Simon. You saw them last night, mister Lane.
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Oh yeah, did you like it? Mister Lynne, You bet, especially
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the end of it where he throws across the floor and you spin out aside
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on your where you spit out a side effective, isn't it. Yeah,
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it's a good way to test the floor for splinters. Will you join me?
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I'd love to you will excuse me? I hope your husband isn't going
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to take exception that you're having a drink with me. My husband, oh
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Czimon me is not my husband. Oh that makes it worse. It is
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just my partner. That makes it better. I want to say how much
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I admire you, mister Lynne, for what you're doing now. I mean
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holding your hand, of course, not I mean in exposing the criminal elements
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in the John helping Senator Holder. That's nothing. I'll pull your drink.
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I think you are a very brave man. I imagine you carry your life
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in your hands, this very newful. What makes you say that it's obvious?
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I'm sure that most of the underworld must get mad at the mere mention
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of your name. Their only allogical solution to stop you printing these revelations is
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to remove you, isn't it. No, I can't see any other alternative.
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Oh, I guess you can. You must know all this journey.
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I shouldn't be worrying you with it, but I just wanted you to know
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how much I admire your car eaton doing it. Oh, I'll have to
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go. We had only in fifteen minutes. May think we could continue this
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conversation after my eighties over. Well, I've got to get home and get
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out my column. Can I take a rang jack for some other night,
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any night, journey see tomorrow. My customary cab was waiting outside the night
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spot part of the service. First celebrity I got. M gave the driver
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of the address my panhouse. Made about two blocks when I noticed he was
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studying my face in the rear vision. Or what's the matter, driver?
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If I got smallpox? You're Johnny Lane, aren't you? Newspaper guy?
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Yeah, that's right? Or my autographed No, no, I never get
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packed the funny. But my wife reads your call. She like good.
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Well, I don't know whether she likes it. She don't ever say,
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but i'mever They published your photo a couple of months ago. Oh, I
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believe they did. I asked him not to, but they told me they
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were sick and tired of the letters demanding to know was as handsome as they
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imagine me to be. Yeah, well, the old lady sees it,
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and she don't believe it happened to be a good likeness. That's all.
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That's what I'm gonna tell her when I get home. She said she didn't
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believe any guy could look at thee at that. Here we are. How
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much do I owe you? I got ninety eight cents on d'clock, Miss
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de Line. Here's a dollar. You can keep the change, Hey,
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what do I doing her two cents and dow an orphanage. I rode the
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elevator to the top floor and reached my keys. I moved down the fastest
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way to the house door. I can hear the phone ringing inside, and
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I opened the door in a hurry. Hello. Is that Johnny name?
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Another? Who's that? I'm so glad you'll published that item I gave you
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about Albert. Yeah. Well, it's got me into a lot of trouble
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with the police. I want to know how I knew what was going to
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happen before it happened. Did you tell us? Well? How could I?
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I don't know myself. All I know is you keep calling me up.
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You won't tell me who you are. All you do is give me
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tips to the column. I think how it impresses your pharming and readers.
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I have no ambition to spend a few years behind bars for the sake of
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oppressing my readers. Don't give me Johnny name. You would dive off a
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statue of liberty and about and wearing a baccini if you've thought it to get
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you another ten thousand circulations. I let that pass. I've got another.
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There was item for you as you're interested, I'm interested. There's a home
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he come down on Flow Street called the Blue Diamond, run by Luke Criger
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in the Good Center. The rolling would like to know Epistry a goof balls.
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Oh hey, wait a minute, it's time you tell me who you
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are. How can I tell the police my information comes from an anonymous phone
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call. They just as soon believe people go to see Marl and Munro because
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they like to hear her sing. What the hang under your said? Kid?
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It's under the door. Okay, okay, I'm calling. Just move
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reck quietly, mister Lane, and will close the door. Hey that's a
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gun nor eyesight's twenty twenty, mister Lane. So get inside where we'll be
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nice and pright. Welcome back. It's worth noting here that well, a
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lot of these, and I think most of these Carter Brown mystery radio programs
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we have out there are seven the United States. Carter Brown actually wrote about
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the United States and used it as a setting, long before he ever came
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to visit the country. It was very popular with Australians at the time to
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have stories set in the US. The accents and stuff, given that the
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actors are actually Australian. I think they do a better job in some ways,
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better than some of the BBC stuff I've seen from television in the nineteen
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you know, in the nineteen seventies and eighties. So pretty sold performance by
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the players here. But now we turn to Port five of The Molly K
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Matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Bob Bailey as Johnny Deller. Johnny,
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I've got it for you, lou Tang good. What did you find
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out that price is on the Tokyo grain market? Did break suddenly about three
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weeks ago? Three weeks? Uh huh? Reason over supply. The price
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has been holding since at about sixty percent of the peak. A forty percent
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drop big enough to cause the damage. What damage? The sinking of the
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Molley K A double cross, a frame up murder. It's as clear as
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crystal Loo. Come see me later tonight. Tell me all about it,
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all right? At any rate? Come on, tell me about something about
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a certain nine in Paris. Maybe I think I'd like that very much,
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Johnny, Wait for me, Low, I'll be there later. You can
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count on it. Tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the Transcribed
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Adventures of the Man with the action packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator
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Yours Trulli Johnny Dollar from Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location, San Francisco to
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the home office Marine and Maritime Casually Limited, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment the
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Molly k Matter expense Account, final page Item nine seven seventy long distance calls
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to Hartford and New York. I was pretty sure before I called, but
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I had to check on it. It checked Item ten eighty cents taxi from
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my hotel to the waterfront office of Inspector Dan McKay Harbor Police. It's a
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funny deal, Johnny. I can't figure. Captain Brawley is clammed up tight.
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We'll answer anymore questions. Doesn't want a lawyer. I won't even talk.
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It's funny, not when you consider the fact that he's innocent. What
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I know, I argued the opposite. I was wrong. What is it,
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Johnny, just playing stubbornness? No, but that's what it is with
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Captain Brawley. Maybe that's the tip off his stubborn, bullheadedness. The human
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elements you mentioned, how you figuring it. If Brawley were in a money
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jam, he'd never scheme and connive at planning a thing like that of sinking
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his own ship. He's too stubborn. And besides, he wasn't in a
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jam. I'm sure of it. Well, wait a minute, he had
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one hundred thousand dollars mortgage to meet Ivanagle. Some information out of the bank.
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The Brawley Shipping Company has a free balance of nearly one hundred and fifty
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thousand dollars in cash as Look here, Johnny, you look, I started
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out with a motive, and I built a pretty strong case on it.
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Even you agreed everything pointed toward Captain Brawley. Sure, because somebody was helping
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things point toward him. What do you mean it wasn't just the ship itself
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that was insured. I'm still lost, Johnny, Keep talking all right.
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Look that cargo of grain was also in short the owner with another company,
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not mine, and for top market value, full price. Keep talking,
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all right. The Tokyo grain market broke just four days before the molly k
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was due to sail. The first time. The shipper stood to lose nearly
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half his investment if the grain reached Yokohama at that time. Well it didn't
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reach there. It's lying out there on the bottom of the Pacific net result.
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Instead of taking a loss because of price, the shipher gets full price
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from the insurance company it ends up to in Yeah, it sure it does.
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The shipper. I think Captain Brawley suspected him too. That's what kept
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the old captain on the prod the ship gone under suspicion of the sinking,
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yet not wanting to hurt his daughter. He was caught right in the middle.
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But keep on holding him to make it look like we still think he's
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the guilly party. Well it's that girl of his. I feel sorry for
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Ellen. She's the one caught in the middle. Yeah, I know,
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and it's going to be rough on her when she finds out engaged to a
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killer who's been using her to smash her own father. Great setup, Well
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I get a pull up. Now we'll pick up this dean Sutton and bring
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him in. But you know, something to be awful. Hard to pin
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it on him, need evidence, something definite. Look, why don't you
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let me have a go on him first. Let's out of the question.
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Of course, if you should happen to find him before we do, well,
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yeah, I might just do that, Dan. In fact, I've
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kind of got a hunch, I will it was a hunch, but it
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might be a good one. I left Dan's office and walked east along the
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waterfront, following the long curve of the Embarcadero with its miles of ducks and
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wharves. The night had settled down over the bay in the city, and
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with it a dark, damn blanket of fog, even heavier than the night
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before. And because of that and other reasons, I felt cold and lonesome
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and a long. I turned off the Embarcadero and walked out Pier twenty nine.
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I was about thirty yards from the Brawley Warehouse when I was suddenly brought
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up short. On the water below me, Tied to a wharf piling was
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a light cabin cruiser, rocking gently with a swell. It had no business
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being there. Pier twenty nine was a commercial birth. My hunch was righte
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I moved quietly to the edge of the wharf and stood watching the little cruiser
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for several minutes. There was no sign of life, no sound. Finally,
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I climbed over the dock rail, down the wharf ladder and stepped onto
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the deck. Still no sound, no movements. I moved over to the
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companionway door leading down below decks and reached out my hand for the latch.
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Then I stopped short, caught suddenly by a sharp feeling of danger. It
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wasn't a sense of being watched. It was deeper, more subtle, more
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vague. I tried to shake it off, reach again for the latch.
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Then the boat shifted slightly in the dim glow from the wharf light overhead,
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and moved across the hatchway door inches and out of my face. I saw
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the glint of bare copper wires, all set to make contact if the door
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was open. One more move and I'd have been blown sky high. That
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boat was booby trapped. There was a light burning in the office of the
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Brawley Shipping Company. I knocked on the door, drew my gun. Then
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I stepped back and waited. I leveled the gun on the door. Johnny,
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are you alone, eleanor yes, of course, come on, let's
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get it sick. What is it, Johnny? Have you seen Dean Sutton
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tonight? I tried to find him, but I couldn't. My father's been
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arrested, charged with murder. Yeah, I know, honey. I came
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here to go over the company records to see if I could find something that
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might help him anything, Johnny, Look, look at this, miss,
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somebody's been here. Files dumped in the middle of the floor, papers all
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over the place. Yeah, it looks like they're planning to start a bonfire.
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Say tell me something, Ellen does Dean Sutton on a boat. Yes,
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my cabin cruising named the Pie. Why it's tied up at the wharf.
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He's around here somewhere. Well, what of it? What do you
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mean your father didn't sink the Molly Kay Dean sudden did it. He wasn't
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even on board. He didn't have to be. He hired an explosive expert
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name Benny Wong to do the job. He got your father to take Benny
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on a stewart. That's the man they're accusing father of murder. Dean is
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the one who did it using your father's gun. Why to collect the insurance
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on that cargo of brain? Oh? Look, I know it's a rough
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deal, honey, and I know how you feel, but I guess your
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best bet is to chalk it up to experience. At least your father's in
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the clear. Now. I think I sensed it, Johnny, that something
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was wrong with Dean, badly wrong. I guess that's why I felt like
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turning to you instead of him. I still feel that way. I think
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I'm going to cry. Then cry, cry it out and get it over
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with. Kim Here Ellen. I held it close and tried to comfort her.
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She pressed her face against my chest and equip it like a her kid.
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I kept stroking her hair, breathing in the scent of her perfume,
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perfume, the same perfume that it hung in the air of the room where
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Benny Wong was killed. The pieces shifted fell into place again. The puzzle
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was finally solved, but too late, because I could feel the muzzle of
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the gun she was pressing against my side. Easy now, Johnny, turned
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around, Slow and get your hands up. It's the idea. I stay
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that way. I'm a dead shot, Johnny, your daughted, asked Benny
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Wong, right under my nose, right from the start. How wrong can
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a guy be as wrong as you were? Johnny? It had to be
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you. There was no chance for Dean to steal your father's gun and then
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return it, not unless you were in on it with him. It was
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my idea, Dean's too. To plan a thing like that, he has
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to be propped up and pushed, and you are just the girl to do
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it. You want to know? Yeah? I do. Now it's too
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bad. I like the way you kiss. Any chance of working something out?
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Johnny? Were you too honest? So that's it. The next step
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is to get rid of Dean, and you've already got the trap set.
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Not yet, but I'll think of something. I'm clever, Johnny, don't
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you think so? I heard footsteps coming along the wharf, Dean Sutton.
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I had only seconds to think of something, so I took a chance.
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Edge back against the wall, inched over closer to the door, far enough.
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Don't push your luck. There's Dean coming now. He went after some
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gasoline. We're going to build a nice warm fire, and you're going to
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have a ringside seat. It's Martyn Dean. We've got a visitor dollar.
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What do you know? You walked right anyway, just like a gout.
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Chance paid off. He walked between his blocked Ellen's line of fire and I
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jumped him. I grabbed him around the neck and telling him as a shield,
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dragged him back out through the door. After the wharf break blue,
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I was trying to make fair of the light before. Ellen kept blasting with
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that gun, and I made it, but Dean broke voice giving me sweet
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He slipped and stagged up against the dock rag. The railing broke split and
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show, and we went over the side. They struggled back up to the
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surface. Jean's hands were clenched on my throat and I couldn't break his scrip.
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Ellen started crying for the wharf above us, not knowing who she'd hit
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and not caring. I took a deep breath and ragged Dean under the surface.
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But his hands were still in my throat and I couldn't break loose,
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and lungs were bursting. My strength was going fast. I brought up my
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knee. He fell away from me. I was free, free to fight
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my way back up to the surface. I swam around in circles, getting
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my breath, watching for Dean, but he didn't come up. He didn't
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come up for two days. When I climbed up the ladder under the wharf,
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Hellen was nowhere in sight. I heard somebody running toward me. He
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saw the flashing red light back at the land end of the pier, and
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I knew why she'd left Dan McCay and his boys. Hey, Johnny over
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here, Dan, All right, Johnny, I'm all right. Do you
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see Ellen Brawley. Well, some girl in up the wharf there told that
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cruiser that boat's got a booby trap on it. Come on, Dan,
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what's she doing here? She was in on a tumb Dean's on the water,
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drowned there. She has climbed out off the wharf. Ellen stopped.
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She's on the cruiser. No, Ellen's gonna t look out, get out.
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Plan on your face if she overstatnd blowed a bit booby trap. They
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had it rigged for me and she no, she didn't know about it.
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That wasn't meant for me. They were both pulling a double cross. Dean
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set that trap for her end of expense account except hotel and playing fair back
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home total of five hundred and forty seven dollars and sixty cents. Well,
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it looks like the company pays off on this one day. The ship owner
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was innocent. But you'll make it back. I really feel sorry for Captain
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Brawley. He commanded his own quarterdeck for twenty five years, strong and proud
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and unafraid. He had a wife once named Molly kay and a ship named
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Molly Kaye. And he had a daughter two and I'll the sea has taken
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all of them away from him, left him cast up on the beach,
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A broken old man better beaten alone. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Now
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here's our star Bob Bailey to tell you about next week's story. Thanks next
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week, the case of a man who didn't exist except for one thing.
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He suddenly showed up Johnas. Won't you yours truly, Johnny Doller? Yours
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Truly Johnny Doller is transcribed in Hollywood, written by Les Crutchfield. The entire
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productions under the direction of Jack Johnstone. Heard in this week's cast were Virginia,
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Greg Peter Leeds, Barney Phillips, Victor Perrin, James mcellan, and
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High Averback. Be sure to join us on Monday night, same time and
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station for another exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Doller, Roy Rowan speaking
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Welcome back. While it's worth noting because listeners are going to figure it out
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anyway. I'll get some emails on Andy if I don't mention it, so
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I'll go ahead and mention it. This particular episode of Johnny dollar represents a
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very rare writing fail on behalf of the writers. The key the key point
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here is at the end of part four, Johnny discovers the daughter's perfunit at
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the scene of the crime, and in this one he's despite that, he's
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you know, just as clueless and innocent as a lamb about her possible guilt
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and complicity in the matter. And you know, I can't I can't help
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but think that that that sort of slip may have been a result of the
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requirements and the expectations of getting out these five part Johnny Dowler stories. The
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way it sounds to me, it sounds like that the writer intended for this
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to come out, you know, as he was holding her in this episode,
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but that somehow or another, uh it uh may have been you know,
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we want to have a cliffhanger, something that'll have the audience ready to
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listen. So the it looks like the author, you know, went in
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and he wrote the cliffhanger to part four and then forgot that it was a
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big reveal in part five. So a rare lapse here on Johnny Dowler.
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A couple of names in the credits worth noting. Barney Phillips really solid as
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Captain Brawley and of Virginia greg You know, I wish we had more detailed
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ask credits for these. I wouldn't be surprised if he if she played the
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the one time girlfriend of Johnny and the daughter of the captain. I think
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she could have pulled both of them off, and she has done. She
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has done multiples. There are a few surviving scripts dedick that show Virginia Gregg's
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versatility. All right, well, now we turn to listener comments and feedback,
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and we have an itune review from the bird Lady. I just started
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listening to this podcast after listening to all the Dragnet ones for the second time
34:42
the first time. The commentary is interesting. After that, I can recite
34:45
the words myself that being said to sound quality is good and I really enjoy
34:47
the variety and quality of the podcast. I will probably start on Dragnet again.
34:52
I'm hooked and listened to it every day. Well, thanks so much
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for listening. Well that will do it for today. Join us back here
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