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All right, well, now it's time talk about today's show. This
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one's called Murder and Mister Malone. It's based on the John Jay Malone books
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written by Craig Rice, who was known who that's actually the pseudonym for Georgian
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Georgiana and Rudolph Craig, and she wrote a She wrote a total of fourteen
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of these books, twelve of which were published during her lifetime. In some
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ways, these kind of walk the line between the books, walk the line
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between screwball comedy and hardboiled action. John J. Malone in the books is
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a character a lawyer just determined to win whatever the cost. He solves mysteries
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but it's not particularly concerned about justice, more about getting whatever client he has
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at the moment. Off the Malone movies were and books were surprisingly popular.
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There were a couple of movies written and these were not These were not minor
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works. The two John John J. Malone films during the nineteen forties,
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Having Wonderful Crime and The Lucky Stiff starred Pat O'Brien and one and Brian Donald
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Levy and the other as Malone. In addition to that, there was a
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television series, a TV movie, and a series of radio series. This
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is We're going to start with the first one. This first series starred Frank
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Lovejoy and it appeared over ABC Radio. The series assumed the time slot formerly
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held by Sherlock Holmes, which moved to another night on January eleventh of nineteen
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forty seven. Today's episode is the first episode of Murder and Mister Malone.
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It comes from May the twenty fourth of nineteen forty seven. It should be
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noted that, like most radio lawyers who are involved in mystery solving, Malone
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is not really seen in court that much. This much is similar to the
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books, and we'll discuss more differences and similarities in a moment. But let's
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go ahead and relax and listen to the Paul Davis Murder starring Frankle love Joy
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most famous criminal lawyer in Murder and Mister Malone. Malone is the name of
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John J. Malone, Attorney and counselor and law. They say one of
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the qualifications of a good lawyer is a center of humor. I wouldn't know
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about that. For example, I never could appreciate the humor of a second
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at the Charles Morgan. Morgan was a big time gamer in Chicago, who's
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practical kills. I found a little construng for my teeth. And on this
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side of the afternoon Morgan and the beautiful blonde mother Me and Linda Stevens were
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planning one of his fads and the car parked in front of the club eighty
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sixth on Chicago himself. Do you understand what you're supposed to do in this
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I'm not too chilling, mister Mark. No, what's the matter with you
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anyway? Your agent told me you were ah name, mister Morgan. I
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don't need a job that though. I'm sorry, I didn't mean that.
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You see, I want to play a joke on this guy, and I
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want to make sure it goes off the schedule. Yes, no, here
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this joke bless I right. Want to tell you there's nothing to worry about.
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Fellows a good friend of mine. She might simply silly. There's a
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settle of bet. He thinks he's a great deal man with the ladies,
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and I bet I'm fifty bucks. He was wrong. But mister Morgan,
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you promised me a hundred But this job, how can you possibly win?
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You don't understand. It's not the money, it's the principle of the thing.
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I want to make a sucker out of David Baby. Yeah, his
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name's Paul David, thee little guy with red hair and pop eyees. You
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want to have any trouble spot on, he owns the job to be in
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a corner bull that. I suppose your friend doesn't show any interest. You
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haven't taken a good look at yourself in the mirror lately? Have you beamy?
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Not at all? Worry when baby sees you, we'll start buying at
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them. But at the beginning, you want me to ask him stuff right,
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so he shouldn't become suspicious and far out. Let him buy you a
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couple of drinks and accident, Well, they probably want to take you out
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for the evening. If you tell him where, you have to make a
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stop at your apartment. I don't think I like that, mister Morgan.
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What's that I'm not? Like perfectly on the up and up. And you
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get to your place, I'll be waiting for you, and that's where you're
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gonna tell me the baby? Is it just a junk? Yeah? I
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can hardly wait to see him when he learns it's a game, Well,
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then he'll practically die. Last where do you live anyway, Linda? It's
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just an ext clause, I got it. You promise you we're gonna call
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me Paul. Paul? Do you know a man named a man? Named
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who forget it? You know, I don't get you, Linda. When
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I'm first U in the club, I easily said to myself, there's a
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thing with Clare. We said, Hey, so me gave me a dummer.
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Well, I don't also do things like that. He was a name
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fault. Then I understand. I get them all the time. Huh,
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where are we going now? This apartment right here? Oh? Hey,
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let me have you. No, it's all right, I backing that up.
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Well, just coming in. I say, hey, nice, last
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you got here, Linda. I think I'm going to like this. I
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wouldn't bear on that, David. Oh then Jott double cross? Oh no,
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are you telling me it was a jewel? Joke's over now, honey,
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so you can beat it. Yeah, you're a smart girl to keep
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your trap clothes. I go on, listen, I got up. I
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don't at any conversation with you. David, just want my dough what don't
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welsh? Yeah? Yeah, I'm kind of low morganized luck lately from no
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one. It's gonna get worse. You know, all the boys will laugh
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at people. Let you hang me up. Man in my position can't afford
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that David might give other people idea. Look, suppose I pay you a
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little of day? What do you call a little? I didn't give you
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a ten grand? Now the balance your has I just couldn't get no warning.
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You got that dough on you? Oh yeah, yeah, okay,
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let I was gonna give you all the time. Give him up. But
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the way that's gun there? Thank you red well, mister Morgan, who's
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the joke on? Now? I guess it's me and you're not kitting.
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It's okay, Davis. I'll see you again, not a yard next time.
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You won't be this lucky mister Lions, you'll enjoy it. Mister Morgan
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goes to all that trouble, David puts a gun on him and leaves him
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with his tongue hanging out. That's very amusing, hos. What's happened that
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that? Oh Morgan started looking for him again? What do you think will
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happen if he finds him this side? The same thing? Miss Llans?
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You don't believe Morgan will kill Morgan? Doll talk so I know so I
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wouldn't last as long as a private sick if I wasn't a good judge of
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character. Take it from me, mister liiance it's all a black. That's
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too bad, Tom. It would be worth a lot of money to me
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if it were. Oh how much is there's a lot of money. What's
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the difference. You'll not be interested? Try me twenty five hundred dollars.
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You're right, you're right at that price. I'm not interested. It doesn't
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worth more. Everybody knows. That's more than has threatened Davis. You're an
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absolutely not risk. What have you? What have you got against Davis?
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Anyway? That is none of your business. Either you want the job or
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you don't. Well, as long as you put it on that basis,
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miss alliance, let me take it off. Baby said, This is mister
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Davis. Oh yeah, mister d I'm going a PM book at the corner
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stake in forty six. Anybody get around the joint? Answers to me several
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Would you tell him if I hadn't heard from you all day? Oh?
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Good good, it's Norman Dad, my wife. No, mister Davis.
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Well once she gets there, Kelly, Hey, cut that what's the car,
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mister dab Son? Cases? And I've heard you use a fall fall
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that is taken thiers. I take get is Pascard the so you know how
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Well as you'll probably get. Paul Davis never did complete that phone call.
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Thirty five minutes later. He was on the flat in the Morgan the
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Constant, Chicago, where I was looking for Charles Morgan. But apparently they
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weren't looking in the right places. But when I came home that afternoon,
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I found my door on watching That's Gonna had an opo, and I was
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challenged with the bedroom all lots of the girl. I listened more about it.
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Keep your hands right over there? What are you doing here? I'm
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hot, I have a few heads. It still doesn't meant to my question.
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I don't see why not I wanted for murder. You're the best mayer
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in Chicago's up not to my writing, by anybody gets somebody else. Listen,
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all, maybe I haven't handled it right. I didn't kill Davis.
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And why don't you tell that to the police. I'll think for a minute.
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They believe me before, as I told you that I don't need this.
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Listen, I know you don't like me. They're give me credit for
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little intelligence. I was gonna knock off David, but I shoot my mouth
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off all over town. So I'll tell you I didn't kill him and her?
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Did I have no idea? I came over and I've seen what I
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can do for you, but first I want you to surrender to the cast
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and it's no deal. I wait, mylone, I'll make your property and
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give me a chance for you thought I'm out of Suzum dinner since we found
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guilty. You lawyers just say that because it sounds well we are. I'm
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convinced with any luck between yourself in a couple of hours. Yeah, my,
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then I'll give myself up and you're doing the meantime the right me.
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I want to present me from walking out and calling the police. Oh you
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just trust me? Yeah right. The list is against my better judgments more
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than if you got to tell the lawyers. Yeah, this is Norma Davis.
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My name is John jam Alone. I'm sorry about it any time like
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this, but I'd like to ask you some questions about your husband. I've
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told the police everything I know. I'm working at a different angle, Tony,
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No one is you know. The only idea is who might have laded
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your husband? Yes, I mean besides more than no, Paul, did
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you have an enemy in the world? But you know that's not true,
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mister Davis. Your husband wasn't exactly the most popular citizen in Chicago. Okay,
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you say, have you talked that one about him? I'm tired of
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the insinuation. What do you know of the kind of man to wife?
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I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I won't get out. I don't want to
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hear any more about it. Leave me alone, but miss a thing to
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regulate your mama. This was a marvelous so far. Thank you? Do
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you think I can be missing alone? That I was a heartbrook? And
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how could you help it? When you're practically convinced me some years? Let
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me come to you. H Yeah, I'm looking forgotten a hut. Look
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no further than in the morning. You hut? What my friends told me?
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What to say? Jug? You're right, can drink? Yeah,
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I just help yourself, advise in the corner and call me one money about
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it. You're in a bad spot, Morgan, when you're up here to
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tell me that. Yeah, you see, I know who killed all day?
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What that one man? Yeah? How uh? How do you think
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the king? What you mean? I got a lot of information is telling
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it's going to the highest fitter, and then you can claim me. I'm
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not doing any more talking. Do I see the color of the color of
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your gol? How do I know you've got lice? And oh, I'll
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give you a shace. Did you know that David's wife was three time at
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home? That's that's all you get for free. But you can use that
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kind of stuff like from Hussin. I want you to talk Tom alone.
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Who's John Jay's represented? You didn't not talk of Oh sure, oh bid,
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and I could make it fuck So I'll okay. So I'm going back
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to my Long's apartment. I want you to call him there in about forty
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five minutes. It's so much you told me if missus bag Long, no
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good, no good, get the door first. I look, I only
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got a grand on. I'll give you another four the next time I see
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you. Oh Morgy, you've got yourself competing war. Then that's great,
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Vincent. This is miss him alone. There was a man waiting in my
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apartment. By any chance, never mind, come in along. I was
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just asking to you more, and where the devil have you been? All
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that tells me a lot. I thought you agreed to stay right here.
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I know, but I have to see. Oh was it something that keep
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on our first? Not very much. Every lead I explored came back to
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you. If you missus Davis, you know, just for a few minutes.
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What'd you think of it? He seemed all broken up over her husband's
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mner. He's kidding you belong. Make sure think h you've got a new
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little kicking up on my own. She can hold in hands if some guy
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wasn't her husband. Where did you get that's private? Dick and Joe Hudson?
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Oh that, I don't care what he is, Malone. He's got
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the evidence of plan. What did he say, Jill Lizard? He wouldn't
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tell me. But I made a problem to be calling you anything, Morgan.
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I wouldn't trust that game the sag of Bible. What did you give
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him? Yeah, a guy like Hudson doesn't talk to you want to promise
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him? Well you better say your little I say you can clear my milon
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probably him. Hello, Yeah that's right, Hudson. I take it that.
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Yeah, Well what do you think? What I think is unimportant?
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Morgan tells me you can clear them. Well, I'm not as you gotta
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talk about it. I don't like it, Morgan, but just think.
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Well make up your mind by okay, we'll be over in an hour.
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It must be down the hall now, no here it is. I want
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you to let me handle Hudson more than and keep your mouth shut back.
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What's keep I don't know, maybe one on oh, I doubt that having
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yourself take a piece of that keyhole can't see you say yeah, because the
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key is still in the lot. I mean, Hudson's got to be in
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there. Hey, Hudson, open up. I've done all right. Wasn't
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break it down, shouldn't take too much of it. Unwash you do it
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happen? Husband and the devil that likes sell on the door. Put yourself
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more than way. Let's preak amend I got it fair? We are well.
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He should have seen his face light up when inspired, Morgan. He
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acted like a man who was prospecting for silver and final gold. There's a
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nice piece of work, Malone, A very nice season of work, all
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right, Morgan, let's go Oh, let's lieutenant, He's not the reason
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I caug this. No, I know, but I'm not complaining told you
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not to clone. I'm beginning to think you're right, Morgan. For the
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same nickel, I could have thrown somebody with brain what kind of a cracks
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that? Well, in case you haven't noticed, Lieutenant, as a body
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lying on that, Sophie. I'll keep as long as you raised the point,
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why did you kill a Morgan? Are you crazy? You just got
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here with more? Don't hand me that. It's the truth. McRae.
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So you're going to be a alibi, yes, and you better listen unless
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you want to look like a jersey and go to cry hoo. How long
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would you say? Hudson had said, not too long. The body's still
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warm, sort of been anywhere from fifteen minutes to three quarters of an hour,
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so that that's more than that. I will see how because he was
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with me every minutes from the time I got Hudson's trawler the time we broke
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down the door. The whole business is at least an hour. Your word's
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not good enough, Malone. Okay, if you don't believe me, you
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can check up the switch board at my place in the dormant downstairs. I'll
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do. If that's not enough, I'll big up the hacker you go with
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over now. I still doesn't mean Morgan. Couldn't it kill Day? Oh?
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Use your head, lieutenant. You know both these murders were committed by
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the same party. Hudson knew who it was. That's why he was killed.
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I still say it was Morgan. You're crazy. Hudson was going to
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clear he's quiet Morgan, all right, lieutenants, I'll advise him to confess
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if you can show me one thing. What then? How did he get
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in here? You can see the only door was locked on the inside,
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so a lot he could have used the window. Oh yeah, the bars
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on, that's right, and nobody would a midget to pick thro the open
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and there must be another door again it Sarah, Well, it was a
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physical impossibility for anybody to do it. Jill has yet it was done.
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I can't tell you, but maybe I can take you to a little lady
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who can't find I listen, Malona, but do you ever find out?
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I have more than go? We'll have money. Wait, it's the house
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where Paul Davis lives. That's right, lieutenants. When your can't bother his
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wife? Now, why not? Because her husband was just murdered. But
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he may surprise you with what he knows about it. Morgan told me he
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was being a romance by some SERI who I don't know, apparently needed to
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David asked me, and the girl I never yeh, I don't knows to
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David remember me, not maybe for me. I'm finings Malone. I'm just
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saying this gentleman would like to ask you a couple of questions. This gentleman
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means nothing in my own life. You never can tell he's a lieutenant in
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the Crook County Police. Oh, it's just that the house is in such
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a name. We promise who loves it? Norma, I uh, I
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think you're being paid. It's just it's nothing. Right for a moment,
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darlright, I was the fellow lions alone, Lieutenant, I can explain everything,
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Sure you can't. But suppose we do a Don Thomas. It's customary
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and as the day when the police are questioned in some he's done absolutely nothing,
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nothing but murder your husband and a man named Joe Hud that's a lie
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you denied you and lyons with busiting in the romance department behind your husband's back
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head. And what's the lion's doing here now? He's just counting like he
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helps your murder, Johann No moment alone, I thought this gentleman was the
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officer of the law. Yeah, you're right, Lions, but if you
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didn't, min West, he'sually gonna do a less embarrassing. You're went for
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a bad shot. Joe Hudson was murdered at ten forty five tonight. Now
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where were you at that time? It's normal here, that's oh now,
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that's what I call a wonderful Alabama tennis. You said there wasn't anyone else
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around. It's a century. Oh, but there was them alone. It's
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justice of the teaching, Sizero. I think you may remember us. I
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shouldn't because I gave him one hundred dollars to perform the marriage ceremony that made
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Norman here missus life. It doesn't make sense, Macros. You watch where
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you're driving. I tell you that something's story about that merite you'll start the
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life. It doesn't at like you a strange Within twelve dollars after a husband
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has murdered missus, Davis marries another man. In course, it does.
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But there's no law against this. As an attorney, you want to know
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that better than anybody else. Yeah, but an alibi like that must have
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a hole in them. Yeah. Will you show me where, and after
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you do that, show me how either missed as David Lyons could have murdered
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hud with the physical impossibility for Morgan to kill him and apply to them to
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hold everything. Oh what a sum said. You know when I say compression
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is good for the show, I tell you I got the answer to all
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of it was on the level alone. Yeah, I know who killed Hudby
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and with the help of Morgan. You want to prove it was live On.
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I don't know anything about missus David st what I told you before,
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or how did you discovered to the who alone? I didn't know it was
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lions. All Huson told me was with some man. How well did you
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know Hudby? I met him for the first time the day he got the
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touch of one of my friends, meets that he wanted to stand. Well,
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let's just put this back, O love. Why don't we drop the
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whole business alone? Yeah you like that? Sure? No, Now,
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I couldn't have killed hutch and tway You're wrong more than the still No,
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but I do exactly. I know how your manage it. Yeah, it's
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pretty clever. I can't blame myself. I'm not seeing you sooner. No
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wonder you insist that I go and see Hudson the way to hear you explain
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how I killed. I'm say the mess of the cup. Don't keep yourself,
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Maloney. He's done all the talking your knowed. Oh put it with
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it, Morgan, you know, because that'd be cool enough to come up
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there alone. Funny, I don't get anybody around. You're not looking at
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the right point. Get on. I'm warning you, Morgan. You gotta
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throw your gun in the middle of the road you want it, Lieutenant,
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watch this Maloney may be active. Oh that home and a port it Lieutenanta
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doesn't call so much ability. You canna drop me off at the corner of
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the sinner. Well, it's uh Ben's malone. You're forgetting something. I
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got a report like, oh, what's happened you? Well, you know
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there's Morgan, Jill Davis. Oh sure, I was the first one to
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say, Jiman, so you should have started your gain. Wow, when
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you're talking all that razzle dazzle about Hudsons, what you kind of feel me?
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I don't see. It's so sadly the ended. I was right with
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him. Of course, I'm reconstructing now, but this is what must have
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happened. Rans tried to hire Hudson to punctat. Hudson said he'd take it
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over and Davis has still huts to no immediately, but if he didn't do
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it, Morgan must have. I don't see how that followed. It could
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have been like, I don't know if lions were willing to do the job.
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Why did he applay hutch me in the first place. I don't know.
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I'd to be Morgan, but Hudson realized that he tried to take down
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Morgan. Even though Morgan has to fight for right, he might be induced
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to say Davis's wife. So Morgan played along with him, asked me getting
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touched me? Now, what's come to the part? I want to hear?
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Well, when Morgan went to me, Hudson, you know it would
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be the first of many stakes meetings unless he said set so he kicks the
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Michigan. Now, why didn't we kill a man? And man the gentleman
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says he needed another about and I was it. Now, I don't get
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it. It's pretty simple. He needed someone with him. Why he murdered
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But why there? Remember he said it was a physical impossibility for anyone to
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get into that room. And still Hudson before Morgan and I broke down the
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door. Yeah, I don't know. Say you hit them there and right
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on my head. It was a pity. So that means Hutton was killed
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while I was in the room. All right, not, let me get
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this straight along you meanwhile, you were hunting for that life. Morgan was
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hunting for a place of his life. He wasn't quite a cancer. Oh,
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Hutson was drugs. He couldn't make a night cry and I doesn't make
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any night at all. Yeah, well, I don't run you not the
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next time I think something. You didn't listening. I told you more than
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it all along. And yeah, well you'll have to give me a lieutenant.
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I haven't heard so many radio shows I forgot it wasn't unconstitutional for a
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cossably right. Let's hope the sound he comes out of a president. And
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I had a story of a fellow who refused to pay for protection money.
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He believes in freedom of enterprise. Learn the hard way that murder is a
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bad business. I'll sing you in I'm at the sales next week when I
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picked me up at my office, BEFO, I'll be winning nice. Thanks
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Love. Joy was sad as John J. Malone and appeared through the courtesy
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of Story Production. Our program is directed by Bill Russo, with music by
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Johnny Duty Murderer Mister Malone. He's produced by Bernard L. Schubert. Now
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this is art gil Moore inviting you to ut in next week. The events
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and characters depicted in this story were entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual places
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or people living or dead is entirely coincidental. Murder and MISTI alone has come
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to you from Hollywood and its presented by the Wine Growers Guild of Blue Dye,
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California. Yes, the name of the wine, the Peaceful Fine You
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you BBC the American Broadcasting Company Welcome Back with Jack Webb playing the role of
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a police flutenant and that was not as uncommon as one would think. We
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heard the name of Bill Russo on the credits, and Russo also cast Webs
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as either police or a heavy criminal in most episodes of the New Adventures of
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Michael Shane, which he which he also produced. The series definitely has some
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of that cynicism and you kind of I do appreciate these sort of deconstruction,
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a little bit of the typical trope where the cop has it wrong, and
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definitely a nice twist, not one that you normally expect on these shows.
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It's very rare for the police to get it right. The big difference that
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I noticed from the books is that, as far as I could remember,
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no one, not in particularly not Malone, had anything to drink. In
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the Malone books, alcohol is really central to the character. Anything going on,
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there will generally be a proposal that they go ahead and have a drink
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or several on it as they try and solve the case. And I'm not
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exaggerating in one way. The series really did represent the sort of alcohol fantasies
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that people tended to indulge in for whatever reason after the end of prohibition,
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and it does not really carry over to the radio version, which I think
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is a good thing, because really the whole alcohol fantasy thing really is something
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that feels like it's, you know, from the nineteen thirties, and this
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is in the post war era. It should be noted that I have read
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one of the post war Malone books and they did continue that, and I
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think it hurt the books. But the radio program pretty good, solid hard
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boiled action, and I a lot to how they managed to maintain this sense
37:16
of mystery over the story, even while they revealed a whole lot of what
37:22
was going on. So this was I think a pretty clever story. Fortunately,
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most of this series is missing. In fact, there were a total
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of sixty six episodes featuring Frank Lovejoy as John Malone, and we actually only
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have two of those we'll hear. I'll talk a little bit about Frank Lovejoy
37:49
next episode before he's gone totally, but we will actually hear a grand total
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of four different actors in the role of John J. Malone and a lot
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of different productions. I think this will be an interesting run. So I
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hope that you will be tuned in next week for the next adventure of John
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J. Malone. In our last episode we have with Frank Lovejoy in the
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role. Listener comments from Laurie says, who writes on Facebook. I'm really
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trying to buy the app to put on my Android phone, but can't seem
38:25
to find it in the Google Play stores. There's some secret that I don't
38:30
know the Andrew Laurie. If you're curious about the app for Android, you
38:37
can get the app, but only through the Amazon App Store and usually if
38:43
you don't have it. I have an Android advice that didn't come with the
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Amazon App Store, was able to go and download the Amazon App Store through
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my main app store, and so you're able to purchase it that way.
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So I hope that helps. And Laurie was able to download that, and
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I hope other listeners are able to enjoy that as well. Also, Justin
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Wright saying, Adam, I want to thank you for introducing me to the
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Mister Modo radio series. I've seen the Mister Moto movies and read some of
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the books, but I've never heard of the radio show. Also, I
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wanted to know if you've read the Robert Goldsborough Near a Wolf books. Once
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again, thank you and keep up the good work. Well, Justin I
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am working my way through the original Wolf Kennon and after that i'll buy Rex
39:37
Stout and I'll consider going over and reading all the Goldsborough books. The only
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one that I've read of Goldsborough was the latest, which was a prequel Archie
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meets Nero Wolf, and I was somewhat disappointed in that, to be honest,
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just because the voice of the character really did not sound a whole lot
40:09
like the Archie good one I know. Now, it has to be said
40:13
that Archie's nineteen in the book, so he doesn't have this fully developed voice,
40:17
but there's no sense of him being a smart raleic or even being a
40:22
ladies man at all, even some foreshadowing of the type of person he was
40:30
going to become. So I was somewhat disappointed in that. But the rest
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of the Wolf of the Goldsboro Wolf books without the challenge of you know,
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writing in and filling in backstory. I'll take a listen, I'll take a
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look at and see what I think of it as soon as I finish the
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main reck Stout Wolf Cannon. And actually I only have. I only have
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one book and about eleven pages of another before I have finished all the rex
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out Near wolfbooks. So I will certainly be sure to post some reviews when
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I get into the Goldsborough ones. All right, Well, that'll do it
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for today. In the meantime, I send your comments to Box thirteen at
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