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today's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doller. It's time for Part three and Part
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four of the Lorco Diamond Matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Doller.
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Hello. What is it? Hello? Hello? I don't know conness.
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Maybe they weren't expecting a man to answer, or at least not me.
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I wouldn't know about that. What about this guy who was lying unconscious
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in your closet? Would you know anything about that? No, Jenny,
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I didn't think you would. I'll give another shot at those smelling salts.
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I think he's a gunny tool good. Maybe he'll know about some of these
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things. Yes, you will some of him, and of course he will
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tell you. I was hoping it would not be brought out. I did
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not want you to know. Murder is usually brought out sooner or later.
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Not to murder, Johnny, it is not that simple tonight at every weekday
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Night Bob Bailey and the Transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense
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Acount America's Fabulous freelance insurance Investigator Yours Trulli Johnny Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny
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Dollar, location, Algiers, North Africa to the home office trans World Fidelity
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Company, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment the Larco Diamonds matter expense account Continue Item
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six nine dollars and thirty cents, smelling salts and a bottle of Scotch.
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The smelling salts were needed for a double talking fellow named Zendorff who had manage
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to get himself gassed after death in a closet. A representative of your client
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who suffered one hundred thousand dollars loss. Local Diamonds of Amsterdam. The Scotch
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was for me, Johnny. He doesn't like it. Should I go on
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holding them under his nose? Yeah? Sure, keep shoving him at him
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until he's strong enough to fight you off. I shall smelling salts work.
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A person has to come to and share your self defend nine nine stops more
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too plenty. Already my nose is killed dead, No more, maybe even
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poking it into the wrong places. What were you doing in that closet,
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mister designed Off. It's nothing. I can tell you the entire thing in
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twos. Use more if you need him, but make it good. Nobody
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has find this beautiful diamond. Nobody has to doing anything. So I'm come
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looking for my own self in that closet. Nine is only for hiding.
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I am wait for everybody going away, going at sleep. Then I am
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going to look in my apartment. What made you think they would be here?
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You are pleased to forgiving me Forulean, but I am not taking the
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chance. I'm think to looking every place. Who turned on the gas out
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there? Do not ask it. I know nothing. I think I have
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sleeping some maybe and when I have waking, I am died. Almost Yeah,
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well, apparently somebody was out to get one of us at least,
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Hey, what about that? Maybe yours Maria or is the one? Of
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course she you know, it is strange she disappeared about the time you arrived,
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slipped out without a word. Does she live here? And she lives
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up in the cart bar? I hired her to the agent. Let see,
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do you think she did it? Oh? The more I find out,
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the less I'm sure of. Maybe mister Zigndoff did a trying to come
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at suicide over his missing trench. Suicide is one thing I am not and
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I desis to listen no more. I am to leave here immediate. Oh,
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by the way, mister Zigndoff, h what is it? As I
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understand that you boys in the international jewelry business are ordinarily pretty cautious in your
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dealings. Yeah, you are the prudence, my near always the entire prudent,
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That's what I mean. You always investigate a new client thoroughly before you
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take any chances. Is that right? It's entire correct, Johnny. Then
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why did you send a hundred thousand dollars worth of diamonds here to while years
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at the request of a woman who doesn't have a cent to a name?
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Why it is to me. These things are always happened, my dear dollar,
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I am the highest ethic of business. I cannot give you answering.
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Well, one of you better give me an answering. Oh it is all
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right, mister Zander, Please please you tell contestia all right? What is
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it trying to say? Johnny's it is? It did not matter about my
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financial standing because I was not actually climbed. What do you mean? You
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ordered to see several pieces and approval so I could make his selection anything up
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to twenty thousand dollars. Somebody else was paying for it. It was being
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given to me as a gift by home a fellow countryman of yours, a
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man named Charles Barrett. He's been here three months, lives on his yacht.
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Mister signed off. How did you know this man Barrett would pay for
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the diamond by the letter of mine? Here? What letter? When I
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wrote to the Lacal firm, I took the liberty of enclosing a letter written
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to me by mister Bart his own authentical signings. We investigate immediate. What
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sort of a letter wasn't he promised to pay for a gift jury up to
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twenty thousand dollars of my own selection in return for certain consideration. What consideration
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or romantic mine? Here? It is a little present of the Is that
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what I was Maria? An engagement present? Yes, let's see. I
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think I go now. It's too much. It's happened in this place.
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Is it all right to smoke her? Yeah? Sure, the guess is
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cleared up here. Thank you. I wish you hadn't kissed me, Johnny.
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I thought you said you liked him. I did that. That's why
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I wish you hadn't. Are you trying to say that all red legs,
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Johnny? I am not a child. No. I have not fallen in
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love with you any more than you have with me. But I could very
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easily. What about this man, Barrett? What's he like? An overbearing,
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spoiled, middle aged little boy. The price sounds kind of high.
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What else is there? Ever? Think I'm working where? At? What?
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In Italy? Yes? But do you know what's open there for an
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impoverished countess? And I suppose you can't get a work permit anywhere else?
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Is I don't? Oh, forgive it, Johnny. All I know how
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to do is be highly ornamental, say the right things to the right people,
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do the right things at the right time, and eat by stealing caviar
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at cocktail parties. You go hungry a lot that way. Yeah, I
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guess it's rough. Well I don't let's throw your honey. You're not the
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first girl who married for money. I guess you don't understand. Nobody has
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said anything about the marriage. Oh, I see wall, Johnny. I
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imagine you will be leaving now, So good night, Johnny, goodbye.
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For all the progress I'd made in the case, I went as well have
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stayed at home. Another fish off the hook. Logical suspect number one had
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been the Custom's property agent, Andre Jardine, but the blow on the head
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that sent him to the hospital hadn't been faked, and that, plus the
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fact the diamond courier had shown symptoms of poisoning before the plane even landed,
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seemed to leave Andrea in the clear. And now on number two. Maria
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Cattista Delille was apparently able to supply another answer every time she needed one,
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and her answers were backed up by hand Zimdorf, Lorco's own representative. We
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were shortcutting through the Harvard district when I began to realize that the same car
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had been behind us ever since we'd left Maria's. It was a low slung
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English job, expensive and easy to recognize. Driver, leave it, get
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the gas a little harder. See if you can shake that car behind us,
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may we The other car picked up speed to match arts, still held
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the same distance. A track, a couple of fast corners. I want
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to make sure. Yeah, the next place where the street narrows down,
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stop fast, swing crosswise, block off the road. I want to stop
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that guy and have a talk with him. Hey, you understand what I
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mean. Believe this year just like in the movie about something like that,
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and there's a place coming up. Let's let's have a go at it.
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You do not worry. I will do it good. I only hope we've
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seen the same movies. Now, I miss you. I was out of
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the cab, fast and running back down the street the other driver and jammed
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on his brakes and finally skidded to a stop against the curb. I reached
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for the handle, jerked the door open, and the man inside came on
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swing, A big man, little on the peaky side of plenty tough.
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I didn't know him, never seen it before. He fought silently and thought
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hired, but he was a sucker for the whip. I knelt down on
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the pavement and started to go through his pockets. I hadn't even know does
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the other car pull up? Do you merely plan to rob him? Or
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do you also intend to cook him and eat him? Now you really getting
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around, inspector. Policemen must socialize, monsieur. It broadens the outlaw.
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Come we walk, My chauffeur will take care of reviving your victims. You're
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having another victim, maybe, is Monsieur Shalls k Barrett of Chicago, Maria's
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ex boyfriend, something of this sort. I believe, how did you happen
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to get here so conveniently? Oh? I was following you father back,
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of course. And why didn't your petcheen want to fight started and spoil such
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a remarkable display of physticals. Okay, it is true the footwork was mediocre,
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but the enthusiasm, the violent super Monsieur. I can't quite figure your
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inspector. Well, sometime we must talk about it. Mossieur, you're be
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most happy to know that we have identified the person who occupied the plane seat
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next to the Diamond Corge. They shared a bottle of wine during the flight.
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Undoubtedly that is how the poison was administered. Who is the person A
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man named Bobo Bobo we He is well known in the Cazbar. He is
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a thief, smuggler, dope peddler, and it is said he can be
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had as a killer. Have you picked him up yet? I have not
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tried to. Why not? Why not, monsieur? In the Cazbar,
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At the sight of a uniform, everyone vanishes like rabbits in their hole casbar.
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Another thing. The property agent who was struck on the head, Andre
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Jordan, He has disappeared from the hospital room. Disappeared. How his window
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was open, the room was upset. It was very odd. Yeah,
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look, Inspector, I think I'll get on back to the hotel and get
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some sleep as you yeall talk to you tomorrow maybe. Oh there is one
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more thing, Missieur d I think perhaps I should warn you of something in
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the event you should call again on the contest. Warned me of what?
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Well? Two days ago I installed a dictaphone in her apartment. You what,
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I must admit, I found your conversation this evening most entertaining. Inspector.
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You are a rat. Please do not concern yourself in the least,
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I am this soul of discretion. Maybe, monsieur, I am a fournchman.
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Twice tonight, the Casbar had been mentioned a strange, mysterious native quarter
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on the steep hill behind the city. Maria had said her maid lived there,
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and now Bobo, who had given poisoned wine to the diamond carrier.
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I had an angle, and I had some ideas. The picture was finally
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starting to make sense. But I needed some more answers and the trail and
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entered the casbar. Johnny Dollar, this is Abdool. You don't know me.
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I have the little business. Well, I'm so happy for you.
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I hope it's doing well. Okay, Well, I don't know me,
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but you are looking for me. Now, Look, Joe, Abdol,
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it is a business to get jobs for people, for servants. Oh the
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employment agent. Have you got the address of that girl who worked for the
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Countess Delia Shore? You're very lucky, she's very preppy. You've got the
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wrong idea, Abdul. I just want to talk to her. Sure,
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where does she live? For twenty dollars, I will remember, I'll give
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you ten. No, she's worth more. Look, knock it off.
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I gotta find her and talk to her fast, while I'm still alive and
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while she is From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar location, Algiers, North Africa to
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the home office trans World Fidelity Company, Hartford, Connecticut. Assignment the local
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diamonds matter A hundred thousand dollars worth missing expense account continued, I am nine
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fifteen dollars even ratuity tip gift bonus a white kid about it. It was
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a pride for a man named Abdel, but the address of a girl named
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Chatta, an address up in the native port at the Kesba. But the
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idea wasn't romance, no matter what Ebdel thought. Four hours earlier, in
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the countless des apartment, somebody had turned on the gas and tried to kill
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one off both of us. It was nine to one that the somebody was
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chatted the servant. I wanted to ask her why. I put my coat
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on and was just on the point of leaving my hotel. I slipped a
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gun into my side pocket and moved over to the door. How is it,
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Barrett guy, you beat the daylights out of a couple of hours ago.
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You know what I mean? Oh, I'm feeling I just want to
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talk it over all right, Barrett, what's on your mind? You'll jack
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if I come inside. It's kind of personally, you know what I mean?
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Probably all right? Come on, its bl I didn't know who you
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were, but when we when we got in a little freakas at the cup,
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told me about it afterward, and you really got a wall upon you.
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You make a fella. No, he's at it, you know what
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I mean? Is that why you're here? A post mortem on the fighting
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on? It's done it over. You're whip me Farren square. As far
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as I'm concerned, Barrett, if you've got anything to say, let's have
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it fast. I'm in a hurry to get out of here. Well,
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I sure don't want to take up no more of your time than necessary.
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I know how it is. Of course, I'm on vacation now, but
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back in Chicago having a meat business. Look, Barrett, when you're policed
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in a way I am, I mean by products, actually, you know
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what they say, use everything with the squeal. I'm the fellow the cans
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squeers Again. Brother, what I come here for was maybe to get it
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straightened out about that dame. Do you mean the Countess? Don't counts him?
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Titles? Or a dime a dozen I can buy him, sell him
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like sausages. Oh what about her? I looked, neighbor. I was
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figuring to come here and put it to your man to man. You know
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what I mean, I know what I'm beginning to think. You mean.
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I figured, when you're seeing my position, you'd want to do the square
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thing like anybody on the right side of defense wood with me. Neighbor,
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you better drop that neighbor business. I've moved Dolla. The thing stacks up
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like this now. I already had my claim stake there before you even got
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in. Tom. I got a lot of money invested in that dame.
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Parents so help. I've been taking her around places, you know, feeding
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buying a one thing and another. But I was even going to kick through
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for a twenty grand hunk of ice for it. She and I had that
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fight last week. You want that dame's got high flut night. What are
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you talking about? I just put it to a cold techie. I told
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her she had a quit Jenny flipping around with all the other fellas well.
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I just wasn't gonna have nothing more to do with it. Well, that
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made a madge understand. She lit into me and you already hear that damn
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talk when she's mad. She when was this fight? Was it before the
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diamonds were sent here? Sure? Joy, I said, if that's the
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way she was gonna act, she could forget about them diamonds. I ain't
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seen a sense of talk to her, but I just can't. I just
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can't seem to get her off my mind. I looked Lau was in her
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apartment there for two hours and forty minutes tonight, and I don't like it.
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It bothers me strictly business Barrett, and I gotta get going. I'll
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wait a minute, Wait a minute, coology, wait a minute. We
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still got something to settle here. Like I told you, I got got
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all Marrit, get out. You better hold your horse, and said,
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I don't know if you know the name C. K. Barrett, if
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that means anything to you, But I got influenced back then in the United
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States. So it's the hard way, Hull. If you just work for
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that company of yours, you're nothing but an employee. And if you think
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you can talk to me like a kind of somebody's fine, it's then' here.
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No still a sucker for a left Hello room service. This is Johnny
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Dale. Some drunk just wanted in here and passed out. Would you send
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up a couple of boys to drag it out in the hall? Expense account
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item ten five dollars and thirty cents a tip to the bellboys and taxi fare
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to the casbar. The taxi dropped me off at the end of the causeway,
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and from there on I walked. It was late, well after midnight,
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but the narrow, crooked alleys were teeming with light, some of it
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out in the open, some of an undercover. Small groups of people met
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together here and there along the cobbled streets. Men of two dozen tongues and
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dialects, and women too, slipped silently in and out of the dark doorways,
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crouched over tables, and the dim lit cafes and coffee houses. Groups
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usually fell silent when I passed, and stayed with hostile curiosity. The kasbomb
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backwash of North Africa little known, seldom bothered, and scarcely policed, and
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for an outsider, especially at nights, more dangerous than dynamite. The address
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Optial had given me turned out to be a coffee house, but it could
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still be legitimate, and there was only one way to find out what you
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are. I want to see Chatta, but for private reasons, shat does
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he? Where can I find it? Tick? Sheets? Table, little
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corner? Maybe should call? I took the seat and ordered coffee and waited.
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I wrinkled old arabs, squatted on a rug in the middle of the
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room and played strange, weird melodies. Gradually the other patrons went back to
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their conversations, ignoring me completely, in fact, pointedly, twenty minutes past.
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The girl didn't show. You will, of course not deject Missieu,
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if I take the liberty of joining you. No, Sam may see.
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So you wish to see chat now? That's right? Do you know her?
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Weep? I know her very well. I want to find her.
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But silly Missieu, I always know where to find her. He's my woman.
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Oh so you're the man I call Bobbo. We miss you, the
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man who poisoned the diamond Currier. Oh, Missie, It is true that
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I gave him some wine, a little, not much, But I think
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perhaps it was a bad vintage. Yes, most unfortunately it was for him.
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Well, perhaps it was for the best. Life is so uncertain,
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but I do not wish to think of such unpleasantness. Instead, let us
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talk about diamonds. Let's talk about killing or attempt at killing. There's child
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of the one who turned on the gas and the cardass's apartment. Who is
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possible that she did that on whose orders he pushed? Nothing personal with you.
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I didn't even know that you were going to beat there. I see,
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And you really meant the diamonds miss you. That's enough of this foolish
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talk of shilling. All right, all right? What about the diamonds you
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will send you by the company that has insured them? That not hell,
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that's right, and this company will like very much to recover these times.
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That's why I'm here. Yeah, Now, I'm told that these companies sometimes
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give larger rewards. Agree to an arrangement of the sort. Make a deal,
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you man, But no questions? Ask exactly? Now? Is this
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thing true with you? Is it possible that you do you have the diamonds?
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Bobbo? Well, let us say that I'm able to direct you to
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their location. You could almost call that a confession. What does it matter
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so long as we are in the cast for Oh yeah, sure, I
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imagine you have been spotted all over the place at least thirty right, in
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this wound. I am in no danger here. Tell me something. You
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didn't pull off this job by yourself? Who else was in on it?
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I only wish to talk about the diamonds. Well can become to an arrangement,
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Bobo. I don't make deals with murderers. It is better that you
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do not use such words, miss Year. It's true, though, isn't
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it. That is not the question. It is only that I was in
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the insulting Wait, Bobo did younge for the police to come himish you?
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I'm a surprised as you are. Bobo considered this matter of the deal.
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We would talk more at some other time. In the patrons rushed for the
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doors, and in one minute flat, the coffee house was empty. Even
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the owner was gone. I was the only one left. Three minutes later,
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the inspector, with a flying squad of twenty men came bursting into the
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street. Well, monsieur, I am happy to find you, a silly
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Why don't you get lost somewhere? Were you? I think it's most fortunate
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that we arriving, die Ah sure in time to follow up the only lead
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I had in this case. Who lose their suspect? He's bitted into lose
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one's life, monsieur, look, Inspector. I was holding a gun in
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my pocket, covering bubble from the second he sat down at the table,
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Monsieur, already men or not. If it had come to a show down,
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he couldn't have done a thing because he'd have been the first one to
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get it. And he's wanted enough to have known that. But he thought,
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Zey, based an inspector, you have done it again, you ghosts.
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But I was only thinking, what is your having next? The shooting
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was somewhere outside, but it hadn't been the police. All of the inspectors
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men were inside the coffee house. He gave them mortus quickly and they found
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out to search the area. The streets were empty, now dark and silent,
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not a soul in sight. We split up into pairs. I worked
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with Inspector Marcuts for a while and left him and searched alone along the narrow
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side passes. That's where I found he'd been shot three times in the back
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and he was dying. Shit. Yeah, Bobbo, you you can't forget
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that deal. I think, Yeah, it's a little too late for deals
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now. Who was in on it with you? Bobo? Look? You've
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got nothing to lose by talking. You know that, don't you? He
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shit, my aunt? Who shoot? As you see this? Gosh?
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Who shot you? A dragon? Missieur, twelve feet with fiery eyes?
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All right, bobo, all right, but just tell me that's just one
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thing. Are you the man who attacked the property agent at the airport?
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The man who slug Andre Jordin, sweet messie? I do it very good.
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No, almost kill him, he's too bad. I did. A
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minute or two later, Inspector Marcus came up and we stood there looking down
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up the dead man lying on the stones of the alley. He was a
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short man, stockily built, with wide shoulders and a deep chest. It
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was the body of a man of action for accomplishments, but he chosen to
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be a smuggler, dope peddler, thief and killer. And now he had
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become the victim of another killer. Did he say anything, monsieur? Was
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he able to talk? Yeah? Enough? Eh? What did it you
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mean, monsieur? Do you know who's guilty of these an? That's right,
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Inspector. I know the whole story, now, the whole filthy,
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rotten story. There will be the final intriguing episode in our story of the
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local Diamonds matter Tomorrow Tomorrow night. The odds are set, the last chip
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is down. It's the last spin of the wheel, and death is the
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croupier. Join us once you Yours Truly, Johnny Dull. Yours Truly Johnny
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Duller, starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood, written by Les Crutchfield.
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It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join us
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tomorrow night at same time and station for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly
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Johnny Duller. Roy Rowan speaking welcome back well Captain Sam Sabaya. Oops,
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that's not the character Ginavello's playing here. Well, the French police inspecer made
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a pretty big or questionable mood. I couldn't imagine Bobo bringing Johnny to any
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harm while he had the opportunity to cash in. But they know I will
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leave you with a great cliffhanger. What is it that Johnny has discovered I
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not listen to this one time before and I honestly don't remember. And I'll
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be curious to see if he gets it right, because he's being kind of
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wrong or apparently wrong twice before with the suspicion of the custom agent and in
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the Countess, because we've got a pretty reasonable explanation for that. So we're
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going to find out on Friday what Johnny knows and if he has the solution
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to the Lorco diamond matter. Well, now we turn to listener comments and
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feedback. Beverly comments over on Facebook. I'm loving the five part Johnny Dowler
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episodes. Down on them from my iTunes and create a playlist. We're a
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week's worth so I can listen to them altogether. I rarely listen to the
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radio anymore. Keep up the great work, Adam. And also receiving an
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email along the same lines from Joan, she emails Mark asked me to have
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all Johnny Doller episodes one through five run in three consecutive days so it could
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listen to all together. Well, it doesn't. She says that she was
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able to do this, that she just waits until the five parts were downloaded
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from iTunes, and I listened to the whole show at once. I listened
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to the other shows while I was waiting. She also adds, as you
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know, since Dragnet has gone for a while, I really find I find
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I really liked the lineup as it's similar to dragnet, and I find it
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a very enjoyable show. Keep up the great work at them. Without you
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would not have these great shows or have your wonderful knowledge of them to listen
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to and teach us every day. Well, thank you so so much,
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Joan, and I hope you know and I appreciate both of those comments because
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it does bring home I hope the point that listeners you got some flexibility with
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how you manage and listen to the show doesn't have to be in the order
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I upload them if you don't want it to be. Brian says love Johnny
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Dollar, I've always wondered about the filler music on the shows. Do you
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know why early radio shows like Sherlock Holmes and others had that horrible organ music,
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which was considered classy back then. Johnny Dollars seems to have much better
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music. Well, you answered the question right there. Now. For my
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part, I don't think all organ music is horrible. It's definitely a little
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different, and it's an instrument that was a lot more popular back then than
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it is today. In fact, if you can play the organ, because
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there's a lot of churches that traditionally use the organ in their worship, but
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organs or and rare supply, so there are actually people who go from church
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to church making money playing the organ because the meat that instrument has declined so
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much in popularity, so it was more popular back then. I think another
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reason and Johnny Dollar if you think back to the if you think back to
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the John Lunday's, Johnny Dollar also had organ music. Another big motivator is
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that it was less expensive than an orchestral arrangement. You have one guy playing
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an organ or you have an orchestra, which is less expensive to pay for.
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I will admit that there are some organ themes that aren't is pleasant to
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listen to. Boston Blackie's kind of stands out as an example. But now
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for my own part, I could listen to the theme to Frank Race all
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day long. In the bridge is just so well played and dramatic and stirring
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and powerful. So but I know it is not as popular these days.
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So I appreciate your comment and a good question. Also, since I'm talking
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about music, someone emailed to say that they did not understand what I said
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when I name the composer of our theme music, that I was notified by
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Kevin Amount. I'll try it again, Dmitri Shostakovich Shostakovich, And that's s
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H O S T A k O V I C H. And if I'm
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still not pronouncing it quite right, if somebody who knows how to pronounce it
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correctly can call our voicemail to eight nine nine one four seven eight three and
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say, Adam, I think it's pronounced da da da, then we can
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have a definitive pronunciation. But I hope I got it closer to correct this
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time. Patricia comments, I have listened to Adam for about four years now.
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Love the information he provides about the detectives that we've listened to from other
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podcasts. He's filled in the gaps rows keep it up. We love it
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on these long nights in Alaska. Love Nero Wolf and Sherlock Holmes and Johnny
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Dowler and really all of them. Thank you well, thanks so much,
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Patricia. I think that they're getting into the long days up in Alaska.
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Oh. I mentioned on a previous podcast, I'd love to spend a couple
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of days in Alaska in the summer. I've always been averse to going to
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bed, and extra sunlight might give me the energy to stay up. But
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speaking of Sherlock Holmes, that'll be a coming up tomorrow. Join us here
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on Friday when we wrap up the Lorco diamond matter. In the meanwhile,
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