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Nick Carter: The Case of the Star of Evil (EP1620) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: end of the show. Well, now it's time for today's
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  Speaker 1: episode of Nick Carter. The original air date April fourth
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen forty eight and the title is the Case
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  Speaker 1: of the Star of Evil.
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  Speaker 2: Or Old Dutch Cleanser Famous for Chasing Dirt presents Nick Carter,
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  Speaker 2: Famous for Chasing Crime. Every week at this time two
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  Speaker 2: great names are joined as you post war Old Dutch
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  Speaker 2: Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful and daring
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  Speaker 2: characters an all detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective Nick.
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  Speaker 3: This green rug, it's completely out of place in this room.
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  Speaker 3: Everything else is blue.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, Patsy, it doesn't really long here at all. Good. Great,
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  Speaker 2: At a time like this, you two have to worry
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  Speaker 2: about the interior decoration.
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  Speaker 4: Besides, there's no reason for a rug there, Oh not
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  Speaker 4: unless and unless, if there's place there.
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  Speaker 2: To cover something, lift it up.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe you'll find somebody hiding under suffering.
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  Speaker 3: Wild I sick that it's flowed.
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  Speaker 2: And now the case of the Star of Evil. Today's
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  Speaker 2: adventure starring Long Clark as Nick Carter, brought to you
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  Speaker 2: by a new post war old Dutch cleanser. It's late
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  Speaker 2: in the afternoon as Nick and Patsy enter the Luxurious
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  Speaker 2: with Arms Hotel in answer to a call from Irving Malcolm,
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  Speaker 2: president of Gigantic Films Incorporated. They step into the elevator
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  Speaker 2: and Nick gives the number of Malcolm's floor sixteen.
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  Speaker 6: Please by signs there's a private elevator private. Yeah, for
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  Speaker 6: the Maharajah Jennifer. And he's sweet, the Maharaja Jennifer. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: they got the fourteen to fifteen floors all of themselves.
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  Speaker 2: So they right there, all elevators.
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  Speaker 3: Oh class, huh he's the Mohorasha.
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  Speaker 2: Have another hot shot today? Huh? Okay, this the Larson?
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  Speaker 2: Well what do you know? Speed? Larcen? Why Nick?
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  Speaker 5: How are you speed?
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  Speaker 2: Hello? Patsy? The the cans? You do one here? Speed? Hold
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  Speaker 2: on the second. I'll tell you right now, I've a
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  Speaker 2: little business with the kid here. Okay, son, hop another
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  Speaker 2: hot shot today.
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  Speaker 6: I'll try Lady Biden, the fifth of Jamaica.
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  Speaker 2: I got it straight from the chockey. Okay, business is over. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but you're gonna tell us what you're doing? You mean
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  Speaker 2: you haven't heard why I'm doing public relations for the
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  Speaker 2: Maharaja of Jennifer.
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  Speaker 3: What I thought the papers that he didn't want any publicity.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Patsy, how can you keep a guy like that
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  Speaker 2: off the front pages?
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  Speaker 5: He's Yeo sing a romantic and he's got more money
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  Speaker 5: than the mint.
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  Speaker 2: Oh did you see that two page spread and dispatch
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  Speaker 2: about his diamonds?
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  Speaker 3: I did?
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  Speaker 4: What what's that big diamond?
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  Speaker 2: Called the one in his turban a star of evil?
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  Speaker 2: And you know how much that stone weighs? How much
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  Speaker 2: over one hundred carrage. It's worth a quarter of a
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  Speaker 2: million bucks. A diamond of the first water.
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  Speaker 3: Why do they always call them diamonds of the first water?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe because a really clear diamond it's completely invisible in
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  Speaker 2: pure water.
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  Speaker 5: Oh hey, hey, here comes his nib to my house?
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  Speaker 2: Really? And is he always going wrong with a couple
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  Speaker 2: of Russian wolfhounds and a half a dozen attendants in
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  Speaker 2: full costumes. Sure that's royalty for you, hey, kids, snap
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  Speaker 2: to attention, Here comes his majesty.
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  Speaker 4: Okay with the last say, look look at that diamond
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  Speaker 4: in his turban.
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  Speaker 3: Oh did you ever see anything like it in your life?
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  Speaker 2: That have the famous star of evils feed? Yeah? Yeah, look, kids,
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  Speaker 2: would you mind moving back a little?
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  Speaker 5: His Nib doesn't like people crowning him feed.
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  Speaker 2: They have to leave anyway, Remember Bessie, He came here
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  Speaker 2: to find out that the Malcolm has in his mine.
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  Speaker 2: It's my daughter Clutter. She's disappeared. She left the hotel
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  Speaker 2: at ten o'clock this morning and I haven't seen her since.
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  Speaker 4: That's only six hours ago. Mister Malcolm, there's nothing to
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  Speaker 4: be alarmed the bad yet.
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  Speaker 2: Is there? You don't know Linda, miss Bonde, She's only seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: and she's led a very sheltered life. Sheltered sounds a
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  Speaker 2: little odd for the daughter of a Hollywood producer. No
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  Speaker 2: daughter of mine is going to marry an actor. I
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  Speaker 2: know them too well, I say. But now about her disappearing, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell you much. Linda and I were going
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  Speaker 2: to have lunch together, but when I went to a
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  Speaker 2: room befo her, she was gone. The desk clerk said
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  Speaker 2: she left the hotel at ten this morning. Frankly, mister Malcolm,
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  Speaker 2: I think you're excited over nothing. I tell you I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: Something's happened to her.
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  Speaker 3: You mean she's met with an accident.
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  Speaker 2: Either that or she's been kidnapped. Now, let's not jump
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  Speaker 2: to conclusions. Perhaps it would be a good idea if
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  Speaker 2: I took a look at Linda's room. What's all to
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  Speaker 2: find out what clothes she's wearing today? After all, when
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  Speaker 2: we send out the police alarm, we want to describe
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  Speaker 2: how she's dressed. And I certainly plenty of dresses in
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  Speaker 2: this closet. Mister Malcolm, can you tell them it's missing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid not caught her here. Wait a minute, her
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  Speaker 2: leopard skin coats going I know she had that with her.
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  Speaker 2: Did she bring all her things in these two bags? No?
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  Speaker 2: There should be one more, and over night bag and
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  Speaker 2: a jewel case that's missing too. In other words, she
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  Speaker 2: left for a jewel case, an over night bag, and
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  Speaker 2: a fur coat for which today's weather is entirely too warm.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand. It almost looks as though she's run away,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't it. Yes, it almost does.
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  Speaker 3: I need them over here?
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: Pass it with this blotter on the writing desk. It's
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  Speaker 4: a new one, but it has some pretty plain ink marks.
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  Speaker 2: Onny all right, hold it up to the mayor.
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  Speaker 3: Look, it's the end of a letter. I can make
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  Speaker 3: out until tomorrow. Here's something else and then Darling, And
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  Speaker 3: the thing is, you'll Linda.
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  Speaker 2: That's impossible. Linda doesn't call it? What Dolly?
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  Speaker 3: That part that's blood just before darling. That could be
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  Speaker 3: a name.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I could starts for the capital are.
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  Speaker 3: Could it be Robert?
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  Speaker 2: Well? Look's going the wrong direction. M looks small like
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  Speaker 2: Romney Romney Romney Lewis. So that's who it is? And
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  Speaker 2: who is Romney Lewis? The star of my latest picture
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  Speaker 2: and exactly the sort of man I've tried to keep
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  Speaker 2: Lynda away from it.
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  Speaker 3: I never heard of a movie star named Romney Lewis.
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  Speaker 2: This is his first picture, and believe me, it'll be
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  Speaker 2: his last. I picked him out of the gutter and
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  Speaker 2: I'll kick him right back there. Hold on, mister Malcolm,
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  Speaker 2: we don't know that your daughter. I'll handle this myself,
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  Speaker 2: mister Carter, and I'll handle it my own way. Romney
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  Speaker 2: Lewis included.
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  Speaker 3: Nick Carter's office. Tacky bam speaking, is mister Carter?
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  Speaker 2: The oh just a moment, it's thanks, thank god, it's speaking.
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  Speaker 7: This is mister Pringle, manager of Brentwood Arms Hotel.
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  Speaker 2: Can you come over right away? Why? Yes? Yes, So
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  Speaker 2: you calling for mister Malcolm. No. I don't know anything
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  Speaker 2: about mister Malcolm. But there's been a robbery here on
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  Speaker 2: the fifteenth floor, the fifteen flour Yes, isn't that the
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  Speaker 2: one occupied by the Maharaja of Janniper. Yes, that's why walk.
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  Speaker 7: The hotel have its own investigator on the case.
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  Speaker 2: The maharajas so much in the public eye. The publicity
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  Speaker 2: would be ruined us if we don't get it back.
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  Speaker 2: At what back, mister Pringle, what's been stolen? That diamond
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  Speaker 2: of his the Star of Evil.
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  Speaker 6: Fifteen Jery, how came, Misterprangle?
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  Speaker 2: I need to find out the diamond was gone, mister Prangle.
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  Speaker 7: Mister Lawson told me about it at seven point thirty.
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  Speaker 7: I said, I'd try to get you to handle it,
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  Speaker 7: mister Carter, and that we could keep the whole thing quiet,
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  Speaker 7: no publicity last, and agreater that no.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he was most completely uncooperative.
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  Speaker 7: As a result, the place has been simply crowded, police
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  Speaker 7: officers and with reporters from every paper in town.
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  Speaker 2: Thank him. They're gone. Now, Hey on, mister Tringle, that thing.
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  Speaker 7: Right across the hall in, mister Carta, that open door.
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  Speaker 5: Hi kid sund story, I'm sure his speed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to get your headlines all over the country.
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  Speaker 2: How did it happen?
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  Speaker 5: Gang of mastermind? That's all it could have been.
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  Speaker 2: And you discovered the rubber? Did? Sure? Went down a
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  Speaker 2: lobby for some cigars. Couldn't have been going over fifteen
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  Speaker 2: or twenty minutes, right, Jerry?
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  Speaker 6: All about ten, I'd say, mister Lawson. And one night
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  Speaker 6: brought him back up.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Carta.
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  Speaker 6: He knew what had happened before he even got out
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  Speaker 6: of the elevator.
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  Speaker 2: You knew the damond aginstolens Speed, I sure did. How
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  Speaker 2: could you tell that? Well, the door was opened to
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  Speaker 2: this room and I could see his nibs turban lying
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  Speaker 2: on the floor with the star of Evil ripped right
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  Speaker 2: out of it like at us.
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  Speaker 3: Now, where was the monoraza?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know he was in the room when I left,
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  Speaker 2: but I guess he went out.
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  Speaker 3: But he wouldn't go anywhere without his turban, would he.
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  Speaker 6: Well, maybe he's prowling around incognito, like like some old
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  Speaker 6: guy in the Arabian nights Bluff Speed nobody walks away
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  Speaker 6: and leaves a quarter million dollar diamond lying around without
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  Speaker 6: even closing the door.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know his nibs to him? A millionaires peanut?
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  Speaker 6: Peanut?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, what's in this case here? Huh? This big Morocco
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  Speaker 2: leather case lying open here on the table. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was stolen too. I guess Mohammad's vengeance he called
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  Speaker 2: it is a sword A sword, yeah, a big heavy
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  Speaker 2: thing with a cavalry saber. It's got a solid.
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  Speaker 5: Gold handle crusted with ruby's membo.
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  Speaker 3: Nick, do you notice that little rug over there? Pet
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  Speaker 3: OEt that door? His whole room is decorated in blue.
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  Speaker 3: So what's a green rug doing in the here?
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  Speaker 7: But somebody must have moved he was born that rug
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  Speaker 7: blows in the bedroom.
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  Speaker 2: Good. Great, here we've got the biggest jewel robbery of
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  Speaker 2: the century, and you too have to worry about the
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  Speaker 2: interior decorations. You're right, Patty, there's no reason for a
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  Speaker 2: rug that at all. And unlet's and then let's have
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  Speaker 2: this place there to cover something. So now we're going
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  Speaker 2: to look under the rugs.
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  Speaker 5: Huh, what do you expect to find somebody hiding the
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  Speaker 5: suffering wildcat's meat?
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  Speaker 2: Peck? It's blood on the floor, isn't it blood? See?
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: And on the sill of this door too, Rugbert place
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  Speaker 2: you're heighted.
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  Speaker 3: It looks as though part of the blood stain is
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  Speaker 3: on the other side of the door.
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  Speaker 2: Flock. I just don't lead to mister Pengle, right, it's.
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  Speaker 7: Just a closet a key, no, but but the housekeeper
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  Speaker 7: has one. I'll get mister all right, Jerry, then hurry,
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  Speaker 7: Oh you're beat Nick.
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  Speaker 3: Are you thinking the same thing?
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  Speaker 2: I am afraid, I am, Betsy. I'm afraid that when
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  Speaker 2: we open that door, we'll find out why the Maharaja
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  Speaker 2: is no longer interested in the Star of Evil. And
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  Speaker 2: here's the key to that closet.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Pringle, the one the woman room was gone, so
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  Speaker 6: I need to go down to the dance and thanks.
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  Speaker 7: Hey here, mister Kata, thanks dead body.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, that's make that canty the Moharaja. Look at his hands,
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  Speaker 3: they're as white as mine. And the Maharaja had a
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  Speaker 3: dark complexion.
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  Speaker 2: Turn them over so we can dear good grief. This
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  Speaker 2: man I guess at the hotel, and not to bring
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  Speaker 2: up no, no, I never saw him before. And who
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  Speaker 2: it is? Nick? Who? He's a movie actor named Romney Lewis.
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  Speaker 2: Romney Lewis, who's supposed to be in Hollywood, is found
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  Speaker 2: dead in the New York hotel rooms of the mysterious Maharajah.
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Poor and Linda Malcolm, in love with Lewis, has disappeared.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what happens in just a moment. Now back
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  Speaker 2: to the case of the Star of Evil. Today's adventure
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  Speaker 2: with Nick Carter brought to you by new post war
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  Speaker 2: old Dutch cleanser. It's been almost an hour since Nick
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  Speaker 2: found the body of Romney Lewis locked in the closet
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  Speaker 2: of the Maharajah Johnny Poor's hotel suite. Sergeant Mathieson of
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  Speaker 2: the homicide squad has arrived to take open and you
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  Speaker 2: say that when you open the closet, Nick, the sword
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  Speaker 2: was in there as well as the body. That's right, Matti. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I guess there's no doubt that it's the murder weapon.
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  Speaker 2: Golly yeah, somebody must have used it like an axe.
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  Speaker 2: You keep out of this jury all.
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  Speaker 7: You better go back to your elevator, and really I
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  Speaker 7: should be down at the desk.
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  Speaker 2: So you gently excuse this. I think you better sting
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  Speaker 2: around mister Pingle. Do you meet to mister k Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you do.
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  Speaker 6: A swell now, I'll tell one of the other guys
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  Speaker 6: to take over my comments. Very well, Jerry, but come
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  Speaker 6: right back, yes, sir, okay, speed, this isn't the publicity
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  Speaker 6: story any longer.
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  Speaker 2: It's murdered. Open up and tell us the truth about
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  Speaker 2: the Maharaja. Nick. You've got to believe me. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: tell anything like this. Well, then where is his highness?
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  Speaker 2: And why was this Romney Lewis in this room when
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  Speaker 2: they should have been three thousand miles away in Hollywood?
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  Speaker 2: Did he know the Maharaja know him?
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  Speaker 5: He was the Maharaja. It was all publicity.
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  Speaker 2: Gag. Lewis was the star of a movie called The
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  Speaker 2: Star of Evil. It's going to open here in a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks. Oh fine, it plays in East Indian
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  Speaker 2: Prince and it's all We thought we'd get a lot
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  Speaker 2: of publicity out of a fake robbery. Robbery You mean
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  Speaker 2: the diamond hasn't read it? It stolen? I don't know, Nick.
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  Speaker 2: We planned for tomorrow. But when I came up here
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  Speaker 2: and saw the turbine on the floor with a diamond, gone, well,
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  Speaker 2: I thought somebody jumped the gun. So I went into
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  Speaker 2: my act speed. How much was that diamond or Rayli worth? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Couple one hundred? Maybe see any.
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  Speaker 6: Taking over the elevator for me, mister Pringle, Now what
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  Speaker 6: can I do for you?
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  Speaker 2: Saje? You can kick quiet till I call on you. Now,
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  Speaker 2: look speed. When you went downstairs at seven point fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: was Lewis alone here in this suite on this floor? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he was in his bedroom changing clothes for dinner. Not
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  Speaker 2: only changed, he took off the Indian makeup. And where
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  Speaker 2: were all those Indian servants? Wow, their rooms are on
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  Speaker 2: the floor below this. They're really Hollywood extra is not servants,
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  Speaker 2: so they never come up here unless the reporters are
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  Speaker 2: in the place we were.
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  Speaker 6: One of them could have made a sneak up the stairs.
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  Speaker 2: Tony, it looks Sully boy.
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  Speaker 7: Would you mind letting me ask the question that effect Sage.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing like that could have happened. The stairway doors are locked,
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  Speaker 7: mister Lawsonton struck.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I was very okay, okay, And anyone who
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  Speaker 2: came to this floor while Speed was downstairs must have
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  Speaker 2: used the.
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  Speaker 7: Elevat None of the cars stop at this floor except Jerry's.
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  Speaker 7: You didn't bring anyone up here, did you, Jerry?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there wasn't anybody came up in the elevator.
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  Speaker 3: But if I found that letter he was getting in
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  Speaker 3: the Lewis the tandkerchief in his.
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  Speaker 2: Dress and ruin, Well there's that pass a letter to
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  Speaker 2: Romney Lewis from Lynda Malcolm. I have an idea they
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  Speaker 2: were planning to look they were.
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  Speaker 4: The letter say should be waiting for him at the
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  Speaker 4: Addenda Hotel in Chicago. He was to take a plane
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  Speaker 4: and join a dance so they could be married tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: So Lewis was running off with the boss's daughter quick.
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  Speaker 5: Jumping horn tools they up, but Malcolm was wild.
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  Speaker 2: Ye you're right about that. Ah.
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  Speaker 7: So that's why mister Malcolm made that disgraceful scene in
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  Speaker 7: the lobby.
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  Speaker 2: What's that? What do you mean, mister Brewwa?
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  Speaker 7: As I was going on duty at the desk about
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  Speaker 7: seven o'clock, there was a commotion over by the elevators
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  Speaker 7: and I looked up just in times see mister Malcolm
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  Speaker 7: grab them Aharaj mister Lewis that is by the coke
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  Speaker 7: as if you were actually going.
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  Speaker 2: To strike him. Did you hear what they said? No?
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  Speaker 2: But he was terribly angry. Anyone could see that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I heard his side. He said, if you don't keep
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  Speaker 2: away from my daughter, I'll kill you. Well, I guess
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  Speaker 2: that solves this case, or ran I'll be so sure. Well,
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  Speaker 2: how do you think Malcolm got here? Jerry says, nobody
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  Speaker 2: came to this door by elevator and the stairway door
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  Speaker 2: was locked.
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  Speaker 6: That's what I've been trying to tell you, mister Malcolm
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  Speaker 6: standing on the floor above this and that stairway door
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  Speaker 6: ain't locked.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: It isn't. No. I noticed that when I was out
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: in the hall a minute ago. Come on, Nick, we're
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: going to call on mister Malcolm in a hurry. All right,
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Suppose I did say I'd kill Louis if he didn't
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: stay away for my daughter. Naturally I didn't meet it liperally. Yeah,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: but fifteen minutes after you said it, he was dead. Now,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: how do you explain that? I don't have to explain it.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: He promised not to see her again, so I didn't
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: have any reason to matter him. Huh. How do we
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: know Lewis promise? Did anyone hear him? No? But I
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: can prove that he did. He told me well into
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: this at the Alexander Hotel in Chicago. I took through
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: a long distance call to her. I'm waiting for it
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: to come through now. Lewis undoubted they made to that promise,
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: mister Malcolm, but I'm afraid he didn't intend to keep it.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: What do you mean? Take a look at this? What
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: is his name? Copy of a telegram Lewis down to
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: the desk at seven point fifteen. Hey, let me see
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: that thend the Malcolm Alexander Hotel, Chicago, disregard any messages
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: from your father guard plane to Saint Louis. Meet you
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: there tomorrow and go through with playing their schedule from
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: the boy, that dirty double cross. Oh that's why he
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: got out of that Maharaja. Get up. He was hopping
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: the plane for Saint Louis. Eh. And when you found
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: out about it, Malcolm, you knocked him off, just like
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: you said you will. That's a lie. I didn't even
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: know he was dead until you told me, Maddy. I
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: want to ask a couple of questions. Go ahead, Nick,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: I want to look around this room anyway. What do
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: you expect to find another body hidden in the closet?
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Never mind the wise clutch. Mister Malcolm Lewis was murdered
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: between seven fifteen and seven thirty, only a few minutes
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: after you threatened him in the lobby. Where were you
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: at that time? Well, I came up here to my
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: room for a while. Yeah, and when I went out
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: for a walk afterwards, I came back and put through
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: that long distance. Can you prove that if you mean?
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Did anyone see me? No? And I'm afraid you haven't
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: much of an alibi. What is it, Maddie, Nick, whoever
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: killed Lewis had to have a master key to unlock
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: that closet where he hid the body, didn't he sure?
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: But we know he's throw that from the linen room. Right,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: mister Malcolm, are you sure you didn't go down there
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: and slide that key when you came upstairs after threatening
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Lewis in the lobby, Because I'm sure, and you didn't
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: use that same key to unlock the stairway door so
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: you could walk down one flight, knock off Lewis and
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: then get back to your own floor. I most certainly
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: did not. All right, then, why did you hide the
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: key under the scarf on your dresser? Uh? You found
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: the key? Many? Sure I did? How could I miss
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: it in the spot like that? I don't know anything
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: about it. I never saw that key before. Huh. Well,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: you're going to see it again, mister Malcolm, and plenty
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: you're going to see it in court because this key
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: is the evidence that's going to convict you of murder. Hey,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: and Nick, why did Patsy stay up and Malcolm's sweet
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: after he was taken to headquarters? Huh oh? He asked
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: you to stay and take that long distance call from
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: his daughter would have come through MADDI, ok oh, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I guess so. Oh you want me to ring for
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: the olevator? Yeah? I want to find Franklin has him
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: a few more questions. What for this case is wound up? Thinks? So?
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: My sure Malcolm's guilty. Every bit of evidence points to me.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: That's the trouble, Matty. Why would a smart guy like
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Malcolm leave so many clues? Well? And why would he
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: murder a man right after threatening him in front of
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: witness it because he was too mad to think about
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: being smart? Why when he found out that Lewis was
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: double coursing him, Nick, I bet he blew his top. No,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I don't think so well. And if I find what
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I'm looking for, Maddie, I'm afraid you're going to look
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: pretty silly. What are you talking about? I'm talking about
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: one piece of evidence. The killer would have to get
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: rid of something that would convict him beyond the shadow
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: of a doubt. Oh oh, you mean the diamond hires
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: the collar side.
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: Hey, that was a great piece of work. You did
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: catch him, that n welcome guy so quick?
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, Sonny. Oh, Jerry, I'm looking for mister pringle
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Is in the lobby. Yeah, I'll take you down there. Thanks. Hey, Nick,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you can think malcolmist in after
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: finding that key in his room, I'll tell you later, Madie. Okay,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: but if we find that diamond on in two, you're
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: the one that's going to look silly.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: Mister Pless you want to look in the incinerator?
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: This is it? Thanks Sam? Have there been a fire
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: in here in the last few hours? No, no, sir,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: mister Carter. I was just to get ready to start
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: to one. Now, look, Nick, why do you think anybody
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: would want to hide a diamond in the incinerator. I'm
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: not worried about the diamond, Matty. Well, then what if
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I give you five dollars when you're crawling that incinerator
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: and try to find something for me? Yeah? Sure? What
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: do you want me to look for? Suit of clow? Sam?
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: A bloodstained suit of clothes? Blood? I don't know about that.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: I'll make it ten dollars. Well, okay for them that
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I don't mind blood. Wait till I open the door. Yeah,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I'll help you get in, all right, you go, Hey, Nick,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: what's all this about a bloodstained suit and clothes? If
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: you recall, Maddy, the murderer didn't stab with that sword
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: he chucked. Yeah, yeah, I know. I saw the body
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: and I need drag Lewis inside that clott which means
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: he's bound. I got blood on his clothes. Yeah, I
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: guess he would have done, and he'd also want to
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: get rid of that suit. But fast, and the easiest
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: way to get rid of his suit, but fast to
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: be the throat in the incinerator. Sure, and with the
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: incinerator chef opening on every floor, he could throw it
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: down here from any place? Does the way you want
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: to mister Carter? Is it a bund or clothes? Sam Well,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I found the bundle of something I handed out the
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: door to you. Huh okay, and now here you are
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: many this is it? Look for the love of Pete,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: but that was blown to us. Not waste time talking.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I'll have to grab him before he gets away.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Hello, hello, operator, This is miss Bowen and mister Malcolm's
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: sweet No word on that call to Chicago yet, I
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: see well, thank you. Yes, yes, I'll wait here until
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: it comes through.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think anybody was weird.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Hello Jerry, Yeah, I'm going to take a phone call
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: from mister Malcolm.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: Oh hey, I heard mister Cotter say they'd have to
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: find that diamond before they really have the good John Malcolm,
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: I got.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: A swell idea.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: You decided you'd come up here and find it for them?
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: Is that is sure?
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: And you can help me? We'll turn this place out.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: No, Jerry, the police will search the place. We don't
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: have any right to look.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: If we find that diamond, will get credit for cracking
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: the case.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: No, Jerry, absolutely not.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: Well, Okay, it's hot in here, isn't it.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: I think I'll open a window.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: Is hot? Think y'all got a drink of water before
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: I go back to the elevator.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Hm, there's a beautiful view from this window. I didn't
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: realize we were so high up.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Hey, heymous fallen?
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: What what did the Jerry? The diamond? I didn't even
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: have to look for it.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: It was right here in this glass, hot glass, I'm
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: impressing here.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: It was hot, full of water. When I started to
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: empty it so as I could get myself a drink,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: there was a diamond.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Thought that's impossible.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: Don't remember what mister Carter said the sacknoon about a
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: diamond being invisible in water.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Well, mister Malcolm must have known about that too.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Are you trying to tell me mister Malcolm had the
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: diamond in that glass of water?
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Sure?
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: The best place to hide in the finished right out
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: in the open, because nobody ever used to look there.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Jerry, I had a drink of water from that glass.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Now was five minutes ago. Huh And the diamond wasn't
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: there then?
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, there must have been.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: No, you just put it there.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: No, that's why you can't ship this room to hide
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: that diamonds some place where you thought the police.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Would find it.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Did you hit that key? Here a plan suspicion of
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: mister Malcolm. Oh, I didn't you stole that diamond?
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Jerry?
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: You killed Lewis ah If I did, you're you're gonna
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: run until the cops.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Jerry, can you keep away from me?
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Like the view from that window.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Down many closer, sixteen stories.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Down this porn and you're gonna make that trip. Patsy
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: clings desperately to the window frame, but her strength is
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: no match for Jerry's, and slowly he forces her backward
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: through the open window. We'll see what happens in just
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: a moment now for the conclusion of the case of
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: the Star of Evil. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: to you by a new post war old Dutch cleanser
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: in a suite at the Brentwood Arms Hotel. Patsy stands
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: by an open window facing a killer who says, sixteen
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: stories down this born, you're gonna make that trip. I
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: don't care.
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: I missed that time on purpose, but I won't miss again.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: But you need Missicata.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: I was just trying to kill me, pushing me out
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: the window. Eight children, Homney.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: Lewis, come on you little from now.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: All the only windows you'll be looking out of we're
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: gonna have bars on them. And so Patsy. When we
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: found that bloodstained uniform the incinerator, Nick and I started
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: to look for the elevator boy, and the indicator showed
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: that his elevator was stopped at the sixteenth floor. That's
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: why we figured he'd gone up to Malcolm Suite.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, thank goodness you.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: We got a complete confession from him at headquarters. Good.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: It seems that when he came back up in the
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: elevator after taking speed Larsen downstairs, the door across the
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: hall was open, and there was the turbane with the
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: diamond and nobody in the room.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: And I suppose Lewis came in and caught him stealing it.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Hunting Yeah, and Jerry got panicky and grabbed the sword
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: off the table and slashed at him. When he realized
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Louis was dead, he remembered the quarrel and the lobbrary
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: and got the idea of framing Malcolm for the murder.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: That's why he stole the master key from the linen room. Yes,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: he locked Lewis's body in the closet, unlocked the stairway door,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: an tan of the key in Malcolm's sweet Yeah, but
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: what about the blood stained uniform? That was his next move? Hum.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: He got to the bell boy's locker room without being seen,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: changed into another uniform and threw the one he'd been
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: wearing down the incinerator shaft, thinking it'd be burned up
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: before anyone palmed. And tell me, Nick, when did you
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: begin to suspect Jerry? Almost from the beginning. May How,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: neither Speed nor any of the Hollywood expers acting as
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: the Maharaja servant would have any motor for stealing the diamond.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: They all knew it was a face, and.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Ringer was on duty at the desk when Lewis was killed.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Right, so there wasn't anyone left but Jerry, That is,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: after I eliminated Malcolm Yeah, you eliminated everybody but Jerry
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: after his trial, Nick, I gotta hunch the state is
• 26:58
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• 27:29
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• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, a very interesting episode. There were a
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: couple of things I really liked about this. First, Patsy
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: getting to confront the murderer was a nice touch. And
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: the second thing is the way that our expectations were subverted.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Usually radio programs when it comes to murders, particularly the
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: male murderers, there is a top of voice that you
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: would expect, and this Jerry's was not the type of
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: voice you would typically expect with the murderers. So that
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: was a very nice subversion of expectation. But any rate,
• 29:56
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