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Frank Race: The Adventure of Black Friar’s Bridge (EP0940) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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our listeners. Thanks so much for all your support. Here now is today's
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episode of the Adventures of Frank Race, The Adventure of the Blackfriars Bridge The
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Adventures of Frank Race starring Paul Dubove with Tony Barrett as Mark Donovan. The
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war changed many things, the face of the earth and the people on it.
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Before the war, Frank Race worked as an attorney, but he traded
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his law books for the cloaken Tagger of the oss and when it was over,
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his former life was over. Two adventure had become his business, the
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Adventures of Frank Race. And now we joined Frank Race for the Adventure of
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the Blackfriars. When you think of London, you usually think a fog.
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But for the room in which I stood, I was catching a view that
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gave another impression. In the street below walked an East Indian bedecked in tunic
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and turban, and not far behind him a Chinese slipped along. During the
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last few minutes, I'd also seen several other nationalities, perhaps because the building
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stood only a flip and a toss from Blackfriars Bridge, with the London and
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West India Docks only a short distance down the River Thames. And then the
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door opened behind me, and I had other things to consider, since this
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was the office of George Guilthorpe, president of the British and Colonial Life Insurance
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Association. I haven't kept you waiting too long, Race, I've been entertained.
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You get quite a view from here, do you know. I never
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really noticed. I don't know what you saw to nut Race, but there
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was night him and day before yesterday's paper about a man being found dead on
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Lower Thames Street. I noticed it. It was run victim. I'm sorry,
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that's all right. He was insured by this company, just a nominal
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policy ten thousand pounds with double idemnity. I see, And you feel there's
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something wrong. Well, as you know, we're always reluctant to challenge your
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claim. But in this case. One of the beneficiaries asked us to investigate
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one of the beneficiaries. Specular doesn't and that's why I called you in.
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There are three of them, all Americans, all insured with us, each
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a beneficiary of the others with the survivor to get everything. Who are these
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people? They were with the American Army over here. They decided they could
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do well in England, so they opened a nightclub on Villiers Street. The
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Golden Chest gates a lot to American jurists, very successful too. Which partner
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do I contact a man named Joseph Dennison. You'll find him at the Dunstan
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Hotel. It's on the Strand, not far from Trafalgar Square. At the
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Dunstan Hotel, I was told that Dennison had just stepped out but would be
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right back. He'd been expecting me, and I was to go straight away
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to his sweet and make myself comfortable. There was no lift, so I
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climbed two flights to room three or one, as per directions. I opened
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the door and stepped inside to stop dead still as something sharp pierced the skin
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between my shoulder blades and the voice breathed against the back of my neck.
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Didn't cry out, monsieur, Oh this knife will you go into your body?
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Just call me whispering smith. But my money you took from my sister?
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Where is it? I sound like a man with a past, but
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I still know my dad. The next rust will be deeper, much deeper,
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the money? Where is it? Look, baby, you're making a
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mistake. It was you who made the mistake when you betrayed my sister.
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Do you know where they have him now? In prison? In prison because
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of you. Why don't you take a look at me. We've never seen
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each other before in our lives. Yes, I know, But I'm seeing
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your now, monsieur. And you're going to give me that money for my
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sister. Oh you're going to die. How much is it? I've got
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about twenty five pounds on me? You dare to see things like that?
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That's all for the knife? Drop it? I will come ons. That's
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better now here let me see your face? Well, yeah, I lovely?
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Aren't we have something to settle? First? What made you come here?
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You will not get away? I ask you what brought you here?
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I had friends, My sister has friends from Porteau. You'll moved to Sherbog
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from sherbog. You can hear. It's take a month. But I caught
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you and you would not get away. Who's the fellow you're after? Make
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fun of me. We'll do you no good. Look, you're making a
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mistake. How can you be so sure I'm the one? I find you
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in your apartment. That is enough for me. This isn't my apartment the
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way you came into it. I was asked to come up here and wait
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for a client of mine, the man who lives here, and I can
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prove it. I'm an insurance investigator. You can. There's the phone,
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pick it up and call the British and Colonial Insurance Association. She stared at
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me, then picked up the phone. Getting information, She asked for the
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British and Colonial Office. I mentioned Gilthorpe's name and she repeated it to the
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operator. A few moments later, the crisp tones of his voice came over
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the wire a few words, and she glanced at me with a nod,
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and then handed me the phone. He wants to speak with you. Hello,
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Gilthorpe. Having trouble raised nothing much. I haven't been able to see
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Dennison yet. Oh, by the way, what was the name of that
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other beneficiary, the third partner, Hold on a moment, I'll have a
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look. While he was having his look, my French girl was reaching for
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a chair at the time I figured her move. She was edging for the
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door. I lunged, but the chair was c against my ex and I
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went down. Oh. I sat up just in Tyler watched the door go
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shut. Hello. The phone had gone to the floor with me, so
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I picked it up again. Hello, Hello, Gilthorpe. Oh, nothing
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serious. Locate that name yet, Kennedy, n any other way I might
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help. Yes, if that fellow Dennison calls and ask him to stay somewhere
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where I can find him, you might try to club the Golden Chest.
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That's a thought I will. I called Mark Donovan and had him picked me
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up in a rented car. The Golden Chest operated as a night spot all
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right, but it had extracurricular activities on the side. Housed in a big
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room, all hush hush carpets and noise killing grapes, a big room that,
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in spite of the early hour, I had a good sprinkling of quiet
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people listening intently to the whir of roulette wheels. Hey, this is all
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right, Yeah, what are you gonna do away here? I'm looking for
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the officers of the place you want to eat me For that, I think
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I'll just pick one of these tables and try out that new system of mark.
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You'll be wasting your time and blowing your money on Not on this one,
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chump the guide had invented this one used to read gas meters. You
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ought to know something about numbers. I knew the futility of trying to argue
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against a system, so I left him and moved about, looking for doors
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that might lead me to mister Denison. I was trying one near the bar.
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When where do you think you're going? Eyes like a pair of nutmegs,
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viewed me with flat truculence, and the head in which they were set
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was not of the type to model Adam hats. He was big, he
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was tough, and Ponds couldn't have done a thing for his complexion. I
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shrugged and told him I was looking for Denison. Mister Denison wants to see
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you. We'll see you. We don't like Norsey Parkers around. You don't
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mind if I sit at the bar? Do you don't care? Will you
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sit? Just stay away from the ruddy doors. I sat out of scotch
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and soda until he drifted away. Then I left the bar and tried another
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door. I opened it into a whole carter full of more doors. I
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tried one or two of these without success, and then, well, what
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can I do for you? I'm a I was looking for a mister Dennison
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or a mister Kennedy. Mister Kennedy, mister Leslie Kennedy. I'm Leslie Kennedy.
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I hope you don't mind. I told her I didn't mind at all,
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and I put my heart into my words. She made you think of
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autumn at home, brown hair, brown eyes, freckles still left over from
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a lot of summer sunshine. You didn't have to close that door. And
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what on earth he is staring at? Well, you really can't blame me.
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When I heard this place was being run by three xgis, I naturally
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thought they'd all be masculine. I'm an x GI. I was a wax
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sergeant, so you were a wax sergeant. It's no wonder we won the
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war. We'll like get this straight. You're the third partner in this business?
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Is that? It? Why I'm from the insurance company. British and
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Colonial. I'm picking up information on Ken Norwood's death. So you're with British
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and Colonial. Are you an American and you're working for a British company?
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Oh? Why don't you stop? What's that for? You'll find a look?
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Why don't you pick up the phone and call British and Colonial. They'll
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certify me. I'm simply not interested. Maybe you have some reason for not
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wanting to make the call. What's the matter? List? I boasted for
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Owens. He wasn't around, so I thought i'd show something wrong. I
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want this man thrown out of here. Imagine you can do it just as
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well as Owen's. Can you want to make a good try? He's big
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enough. Oh thanks both of you. I'm sorry, Jerry. You don't
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need to throw a matches to ask him to leave with you. Will you
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leave Fellow to a request like that? The answer couldn't be anything else,
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but yes, go to the door with him, Jerry, the back door,
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Come on, Fellow before Owen's moves in Owens sound stuff. He is
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served as the commander during the war. He'd be tough even in Jersey City.
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All I did was tell the girl how nice looking she was women.
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She sometimes gets peeved with me when I tell her the same thing, and
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I'm her fiance. She's been upset. One of her partners was killed yesterday.
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I know That's what I want to talk to her about. They're not
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a cup insurance investigator. Do you know if miss Kennedy has any French friends?
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French? There's one girl in particular, dark beautiful, comes from Bordeaux.
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You got me, I could ask Leslie. I suggested that he leave
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it for a lighter mood, and he nodded. He stood talking to me
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in the open doorway that opened out of a small side street. Big fellow
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with a stock and bond suit and a grin to match told me his name
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was Dayton. And as we talked, someone approached us from across the street,
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a little man, slim with a black mustache that glistened in the light
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of the nearby street lamp. Is it possibly that from one of you,
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gentlemen, I might procure a seagether? Jerry Dayton nodded and reached into a
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pocket. I watched the little man carefully, with the feeling that there was
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something wrong here. Dayton produced a pack of cigarettes and a box of safety
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matches. The Frenchman took one of the smokes. Dayton struck a match for
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him. A little man stared up at both of us for an instant,
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then nodded toward the shadows behind him. Instantly, flying figures converged on a
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several of them, posing insavagely, and I were jammed against the wall,
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but something hit me in the floreat a jabbing, blinding blow. I was
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pushed down, slimed again and again and again until I went whirling into a
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giant train of spinning blackness. We'll return to the adventures of Frank Race and
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just about one minute now, back to the Adventures of Frank Race. I
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came out of it with a throbbing head and a roaring in my ears.
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The first I could understand, but it took me a moment or sort of
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realize that the roaring sound was a car engine. I managed a groan,
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and Mark Donovan spoke from the front seat. All right, take it easy,
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just stay relaxed. What do you think you're doing. I'm a hoiding
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his flying bedstead back to the apartment, where I will care for your battered
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party. Pull over to the curb right now, All right. What happened
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back there? All I know is I was at one of the roulette tables
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when it comes a hollowbealow from outside, so I dashes out with several other
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people there. You was unconscious on the sidewalk when I hight. If some
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cops hadn't farrel up just in time, you wouldn't even have been unconscious.
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You would have been dead. A cheer for the bobbies. What about the
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fella I was with Dayton? He was lying there too. Look what hit
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you guys at Bazooka Barrides Take me back there. I'll wait a second,
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I'm all right, swing this thing around and head back. It was rare
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weather for London, the clear nights with a full moon lighting the street in
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front of the Golden Chest, the street quiet and tranquil, until Mark ran
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a fall of trouble in the form of another vehicle. Why are your cross
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side morel on? What do you think you're doing? Quite a minute,
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you're driving like an old lady. I'm on ahead and your Marcus, I
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would like to point out something. Are you kidding? That guy was on
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the wrong side of straight Marcus. This is England. You were on the
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wrong side of the street. One they were on the wrong side of the
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street, and I'd like to know what's the idea yelling at me like that.
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There were two of them standing the side of the car. Now the
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smaller, older man spoke up and you're to disturbing the piece. So I'm
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the stubing the piece. Huh. What do you think your guys are anyway?
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My name is Dennis and I appen to run this place. Well,
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now, ain't that something? And I suppose your pal is the king himself?
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Huh? The name is McDonald, Inspector Scotland Yard, Scott Race.
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You think we've got enough cash to buy me a bail pun? If you'll
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stop quacking long enough, I might be able to get you out of this.
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My name is Race. Gentlemen, I'm representing the British and Colonial Insurance
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Association. I shall take care of the damage. Race, did you say
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that's it? And if you're a Dennison, you're the man I've been looking
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for him. It's a great way we meet, Brooklyn style driving in London.
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We're probably fortunate to be alive. I don't forget it. We've got
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more important things to talk about. Yes, you can tell me about your
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partner's death. Ken was found on Lower Thames Street and Billingsgate was made to
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look like an accident, but I'm claiming he was murder ken Nor was too
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sharp, too fast in his feet to get clipped by a car. I
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say he was slugged first and then run over to make a seam accidental.
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Ken was murdered. Any ideas as to why, well, Ken less Kennedy
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myself been doing all right without club being Golden chest. But somebody's trying to
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muscle in Chicago Stown. Somebody who how do I know? Just having trouble
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at so I had hands getting pushed around. Now ken Nor, it gets
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knocked off. That's why I call the insurance company. I want everybody in
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on the act. I want to straighten up. Let's go down to the
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Morgue and have a look at Norwood's body. Yeah, look at that great
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guy. Look at him. What's your verdict, inspector that it might be
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murdering, but there seems to be no indication of anything but a mortal car
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accident hit and run. Uh this mark on his temple, had you noticed
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that the bruise? I noticed it? Good? Well have been put there
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by a fender and some other part of a mortal carry. Do you mind
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telling me if you've been in France recently, mister Dennison France? Well,
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yes, I was there a few months ago. Why, oh, nothing
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tangible. You have a man named Owens working at the Golden Chest. What's
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the story on him? He's that Barns good man Cotton. Oh so that
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was Owens. I've already met him. Have you seen enough here? Race?
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I think so, and then let's get out of the place. It
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doesn't make me happy, by the way, Marcus, how did you come
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out with your roulette system? Well? Now, look at it was like
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this, right, I don't know woid who a vacuum couldn't have done a
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better job. Hey, what's what his place? Anyway? It's Dennison's hotel.
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It's gonna join us here as soon as he finishes with the Scotland yard
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man. You know, I don't get that Dennison guy. Look, why
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should he squawk over getting paid off on an insurance policy? It ain't natural.
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You might have something there, Mark, I don't know. At this
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point, I don't know much of anything about the case. You mean you
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don't see it be here? Yeah? What are we doing now? We
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step in and well, so you're here again the game. Come into this
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apartment as though you possess it a French time real paper. Wait a minute,
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she's been going through this, we miss you. I have been going
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through it, and that from part of the money taken to my sister.
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Look French, Frank. The fact that you find a few francs doesn't mean
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that they're part of the stolen money. No, miss you. Then look
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alls like this, a paper bend with the stamp of the postal department,
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the postal department of France. Let me see that you try to take it
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away from me. Oh now it's a gun. The British police don't like
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guns. You aren't like it either. If you make a wrong move there
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now you will come with me by your companion stays here. Wait a minute,
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you ain't going right. It doesn't look as though I have much choice
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with this gun against my spine. Where are we heading, baby, to
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the police who do not like guns. You're making a mistake, baby,
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just as you did when you set your friends against me earlier this evening.
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I said, no one against Stuart. What's the matter? It looks the
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still you have the one who rains this time thought men across the street.
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Well, I'm not good, Please go away. Oh I don't think so.
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He hit my arm. But they're trying to kill us. Let me
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have that pistol. No, I will keep it next week. Hit you're
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good. We're gonna have the police here. Do you still think I'm the
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bad boy in this piece? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe
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it's about time to crack it open. We're going back to Dennison's upon and
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he might be there now I'll find him at Monsieur. Wait, just all
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yours. Race Glace is tied in the drum. After all, it's almost
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four in the morning. And now do you know that dame came here?
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She was after Dennison. Come on, we're going around the back of the
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club. There's another door there. Run and run it, so we do.
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It's gonna be lock, yeah, yeah, but they hold it.
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Look now, what's the matter if you're only to him? Holy God,
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you look at that guy hanging out the window. Why is neck? It
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was an open window about six feet above the street. The body that swayed
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there had its toes within two or three inches of the sidewalk. A second,
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I'll tell my flashlight a poor guy. If it's only been a couple
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inches tall, it's a light. Look here, Race, is that guy
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Dennison? Yes, and he's as dead as he'll ever be. He must
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have done it himself. That look. Put the light back on his face
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again. Mark, No, no, over a little Yeah, that's it
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did Hey, yeah, what are you looking at it? That's square bruise
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on his temple. It's exactly like the one we saw in his partner in
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the morgue. This man didn't commit suicide. Mark, he's been murdered.
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I spent most of the next day in our own hotel room making phone calls
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across the channel to Paris, France. At the end of it, I
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figured I had the picture pretty complete. Early in the evening, Mark and
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I went back to the Golden Chest so I could see Leslie Kennedy, which
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gave me a wan smile as I stepped into her office. I want to
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apologize to your Race. I had a lot on my mind and I've been
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very difficult. Oh well, what's in your mind? Your partner's theory about
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thugs trying to move in and take over this business? Dennison was right,
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thoroughly right. I'm listening. Ever since the end of the war, a
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lot of renegades have been roving the continent, Poles, Germans, French,
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Americans, all nationalities, marauding and murdering. Now a gang of them has
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moved into England and that's what we're up againsting that more. Where's Jerry Dayton
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been living, Jerry Joe Dennison? Why that explains a little matter of a
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French girl who's been haunting Dennison's apartment. How how deeply are you in love
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with Dayton? I wish I knew? And again I'm going to ask why.
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I hate to say this, you'd better drop him. I gotta make
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on that lad to day from Paris. It's hard to believe, but he's
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a renegade American. It's been the leader of one of those marauding gangs for
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several years. He's a thief and a killer. I wish I'd heard that
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a little sooner. Race. You see, I married Jerry Dayton this very
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morning. You married? Yeah, I wasn't sure. I wanted to do
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good. Our dear little Leslie felt for a whirlwind courtship. Oh I'm sorry
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don't blame yourself, Leslie. He's a smooth operator all the way. He
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must have known about these insurance policies you three hand. Oh that's not all.
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He knew that I, as a survivor, would inherit this business.
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And he made sure that you'd be the survivor when he murdered your two partners.
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And now now he moves in and takes everything over legally. He stood
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just clear of the half open door, looking like a blonde chorus boy,
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holding an automatic in one hand while he pushed her cigarette into his mouth with
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the other. So you're not sure you care for me? Is that it
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less? She should have paid more attention to her woman's intuition. I had
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you figured for a problem, jah rais. Oh, this boy too smart,
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which was why you had me set up for that beating last night,
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wasn't it. You could have been a little smarter and backed out. I'm
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going to have to kill you you too, Leslie. That would be a
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little hard to pull off, won't it. I don't I've handled bigger things,
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such as talking that little French postal clerk in the stealing money for you.
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I happen to run short on funds you have for a cigarette, No,
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thank you, Well, I'll smoke one for both of us. But
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tipped you off to me anyway, those matches you carry the box I might
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have known you, remember that? Remember what Race? A box of safety
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matches and a clenched fist. It becomes lethal when you hit a man alongside
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the head with it. It was a trick we used during the war when
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we needed a fast, unobtrusive weapon. Dayton used it on both Norwood and
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Dennison his friends, but it left a little square bruise on each of them.
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No one else will get help to it, though. And here's where
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I make it work again. On you're monsieur. Ya are never going to
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make it work again? Oh Dames, Dames, Dames, what would you
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do without Dames? Race? Now wait a minute, No, no,
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wait a minute, when I'm not around, and even get you out of
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jams. It's gonna live, Race. The doctor just told me he won't
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live along, lady, and get him from moiter in this country to hang
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him. Sure, and he hang him high. Take it easy, Mark,
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you know this happens to be his wife. I'll get over at Race.
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I think I've had a very narrow escape Nile. I'm very grateful for
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what you've done. Well, then do me a favor. Give that French
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girl a helping hand. You know, a little money, we'll do an
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awful lot toward getting her kids sister out of a French prison. I'll do
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that Race good. That's swell, Marcus. Yeah, we shall go.
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Now, we've got to see about a plane for New York. Wait,
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wait, wait, wait a minute. Look, I ain't gonna fly.
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Yes you are. No, I ain't gonna Oh, yes you are,
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Marcus. You know it's a matter of time. We have another case waiting
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the boy. Do you know what I'm gonna do when we get back?
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No, what are you gonna do when you get back? I'm going to
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get one of those little brass plates and name play and I'm going to have
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this printed on us. Yes, Mark Donovan, boy Araplane. The Adventures
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of Frank Race, starring Paul Dubove with Tony Barrett as Mark Donovan comes to
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you from Hollywood. Others heard in tonight's cast were Gene Bates, Michael A.
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Barrett, Tom Holland, Bill Crawford, and William Johnstone. This series
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is written and directed by Joel Murcott. And Buckley Achel. The music is
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composed and played by Ivan. Did Barnes be sure to be with us again
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this time next week? Or another dramatic chapter in the Adventures of Frank Race
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Art gil Moore speaking, this is a BPS production. Welcome back, oh
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Mark Donovan not knowing which side is the correct side to drive on in England.
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I couldn't imagine from earlier episodes and making that type of mistake. Though
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it was kind of nice to to hear some of the war stuff in oss
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relationship discussed with Frank Race, which was something that was really prominent in some
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of the early episodes and I really liked and they've kind of gotten away from
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so even though it was a small mention, it was still nice. All
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right. Well, listener comments and feedback. We begin with an email from
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Andrew, who writes in what would be the chance of mystery theater played on
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the amband in the nineteen seventies, to make it on your podcast library.
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It's such a delightful way to relax and drift off to sleep or get through
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a long wait at the doctor's. Often I often will take study breaks and
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play a library selection, and I can feel myself slip into historic goal period,
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no hustle and bustle of the twenty first century. You provide such a
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wonderful, full service. Well, that's regarding this thanks so much, Changer.
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That's regarding the CBS Mystery Theater. The problem with CBS Mystery Theater is
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that all radio programs produced in the United States after February fifteenth, nineteen seventy
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two, containing a copyright rtists are under copyright, and the whole CBS Mystery
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Theater falls under that guidelines. There are some episodes that I would enjoy bringing,
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including some of their Sherlock Holmes. I would love to sample my you
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know, extend the Sherlock Holmes history. The situation with that series basically was
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a something where a lot of the residual right stuffs couldn't be worked out with
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Himan Brown. Some of the the union concessions, you know, one for
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actors kind of hampered it, hampered it Brown wanted him, and Brown wanted
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some way to do it equitably for everybody, or basically wasn't going to do
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it at all. So what ended up happening is, you know, it's
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just basically there was no official release given. There's no real issue with folks
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who have uptel now been sharing the program. It's available online in several places,
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but when something's clearly under copyright, I try to honor that. And
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also, you know not you definitely don't want to be the person who's kind
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of like, well, now they've just decided to start enforcing their copyright.
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So yeah, it's under copyrights. So short answers unfortunately not able to do
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it. Lloyd comments, you remember Sam's made Indeed, I do all right.
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Moving on now, yes we do, and that that one is on
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the list of programs we would like to be able to bring to you someday.
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And then we have this interesting comment from Bob Hi, a friend of
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mine gave me some CDs of your of four of your broadcasts, love them.
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Quick question. Do you have your broadcast recorded on CDs that you offer
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for sale? Thanks? Well, Bob, I do not have them done
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in that done in that matter, particularly with an audio CD, which would
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be different from an MP three CD where you just put all the files on.
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To be honest, I've got kind of you. I've got a several
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years old CDRW drive where as you know best I can tell it works.
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I think I recorded one or two CDs on it, and on this I'll
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kind of listen to what fans think and want, you know, if there's
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a demand for services. I've had a couple three emails on this, and
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uh, you know, it's an interest, it's an interesting idea. You
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just always want to be careful, you know, whenever you're doing something with
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an effort, you don't want to extend yourself into many directions. And that
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goes for businesses of all sizes. Netflix, for example, used to sell
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their used DVDs through the mail. They stopped doing that realizing that that wasn't
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their main business or main focused. So I'm hesitant to you know that as
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an example, I'm hesitant to broach into that area. But if there's an
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interest you, I'd be happy to you know, I'd be happy to consider
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it. So if you you know, you know people you think you'd be
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interested in audio CD, don't you know quite how to make it yourself?
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Let me know, just send some feedback. I'd love to continue this conversation
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Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. All right, well, that will
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actually do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with parts three and
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four. Of the Valentine manner. Join us Mike here next Tuesday for our
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final adventure of Frank Race. In the meanwhile, send your comments to Box
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is your host, Adam Graham signing off.