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Nick Carter: The Red Goose Murder (EP1404) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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iPad. Well, we have several lost episodes. In fact, the previous
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series of Nick Carter ended with a change in days and a new season beginning.
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This episode here is approximately ten episodes after the last one, and we'll
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get into that a little bit later, and certainly is a quite unusual one.
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So here from August the twenty fifth of nineteen forty six, and again
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I'm saying that provisionally is the case of the Red Goose murder. What is
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it pay for the detective? Yes, it's the case of the Red Goose
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Puer another case for that most famous of all man hunters, the detective who's
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ability of solving crime is unequal in the history of detective viction. Nick Carter
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Master Detective All listen, Patsy, why do you have to come back to
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the office at this time of day? I just want to be sure that
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I finished everything before I left, Scuffy, nick Away, It sort of
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leaves the responsibility on my shoulders. Okay, but shake it up. Well,
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you have the last show stot today forty to say, twenty hours.
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It is gonna take but a minute, Scuby. I simply want to have
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everything in order for the morning. That's a good feed we had, wasn't
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it. Mmm that Shad was out of this world? Oh God, God,
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I knew we should have stayed away from this place. Yahds off of
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staty bone speaking not at the moment. Who's calling? Please? I can't
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say exactly, Can I do something for you and his assistant? I'd be
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glad to if I can suppose you tell me why you called my girls very
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hard. Why don't you call the police, so I wanted to if you
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had any suspicion that her death wasn't natural, mister Bradley, you'd better call
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the police. Oh oh, mister, leave it to me. I'll take
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care of it for you. Thank you so much. By now, what
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more trouble? Oh not for us, scubby, I have to cass Sergeant
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Madison than it's for the movie. By not for a minute. We were
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going to miss that Western Sergeant. Missus. Patty Bradley, manager of the
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Red Goose on West Seventh Street, says his girl Singer is dead and he
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thinks maybe she didn't die naturally. You gotta take a look and see what's
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rot. Oh no, Nick's out of town for a few days. You'll
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laugh to solve this alone, if you can. Born. Nick just helped
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me out. I apologize, Sergeant happy having hear you. Bye, Come
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on, passy, We just got time to make us right with your scubby
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slip. See how the movies do it? Just for a change. Oh,
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this is just the way you're found her, Bradley. Nothing's been touching
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ejagen gee. I open the door to the dressing on the speed to her
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and now she lay on the floor. I shut the door again and called
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mister Carter. God, yeah, yeah, it's murder, all right?
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You see this that mark around her neck? You mean yeah, strangle with
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a fine cord or a wire. Maybe it's murder. Sure, only that
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A few minutes too, not more than fifteen minutes, twenty, I'd say,
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And how did you happen to come to her dressing room? Bradwick?
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Was payday today, and I brought up the payroll sheets for her to sign.
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I'd given her an envelope downstairs sometime before, but she hadn't signed for
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it. How much did she make? One hundred and fifty weeks? Oh?
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Good rocket? She was in May more than I do. That her
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hand bag on the dressing table, yes, I think so. Uh,
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notice it's open. Let's see if she's still got all that dough fifty by
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Golley not a cent left in it? Hey, that much have been a
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motive for the killing? Yeah, robbery? Uh huh? Beautiful kid like
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that killed for a measing one hundred and fifty bucks. Wait till I get
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my hands on the guy that just you tatsy, what you doing here?
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And the demon reporter Scuffy Wilson. I am Maddie. We were almost to
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the movies when Tatsy's feminine curiosity got the better of her. She just couldn't
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stand the idea of a murder investigation going on without her being here to poker
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nosing it. Well, Patsy, now that you poke your nose, and
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you can just poke it right out again. I don't need no help from
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you. Why, Sergeant, I wasn't trying to help. I was just
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interested. Is that was she killed? Sergeant? Yeah, strangled with a
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quarter a piece of wire, one hundred and fifty bucks stolen out of her
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hand back and no more questions? See yes, sergeant, but please may
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I just watch? Okay, okay, just don't follow me. I won't,
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Bradley, how many rooms on this floor? There are three rooms on
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the second floor, Sergeant, My office, this dressing room, in the
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dark room, all on this side of the building. Dark room, what's
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that for? That's where the girl who takes the flashlights of customers in the
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club develops the picture she takes. As soon as she gets three or four
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snaps, she comes up and makes Princeville the customers to buy. Then she
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could have been in and out of the room anytime. Yes, yes,
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she could. I want to talk to her. Who sure? Hey,
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if all three rooms are on this side, I must all look out under
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that roof next door. Yes they do. The adjoining building is a one
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story flat roof to fair same length as this one. Uh huh, wind
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this always kept open on him on hot nights like this. Yes, you
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ever see anyone on that roof from this club? I mean no, I
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don't ever remember any of our people ever going out there, No reason why.
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Oh Marie, this minute, sergeant. This is Marie, the girl
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who takes a pictures. You said you wanted to talk to her. Yeah,
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I do. And Marie, when did you see this girl? This?
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What happened to her? Yes, Marie, she did been killed,
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poor Paul. Why don't you see her last? Just after her first show,
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maybe half an hour ago? Or she all right when you saw her?
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Oh? Yes, she was as happy as anything. She came up.
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She did my last patch of photos. I asked her for autograph picture
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of his jow and she said that if I take one, she'd autographic form.
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Yeah. I took one, did you? Yes? Make it right
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there? You developed it yet? Oh? I was just going to now,
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well, let me say it as soon as you got it done,
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might get some ideas from him. And then I watched the Marie I used
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to take pictures when I was a kid. I'm Patty Bow and Stargeant Nathison's
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assistance. It's my assistant, my pain in the neck. I'm glad to
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have you. Did you ever develop your Yeah? Women, they give me
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a pain, mister Bradley. How many employees do you have here in the
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records? While there are twelve in the kitchen crew, seven in the orchestra,
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five front men in the lobby and inside the check girls, flower girl
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and Marie. I want to talk to them, all of them. Get
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him up there, get him up charge, and couldn't we use to take
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it easy, just talk to them one at a time, kind of private
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like and don't want to upset the whole club. Give a club bad name,
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you know all, don't give it another thought, mister Bradley, project
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matthat it is the soul of discretion in the epitome of instigrity. Are you
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calling me names? Again? Oh not at all, Naddy. They were
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compliments. If you will do it well, pipe town, will you okay?
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Bradley. I will take it easy, but I want to talk to
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every one of them alone or together. I don't care. Now, come
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on, let's get start. Hey, Sasha, that's the news for you.
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Yeah, what is the stuff? Your homicide squad is all? Who
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just left? Oh? Some news that helps a lot? Your face?
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Your check up? Yeah? Yeah, we have recounted for all but two
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readers in one of the front men, and all three of them have been
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with me for years. They can't be mixed up in this? Who says
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I can't? Anybody could be mixed up in it. But we'll let him
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go for now. I want to ask bet Marie a few questions. She's
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the one nobody can check up on. Let's go back up and see what
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she's got. A safe person, if you don't mind, George and I'll
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stay down here. You two go right ahead, ask you anyway, all
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right? Come on st right with him? Addie, old boy Radley says
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she only makes thirty five bucks a week. What she can get out of
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the customers. She could have needed that money or she seems like a nice
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kid. Maddie, I don't think she's new. Who When will you guys
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learn that appearances don't mean a thing. Hey, look for you read the
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way to show you the picture she took a Paula here it is. You
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just think she'll ever autographic for me? Now looks happy enough? And look
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at this one, sergeant, that's the picture, maritok while Paula was singing
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her last number, see you in the background. Yeah, and see whose
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picture it is? Hey, that's all worth than capul A millionaire playboy.
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Uh huh? Does he come here often? Oh? About once a month,
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and always with a different girl on this time. You always get this
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picture taken too, and he's always good for swell chips. Marie. Suppose
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you and me have a little talk. Yeah, yeah, Well I have
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to go down and deliver these pictures before the person is leave. Okay,
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but make it snappy. I'll go with you, just in case. In
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case of justin case, was Marie nice cubby. She made me extra copies
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of the last batch of pictures, and I scrapple. Patsy, let me
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see that picture of van Keppel again. It's a good one, isn't it,
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Patsy. How many men do you see in the orchestra of this picture?
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Huh? Oh jeez, cubby. They're so fine in the background it's
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hard to tell. Well, look closely, fine six sway. Well,
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Bradley told us there were seven men in the band. The picture shows only
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six. Huh, I wonder where the other one was. Mister Bradley,
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you said there were seven men in the band. Well, this picture taken
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during the first shot, and I chose only six. So let's see.
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Yes, the guitar player Steeves isn't there. See that's funny. Any idea
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why he wasn't there when his picture was neat? No? No, I
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know he was there when the show's tarted, and he's there now. I
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saw him as they came up. I don't understand this, covey. Do
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you suppose he could have a right? Yeah? He tells me this was
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Paula's last night here. She was going to work for another club, begetting
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tomorrow night. Yeah, she said, true. Well, how come you
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didn't tell me about that before? He just slipped my mind, Sudan,
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Why was she leaving? Oh she got a bit of job, more money
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than I get there, that's all. Dodge and Rob Porler were singing her
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last number of The guitar player was missing from the band. Do you suppose
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he could have come up here and done this a guitar player? Man,
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Hey, Bradley, do these musicians have a dressing room here anywhere? Who?
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Yes, yes I do. I'm the third floor. They keep this
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stuff in lockers up there. How much long are they going to be playing?
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You see it's nine ten now they break in nine thirty. Uh huh,
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so we got twenty minutes? I said, we look at this guitar
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player's locker. Maybe he knows something about this. Which one is this?
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Steve SLocker said, third one from the last. You've got his name on
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it. Oh, not lock That helps h nothing in this old jacket,
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that's the racing fall. Hey what's that written on it? Huh? Oh
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Central eight seven four old Mike. That's probably his bookmaker. Yeah. Probably
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these boys play the horses pretty heavily, I understand. Oh yeah, then
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the Steves couldn't need money. Maybe if the nags weren't running for anything else
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there, Sergeant No, Perhaps the only this old guitar case. Oh and
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that's empty. Gosh, they use nice Belvis to the lion, and don't
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they Well maybe it was nice one, but it's pretty well shot out Patsy.
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Oh yes, look at this big chair and it is sageant. Look
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at this money hidden them alone, right, say that's what I paid Paula
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tonight. So Steve took it. But but why did he have to kill
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it together? If he could have gotten without that, we don't know that
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he did killing, mister Bradley. The guy that got the money is the
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guy that got the killing, according to my book. Hey Bradley, get
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Steve Dawson up here. We'll see if you can get out of this hurt
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my surgeon. I'll head meet you in Paula's room right after the band breaks
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for intermission, and you can better. I'll keep my eye on him until.
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Mister Bradley, do you have a phone we could use? Yes,
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Court, it's one in my office. Paul Thanks, and with me,
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Scuddy. I've got a job for you anywhere with you, beautiful, Just
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leave the way you say you want me to call this number we found on
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Steve's racing form, right, cutty and ask the night Well you want me
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to ask him anything special? No, just say it's Steve Dawson, Colin.
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I'm so around and see if maybe you needn't let something sort about Steve
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finances. Okay, what can we lose? Here goes hey. I wish
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I knew what this. Steve's voice sounds like we just talked a little husky.
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Is it were a bad connection? Michael never knows the difference? I
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okay, hello, is Mike there? Mike Steve Dawson. Well, I've
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got part of her, isn't there? Sunway? I can let you have
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part of it now and the rest of a little. I want to tonight.
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Okay, Mike, goodbye. Steve didn't need he sure did four hundred
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dollars. I want to clock tonight and no fooling around either. Steve need
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that money so bad he'd be willing to kill Paul. The get sure looks
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that way from where I said. I wonder what's that on the floor over
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under the window? Huh oh, it looks like far t Yeah, sorrow,
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somebody feels maybe somebody was out on the roof and got so had a
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shoe you rarely said nobody ever went out there. But look here here's a
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smudge in the window, so too scubby. Did you suppose you got a
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flashlight? Pass? Yeah? My here in my bag. I think I'll
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have a look at the roof outside this window. There might be footprints or
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something. If you're going out there, I am too, Give me a
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hand. Okay, beautiful here, easy man. Yeah, TI on this
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roof is soft, isn't it. Yeah, generally gets that way on warm
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days. Well, I don't see any prints here anyway, It doesn't prove
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anything. Of course, soft tar wouldn't hold Prince very well. Goubby this
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fireplace my fire escape. I'm getting all Next up looks be the one that
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goes get to the musician's locker room. Well, it probably is. I
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remember seeing one when we were up there before. Parla's body's still in a
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room. No, they took it away after the homicide boys finished their investigation.
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I'm glad of that. I don't over something got my toe in it.
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Oh there's nothing here passing. Oh wait, huh, here's an all
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guitar string. Maybe a trip on that, an old guitar string, And
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she play he's the guitar Funny, isn't it? How do you mean funny?
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The sergeant says Paula was chocked with a cord or a piece of wire,
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of course, and finding this guitar string here is no coincidence that's all.
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It's all. I wonder, what do you mean? I wonder?
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Oh, I don't know, Scuffy, But that's what Nick always says when
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he's not sure if something, oh, his master's boy, sir, something
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like that. I'm just trying to think the way Nick would do it if
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he were here. Oh. I wish he were here too. Oh,
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I don't know. It looks pretty open and shut to me. I know
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it does, but that's always a I'm nixed air to Chuby. It's one
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of the musicians just coming in the pewler's room. That must be Stawton.
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Yeah, come on, I want to hear what he has to say.
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Yeah, come on, mind if we join you? Sargeant? Well,
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the love of Pete. What are you two doing out there on the roof,
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all just looking at the stars, that's all? Do you mind if
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we come in? I don't mind what you do, so long as you
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don't get my way. Thanks? Help me up right here? It's so
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easy watch the seal, Thanks, Guvy. Won't you come into mister Wilson?
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All deeds go card the usual war? Will you two ever stop clowning?
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This is a murder case, murder? What have I got to do
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with the murder everything? If I mistaken Dawson? Where were you at about
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eight o'clock tonight? Eight o'clock playing with the band, same as all that's
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s? Where as I p thanks and Steve? Show me which one in
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this picture? As you? Why I don't seem to be there? When
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was this taken during Paula's last number in the first show tonight? How where
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were you? Oh? Yeah, I remember now. I was like coming
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in. Mister Graddy said you were there when the show opened? Huh oh
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yeah, I had to step out for a minute. You need money pretty
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bad, don't you? Money? Yeah? No, I just got paid
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tonight. I got plenty. You didn't get paid enough to repay the loan
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mic Major three hundred bucks plus one hundred interests. Okay, what's that?
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Where did you find that out? Mike told us? Mike? What do
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you know about Mike? And he's calling for at one o'clock tonight, isn't
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he? I don't know what you're talking about now? And why did you
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kill Paula Windsor the night and then swipe one hundred and fifty dollars from a
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first and don't try to lie out of it. We found the money in
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that old guitar case in your locker. I didn't kill I swear, I
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sageant. We found this on the roof, just outside the window. What's
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that string for a fiddle or something? So? What could be a guitar
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string? Maddy? That's settles at Dawson. You saw Bradley get Paula her
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salary earlier tonight, so you sneaked off the bandstand during your last number,
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came up to her room and tried to sneak her first. He caught here,
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and you killed her. Oh I didn't kill her. I didn't just
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strangle her with a guitar string you happened to have in your pocket and threw
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it out the window. I didn't kill her. She wasn't even the room
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and I said some money. Oh so you admit you stole the money.
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Yeah, yes, I stole her, But I didn't kill her. She
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was just finishing her song when I got back downstairs. Oh God, Dawson,
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if you can make a jewey belief that you're a better man than I
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think you are, I didn't you look here, scuy. You don't want
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to pay the stupid paper on her dressing table with that same number on it,
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but we just called eight seven four. Oh, I wonder what she
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was doing with that playing the horses, I dadded, Sergeant. May I
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ask mister Dawson a question? Oh you again? All right? Ask?
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Let me get out of here. And mister Dawson, what did you and
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paul I have in common about the Purple Pig? Nothing? Mike is a
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manager there and he's my bookie. Paula was supposed to start singing it tomorrow
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night. Mike met her here when he came over once to see me and
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gave her a job. So that's where she was going. Yeah, Bradley
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was all burned up about it, but Mike offer her more than Bradley did,
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so she gave notice. Come on, Dawson, you and I,
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You and I have a data headquarters. What sorry, I'm booking you for
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robbery and possible murder. Now hold out your hands. I got a bracelet
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for it. I tell you, I can't tell me. Don't count so
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long, missus Patsy caught it. If you pick up anything I missed,
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gimmy raise. I'm always happy to hear from you. Why, thank you,
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sergeant? What do you think I think if I killed the girl with
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a guitar string, I'd never throw it out the window where it would be
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found. First thing. That's the way I feel. And it seems to
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me that if Paula did catch these dog and keeps stealing her money, he
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wouldn't be likely to fishing around in his pocket to see if he had an
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old guitar string he could KILLO is sure right, Patsy. He'd more likely
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strangle her with his bare hands. You know, Scuby, I think the
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murder had nothing to do with the robbery. I think whoever killed Paula did
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it deliberately and used the guitar string to throw suspicion on Steve Dawson, which
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would a call her is leaving it right outside where it would be sure to
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be firm. And I noticed another thing to Scubby that makes me think Dawson
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didn't kill us. It's not proof, but it's something to think about.
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Yeah, what's that? Well, Well, when I saw Paula's body,
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I noticed that she had unpitched her dressed if she were going to take it
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off, and her shoes were off, and one of her stockings was unfastened,
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which means she'd been in her room long enough to start changing her costumes.
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Good girl. And if she's been leaning over and fastening her stocking,
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the killer could have crept up behind her without being seen. That's what I
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was painting. She'd just look at this picture, cousin Marisa tonight she's laughing
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and looks at that. She didn't have happy Huh, look at this picture.
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Look at the mirror. Hey, there's the figure of a man reflected
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in the beer. From the angle at which the picture was taken, he
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must have been standing on the roof just outside her window. Probably thought he
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couldn't be seen, but the camera caught him in the mirror plain enough to
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make out who it is. No, the picture doesn't show him very plainly,
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but it's definitely a man in a black coat, and the musicians were
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white, so it's not the guitar player, Gobby. This man has the
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floor and he's but no, it's the right homes there, the less the
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way most men wear them. He let's ask Brandy. Maybe he'll be able
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to recognize who it is, right, Gobby, Come on, we'll show
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Sergeant Mappison. Yes, rally, Rally, We've got something to show you.
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Can we go somewhere where it won't be so ni. Yes, yeah,
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I suppose you go right in here with the door closed. Yes,
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this is now. What have you found that would interest me? And mister
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Bradley? This picture was taking this evening in Paula's room, right after the
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first shoe. Oh yes, I remember Marie saying that she took one.
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If you look in the mirror, you can see the reflection of a man
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standing outside her window on the roof. What. Yes, yes, I
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see he's a pret pitio. It isn't a better picture of him so he
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could recognize who it is. Mister Bradley, have you ever been out on
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the roof outside your office? No? I never go out there. Then
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how do you suppose the spot of roof toog got on the rug in your
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office? I wouldn't. You probably came off your shoe, mister Bradley.
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I see there's still some tar on the heel, but I you're a right
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heel. Heay. Look here are you implying that I killed Paula? I
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am. I didn't realize it until I saw you again just now. But
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you wear your flower and your right lapels practically no one does that. You're
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a pair of idiots. Why should I kill Paula? I had no motive
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to do a thing like that. I don't understand about the motor part either,
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mister Bradley. But I'm sure you killed her. Oh see here,
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Just because I happened to be standing outside Paula's window when Maurice snapped that picture
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doesn't prove that I kill her. Just went out for some mayor and then
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went back to my office. She was alive the last time I saw her.
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You've forgotten one thing, mister Bradley. Your fingerprints around the guitar stringer
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strangled her with? All right, so I killed her? What are you
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two gonna do about it? I'll have you two taken care of so fast
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going down, mister Bradley. You can't scare me with that little pop gun.
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Don't kids yourself, mister Bradley, that he knows how to use that
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gun, and she will if she has to. And at twenty two,
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they's just a little hole in a man's part of her forty five? Does
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that? It's a amed right the way he pass me. Thanks scutting,
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Now will you sit down, mister Bradley. Thanks you all If you're calls
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Roger Madison, he can put both the rubber and the killer in the same
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cell. You don't mean you're going to be at that typewriter for another hour
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yet. I'm sorry, but I have to have a full report ready for
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Nick when he comes back, and I want to get it down in black
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and white. While I was still pressed in my mind, okay, okay,
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I quipped, I'm going home. I'll see you again some time.
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I hope give your ring that time when you're freeing. Blarn you Patsy bowed.
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If I wasn't in love with you, good night, of course.
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Let's see where is that? Oh yeah, Nick Carr is off at Pappy
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Bone speaking. I just wanted to tell you he did. Oh that's good.
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I'll put that in my report too. Oh say so we waited on
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the roof outside her window for her to come back from the floor show.
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Uh huh. It was while he was standing out there that he saw Steve
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DAWs And swipe the money out of her purse. Oh well, that gave
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him the idea that he could have a perfect alibi by making Steve the coat
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for the killing as well as the robbery. So he went up the fireus
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came to the musician's room, found an old guitar string Steve had thrown out,
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and got back outside Paula's window just in time to see Marie Snapper picture
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I seem And then while she was changing her clothes, he crept up behind
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her and strangling and threw the guitar string out on the roof, where they
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found for the police. Oh bye, somewhere else. Yeah, I didn't
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tell what his motive was. Yeah, he loved Paula, but she turned
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him down cold. He discovered this. He gave her her first job.
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He felt she owed him something, but she told him to his face and
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he had done nothing for her, that she was leaving him for a better
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job with a better man. Well that maybe he's so mad that the fact
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that they really loved her desperately that he decided if he couldn't have her,
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nobody else was going. Oh the poor guy. Love is an awful thing
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sometimes, Yeah, especially if it's not returned. That's one thing I don't
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understand. Who said you told him his fingerprints were on the guitar string?
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Now, what was the idea of that? Well, Nick always has something
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to clinch the case with, so I happened to think of that? What
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you want to know? A guitar string? He wouldn't take any finger.
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Prince sure Si didn't argue it sudden, mister Bradley didn't. Well, Patsy,
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the absence of Mega, I suppose I'll have to get my hand so
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next week, so from you, how about it? I sure can do,
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Karl. The case started when both Vince O'Neill and Auto Lerner saw they
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were married to the same girl. What did Nick do about that? Well,
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he shouted out to find the girl and straightened things out if he could.
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And he found her, I suppose, knowing Nick, Oh, yes
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he did. But when he located her finally she could no longer give them
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any information. She's been using a new jar of corocream and taking a bath
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for what does that have to do with it? Why? Everything? That
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and the fight on the train, all right, all right, what's the
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name of the store? We call it A Case of the Extra Husband.
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is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications Incorporated. Picture stories of Nick Carter appear
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by Ed Latimer, Scubby by John Kane. Original music is played by George
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Wright. Script is by Jack McGregor. Any resemblance in these programs to actual
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persons living or dead, or to actual places is purely coincidental. Nick Carter
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Master Detective if presented over most of these mutual stations each week at the same
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are exciting, but we've never heard of a public auction where the bidding went
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up up, up to murder. There's your promise of thrilling mystery entertainment again
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tomorrow night for these mutual stations on Bulldog Drummond's case called Upholstered for Murder that
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Bulldog Drummond mondays on Mutual. This program was heard in Canada through the facilities
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of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. This is a mutual broadcasting system. Welcome back.
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Sometimes it can be easy to compare episode at Golden Age programs to their
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television counterparts. However, there are sometimes when there's not really a comparison at
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all, except perhaps the soap opers. Well, most detective shows in the
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United States anyway, do about twenty two to maybe twenty four episodes a year.
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The program like Nick Carter really ran unless there was a pre as constantly
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all a time for the better part of twelve years without even a break.
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Ideally, you'd like to start to be there, weeke in and week out
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to record the program, but sometimes that just doesn't work out. And what
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do you do? I think the majority of programs the answer to what do
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you do is your brand a substitute for your lead character. And we've seen
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that numerous times. Going back to Sherlock Holmes, Tom Conway was out one
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week and Ben Wright was brought in. Frank Graham out for a few weeks,
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replaced with Paul duvalv on Jeffer Reagan, while Bailey unable to perform one
32:43
week on Let George Do It, replaced by an actor named Ken Peters.
32:46
The radio program Yours Cooley Johnny Gawler didn't have that problem because it was in
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the mid to late fifties, because it was transcribed and recorded three weeks,
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and so if for some reason Bob Bailey wasn't able to make his recording session.
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They just go ahead and reschedule. This was not the case in the
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mid nineteen forties for Nick Carter. The solution they tried, which is less
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popular, is to like the supporting characters come in and solve the case.
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I think both solutions definitely present some problem. In one case, you're really
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asking the audience to go ahead and believe that some other voice is Nick Carter
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or Jeffrey and or Philip Marlowe, and that can be a big lead for
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people who listen and week in and week out. On the other hand,
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with a mystery program, if you have your supporting characters go in and solve
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the case, the question could be raised, why aren't they this smarts were
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resourceful all the time. The way they manage this with Patsy is probably not
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the way that I would choose to do it, but essentially they give her
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a case here where the typical nineteen forties woman I is key to being able
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to sault the case. He's contributed these sort of clues to Nick's investigations,
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but never in such an important capacity, and overall the case works well.
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Though you have to feel for poor Sergeant Mathieson because when in Nick Carter's week
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off, he doesn't even get to sault the case Nick sidekicks beat him to
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the punch. Now, regarding the dating of this episode, the lost episode
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since last week, the case of the Missing alarm Clock, the Case of
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the Unwilling Criminal, the Case of the Black Key, the case of the
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Beautiful Brunette death, after Dinner It was a Good Dinner, The case of
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the Double Double Cross, the case of the Diplomat Diamond, the Case of
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the Immigrant Girl, and the case of the Useless Shots. Now, the
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log for otrsite dot com actually lists the case of the Extra Husbands as the
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story that aired on August twenty fifth of nineteen forty six. However, since
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we heard that the case of the extra to Husband's announced after the Case of
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the Red Goose Murder, which the OTR side log has airing on September first,
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we can only conclude that they got the order of shows inverted. And
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this is further back up by the Radio Goold index dot com which states clearly
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that the transcription date for this particular program was August to twenty fifth. So
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that's all we have to say about that, as far as Gump would say,
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all right, well, that'll actually do it for today. We will
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be back tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and then join us back
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here next day for another episode of Nick Carter Master Detective. In the meantime,
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