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Ellery Queen: The Saga of Ruffy Rux (EP1648) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, Ellery Queen moved
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  Speaker 1: from an NBC summer series over to ABC for its
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  Speaker 1: very last run over American Radio. The series began on
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  Speaker 1: November the twenty seventh of nineteen forty seven, and there
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  Speaker 1: were some changes to the cast. Larry Dpkin was still
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  Speaker 1: the star, but the supporting cast received upgrades all around.
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  Speaker 1: Virginia Gray as Nicky Porter, Herb Butterfield as Inspector Queen
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  Speaker 1: and Alan Reid as Sergeant Veali has to be one
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  Speaker 1: of the stronger cast of any detective show, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: see how they do so. Here now from November twenty seventh,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty seven is the saga of Roughy Rocks.
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  Speaker 2: Ellery Queen.
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  Speaker 3: In the entrance of the paper American Home, A Happier
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  Speaker 3: American Community, a more united day. The American Broadcasting Company
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  Speaker 3: and the profiliated station bring you Lery Queen.
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  Speaker 4: I dedicated program to the fight against crimes, not manly
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  Speaker 4: crimes of violence and crimes of this honesty, but crimes
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  Speaker 4: of intolerance, discrimination and bad citizenship, crimes against America.
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  Speaker 3: The American Broadcasting Company presents a new series in the
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  Speaker 3: career of Ellery Queen's celebrated fighter of crime. As usual,
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  Speaker 3: Elleri invites you to match whips with him as he
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  Speaker 3: relates the mystery, and before revealing the solution, he gives
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  Speaker 3: you a chance to solve it tonight. Ellerie's guest armched
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  Speaker 3: Detectives who will represent you Home Armchair Detective is mister
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  Speaker 3: McCullough Saint John's. And now there's Ellery Queen himself. Your
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  Speaker 3: host for the next half hour.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for a mastasin and good evening that isn't
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  Speaker 4: gentlemen for Dad, Nikki the Sergeant myself, which is a
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  Speaker 4: happy occasion. And to celebrate it, we're going to tell
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  Speaker 4: you a particularly unusual story tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I call it the Saga of rope Rout.
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  Speaker 4: Henry Cool, tell me it's so gay alone, something wrong, Reno.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like it. I don't like it. Why don't
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  Speaker 2: particular even call it a hunch?
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  Speaker 5: But everything's going great other I'm in the mob with both.
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  Speaker 4: I still don't like it. Rhino, I'm pulling you off. No, yes,
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  Speaker 4: we'll get Roughie rucks some other way. I'll pack your bag.
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  Speaker 4: You know you're going back to West tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Bat murdering Bat got my brother Charlie in the back
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  Speaker 5: when I.
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  Speaker 2: Was in New Guinea.
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  Speaker 4: That sort of brings out my stubborn street. He'll get
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  Speaker 4: you too, Greenaw, I pulled a boner.
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  Speaker 2: This. This isn't gonna work. I know.
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  Speaker 4: I feel rucks is onto you. Pack your back pack
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  Speaker 4: it and hit the hole. Uh my, here that medal
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  Speaker 4: of honor gone to your head. A nice pitch, Jelly,
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  Speaker 4: But you can't scare me and you can't rile me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm delivering rocks.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why I love you right now? How
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  Speaker 2: the street. I'll have me a look mighty pretty. No, no,
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  Speaker 2: you better let me.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Claire's Miguel, Can I see Adeel?
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  Speaker 2: We know what.
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  Speaker 5: Yah, good luck, old bags, old ladies, we know, we
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  Speaker 5: know you with some like I could now wait.
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  Speaker 2: Ducky rush from Glitz Ali Blitz you show.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, he's getting in his bus Ruffie by bank.
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  Speaker 2: Oh him, Yeah, some.
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  Speaker 5: Gum shoe tried to pump me ruffies make with a
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  Speaker 5: window glitch. They can imagine how far he got.
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  Speaker 2: They how'd you hou Denis get in here?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Radio glitch? Oh the closet, Yeah, you got in while
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  Speaker 2: I was out for a bike. Hid in the closet.
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  Speaker 2: What's a lot of ruffy? Don't you trust me?
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  Speaker 5: They just need a glum on other side of the one?
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  Speaker 5: We know just like that. Give me about as much
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  Speaker 5: a chance you gave my brother. Yes, we know you'll sing.
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  Speaker 2: Of course he's still trying to come.
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  Speaker 5: Answer me.
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  Speaker 6: You're not kittled with.
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  Speaker 2: But I do know rus bleed to death.
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  Speaker 5: Now you'll receive my special Canali treatment.
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  Speaker 2: Glitch.
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  Speaker 5: Hang up that radio glitch. You give it me quick,
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  Speaker 5: he'd give it me. D out the radio.
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  Speaker 2: Here he is, Ali, that's true. We founded mu stroke
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  Speaker 2: get roughy Rocks.
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  Speaker 5: Now that's rucks.
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  Speaker 2: Mmm. He doesn't even know he's doing it by doing
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  Speaker 2: what that music.
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  Speaker 6: You've been playing, RUFFI for those two silver dollars are yours?
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  Speaker 5: Oh my lucky box side. Some MUDs carry a wallis
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  Speaker 5: with respector me I carry my cart wheels. I once
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  Speaker 5: when these two babies got the ten grand, and we
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  Speaker 5: know that, I mean I always carry them.
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  Speaker 2: Do what I mean? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Well, if that's all Rucks, hi, Emily, Drucks have been
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  Speaker 5: watching you for the last twenty minutes. I had heard
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  Speaker 5: about your two silver dollars, but I wanted to be sure.
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  Speaker 5: It's no sequ with Ellie.
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  Speaker 4: He thought you left the corpse in that room today, Rucks,
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  Speaker 4: but you under estimated Reno's.
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  Speaker 2: Will to live. Pret little guy Rho.
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  Speaker 5: He left me a message, wrote my name down. I suppose.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, in a way he found blood in his right hand,
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  Speaker 4: tid pocket where he broke for somebody. In his right
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  Speaker 4: hand we found one silver dollar, two silver.
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  Speaker 5: Dollars on the mug with Nevada. They all carried cont
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  Speaker 5: wheels out there, folly homestake, that are you got?
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  Speaker 2: Wait?
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  Speaker 5: Oh you got some wheel evidence? Something they could hang
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  Speaker 5: on me in a court room. Wait, sort of talks
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  Speaker 5: to the he won't touch it, my s no kids,
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  Speaker 5: not a chance. Last it didn't do father's things, gets.
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  Speaker 2: Away with us. One tools to be a favor. Leave
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  Speaker 2: the two of us a low.
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  Speaker 5: Come on this right where you're going? You're walking out
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  Speaker 5: on us in sex? What a you're gonna do? Allway?
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  Speaker 5: Gets tough. You don't think it's a hot patium. Just
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  Speaker 5: to smart, always play space, always got an angle, always lucky.
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  Speaker 5: That's where he works, so smart. I'm changing the scene away.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know that. Yeah, I had my one in
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  Speaker 5: New York. It all right for myself too. No, I'll
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  Speaker 5: get the mother yoke for some great kick. I would
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  Speaker 5: not said the pope wait for a week. I guess
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  Speaker 5: had some unfing business.
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  Speaker 2: So have I rock.
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  Speaker 5: I'm putting that one done in my book.
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  Speaker 7: Twenny ruh, Hey, let go. I can't hold up allay?
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  Speaker 2: What happened my dad?
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  Speaker 4: I I think I broke my hand.
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  Speaker 8: Nicky porters seeking Ellary's secretary high Well, all this happened
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  Speaker 8: over a year ago while I was on vacation. When
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  Speaker 8: I came back to work, I found Ellery wild Rocky
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  Speaker 8: Rocks had quit New York, disappeared. Ellery wanted to throw
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  Speaker 8: up everything and go hunting for him, but the inspector
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  Speaker 8: sat on him and his hand was broken. After a
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  Speaker 8: while he cooled off and another case came along, and
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  Speaker 8: that seemed to be that. But then only a few
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  Speaker 8: weeks ago, Ellie and I dropped into Inspector Queen's.
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  Speaker 5: Office at police headquarters. That douggin somebody died. LA remember
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  Speaker 5: Ruffy Rocks, Russ, what about him?
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  Speaker 2: Finally find out where he is.
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  Speaker 6: He's in California.
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  Speaker 2: Mastro call California that how do you know?
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  Speaker 5: At a call this morning from the Los Angeles Dier's office,
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  Speaker 5: he's a man named Google, victim of a gang. Kude
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  Speaker 5: made a dying declaration naming Roughy Rocks of the man
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  Speaker 5: of Adam.
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  Speaker 2: I thought the call for a celebration, Yes, will gloom.
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  Speaker 6: This Google shuffles off before he can make a face
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  Speaker 6: to face identification of rut.
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  Speaker 2: That's a sect.
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  Speaker 5: The man out there who calls himself make Roselle. If
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  Speaker 5: they can prove Rosella's ruts, it's the guest cham before.
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  Speaker 9: Our old friend.
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  Speaker 5: So now he is asking for a file on Rocks
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  Speaker 5: and by Tudrick's.
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  Speaker 2: Carn compolice head Foot Tennessee.
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  Speaker 6: Last month feistro we suspended a police steno here for
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  Speaker 6: suspicious criminal connections.
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  Speaker 5: Oh I'm plastic spy, writing Headquark now in roxy photos,
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  Speaker 5: measurements prints and recognizing.
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  Speaker 2: We can't help La, Yes we can't.
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  Speaker 6: For how Maestro Rucks never served time. There was only
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  Speaker 6: one file out him in existence.
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  Speaker 2: That fire was here.
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  Speaker 5: Now God, I send me somebody out there to make
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  Speaker 5: a personal identification, and I can't spell a man right now,
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  Speaker 5: I'll do it.
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  Speaker 8: Uh, yes, they already that magazine commitment.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I'll have to clean that up personal. My dad
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  Speaker 4: notify the DA's office. I'll be in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: In ten days. Rocks will be tipped to that son.
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  Speaker 9: That kind of new gets.
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  Speaker 6: Around me and the cl They couldn't hold him indefinitely.
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  Speaker 6: Just some suspicion, Miss Corner.
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  Speaker 5: You might think to it. You never get to the
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  Speaker 5: DA's office.
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  Speaker 2: Ally, I'll get there.
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  Speaker 4: Los Angels here Now you hurt the man, Nikki, what's
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  Speaker 4: the matter with you?
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  Speaker 2: Why do you keep looking over your shoulders is.
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  Speaker 8: That Pfler back there?
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  Speaker 2: That's enough? Like you will always be your brother? Doesn't he?
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  Speaker 6: You not?
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  Speaker 5: Come californs here?
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  Speaker 2: I am stop here on the step. I want to
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  Speaker 2: see if he passes it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh Donald, something flew in my eye, dear, will you
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  Speaker 5: take it up here?
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  Speaker 2: Use my handkerchief to be passing? Nicky?
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  Speaker 5: It only rose?
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  Speaker 4: Still?
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  Speaker 8: How's that did I get all?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: The tail or not the tail that's the question. There
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  Speaker 2: he goes, h let's go.
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  Speaker 4: You're nervous, trembling all over till I'm nervous?
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  Speaker 2: And why didn't you stay home? Who's there done?
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  Speaker 5: Maddy?
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  Speaker 2: Oh blood thirsty? Who wears yes?
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  Speaker 4: Let's plain Hllary quam Yes Mcgleggen's the name detectives mcgaggens.
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  Speaker 4: I like police, but wow, my my order is going
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  Speaker 4: to get you down to the DA's office in one piece,
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  Speaker 4: mister quain.
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  Speaker 2: It's ways your cards right over there behind the hangar.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Max, Oh, my secretary lis for you.
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  Speaker 8: Now I feel better, detects m Blaggon.
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  Speaker 7: I really do.
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  Speaker 4: I'm yeah, rouffy rush, there's no bogging this fadays.
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  Speaker 2: It's this Max as hell? Is that? Oh? Write this way? Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Tell me, Max, How did you know I was a
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  Speaker 5: already queen?
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  Speaker 2: Huh? Why had your description this queen? Because well I
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  Speaker 2: don't have yours? You don't what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Let me see your credentials. Well, I don't keep your
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  Speaker 4: hands inside.
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  Speaker 2: It's all right. Make sure this fellow is an import.
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  Speaker 10: Look up, that's what I fact the guy take Max?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, if you say, where am I nick, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna put you right back to sleep.
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  Speaker 9: All right?
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  Speaker 2: How you're feeling, I've had to dance dream? It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: you'll recover I chloroform.
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  Speaker 4: We were both given the dreamland saw. I don't even
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  Speaker 4: know how long we were out. They're taking my watch
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  Speaker 4: away and all the contents of my apostle I praise.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 8: You know the man who reached you from behind had
• 15:19
  Speaker 8: a jaw like a rock cress, a face like a phagony,
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  Speaker 8: pronounces his ours like w mister, Well that's what I thought.
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  Speaker 5: He's gonna kill us.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. You're such a gentleman, Tony.
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  Speaker 8: Don't try to kid me. You're a minister rock and
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  Speaker 8: he's got you're just wearing once. You're not to mention me.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty nice for an execution chamber, would you say anything?
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  Speaker 4: Not exactly the devil of will she here? But not
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  Speaker 4: a dank, dark teller either, And we've been treated very
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  Speaker 4: gently borring the initials, Joel, no nating a Rocky is
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  Speaker 4: up to something, but it's not murder.
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  Speaker 2: You ho, I think ever realized he's not swinging prayer.
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  Speaker 2: If it is, Detective mcglacken, you actor, go on in glisch.
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  Speaker 2: I'll cover him from here.
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  Speaker 4: Just remember Mac, it's my back yn't choh blist.
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  Speaker 2: Of course Ruffy's torpedo. When he isn't on the trigger himself,
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  Speaker 2: he may say arsenic sandwiches, whatever it is, rough is
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  Speaker 2: up to Mac. You don't care for it.
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  Speaker 7: You don't hold Come on play make so, I said
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  Speaker 7: to Ruffies, Why holds around knocking boat up?
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  Speaker 2: It wouldn't really be arsenic. Wait, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: you don't touch the sandwich. I could get it right
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  Speaker 2: out again. It might be dope. Now only I had
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  Speaker 2: something to open that door with.
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  Speaker 8: Fly out the window, the window.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, what's the matter?
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  Speaker 2: What's starting me?
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  Speaker 7: Your hair?
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  Speaker 4: My hair?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I'm back away from me. That's still will you? It
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  Speaker 2: was the serious thing. It was both practically deadly playing
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  Speaker 2: with my hair out. You do have one one one?
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  Speaker 2: What Bobby skin Nikki or Bobby didn't going to pick
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  Speaker 2: that lock? Gangway he did it? Quiet? Be careful, mre
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  Speaker 2: goes all clear, Nicki, it's open. Hurry up my first
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  Speaker 2: remember trucks from my pockets, even my watch stick compact,
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  Speaker 2: It's all here, perfect, gentleman. They even left the.
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  Speaker 4: Newspaper for if I said, you left an odd note,
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  Speaker 4: even in this fantastic difference.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, read this headline.
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  Speaker 8: Ellery queen clear suspect Ellie's green queen clear subject notice.
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  Speaker 8: Luke says Maxoso is not Roughy Ruts.
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  Speaker 4: Fellow on the plane who looked just like while we
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  Speaker 4: were held here, My double showed up at the DA's
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  Speaker 4: office as ellery queen no doubt, with the contents of
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  Speaker 4: my pocket for identification and cleared rocks.
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  Speaker 2: Yuck, yok exactly, Ruts.
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  Speaker 4: Is revenge really very subtle for him? When the last
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  Speaker 4: analysis stupid?
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  Speaker 2: How can me make it sick? If he had killed me?
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  Speaker 2: He was very careful not to Nikki, There's something more
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  Speaker 2: to this.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, are you the assistant DA in charge at
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  Speaker 4: the Google case mister PROI I'm ellery queen, Oh cleary
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  Speaker 4: question mister queen, you were here only yesterday. I was
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  Speaker 4: just cleaning up with this gentleman.
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  Speaker 7: Here.
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  Speaker 4: We are you, and suppose I tell you, mister pick,
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  Speaker 4: this gentleman here is Roughie Rock.
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  Speaker 5: Come, you're quite an error, sir Hillary, I'm not even the.
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  Speaker 2: Extra straight you can.
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  Speaker 4: Ruffy repeat after me, Ruffy. My name is Harry rosel Repeat.
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  Speaker 4: The red rabbit ryan racktfully across the rhyinoceros is rear.
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  Speaker 4: The red rabbit ran wrathfully across the rhinos's rear.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this is ridiculous, Sir, who said you were smart
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  Speaker 2: Rock than you are.
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  Speaker 4: Spent a couple of months with a good teacher of phonetics,
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  Speaker 4: and he's directed your speech defect. Now you can pronounce
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  Speaker 4: art correctly or not.
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  Speaker 5: It's a suture, mister protherct. What's this fellow raving about, Queen?
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  Speaker 4: This is mister Harry Roselle, As he says, he is
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  Speaker 4: not our suspect.
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  Speaker 5: I suppose he's a twin brother.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Oh no, oh, yeah, the twins.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 4: It's mister Roselle's brother, Max, whom we suspected.
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  Speaker 7: Of being Roughy Rucks.
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  Speaker 4: That is, before you cleared Max yesterday miss the Queen.
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  Speaker 4: They'll have Max Roselle come in Wuens.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, it's two corners twenty or not. There he is.
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  Speaker 5: I'm really getting set up with this one A one
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  Speaker 5: Hi Henry, Hello Max.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Prodiric. This man is roughly Rocks if.
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  Speaker 5: You asked me, mister Fatherwick, this man is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Queen, this is too much.
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  Speaker 4: Yesterday you told me Rocks is not Max Roselle. Today
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  Speaker 4: you say Harry rosell is. Now you say Max rosel Is.
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  Speaker 4: Make up your mind when you'll let me.
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  Speaker 5: I really must get over to the studio, mister Protherric.
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  Speaker 5: I'm on call here now. Yes, certainly, mister wait Hawway,
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  Speaker 5: I want to win myself.
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  Speaker 4: Let them go, Proderick. Don't you see this is all
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  Speaker 4: part of a plan to discredit my testimony. Makes me
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  Speaker 4: a feel confused.
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  Speaker 5: You seem to be doing that very well by yourself,
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  Speaker 5: mister Queen.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry about all this, gentlemen, except mister Rocks laughingly and.
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  Speaker 4: Now, mister Queen, I don't know who this young lady is,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm really very brother.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to sit there and you're going to listen.
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  Speaker 4: It's incredible and incredible. Sorry, you don't believe why should
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  Speaker 4: I how do I? Oh you are ellery Queens. This
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: fellow yesterday said he.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Was, Oh, yes, the fellow yesterday.
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: And he looked more like you than when you Hollywood,
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: I said, Hollywood, eloie. After it's full of them, and
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: a lot of.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Them down on the lot letter, I could kiss you.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Of course, that's mister product. The man who impersonated me
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: can't be a member of Ruxtas gangs. Too coincidental. He
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: was hired for the job.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: Because of the Remember, find him and sweat him and
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: he'll tell you the story.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Find him.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: I have to do that for you to tri Central Casting.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Oh wait a minute, No, not a Central Casting ducks
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: wouldn't leave a loose end like him flapping. No, I
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: think it's quite likely, mister prod, you'll find my impersonator
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: in your more.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: Was a lesson pick up with the perfect bear.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: Old Scow hadn't come along, or just that minute, this
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: stiff would have sunk.
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: So maybe for years, mister Queen, I apologize.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: It is the man good. He might be, Queen, and
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I might have murdered him.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: And you better call my father inspect the Queen and
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: New York Father.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: I wasted too much time already. No, we're picking up
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Max Roselle this time, Patith.
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: He's Roughy Rocks.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: That's stay back MC.
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: Who's that over there?
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: What that man running away from the house?
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Prob' get that fellow?
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Hey you.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: No surprise possible? Now come on, Queen, wait for us.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: All sorry, hold it for I turned.
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: That flash and I'm please why it's the nic sandwich man?
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Good Rocks just peto product you where's Roughy Rucks.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: She's pulling on the glitch.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: So wide open Rocks Rocks glitch worth he right, nay zom.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Rocks.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: I know about rock Jo.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: What's going on here?
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: Lease again? What's the matter?
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Where's my brother Max?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: In there? Harry with three bullets in him?
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Apparently nothing touched on the body? Queen dollar seventy nine
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: cents a small change. Wallet's up with.
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: Fifties and one hundred?
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Said it wasn't robbery, No it wasn't. Well I don't
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: get it.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: I think miss Potter Rocks was getting too smart for
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: his own associates. This is an inside job. All right,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: letch did you rub out Rocks?
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: What one look like?
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: The hero?
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: You?
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: I bet you found him?
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Found call me six what I found by was Roughy
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Rocks killed letch nay, I don't know from nothing.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, don't look at me.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: I didn't do it, although Heaven knows, I've wanted too
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: often enough this past year.
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: Oh have you Harry?
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Ruffie came out here. I hadn't seen him for years,
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: took over my professional name, my home, threatened my life
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: if I didn't.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Do just as he said. He killed that fellow Google
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: all right, and.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: He killed that young actor. He hard to impersonate, you, queen.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: My brother was a vicious killer, and I'd like to
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: shake the hand of the man who rid the world
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: of him.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Makes nice listening, Harry, But just the same, you had
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: a doan good motive.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Joey.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: Got that fellow your taste or get.
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: Him marry you?
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: Well if it isn't Detective McLagan.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: So I impersonated after Okay, but that's all Max.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: When you kidnapped Miss Porter and myself another chard against you. Incidentally,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: you were one worried tough guy. Why I got a
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: worrisome disposition, mister queen, you rubbed RUFFI out.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Max.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: You didn't like to steal. We're getting too smart, or
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: you'll prove it well, one of you three pulled this job,
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: and I will prove it. It takes me a year.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: He didn't take that long.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: Eh, What mister queen, what did you say if he
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: said what I think he said?
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Is NICKI now I know it's one of these three
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: committed the murder.
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: And there, ladies and gentlemen, you have the mystery. Now
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: suppose you home arm chair detectives.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Now a guest in the studio can pay solutions thick
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: you would you introduce our guests, Ladies.
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: And gentlemen, Our guest armchair detective tonight is McCullough, Saint
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: John's managing editor of Radio Mirror magazine.
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: Saint John, not of the adler Roger Saint John.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Saint John. Yes, I'll have to plead guilty to that one.
• 25:34
  Speaker 9: She is my mother.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Well, having such a famous mystery writer for her mother
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: is any help? You may prove better than the run
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: of the armchair sleuth, Right, Mac.
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: Don't put me on the spot. Allery. Any observer of
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: crime knows that things are not always what they appear
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: to be. I learned that much in six hex fat
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: years as a police reporter.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: On the New York Mirror.
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: That experience ought to be very helpful is to put
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: this right up your alley. All right, mister Saint John's,
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: tell me who do you think committed the murder and
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: then tell me why.
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: I think Harry Roselle.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: It looks like my man, I.
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: Mean, Harry Roselle committed the murder and killed Ruffie Rock.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: That's the way I see it.
• 26:10
  Speaker 9: I think mister Roselle is really a Roughie Rock and
• 26:13
  Speaker 9: his brother was a front point.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Now I'm not sure I follow.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: You think mister Harry rosel is the criminal and Max
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: Roselle the one who lists the one who slurred his eyes.
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: That was merely a front matter for the executive behind
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: the scene. That's the way I see it.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I see.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: Now, do you have any concrete bit of evidence? One bit?
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: Uh? You mentioned at the police station that mister Roselle
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: could have taken lessons from a speech.
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: That's a evidence twitter, Thank you very much, missus Ah John's.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: You'll find out in just a moment whether your institution
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: is the correct one.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Now here is.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Paul Masterson, what's the world picture? What it is? Today?
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: It becomes increasingly apparent that we must raise our level
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: of citizenship. With this in mind, the American Heritage campaign
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: started last September seventeenth, the day of the one hundred
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: and sixtieth anniversary.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Of our Constitution.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: The Freedom Train, carrying more than one hundred of our
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: nation's most famous original documents, is traveling throughout the nation
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: with the message of citizenship for.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: All to join in. Freedom demands that each of us
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: carry out.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: His duties as a citizen, to vote so that the
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: best man is placed in public office, to take an
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: interest in public issues, and participate in community, state, and
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: national affairs. Let's all actively support our American heritage. Remember,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: freedom is everybody's job.
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: Give me a chance.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Broderick, you yours calf remark when you examine the body
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: that the man's money was untouched. A wallet full of
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: fifties one hundred, you said, And you said it was
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: a dollar seventy nine cents in small chain.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: WHA yes, queis so what if.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: This were really the body of roughly rucks, you'd have
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: found three dollars and seventy nine centent change. Right, Nick Proderick,
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: The underworld and the police in the East all know
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Rox has never made any secret of it that he
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: always carries his lucky box as he calls two silver dollars.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Never without them, he said to himself. But if Rox
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: is never without them, then this is not Roux's body,
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: but it looks just like his twin brother Rox. I
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: wouldn't try that.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, this is Harry Roselle's body.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: After they left your office's afternoon Protherick Roux killed his brother,
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: exchanged clothes and effect with the corpse, and no doubt
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: thought he'd pull his smartest coop by taking over his
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: respectable twin brother's identity. He escaped all possibility of conviction
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: for the murder of Google, the dying man who had
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: named Roux this is a sailing fellows.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Out of his head.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: RUFFI couldn't pronounce an art to save his life.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: And you hear me run read Harry.
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: How aster the answer for that?
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: Before you would secretly had your speech defect corrected so
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: that now you can.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Pronounce ours either way.
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: Don't try it.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: Yes, Ruff, you had all the angles, all but one
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: you held out of your two lucky silver dollars, and.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: It wouldn't surprise if they're in your pocket right.
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: Now, virgin.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: Ellery, are they ani?
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: And there, ladies and gentlemen, you have the solution to
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: our mystery.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Thank you again, mister Saint John's, for serving as our
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: guest arm care detective this evening, and as mementos of
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: this occasion, I have for you a copy of my
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: latest mystery anthology, The Queen's Awards nineteen forty seven, and
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: a subscription to Ellery Queen's Mystery magazine Ellery.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: What's on the blodder for next week?
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: Well, next week, Baul, We're going to try to pick
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: a potential killer out of a.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Rather large number of suspects. How many suspects were there? Ten?
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Thous huh?
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Listening next week to the curious case of the man
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: in the Street. This is Ellery Queen saying good night
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: until next week and enlisting all Americans every night and
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: every day in a fight against bad citizenship, bigotry, and discrimination,
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: the crimes which are weakening America.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: All names used on this program are fictitious and do
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: not refer to real people, either living or dead. Among
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: the members of the Knight's cast were Larry Dobson, Herb Butterfield,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Alan Reid Virginia, Greg Louis Van Ruten, Jack Petruzzie, Charles Steele,
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Paul Freese, and Jack Webb. Music by Rex Cory direction
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: by Dick Woollan. Now here's a special program note.
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• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, when I heard Jack Webb was in
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: this episode, I had to go back and re listen
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: to the show to Find where Webb appeared and was
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: actually at the beginning. He played the character of Reno. However,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: he played the character with a very slight dialect, and
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: it's actually pretty effective. In his book My Name Is Friday,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Michael Hayde said that fellow actors at KGO didn't think
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: much of Webb's ability at different voices and dialects, but
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: this was actually a pretty decent accent. I've heard so
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: very corny Southern slash text and accents, and this one
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: was subtle enough I actually missed it. Overall, this also
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: reflects the fact with Ellery really coming on as a
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: lot stronger character than we heard in the Carlton Young era.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: There's a lot more energy, passion, even fight than we
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: would have seen in these earlier portrayals, and that reflects
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: changes in the detective genre. I think we heard it
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: to a degree with Nick Carter, though Nick was a
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: little bit more action pack to begin with. Though it's
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: a I think fine performances all around, and of course
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: we do hear that same focus of the anti bigotry
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: message that was used on so many programs in this
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: era directly after World War Two. All right, Well, on
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: to some listener comments and feedbacks regarding the episode. The
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: message in read it kills me the right way. Writers
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: are so blunt about the women involved being unattractive. They
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: did the same thing during Nick the Knife, as if
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: they could understand someone attacking attractive women, but attacking a
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: homely woman just made no sense to them. It was
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: definitely different times. Then I have an email from Linda
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: who writes, Adam, thank you for the podcast. I listened
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: to them before going to sleep, then the following morning
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: replay what I missed by falling asleep. Have you considered
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: scheduling Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police as one
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: of your future shows. They are geared more towards adolilescent
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: boys with lots of cliffhangers, but I found them fun.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Hearing about the real daring required to fly at that
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: time was interesting. Of course, I always wondered how everyone
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: seemed to know about the Secret Police, but that didn't
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: stop my enjoyment. Each show is fifteen minutes. Well, thank
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: you so much for the tip, Linda. I hadn't considered
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Speed Gifts, and from what I gathered it was more
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: of an adventure show. But I will take a listen
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: to it in the near future and see if it
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: might fit. Thanks so much for the tap. And there
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: are lots of secrets in old time radio that really
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: aren't the biggest thing I'm actually struck by is the
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: man called X is a secret agent, but everywhere he
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: goes someone announces that it's the man called X. How
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: about just the man called Ken Thurston. It can be
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: just as anonymous at any right, though, it's no secret.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: What's coming up tomorrow It's the Adventures of Philip Marlow.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: And then next Tuesday join us for another episode of
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: the Adventures of Ellery Queen. In the meanwhile, send your
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