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  To the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is
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  your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it to
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  dot Great Detectors dot and net. Now it's time for today's Adventure of Frank
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  Race the Adventure of the Fairway Beauties. The Adventures of Prank Race starring Paul
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  Dubob. A war changed many things the base of the Earth and the people
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  on it. Before the war, Frank Race worked as an attorney, but
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  he traded his lawbooks with the Cloak and Tiger of the Os When it was
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  over. His former life was over due. Adventure had become his business,
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  the Adventures of Prank Race, and now we joined Frank Race, while the
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  Adventure of a fair Way Beauty Ralph is a funny game. Usually, if
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  a person applies himself diligently to a sport, he'll eventually come up as a
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  creditable performance. But it's not that way in golf. A few people just
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  have the knack, millions don't. As for Mark Donovan, whoa right?
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  He ranks with the great majority rights. Cause, listen me, by a
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  good inch, it's a good thing. You're duck. I go to that
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  shot and you scullded. Oh look I hit down on a pall just like
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  you said. Remember that term we used during the warmark too little into late.
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  That's the where you hit down on the shot all something. This is
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  the most aggravating game which was ever invented. Little pills standing still A guy
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  can't don't want it? You're doing quite a luck with it, Yeah,
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  but never according to plan. I'm gonna try one more shot. Don't come
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  off. I'm heading for that blackjack game in a caddy tam. Let's try
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  some strategy to get on this period. What do you feel like a hook
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  or slice? Well, you had a slice on the last game, so
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  into the left. That should take it right into the pin over there,
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  straight Mark, let's face it, you haven't hit a straight shot all afternoon.
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  If you really faced it, I ain't never hit a straight shot in
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  my whole life. You've been slicing most of the time. So aim for
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  that pond and watch it paid right onto the cocker. Yep, you see
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  what? Oh race, it's head and right. But the I'm sorry,
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  Mark, I gave you poor advice. The poorest advice you ever gave me
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  is when you talk me into taking up this game. I'm tinis the last
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  focus. It's all in fun. This is what I'm having fun. Look,
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  we've got four more holes to finish. Four ahead, plane plane,
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  See at the clubhouse, I ain't there to take a peke in the caddy
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  pin. But forty five minutes later, as I paid off the caddy on
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  the eighteenth green, I saw I wasn't gonna have to look great far to
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  find Donovan. It planted himself on the practice to you and was goggling and
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  a couple of girls who were hitting shots. Since Mark has excellent taste when
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  it comes to feminine of yor I wandered over them myself. Oh oh,
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  it's you'll right. What happened to the blackjack game? Ain't everything paintings?
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  What's got the lamb? Them boys? And I gotta admit it, it's
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  just kind of place shot. They should be good. Oh they are,
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  no, But I won't pull him down any invitation. So I'm of the
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  deep pan and Zoe Panier. These National Women's Open, an ANC champion that's
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  been for the last three years, British champion two, probably the greatest woman
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  player of gold team. I get that one. Look the teacher, he
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  is nothing but a double Understandford, California. Do you know what these days?
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  I know Zoe Fannier pretty well. I used to look like you,
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  remember, I pray for me. I never get another golf shot, which
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  would be the tragedy of the decade. You're in wonderful forms. I get
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  wonderful pani again over here. Look in California. Plans came down from Vancouver.
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  Been loving Zoe. This is Mark Donovan and this very lovely thing is
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  Barbara's dancer. Do you know? Not nearly as well as I? Oh,
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  brother. Fun. Everything is fun when it's with other men, isn't
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  it, Zoe? He stood off about eight or ten feet from us,
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  judging from the cozy had Annie wasn't there to play golf, These teachers said
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  in a mask of bitterness and bad news with all of them, I didn't
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  know you were. That's nothing new. You're not going to be a problem.
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  Are Oh that's right. You don't like problems. The sweetness and light
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  that's Zoe. Sweetness and light and fun with other men. Tell them to
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  get a lot London, I want to talk to you. Do I get
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  to do it? Or do I turn myself into a really difficult problem?
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  Lady, don't have nothing to do with you. Don't stay out of this
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  chum main nosy bystanders going another with else? No, I don't come on,
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  wait a minute, or you don't have to look at this. Lad
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  puts you around and just what did you do? You like? Nothing is
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  all right and you will know it. But stick around race or whatever your
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  name is a personal interest? What is it? H huh? I'm trying
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  to buy in a family drawl that I didn't know. J always was married
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  about three months ago. Okay, now, certainly years. How about something
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  tall and cool at the bottle on the practice to you at thirty yards.
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  I've been telling myself if this Stamford last would be something worth staying California for
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  the clubhouse tap room at two feet. She made me want to become a
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  native son. What happened to your friend Mark? He's gambling instinct, Bridle
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  said, I have an idea. He's now in the vicinity of the black
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  checks. Right, he's a lot of fun. Love me. That could
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  be a lot of fun fun. Didn't a church you? Oh? What
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  did? Oh? No, I'm not going to give you a lead like
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  that. I'll wait. I'm good at waiting. Are you up to a
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  point of course? Let me get a run down on you. You're here
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  for the high state team, and I suppose it's Seattle and the musession.
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  And I don't think you got to play golf for meat? Anything else you
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  need, I get it. I'll wait, I said, still for a
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  prospect like that? Anytime said still for an interruption? The hate it take
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  a lot of weight, a lot of muscle, a lot of pillar,
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  and a double bust of t stock shop, a look of blind friendliness.
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  Look at the sort of looking good when you mentioned checking the bets in a
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  high stake cooker game. He sat down without waiting for an answer to the
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  question, I'm check Kendley drive with Vick working Vic Mountain, so I wanted
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  to make sure he didn't hurt your feelings at pill. It sounds like a
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  new one. How does the dialogue open here? What you do for newspaper?
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  Boy? Come again? What I you? Or why? But we
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  wouldn't want Vic to get bad as to press. So I'm hey, guy's
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  running for public office? What happened that there could look bad? Ain't you
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  read it? Just the beef that he right? So Victor's running? You
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  know that increas you It thoroughly intreats me. I don't, father, you
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  wouldn't, but you can figures another newspaper man. You want some change.
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  They're a witty brand of cookie anxious. I can see why Vic had an
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  impulse to change your face any more, to say, it's just one thing.
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  Don't go bother and Vic people you wouldn't like it, A lot of
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  people. I know Kendall, you're a tough boy, and you've got a
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  license to prove it. How would you mind leaving us? Imagine? He
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  is quite something else with that thing. She's in love with Larry Myers.
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  I know he's a great call y. Want to get three of it now?
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  And Larry doesn't even know about that. Harry is meeting Jollie's met a
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  dinner. I'm telling you, a sweet swinger, a great competitor, not
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  more than a couple of years away from the National Open Crown. This was
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  the tag the experts at Kin on Larry Myers. As usual, Boise wasn't
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  with him as he came up in that I just got a message that's always
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  standing there. She didn't see anything. He just left word with the bot.
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  I know that you wouldn't be around this evening. I don't know what
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  hard coming exactly, certainly, Am. It was always f near on the
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  other end of the line, and a very tone of a voice said,
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  trouble. Can I see you this evening? It's very abom see you.
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  Larry Myers is here at the clubhouse with help. I don't want Mary knowing
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  I'm a clan Where shall I see you? Image take it? Genties?
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  What time do you want me to come? Really? I'll see you about
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  seven thirty at the Colony Alarms. I found Zoe Panier's apartment on the second
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  floor, but in the hall just outside her door, I was intercepted by
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  a pair of citizens who could have qualified as bounces at a long showman's convention.
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  Where do you think you are going? I can't see that it's any
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  of your affair. I am paying a visit to the lady. Indeed,
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  they see it. Not just now you're enough. I've been walking most of
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  the day. I played golf this afternoon. Then you should be in bu
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  shape. All right, you've had your chance of being dramatic. Decide you
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  once, what did you like actually to live with the riper? Obviously we
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  reached an impact, but I still intend to pay my respect to the lad.
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  Nick. He did this pigeon down the stairs, true og Nick moved
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  his mask towards me, reaching out the thick arms. There's an open invitation
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  for a wrist lot, so I obliged, twisted quickly and flipped him,
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  and I had Aggie to handle a good man with his fists. I took
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  one of the year that sent me lurching for the stairs, but I got
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  one back, and Aggie went down only for a second. Though he wrenched
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  up came at me. I went to one knee and I comes on here
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  anyway. This guy he was, he was just doing like you said.
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  Then he gets tough, the put him moved the stairs. This is getting
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  repetitious. It came as the Zoe Premier. If you have any idea of
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  trying to stop me, you can say it. The apartment had been decorated
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  to match the architecture and early American motif. I had a look around noticed
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  that the papper lamp hanging from the green ceiling had been badly dented by something.
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  I tripped over a tear on the hooked rug as I moved deeper into
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  the room. That's a very nice Where's Zoe? But she's here, but
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  she's not going to say anything. No, why not because somebody just cut
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  her throat. We'll return to the Adventures of Frank Race And just about one
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  minute now, back to the Adventures. All prank right. They scrawled on
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  the kitchen floor and head almost under the tab, one of her legs still
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  double rotesquely and the death back in there. So we from the greatest woman
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  golfer of all time. You like that? I don't, and noons a
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  WEE could quite a while this won't qualify when I know, how do you
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  think it makes me feel? I don't know. How does it make you
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  feel? Come on out? We have a little rice. I've got the
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  pink straight at two straight. I'm not going to be able to read a
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  little bit. Alvin. The police, I don't suppose they've been notified.
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  And if they have, somebody else did at the sides move I'll call them
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  now. Put down that phone, right, I can't stop you from getting
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  lost, Melbourne? Would you feel like it? He said? Put down
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  the phone, trying to think fancy in the next slap of do with this
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  pistol? Alvin? Who have ferment cage? Just watch it? But so
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  the objection if I rubbed my drawer, you didn't get up sit on the
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  divan like that? Back seems to slow down my metabolis in a few points.
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  Make good use of those shoulders, Melbourne. The snake punch. You
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  know, I had very an interesting case study, Victor. Where do we
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  go from here? I'm my girl's husband. Got a hunch you up?
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  I know it didn't take having pairing a torch took a long time even gout
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  that too, And you think that maybe I killed a lot of people are
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  gonna think that. Yes, that's why we have to figure out you left
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  me behind with that. I checked up on a race, checked up this
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  afternoon just because I saw you with Zoe. I found out what you do
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  right, not the kind of smart boys think you couldn't on the wall.
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  I still don't get what you're driving at. I want you to do something
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  for you. I want you to go and talk to a certain men in
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  this time, asking you to promise to go and talk to him before you
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  would say anything, Please, don't nothing. I get up and leave,
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  and you be expecting he'll be expecting you. His name is Sylvester Painter.
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  Sounds for media. It should. He's mayor of the city Invester Painter.
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  I remember the spread about him I've seen in the National magazine. He resigned
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  his office during the war to get into the service. You've been reelected in
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  forty eight. He greeted me with a look of intentness and the firm handshake.
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  Get that right, I he's finished talking to Vic. I may as
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  well confess that I haven't the faintest ideas to what this is all about.
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  It's about a lot mostly of Vic Malvin. How long have you been in
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  town five or six days and you probably know what we've been full then,
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  yst we've had with police department corruption. Yes, right, And I'm going
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  to jump back to Vick. He used to be a cop, youngest captain
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  of detective in the history of the Wars. He served in the same theater
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  of operations that I didn't do in the war. Oh, a lot of
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  stuff has been said about what I did over there, and then I started
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  out as a major, ended up a lieutenant colonel. Vick began as a
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  captain, ended up a full journal and did it with combat duty. And
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  this is the man who carries around a couple of boys who don't mind roughing
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  people up where you see, Vick has been running for political office and he's
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  picked eup a set of hangers on who become a trifle over zealous at times.
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  They didn't pull guns on you today, No, I would think of
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  it. They didn't. Well, this morning I concerned with the Police Commission
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  regarding our present emergency. I made the point that there was only one man
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  equipped to become our new chief of Police, Vic Mountain. And it's my
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  belief that the Commission is ready to appoint him cut a situation. Yes,
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  but I'm sticking by a VIC. When we talked over the poem just now,
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  I asked him flatly he was guilty of his wife's murder. He said
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  he'd had nothing to do with him. I believe him, So where do
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  I fitt him? I want this murder cleared up and passed. I want
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  a special man for the job. You you don't think you'll just be working
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  for VIC Mountain. I'm told he called me twice to night. The first
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  time he wanted me to give up on him, get about making him cheat.
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  I told him what I'm telling you. If I can't turn to him,
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  I don't know where I can do. I don't have weeks to look
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  on I've it's got to be done quickly before real demoralization set seem. That's
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  why I want to clean the look out for Melbourne? How about it?
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  What could I say? Later? When I told Mark Donald about the assignment,
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  he shook his head. Are you leading with your chain race? How
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  do you know what's behind it? Dear? Let it a little be sticky
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  in a hot lolly pop and the kid's here, And besides, how are
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  we going to get into golf? Would you want a case. Speaking of
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  golf reminds me of someone I could see lad by the name of Larry Myers.
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  Right now, it's almost ten o'clock. Probably a good time to get
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  him. I'll catch you later, Mark, Yes, my name is Race.
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  Remember at the club? Remember? Oh? Yeah, certainly I'd like
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  to talk to you a few minutes of Myers? Why sure you at the
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  money? Yeah? What's on your mind? So away for an air?
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  No, I thought you might be interested in the fact she's dead dead zu
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  did? It rocked him like a sense that he wasn't acting. They couldn't
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  tell me much. He'd been too numb by the revelation. So I called
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  him a day and went home at right, had better luck than I did.
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  What I sp Well, that's always encouraging to hear you had a date
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  with a very pretty thing that all I had a barbers stand. I'm going
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  to join her at the townhouse. Did you think that I give it a
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  load down on the whole day. I'll give her a big pitch about the
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  mayor himself calling you in on a big case. But she said I could
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  drop dead with me doing axplan helay she nobody, Man, Marcus, you're
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  indispensable. Dig me out a clean shirt, William, one of those new
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  tides. You have a smile for me, And it was in her eyes
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  as well, so I felt I rated. But almost at once she asked
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  me to take her somewhere else. I've been here so long, raised many
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  smiles of sympathy, all for men. I bet those weren't smiles of sympathy,
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  baby, they were muted wolf calls. All right, we'll hit for
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  another spot. Where will it be? I'll leave a team. While we
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  were deciding, I was paid for a phone call. Turned out to be
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  Mark Donovan at the other end. But trying to get through your last twenty
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  minutes, you paid shadow. How do you know what when you lived?
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  Here's the guys. Thank got across the street. You can kind of carps?
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  Oh something else, Harry Meyers quope, we don't know where you was.
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  Ill be all right? Thanks Mark. I seem to make you wait
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  and wait, don't I It's all right. Let's look at that fountain across
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  the street, like to wade. Let's go, let's run. Hey,
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  you're fast, do you make me step? Oh? This is gonna be
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  marks on my shoes. I think I'll take mine off too. Hey,
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  this grass is a little dad for sitting down, I said, Car,
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  it's tacking hadly yesterday. Great, I see you all right, Yeah,
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  I'm all right here, I'll help you out. Yeah, I'm alright.
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  I brought my thought sharply back to business. It's okay with you. I
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  like to go somewhere else before we hit that nightclub. Okay with you,
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  Zoe. When here's apartment I have an idea that we might find something there
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  that could throw a little light on her murder. Would he be able to
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  get into trouble there? I've had a special officer by the mayorsh no idea,
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  Zoe. How someone who just left cigarettes the would have been disappointed that
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  that hadn't been in this closet. It's golf club, of Zoeys. What
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  did I have something to do with? They did at lamp up there?
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  That is how it standed. And take a look at that turn in the
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  carpet. Someone was making practice swings evidently got out of the room. My
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  idea that someone waited, get for Zoe waited a while. They waited the
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  practice swings with this poor comfortable hit that way A good golfer who suddenly turned
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  nervous on hearing Zoe at the door, I wouldn't handle the club in the
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  place. I want to be able to testify that this club wasn't touched after
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  I found it yours, Honey, You didn't say anything, just stared at
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  making under those lovely lashes of hers, and I knew i'd hid it.
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  Often a runner up would very seldom of winning. That's the way the records
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  read. When it came to the name of Barbara Standford, all because of
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  the girl called Zoe Premier. Barbara hadn't been able to take it an adventure.
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  I could have put them on the club at anytime. No, honey,
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  when we came in, you try to put across the idea that this
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  was your first time here. Remember, I'm sorry ten years apart for you
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  girls. Either way you could have been cleaned your backs right, It won't
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  make any difference. Chicken, where so it was kendalled you're hired to gun
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  me down? Do that too? Did you pretty hard to miss it?
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  You'd never have noticed that car unless you've been looking for it. I reflect
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  it aren't bad if you hit the ground before I did. Oh no,
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  which makes the case with the lock more go rot your antick. Let me
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  leave before you do anything. My head chicken. You want someone? Who
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  are you? Oh? There, we were lucky. He was trying to
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  shoot in two directions at once. Oh, don't get listens, lady,
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  stick with us. I hide all that evidence. You know somehow I ain't
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  happy a partners. I'm not happy about it, Adam Mark, what's your
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  reason? Well, are you going to think of it? Taking a babe
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  like this one? Not a psych nation. It's an awful waste of talent.
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  The Adventures of Frank Race, starring Paul Duval with Tony Barrett as Mark
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  Donovan, comes to you from Hollywood. Others heard in tonight's cast were Lilian
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  Baye, Frank Lovejoy, Tom Holland, Michael An Barrett, and Bill Johnstone.
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  This series is written and directed by Buckwey Angel and Joel Burcott. Music
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  is composed and played by Ivan Ditmark. Be sure to be with us again
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  this time next week for another dramatic chapter in the Adventures of Frank Race.
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  Our Gilmore speaking. This is a Brussel's product. Welcome back. Well.
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  I have to say Mark Donovan is one of the more handy sidekicks I have
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  around. I mean, really, he seems to show up quite a bit
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  at at opportune times, and so I guess they answers the question as to
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  what a New York Cabby is doing in this position. Well, that'll do
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  it for today. Reminder you can follow us on Twitter Radio Detectives. We'd
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  today. We'll be back tomorrow with a life in your hands, and join
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  us back here on Monday for another adventure of Frank Race from Boise, Idaho.
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  This is your host, Adam graham Son and off