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of our listeners. You can support the show at support do Great Detectives dot
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net. But now we're going to introduce you to Ellery Queen. Ellery Queen
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was created in the late twenties by cousins Frederick Denay and Manfred Lee, and
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all the books were written under the with the pseudonym of Ellery Queen. The
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books were quite successful and continue to be published into the nineteen seventies. Ellery
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Queen hit the big screen in nineteen thirty five with the Spanish Cape Mystery and
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then The Mandarin Mystery which you saw Yesterday was released in nineteen thirty six,
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and it was nineteen thirty nine when Ellery Queen first came to the radio in
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a series starring Hugh Marlowe. That series lasted one season and then went off
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the air and returned in nineteen forty two, this time with Carlton Young in
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the lead, supported by maryor Marian Shockley Santos Ortega and Ted Decortia. Well,
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now we have a little bit of an idea of our introductory cast,
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so let's go ahead and take a look at the first episode of Ellery Queen
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we have in existence. And this is one series where I won't go through
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missing episodes because there are so many that are tragically missing, including more than
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one hundred of the first episodes of the series. Our first episode we have
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is from January the ninth, nineteen forty three, and the title is the
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Adventure of the Singing Rat. Promos out prevent the Adventures of Ellery Queen.
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Mat The makers of Bromo Seltz bring you another thrilling adventure with Ellery Queen,
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celebrated gentleman detective in person. Ellery Queen again gives you a chance to match
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with with him as he relates a news story of a crime healone unraveled,
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and then at the point where he was able to solve the mystery, he
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stops the play gives you a chance to guest the criminal's name in the studio.
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Tonight we have as our guest Miss and Coriols Glamorous Green and State Star
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and mister Alfred McKelvey, prominent Eastern manufacturer. Missus Cardiol and mister mclvey have
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accepted Ellery Queen's challenge to solve the mystery. Before the solution is revealed,
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then now Ellery Queen, Master Detective and your host for the next half hour.
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Thank you, ere his chapel, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
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Tonight's story concerns the adventures Nikki and I had when a stew pigeon gave
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us incriminating evidence against Musso's Moose. I call this the adventure of the Singing
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Rat. Inspector Bucker's paying a visit to headquarters the Singing Rat Singing rad Yeah,
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show men, bere always glad to see the rats. After Sir Rodent
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shot, Yes, Sweedie shit that don and keep it chin all right,
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that's your song today. Rad. Let's an inspector. I got something big.
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See nobody can hear me? Yes, all right, it's a little
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shaky inspector. He's got something for us on Mooso on Moosa? What is
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it? Rat sing let's inspect the queen. I can tell you how to
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get the moose. But good see you show the moose. But you got
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to give me protection, inspector, put me in stern until this blows over.
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Come on, come on, rad what are your god tonight? See
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twelve shot the most of being in a park car at the northwest corner of
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Broadway in Facey Street. All you gotta do inspect is the hook. What
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he's got in the upper right hand pocket of his frest. I've shot that
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starty menie may a round her. Put the thing in rat and the serah
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look him on some charge, make it look legitimate. It's fishing a petty
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lars man. That's no line. Order isn't expecting them? Three men at
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eleven thirty absolute secrecy. There mustn't be elite. Maybe what's in that master's
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best pocket is the evidence I've been looking for for five years? Why don't
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he show up? Boss? I don't like sitting in this park car.
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You'll be liking meta guys, big a businessman, doll nice. You'll be
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like, yeah, moo, yeah, But why do we got to meet
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his nips? Don't streak corners? Wait wide over that guy. You don't
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understand. That's the way. You're the punk and I am a moose to
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the mood. He's important pen. Sure I can't make them come up to
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the apartment like last week, but he's taking a chance. He's somebody.
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She sees a hymn I most kind of like to them. It's the cups
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cup. I'll keep your friends right your much that car. Just tell I
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know, don't start nothing. I can't cover a sergeant, but wi's the
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line on him, all right, step bad moods, you tell marg waits
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for a ride. You'r the angel foot before you at the side. Well,
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come on, hallo, sergeant, you is so about something? Sure
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we come out, Oh my old friend, inspector queen. Neither of them
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heil inspect them. Inspect every time you pull in the moose. You gotta
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let me go again. And you know getting the tired. Oh your I'm
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tim. I'll stand stive and you won't be ahad through that submachine gun to
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his back, so we won't get ambitious. Archy. Do you not inspect
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it? What's the idea? All right, baby, put your hand on
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the up the right pocket of his vest and take out whatever's in there my
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vest, you don't do that. And one of my mouth pieces, one
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of my best, we don't say, buddy, she's a squeeze. I
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find out who he said, ve ma'am, I kill him. I kill
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him. And there, ladies and gentlemen, you have the beginning of our
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mystery. Will be back in just a moment to tell you more. But
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first, Ernest Chappell. Friends, you like to save money, don't you,
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And you like past relief from a common six headache, of course.
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But what saving money got to do with that? Plenty? So listen closely.
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Right now, at your drug store you can get the large sixty cent
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size bottle of Bromo selters for only thirty nine cents. Now, anyway you
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figure it, that's the saving of twenty percent or more than talk about a
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quick, effective relief. But I'll let mister Howard be Able to Pipersville,
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Pennsylvania tell you about that. Be right. Whenever I get a common sick
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headache, I always take Bromo celster because I found out many years ago that
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there's just nothing better. Recently, I won my wife over to Bromo Celsia
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two. One day she had a common sick headache, and the preparation to
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usually took just didn't seem to help her. I persuaded her to let me
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fix her a Bromo celsis. Well, she was delighted at how quickly she
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got relief. You can be sure there's always a bottle of Bromo Celter in
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our home. Ah, mensions of folks do just as you do, mister
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Abel, which reminds me you old users of Bromo Celter will want to get
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in on this wonderful special too, but you must curry. This offer is
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strictly limited, both as the time and quality. So tom are go to
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your druggist, ask him for the regular large sixty cent sized bottle of Bromo
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Selters, but pay him only thirty nine. Better still, get two bottles,
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one for your desk or locker, one for home use. And now
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let's join Ellery Queen and Nikki Porter as they visit Inspector Queen as headquarters the
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morning after the capture of Musso the racketeers. What's up, Dad? Why
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the hurry calls Ahry, He didn't want you. I wanted Nicky, I
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say me, Inspected, this is Joe Sutton. Would you act as my
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stenography this morning, making my own man's homesick. And this is very confidential.
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Musukis. Give me a pad and a couple of pencils, Inspector,
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and I'll be silent, Susan herself. Dad, don't tell me you finally
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tied the Moose up to the bankruptcy racket. I sure have. What on
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earth is a bankruptcy racket? Allery a cute little die to defraud unlucky business
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people. A firm goes into bankruptcy, A crooked judge appoints some politician as
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receiver. A crooked appraiser undervalues the property magnificently. It goes for a song,
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and everyone involved in the racket except the bankrupt and his creditors, makes
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a heap of crooked money. We've known about this ring for a long time,
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Nikki. Judge Lampson appoints to receive a phil Bowne. Bind's a stick
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politician, a little lisping jerked by the name of Paul Ernie. He's a
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crook of the praiser. The woman lawyer Fanny Wicker handles the league, lending
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all in the Mooses payroh and we've never been able to prove it. I
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see NICKI leaning now the singing rap, come in the rat? Is the
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self right this way? Brother right? Inspector must us out on fair,
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keep your shirt down. Rap shouldn't keep him in the cell indefinitely at this
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early stage, but he knows that what's made of crying? I tell you
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he'll get my hair get nobody real need show those four good citizens into my
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office. Yes, sir, I've been waiting for this a long long time.
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In their fault God Quicker Rance, get over there there the window,
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Lielo, Yeah, okay Ah, Judge Jamson, come in, miss Wicker,
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Mister Barne, Danny Leady shut that down. She went out interrupted.
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Oh yes, sir, exact the green. What's so many of this high
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headed procedures? Tell you a member of the thanks for your office. Like
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I'm selling. I'll explain in a moment, Johanna, miss Wager, I
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believe we had the pleasure yesterday when you show up and court with fifty thousand
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dollars to move those days. Come on, inspector, what have you got
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You doesn't ask me to your office today to admire my news? Say the
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lipstick? What a hearty woman? Cried Nikki No and Bill Varne don't see
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you down here very often. Well, I always say stay away from wine
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women the police headquarters if you want to keep out of trouble and inspector,
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Miss darney Man, is something wrong, look sick? You pray the racket
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good ernie, no complaint, inspector. In fact, today is my busy
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day. Maybe are not busier? Before I sun down, Miss Jurnnie now
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last man, I arrested much of the racket tear in his vest pocket.
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I found a case full of cigarette cigarettes cigarette, yes, cigarette the Moose
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Fokes a special brand. There is a monogramm in gold leaf. Ver is
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swanky, the moosehead one of the monogram cigarettes, and the Moose's case.
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In fact, this one of my dead kids. It's here, then that's
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it. That one's a very special cigarette, not like the other. Smoto's
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case looks like one of themselves, like yellow cigarettes. To me, does
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it, counselor ellery hand me that cigarette? You are there? Is this
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the problem? Greatest join had Son. Now this cigarette looks like an ordinary
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Muto's cigarette, but it isn't. It ends up plug with little water tobacco
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which are removable. See in other words, it's hollow contained something I wonder
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what it can be? Well, where Emily? What's that piece of paper?
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Tightly older? The document of some sort Nikki. This document, Mussa's
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handwriting, is a payroll report. What quote they the judge USA Sat Lampton
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nineteen thousand dollars for appointing Phil Boyne received from bankrupt where and it's got your
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signature, Judge Lampton? The fucking my good name? I don't even know
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mucoll, Inspector. I've seen the judge go up to the most department only
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Lafe boy So that's why there's notorious step and police informeries in your office.
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Inspected it was the red he's the one who thinks, Inspector. Let's talk
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this over. I've got some influence, you know, have you vine?
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They're gonna need it. Let's cut the salami. What else have you got,
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Inspector? Queen your signature and receive miss weekend bill bynes and Ernie's no
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judge. I'd like to get your hands in this little piece of paper,
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wouldn't it. It's keeping his cancelor. Mister Ernie is the vine. Yes,
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we get remove temptations. Throw the paper up again to get back into
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this hollow cigarette thank this, put back the fort to back of plus and
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they've got the evidence already for the district attorney. All right, don't the
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three. I'm gonna mix a long time inspector, and I haven't seen a
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lot of wise tops come and go, Rubert, think you through the court.
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What do you intend to do? Inspector? I want Musso the Louisian,
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any one of you who gives evidence to break Muso's power and put them
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out of circulation. Up to you fall. What's the matter with the singing
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rest? He's backing away from the window. Hey, doesn't matter. Try
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and I've thrown across the free fame and a rifle. Mate show the window
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he's trying to show he fin may don't fare me your racket. That's sailing
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opposite man with a rifle bigger, Oh got him? Get us going shut?
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He could let me through here? Please still still going. I couldn't
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help. I see the rifle. I stuck grabs fine joke. I couldn't
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start him right, I must have find the moat. He's trying to kill
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me. Put the boy a matter attempting my office? Born boy? Where
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are you going? No? I call him babler when you fall a dot
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rum shot up, gonna stare if there by? What did it hurt?
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Here's the bluet hole in his coat. But I don't think badly out here
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I find the womb. Not a sign of blood. Stop crying, boy,
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what are you crying for? Plane funks, dead, nervous shock,
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nitten mind? They're all right, John o pet not even a stretch.
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Thanks good. But the bullet went right throwing stark mine cut through his coat,
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sergeant, through this cigarette case in his breast pocket and smack up against
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this steel vest. He's wearing what steel vest? Yes? Dad, see
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here's the vest and here's the flattened slugs. Ollie, God was a chest
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bruise. I got up, boy, and stop acting like a baby.
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Who I'm shaking? Whast Look at the ratmans porter. If he was milk,
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he'd be butter. Give me a but somebody give me at your arms
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rat me too, queen. Thanks, I can use one. I guess
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we all can consolate. No, no, I don't want any. I'll
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have one of those figure us with spres course guards is turning. Thanks Dan
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niggin, But yeah, thanks son. Now let's get back the cases.
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Are you good citizens? Going to testify against Moda, aren't you? And
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Tiger? I can't think straight. Now, Inspector, give us a little
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time. Term counselor, Suh, I can give you my aunts and now,
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don't be hasty. Let's talk this over, okay. I'll give you
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people just two days to make up your mind. No longer. All right,
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Billy, let him go. Let's way out your honor. Come on,
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come on, really, any report of that's feeling across the seat,
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Inspector. By the time the boys got there, the guy that fired the
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rifle is taking the potter. I'll never hear the end of this. Sat.
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The singing rat gone any where the rat goes, I don't know,
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Inspector. I guess BRODDI rat decide. Police headquarters isn't as safe as he
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said in a full Now, Mussole, get him sure, really, send
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out on alarm. Bring the right in. Dad. I'd advise you to
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be very careful about this evidence on your desk. Put this fake cigarette in
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a safe place. Don't worry, Son, I'm putting the moose's monogram butt
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with that payroll report inside the thickest parted headquarter. You better do it now,
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Dan, there are five desperate people Judge Lamson, attorney Wicker, appraiser,
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Ernie, politician Boyne and Musso himself who will stop at nothing to get
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their hands on it. Seems to me we practically live at police headquarters these
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days. Ellery, I'll say, occasion for this visit to the inspected office.
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Don't you remember, Nikki, the deadline Dad gave Musso's four distinguished co
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work because it's up a safternoon. Well, why should that make you look
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stoopy? This isn't your case anyway, Even if it's good, there's no
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mystery about it. I know, I know, it's just the same,
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Nikki. There's something wrong. It's been bothering me for days. Can't put
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my finger on it. You and your imagination. Here's the inspector's office is
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really there? We're fine? Glass, Oh, Nikki? Anything new on
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the moose case inspected? Have you heard from Judge Lanson, the other the
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other's dad or to hear an a minute? Now? Don't me agree to
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testify against that slipwrim mobster? Yes, any Wickers inspector was his mouthpiece.
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Then the guns. We're in something there? I mean it is good news,
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Ah, it's wicked, is that smart legal brand of yours, looked
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over all the angles of the corner you people are in. You win,
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Inspector, Ah, we'll co operate for the DEA, get what evidence we
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cant against me, though, provided we're protected and the dams the deal.
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Very smart. Look at the inspected stay galery, he looks positively bliss or
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something wrong? Something wrong? Where'd you see that? Women? It's Wick
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him. You're here is spokesman for the whole group or except Judge Lampson.
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His honor is going to fight in factor. That's the worst decision his honor
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ever made. So the moose is going down with the counterplaine and I'm bailizy
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that prolonged excuse me, yes, really, I've been coming to city boy.
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Where are you? What are you doing in Central Park? Staring nuts
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with a square? The move? What's about the move? Under with a
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fright? You'd cloud of reporters? Jellery? What nikin? Oh y queen,
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what's the matter with you? Nothing, niggie, nothing, It's just
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that I can't get it out of my mind. Out of your mind?
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Oh your imagination again. Meanwhile, that racket here is why you're in the
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park. Murdered yes, you're right, Oh Dad, Well, Mose shut
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it in the brain emory. He rounded up his gang with a depth,
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dumb and blindness. What was MOOSEO doing in Central Park? I wonder?
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Obviously Nikki had an appointment with his murderer. Is he here? Body's lying
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behind a bush and this clund of trees and those signs of it's being dragged.
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They were arguing here, Oh, Sagians, did you find the gun?
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Yeah, min Strong, it's the moose's own rod. One chamber is
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empty. He struggled over a moose's gun, Emery, and the other gentleman
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won. He's no gentleman, Dad. How long has the moos been lying
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here dead? That batty said he was bumped up sometime to day. He
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didn't die right away, so darn says, don't tell him exactly how long
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he langered? It had been murder at anytime this morning or ready afternoon?
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Read it, chick annemies, Dad, Look at this hot I just found
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it out of the body, This hollow cigarette with the moose monogram on it,
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A hollow one like the one we got at headquarters. Isn't there anything
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in his own No? It's empty, Dad. Are you sure the cigarette
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was a document. There's safe at center's feet. This looks like the identical
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casing theory. I locked the evidence up myself just the same, Dad.
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Let's go back to headquarters and check up all right, Dad could have had
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in that jelluary. Here's the moosey dummy cigarette just because I left it in
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the safe. Let's see it, dad, Dad, this isn't a dummy,
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it's a real cigarette tobacco. Ralfrow my evidence. I lost the dummy
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Monogram cigarette in my safe two days ago. Sign you only thought it was
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the dummy, Dad. The switch must have been made before you locked this
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cigarette in your safe. One of those crunked substituted a real Moves cigarette for
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the hollow one in your office two days ago and spart exactly, Dad.
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After showing the document to those people in your office, you replaced it in
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the hollow dummy and put the dummy on your desk. Remember. Oh,
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yes, they all kept wandering around the office. Yes, would have taken
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only a second to make the switch a cigarettes Hey, I know when the
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switch was made. Wherette screamed that somebody was going to shoot it, right
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Dad, and one of them came prepared to make the exchange. But once
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one, they all had cigarettes with them. Sergeants, the Jide smoked incessantly,
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so did miss Wicker. Mister Ernie. We know Boyne had cigarettes.
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His cigarette case was pierced by that rifle bullet. Any of them could have
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made the switch two days ago. But how did the stolen one get on
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the Rusto's body in Central Parking? The thief must have brought up with him
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today to his appointment with his victim. When I don't understand why knock the
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moose off? Mindstrong, It's not hard to reconstruct, Sergeants. The thief
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in possession of the vital evidence wanted money for Musso, money in return for
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not handing that evidence back to the police. Probably intended to milk them all
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dry one after the other and started with the racketeers. Yeah, and then
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figured need to stry the evidence, all right? So whoever stole that dummy
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cigarette in my office the other day is the killer of Muso? But who
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looks like a tough one to media? Eh, Cuss, I don't think
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so, Dad, no El Rijo tell me you know, yes, Nikki,
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I know who stole the dummy cigarette and murdered the moose and there,
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ladies and gentlemen, you have the mystery and I hope a solution as well.
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Nikki, would you be good enough to introduce our guest. I'm chair
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detectives for this evening Hillery. Our first guest night is and Coriol flamorous stage
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and screen star who is currently making a record breaking tour of Vadeville theaters who
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goes to ghost. Miss Cayle returns to Hollywood soon for her next film,
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It's Wrong Girl. Our second guest is Alfred D. McKelvey, prominent Eastern
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manufacturer and amateur radio detectives. You know, Ellery, Mister mkelvey's hobby is
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beating fictional radio detectives to the solutions, so you'd better watch out, all
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right, Ellery? Thank you? Nikky mis Cariole. Who is the criminal?
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Well, I am it's rather difficult, but I think the rest stole
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the cigarette that he has been living in terror of Musso, and he did
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it to bribe him. Have you any clues? No, except that when
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the gun was shot off, he seemed to know just what was happening,
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and he made quite sure that the bullets hitched Burren and not himself. And
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I think that was all set up so that he could switch a cigarette.
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Thank you, miss Coriole. Mister m kelvey, who do you think is
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the criminal? Well, I've missed the meatier guesses in this, so I'll
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probably miss this. But I guess that Phil Barne did it because of the
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fact that he showed up in the office opposite the sharpshooter with a vest on,
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so that there was any poor shooting, he was one fellat that wasn't
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going to be hit. He also happened to have a cigarette case in his
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pocket, so he could have been the man to make the exchange in the
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park, and being a politician, he probably knew his way out. In
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the final analysis, well, thankuumus Corio mkelvey. You'll know in just a
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moment how successful you were as armchair detectives. But first, here's Ernest Chappell,
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a very reasonable man in d Certainly I have reasonable ellery. For instance,
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when I tell you folks to get two bottles of Bromo celziic, one
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to keep it home the other way you work, I have two mighty good
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reasons. Firstly, you never know when a common sick headache will affect you,
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but you can depend on Bromo Selza to help you feel better fast.
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For Bromo Seltzer fights headache three ways. Act on heads, nerves, and
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stomach. You get effective relief quickly feel more like your old self again.
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Reason number two for buying two bottles right now. There's a wonderful special on
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Bromo Celzier the regular large sixty cent sized bottles for only thirty nine cents.
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Now that means you, say, twenty percent or more. But remember this
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offer is strictly limited both to time and quantity to act at once. Elson,
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whether gout or that mouth, beasts and skirts, fanning winker, that
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lifting little appraiser, Ernie No, the thief of the evidence, and therefore
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the killer of Messau was Phil Boyne. Boyn, that politician, the one
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that got hit by the rifle bullet by mistake. That's how do you know
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it was Boyne? Elisie. The clue in this case is psychological, but
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it's as incontestable as a fingerprint. Consider the situation in your office, Dad,
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two days ago, Musso or one of his henchmen, in trying to
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kill a singing rat, fired a shot to struck Phil Boyne by a mistake.
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How did Boyne react like an old lady gotta start? Yes, Boyn
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was so shocked by his narrow escape from death, so unnerved that he blubbered
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like a scared child. Yet when at the height of excitement I offered him
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a cigarette, he refused it. That's right, he died. The judge,
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the rat consulate Wicker, Ernie, even new Dad and Nikki were all
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so shaken by the murderous attack that you gratefully accepted a cigarette to soothe your
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nerves. Yet Boyne, the man most immediately involved, the man who had
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actually been struck by the bullet, although unhurt, the man who threw a
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fit of hysterics. Boyne refused the smoke conclusion. Phil Boyne is not a
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smoking man. Phil Join doesn't smoke at all. If he were a smoker,
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even a light smoker, he would have grabbed it a cigarette in his
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conditions. But Ellie, if Boyin isn't a smoker, why does he carry
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a cigarette case around with it? He did that day. You said your
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joba was pierced by the rifle bullet? Yes, Nikki, Why did Boine,
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a non smoker, carry a cigarette case since it wasn't because he smoked,
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then that case and the cigarettes in it must have served an entirely different
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purpose. I see it now, Yes, Ed, we know one of
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Musso's specially monogram cigarettes was substituted for the hollow one with the evidence in it.
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Therefore, the thief must have come to your office with a cigarette he'd
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storn from Musso in advance. In other words, the thief came prepared to
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make a switch of cigarettes if the opportunity arose. And which of the four
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suspects did come prepared? Obviously the man who carried a cigarette case but didn't
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smoke. Then if you'll nab still going right away, there's a good chance
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he still has that document with its precious evidence on him. And there,
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ladies and gentlemen, you have the solution to the mystery. I want to
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thank miss Anne Corio and mister Alfred m Kelvey for appearing his guest armchair Detectives
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this evening, and we have for both missus Corio and mister m Kelvey a
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personal gift from Bromo Selter, also an autograph copy of my latest mystery anthology,
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Sporting Blood, and a subscription to Ellerie Queen's Mystery magazine, tallorry.
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I'm a man who comes to the point jappy so Ohmi, I know at
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that point you're going to make and my answer is you'll have to wait a
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minute to hear what next week's story is about. Well, it still happens
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that I can fill that minute with some mighty important information. You can take
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the special low price of only thirty nine cents. Say Funny, fine promise
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Helter, promiself, the promiself to Promisela. All right, Sherlock Holmes,
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come on, what's on tap for next week? Funny you should call me
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that Chabby so well, because next week I'm going to tell about a case
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I had which will remind you of one that battled the Great Sherlock himself.
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It's about a man who goes into his house for an umbrella and disappears.
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I call my case the Adventure of mister Short and mister Long. Be should
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to listen next Thursday at this same time, and don't forget the other great
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Romo Celsis Chow friends. Back the show. The travels America. Next Monday,
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Pop travels to boling Field in Washington. Buck Johnson and Warren Hall will
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interview men about I'm the airport and tell us your local papers for the timing
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station. Music for the Adventures of Ellery Queen is by Charles Paul. Welcome
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back, A kind of interesting episode. In that it portrays basically the police
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is having contempt for the informants, but there's a general sentiment about that in
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a lot of films of the day. Overall, a very good puzzle mystery,
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and we actually get to see how the panel worked, and next week
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we'll get to hear one of my substitutions in an episode in which that mystery
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panel portion is mixing. If you would be interested in participating, you can
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still send any email box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. We definitely have
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a lot of episodes where these are missing, so we'd love to have some
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options. Now. Some notes regarding the cast. Ted Decortia and Santos Ortega,
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who play Veeley and Inspector Queen respectively, actually had very distinguished careers in
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radio and both actually twice paid radio detective. Santos Ortega played Nero Wolf for
33:52
a short season, and he also played Peter Salem in a radio series that
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isn't comp completely lost, but there are just two clips of it in no
34:02
complete episodes in circulation. Marion Shockley is actually the first Nicky Porter. The
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character didn't exist prior to the radio program, but became prominent in the movies
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of the nineteen forties, So the nineteen thirties movies were comedies. The nineteen
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forties films actually brought the character a lot more on screen respect The first four
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film starred Ralph Bellamy, who at the time was viewed as the definitive on
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screen Ellery Queen, and the next three starred William Gargan, who we heard
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back in Barry Craig and Man Against Crime. And we'll talk a little bit
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more next week about Carlton Young, the star of the current series. And
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there's a lot more we can say about Ellery Queen, but I don't want
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to tick up that much time in a single episode. You can also check
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out more on the character at Ellery Queen dot us, a great fansite,
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terrific resource. We will be back tomorrow with the adventures of Philip Marlow,
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and join us next Tuesday for another adventure with Ellery Queen. In the meantime,
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