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- 0:28Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
- 0:34is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it
- 0:38to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives, not neet, follow us on Twitter
- 0:43at Radio Detectives, and call us to a eight nine nine one four seven
- 0:48eight three. Well, today we begin a new series, Alife in Your
- 0:53Hands. Much like Called the Police, Alife in Your Hands was a summer
- 0:59replacement show, and it was even more popular and in demand than Call the
- 1:04Police. Call the Police was a summer replacement for three seasons. A Life
- 1:10in Your Hands was actually a summer replacement in four different seasons for NBC nineteen
- 1:17forty nine, fifty fifty one, and fifty two. As a consequence,
- 1:22there were different actors who played the lead role. The first is ned La
- 1:26Fever, and there's really not a whole lot known about him, so you'll
- 1:32forgive the lack of information. There's just no information that can find to offer.
- 1:38The series itself is pretty fascinating, the concept, and I can't help
- 1:44but thinking Earl Stanley Gardner, who also did the Christopher London series we played
- 1:49a year or so back, did have some say on the whole concept.
- 1:56The concept was that a lawyer represendy neither prosecution or defense, acting as a
- 2:04friend of the court seeking only the truth, could bring justice. And I
- 2:08think it's fairly well executed. We're going to play the first episode we have
- 2:14in just a second. Before we do get started, I do want to
- 2:16let you know that my novel Tales of the Damn Night is now available as
- 2:22an audiobook. Can buy it on Audible or through Amazon dot Com, and
- 2:27probably by the time this thing is uploaded, you should also be able to
- 2:30purchase it through items. It's a wonderful superhero comedy. I know a lot
- 2:35of folks have said that they don't have time to read, so it works
- 2:42for those who would prefer an audiobook version. So you can download that today
- 2:46and also if you have the kindleby sure and pick up but made the Golden
- 2:51Age Shine. Now it's time for today's episode of A Life in Your Hands.
- 2:55This one is called from June seventh, nineteen forty nine, The Faunal
- 3:01Curtain Call Roley Cigarettes present Earl Stanley Gardner's A Life in Your Hand? Did
- 3:12you would hear him fatten her? What was the position of the body was
- 3:15she still alive at eight thirty. Listen, while we place a life in
- 3:24your hand. You never know when you stepped from the safety of your home,
- 3:40when you may witness the violin step, and be called upon to testify
- 3:45as to what you saw and heard, and suddenly find yourself with a light
- 3:51in your hand. Murder is a dark enigma that strikes here into the heart
- 4:00of man, Strange, batling, mysterious, but the darkest crime. One
- 4:06man can invent, another man can unravel. And such a man as Jonathan
- 4:12Kegg, created by Earl Stanley Gardener of the world's most popular writer of mysteries.
- 4:16Mister Gardner is also creator of the famous Perrymason, doug Selby and dozens
- 4:20of equally outstanding fictional characters. Jonathan Kaig is a lawyer, but of a
- 4:29very special sort. When he appears in court, Jonathan Kegg acts only in
- 4:33the capacity of amicus curii. And here is mister Kagg himself to tell you
- 4:39what that is. Believing ladies and gentlemen, mister Kag just what he has
- 4:44meant. By amicus curii, translated from the Latin, amicus curia i simply
- 4:48means friend of the court. Refers to a lawyer or an expert whether is
- 4:53a case either on behalf of the prosecution nor the defense. He acts impartially
- 4:58seeking only the truth. How does an amicas curi I go about finding the
- 5:01truth. It is my belief that by cross examination of witnesses the truth can
- 5:06usually be learned, and as amicas CURII, you conduct such cross examination in
- 5:12the hope of seeing justice done. Exactly. All we need is testimony from
- 5:16witnesses who remember what they hear. The basis of our system of justice is
- 5:20the ability of witnesses to relate accurately what they saw or heard. You never
- 5:27know when the crime is going to be committed. Even now, somewhere in
- 5:31the city, there may be a crime. Hello, anybody here, actors
- 5:53stop men like vision. I'm here, miss Molly, but I guess there's
- 6:00nobody else in the theater. There's only about four in the afternoon. Anything
- 6:02I can do for you, Well, you might, Juvie. No,
- 6:08you might be all sorts of people. You might even be another bartender.
- 6:12I'm Tom Kaylish, Miss Marley, the new assistant stage manager who just started
- 6:15today. Fine, fine, fine career in the theater. I I Victoria
- 6:23Marley have a career in the theater. You know that, did you?
- 6:26Well? Of course, miss Marley, I Ky, Molly, I am
- 6:29an actress. Worst I'm married to an actor, the highly paid, thoroughly
- 6:35successful, extremely talented mister Peter Bond is my husband and the star of the
- 6:43show. Very good for Peter. Peter is Dard Victoria's featured if you know,
- 6:53are you aware, mister Kayish, mister Kayleish, are you aware of
- 6:58the suple distinction between a star and a feature player? Huh? Are you?
- 7:02Well? Yes, Miss Morley. But in this case, all right,
- 7:06all right, I'm embarrassing, but it's something you'll just have to give
- 7:11you to grieve all days a week. I come in like this. It's
- 7:15part of the plot. The lady drinks. But I have a lay.
- 7:20I get around it. I come here to the theater early, and now
- 7:23if I nap it off and by a certain time, I'm as good as
- 7:26you. Very simple, I think, Miss Morley. I figured what other
- 7:30people do is their own. And you know something else, I've never missed
- 7:34the show or an entrance or even a queue. Never got an understand it,
- 7:42pretty little tramp Lucy, never Peter, my Peter, mister Barnes.
- 7:46He thinks very highly of her as an actress. I tell myself, yeah,
- 7:54but Lucy my understudy, she's never had to go on for me,
- 7:58but never now Isn't that a shame? The pizza, isn't it? Miss
- 8:05Marley? I'm brand new with the show. I okay, okay, I'm
- 8:11I know. It is just talks, that's all you know. Whether Charlie
- 8:18sad painting the second egg job. He said he'd had a john in time
- 8:20for the show. There the head stage manager, you mean, yeah,
- 8:24Charlie wanted me to speak to you about it. Don't tell me if I
- 8:26got it again. Well, I've told him at least it doesn't. Have
- 8:30you seen the drop I walk on a blonde. The job is about appreciate
- 8:35bline of them. My area makes me look terrible. It's like a golden
- 8:37ball behind me. That's what Charlie wanted me to tell you. He didn't
- 8:41forget Miss Morley. Mister Barnes told him not to repaint it, and the
- 8:43producer mister Waller's okay there, but they walked. Charlie said he was all
- 8:46set to go ahead when mister Barnes called him, Well, we'll just say
- 8:50about this thing once in allet you got any change? And I think yeah,
- 8:56I think ye, No, thanks, no, yeah, I keeps
- 9:00it on. No, not just for a couple of nickels. That's crazy,
- 9:03miss Martin. Keep it hello, what is about not repaining to play
- 9:16an egg cup? Don't know that, Torry? I mean he Why isn't
- 9:20nothing repaying? You? Just try you just try putting me out of this
- 9:28show. Hasn't over. I'll blow you and that keeps all times. Have
- 9:31you tasing a piece? No, no, I won't be reasonable about anything
- 9:35of the time. You're trying to make a big flight with her. Don't
- 9:37lie about it. Forget it, Saby, just playing. Forget Before that
- 9:46girl takes over my part, I'll go to my grave. And now back
- 10:07to the theater. The echoing emptiness of the stage is now electric with the
- 10:11tension that comes just before curtain time. Three minutes, three minutes, curtain
- 10:16in three minutes, mister Barnes, three minutes, mister Barnes. That's funny,
- 10:26he's not if you're looking for mister Barnes. He did his wife dressing
- 10:31room down the hall. Oh thanks, mister de bro He's on in three
- 10:33minutes. You gotta go and remind him there, Yeah, I guess ahead,
- 10:37and don't let the sound and fury bother you. It's just victory.
- 10:39You're giving him an okay, three minutes, curtain in three minutes first,
- 10:46that curtain going up in three minutes. Time? Will you lower your voice?
- 10:58Three minutes, mister Barnes, you're in three minutes, all right,
- 11:05kidish, thanks, I'll be done in just a minute. They go for
- 11:24him, don't they hit the audience? Why, he's wonderful. You've been
- 11:28with the show along with stever. Think it open right November. The acting
- 11:33experience has given me I might just as well as Dave the more. Yeah,
- 11:37I know. Miss Marley was telling me she's never missed a performance,
- 11:39sort of toughing away. Huh. I don't mind too much, but I
- 11:43can't see why Peter puts up with it. She's terrible. Right, where
- 11:48did you come from? Producer? Watch his own show, Lucy, I
- 11:54love it. I've been out front. I think he's going back here.
- 11:58Kelly, that's fine. Quaters like so. I think it's great. And
- 12:01Peter Barnes are scar of scar Hey, he's got the stuff all right,
- 12:05he hass fall up? Fine, fine, okay, but you better give
- 12:11mis money a call. She's on sho give me a break home. Maybe
- 12:15she's asleep. I'm all ready to go on. Please this one be reasonable.
- 12:22Please, Now you know what's out of the question. You'll get there
- 12:26on your own tricks. Okay, I'll be sweet. You want me to
- 12:33call it? That's very sweet? Yes, I do very much. She's
- 12:41a cute kid, one of the cutest, one of the very acutest.
- 12:50That's all good. Come and see she's in there, sitting in a chair.
- 12:58Somebody's miss Marley Road, I said, mister k I should begin this
- 13:18discussion by telling you that I am absolutely certain Peter Bonds did not kill his
- 13:24wife. Very interesting, mister Walters. As you know, they've brought an
- 13:26indictment against him and the trial has been underway for a couple of days now.
- 13:30The prosecution is making a good case against him, but the charges absolutely
- 13:35baseless. Just what exactly do you want me to do, mister Waters.
- 13:39I believe Vicky Marley committed suicide, but the police and the DA seemed to
- 13:43have overlooked, or at least discredited the possibility completely. Did you suggestice theory
- 13:48to them? Yes, and well they were very polite about it. But
- 13:54mister KG, I would like you to volunteer your services to the court as
- 13:58Amika's curio, and by examining all the evidence, I believe you can prove
- 14:01it with almost a physical impossibility for Peter Bonds to kill his wife. Have
- 14:05you evidence to support that? Yes, Peter is on stage during most of
- 14:11the show, especially the first and second act. Vicky's body was discovered during
- 14:16the second act while Peter was in plain sight of the audience. Have you
- 14:18considered that he mis has killed her between the first and second acts? No?
- 14:24According to a maid, she was still alive when the second act curtain
- 14:26went up. Have you considered that someone else may have killed her? This
- 14:31is deverell perhaps? Yes, yes I have, but it doesn't add up.
- 14:37Lucy could have killed Victoria, but I can't think why she had replaced
- 14:41Victoria at least as an actress in Peter's estimation as well as my own.
- 14:46I'll admitted presense of fascinating challenge, mister Wolters, and you may name your
- 14:50own theme, mister King. No, no, mister wos the Nigga's curia.
- 14:54I will never accept a fee. I am particularly fortunate in the diamond
- 14:58philantilists. Sure, therefore, I'm able to serve in that capacity and to
- 15:03indulge my passion for helpingusy justice done, and you will do so in this
- 15:07case. Remember, if I do offer my services to the Court as amicas
- 15:11CURII tomorrow morning, my object will not be to prove that Peter Barnes didn't
- 15:16kill his wife. I shall seek only to uncover the facts and fit them
- 15:20together in a logical pattern, no matter whom it may help or hurt your
- 15:31honor. It is my belief that the testimony has so far presented does not
- 15:37form a true picture of the facts. I respectfully request the Court permission to
- 15:41serve as a megast CURII, and in that capacity to cross examine some of
- 15:46the witnesses. Very well, mister King, permission is granted. Mister Barnes,
- 15:58he said, the last time you saw your wife alive, it's when
- 16:00you left your dressing room a minute or so before the first act. Again,
- 16:04that's right. It has been conclusively established that miss Morley was still alive
- 16:08when the second act curtain was up. Would you mind telling me, mister
- 16:12Barnes, just how long you were on the stage during the second act,
- 16:15prior to that part at which Miss Morley makes her reference, I go off
- 16:21just once I'm supposed to make an accent onto a brand, and then I
- 16:25reappear a few minutes later through a French door in the back wall of the
- 16:29stage. How much time would you say elapses during that period? As I
- 16:33say, a few minutes. I've never given it much thought. I see
- 16:37this letter opener which your wife was stabbed. Are you recognize him? Yes?
- 16:45It's mine? And was the last time you saw you? I don't
- 16:48really remember a few days ago in my dressing room, I think in your
- 16:52dressing room, I think so. Thank you, mister Barnes. That'll be
- 16:56all your honor. I believe there are addicitional facts which have not been brought
- 17:04to lighten the testimony so far. I understand that the entire cast and the
- 17:10people sitting in the front row the audience have been subpoened and are here in
- 17:14court. I would like to talk with one of those people. We will
- 17:18call to the stand any person you desire, mister Keg, and that person
- 17:22must testify. Thank you, your honor, ladies and gentlemen, You of
- 17:30us ever consider that we might at any moment be witnessed to a crime.
- 17:34The crimes of violence and passion that you read about in your newspapers are not
- 17:38committed in a vacuum. Much of the evidence which could solve them is frequently
- 17:42witnessed by many people. If you should be the one called upon to testify,
- 17:47as our next witness is about to do, you would surely have a
- 17:52life in your hand. We returned out of the courtroom where a well known
- 18:12stage star, Peter Barnes, is on trial for the murder of his wife,
- 18:17Victoria Molly. Jonathan Kegg, serving as Amicus curai, a friend of
- 18:21the court, is about to call his next witness from those members of the
- 18:25cast and theater audience who vince the poenut as witnesses. If you were this
- 18:30witness, you would have a life in your hands. I would like to
- 18:37have Tom Kayleish, the assistant stage manager, to take the stand. Tom
- 18:41Kens appeared before you were in the Kaysman keg you go alwady being sworn Tom
- 18:45forward, Tom Kaylish. Mister Kaylish, the court writer chose that when you
- 18:53testified before you told briefly about a quarrel you overheard between mister Barnes and miss
- 18:57Molly, what with quarreling about? Well, first I heard miss Marley yelling,
- 19:03don't give me that I can act rings around Devereaux drunk or silver.
- 19:07And then mister Barnes said something about lowering her voice. She said she wouldn't
- 19:11lower her voice. And then he said, I swear if you don't shut
- 19:15up, And by then I was knocking on the door to give him his
- 19:18call. I didn't hear the end of what he said. Did mister Barnes
- 19:19come to the door, Yes, he did, and he said he'd be
- 19:22right down. You saw him, Yes, mister Kayleish, I want you
- 19:26to consider this next question very carefully before answering it. How long was mister
- 19:32Barnes off the stage during the second act? I'd say at least four minutes.
- 19:40That's a very accurate estimates. Actualister Barnes, or rather the person who
- 19:42was now playing his part. He's off the stage for four minutes and thirty
- 19:47five seconds. I flotted it last night's performance, mister Kayleish. Miss Devereaux
- 19:56is testified that she was the first to discover miss Ally's body and your own
- 20:02words, Will you please tell the court exactly what you remember is taking place?
- 20:06Just before that discovery. Well, Miss Devereall and I were watching the
- 20:10show from the wings when mister Wallace came in from from out front and he
- 20:15asked, coffins, we're going backstage, and did I like the show?
- 20:18Mister kayleish, will you try to tell the court as nearly as you can
- 20:22the conversation that few and Miss Devereau and mister Waters had at that time.
- 20:27I'll try, mister, please do. Mister Barnes's fate may depend on how
- 20:32well you remember it. Let's see. Miss Devereall and I both said hello
- 20:37to mister Wallers, and he said, sort of kidding, we'll see you're
- 20:41beautiful. And then he said to me, I have an outfront. How
- 20:45are things going back here? And I answered that it was going all right,
- 20:49go on, and then mister Wallers asked how is the house mister Deborah,
- 20:55and I will jumped in the answer that it was putty forth for Monday.
- 21:00And then mister Wallers asked me to give miss Morley a call because she
- 21:03was on pretty soon, and Miss Devereah said, I'll give me a break.
- 21:07Sigh, maybe she's sleeping. I'm all ready to go on, but
- 21:10mister Wallers wouldn't go for that. How do you mean, mister kayleish Oh,
- 21:14he talked her out of it, something about Miss Devereau's getting there on
- 21:17her own and not having to bother with tricks. So Miss Devereaux offered to
- 21:22call Miss Marley herself. Then a few seconds after she's gone, we heard
- 21:26her scream. She came running back crying and told us Miss Morley was dead.
- 21:32I see earlier in your testimony, mister Kayley, you stated that Miss
- 21:37Marley made a phone call in your presence. Will you tell us about that?
- 21:40Well, that afternoon when she came to the theater, she'd had a
- 21:42few drinks, like I said, and was kind of talkative. And after
- 21:45we'd got acquainted, she asked me if Charley, he's a head stage manager,
- 21:49if he'd had a certain piece of scenery repainted that she wanted done.
- 21:52When I told her that mister Barnes had told Charlie not to repaint it,
- 21:56she blew up and call him on the telephone. She called mister Barnes,
- 22:00Yeah, yeah, I think it was you. Did she address him by
- 22:03name? No, but she bought him out something awful. Did you did
- 22:07you hear her place the call? Yeah, I heard her dial a number.
- 22:10You know what numbers she dial? No, sir, I had no
- 22:12way of knowing. I understand. Now, is this phone she used a
- 22:15pay for? Yes, it is, and she didn't have any change she
- 22:18borrowed from me. She had to borrow nickel from you to make the call.
- 22:22Yeah, except it was two nickels. She borrowed two nickels. Did
- 22:26she make a second phone call at this time? No, sir, she
- 22:27used both nickels on the same call. You mean that before she died the
- 22:32number, she dropped two nickels into the pay phone. Yes, sir.
- 22:33I figured it was because she wasn't quite herself, you know, I see.
- 22:38Can you remember what she said when the party at the other end of
- 22:41the line answered, well, like I say, she was sore as a
- 22:45boil. But she said, hello, what's this about not repainting the second
- 22:48act? Drop all at once in a big rush, And he said something
- 22:52about his being a two bit casanova and trying to put her out of the
- 22:56show. Oh yeah, And she wound up by saying, before that girl
- 22:59takes over my part, I'll go to my grave. Then she hung up
- 23:03and walked down to her dressing room. I want you to think carefully,
- 23:06mister kayleish. At any time during missus Morley's phone conversation, did she ever
- 23:11explicitly addressed the person to whom she was talking as Peter or mister Barnes.
- 23:17No, no she didn't. Thank you very much, mister Kayley. That'll
- 23:21be all your honor. I would like to recall mister Cyrus Waters to the
- 23:26stand very well, mister Ky mister Walters will take the stand. Mister Waters,
- 23:36would you mind telling the court why you asked me to intercede in this
- 23:40case? I ask you to offer your services to the court because, in
- 23:42my opinion, Miss Marley had not been murdered. I thought she committed suicide.
- 23:47You thought she did. Don't you still think so? I? I
- 23:52honestly don't know. When you originally appealed to me to appearing court as a
- 23:56Maker's CURII, you stated that, apart from your personal conviction of Peter Bond's
- 24:00innocence, there was factual proof of it. Would you mind telling the court
- 24:04of what you felt that proof consisted? Not at all, Miss King,
- 24:08I told you that I regarded Peter's murdering Vickie as physically impossible. She was
- 24:14alive when the second act curtain went up. I thought Peter was on stage
- 24:17for all but a few moments of the second act, and I couldn't see
- 24:19how he could possibly have committed the crime. But now in you what evidence
- 24:26you've uncovered, I I'm not so sure, I am, mister Walters.
- 24:32I am absolutely certain that Peter Barnes did not murder his wife in the heart,
- 24:41or I'll flare it at once, mister Walters, this is one little
- 24:47drama you bungled very badly. I don't know what you're talking about. It's
- 24:52not a matter of court record that you, by your own testimony, requested
- 24:56me to determine whether or not Peter Barnes had sufficient time to murder Why,
- 25:00because you must have known through your long association with the show that he did
- 25:04have sufficient time to commit the crime. I can only assume that your intention
- 25:08was to ensure that point being brought out strongly in the court, thus straight
- 25:12from the case against him. But that wasn't all you were. Now listen
- 25:18here about sure that mister kayleish being used the cast and placed great emphasis on
- 25:22the quarrel which took place immediately before the first curtain. Weller but you did
- 25:26not expect him to know about the telephone call Miss Marley made during the afternoon,
- 25:30because you didn't know he was at the theater early when Victoria Morley arrived.
- 25:34Crat Tillamore, Mister Kayleish remembered quite a few things you've said to him
- 25:40and Miss Devereaux. I said nothing of any consequence. Disagree with mister Kylish's
- 25:45account of the conversation that took place in the wings between you, Miss Devereaux
- 25:48and himself. Why urge yourself, mister Walters. Remember Debeau was there too,
- 25:57all right. He's account of what was said is well substantially true.
- 26:03One really, how would you please tell me, mister Waters, why,
- 26:06after having announced him as Devereaux and mister Cayley that you had, and I
- 26:10am quoting you come in from out front? Why a few moments later you
- 26:14asked how's the house beating? The size of the audience? Why? I
- 26:18often asked, hope you had been out front, as you stated, you
- 26:21would have certainly known the answer to that question. Was it? Because while
- 26:26everyone else was watching the second act from backstage, you crossed behind the dark
- 26:30and set entered was Molly's dressing room and stabbed her to down corn, your
- 26:34crazy Katy. I had no motive for Kelly. Oh yes, mister Waters,
- 26:37yes you did, A quested judial motive, perhaps motive enough for you.
- 26:45It was Lucy shut off, Lucy Devereaux, a one girl you couldn't
- 26:48wear, a one girl you didn't Waters to hand meate on from Peter Barnes.
- 26:52And it was the phone called Victoria Molly made to you in the afternoon
- 26:56that first put the idea in your head. It wasn't Peter she called,
- 27:00was it, mister Waters? Not with two nickels. His phone number carries
- 27:03a local exchange, so it must have been a tool call to a suburban
- 27:07home, to a house like the one you own in Floral Heights. It
- 27:11was that phone call that decided you. So you can see an elaborate plan
- 27:15for getting Lucy's the row you'd promised her and eliminating Peter in the same stroke
- 27:19by seeing him convicted of his wife's murder. Okay, guy, did this
- 27:25Devereaux? No, you were in love with her all right, Yes,
- 27:33yes she did. I'd ask her to marry me a number of times,
- 27:36but it was always Peter. Peter, I like you a lot sigh,
- 27:38and maybe if it weren't for Peter everything he is everything, he says,
- 27:42every clever manners and he has I gave them to him. He broke me
- 27:45crazy, but she was so blind to it that she couldn't see that he
- 27:48was nothing but a puppet. And Victoria Marley she another one of your puppets,
- 27:52mister Waters. No, no, I that was different. I didn't
- 27:57want to kill Nicky, but you couldn't think of an easier way when they
- 28:00would end things so tidily and with all your characters just for you'd planned.
- 28:04So we fell back on an old States trick. You killed one of the
- 28:07off but I guess bloodedly as you slipped the strings of a marionette, you
- 28:12walked into Victoria Marley's dressing room and murder. It was all I could think.
- 28:18Yes, I guess it must have been, mister Wallas. Certainly you
- 28:25had foreseen how the play would end. I felt that you would have included
- 28:29that situation. Thank you, Jonathan, Kay. May I ask you now
- 28:42to tell us something about next week's show. Inasmuch as no man can predict
- 28:47the future, mister Wallace, I honestly can't tell you just where we'll find
- 28:51ourselves next week, whether it be in the criminal court, Carner's inquest,
- 28:56or judges chambers. I shall again offer my services as a Leeks security e.
- 29:03Friends, here's a cordial invitation for each of you to be with us
- 29:06next Tuesday, when you will again hear Jonathan Kake. Created by Earl Stanley
- 29:11Gardner, author of the internationally famous Perrymason's Stories and many others. A Life
- 29:26in Your Hands is created by Earl Stanley Gardner with script by John Kelly.
- 29:30The program is produced by Jack Simpson, directed by Homer Heck. Jonathan Kegg
- 29:36is played by Ned Lapieber. This is Myron Wallace inviting you to be with
- 29:40us again next week when Raleigh cigarettes the pack with the coupon on the back,
- 29:45will again place a life in your hand. This is NBC, the
- 29:56National Broadcasting Company. Welcome, well, some moments of melodrama, but again,
- 30:03I'll just love the execution and this entire concept of the amigus cry I
- 30:14stepping into the court to defend and represent justice only and in some ways Gardner
- 30:22would work then out in real life through his project The Court of Last Resort,
- 30:26which there was also a television show about which will Play and the Court
- 30:32of Last Resort really did just seek to find out the truth, to find
- 30:36out if an injustice had been done, and then to correct it. And
- 30:42it's worth noting that this is probably one of the only true courtroom mystery dramas.
- 30:52There were other lawyers running about. One, of course, will Play
- 30:56will be the amazing Mister Malone series also known as Murder and Mister Malone.
- 31:03However, in those case, while John J. Malone was an attorney,
- 31:07he kind of ran around and acted more like a Shamus. And there was
- 31:12a radio series Public Defender and another one Defense Attorney, and they almost sort
- 31:18of intended to go the same way in their regards. This one is unique
- 31:22because you hit the lawyer actually in the program in the courtroom and then using
- 31:27the information in the courtroom to solve the crime. So I think that definitely
- 31:33makes this series a winner. So we have thirteen weeks of it and I
- 31:37hope you'll enjoy all of it. Well, join us back here tomorrow for
- 31:41Let George Do It, and then next week another episode of A Life in
- 31:45Your Hands. In the meantime, Sandra commons to Box thirteen at Great Detectives
- 31:49dot Net become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook, dot com slash
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- 31:59Idaho. So this is your host, Adam Graham. Sign and off.