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well now it's time for Crime and Peter Chambers. The original air date August
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the seventeenth of nineteen fifty four. The title The School Teacher and the Professor
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Ran and Peter Chambers created by Henry Kane, transcribed and starring as Peter Chambers
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Dane Kluck. You're a private eye. That's your business. Anything else that's
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for laughs. You find yourself in a university, but you're not a student.
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Generally you're allergic to classrooms. But the lady talking to you, a
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teacher by name Elaine Janis, well, she's a sort of an antidote for
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the classroom allergy. I need your help, mister Chambers. I need your
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help desperately. She has large brown eyes and a smooth white forehead, and
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despite her obvious agitation, she's a sweet young thing. Miss Elaine janis starchy
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but sweet. I need your help, mister Chambers, not for myself,
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for another help. That's my racket help, public helper, although sometimes I'm
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known as Peter Chambers, a private eye. Oh well, there will be
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a fee, of course, worry about the fee. I'm like a doctor.
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Depends on what the traffic will there, sooner or later you will get
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your bill. It's about Professor Stanley Sanders. Papers have been full of it.
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You austere. Professor Stanley Sanders, suspected of killing his wife and suspected
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is putting in my life. Not Stanley, not Professor Sanders. He could
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no more harm any human being than not Stanley. He's the sweetest, kindest
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person in the whole world. What do you want me to do, miss
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Jennis. I want you to try to find out who did kill missus Sanders.
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Well, does the good professor know that you're retaining me? Oh no,
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no he doesn't, and I don't want him to know. I'll have
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to talk to him. Well, tell him, tell him that you've been
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retained, but that your client doesn't wish the name divulged. Just one more
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little question, Yes, what's your interest in this? It's yours. Well,
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I have known Professor Sanders for a long time. I think by his
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silence, in his non cooperation with the police, I think he's been wrongfully
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suspected. He's a fine person, a good man, a kind man.
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Professor Stanley Sanders lives in a suburb at the edge of the Bronx. You
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drive up there and you find a modest, neat little house. Yes,
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yes, mister Chambers. Professor's a young man, sandy haired and straight eyed.
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Yes. What is it, please, mister Chambers. Well, I'm
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not here as a student, Professor Sanders, No, what are you here
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as an investigator? Investigator? Are you from the police? No, no,
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no, I'm a private investigator. I've been retained to look into the
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well the death of your wife. I'm sorry, mister Chambers. I don't
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know who retained you, and I don't care. I told the police what
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I know, and that's that. There's nothing further I can add, Professor,
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now, if you please, I'm a very busy man. And that's
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how you read about it. In the newspapers stubborn Professor Stanley Sanders, who
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disclaims any knowledge of the murder of his wife, although he was home at
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the time. Three children, all of them up in camp. So you
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go to the Fountain head of Information, Police headquarters, and you're a very
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good friend, Detective Lieutenant Louis Parker. I am mixed up in a rough
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one this time, Peter Milan, Louis Louis. What happened there? Exactly
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what happened? Well, all we got is Professor Stanley Sanders story. All
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right, what's the story. Well, it's about a week ago. It's
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a warm night, three kids are off at camp. Professor is alone with
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his wife at their home in the Bronx. Now he's wearing slacks, and
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we joy, I'm not interested in history, be interesting? Why must that?
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Of course, it's got a bearing on the case. All right,
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okay, all right, okay, Well, about ten minutes before the murder
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happens, Professor Sanders a scene strolling outside in the slacks and the sweatshirt.
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Then he goes into the house. The rest is his story? All right,
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what is his story? The wife was in the kitchen, he went
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upstairs the bedroom read so according to him, he hears sounds of a scuffle.
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He runs downstairs, he gets hit, a hard blow on the neck
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knocks him out. When he comes to his wife is on the kitchen floor,
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stabbed fifteen times. She's dead. Sweatshirt he was wearing it's gone,
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missy. So so it's the story, period. Guy himself, the professor
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absolutely refuses to cooperate any further once he got to cooperate about Oh, now,
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listen hard, mister peepan, try and think like a drown up detect
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time listening master. Look, I'm a honess bull. I don't do the
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glamour routine like you, guys. I was listening, Louis. It's an
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isolated home on Stotton Island. Wife stabbed to death, nobody home except him
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and the missus. Kitchen knife, missing, sweatshirt missing right off his body.
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What are your ideas on that? Well? Onely that the sweatshirt was
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blood stained, he got rid of it together with the knife. We accuse
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him. He refuses to talk except to deny the murder. We want him
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to take a lie to take the test. Refuses absolutely. Now what would
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you think? Don't ask me, Louis. I'm a glamar boy. You're
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the Haness bullets you're thinking of console, Well, I think the guy is
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guiltier than seven devils in Haiti. Why don't you lock him up? Because
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there's one thing missing and that motive, my boy, motive for murder that
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we ain't got Joe. So far, all we can do is accuse him
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and holler and pap us make a big stink about it without motive, wear
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a hamstrung feet. Yeah, I suppose you are. What else you got
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low that the newspapers haven't gotten? Oh now, look, come on,
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it's confidential. It's always confidential. I've been retained on this thing. I'm
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working. Whatever I dig up, I turned into you, so no less
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obleeged for that. Come on, all right, take a look search of
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the house. Disclose these first note type of note. I see them.
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See look out for yourself. You'll be sorry. And it's signed by initials
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SS Stanley Sanders. A couple of weeks ago he was out of town.
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So it figures that he wrote her this nice, sweet little letter. We
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found it in her handbag. And what's the rest of this stuff? Menus
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and menus from restaurants nightclubs looks like she was one of them collectives, you
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know menus Can I see that? Help yourself, detective, and you are
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detective, don't mention it, Detective. One of the men use sort of
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tickles at you. It tickles that you fit to bust. It's from the
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Casino Rouge, a hot shot nightclub over on the East Side. So you
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take your leave of your beloved Harness Bull. But you're too early for the
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Casino Rouge, so you try Professor Sanders again. There's absolutely nothing I can
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tell you, mister Chambers, nothing that I haven't already told the police.
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What about that note, Professor, that typewritten note that they attribute to you.
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I didn't write that note. And why don't you submit to a light
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detective test, because there's no reason to submit to it. I'm not a
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criminal. I've lived an exemplary life all my life. I have three children
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whom I adore. I'm not riff raps. Come look, there's no reason
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to submit to a light detective test. I've told the police exactly what occurred,
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exactly what happened that night. Well, do you have any explanation for
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the disappearance of your sweatshirt right off your back. No, what about the
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kitchen knife, which in this case seems to be the murder weapon. I
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have no explanation for that, but it's not my province to find explanations.
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That's the business of the police. Praf. Do you know a lady by
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name of Elaine Janie? Yes, yes, I know her. She teaches
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at the university. Look, professor, how did you get along with your
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wife? Was Misny Chambers? I consider that an impertinent question and one that
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will end this interview right now. Good day to you, sir, and
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please don't trouble to come back so that evening. You're an early nightclubber.
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Casino rouge goes into action late, but you're early. Sebastian slocom owns a
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joint affectionately known as Sibby to the Joes and the Note. But you're not
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interested in Sibby, not now. Now. You're interested in a slick chick
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who goes by the name of Carmen Larrose. She used to be nuts about
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her boss, and maybe she still is, but anyway you ask around for
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her. She's a singer at the joint. Have you been looking for me?
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Hanson? Carmen Lrose, tall, dark and electric plenty of voltage,
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voltage like a third rail. I hear you've been asking around for me,
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Pete boy, Yeah, I've been asking around. Tell you something, kiddo,
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I've been asking around for you. I call your office a couple of
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times when I got the chance. Who's been stopping you? Nobody? And
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what do you mean when you got the chance, Sibby. He's been close
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to me, so close to me, and you hate him for that.
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I hate him, I hate him. I call you, but you are
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nothing. I've been working on a case. What's with you and Sibby?
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I thought you were nuts about that mother? No more. I hate him
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and I am scared, pretty scared stiff. I don't know if he knows,
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but I thought I don't know if he knows. I don't know if
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I know what my little boy, well, how are you doing, Sibby,
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My little BOYD. I don't like you in my place of business.
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Snooper me, Sibby out, little boy. I don't like no coppers in
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my place of business. I'm no copper, Sibby. To me, you're
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a copper, my little BOYD. Sibby Sebastian Slocum six feet tall, Latin
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type lover type, sleek, slim and dapper with wild black eyes that look
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like they need four alarms to put out the blaze. So kindly do me
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a very small favor, you, Sibby, anytime, get out of my
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place of cy Get out of here. It's still a free country, Syby
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country, sure, place of business that ain't free, So get going,
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Snooper, get out of here. And if I don't, my little boyd
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then I help you, my jack body. I mean, you're get him
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out. Have you ever been bounced out of a nightclub? Happens to the
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best of people, makes you a member of a very select circle. Anyway,
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you get up and you brushed your clothes, and you have a small
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debate with yourself. Do you go back and break up the joint or do
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you keep punching at your business. You have a tough tesla with your alter
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ego, but business wins out. So once more you go where you aren't
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wanted, to the home of Professor Sanders. But there you learn that he's
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been picked up arrested for the murder of his wife. So your high tailor
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down to headquarters and you're ushering into Park's office and there they are the good
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Lieutenant, the professor, and what do you know, Elaine, Jennie,
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Okay, Pete, we get the whole story. We even know that Miss
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Janice retained you to help our professor. You said you didn't have enough one
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him, Louis, until you had a motive, which is what we got
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right now, plenty of motive. Like what like love? Love? M
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m that's motive for murder. It is when you are in love with the
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wrong party. I had to tell them, mister Chambers, I had to
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talk. I couldn't hold it any longer. Holding it back was fool.
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It was like lying. And they should know everything. They should know the
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truth, truth, what truth? Dear Professor Sanders, and dear teacher here
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very much in love. Professor asked his wife for a divorce. His wife
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refused. Good enough, Detective, do we have a motive? You see,
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he didn't do it. I'm perfectly confident, and I want you to
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know everything. But he didn't kill her. I want to talk, Professor.
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I've told you all I intend to tell you. I'll add that I
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did ask my wife for a divorce and that she refused, but I didn't
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kill her. As to that, I've given you all the facts. Now
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you in love with missus Janesy. I am, and I would like to
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marry her. But I'm not a murderer. I have three children and it's
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my intention to try to save them from any possible scandal. Is that why
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you wouldn't talk? I didn't killer. That's all I have to say,
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except I should like to call my lord. You don't need a lawyer to
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answer the simple question. And so it goes deep into the night. They
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put the grill on Professor Sanders, but he clams tighter than a teenager's evening
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gone. Finally, when Parker throws his hands up in disgust, you get
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out of there and where to Casino Rouge. You owe a debt there.
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Your dignity has been bruised, among other things. But you're late. Carmen
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la Rose left with Sebastian Slocum. You throw the bartender a couple of tens,
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and you learn that Carmen lives up at Rye Beach, a little shack
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up at Rye Beach. It takes you a half hour to get there,
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and then you're mosey over to a window and you make with the gander.
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There they are drinking it up, the two of them. The windows locked
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from inside, but you can hear nothing. Sy, I didn't see nothing.
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I don't know what you're talking about. You can tell me, honey.
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I don't care if you're saw I want to know. I don't want
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you holding out on Sibby. Have a little bell, I have a little
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belt a city. Ah. You wouldn't hurt me, Sibby. You wouldn't
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do me no harm, wouldn't eid the hair on your head, my little
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boy, Oh, come on loosen Did you tell me that night? Yeah?
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Yeah I did. I was crazy Jealousibby on that phony society day.
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You were a toy to her, a play thing. You were thinking she
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would divorce the guy for you. Shut up. Okay, okay, I'm
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shutting. Don't have no more. I don't want to talk no more.
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I didn't see nothing. I don't want to talk no more. Don't you
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worry, my little boy. You ain't gonna talk no more. Dev The
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guy pulls a knife that looked like it's a foot long. You're going to
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action. You crush the window, and you are an action tough but he's
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not tough enough. And when you're finished, he stretched out cool and comfortable,
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and nobody's going to hear from Sebastian slop him until he gets dialed in.
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Meanwhile, you've got Carmen Rose on your hands, and I mean on
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your hand. Hold me, pity, kiss me. I'm afraid, told
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me, please, he does, girl, what's going on here? Kiss
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me? Please look calm my little boy. This isn't the time, It's
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not the place. It is when I am frightened. When when I am
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frightened, I am like little child. Please kiss me, please please please?
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Okay m hm and now yes, target, yes, I will once
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once I love him, I thought I love him. No more, no
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more. He is like TomKat women. He does not care anyway, this
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one k this one for once. He is in tankle, a society thing.
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This professor's wife is so Misssenna. She lead him on, She lead
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him by the nose. She has one to enjoy, but she does not
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become entangled. So that silly talks to the white and she laughed in his
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face. She says she is happy protected as a merit woman. So later
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on he types note to her from casino rouge office. He thinks, I
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do not see it, but I see it. I see a threatening no,
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and she comes in to the club and again she laughed at him.
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She laughed right in his face. Then last week he goes there. I
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go after him. She does not know it, but I am tailing him
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because I want to know. I want to see. The husband is upstairs.
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I am by the kitchen window. They fight, They argue, and
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her butchers her. We'll get your knife. The husband comes down the stairs.
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Sibby wait behind the door, slugs him. He falls near her.
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There is blood of a shirt that Sibby takes the shirt off and tastes the
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knife, and he goes the idea why he took the sweatshirt? I imagine
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to make something that cannot be explained. I imagine to put the suspicion on
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the housband. I imagine that you imagine pretty good? Ah so now please
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hold me, please kiss me. I am afraid. Oh so once more,
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you're at police headquarters. Sebastian Slocum is confined to the calaboose. Common
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La Rose is held as a material witness, and Professor Sanders free as a
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lock. Is in Parker's office with Elaine Janis and you you're listening, Professor,
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I don't get you. I simply don't understand. He is a good,
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dear, fine man. Yeah, but he almost got him so fried
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in the hot seat, clamming up like hei. There are all kinds of
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people lietant. Yeah, they certainly must be scandal, Lieutenant. I shudder
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at it. I have three children, so you told me over and over
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and over. Let me give you a little background, Lieutenant. My father
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was a minister. My mother a devout woman, a social worker. I
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was brought up very strictly. I am, in essence, an old fashioned
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man. So you know about slocumbe he came to you to ask for your
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okay for divorce. Why didn't you tell us scandal again? Lieutenant? Bad
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enough she was dead. I wasn't going to heap scandal upon scandal, my
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children, my community, my student. Oh what a guy. He's the
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dearest, finest, but not taking the line to take the test, holding
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out on your affection for miss Janice here and holding out in that sebastian slocum
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thing, and that that note, the typewritten note. Weren't you worried?
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Man? Not for a moment, Lieutenant. As I said, I am
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a devout man. I knew that one way or another truth without yeah,
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truth without thanks to the crazy operations of this crazy private eye. Thank you,
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Louis. Well then, lieutenant, may we go and peace go with
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you. Professor, you're quite a guy, by miss Janis. Why now
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what a man? Yes, sir, there's a certain simplicity as that in
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integrity. You got a hand into him. I suppose you have to you
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all right, now, let's get to you. What's sent you off to
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that casino rouge? Or you did, Louis me? Yeah, you were
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like, how how did I say? You? Well? Maybe I'm a
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little bit of a rounder more than you, let's say, but I knew
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that the casino rouge was owned by Sebastian Slocan So but's it up to do
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it? That note you showed me here, let me see it again?
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Hey, yeah, see it's a typewritten note. Mind you a type written
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note? Now? It reads look out for yourself You'll be sorry, and
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it's signed by initials s S. That's right, SS Stanley Sanders Professor Stanley
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Sank also SS for Sebastian slocumbe, which it turned out to be. How
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the heck did you know that? Psychology? Louis psychology? First, ask
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any married man in the world, if he drops his wife a note,
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would he type it? The answer is no, plus and this is even
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more incontrovertible psychologically. Never mind that husband in the world would sign a note
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to his wife by both his initialis yay, You've got a point there.
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My husband would sign by his first name, perhaps even by his first initials.
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But think, no husband is that formal with his wife both initials.
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It just didn't figure psychologically. And that plus the menu from casino Rouge plus
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SS owns Casino rue and it sure tickled me. Louis in the right place.
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Look, pat, can I say something? Louis, You can say
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anything, but once, I'd like to go on record with a statement.
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You know, people make jokes about routine hottest cops like myself and the glamour
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boys, you guys private eyes, So I'd like to go on record with
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a state mine. I hit me easy, Louis. I'm not going to
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hit it all Pete. All I want to say for the record, honest
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bulu, private Eye, well done, young man, very well done,
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indeed, And there you've had crime and Peter Chambers Dane Clark was starred as
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Peter Chambers. Crime and Peter Chambers Transcribed was created and written by Henry Kine.
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Others in the cast were Bill zucker Heard as Lieutenant Parker, Married Patton
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as Carmen, and Bill Lally as Doctor Scheffman. It was directed by Fred
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Wade. This is Fred Collins inviting you to tune in next week, same
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time, same station, or Dane Clark in Crime and Peter Chambers be with
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us again next week at the same time for another adventure by Peter Chambers.
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In Crime and Peter Chambers. This is the United States Armenforces Radio and Television
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Service. Welcome back, hell you the things that Detective Lieutenant Louis Parker would
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try to get away with before there were Miranda warnings. I definitely enjoy just
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the easy chemistry between Danan Clark and Bill Zukert and a nice dialogue here.
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I do have to say that Crime and Peter Chambers will be coming to an
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end in four weeks. We'll be bringing you Man from Homicides, So we
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only have three more weeks of Crime and Peter Chambers left. Oh join us
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for that for the next three weeks, and then coming in four weeks it
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will be Man from homicide. All right, Well on to some listener comments
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and feedback, Hunter sends in just a simple encouraging please keep up the great
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work. Well, thanks so much, Hunter, And then Carrie had a
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comment regarding the episode Murder at the Racetrack. He writes, I want to
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go to that racetrack. With the odds they gave for that three horse race
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one five forty to one and ninety nine to one, they wouldn't be in
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business long With three appropriately sized bet you could guarantee bet, you could guarantee
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yourself a sixteen percent return. Well that is it's unfortunate that that's only a
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fictional racetrack. The only way I guess it would stay in business if not
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everyone was as savvy to pick up on it. But generally they can't take
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those sort of risks. But good catch. They're also a good catch from
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Heather, who says, when I was listening to this episode, I was
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sure I had heard it somewhere before. My girls and I brainstormed, and
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my ten year old remembered that I had seen a similar story on a Martin
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Kaine episode, and she links to a episode of Martin kin from nineteen fifty
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one starring Lloyd Nolan and I've seen that episode two, and it does make
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sense that Crime in Peter Chambers would borrow from Martin Kaine since they were both
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owned by NBC, and so it would be pretty easy to work things out
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to reuse applaud idea. And finally, we have a comment from Charles,
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who writes, congratulations Adam on your fifteen hundredth episode. It has been a
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real pleasure to spend many nights driving home late listening to your shows. The
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darkness and the stillness seem to accentuate the drama and suspense of the sometimes dark
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and gritty realm of the radio detective. Hoping for so many more shows.
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Well, thanks so much, Charles, appreciate your congratulation and thanks so much
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for your concom All right, well, that will do it for today.
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Join us back here tomorrow for the Adventures of Philip Marlow, and then next
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