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Ellery Queen: The Adventure of the Message in Red (EP1636) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: now it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of
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  Speaker 1: Ellery Queen. The original air date on this one, November
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  Speaker 1: the seventh of nineteen forty five, and the case is
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  Speaker 1: the Adventure of the Message in Red.
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  Speaker 2: Now Ellery Queen in the Adventure of the Message and
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  Speaker 2: Red because it relieves headache, things so fast, Taken aison
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  Speaker 2: because it gives prolonged relief, Taken aison because it's made
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  Speaker 2: like a doctor's prescription.
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  Speaker 3: Taken anison.
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  Speaker 2: Aison presents the adventures of Ellery Queen. Tonight, the makers
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  Speaker 2: of Anderson bring you another thrilling adventure of Ellery Queen,
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  Speaker 2: the celebrated gentleman detective. Ellery Queen invites you to match
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  Speaker 2: wits with him as he relates another story of a
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  Speaker 2: crime he alone unraveled. Before revealing the solution, he gives
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  Speaker 2: you a chance to solve the mystery. Tonight, aison's guest
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  Speaker 2: who will represent you hoolem arm Chair Detectives is the
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  Speaker 2: famous actor Victor Jory. And now here's Ellery Queen, Master Detective,
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  Speaker 2: and you're aison host for the next half hour. Thank you,
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  Speaker 2: Don Hancock, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Well, the
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  Speaker 2: night's mystery really had my father.
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  Speaker 3: Going, you're a father huh, oh Nikki. I suppose all
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  Speaker 3: those murders were duck soup.
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  Speaker 2: For you, Oh Nikki. This case was no harder than
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  Speaker 2: many I've had. Anyway, I call it the adventure of
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  Speaker 2: the message and read.
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  Speaker 3: Hotel our beautist public Stenographers. Yes, I'm as Kirby at
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  Speaker 3: this hour, but all right, if you drop into my
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  Speaker 3: office right away out, I'll try to get it out tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Why can't they just take their old business letters during
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  Speaker 3: the day.
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  Speaker 4: Ooo?
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  Speaker 3: Gee, I'm tired. I'd better dose my eyes with cold water.
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  Speaker 3: Oh so sleepy, so soon coming. Gee, they must have
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  Speaker 3: used a house phone from the lobby. Come in, won't
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  Speaker 3: hooray in Dixie?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 3: Who's there?
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: Nobody out here? Now we'll be using that talkie thing
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  Speaker 3: from the vest of you. Nobody does. Yes, yes, this mataso.
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  Speaker 3: But at this time of night, I was just going
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  Speaker 3: to bed, been washing my supper dishes. All right, If
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  Speaker 3: they've just got to have a reader's report on it
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  Speaker 3: by tomorrow morning, just open the vestibule door and my
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  Speaker 3: apartment's the first door on your right. Would be my luck.
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  Speaker 3: If it's one of those half a million world jobs.
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  Speaker 3: Just a second. Oh, I wish I were in the
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  Speaker 3: land of cutting old times there.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yes, eyah, eyah. And that's how they've got to
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  Speaker 5: tell me, Piggott, go back when you make sense. Sorry,
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  Speaker 5: I ready to keep you ankey waiting those two killings
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  Speaker 5: last night there, yes, lasted.
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  Speaker 3: What two killings, Inspector, I haven't seen today's paper.
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  Speaker 5: Two girls Nikki first win a public stander with the
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  Speaker 5: hotel Ibutis, and next in an avenue shot to death
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  Speaker 5: at nine fifteen pm.
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  Speaker 2: Name of Kirby.
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  Speaker 5: It's like a one.
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  Speaker 2: A part time manuscript reader for Mason and Morris and
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  Speaker 2: the publishers, and miss Hazel shot to death around ten
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  Speaker 2: thirty pm in our Greenwich Village apartment.
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  Speaker 5: Both as opening their doors. No evidence of robbery. Both
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  Speaker 5: in married, unattractive, no untangling alliances, lived alone, no witnesses,
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  Speaker 5: no clues.
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  Speaker 2: No motive.
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  Speaker 5: The girls never knew each other, never knew any of
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  Speaker 5: the same people.
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  Speaker 3: Cute, then the murders are connected. Inspector for the.
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  Speaker 5: Anarchy Batistics reports the same gun killed both of them.
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  Speaker 2: I don't wonder you're puzzled.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's not kill myself. Very yes, really af noon, Sergeant, I.
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  Speaker 2: Was party child inspector No what no what another one?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, girl shot to death. She answered her door around
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  Speaker 2: one am last night. Body wasn't founded this.
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  Speaker 3: Morning, number three last night it.
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  Speaker 2: Was one lady's maid lu seal do do boy you
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  Speaker 2: bought Sergeant French, Yeah, yeah, French maid worked for the Canalos.
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  Speaker 3: Canela, the very very Canelos. The sign.
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  Speaker 5: She was shot in the Canelo house. Sergeant, Yeah, that
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  Speaker 5: one hundred and ninety nine room.
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  Speaker 2: Shot on Upper Fifth Avenue in our bedroom.
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  Speaker 5: A snographer publishers reading a lady's maid mind if I
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  Speaker 5: sit in dead he didn't make any sense out of its.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Oh my poor boy, my home over runs.
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  Speaker 5: The police officers.
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  Speaker 6: I've had to cancel the most important appointment this afternoon
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  Speaker 6: with my hair dress and missus. Husband is simply furious.
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  Speaker 6: My daughter, poor child prostru and I'm on the verge
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  Speaker 6: of losing what little mind I had. You understand, mister.
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  Speaker 3: Crean, I know you do.
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  Speaker 2: The death of your maid is upset your natural Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So where am I going to turn?
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  Speaker 3: How can I replace Lucy?
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  Speaker 6: You don't know the problem I had getting her originally,
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  Speaker 6: and now she's dead.
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  Speaker 3: It's not fair, It isn't the trouble is, gentlemen. You
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  Speaker 3: don't know the problems we girls have.
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  Speaker 5: Look this happen.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: People chooping off guns in my home and everything. I'm
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  Speaker 6: so glad I wasn't home when it happened, even though
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  Speaker 6: the house is completely out through.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Cannet, Oh no, no, he was out somewhere.
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  Speaker 6: Clouds about Madge, Oh now, please don't drag poor Madge
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  Speaker 6: into this. She suffered so much already.
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  Speaker 2: When did you first learn your maid was dead, missus Cannella.
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  Speaker 6: About eleven o'clock this morning, mister Crean, when she didn't
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  Speaker 6: bring my breakfast in bed, I knew instantless something was wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Well, of course that's the way you tell.
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  Speaker 6: I rang, and I rang, and I read.
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  Speaker 3: Who found the stuff?
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  Speaker 5: Tiff the remains?
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  Speaker 2: Madam?
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  Speaker 3: Oh why my daughter?
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  Speaker 6: One of the servants tool Madge that Lucyel's life was
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  Speaker 6: still arm this morning, and she didn't answer the door.
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  Speaker 6: So Madge went up to the servants carters and within
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  Speaker 6: the poor child, the poor poor child. That's why no
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  Speaker 6: one answered my rings.
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  Speaker 5: You see, that's simply fright. Yes, I suppose you have
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  Speaker 5: a little snack of carrier and cold faceness something while
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  Speaker 5: we hunt up your due.
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  Speaker 6: Oh dear, must you must we what mad I give Madge?
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  Speaker 6: That the third degree or whatever it is, you don't
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  Speaker 6: have sensitive the child, and she's always been so delicate.
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  Speaker 6: She shrinked so from the more brutal aspects of Oh, Madge, Darlia,
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  Speaker 6: are you all right?
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  Speaker 3: Dear policeman? Who's the wench a sob sister? The wench
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  Speaker 3: is nicky porter, mister Queen.
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  Speaker 5: Secretary, ry Queen sergeant viewing inspect the queen and miss
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  Speaker 5: Canello you're in charge.
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  Speaker 3: Why isn't that body taken away? And who's going to
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  Speaker 3: clean up the mess? And you're to keep reporters out too?
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  Speaker 3: Do you hear a thing like this happening?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 3: Do you hear me?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: Newspaper man?
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  Speaker 5: Oh dearness, don't shut up?
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  Speaker 2: Mother?
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  Speaker 3: Oh this is your selling port anyway. Yes, I told
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  Speaker 3: him long ago you should send that snoop packing, But no,
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  Speaker 3: you had to hang on to What if she had
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  Speaker 3: the bad taste to get herself murdered all over our house?
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  Speaker 5: Am I going to say to Ebby Hebb?
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  Speaker 3: My fuse? The star engagement was supposed to be announced
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  Speaker 3: this week one of the very best Boston families. You'll
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  Speaker 3: never stand for a scandal.
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  Speaker 2: Why should you think there's going to be a scandal,
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  Speaker 2: miss Canella?
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  Speaker 3: Oh well, isn't a murder scandal enough?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's what your daughter meant? Missus Canella?
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  Speaker 3: Well, oh nothing, nothing, tall, I didn't mean anything.
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  Speaker 5: Let's take a look at the corpse.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm interesting.
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  Speaker 5: Notice the facing surfaces, the tips of her index.
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  Speaker 2: And middle fingers. Dad on the right hand.
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  Speaker 5: Cattist face.
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  Speaker 7: The ketis yes, if you gentlemen are through admiring mister
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  Speaker 7: bois callouses.
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  Speaker 3: Would you mind covering up again so I can turn around?
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  Speaker 2: Oh all right now, Nikki, But how do you know.
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  Speaker 3: This maid's murder is connected with the other two murders.
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  Speaker 5: Brady was here early and ducked the bullet out of
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  Speaker 5: a chest. Nicky Bistices reported it came the same gun
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  Speaker 5: to chat the Cabby and Hazel girls. Just what the
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  Speaker 5: connection is? I'm blessed, Oh danire.
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  Speaker 2: You throwing the caravas and spank of the morgagon. Serve
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  Speaker 2: for the peck up.
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  Speaker 5: Either way, she's yours boy.
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  Speaker 2: What did you find out about the other servants? Sergeant
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  Speaker 2: names uh, Butler, James Smathers, cook sounding Fabian chauffeur Waller,
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  Speaker 2: Boil upstairs, made Vera and dark Smells and Boils share
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  Speaker 2: a double room. Soul of the Fabian and dark woman.
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  Speaker 2: Each bunkie alibi is the other for last night period.
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  Speaker 3: Mother, You know you shouldn't be up here, just your morbiosic.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know why you say such things to be, Madge.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe look what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: They're all here in the hall, Margaret, you too, Madge.
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  Speaker 8: Inspector queen, who are you? I'm mel for Canela. My
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  Speaker 8: wife just pulled my club. Is there anything I can do?
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  Speaker 5: Excuse my phone? Some Ko tankers.
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  Speaker 3: From can't look.
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  Speaker 5: Else. Mother Hermi was just fun me. Harry one said,
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  Speaker 5: you just picked.
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  Speaker 2: Up well piece of scrapyaf It was hidden by Lucy
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  Speaker 2: your boy's body.
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  Speaker 3: Dad a message in red red message? Let me see
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  Speaker 3: is it.
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  Speaker 2: Written in blood?
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  Speaker 5: Mister finger? A few minutes after the shopman, I could
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  Speaker 5: have left you tried to write something before she died.
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  Speaker 3: What to say?
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  Speaker 2: Alright starts with the capital M. But they're not the
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  Speaker 2: spatters in the paper. And I can't quite make the
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  Speaker 2: rest out.
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  Speaker 5: And I cranny look it over in the police lab.
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  Speaker 2: He'll just have it.
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  Speaker 5: Give it me. S.
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  Speaker 2: It's quite important that you make a quick arrest, Inspector.
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  Speaker 5: What does that mean, mister Cannetta?
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  Speaker 8: I will I expect very shortly to be appointed to
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  Speaker 8: an extremely important diplomatic post abroad, So this unfortunate little
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  Speaker 8: affair must be clear up at once and without scandal.
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  Speaker 6: Milford is worth.
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  Speaker 3: Too hard for the honor, Yes, father's pet dree.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, Inspector.
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  Speaker 8: Unless you saw this case within twenty four hours, I
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  Speaker 8: may have to see to it.
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  Speaker 2: That that someone else is put in charge.
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  Speaker 5: Come, Margaret mag and.
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  Speaker 3: Father's just a little guy. Who can it?
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  Speaker 2: H Dad? Where are you going have to confirm a theory? Then?
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  Speaker 3: Heiri?
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  Speaker 2: But about the connection between the three murders last night,
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  Speaker 2: I think I know now what it was. Anybody care
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  Speaker 2: to come along and there, ladies and gentlemen, you have
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of our mystery. We'll tell you more in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment. But first, here's Don Hancock for anison. Friends,
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  Speaker 2: and now back to our story. It's a short time
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  Speaker 2: later and the inspector's car, with Sergeant Feeley at the wheel,
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  Speaker 2: is threading its way through midtown Manhattan traffic.
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  Speaker 3: But what is the connectionalery man Hajan my show.
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  Speaker 2: What was the occupation of the first victim, the Kirby
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  Speaker 2: girl public and the second one, Miss Hazel Granite Reli
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  Speaker 2: gal Or.
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  Speaker 3: She was a part time manuscript reader for Mason and.
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  Speaker 2: Morrison, a public scenographer, a publisher's reader. Now, Dad, you
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  Speaker 2: recall the peculiar callouses we found on Lucille ju Bos's
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  Speaker 2: right hand and.
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  Speaker 5: The facing side of the tips of her index and
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  Speaker 5: middle fingers.
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  Speaker 2: What very ordinary activity, if sufficiently prolonged, would cause callouses.
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  Speaker 3: There holding a pen or a pencil.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Nikki writing, but not casual writing like the occasional
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  Speaker 2: writing of letters. Lucille du Bois was writing a great
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  Speaker 2: deal for a long time. We six months a diary,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps at least a very extensive manuscript and long hand sergeant.
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  Speaker 2: So we have Luciel Dubois, a lady's maid in a
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  Speaker 2: very wealthy society family, writing a long manuscript by hand
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  Speaker 2: when it was finished. What would happen to such a
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  Speaker 2: manuscript to take it to a published nagraph to be tight?
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  Speaker 2: Surely the unfortunate, Miss Kirk. And where do people usually
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  Speaker 2: take type manuscripts to a publisher? And most publishers employ
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  Speaker 2: readers to weed out undesirable submissions. And that's your Miss
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  Speaker 2: Hazel of the village, simple maestroorics.
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  Speaker 5: The managers are probably the only three people in the
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  Speaker 5: world who've read a certain unpublished manuscript.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why they were murdered.
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  Speaker 5: Man, it must be dynamite.
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  Speaker 2: The killer must have sweat and probably from the Hazel
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  Speaker 2: girls apartment in the village after.
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  Speaker 3: Bumped a rock.
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  Speaker 5: And it's strititary. Yes, but there's still a possibility. That's
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  Speaker 5: something would tell me on myself.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Rockefeller Center.
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  Speaker 7: Come on, I must say, Mason and Morrison go in
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  Speaker 7: for book publishing in a large and handsome.
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  Speaker 2: Way, or a bit on the sensational side, Nikki.
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  Speaker 5: Miss Jenkins, Yes, Alberta Jenkins, you're the Asserstan dated to
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  Speaker 5: my son spoken on the receptionist phone.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and you.
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  Speaker 3: Must be inspected. Queen. That's right, I must say. I'm
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  Speaker 3: all of a flutter. Am I arrested?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not exactly Mis Jenkins? Did you bring the list
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  Speaker 2: I asked you for?
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  Speaker 3: Here? It is all the manuscripts turned over to Miss
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  Speaker 3: Hazel the past few months.
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  Speaker 5: Where we just report. Let me say a ya alive,
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  Speaker 5: doesn't you It'll be quite recent?
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  Speaker 2: I think a look at the entry Dan may tais Are.
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  Speaker 5: You've seen her do worse? Miss Jenkins? Where's this manuscript?
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  Speaker 5: Are you sure Miss Hazel didn't return it to Mason Morrison.
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  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure she didn't inspect it. But come into
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  Speaker 3: my office.
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  Speaker 5: No, it isn't here.
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  Speaker 3: I just remembered where is that again?
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  Speaker 2: Remembered what, Miss Jenkins.
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  Speaker 3: There was a letter from Miss Hazel in this morning's mail.
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  Speaker 3: I've been so busy today. Here it is still unopening.
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  Speaker 5: The missus Jenkins Closed is a short preliminary report and
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  Speaker 5: three of the last batch of manuscripts.
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  Speaker 3: I will personally deliver the manuscripts plus four reports later
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  Speaker 3: this week. The enclosed Sumnail reports cover number one.
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  Speaker 5: Give back my level and I flow gently fully.
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  Speaker 2: Roshe both my jaunts. You're not bag wow, and the
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  Speaker 2: maid tells all by Lucille du bois. No, Miss Jenkins,
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  Speaker 2: would you mind leaving us for a moment?
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  Speaker 3: I certainly do mind, mister queen.
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  Speaker 2: But well, is that report the Hazel woman enclosed?
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  Speaker 3: Now we'll find out.
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  Speaker 2: A sensational true life story of high life has seen
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  Speaker 2: from backstairs.
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  Speaker 5: Styl was faulty, obviously, thinks in French, but might be
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  Speaker 5: worth a.
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  Speaker 2: Rewrite, possibly high sales appeal, but must be screened carefully
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  Speaker 2: by legal departments against libel suits. That's all.
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  Speaker 5: It's manuscripts fill allow the nasty insuspected stuff about the canal,
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  Speaker 5: as it would have cost Melted Canela that high diplomatic
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  Speaker 5: post he's.
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  Speaker 3: Been angling for, or Madge Canela her blue blood Boston marriage.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, somehow the killer discovered what Lucciale was writing, who
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  Speaker 2: typed her manuscript and the name of the publisher she
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  Speaker 2: sent it to me.
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  Speaker 3: And through the publisher, which reader had it. So he's
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  Speaker 3: got a wipe out or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Run it Stello lam reader wham, and he swipes the
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  Speaker 2: manuscript from her apartment. Then he goes back to the
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  Speaker 2: Canela dump and blasts low seal, and the secrets are
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  Speaker 2: sitting too safe blasted. But we might find a clue
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  Speaker 2: here to the killer's identity. But apparently the whole Canala
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  Speaker 2: family has motive.
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  Speaker 5: I mean it's Cadana courts. Maybe the autopsy has turned
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  Speaker 5: up something.
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  Speaker 3: Don't drives the fast, sergeant, You just passed the snail.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing in the right farmist porter see some daynight.
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  Speaker 3: In this darkness. Spect At least I'm enjoying this ride
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  Speaker 3: on the East River drive, or I would be if
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  Speaker 3: the great Man's thoughts weren't. Of course, mister Queen is
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  Speaker 3: with us again.
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  Speaker 5: The answer, Dad, it's right in your pocket. What answer?
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  Speaker 5: I forgot?
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  Speaker 3: You forgot?
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  Speaker 2: We all forgot that.
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  Speaker 5: Certain messages in red. Holy that dang message we'll see
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: it wrote in the wrong blast, the one we couldn't
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  Speaker 5: decipher had I put it? Hey, that's with me to
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  Speaker 5: get down the headquarters. Yeah, man, ye, anybody can back
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  Speaker 5: it out.
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  Speaker 2: It's that where's my lab men wearing sailing.
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  Speaker 3: Sailing over the round.
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  Speaker 5: You're a car? What's taking an outside? My car? Right
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  Speaker 5: in my trail coming up past dunkin What a police
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  Speaker 5: car feeling Philly, you're not like the fre past.
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  Speaker 3: But no tell you why.
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  Speaker 8: No not thinking in my car?
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  Speaker 5: Oh find me it's journal but on his father tiving
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  Speaker 5: you done?
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  Speaker 8: Baby? Oh h.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, don't tell me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm in one piece.
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  Speaker 5: I'm okay in fer no snow boone group and Vanie Lly.
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  Speaker 2: Uh my America, We're all all right. Oh really that
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  Speaker 2: was quick thinking send me ah.
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  Speaker 3: If it weren't for the way you took that crash. Sergeant.
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  Speaker 3: We've been through the retaining wall at the bottom of
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  Speaker 3: the river.
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  Speaker 5: Look at the car, inspector, don't mind the car? Why
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  Speaker 5: dad Lucille's message huh?
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: All three canelas were present when I found it under
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  Speaker 2: Lucille's body this afternoon.
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  Speaker 5: One of them must have trialed, waiting a chance.
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  Speaker 2: To destroy Lucille's clue before he could get at the headquarters.
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  Speaker 3: And the killer is one of the canals, and her
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: message tells which.
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  Speaker 5: One hit a car. Let's get to that lab, sergeant,
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: Really what the lab verdict?
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Wow, it's that's way, sergeant. Oh good, kind of looks
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  Speaker 2: like a puzzlerspe never mind characterizing it. Really, what did
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  Speaker 2: they say? The message is? It starts with a capital M.
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  Speaker 2: My store like you said, than a peri M period Yes,
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  Speaker 2: as space than a capital O K, then a small
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  Speaker 2: i N the end trailing off like she died before
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  Speaker 2: she could finish the work.
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  Speaker 5: That's all capital M period space capitok small i N.
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  Speaker 9: Capital k small i N the start of the named canal,
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  Speaker 9: No doubt about it, Nikki, what's the capital M period
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  Speaker 9: space name N M period must be the initial of
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  Speaker 9: one of the Canida's first.
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  Speaker 3: Names, Milford Canela M for Milford.
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  Speaker 5: The daughter's name was just darts with an M, Nikki
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  Speaker 5: the mag Let's not leave out missus Canela.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you recall Canela addressing his wife as.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Margaret frust nother wash again, it could be any of
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  Speaker 5: the three. Let's go back to the Canela house. I'll
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: find out which one it is.
• 22:59
  Speaker 9: Mean inspector man again and that nice mister queen Well inspector,
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  Speaker 9: have you cleared off this mess?
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: There were you three late this afternoon and every evening.
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  Speaker 2: I needed air.
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  Speaker 3: I was strolling in Central Park.
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  Speaker 5: Allow Missus Canalla, allout you, mister Canelli.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I took a walk myself
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: down Fist Avenue. Very upsetting business.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: You know, made anybody are now, mister Callalla no, and
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: you miss can.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: I took one of our cars and drove around town
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  Speaker 3: for a while just to cool off. I'd had a
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: phone call from dear dear Abbey in Boston.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: My daughter's fiancee told her they'd better wait about announcing
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: the engagement until this, this miserable affair blows over.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I knew it.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: I just knew it.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Aren't we getting off the track?
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: No, alibis hell enemy ending to ask these three people
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: before I take them downtown for real going over?
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: No, but why do you want to take them to
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: headquarters there.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: To find out which one of them bumped off the
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Curby and Hazel girls and missus Scannell is made. That's why.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, I can tell you that dad right here now
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: and there, ladies and gentlemen, you have the mystery. I
• 24:23
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  Speaker 2: Mister Joy, it's nice to have you with us.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Joey, I guess tonight's show has a change for you,
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: isn't it.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: It certainly is, because generally I'm on the other end.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: I'm the person that's done the murdering.
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  Speaker 4: Er.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Well, you're always on a criminal but you're always so
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: wonderful too.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Nikki. I hope you'll like I mean just
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: as well. And the role of detective. Well, mister Joy,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: who do you think murdered the three women? Well, I'm
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: not very sure. I think it was the mother, Margaret Canela.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Why do you think that. My only reason for thinking
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: that is because the Milford Canella suspicion that's planeted on
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• 25:20
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• 25:25
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• 25:28
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• 25:30
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• 25:32
  Speaker 2: might be checked on, or the girl in the car,
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  Speaker 2: What was the message Lucille du Bois left in her
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  Speaker 2: own blood?
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  Speaker 5: Start of a killer's name, capital M, period space, capital
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  Speaker 5: ki N for canea.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but what did the capital M period stand for?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it could only mean the initial of one of
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  Speaker 3: the Canala's first names, Allery, right can.
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• 27:31
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• 27:33
  Speaker 2: their first names. She meant some other abbreviation, one she
• 27:38
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• 27:42
  Speaker 2: what abbreviation other than a first initial usually precedes the
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: last name?
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: H abbreviation for missus A miss?
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: No, that would be mr.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Miss has no abbreviation.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, so it can't be that either Llery.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: It can't stand for miss, mister, missus or miss in English?
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: But how about French? Missus? Canela's maid was French, and
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: that reader's report in a book actually remarked that the
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: author obviously thinks in French?
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: What's the French abbreviation for missus?
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Any schoolboy knows that capital M small for Madam, miss
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: capital M small L L E for mademoiselle, but for
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: mister monsieur it's simply capital M.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Period.
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• 28:34
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• 28:43
  Speaker 2: It's you and there, ladies and gentlemen, you have a
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we had so much evidence we didn't know what
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Well, this is one time where I did
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  Speaker 1: to give an assist to another detective Poirot, who, of course,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: if you read the books you know is several times
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: designated by that M period Poirot. So I knew as
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: soon as the M period had appeared that our killer
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  Speaker 1: was the mister. You might say that in retrospect that
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• 32:00
  Speaker 1: very difficult clue and I'm very proud of myself from
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: solving it. So there, Yeah, in seriousness, probably wasn't the best,
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  Speaker 1: but a good episode, I have to admit, kind of
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  Speaker 1: And Nicky Porter's main contribution to the episode is she
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  Speaker 1: brought the sarcasm and it was well deserved. And I
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: know Inspector Tween tried to get a little bit in,
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  Speaker 1: but Nicky did the best. All right, listener comments and feedback.
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• 32:53
  Speaker 1: loving Ellery Queen, and then Linda says, Hi, Adam, I
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  Speaker 1: missed the first few weeks of Ellery Queen and have
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  Speaker 1: just caught up. It's been fun listening. I've read some
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  Speaker 1: say that next week we will have a new ellery queen.
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  Speaker 1: Next week, Larry Dopkin takes over in one of his
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• 34:53
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