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Casebook of Gregory Hood: Murder in Celluloid (EP1180) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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we do with all the nations of seven dollars or more. All right,
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so it's time now to open up the Casebook of Gregory Hood, and the
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toddle of this episode is Murder and Celluloid. Letty Wine brings you the case
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Book of Gregory Hood. Tonight. The Petrick family, the family that took
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time to bring you good wine, invite you to listen to the story of
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Murder and Celluloid, another exciting adventure from the Casebook of Gregory Hood. As
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for me, I'd like to know if you're planning to have chicken for dinner
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any night this week, because no matter how you like that chicken roasted fried
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or in the stew with dumplings. You like it a lot better served with
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a glass of Petrie California So Turned. Now there's something to talk about,
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chicken and Petri so Turn. Petri So Turn is a clear white wine,
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delicately fragrant. And what a flavor that Petri wine has. It's well,
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all I can say is it's the wine you've been looking for, a wine
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that brings you the luscious flavor of big, plump sunripe and grapes. And
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say, Petri So Turn is not only grape with chicken, but you like
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it served with fish or any kind of seafood too. So try a bottle
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of so Turn. Get Petrie So Turned. Those letters P E t R
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I always spell good wine pet Tree Wine. Well, it's Monday in San
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Francisco and we have a date with Gregory Hurt. Tonight's rendezvous is at his
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apartment high on knob Hill and overlooking the Golden Gate. Let's join in there,
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shall we? Hello, Gregory Hurry Potter, come on in. I
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was expecting you. Where's Sandy tamlor night? Greg He threw up to Vancouver
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today. That's some legal business he had to attend to for me on a
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shipment coming in from the Orient. He'll be back in a few days.
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Class of Sherry, Harry, Thanks well, Siamese Cat a new addition to
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the manage. Oh no, no, Sam's an old retainer. He's been
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up at my place at Russian River going down with me this morning. Mighty
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friendly. What did you say? His name is Well, officially it's Singing
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Low, but his host of friends decided it was too dignified a name for
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such a whimsical character, so he was christened Sam Ferber Greg, And am
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I crazy? Or is Sam cross eyed? Oh? Yes, yes he's
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cross eyed and his tail's broken. But he has a delightful, dusky little
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soul, haven't you Sammy? Well, Sam has another fan. Now,
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thanks Greg? And now I know, I know you have that Monday night
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look in your eye. You want a story out of my case books?
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Correct? And from the hints you gave us last week, it sounded as
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though you had quite a special in line up. Oh it was a strange
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business, Harry. The whole thing happened in Hollywood. What were you doing
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down there? Greg? Metropolis Studios were making a picture called Passport to Danger,
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and my old friend Ray Hanson was directing it. The story was about
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a girl who inherits an importing business and gets into a struggle between her private
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life and being a career woman. And you were called in as a technical
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advisor. Well, not quite that. Harry Ray called me one night and
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said that he had some headaches on the importing business angle of the picture.
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So the next morning I hopped into my beachcraft and flew down to the city
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of celloids. As you know, I'm something of a gourmet, how well
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I know, So it was only natural that my lunch that day was eaten
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at the Brown Derby in Hollywood. As I entered that star studded home of
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good food, I was greeted by Bill Julia. Mister Greg ray Hood,
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it's good to see you back in town. Hello, Bill, is good
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be back? I have you used a table for you this way? Please?
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Thanks? Oh? By the way, Bill, I hope that on
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this trip you will break down and give me the recipe for that Cob salad.
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I don't know if mister Copple will like me fill Oh, come on,
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Bill, Bob Cobb and I are old friends. He'd approve. Well,
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mister Hood, here's your table. I know you start up with three
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kinds of lettuce, romaine, chicory and iceed letters. Break it up very
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crack, mister Hood. Then you slice up some bacon in tiny stripes,
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some chap chips, and then it comes to cheese. Ye Oh excuse me,
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Bill, who's that girl sitting two boots away? Miss Sheila Graham one
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of our best movie comedies and radiocommendator. I thought it was. I was
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go and talk to her. I'll get the rest of that recipe from you
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before I go. Bill. Very well, mister Hood, Sheila Graham,
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How nice to see you again, Gregory Hurd. I heard you're in town?
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You did? I only flew in this morning. You get your news
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past, Sheila. My spies are everywhere, Gregor is in this case.
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I met Ray Hanson at the beach party at Malibu last night. Told me
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you were coming. What brings you to town, Gregory, said, she
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whipping out her golden ever sharp your news, Gregory, famous important man about
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town and amateur detective flies into Hollywood. I mentioned it on my radio shop.
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I heard you had a new show, Sheila. What time is it?
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I must catch it? Sunday nights eight forty five on mutual her nicely
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spoken, I shall listen, Thanky kindly. And now, Greg, which
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about starlet is responsible for your being in town? Well it isn't a girl
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this time, Sheila. I came down to give Ray Hanson a little help
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on the importing business for passport to Danger. Oh yeah, that's the Nedda
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Mason and Norwood open Sammy soon. Nedda's having luncheon with me today. Have
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you met her? No? No, but I hear she's what is known
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technically, I believe as a dish, a little too highly spiced dish for
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my liking. But she a good corpet. I did meet Anne Norwood.
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Isn't she sweet? I fell hopelessly and head over heels in love with her.
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Seems impossible that an eight year old girl can be a movie star,
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and yet to me so utterly unspoiled. Hear, comes Neda Mason. Now,
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what's a switch on the personality? Hello, Nedda, Shela Darling?
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Oh, I said, we saw I am easimply marvel me for autographs.
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Do you know Gregory Hood? It's not amazing? How do you do?
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So? You're the famous Gregory Hood? Ray told me you were flying down.
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You're good to help us on the picture, aren't you if I can?
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It's a marvelous script. And I've got a dream of a part.
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And Sheila Darling was closed. All Adrians diamonds, the most heavenly outfits.
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I think I must be aniss, my dear. I just can't keep away
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from mirrors these days. Excuse mister Hood, Oh yes, Bill, but
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it's a young bad They waited for you at the table. There is excuse
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me, Shela, see you again before I leave time. I still have
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met you, miss Mason well at the studio, Well well, miss Anne
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Norwood. He didn't mind me sitting down at your table. Give you.
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I'm very flatter, Dan. I had to see you alone. That's why
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I didn't come over to the other table. I saw miss Amazing there and
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you don't like that? Isn't exactly that? So I do think he talks
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off me loudly, don't you? Yes? And I do. Mister Robin
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Hood, there are detective, aren't you? Anamet way? And incidentally I
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am. The name is Gregory, not Roberts, I know, but I
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think you're just life Robin Hurst. And he was wonderful, and so I
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think he knew that way. I'll admit that my prices might be called stealing
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from the rich, and I do give to the poor, but that's where
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the resemblance ends. I'm afraid, Anne, but I'm very flattered that you
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think of me that way. I do, mister Hurst. That's why I've
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come to you for help. You see my daddy's dead. Now do so
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miss having a man to talk to? Of course you do, Anne,
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You go ahead and talk. I have a very, a very serious problem.
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I need a detective. Dear me, Anne, Whatever is the matter.
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Somebody has stolen my map, my supermath. I've been working on it
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for weeks and I'm good at maths too, at least my teachers as I
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am. But what kind of a map was it? It's something I invented.
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It's full of thoughts and secret weapons and dock yards and MAT's and stolen.
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But when did you see at last? Anne? This morning? It
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was in my portable dressing room in the studio. I was working on it
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between scenes when I came back just before lunch. You're gone, Oh,
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dear a kind of money darling. You're frightened me. Why do you just
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live away like that? While I was parking the car. I had to
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see mister Hood. Mommise, this is mister Robin, I mean Gregy Hurd.
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How do you do, mister Hood? How do you do do?
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Sit down with you? Well, Andrew, you haven't been bothering mister Hood,
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have you? Not a bit of it? She knew that I was
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an amateur detective and she came to me with a problem. I'm very flashy.
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You see money, Murph? I suppose God and mister Hood's going to
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find it for me? Aren't here? I'll do my best, Anne,
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And who do you think might have stolen it? I think it was miss
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mad and Mason. It must have been either her or Major Courtney. They
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were the only few people in my Blessingham to day. It's that motherl Major
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Courtney. That name seems familiar. Who is well? I suppose you might
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say, mind you terribly stuck on money? And that's not very nice.
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What branch of the army is he? And missus norwo? Honestly I don't
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know, and if I did, I shouldn't think it's awesome terrific Secy don't
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even wear a uniform. Well, I'll tell you what. Let's do you
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both have lunch with me. Then we'll drive over to the studio and see
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if we can find that map for you. Anne. Oh, mister Hood,
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you're so wonderful. This is my dressing room, mister Hood. Do
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you like it very much? Anne? You don't think it's a little young
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for me? Do you? Mother had it decorated? And I think it's
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perfect for your personality? Clean and fresh and cool, mister Hood, you'll
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say, the loveliest thing. Are you married? No, Anne, I've
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always been waiting for the right girl. Keep waiting, mister Hood. She'll
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come along. I just know she will very well. Anne. But while
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I'm waiting, let's see if we can track down that math for you.
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Where did you last see it? On a dressing room table? Here?
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When you leave this dressing room and go before the cameras, do you lock
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the door always, Tommy, never forget. And the arrangement of the dawn
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window in here sets that no one could have slipped in a hand to here,
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or sneaked in and storm it, left it in this madamation or make
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your curtain. Yes, it looks like it. And yet, Anne,
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I can understand someone wanting one of your maps, But if he did,
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he'd ask you for it. He wouldn't steal it. But if the person
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whoever it was, thought it was one of Major Cortney's maps, it would
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be different. Why would it be different, mister Hood? Your mother hinted
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that he might be in special service for the army. You said your map
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had force and secret weapon sites on it. Now do you see, Anne,
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Yes, mister Hood, and that I mean miss Neda Mason's a spy.
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Oh goodie, this is fine. No, no, Darling, you
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mustn't go around saying she's a spy. I'm just dreaming up a very wild
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part. The chances are that the gust of wind came through the window and
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blew your map out into the studio. Oh no, I like it so
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much better the other way, mister Hood. Frankly man, So do I
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come in? Hello? Anne, Darling? Uh, hello, mister This
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is a very great friend of mine, mister Gregory Hood. How do you
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do he's playing the lead in another picture on the lost So yeah, he
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isn't this yours? I founded on the studio floor. It's my map,
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it's my supermark. Oh you see, An, it wasn't stolen after all,
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stolen? Annie? Did you think someone had stolen your map, Yes
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I did. It's an awful good map. I uh, I hear that
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you're a amateur detective, mister Hood in an unapprocive way. Why hell,
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I was wondering where Annie dreamed up the idea that her map had been stolen.
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I guess you put her up to it, do you. Well,
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it's a dad guest, mister. My name isn't Annie, it's on.
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Okay, honey, don't get mad at me. I was just trying to
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be funny. Hey, yes, Charlie, I'm the said please versal of
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the next scene. Okay, Charlie, see you later, and nice to
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have met you, mister Hoods And goodbye, mister yes An, you know
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I'm sorry. My map was fine so easily you won't detect this on me
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anymore. And I was having such fun had been stolen, mister Hood,
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I would, mister Freeman of Gods, that well, since I dreamed up
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a hypothetic OCASI in the beginning, I might as well give you a hypothetical
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solution. You use such lovely words. What this hyper What does it mean?
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Mister Hood? I meant that we were still playing at Let's pretend the
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map was stolen. Let's suppose the thief thought there were plans of major cortners
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and he stole them. When he examined them, he found they were harmless,
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so he threw them away. And mister Fremont found them, knew that
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you were quite a math maker, and brought them back to you. Oh
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yourself, mister Hood, I bet that's what happened. I wouldn't take the
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bad and let me look at the map with you. Of course, I'll
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do one for you if you laugh, naturally, I'd like it very much.
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That's odd. What is it, mister Hood? The red marks on
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the corner of your math and they are made by nail polish that hadn't quite
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dried, nao polish of a peculiarly horrendous shade of purply crimson, exact shade
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that mister Metamason was wearing at the brown Derby today. Actually is a spy
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after all? Perhaps, Look, Anne, even though you've got your back,
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I might as well follow this business through. There's something funny going on
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here. I think so too, mister Hood. I just know Misma to
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spy. Let you look at those eyes of her, Yes, Anne,
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I got the slammed let's go to a dressing room and talk to her.
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Shall I This is addressing than mister Hood. You better knock. I always
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knocked. Anne. It's lucky. Hello, mister Latimer, what my dream
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boat? Anyhow are you darling? Mister Gregory, mister Latimer, I just
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call me loose. You're greg Hood. I know about you. You sell
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old hunks of ivory for Big Go in San Francisco, and you're an amateur
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Slouthoo can show off the pros, and you're a wolf in good stand.
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Listen, Lou, I also packed them left, leaned up a little character,
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oh little lord father right character? Okay, speak me to a pulp
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and call me juicy A get it pulse juicy O the player, Lou.
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It gives me ideas character. But death listen, I'm having the publicity on
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this little super dupic colossal Honker picture. I've got an idea it'll sway you.
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Greg. I'm mortal just like the next man. But I listened to
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it later right now, and and I want to see nedder Mason. Is
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she in her dressing room? Oh? Death? She went in about half
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an hour ago. And I've been sitting here ever since, dreaming up idea.
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Anyone else been in to see her. Nash Philip Premont, the alleged
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actor, went in. Also Major Courtney, the man of mystery. They
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both left Novo so and I'm going in the loan. Stay here with mister
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Lackerman, will you? Why can I go with you? Mister hood?
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You know how it is. And you're a sophisticated girl. When you go
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to see a beautiful spy, you go alone. I know. It's just
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like in the Sunny. I think she was a dragon ninety. He wasn't
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want another woman. Shut me alone. That's right, and you're very understanding.
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I'll be back in a moment. Ah, chare okay, Greg,
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you've heard it's a definite character. But in Dube, I love mister Why
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not Jenny. Oh, by the way, green board, I've got a
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terrific angle for you on this picture. Oh no, not as good.
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Oh this one's a natural, honey, child. We give you a big
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balloon. See it has Passport to danger printed on it. Now, passport
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though backward is cropsap. Say no, I don't look, baby. Cropsap
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is the name of a cereal. See, and we get them to ask
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you why you're so healthy? And you say you always breakfast on cropsap because
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backward it spells passport. And that's in the title of your super duper smasher.
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Will you get it in? I don't eat toplock. I've never even
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heard of it. I wouldn't tell a lie why she says. Yet listen,
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honey, job, you're not getting a point. It's a big balloon.
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Maybe we throw it up with the hydrogen. But you see it's got
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this billboard on each side of it. See and when they ask you or
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I'm glad you love that your mother left the message she wants you to call
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her back at the Brown Derby. It's quite important, all right, mister
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wait here for me. Welcome, Yes, and I'll wait. What's the
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matter? Pal? You look at the good scene of ghosts. I have
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throws the studio gates and send for the police, the police. What's wrong?
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Plenty? Here, Miss Nedda Mason's lying in her dressing room. She's
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been strangled. Oh you'll hear the rest of Gregory hood story in just a
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second. So I'm going to tell you about a red wine. It's really
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marvelous with any kind of meat or meat dish. The wine is Petrie California
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Burgundy. Petrick Burgundy is a rich, full flavored wine. A wine's so
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unusual that it can turn a simple meal into a real feast. For proof,
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next time you have hamburgers or your favorite kind of stew for dinner,
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serve it with a glass of Petri Burgundy. Your whole dinner becomes more colorful.
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And as for the wine itself, well, Patrick Burgundy will make you
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small lives for fair and just side with pleasure. Be sure you get Petre
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Burgundy, because Petree is always good wine. Well, Gregory, so you've
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found that a mason strangled in her dressing room? Uh? What happened when
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the police got there? Well, Lou Latimer, the publicity man, persuaded
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me not to send for them right away. He probably figured that you could
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solve the case, hand the killer over to the police and so avoid as
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much publicity as pop correct. Harry and I somewhat grudgingly agreed, and so,
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having gotten little Ann Norwood safely out of the studio, Lou Latimer and
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I went back to the dead girl's dressing room, where I began to search.
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Not so far, Lou, except that the thumb month show she was
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strangled from behind, no chance of identifying them unfraid. See, Greg,
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how do you figure this killing? It's a hard one to figure. Maybe
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the explanation I had lived at the studio for Anne Norwood's benefit might fit the
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killing at that well, it looks simple enough to me. I saw let
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a walk into her dressing room. I was sitting outside it until you came
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out. Apart from yourself, only two people went in, Major Courtney,
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the man a mister, and that Ham actor Philip Fremont. It must be
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one of them. Hello, Hello, Now we've got a clue. What's
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thanks in her right hand? Huh? Looks like some kind of ten It's
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a Sigma zi key. What sigmas? I an honorary fraternity for science,
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a sort of scientific equivalent of five bit of kappa. But there's no name
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on this key, so you still don't know which one of the two it
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is? Which one of the three? Huh? Au do you figure three?
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Greg? Proving it's two only rests on one thing. Lou your word
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alone, that makes you my friend. The third suspect Sheila Graham speaking Hello,
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Greg Ray, what's on your mind? I need some Can you give
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me an effects on the free Mont's educational background. Yes, I can.
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I did a piece on him the other day. He's a colleague man got
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into acting through the hasty putting chavert Harvard major in English? No science?
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No greg See do you know Lou let him? A publicity man? Know
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him? He tested me almost dance? Why Gregory? Well, how about
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his educational baker? Well, Lou plains that he graduated from high school.
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Personally, I'd say that if he ever got beyond the fifth grade, I'd
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want to see the proof. Oh, thank you, you're a remarkably well
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informed girl. I call you later. Goodbye, missus Norwin. Why did
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you bring Anne back here to the studio? I simply couldn't keep her away?
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Mister? Where is she now talking to Major? Oh? I'm anxious
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to meet him. We'll come along then, let's go in. Where have
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you been? How's missed you? Well? I had little business to attend
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to Anne. I wanted to meet Major Cotney. Mister Gregg, how do
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you do Major? Hello, misterven Han's just been telling me about you.
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She's a rabid fan of yours as I am of hers. In fact,
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I've quite lost my heart's Well, doesn't he say the most beautiful thing.
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Major caught me. I wonder if you and I could take a stroll.
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I'm most anxious to speak to you alone. Well, yes, I suppose
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so I want to come with you, mister Hood. Arnand you heard mister
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Hood say that he wanted to speak to Major Courtney alone. Don't worry,
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Anne, We'll be back in a few minutes. You're being very mysterious to
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her. I didn't want to talk in front of Anne. You knew about
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Neda Mason, of course, Mind if I ask you some questions, no,
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fire away? Would I be right in thinking you're a government technician?
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That's a question I can't answer. Who then would you tell me if you
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studied science and college? Yes, I majored in it. Then doubtless you're
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a member of Sigma Ze. Yes I am. May I see your pretended
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the key, and I don't wear it often. I don't know where it
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is right now. Look, I don't know what you're driving at, but
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I'm not used to being cross questions. Sorry, but I'm going on with
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it. Why did you call on Nedda Mason in her dressing room this afternoon?
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That is none of your business. Then let me do a little guesswork,
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Major, I think you suspected ned Mason of being involved in espionage activities.
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Perhaps she displayed too much interest in your briefcase and you went in to
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talk to her about it. Listen, Hood, if you must know,
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when I went into Nedda's dressing room, I found her, murdered, found
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her or left her that way, Major, you're barking at the wrong tree,
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my friend. And if I were free to explain a few things to
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you, which I'm not, you believe me. H, Gregory, there
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you are. They're looking all over a lot for you. Are you coming?
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I think we're on the last laugh, Lou, Let's tell me one
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thing. Sure, what is it? Pal? Is Philip Fremont's picture shooting
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this afternoon? Yeah, they're on stage eight. They're shooting a big gun
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battle scene right now. I just left there. You want to come over,
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Yes, lou I do want to very much. All right, all
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right, that's all for today. We'll pick up the reverse shop in the
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morning. Ain't not like everyone off those, hey, Gregory, we can
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catch Fremont before he gets back to his dressing room. Yes, let's go
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on the set and talk to him. Come on, Major, Cortner keep
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your weather eye open, Hood, and maybe leading with our chin I know,
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major, but we have the advantage of surprise, I hope. Oh
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hello, mister Prima. Well Gregory, Hood didn't know you were on the
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set. It's too bad you weren't here earlier. We were shooting some good
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stuff. Stay by the way, can you get here in the morning.
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I've got several terrific scenes. Then, too bad that you won't be playing
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them. Premont, I what you mean, Hood, call the police loop
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for the Premont your murderer. Hello Fremont, that was my hunch. Two
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Hood, stay right? Why y'allow? And that goes for the rest of
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them, don't you see? I'm still carrying my revolver. Yes, a
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revolver containing blanks. You've just used it in the scene. Oh no,
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no, I have another one in my pocket, a revolver containing live shells.
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I've switched them and I shoot expertly through the pocket. Despite the tailor's
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bills. You're not getting me arrested. I'm clearing out. Why did you
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strangle Nether? Amazing because she was stupid that she quarreled with me. In
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any case, that girl who can mistake the map of an eight year old
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child for a valuable map such as the Major carries deserves to die. She
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was no more used to us, us being your fashion superiors, of course,
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correct, Major caught me a g two. You didn't think fascism was
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dead, did you? Just because you and your boys kill a few Germans?
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All the words dead? All right, we'll never call it pascism again,
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but you'll be hearing from us. From you, we'll only hear a
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faint squeal from the gas chamber. Premonth. Yeah, you'll never get me.
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Oh, by the way, Hood, I knew you were pretty smart,
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but I didn't think you'd spot me. What mistake did I make in
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leaving that Sigma zie key in the dead girl's hand? Yeah? But Greg,
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you said that he didn't have any name on exactly That was the point
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for you. Any genuine key such as Major caught me on, has the
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name on it that's not Major, Yes, invariably so the absence of the
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name suggested that it was a dummy he. You were playing a scientist in
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your picture, Premont, so you were obviously wearing a prop he to give
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all authenticity to the pot careless of beauty. Let the dying girl wrench it
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off your watch chain and the struggle, Yes, wasn't it. I must
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watch blunders like that in the future, Gregory, Hood, I don't like
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you. Gunfire is pretty common on this set, and I think I'll give
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you a little treatment. Cleamont. You having a chance of getting out of
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this studio. You should know that, and think of the publicity will give
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us. Well, it'll be terrific. It'll be shut off, William little
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rest. What do you say, mister Gregory, or to mind your own
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business? Hood, I'd say, look out above you you expect me to
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it? Got it? A pulling paint buck knocked them out cold. Gee,
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but you're luckty, greg fine Detective Iron saved from being shot only by
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a freak accident. Cheaper. Hey, look up there in the catwalk.
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It's a little and noble and darling. How can I thank you? Yes,
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darling, it's a day and you danced beautifully. I'm afraid I'm a
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little shocked for you, though not a bit of it. Anne, I
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like my women fatigue. By the way, young lady, perhaps you will
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tell me how you happen to be up on the catwalk this afternoon. Well,
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mister Hood, when you went out of my dressing end had made it
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Courtney. I could see by your face that something was wrong. I got
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scared for you, so I stepped out of the dressing woman and it shadowed
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me. Yes, I got to stay kate ahead of you and climbed the
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ladder to the catwalk so that I could see what was going on? Did
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I let mister set when I talk about buck at all? Ronnie? Not
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seriously? Anne, But you stunned him and probably saved my life. How
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can I ever repay you? Well, there is one way, mister,
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hood. What is it? Anne told me Lanes that you've never married because
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I hadn't met the right woman. That's right, Anne, Chief on waiting,
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mister, please keep on wilk. Greg, that was really a swell
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story. But what a detective you turned out to be. Why, Harry,
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what do you mean I solved the case? What more do you want?
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Oh? I know, Greg, but over that's the fact that that
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gun might have real bullets. But if it hadn't been for I know,
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I know it was a slight oversight on my part. But Harry, I
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can make a little mistake. Now, Now, Harry, don't stand there
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and tell me you never make a mistake. Not when it comes to choosing
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a wine, I don't because I always choose Petrie wine. I don't know
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why I bothered talking. Oh, yes, you do. You like to
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hear about good wine just as much as the next dollar. And I like
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to talk about Petrie wine because Petrie wine is good wine. Well, it's
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just got to be. After all, the Petrick family has been making wine
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for generations. Wine making is their heritage, a heritage passed on down from
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father to son, from father to son, from generation to generation. It's
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easy to understand why the Petrick family knows so well the art of turning luscious,
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sun ripened grapes into fragrant, delicious wine. And it's easy to understand
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why the Petrie business has grown and grown so that today the Petrie family are
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America's largest independent wine maker. Yes, the making of Petrie wine is a
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family affair, and the Petrick family intends to keep it that way because by
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so doing they can be sure that every bottle of wine that bears the name
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Petrie is and always will be good wine. Well, Gretory Wich particular story
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from the case book you have lined up for us next week. Next week,
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Harry, I'm going to tell you about a strange woman who claimed to
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be able to see into the future. She predicted two violent deaths with tightening
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accuracy. The third death she happened to prophesy was my own. See you
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next Monday, Harry. The Case Book of Gregory Hood is written by Dennis
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Green and Anthony Boucher. Original music composed and played by Dean Fossler. Gaale
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Gordon plays the part of Gregory Hood. The Petri Wine Company of San Francisco,
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California invites you to tune in again next week, same time, same
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station. The Case Book of Gregoryhood comes to you from our Hollywood studio.
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This is Harry Bartell saying good night for the Petrie families for a solid hour
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of exciting mystery dramas. Listen every Monday on most of these same stations at
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eight o'clock to Michael Shane, followed immediately by the Case Book of Gregory Hood.
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This is the New World Broadcast thesis. Welcome back. Well. I
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have to say that is a fantastic way to tease the next week's show and
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give us away less than the Nick Carter teases that we get. And I
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enjoyed the story as well. We don't get enough precocious child actors in these
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mystery dramas. And I'm just continuing to enjoy this series. And you have
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Harry Bartel very charming and decent cases every week. This is definitely an underrated
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series and I hope you're enjoying it as well. Well. We'll be back
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tomorrow. We are continuing on with the Alder matter and next week join us
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