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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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Slash Radio Detectives. Nine days after the final episode of the Yours Truly Johnny
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Dollar Serials, the first of the new thirty minute episode starring Bob Bailey aired
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so here from November eleventh of nineteen fifty six. It's the big scoop matter
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from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar and Joel mcnap Northeaster. Johnny,
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Oh, hi, Joe, what's up at the moment? My blood
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pressure? Too much work, no prospect of having to payoff on a hundred
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thousand dollars life insurance policy. Oh fella, I think you know Johnny hard
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Wesley, Oh sure, been a parl of mine for years. Reporter.
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Yeah, apparently he's working on the story right now that somebody doesn't want him
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to report. What do you mean? Night before last he got beat up
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in an alley yesterday car made it pass at him at high speed. What
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about today it's early at Johnny. Oh yeah, sure, Well let's hope
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it's not too late. Bob Bailey in the exciting Jews of the Man with
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the action packed Expense Account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Oh it's truly Johnny
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Dollar. From Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the home office Northeast Indemnity Affiliates,
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Hertford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of
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the Big Scoop matter expense account at a one eighteen dollars and forty cents transportation
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and incidentals to New York City. I called Art Wesley's paper. He wasn't
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in and nobody seemed to know where he was. Then I remembered a small
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bar called Tony's over on Third Avenue. I took a cab that's had him
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two a dollar and a quarter and found him in a corner booth. Sorry,
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Johnny, no bodyguard. The informance I'm working with a takeoff fast to
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the spotted one. No informants, no story, an insurance policy of paper
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took out on you. Who's the beneficiary? A dear departed wife Joe departed.
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I split up a couple of months ago. Oh, I'm sorry to
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hear that we're living in two different worlds. I wanted a home and family.
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She wanted a trip to the moon every night. Where is she now
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knows? On her way to the moon. I guess, hey, look
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this story you're working on, Irony. It's hot, Johnny, and big,
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real big, a national gambling syndicate and run by a guy right here
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in New York who I'm getting close, but I'm not sure yet. When
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I am then outcome my articles? What's this guy gonna do when you're pushing
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me to a corner. Look, I'm worried about you. Look, Johnny,
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I'm not as foolish as you think. I've got his name written down
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and put in a safe deposit box with what evidence I got. That's my
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real insurance. Alright, Look, we've been friends a long time. I'm
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not gonna let you do this alone. Sorry, Johnny, I gotta go
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it alone. Since I've gotten nowhere with irone, I decided to try his
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wife, john even though they were separated. I found her in an apartment
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on East sixty eighth, But she was hardly what you'd call cooperative. Look,
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mister Dowarry, so you're a friend of Arts at the moment, I'm
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not, missus Wesley. Your marriage with Artist none of my business. But
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that insurance policy as Paper took out on him is. And incidentally you're still
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a beneficiary, so he could be in danger. Those articles he's writing,
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why doesn't he drop it? Oh? Look, you know Art better than
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that. Then what am I supposed to do about it? That story is
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his business. How I feel about things is my business. And come to
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think of it, I can't see that either of those things is your business.
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It am three a tolerated cam fair the police headquarters in the office of
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my old friend, Detective Lieutenant Rostelli. Sure, sure, I know about
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those attempts on Art's life. So I talked to him and got nowhere.
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He told me the stories about a national gambling synding this morning, told me
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supposedly the big boss is here in New York. Now, what are you
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going to do about it? Look, the minute Art it's thinking he's got
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to hit the jackpad all by himself and lets us in on it. We'll
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give him all the protection, Lieutenant of Stelly. Yeah, yeah, just
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a minute, it's for you Johnny's nice Hello Art Wesley, Johnny. They
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told me at your hotel where to reach you. Anything new. I'm leaving
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town for a few hours. This could be a Johnny to light, could
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be the jackpot. Well, listen, let me go with you. Sorry,
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I gotta go along. It's part of the deal, all right.
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It could be a trap. I could take care of myself. Colly when
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I get back, wish me luck. Well wait, alright, alright.
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I had him for a dollarrady cab to Arts apartment, where I persuaded the
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manager to let me in. I was looking for anything that would give me
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a lead. Then near the phone, on a scratch pad, I found
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where he'd written the word Watika several times. Sure, Lake Watica upstate Art
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had a lodge there. I had him five twenty five dollars even for a
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rented car. It was a three hour drive to Lake Watika, which was
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bad enough. At the top it off, it started to rain and rain
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hard. When I finally got to the highway turn off, the side road
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to the lake was a mass of mud. Then I got two quick breaks.
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It stopped raining, and I spotted the six mile road into watch Place
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half an hour further on, I saw a light Heart's car was parked at
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one side, and the front door of the launch is wide open. When
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I got to it, I saw why Ard was lying in the doorway.
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Yeah, he was the one who wanted to hit the jackpot. But you
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can't hit the jackpot with a slug, particularly when that slug is right between
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your eyes. I drove to the Sheriff's office and reported Sheriff Tompkins and his
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boys took over, but in the darkness and the month, they can only
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make a routine check. He asked me to be at the lodge the next
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morning, so I did. The buddy was right here in the doorway,
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so yeah, Sheriff, I didn't move it, and Wesley probably got shot
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when he answered the door by somebody standing out there on the ground because of
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that bullet hole on the roof. Yeah, right over that shelf, it's
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stuck with canned goods, sugar, salt, and the like. Apparently he
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used his place regular Yeah, he used to do some of his writing here.
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Were you able to determine time of death? Corner says between ten thirty
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and eleven last night? What time did you about half an hour after the
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rain stopped. I'd say quarter to twelve, means it was still raining a
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good half hour after the killing. No wonder we found no tracks. Hey,
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look, Sheriff, I'd was working on a hot story about a national
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gambling syndicate. Could be that he found out who the boss was last night
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the hard way. Oh, then you think the killer was from out of
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town, maybe New York? Yeah? Yeah, Now where would he stay?
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Is there a hotel around here, Lake Watika, just outside the village,
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about six mile from here, Sheriff, I'll check it out. The
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guests here at the end, mister Dollar, But we have only two who
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checked in yesterday. It's the off season, of course. Yeah, clerk,
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who are they? Well, mister Cooper yesterday afternoon and mister Buckley around
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dark. Huh, they're still here. Mister Cooper's sitting right out there on
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the terrace. But mister Buckley paid in advance and left quite early this morning.
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I see. Did Buckley give any reason for stopping here? He said
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he was a traveling man and didn't like to drive in the ring. Okay,
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okay, I'd like you to write down a description of him. I'll
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pick it up on the way out. Oh, I'll be glad do sir.
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Hi, Oh, good morning, enjoying scenery. Yes, Sadan,
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won't you sure? Thanks? My name's Dollarryan's Cooper. You just check in.
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I'll just drop by now. I came yesterday. A pretty up here
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this time of year, Yes, it certainly is. I really enjoyed places
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like this in the off season. It's nice change. Too bad the weather
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hasn't been better. Huh rain storm last night? Oh, I enjoyed that
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too. You were out in it? Oh no, no, no,
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I enjoyed it the way the storm should be enjoyed, front of the fireplace
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in my cottage with a drink and a good book. No, mister dollar,
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I stayed in last night, and that was that. I picked up
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the description of the other guests, Buckley from the clerk and gave it the
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sheriff Tompkins, who got out a bullet. Then I drove back to New
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York City, turned in my Reddit car and took a cab. That's it.
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I'm six a dollars seventy own Wesley's apartment. Yes, they notified me
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this morning about arts death. I don't know what to say. What is
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there to say? Good question? Missus Wesley. Only he hadn't been so
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stubborn, If only he'd given up that story about the gambling syndicator whatever it
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was. Yeah, you were, you figure somebody in the syndicate killed him.
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Well, of course, missus Wesley. Did you know Art had gone
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on up to the lodge at Lake Watika? No, mister Dollar, I'm
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rather tired. One more thing. Did you go out last night? No?
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It was raining. I stayed here in the apartment all evening, all
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evening. I see, well, thanks, missus Wesley. Maybe I was
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imagining, but it seemed to me. John Wesley hesitated just a little before
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telling me she hadn't been out her apartment last night, and if she had
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gone to Lake Watika. I checked the basement garage. Her car was clean,
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too clean. I had them seven five dollars to the garage attendant for
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some very interesting information. John Wesley had ordered her car washed first thing this
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morning. Why because the wheels were covered with mud from last night. Act
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two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. In just a moment, better
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fortieth Street, New York sixteenth, New York for information about how citizens can
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spark community action to improve their schools. That address, again is Better Schools,
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nine East fortieth Street, New York sixteen, New York. Now,
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Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the Big Scoop matter.
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I tell you I didn't leave this apartment last night. Your car says differently,
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Joan. You had it washed today because it was all muddy. And
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the reason it was muddy was because you had it out in the rain last
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night. Another thing, You told me you didn't know Art had gone to
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the lodge. You hadn't heard from him, But the switchboard operator told me
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you had a call from him yesterday. Now, why else would he call
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you except to tell you where he was going? Well, how about it,
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Joan? All right, Art did call me yesterday and told me he
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was going to Lake Watka. And how about last night? Yes, I
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went out, but not to Lake Watika. Art wouldn't give you a divorce
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by killing him. That's your freedom. In a hundred thousand bucks, I
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didn't kill Art. I didn't go up there last night. And where did
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you go? Might as well know the reason I wanted a divorce from Art
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was because I found someone else. Oh that's where I went for a few
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minutes last evening. Why did you lie about the phone call from Art yesterday?
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Oh? No, I don't know. I was confused. I was.
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I was afraid it would look bad for me if it came out that
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I knew I had gone up there. It doesn't look good for you this
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way. Believe me, Johnny, I'm telling the truth. Oh is this
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fellow you're interested in? I don't see why he was. His name is
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Ted Nash. You have to talk to him. I sure will, and
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right now. But I was wrong about talking to Ted Nash right now.
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I called his apartment and got no answer. I'd a'm nine hundred dollars sixty
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care for the police headquarters in the office of Detective Lieutenant Rostellio. You forget
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this guy. Nash and Joan Wesley could have killed Art and use a gambling
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syndicate thread as a cover. It's a possibility, Lieutenant. Well, I'll
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see what I can find out about Nash. How'd you do it? Lake
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Patika. Two guests checked in the day of the killing. One a man
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named Buckley. He left early this morning. Sheriff Tompkins has a pullet nod
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on him. A fellow named Cooper who apparently likes to go places in the
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off season. Nothing to tie him in, Particularly Cooper. I had to
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rumble some time ago that a guy named Cooper was involved in that gambling Sentia
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troubles. We got no proof. Hey, wait a minute, what's the
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matter. I told me he'd put the name of the man he was after
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in a safe deposit box. If we could find the key to that box,
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how about arts apartment. Let's take a look. So we looked,
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and we found the key tucked away in the disk, but only a number
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on it, nothing to tell where it was located. I gave it to
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Lieutenant Estelle, and he promised to check every bank in town if necessary,
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while I went on back to Lake Watika to see if the man named Cooper
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at the end was the same one Rostelly told me about. Got there after
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a frantay three hour drive. I found him comfortably sitting by the fireplace.
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Oh, mister dollar, isn't it Yeah, Yeah, that's right. Cooper,
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I'm going to get right to the points. You told me you came
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up here to enjoy the scenery. Yes, that's fine. Why the man
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who was killed last night, I'd Wesley. He was trying to expose a
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national gambling syndicate. Oh that's very interesting. So so I know a police
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detective in New York who thinks you're a member of that syndicate. Mister Dollar,
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that's very serious charge. I presume you have proof? Well, no
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proof. Well, in that case, I don't think there's anywhere long distance
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call for you. You can take it on that phone right beside you.
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Thanks, clerk, Johnny Dollar in New York. Johnny, my lieutenant,
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you locate that, Yeah, the same deposit box, and we found the
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name of the man Art Wesley was closing in on. It's cold. Thanks
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very much. Well, Cooper, you want a proof, We've got it.
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Evidence that ties you in with the syndicate. Clerk, Well, this
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is ridiculous. Let me tell you the facts about this thing. Is something
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the matter? Mister You get Sheriff Tompkins on the phone, Clerk, tell
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him I've got Art Wesley's killer here, you mean, mister Cooper. Oh
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wait a minute, Now, look, Dollar, if you'd get your facts
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straight, you drop this silly notion of yours. What kind of facts?
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Cooper? What time was Wesley killed? Between ten thirty and eleven last night?
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But mister Dollar, mister Wesley's place is some six miles from here,
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that's right? Why, well, then, mister Cooper couldn't have killed him?
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What do you mean last night? I took a drink to mister Cooper's
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cottage here at the inn. What time around twenty to eleven? And I
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chatted with him for at least fifteen minutes. Are you sure about that?
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Oh? Quite sure? Well, mister Dollar, I'll buy your drink.
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Some Coopers strolled back to the bar with a satisfied smirk on his face.
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So the one man who had to be Art's killer couldn't have killed him.
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I called the clerk again and had him repeat his story in detail. If
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you recall it rained heavily last night, mister Dollar, Yes, yes,
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I drove through it on my way up here. Well, I was making
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the rounds of the inn, checking windows things like that. When the house
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phone rang. It was mister Cooper calling from his cottage. He wanted to
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drink. You say that was a twenty to eleven. Yes, I always
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jot down the time when I am called away from the desk, All right,
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go on, go on. Well, when I got to miss Cooper's
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cottage, he was sitting in the living room in front of the fire with
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the book. We chatted a while, and then when I returned here to
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the desk, I jotted down the time again, ten fifty five. Well
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that doesn't what do you mean, Oh, it's a good twenty minute drive
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from here to art Wesley's lodge. If he was killed between ten thirty and
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eleven and Cooper was here at that time, he couldn't have done it.
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Well, I'm sorry, but the facts are facts. Oh excuse me,
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Lake what he gets in? Yes, just a moment, Cheff Tompkins,
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mister donnad Oh thanks, Hi, sheriff. Thought you ought to know son.
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Remember that man Buckley we were looking forward? Yeah, sure, the
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other guest at the end. We picked him up. I've been questioning him
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for now any luck, No, sir, he's just a traveling salesman who
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stayed at the inn because he didn't want to drive in the rain. You
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sure. Buckley swears he doesn't even know Cooper just between you and me,
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Johnny, I think we got the wrong fellow. No place again. I
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decided to start all over, got into my car and drove to Ard Wesley's
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place. Nothing was changed. I remember the trip I'd made the night he
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was killed. How would rain until about half an hour before I arrived.
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How I'd found him lying in the open doorway, a bullet hole in his
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head. Yeah, and the hole in the ceiling over the shelf of provisions
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marking the path of the bullets. It was there, So were the provisions.
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Canned food, mustard, sugar, package of crackers. There was some
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wait a minute, sugar the sugar bowl. I stared at it for a
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moment. I remembered a couple of things the room clerk at the inn had
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told me, and suddenly the whole deal slid neatly and quietly into place.
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I drove back to the inn fast. Cooper's cottage was empty, so I
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went inside to the bedroom and took a look around. Then I spotted one
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of the pictures on the wall, a little out of place. I looked
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behind it. Yeah, just what I expected. Outside, I found Cooper
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sitting on the terrace in front of the main building, I slid into a
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chair across from Wow, mister Dollar, what fantastic crime you're going to accuse
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me of today, Cooper, I got a one track mine and it's still
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stuck on murder. Oh oh, look, Dollar, We've been over this
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before, and personally I find it quite boring, so much so that it's
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interfering with my vacation here. That's too bad, Yes it is, so
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I'm leaving this evening. I don't think so, Cooper. Oh, come
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now, i'd Wesley was trying to expose a figure and a gambling syndicate.
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You, that's a matter of conjecture. You had to stop him for keeps.
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Oh look Dollar, the time of Art Wesley's death has been established is
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between ten thirty and eleven last night. That's right between ten thirty and eleven
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last night. And I'm sure you remember the room clerk telling you he was
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with me in my cottage living room from ten forty to ten fifty five.
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Sure do so that I certainly couldn't have killed your friend Wesley six miles from
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here during that time, except that Art Wesley wasn't killed at his lodge.
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What are you talking? You see? I remembered something else. The clerk
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had told me the night of the killing had stopped raining a little after eleven.
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All right, what difference does that make? All the difference in the
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world will even Here's what really happened, Cooper. You killed out Wesley in
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the bedroom of your cottage here at the Inn Auto. You immediately called the
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room clerk over and chatted with him in your living room for about fifteen minutes.
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He didn't know those a corpse in the next room. After he left,
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you took Wesley's body the six miles to his place and planted it in
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the doorway. And now, look, problem was to make it look like
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he'd been killed there. Then you remembered the slug that had killed him hit
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the wall in your bedroom. That gave you an idea. You figured out
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the right angle at the lodge and fired a shot upwards from the outside the
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door. It went through the ceiling at the back. I tell her I'd
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had enough of your half baked theories with no proof whatsoever to back them up.
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Correction, Cooper, this time, I've got proof. There was a
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shelf of food under the bullet hole, and a bowl of sugar directly under
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it. A bullet so what when sugar gets wet, it gets crusty,
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and it stays that way. But the sugar in that bowl was dry.
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Now, if the killing was between ten thirty and eleven, and it rained
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heavily until after eleven, then some rain would have dropped through the bullet hole
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into the sugar. I see. But Cooper, the sugar was dry,
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So the bullet hole was made after the time of the murder when you planted
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Wesley's body. There just a little detail, Cooper, but it nails you
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that And of course the fact I found the slug that really killed Wesley just
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a couple of minutes ago, buried in the wall of your bedroom behind a
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picture you'd move slightly to cover it, Ol'donllar. I may as well tell
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you that I saw you come out of my cottage a few minutes ago.
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I figured you knew. So Ever, since you sat down here, I've
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been holding a gun on you under the table, you know, Cooper,
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I may as well tell you, ever since I sat down here, I've
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been holding a gun on YouTube. Have it were you? You didn't have
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any gun, big time gambler bluffed right out of the game, Cooper,
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you're slipping Adam ten thirty seven to fifty transportation and incidentals back to Hartford expense
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account total one hundred and eighty seven dollars and forty cents. Remarks Cooper's a
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waiting trial by right Wesley Well. I guess that sugar Bowl was a dead
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man's revenge. Come to think of it, that revenge is pretty sweet.
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Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, our star will return in just a moment.
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truly Johnny Dollar damn coverly speaking three Welcome back Well. Johnny's daring bluff was
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a nice touch in this episode. In some ways, this debut from the
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for the thirty minute series seemed in many ways to be a bit rush to
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to have some writing problems. The vague one that stands out is that the
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name in the safe deposit box doesn't come up till the middle of the story.
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I do have to wonder a little bit about this episode. First of
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all, I wonder how much notice they got that they were changing the format.
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Typically they tried to have these Johnny Dollar episodes in the can about well,
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I don't know if that's the appropriate term for radio, but to have
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them recorded three weeks in advance we've all if you've listened to radio for any
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time, you've heard episodes where the star is sick and not available to play,
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And that even happened on Bob Bailey's other show, Let George Do It
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a Transfer. Well, in advance you avoid that, but I wonder when
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they learned about the change. And also another thing is that the episode is
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significantly shorter than next three episodes. And this was the network version with credits
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and public service announcements. This came in at twenty four minutes and fifty one
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seconds. Well, the next four episodes all came in at close to thirty
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minutes, which suggests that a couple of possibilities. One that there might have
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been something that was broadcast that required shortening the show, or if sufficient notice
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hadn't been given, it may have been just to have less time in the
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show so they could do a shorter script. Mostly, I think the show
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works. The sugar Bowl thing I think is pretty clever as an ending.
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I love that we got to hear Larry thorguest star Larry Thor of course Broadway
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is my beat, which we'll hear one of these days. And Maul Bailey
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is still fun to listen to, but I think they'll definitely be better stories
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in this thirty minute run. All right, Well, on to some listener
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comments and feedback. Actually, this first one I'll start with because it ties
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into something I'm going to announce show related. David Gray tweets and spent time
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in New Orleans today with Johnny Dowler courtesy of AT Radio Detectives. Well,
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I'm glad you enjoyed listening to us in New Orleans. The promo for this
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episode indicated that next week's show was going to be in New Orleans. In
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reality, it wasn't the show that came next week. The Mark Matter was
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actually in San Francisco. However, we're going to actually hold off on playing
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The Mark Matter tell Thanksgiving time, because it's got a very nice little Thanksgiving
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message in it and probably more appropriate to that season of the year. So
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we'll skip that episode for now and come back to it next week. You'll
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hear the Royal Street Matter, which is one of the few Johnny dollars after
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the end of the fifteen minute episodes that I've listened to, and I have
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pretty good memory that it was a very strong episode. So and no,
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we need to worry we will get to the mark matter in November. Many
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listeners have commented on the of the Johnny Dollar serials, start with this one
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from hobbyer Neardrid in Spain, who says, I've been enjoying Johnny Dollar since
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the beginning. It has always been one of my favorite shows. I never
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understood why people kept asking about when the five part series were going to start,
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as I thought the thirty minute one part shows were excellent. Now that
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I've been listening to the five part shows, I understand they are so much
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better. The extra time really let's the character and the story develop further,
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and I've been enjoying them immensely. I also really hate how in other shows
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that they recrap what has happened in previous episodes, as it always seemed artificial
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and clumsy. But in the Johnny Dollar episodes, this is not the case,
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and I find myself thinking how seamless and how natural it seems. Thanks
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for bringing these episodes to life again. Oh, You're welcome, and I
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would definitely agree that usually. You know, there are probably a few cases
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I've called out where it kind of seemed a little forced, but those were
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very rare. I think that compared to say The Adventures of Superman. They
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really do did a good job on the way they wrote those, and Jay
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writes in from Ben Orgon says, HadAM, I've been listening to your podcast
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for a few years. I'm sad to see Johnny Dollar coming to an end.
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If I'm ever in Boise, I feel I owe you dinner for all
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your hard work. And yes, you can order anything you want. Keep
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it up well. Thanks so much. Jay. I'm reminded about of the
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line of Han Solo about having a very large imagination. I'm in Star Wars,
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but in all seriousness, I tend to actually order pretty light when I
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know someone else is paying the bill. Not that I'm angling for any invitations,
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but thanks so much. I appreciate your comments. And then we also
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have this from Dan who says, it feels like, Dear Adam, it
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feels like Labor Day. You know that feeling at the end of the summer
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on Labor Day when you're sat summer is over. That's how I feel as
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the Johnny Dollar episodes come to an end. I'm melick Collie as my summer
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phase. I cannot enjoy this last episode because I know this is the end
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of something good, and I can understand the feeling. It's all. It's
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definitely bittersweet getting to the end of that. I think that, you know,
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I tried to enjoy it, you know, for the last time for
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a while. Anyway, you know, I think I'll definitely listen to the
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series again, whether it's on my own or whether it's hosted on a podcast,
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because it really was, you know, that good. On the bright
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side, there are a lot of people who have loved Bob Bailey's Johnny Dollars
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without even hearing the fifteen minute episodes. So there's some solid, great acting
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that sustained this series for four plus more years. So and it'll probably be
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easier to enjoy, you know, later down the road, particularly when the
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scripts get better. He also concludes with an oh, p asked Pat Novak's
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one liners are priceless. Indeed they are all right. Well, that will
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do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with Police Headquarters, and then
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join us next Friday for another episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. In
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the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectors, follow us
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