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Frank Race: The Adventure of the Violent Virtuoso (EP0806) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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for us to get into today's episode. This one is the Adventure of the
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Violent Virtuoso, The Adventures of Frank Race, starring Tom Collin. The war
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changed many things, the base of the earth and the people on it.
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Before the war, Frank Race worked as an attorney, but he traded his
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law books for the Cloak and Dagger of the Oss And when it was over,
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his former life was over too. Adventure had become his business, the
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Adventures of Frank Race. And now we joined Frank Race for the Adventure of
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the Violent Virtuoso. It was one of those evenings where sooner or later you
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know you're going to end up on the fire escape. You've been hot all
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day and it's still hot, and the weather man had just informed the city
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by radio that there'd be more of the same tomorrow. Unfortunately, when the
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weather man forecast heat, you know was right. So I was reclining,
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trying to divert myself with the fire Star final when Mark Donovan came in with
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a proposition, what do you say we go out and do the town.
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I'll go away. You just had a shower and it's gone to your head.
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No, no, no, I mean I mean, look, let's
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go out and get ourselves a couple of warm hearted females. Mark. I
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regret having to break it to you, but at this moment anything that can
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be described as warm seems utterly this taste, because I mean, I don't
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forget all about the weather. Look you go, I have one of two
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phone calls. I'm winning for them, answered the door, winning. I
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just site the kind of night. Kept it up all the way to the
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door, and I felt the argument to be resumed as soon as he came
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back, but it was wrong. Reappeared wearing a grin that was almost a
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leerd. Yeah, oh, I see you why you wanted to stay home.
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I also see why you wanted to get rid of me. What are
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you talking about? It's the name the one you're expected brother of anything that's
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cool in this town tonight. It is her, but she ain't going to
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help your temperature. And you're trying to tell me there's a woman out there.
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There is, brother, and she would make you take a long dragon
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that cigarette this morning. It was right and I didn't. It was tall
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and slim, blonde, horizon mouth had a gold chase yourself look with just
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money and lots of it. I'm still gone, mister Lath, I'm a
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vinter Continental underwrite. It's is that he called your dat? Yes? He
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cool mentioned something about a stolen ring. He said it wouldn't be contacting me
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until tomorrow. I got rest, go mine. You know, I don't
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mind, but I figure I finished the last of mind coming over here?
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What would you like? Wow, take the time you're smoking now. I'll
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take a drink too. If you have the ingredient. We have the ingredient.
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And Mark ten bar William, what's your preference is? Heaven's surprised you
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get that? Mark? I did great surprises coming up waken. You say
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that much about the ring? Did you lose it? It was stolen from
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me? Like, hey, seventy five hundred for you but I don't want
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to collect the insurance on it. I want the ring that How about the
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police. I'm not gonna have the policing on it yet. You see,
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it was stolen from me by a friend that makes a lovely pickture. Let
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you take the case, charmers Laken said you would. I guess so that
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is? Who's the friend? Whoever? You have? An actress by the
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name of kil Courson. Yes, I've heard that matter. I know him.
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You're not trying to say the kid, of course, I'm not trying
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to say it. Race, I am swaying. And the second thought,
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I don't think i'd do you any good on this case. You've already taken
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the case, Race, I wouldn't like it if you turn me down.
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Here you, sir, two tall ones guarantee to cool your temperatures down to
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zero. In fact, they might even implove you. Thank you, Race.
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Yes, you will take the case, don't you? Yes? So
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okay, before we get through, you might not like me. Carol Corson
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could be seen at the Majestic, where she was doing a well received skitting
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a popular review. He was an old friend and a good reason Carol and
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I had once got around for several weeks, thinking of little else with each
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other, the majestic. I found her in her dressing room, raise dulling,
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talk about ghost out of the past. Still the same color hair,
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still the same figure you're wearing. Well, baby, you think you know
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I never quite got over you. I've heard different now about Ernie Jeddo.
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Now I understand, as Lord, when you can't blame me for Landry Race,
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you might even make me forget you. Oh when he plays that violin.
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I'm not blaming you, baby, but Ernie Jeddo could be bad news
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doing a thing. Don't say it. Race, Just the thought scares me,
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silly. Oh look, lover, I've got to go on all right,
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but I must talk to you. And soon you're being accused of Thibram
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being what you know, simbil Thon. Sure I went to abroad the place
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last night. When symbol has lost a ring with seventy five hundred dollars,
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you've been tabbed as number one, suspecting was insured within the Continental So I'm
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the case. Race. This is silly, I'm sure it is. Baby.
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Oh listen, lover, I do have to skip. I'll get in
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touch with you. How are you staying all right, I'll see I've got
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the zoom. I could have waited for him, and it was late and
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I felt time. I got as far as the stage door when holding down.
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I want to have a talk with you, Ernie Jedo. I've heard
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him use that same tone against the district at tournament while I'm trial for murdering
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any Jedo. I'm convicted killer a second man stirred nearby, and I recognize
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Duke Temple another chunk of dry ice. You are Frank Race, ain't you?
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That's right me? I'm any Jedo. You know I letbe side kicked
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too. How are you doing? I am all right? And what were
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you doing? Inside? Right? You're talking to a friend of yours?
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How course? Yeah, I had some businesses because yeah, now I'd like
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you to hear my story. You know how I feel about Carol, don't
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you right? I've been here in rumors too, but some guy trying to
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cut me out. You had a yen for Carol a few years ago,
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didn't you? Yes that I can't deny Jedo. Now I find you hanging
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around here. Could add up, couldn't, But it doesn't. How do
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I know? Just have to take my word for him. I don't take
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nobody who would for nothing? All right? And where do we go from
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him? First? I'm gonna tell you something. Stay away from Carol Coustion,
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And just so you don't get absent minded, Duke is gonna cattle spring
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around twe Duke has any idea about using miss brass knuckles, you'd better change
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his mind, Jeno, fathers you better, I don't. I wouldn't try
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it. I'm waiting for any here, Sorry, Duke. I have a
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kid for bass knucks. Don't make any more players, Jeno. This Luca
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can spit lead faster than Duke gloss. His teeth matter not Duke, tough
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guy. Ain't you packing a ride makes you feel good? Don't at packing
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a ride? Know what? I'm a ride, Duke. We can catch
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up with him, lady for the next couple of days. The case showed
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about as much if it is a Philadelphia weekend. I heard nothing from me
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either of the two women involved. Then on the morning of the third day,
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I gotta call from Civil fun. How would you like to take it
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to a continent? And you sound greated you get your ring back. I
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did not. I thought you might be dropping the affair. I am not,
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and I want you to keep on with it. Have you done anything?
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Stood up a case of physical violence for myself, but nothing else.
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I'm going to be of any value to your dustiness. I don't need to
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know more about this business, So we should get together. How about the
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continent I get? Do you like violin? Were like? Anything's good?
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Oh, Lawrence Landry's great? What's brilliant is his continent? Yes? You
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might pick me up a bat that evening. Just as I was ready to
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leave, Mark Donovan came in, so I accommodated your services and driver.
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We the thing that was here the other night. We're saying, where's your
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cab? Halfway down the black? So you're going to a concert. Yeah,
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I don't know if any woman is worth that right? Look? I
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like classical music. Yeah, I guess even a guy like you who hasta
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a floor in his character summer than race. I didn't get up. He's
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gone. I thought it gotcha. I didn't want to look. Nothing wrong
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with Mede A good brushing off one cure. What was that? Boys?
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You got a good look at him? Between them two pubs. It with
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short, chunky dot complaint, temper tough trader trading. It seemed to want
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my life because I relieve him with some funk teeth. Come on, markets,
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have a simple thing before we start explaining to with the lease. Lawrence
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Landry put on a good show, young American. He had the looks to
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catch himself a feminine audience wherever he went, But it was no great violinist.
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Who is a vein? As a Cupanish was a far better musician.
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As a solo number, she keyed out a rendition of the Opassion saved the
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evening for him. Afterward, I went backstage with Sibyl Thorne and met both
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of them. Oh, Larry, you were marvelous. I enjoyed it ever
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so much, lad Sibyl, I thought the audience had got a luke warm
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Oh no, darling, they were mad about you. Weren't saying race.
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There's a question abouttering a false a. They're making myself dislike. So I
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avoided the issue by turning to and Who's a Vein? In my opinion of
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her word, I'm glad you enjoyed it, Mystery, Oh I'm more than
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enjoyed it. That job on the Apassion not an enthrallable wonderful of you to
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say so. I that's a great ole way. Mister Rasul made me very
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happy, but I happen't made Sibylthorne happy. Later in the cab I heard
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about it. I don't understand your race. Why did you have to go
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so completely all reward for that girl's playing. You didn't say a word about
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larring that raised Landry's work out. Have been a hypocrite. He's far from
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being a first line violenist. You're insane. He's marvelous. Have a cigarette,
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dentist. Listen while I tell you something. You're infatuated with Landry that
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makes you blind and death. Make you hate Carol Courson too, You are
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insane. I was able to put the picture all together night Landry goes for
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Carol. So you detest the girl, which casts quite it out on your
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loss of that ring? Are you accusing me of blind I'm accusing you of
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a more horrible melody jealousy, and I'm going to do your favorite. I'm
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gonna write this case off. It's finished, for your sake, duty,
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for your sake. If you're leaving Sybil thorn Man, there was no good
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night kiss involved that party. I found a phone booth and cold Carol Coursing.
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Hello, Carol overs black Race. I'm sorry, I can't hear very
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well. It's race, Carol. Oh, oh, ray, we have
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a very bad connecting mother. Maybe I'd better stop in and talk to you.
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You're still up? Where are you? Practically around the corner. It's
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all right? Then, Oh, wait a minute, what is it?
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Carol came into the apartment? Oh? Who is it? Carol? We
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don't get it. No, no, we'll return to the adventures of Frank
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Race in just about one minute. Now, back to the Adventures of Frank
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Race. With a few scrambled, hurried minutes that it took Mark Donovan and
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me to reach the door to Carol Courson's apartment, I developed sense of guilt.
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I've been too willing to write off this affairs, A bit of unimportant
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jealousy. I've been wrong exchange I listened to over the telephone. It sounded
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convincingly like murder. Mark and I found the apartment door a jar. Another
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summer. We went inside. I used to go with this growing Yes,
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yes, I used to go with the chest. I won't do no good
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thing. No, don't do a bit of thing. WHOA what are you
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going to do? I don't think I can mark call the police started out
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hot again. The next morning, I felt dull with it and left it
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about as useful as a barkeeper revival just after eleven o'clock when I got the
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phone call right now, try hello, John, I've been reading about Carrol,
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about how you found you. Guess it was all there. I haven't
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seen a papt I told you how I tell about that. I know that
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funny time. So much for a guy like me to take lying down where
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I thought. I wish I could tell you something. I have to tell
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me nothing and love figured myself. Guess what I come up with. I'm
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not very bright this morning. Get come up with you, Frank Race,
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a private pride with a big reputation, A big guy that's in with the
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cops, a guy that can get away with murdy. Look, Jeo,
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I'm as sorry about Carol as you are, maybe sorry. I had nothing
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to do with it. Da. It was a good kid, might be
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a little crazy, but a good kid who was doing all right. Carol,
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shout you're wrong, get an unlisted the phone at you. I latched
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on the number, did not I know where you stay too, Carlile,
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How I want you to Nuther. I'm gonna get you. I put my
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mind on that and nothing else. Maybe to day, maybe tomorrow, the
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next couple of three days. But I'm gonna get you, right, m
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hm, that's the matter, right. Somebody hung up on Yeah, Mark,
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somebody hung up on the aster race. Hello, miss Vain. Forgive
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me for interrupting you, but I'm anxious to find Landry, and I haven't
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been able to locate him anywhere, not even at his hotel. That's it.
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I don't even know where he's staying. The Commodore twenty two O fives.
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Oh thanks reading something to the cousin. Yes, it's one of my
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solos. Page opens twelve. You know it. Of course we're here again
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next week. I hope you can hear it. I hope I can too.
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Yes, you may not remember me, Landry. I'm Frank race mention
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the other night at the hall. Oh, yes, come in. I
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hope I'm not disturbing you, not if you don't mind my going on with
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this workout. I never miss it. Day barbells postgraduate weights too. Look,
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yeah, I guess I do, all right, I should. I
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haven't had it for years. I came to see you. About Carol Corson's
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death. What. I'm an insurance investigator, and it's become rather important to
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me that this crime doesn't go unsolved. Ryme, haven't you read the papers?
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Good? Heavens now? I just got up. Well, I,
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if you have a give it to you. It's bluntly, but Carol Corson
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was murdered last night in her apartment. Harold Carson murder, I said,
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Lena Race, excuse me a few minutes while I get into some other clothes.
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I'll probably be reported to me. He took more time than just a
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few minutes, so much more than I began poking around the room for the
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version. There's nothing look at in the way of reading matter except a stack
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of programs. He played across the country. It proved to be a very
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instant measure of his skill. He had a limited repertoire. He offered nothing
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very demanding in the way of technique. So there's a vain share of the
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program seemed equally light. An addiction to sweetness. Again, it oh her
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Race, but you might have given me up. He was wearing a fish
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conniation, but all of the double breasted job a lot strong. Here was
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a boy already, not only for reporters, but photographers as well. What
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was it you wanted to discuss about her? She was carrying a torch for
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him. I had a feeling it might might have been mutual. I may
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have been wrong why. I might like Carol, of course, but there
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was really nothing too serious between us. How about you and Cibil Thorn.
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I'm very fond of the Cibil. Do you mind telling me if you were
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with Carol Coursing last night? Luckily I wasn't not last night? Did you
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prove it by well? Proving? It might be a bit awkward, might
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be a lot more awkward if you can. What do you mean? We're
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talking about a murderer. Let us have a way of getting downright nasty with
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reputation. You mean I could get bad publicity out of this. I try
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to say which way to twist, but no one's been to see me yet,
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and it's mid afternoon. Maybe the police won't know about I don't know
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about your connection with Carol. Well know I think I sh'll tell them is
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that it. I won't go out of my way to tell them. They
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have to. You're trying to make something out of nothing. I know a
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lot of women. I have to be popular with them. Yes, you
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do them, sort of work at it, don't do them. I work
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at other things too. I'll demonstrate one of them. It took me suddenly
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into surprise. Moved in and grip my arms, lifted jem me against the
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wall. There race completely helpless, aren't you? And I can step back
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and that a few more times. They they have a new opening into the
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adjoining room. Wouldn't do you any good either? Would It makes an interesting
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game? All right? We keep it up? Or have you expended enough
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energy? I just want to make sure you're impressed with the fact that I
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didn't see Carol Carson last night, also that there was nothing serious between them,
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so I'm not to say anything to the blaze. That's right, well
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now, been properly impressed, Would you mind putting me down? Evening papers
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broke the thing wide open as far as Landry was concerned, without my saying
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a word. Couldn't help grinning when I saw his picture on the front page.
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But Ernie Jeddo's likeness was there too, and I'm looking at that wiped
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away with the smile and left me with a tight little nothing the stomach Ernie
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Jeddo had been picked up, but I thought it wouldn't be long before he'd
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be free. Hadn't meant anything but pleasure for yours. Truly, I wasn't
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working for anyone else in this case, I was working for myself. Another
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complication edited the picture about nine o'clock, when Sybil Thorne showed up at the
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apartment. I thought we should get together and have a talk. Sensible.
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You know Larry Landry is furious with your aunt. You must have just seen
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him. I just talked to him back phone. Larry and I have a
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date to night after the concert. You sound quite smoked, and you don't
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the way you deserve that checking. But I get the feeling that in a
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lot of other ways you could be careful. Rice, you're getting out of
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care Why did you come here? Make it a good one? Dudges?
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Yeah, still working for me? An you? Maybe I'm giving you more
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credit than you deserve. You came to glow? Why he came to put
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across the effect of a very cool lady in a warm night? Well you
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could. I'm thoroughly a thank you? And what am I supposed to do?
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Now? Go? No? Not you? Not until I took it
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on my arms and was cool looking lips at one in softness. Let's them
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looking boy ahead. And I didn't let it go right away. He still
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kept her hands on my shoulders as she back to gain And don't get any
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ideas, Rice, I still can't keep I take declandry oh my budges.
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As I said before, maybe you deserve it. It's about the next couple
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of hours, moving restlessly about the apartment, made myself some coffee, tossed
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down to scotch and so, then picked up the paper, read the program
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of Landry's concert. It'll be over by now, and the realization of it
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was like they pulled in the eye. They answered the whole thing. I
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grabbed up a jacket, slung it on. Hey, what do you think
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you're just figured out this case? Mark, I've got to move fast to
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stop another murder. You go on that straight, you'll move right into your
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own murder. You got a reception committee out there, the same one as
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before, and another guy main looking face like a badge or any jedo.
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But I've got to go out Mark, all right, this time I want
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something besides an end ridge. Yeah, there's your jedo across the street at
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a lamppost o. Guy somewhere, I'm going out, Hello me, I
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got jed al right, the other guy's running. Come on, knock,
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get me the civil thoughts before it's too late. Now you can turn on
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the light, let me go. I'm sorry. You better stay. And
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this is the gun that killed Carol Courses, isn't it, Miss Many?
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Jealousy? Horrible melody, isn't it? Can't know? You can't know how
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much I love him? Who much I've been hurried? Come in, Dutchess,
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that have been Landry with him? What are you doing here? I'm
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got to close the door, Dutchess. This isn't a pretty situation. Miss
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Van is here Landry because he intended to kill Sibyl Thorn the same way she
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killed Carol corson good Heavens to Teresa. Why because she's in love with you
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the point that it's made her sick. Teresa, I gave you to understand,
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you gave her to understand what she should just forget you. You know,
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some people can't pull that off, Landry. They get ill, they're
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driven to murder. But what are we going to do about this race?
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We're going to give this girl all the breaks we can, Raisin, Teresa,
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will you go and give yourself up? Yeah, let give myself up.
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Now, wait a moment. I think we should hold her here for
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the police. After I'm making this decision. It may give her a break,
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and you'll give her promise. I'm not going to let you do it
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that way. Race, go ahead to Rais, Oh, no more muscles,
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Landring, all right, try this on your bye. Go ahead to
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raise him. You'll find a cab downstairs. The driver will know where to
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take them. How did you know? Race music? It's all wrapped up
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of that girl's emotions happened to leap through a pile of Landry's past programs.
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All the theres of vain Solars had been sweetness of light, handle and biberously
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that sort of Last night, before killing Carol Corson, she showed her mood
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with the Abassia Nutter. Tonight with You and Mine, she featured that funeral
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movement from Beethoven's twelfth Sonata, Just my dear gets it paid over. It
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saved my life. I'm terribly grateful, rass. Oh yeah, that is
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maybe we should talk about that much greater length. The Adventures of Frank Race,
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starring Tom Collins with Tony Barrett as Mark Donovan comes to you from Hollywood.
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Others heard in tonight's cast were Lillian Bayeff, Tom Holland, Michael Lan
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Barrett and Wilms Herbert. This series is written and directed by Buckley Angel and
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Joel Murcott. The music is composed and played by Ivan Ditmares. Be sure
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to be with us again this time next week we're another dramatic chapter in the
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Adventures of Frank Race. Art Gilmore speaking. This is a Brucel's production.
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Welcome back. Well. In the end, I guess the title gave away
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who actually committed the crime, though I guess there were other possible interpretations,
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but I think that kind of telegraphed it. Some pretty interesting similes from Race.
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Not a usual thing, not quite pant Nolvakian, but yes that is
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now officially a word or frace, but still a little bit unusual for Frank
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Race. Well, we turned out a listener comments and feedback, and we
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