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Decanter? What another What isn't another case for Nick Carter, Master Detective.
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Carter. As our story opens, we find Nick and Patsy at the New
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Year's party, talking to their host. I'm sorry, mister Cutter, but
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the man I asked you here to meet it has been unavoidably detained. You
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and he will have had a great deal in common. I know. Yes,
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Nick's be looking forward to it for a long time now, mister Corey,
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and I can keep looking forward to it for a while longer. I
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guess, well, mister Cutter, you'll probably find all kinds of people in
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my body. I'll be seeing him. I certainly all of people here,
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Patsy, but I can't see anyone I care about talking to Trouble with you?
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Nick? Is that all you think about is business? All? True
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enough? But in my business I meet people who are interesting and frequently intelligent,
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even if they are crooks. Here. There are probably interesting characters here,
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if we only knew which ones they are. Yes, now, look
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at that man just coming into the room. If you can call him a
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man Macley, I believe his name is typical Jiggleo if I ever saw one.
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And he's not contented with drinking at the bar. He's carrying his own
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private decanter of whiskey right along with him. Yes, he's hardly an attractive
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type to me, that is, I understand that he's considered very attractive by
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many women. However, do you know him? No? But I know
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something about him. One thing. I understand that he and our hostess are
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pretty thick, and that he oh, I'm coming over here. I hope
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he doesn't want to stick around having fun caught her great patty, isn't it?
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Yes? If you like it? Well, I've just been giving a
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bit of extra attention to our lovely hostess. She's almost out. Shouldn't drink
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so much, you know, the lovely Cynthia just can't take it. I'm
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afraid. Is she all right, mister Mgley? Oh? Yes, yes,
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practically speaking, I just left her on the divan and a small den
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upstairs, gave her a little sniffer, and left her head to sleep it
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off. The small den, yes, her upstairs library where she keeps her
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account books and whatever, nice private little place to get rid of that too
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much, too fast feeling, you know. Yes, I see that's why
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that whiskey tocattle you're carrying around, I suppose, mister maclick. Yes,
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yes, I can now put it back on the shelf behind the bar where
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it belongs. What an unpleasant creature? Yes, of Cynthia wants a two
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time her husband for a thing like that. I certainly don't admire a taste.
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Well, I've had enough of this anytime you have, Nick, Shall
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we leave here? You're mister Carter, the detective, aren't you? Why?
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Yes, I am. It must be feeling to be a detective.
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I suppose that's all the point of view, Miss Dentam, Carla Bentam,
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my brother's Wallace Denton, mister Court the private secretary. Oh yes, mister
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Carter, Yes, Miss Bentham, will you please help me find my brother?
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Find your brother? Why? What do you mean? I'm sure he's
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here in the house somewhere, but I can't find him. I'm I'm really
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terribly worried. But why he was to have taken me home an hour and
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a half ago, mister Carter at eleven o'clock. We both work, and
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he knows I have to get up early for my job. But isn't it
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just possible he's simply forgotten. It may be sitting at a corner somewhere with
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some Well. I didn't like that, mister Carter. I know we'd have
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met me unless something serious was detaining him. Quite frankly, Miss Bedler my
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cat get very worried about your brother. You turn up. I'm sure,
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mister Carter. I've searched all over the house. He simply isn't around.
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You mean you've looked in every room in the house, every room but one,
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literally, but the door of the small den on the second floor is
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locked. I couldn't get in there, so I don't know if he's there
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or not. Did you knock? Yes? And nobody answers Nick. That's
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the room, And mister macleiy said he left our heart. Probably Betsy,
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she's practically out on her feet. It's funny the door should be locked,
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isn't it. Oh, I don't know, mister Carter. Will you come
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up with me? I'm afraid I don't know why. I just am Go
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ahead, Nick, it won't take me just a few minutes, all right,
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miss Benson, it'll make you happier. Lead down and we'll follow along.
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It's right over here, mister Carter. This is where the forty thieves
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hung out. How do you mean. Look at the size of those jaws
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or urns or whatever you call them. Two at the head of the stairs,
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and two more in the landing. Boy there, Oriental, I believe
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brought back by one of mister cord ancestors. This is the room here,
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doors locked, all right, let's try and knocking you see no answer.
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Well, you're supposed to look through keyhole, so I might as well live
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up to my station. Yes, I think I will never look in there
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after all. Something is wrong, Nick, mister Carter, what is it?
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You'll see in just a moment, and it won't be pleasant. I
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want you and let me get this door. Ominnick, that's missus Cord.
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That was missus Cord. Top riscull is mashed in Wallace Wallace. There is
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obviously no one in this room but the body Wallace. Where's Wallace? This
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is the only place where he could be and isn't here the police. I
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hope Lieutenant Riley doesn't mind being hauled out of bed in the middle of the
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night. You're sure nobody's touched anything since you found the body positive, Sergeant
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kil Roy. It's a wonder to me how we always find you on the
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scene of a killing. Whenever we get here, Lieutenant Riley, let's you
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get away with murder. But now that he ain't here, you got me
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to deal with and iron't as soft in the head as he is not where
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you're concerned. Sorry, I annoy your sergeant, but I just happened to
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be here. Yeah, I suppose so, well, suppose you just happened
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to tell me what you found out so far away. Was glad to help
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the police sergeant when they needed, which is often enough generally. Well look
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here, God, he was just where you'll see it now, on the
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floor there. I could see it through the keyhole, which is why I
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opened the door in the first place. On the desk. You see two
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glasses in an empty Battle of Burgundy, and that's all. Where's the murder
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weapon? That you'll have to answer for yourself. I haven't found it anywhere.
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Got any suspects? Have you talked to Macley yet? I have?
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He says he was up here in the den helping missus Cord get over a
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bad spell. Says he gave her a shot of liquor and went downstairs again.
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That's all you know. Puts him in a pretty tight spot, doesn't
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it. It might except for a few facts you've overlooked, such as what
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Carla Bentham swears her brother must have been in this room. Says she searched
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the rest of the house and couldn't find him. Therefore he was in here.
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Therefore he killed missus Cord and scrammed out of here with a murder weapon.
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It ain't here anywhere, so he must have taken it with him.
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Sure of that. Missus Cord was clubbed to death. There's nothing in any
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of these rooms that could have done the clubbing. Therefore, young Waller and
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the weapon were not here together. Kil Royan sounds like a pretty feeble story
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to me. You don't even know Wallace was in this room, maybe an
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outside on the grounds while his sister was looking for him. You think Mackley
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did it. I feel quite sure he didn't. His motive would have been
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to keep her alive rather than otherwise he could get money in gifts out of
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her only as long as she was alive and healthy. No, I haven't
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found the murderer yet, and neither of you kil roy Yeah, well,
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how about this Wallace Bentham in here? Now? Is he? Apparently not?
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Then? How did he get out of this place? He ain't in
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the house, He ain't anywhere on the grounds. My men know that now.
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And there's a wall around this place with only one gate, and the
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man at the gate says he ain't left here since he came in last night,
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which means he sneaked away by somehow climbing over the wall. If that
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don't mean he's guilty on the Herring's uncle, You got any theory about what
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happened here? I got just one theory, and it's the right one.
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The servants told us there's been something going on between young Bentham and missus Cord.
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Tonight, young Bentham found Missus Cord and Mackley having a drink in here.
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There's the two glasses in the empty burgundy bottle. He was jealous,
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waited until Mackley had gone out, and club Dreve over the head in a
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jealous rage. Very simple when you put it that way, You got any
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better ideas until I have facts to go, and I don't have any ideas
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at all. Well, I think I'll be getting home. I can find
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Patsy. Good night, Lieutenant, or should I say sogeant? That's all
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right, Carter, it'll be Lieutenant one of these days, and don't you
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forget it. And when it is, Carter, watch your step. I'll
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be happy to so long. All right, all right, Nick Carter's office.
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You know who don't mention my name. Oh yes, I recognize your
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voice. Can you come? Can you come to twenty three wording for the
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audience read at once. I'm in terrible trouble, terrible, But what's the
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matter? I can't tell you on the phone, for the love of Heaven.
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Come all right, Lucky, you caught me. You're just going out
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to dinner right over? Come in quick? Look there? Why that's Michaelay
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at the top of his head crushed in two? Yes, there's what did
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it have? A glass book end? I found him like that when I
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came home. You just got in on your phone? Me. Yes,
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I opened my door and there he was, been dead less than an hour.
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I should say, what will the police say? And after what happened
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to missus Cord last night? Yes, Sergeant kill Roy will undoubtedly have plenty
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to say. How do you suppose Michley got in here? He may have
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picked the lock, or or what my brother Wallace had the only other key
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to my apartment were here and opened the door to find Mackley there instead of
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you. You might have swung with a BOOKND. I wonder is Bensam how
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well do you know mister Mackley. I only met him once before last night.
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He's almost a stranger. Why should to come here to see you?
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I don't know, and that's the truth. Let's see what he has in
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his pockets. Maybe that'll tell us something. Usual jump man carries around pencils
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and seated bill checked for his car, and a pocketing lodder around the corner.
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Be here, this is addressed to you. What is it? Said,
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dear miss Bensam. I've phoned all day to try to get in touch
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with you. Finally I came in person as I could wait no longer.
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I must see you. I have something to tell you about last night and
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your brother. Also. I want your help. I want you to keep
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that's all. That's a funny way for a note to end, mister Carter.
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Yes, that in the ragged way the note is pulled makes it obvious.
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He wish ribbling this note to you here at your table when something startled
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him and he crammed it in his pocket. Then he was killed. But
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who killed him? And how did they get in here? See what's outside
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this window? Ah, here's the answer, Mark said, shoe nails in
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the window, sill, flat roof only six feet below your window. Get
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somebody got out here. Probably be the killer may have heard your key in
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the lock and dashed out this way. Maybe I'm lucky he didn't wait and
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kill me too. It's Bentham. Does your brother drink wine? You're thinking
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of the empty bottle and the two glasses and missus cord zoom last night?
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I suppose yes, yes, Wallace drinks only wine, nothing else. But
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what does that? Over all? The police? I know you're there.
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The girl po quiet. Let me handle this. That's a second so another
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killing? Eh? And you are in on this, Carter. Last night
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I thought you weren't, But now I find you here with this girl and
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a dead man. What I told you last night was the truth. Kill
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Roy. I know nothing about this except that you see here his Bentham came
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home tonight and found Macley. You're sure, I know? Hold out your
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hands, Carter, What are you figuring, outsigeant? What do you think
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you're in? This thing? Up to your neck? I'm taking you in
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and locking you up. Well, what can Nick do now? Arrested and
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in jail for a murder he didn't commit, he can't do much to find
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everywhere. And now I'm back to our story. We left Nick trying to
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talk Sergeant kill Roy out of arresting him for murder, but without much success.
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You're in this thing up to your neck and I'm taking in and locking
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you up. Well, that's absurd, kil Roy. I had nothing to
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do your hands our Carter, kill Roy, You're a fool. Why are
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you inter film? Shouldn't hit a policeman, Mister Carter, I know it,
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but I had to do it. I've got to be on the loose
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four time. I'm just beginning to make sense out of this. Come on,
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where Kilroy was alone when he came up here, But he must have
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men downstairs. We have to get out of here before they come here looking
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for him. You ear any money, yes, I'm good. Go to
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a side street hotel somewhere and register, and I'm an assume name. I'll
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be at the Green Hotel under the name of John Nicholas, but don't call
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me unless it's very important. Casey's pocket, Yes, this is the one.
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Well, you got this car for me, please, here's the check
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that's ought to be far enough away. Now, let's see if there's anything
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in this car, Magles m h nothing inside here. Well, maybe it's
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something in the rear compartment. Now it's one of these keys un locks this
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there? Ah hat box? Huh, that's a whole lot heavier than any
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hat box I have. Oh, I'll have to postpone this investigation from now.
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I better get out of here. Who's there? Oh? H's you?
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Nick? So long since you do that private entrance of you is?
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I'd almost forgotten about it. It's been a long time pastitions. I've had
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to get into my office without anyone seeing me. What have you done?
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Now? Sergeant kill Roy and I had little argument and I won by a
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knockout. Oh, Nick, you didn't. I had to. It was
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kill Roy or me. So that's why those two cops have been hanging around
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out in front here for the last hour. What's going on plenty? Is
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that a hat box you have there? Yes? Belong to make it to
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Mackley to mac Yes, he was murdered in Karla Bentham's apartment early this evening.
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I'll tell you all about it later. Right now, I want to
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find out why a hat box should be so heavy. Give me those scissors.
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Here you are, snip here, snip there. The spring is off.
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We lift the lid. We'll find outs of tissue paper. Hurry up,
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Nick, and under the tissue paper we find a whiskey decanther. But
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that can't be whiskey in it, it's too red. You're right there.
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Don't touch a petsy if your fingerprints on it, let me use my handkerchief.
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I'll take it out where I can see it better. Oh that's a
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beautiful thing, Nick White's cut glass. Yes, but what's that in?
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It? Smells like wine as it is wine, sparkling burgundy. Say there's
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no more sparkle left in it. It's a funny thing to do. Put
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wine in a whiskey decantor Now I have a feeling i've seen this decandor before.
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Of course, Nick Natley headed at the Cords party last night, right,
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Patsy. He brought it downstairs and set it on the shelf of that
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little private bar. Brought it downstairs from the den. My missus Cord was
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murdered. And let me look at it again. Of course, that's why
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the wine was put in it. This was what killed missus Cord Patsy.
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Yes, see the blood right on the corner here. You can't see it
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with a decanner full of wine unless you look for it. And our fingerprints
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on a tool, I can see them, Pat's see. That's the answer.
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I don't get it. You will later. Right now, I've got
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to get over to the Green Hotel where I'm supposed to be registered as John
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Nicholas. I'll see you later, and take good care of that decanner.
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Oh, I wonder why I ever picked out such a dump to come to.
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Should at least have picked a radio? Yes? Can you come to
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see me again? Right away? What is it this time? Something special?
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Wallace is coming to see me? And I thought Wallace your brother?
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Yes, and I thought he could get some advice from you. How do
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you know he's coming? He just phoned me said he be here in five
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minutes. But that's suddenly and completely impossible, that's what he said. How
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do you know? What if on you? I guess you must have been
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near my hotel when I left to follow me here? Can you come?
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You bet? I'll come. I wouldn't miss it. Where are you tomorrow?
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Ask for Helen Laughlin. I'll be there in ten minutes. Oh clerk,
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Yes, sir, Miss Helen Laughlin's room number two eleven, right at
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the head of the stairs. Is she expecting you? Now? She's not
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expecting me, and I don't want to phone up to her. I want
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to surprise her. See. Oh sorry, sir. Rules are that all
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visitors have to be announced. Is that? So here's a five dollars bill
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see it. I'm not dead and half, so he's half for you and
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half for me. You get the other half if you don't phone on ahead
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that I'm coming, you do phone ahead. I've got something else here in
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my hip pocket that'll that you'll get when I come down, and I know
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how to handle it too. You get me, Yes, sir, I
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get you. You can go right or up. Nobody will announce you.
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Okay, see you later. Your hands a quick cutter, close it or
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other? Yes, father, very nicely done, mister Cord and son Arthur.
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If I'm not mistaken, I'm sorry, mister Carr. They phone waited
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if you twisted her arm, and she was glad to oblige. I knew
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they'd be here, Miss Bentham, so I notified the cops and the way
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up here. They should be along anywhere. We've got to lying. The
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police never believe him now he's wanted himself. Besides, where should he expect
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to find us here? For the simple reason that miss Bentham's brother Wallace just
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couldn't be coming here to see her. It's a physical impossibility. What do
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you mean by the head The dead can't walk? Oh, he's just talking
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color, Come cutter, where's that? Decanna? Suppose I told you it
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was at headquarters? Finger prints, blood and all. I wouldn't believe you.
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You couldn't know anything about it. It couldn't be much plainer. Blood
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in two places in the decanter or your wife was club once and the other
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place must have been where your club Wallace. Oh no, no, I'm
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sorry, miss Bendon. These two killed your brothers. Who well he knows.
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Just what do you know, cotter plenty? You caught Wallace and your
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wife together and killed them both by slugging him with a whiskey. Decanter,
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I imagine that Mackley was close enough to see you do it without being seen
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himself. Then you had the idea that if young Benttham disappeared, the police
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had blamed the murder on him. So you and your precious son carried his
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body out and hid it. But while you were gone, Mackley got his
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big idea blackmail. Here in front of him was a decanda of the blood
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and finger prints on it. And you, mister Cord, were now a
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very rich man, having inherited your wife's fortune at her death. So Mackley
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got the decanter, poured out the whiskey, and filled it with the wine
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from the bottle on the desk. The blood didn't show up that way.
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Then he took it down to the bar, carrying it carefully so as to
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preserve the valuable finger prints. Father, How can he know all this go
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on? Carter, anything else? Landie? Judging by the note we found
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on Mackley's body a while ago, he must have gone to Carla's apartment to
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let her in on the blackmailing scheme too. Maybe you wanted to hide the
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decanna there for safety, but you trailed him their cord and socked him with
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the bookend, figuring you don't hang any higher for three murders than for two.
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But Carla came in just then, and you were to leave before you
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could search Mackley's body. Then I got into the case. You trailed me
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and saw me get hold of Mackley's car, in which the decanter was hidden.
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Meanwhile, your sweet son trailed Carla here and the rest was easy,
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forced her to call me, and then forced me to produce the incriminating decann
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Yer, fool, Why should I kill my own wife because she had money
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and because you were broke? That in a jealous disposition or motive? Enough?
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Okay, so I killed her. Now I want that to Canada.
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You'll call a messenger on that phone, tell him where to bring it to
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you at once. If you don't, we'll start working on Coller again.
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Okay, God, you win. For carla sake, I'll do it.
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Let me have the phone. That's more like it, CARTERR. Call Cranson
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one three six five. That's the nearest messenger office. Ye, take the
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receiver. I'll diwe it for you very well. The card. Give me
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not to fix you, Carler. Take it easy, I'll take over now.
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Hi. Good for you. Sergeant. Wow, did you hear anything
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while you were out there? I heard enough to send the old boy to
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the chair. I'm glad you got my message. Okay, message I didn't
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get any message from you. The hotel clerk downstairs phone, And that was
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the message I sent you after I threatened him with my gun and flashed the
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torn five dollar bill on him. I knew he'd get in touch with headquarters
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right away. Smart fellow, that clerk wouldn't let anyone put anything over on
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him. And you're a smart fellow too, Kilroy, recognizing his description of
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me and answering the call yourself, nobody but me was going to have the
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pleasure of polling in. But look here, Carter, you said, Court
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and his son hit young Bentham's body. We went all over the house last
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night, and he isn't hidden there. If you look at one of those
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big guns that Cord's place is decorated with. Give me those big vases,
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he canoe never thought to look inside them. I'll send someone up right away.
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How about me. I haven't forgotten you wanted to arrest me a while
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back. I ain't forgotten that, Carter, and I ain't forgotten about that
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sock and the joy you give me. But look, suppose we decide that
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I broke this murder case myself. Would you have any objections? Why no,
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Sergeant, tell her what I'll do. I'll swap you a decanter complete
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with fingerprints and bloodstains, and return for letting buy gunes be by gones and
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no hard feelings anywhere. Agreed? Okay, but the future keep out of
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my way. I don't want to have any more arguments with you. Your
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arguments have too much punch behind them for me. In just a moment,
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Nick and Patsy will return with the preview of next week's exciting case. But
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And now let's hear from Nick Carter himself. How are you going to
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start the new year off? Nick? If you've got a good story for
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us, well, I think so. Ken, a friend of mine,
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a college professor, was shot in his own home just a few minutes before
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I got there to see him. The motive was not robbery, but we
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couldn't find any other motive either, And as Nick didn't take me with him
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on that trip, he didn't have the advantage of my experience and training as
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a super detective, which was a great mistake Patsy, as Nick undoubtedly found
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out. Another murder followed on the heels of the first, and a third
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victim was nearly added to the list, the said third victim being Nick himself.
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Yes, I came near the end that time that at any other in
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my life. What do you call it, Vic, I've called it Monkey
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Sees Murder or the Mystery of the Peruvian Red Mark. We'll listen next week
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before the details So long, but now I think you'd be interested to hear
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Nick Carter as the guest detective on the quickst the Flash program this evening at
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six o'clock over most of these stations. Why not tune in and now,
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so long and so long to you both Nick and Patsy. Be seeing you
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again next week. Next week at the same time, listen to another curious
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Ken Powell speaking, this is mutual welcome back. While we learned why
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Lieutenant Riley's so cooperative, if a police officer gets out of line wow with
32:30
Nick Carter. Uh kind of interesting to give him a different sort of policeman
32:36
because usually Nick Carter's got you know, pretty compliant, cooperative, almost worshipful
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police got to deal with in Lieutenant Riley. Here you find Nick Carter dealing
32:51
with a situation with a police counterpeart a lot like Boston Blackie's Inspector Faraday and
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not a situation that Nick Carter would accept. And through it all, I
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thought it was pretty clever the way he made sure of the police would be
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there in a way that the crooks wouldn't be counting on. Now we turn
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to listener comments and feedback, and just a pretty simple one from Nancy many
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