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and you can the show at support dot Great Detectives dot net. Well,
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now it's time for today's episode of Nick Carter. The original air date December
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twenty eighth, nineteen forty seven, and it's the Case of the Missing Straight
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You Postwar All Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing Dirk, presents Nick Carter,
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daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective. I's see
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the case of the Missing Street, Today's adventure starring lawn Clock as Nick Carter,
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brought to you by a new postwar old Dutch cleaner. A pretty girl
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named Jean White rushes up the reckety stairs of an ancient office building in the
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older part of Pound. She push us open the door marked Wallace White Contractor
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and enters Wally, Wally, I'm here, come in to take a look
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at this, take a look at what. My gosh, when you for
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me to rush over, it sounds if you'd finally got a contract. I
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have, Geene, I have. I'm sure of it. Oh, Wally,
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after all these months, I can't believe it. Oh say, you
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didn't think Wallace White five at first Class could turn into Wallace White Contractor.
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Eh, well, here's my first job, says Oh, that's great,
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because Marbola's company's building a ten story garage down on the northwest corner of Ninth
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Avenue in Ninth Street. Here here's the architect set of blueprints. But how
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did you get them? Well, they asked me to submit a bid,
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so I sent for them, and I submitted a bit that it's got to
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be the lowest I can't lose. Oh, Wally, that's wonderful. Hey
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wait a minute, since when are they tearing down the movie house? What
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movie house? What on the northwest corner of Ninth aven You and Ninth You're
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crazy. There is a movie house there. That's an empty lot. Oh
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no, it isn't. Remember I lived in Greenwich Village when I first came
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to town, when I roomed with Patsy Bowen, a girl who works for
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Nick Corner. Yeah, that's right, And there's a movie house right where
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this garage is supposed to go up. I know that. No, wait
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a minute, I know the village too. It's a vacant lot. It
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is not. The vacant lot is at tenth Street. The movie house is
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at tenth Street. All right, wise guy, come on down to the
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village and i'll prove your raw. Well, this is ninth Avenue and tenth
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Street, and there's the movie house on the corner. Just as I said.
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Golly, I could have sworn. Wait a minute, Bally, we're
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both right. There's the vacant lot across the street, also at ninth Avenue
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and tenth Golly, the village is so twisted and mixed up. You can't
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never remember anything about me. What's the matter. There's something fish fishy?
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Yeah, there isn't any intersection of ninth Avenue and ninth Street. What We'll
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take a look for yourself. The avenue runs into the village square and ends.
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Ninth Street is below the square. It doesn't even come close to the
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avenue with the blueprint set. Yeah, it says that a garage is going
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to be built on imaginary land, but there just isn't any such street corner.
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I don't understand, Wally. Is this some kind of a gag or
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something. Well, if it is, I don't like it. I paid
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a fifty dollars deposit to the Cosmopolis company on these blueprints. Do you think
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something is crooked, Wally? It sure looks that way. But Wally ejeen,
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do you think Patsy Bowen could get us into scennic Cotter even if it's
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a case involving only fifty dollars? Gee, I don't know. We could
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try, Okay, then let's try. We gotta get help from somebody in
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the first place. Mister Whitt, there's no such thing as a case.
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He's too small for me to investigate. Understand that. But I can't pay
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mister Cotton. You see, Wally hasn't earned much money since he's been out
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of the army. He's trying to get started in the contracting business. It's
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white. I don't charge folks. I want to help if they can't afford
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to pay. Oh, mister Carter, you're your excuse me, but I've
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got to do this. Hey, what's the idea kissing my balls? Fair?
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I'm as White. I just had to show you my gratitude. Well
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we'll enter that on a new file card mark Wallace fee one kiss paid in
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advance, and that's a fee it'll be a pleasure to earn. That is
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what I call an ambiguous crack. All right, then suppose we skip it,
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you know, White, because Mapulist companies and the record I think it
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is, it'll be a pleasure to smash it. What record do you think
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that is, mister Connor? I figure they've sent out blueprints to contractors all
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over this part of the country, and those blueprints are for buildings no one
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ever intends to build. But I paid a fifty dollars deposit for those times.
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The crooks that you paid your money to have no intention of return.
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Oh I I don't care what you do with the blueprints cost them only a
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few cents. You moti by fifty dollars by a couple of one hundred gullible
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contractors, and you have quite a racket, a racket which is repeated in
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city after city. Well, Nick, what are you going to do about
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it. First thing, Patsy is they were going down to the mailing address
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or the because Maopolis company they're legitimate, Okay they're not. Yes, then
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I'm going to earn that kiss. Good afternoon. I'm Doris Foster. I'm
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Nick Carter. This is my secretary of Patsy Boonen, Nick Carter, the
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detective. That's right. Tell me, miss Foster, what's your connection with
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the Cosmopolis Company? Well? None, really, Miss Harris. My boss
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friends help this office as a mailing address. She has several clients, and
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the Cosmopoulus Company is one of them. Why is there any mail for them?
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Now? Yes, yes there is. Let me see it, please,
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mister Carter. I can't. I'm not going to open the mail.
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I just want to look at it. May I see it? Please?
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But why? Because there's a chance that the Cosmopolis Company may be running a
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racket. I want to check. You mean they're doing something crooked? That's
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the addie. Oh my gosh, this is awful. I mean, here's
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the meal. Thanks, I'll turn out that light for your passy like this.
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Yes, that's fine. Thanks. Eleven letters here the strong light behind
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them. It looks as though each one contains a check or money order.
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I guess that's all the proof we need, Passy. How is that proof
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need? Wally White isn't the only contractor in the world, true enough,
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but a legitimate firm wouldn't be requesting construction bids from so many different contractors.
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This is a racket, all right. Oh, and you're right in the
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middle of Miss Foster. Now listen, mister Carter. I've only worked here
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for a few weeks. I don't billing up the mail for Chrismopolis a man
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named Nixon. You know anything about this Nixon is how to get in touch
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with him? No, but he usually comes in every afternoon, my time,
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anytime. All right. We won't trouble you anymore, Miss Foster,
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but we'll certainly trouble that mister Nixon when he comes in. Oh uh,
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Miss Foster. When Nixon comes in, give him this mail. I be
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careful not to say anything about me. I understand. Oh yes, mister
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Carter, all right, come on, Passy. Looks as if I'm not
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going to earn that kiss after all, Geene White will have to give it
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to Uncle Sam. Step around the corner of the hall, Passy, what
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was that crack? About Uncle Sam. This is a federal case, illegal
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use of the mail. You got to notify the FBI. This isn't for
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us. Oh, but I'm not taking any chances on this, Nixon.
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In the meantime, why over here, why I want to look at this
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broom closet? But what for till in a minute? Oh no, No,
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what's all the mystery? See that later up there. Yes, there's
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also a bettle letter in the office where miss Foster is. I didn't notice
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it. Well I did, and we should be able to hear anything that's
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said in there from right here. But I can't hear anything. Lucully ms.
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Foster's in there, lawns, he's not talking to anybody. What do
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you intend to do? Just stand here until somebody comes in and starts to
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talk. No, I'm leaving you here. Then I'm sending Scubby over with
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a portable wire recorder. You too, should be able to get that grill
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off and hold the microphone right up against the grill on the other wall.
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Gee, it's pretty high up mee. Scubby will give you a boost.
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Sure, I want you to try to record everything that's said in that office.
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We'll do our darness. Nick but what's the idea That foster girl looked
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flustered. She was. I'm sure she won't be able to keep her mouth
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shut when she sees Nixon. She may be provoked in as saying something valuable.
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And when Nixon leaves, Scubby tails in her. Yeah, you're a
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smart girl, Patsy. When Scubby leaves, you report back to the office.
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We'll turn over everything we got on this case to the government. Man.
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What's the joke? Well, I just can't wait to see you turn
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over to an FBI man that kiss Jean gave you. Oh Dos, how's
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the office going? Oh gosh, Miss Harris, I'm awful glad you came
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in. Something terrible's just happened. What's the matter, Doris? So,
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I'm afraid we're mixed up in some kind of racket, Miss Harris. Nick
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Carter was just here, Nick Carter, what did he want? He was
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doing some investigating for a man named Wally White. Mister Carter said those Becausemopolis
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people are some kind of crooks. And I think mister Carter's going to wait
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until mister Nixon calls for his mail and then do something to it. I'll
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take it easy, doors if that Nixon is a crook. I'll get rid
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of him fasting. Oh gosh, Miss Harris's got me so upset, I
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Doris, why don't you take the rest of the day off. I'll take
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care of things here at the office. Honestly, I'm so shaky I couldn't
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type anymore today. Don't worry. I'll finish up for you. Gosh,
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you swell. It's a pleasure working for you, even if I have only
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been here a few weeks. Oh, mister nixond, my boss has something
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to tell you, mister Nixon. Goodbye. Well that's the matter with her.
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Your mail is on the desk, mister Nixon. Why, oh yeah,
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thanks, I'll trouble you to take your mail out of here and take
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yourself too. What are you talking about? Never mind what I'm talking about.
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Just understand that I'm severing relations with your company as of today. I
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don't want anything more to do with you, mister Nixon or the Cosmopolis Company.
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Okay, okay. I don't know why you're sore at me all of
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a sudden, but it's okay with me. You ain't the only public steno
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in this city, quite right, mister Nixon. Goodbye? Nick Nick,
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you're back yet got back to the office a few minutes ago. They're talking
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with a Justice department Do they know about Nixon? They're hot on his trail
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and then after him for over a year. Oh and tell me he always
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operates with the same girl. They're an old team. Doris Foster, the
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girl in the office. Yes, what makes you so sure? Did she
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tell Nixon anything? Listening? Doris Foster pretend to be upset by your visit.
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She went home for the day and left the office to a boss,
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a woman named fran Harris. Then Nixon came in for his mail, and
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fran Harris didn't say a thing to him, just told him to get out.
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That's so, I'll bet Doris Foster pull that act just to get a
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chance to warn him. Maybe it's gotty tail Nixon. When he left,
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he went right out after him. Maybe I wasn't thankful for that. Well,
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can't you imagine me cooped up in a dark closet with a scubby He
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kept asking me to marry him every two minutes. He didn't say yes,
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did you? Of course not? Well what about this Brian Harris? But
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she kept her mouth shutting. It just gave Nixon. The frieze told him
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to take his mail and never come back. She did. Uh huh.
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I've got the recording here, but he won't do any good. Nixon didn't
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say anything incriminated. Discoveries are only lead. I hope he can hold on
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to Nixon. Oh, he'll report back as soon as he gets the chance.
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Nick Carter speaking, mister Carter, this is Gean White. Yes,
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Jee, you've got to come up to my brother's office right away. What's
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the matter. He's been shot. I think he's dead murdered. Nick and
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Patsy leave the office of a run, jump into Nick's convertible, and drive
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swiftly toward Wallace White's office. We'll see what happens next in just a moment.
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In Wallace White's office, Nick examines the body on the floor while Jane
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pours out her story. We were just sitting here, mister Cutt, talking
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about the missing Street, wondering whether you get easy, Jean. All of
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a sudden there was a shot through the glass stand in the door. Wally
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just swapped out of his chair. I called you right away. It's a
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good thing you did, Jean. Wally's badly hurt, but he isn't dead.
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Who thank you. Bullet through the lung, missus Hart live fraction of
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an inch I think Patsy get on the phone and get an ambulance here past
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right, nay I, I can't understand that, mister cut Neither can Eye
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Jean, mister tempted murder doesn't make sense. True enough, Wally made the
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move that uncovered Nixon's blueprint racket. It's true that Nixon can get about seven
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years in the federal penitentiary he's caught, but that doesn't addup to murder.
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It just doesn't make sense. Oh, good, places happened to Scubby?
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He was on Nixon's tail? How did he let him shoot Wally? Well,
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maybe he just waded downstairs when Nixon came up here. He couldn't be
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that stupid. He explained to you about the case, didn't you, of
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course, Nick, And he knew that this was Wally's address. Of course
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he'd follow Nixon up the stairs to see what he was after. That's right.
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We'll hold on here until the ambudence takes over, and we'll hustle back
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to the office and see whether we can find Scubby. I want to hear
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what he's got to say. Oh wait a minute, Nick, you said
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this was a federal case. It isn't our business. A mail fraud part
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isn't and we'll bow out on that. An attempted murder. It was something
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else, Patsy, that's all. It was my business, Scubby, Hire
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folks, Scubby, what the deuce are you doing here in the office?
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Where's Nixon? Gee? Nick, I'm sorry he got away from me,
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got away from you. Yeah, I lost him and let him go up
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to Wally White's office and pump a bullet into him. What, Scubby?
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I hate you. Don't you ever propose to me again? How easy?
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Passy? What happened? Scubby? Well? I tell Nixon out of the
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building. I swear he never saw me. Then he got into a cab,
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and I followed the cab all the way up to the city line.
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When we got there, Nixon wasn't in it. Old Dodge went in one
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door of the cabin, ran on out the other. Muster Seenhcuby. Oh
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how could he? I wasn't tailing him for more than a minute. Maybe
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he's smarter than we think. Oh well, ge Nick, all right,
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all right, we've lost our lead with Nixon. Let's find another. Patsy.
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Let me hear that wire recording. Well, there isn't anything on it
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all right, that's you heard anyway. Okay, here goes Oh, mister
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Nixon. My boss had something to tell you, mister Nixon. Good bye.
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Oh what's the matter with her? Your rado was on the desk?
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Oh? Yeah, thanks, I'll trouble to take the mail out of here
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to take yourself. What are you talking about? Just understand that I have
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several relations with your company as it did anything you want to all the cosmos?
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Okay, okay. I don't know why you're sword Nie all of a
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sudden, but it's okay with me. You ain't the only public studle in
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the city, quite right. Good Bye? Well how about that? See
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you're wrong, Nick, We didn't learn a thing? I repeat, how
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about that? Well did we? What time is it, Bessie? That's
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time enough to go down and have another interview with fran Harris. That girl
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didn't talk, but maybe she can help us find Nixon another way. I
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hope we're in time, Nick, I think we are. What now,
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Nick, it's gotta you're going upstairs. Wait in the cord or outside fran
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Harris's office. She leaves the office. Stay with her. Check. We'll
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wait here and pick you up when you come out. I'll get going,
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you bet, and this time I don't get food. I see has going
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that drugs are there? We need a phone, a phone, right,
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I'm going to interview miss Harris on the telephone, and when I finished,
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wild horses won't be able to keep her in that office. One minute longer,
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one cheese. I come on on, they be pretty crool. I
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don't mind. Okay, come on all right, Nick? What are you
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going to say to friend Harris when you get her on the phone. First
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of all, I'm going to try to sound like Nixon. But what are
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you going to say anything that comes into my head? Just as long as
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it doesn't make sense to me. Muffle the phone with your handkerchief so I
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can have my other hand freeze. Sure, but I don't get it quiet.
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I'll have her in a second. Okay, Hello, Oh hello,
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miss Harris? Yes, who's this? This is a credison find a set
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of company calling the time of day? Just the curbas of ectans. What's
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that? Hey? Why a double poet required? Betsy? I don't think
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you do to you, Miss Harris? Oh, please understand the way it
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means released. I want to say it again the twice time. When he
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went inside of the office. He did, he didn't get that, and
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he did. I'm afraid I don't understand. I wouldn't have the type that
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Ju's per make ridiculous. Isn't the time I went in there should at least
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because listening is understanding, which is a sensible way, isn't it? You
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have the wrong number? Goodbye? She hung up me. What were you
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tapping your ring against the phone for all the time you were talking? I
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was part of the interview. Come on, Brian, Harris will be shooting
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out of her offers any minute, and we've got to be in the car
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ready to follow her. She's turning down four Street. Dick right, we'll
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stay with her. I wish I knew what you said to her on the
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phone. She can't scooter out of her office. I gave her some double
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talk double talk with Nixon's voice or a reasonable facsimilate, and Wally took.
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Nick also tapped on the phone with his ring. Oh, I wish I
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could figure out your tricks, Nick, Yeah, good. Crook's good too.
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That wouldn't be so good. Brand just ducked into that loft building.
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Are we going in after it? We are? We're gonna move fast or
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we'll lose her. I can hear, Nick, she's still running up the
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stairs ahead of us, probably headed for the top floor. And what she
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got to do with Nixon and Doris Foster. You'll find out she saw because
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they were using her office for their raging. Let's keep extra quiet, please
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step for coming up. Do you think Nixon's inside that lot? I hope
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so. But what do we do? A simple thing? Just knock on
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the door and go in. Afterward, inside we'll take him. Well,
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suppose he puts up the fight. Don't forget what he did to Wally White.
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I'm not forgetting Wally White. But Nick, you can't write it right
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now? Stop here, Nexon, Open up, Open up, Nexon.
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I want to talk to you. Quick, click down. I was Wrong's
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it going to be a fight and maybe another murder? Nick, Patsy and
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Scubby crouched on the floor. A shot splinter the plant door. We'll see
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what happens in just a moment. Friends, we won't be with you again
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until next week, so we take this opportunity to wish you the very best
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of everything for the new year. Nineteen forty seven has seen America assume a
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role of world leadership. The poor and oppressed peoples in many lands look to
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us in the years ahead for strength and guidance. So let us set the
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example by welcoming the coming year with faith and optimism, confident that we can
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wishing you a very happy, very prosperous new year. Now for the conclusion
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of the case of the Missing Street, brought to you by a new postwar
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old Dutch Cleander. Outside the door of the Blueprint plant, Nick, Patsy
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and Scubby hug the floor as bullets smashed through the door over their heads.
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We don't do something, Nick, that's friend Harris. I'm coming in,
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Miss Harris. You can't do it. Are you crazy? He'll drop you
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as soon as you go through that door. Here I come, Nixon,
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all right, you can come into Patsy. Nixon's dead. Dead. Nixon's
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dead with a bullet through his heart. As Pryan over against the wall.
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You got here just in time, mister Carter. Nixon was going to kill
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me. It's no use, Miss Harris. You made a good try,
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but it didn't work. I could try. How could Nixon be dead with
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a bullet through his heart when I never fired a shot. We're hoping I
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would shoot, won't you? Oh he he killed himself when you said you
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were coming in. Oh no he didn't. Fran You put a bullet into
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him and stage the whole act. Too bad? I followed up the lead
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so quickly, isn't it You were hoping he'd be framed for the murder of
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Wally White? You mean she she shot Wally? I told you that murder
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didn't make sense, Patsy, but he did as soon as I discovered friend
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was in the racket with Nixon, was using Doris as a front. That's
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not true, and Doris was illocently she was gubby. When we started investigating
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the fraud pulled on Wally White, she got scared and reported it to fran
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Harris, and Franz suddenly got a bright idea. What do you mean?
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You figured that if you killed Wally with Nixon's gun, you could blame the
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killing on Nixon and a ballistics test would show that it was Nixon's gun and
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he'd be executed for murder, then you could take over the racket. You're
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a liar, Fran. Whether or not we can prove that you killed Wally
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makes no difference, because we can prove you killed Nixon just now you cannot.
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Oh yes we can. You see, friend, there's no gun with
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then Nixon's reach as he lies there dead, and there are also no powder
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marks on him to indicate suicide. Therefore the only person who could have killed
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him is you. Well, you'll never prove anything. Don't bother to argue,
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Frand a criminal court will settle it for you, and settle it good
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with the evidence I have. From now on, a prison cell is going
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to be your mailing address. Nick. There are a couple of points about
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what Betsy. Well, you say Fran, Harris and Nixon worked this racket
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together. That's right. Then you mean that whenever Nixon started this racket in
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a new city, Fran went on ahead and rented an office so we could
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have a mailing address. Sure. She also hired a girl to work for
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hers, a snographer. A girl, of course, knew nothing about the
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rackets. She just knew that she worked for friends. Uh huh, yeah,
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But how did you figure out the tie up between fran and Nixon.
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The minute I heard that wire recording, I knew that they were working together.
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But she didn't say anything, Nick, She didn't, but her typewriter
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said plenty. Her typewriter mm mmm. She was typing in code all the
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time. She was talking in cold That's right, what she and Nixon had
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it worked out for emergencies. She was afraid someone might be listening outside,
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so she tapped on a message and her typewriter in international code. Nick Carter
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snooping around, played dumb and go back to the plant. So that's how
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Nixon knew Scubby was tailing here, correct, And that's how you got it
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to lead us to the plant. While you were talking double talk to her,
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you were also tapping a message to her with your ring right again.
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Huh? All I said was Nixon calling emergency, come to plant immediately.
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And when she heard us outside the loft door, she realized she'd been followed
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exactly, and she tried her last desperate trick. She killed Nixon and then
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fired a few more shots and pretended she was an innocent victim about to be
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murdered. Yeah, but you didn't fall for it, which finished the case.
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No not quite. We've got to go round to the hospital and see
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Wally White. Ah got a present the Jean. Oh, I've got a
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reward for Wally. Huh. A Justice department was offering one thousand dollars for
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information leading to the rest of Nixon, and I'm seeing to it that Wally
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collects. Oh, that's swell. He lost money on a missing street,
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but now he's going to collect on a missing crook. Nick, how about
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a hinter two on what new post war old Utch clencher hasn't start for us
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next week? Well, Bob, the only thing I can tell you is
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something I'm afraid you won't believe it. Well if you see it, well
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I'll believe it. Go on and tell me. Okay. Then it's the
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story of a man who was shot and killed by a stained glass window,
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killed by a Now, Nick, wait a minute, Oh well, Bob,
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you can't say Nick didn't warn you. But that sounds absolutely crazy.
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What do you call the story, Nick? I call it the case of
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fictional and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental. This
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cleanser. This is the mutual broadcasting systems welcome back. Well. We continue
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to see Nick Carter playing racketbuster, and this one is an interesting enough one,
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realistic way that this sort of it would work, the way the capture
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happened, kind of stretch things. I do think Patsy is moving in any
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direction. I don't necessarily feel is a is a direction. And the listeners
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have caught on too with her being jealous of a simple kiss given to Nick,
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and then you also have her constant refusals of Scubby. But I'm thinking
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that might have to do with Scubby perhaps needing to take a hint, because
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yeah, it sounds like a tedious thing to have him around. Will you
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marry me? No? Will you marry me? No? Let's go ahead
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and turn, turn, take a turn? Will you marry me no?
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Yeah? No. I'm glad that they only have time to sew so much
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on the program. I mentioned this previously over on a Man from Homicide,
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but I will mention it here in this week's episode, we are going to
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fairly shortly be playing the Ellery Queen. Mysteries and Ellery Queen has always had
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a sort of solve it yourself idea behind it. This was represented in the
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radio program where a panel of armchair attractives would speak their minds as to what
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they thought the solution was. In the nineteen seventies TV series I've been watching
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My Way through Ellery would challenge the audience, ask them if they knew who
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had done the crime. And that's great on those shows where the mystery panel
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exists, but there are a few where it doesn't, and I had the
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idea that we could recreate that with listeners serving as the panelists. They would
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receive the portion of the episode right up until ELLERI Queen gets ready to reveal
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the solution, and then they would be interviewed, get an idea with their
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occupation, just a few little general pieces of information about them, and then
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they would offer their solution. I'd be interested in hearing from the audience.
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If you're interested in doing that, certainly email me and what do you think
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about the idea of recreating and readding that sort of scene into those Ellery Queen
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mysteries where that element is missing. I'd love to hear from you. Email
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