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Let George Do It: The Greystone Ghost (EP0803) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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of George Valentine. Who's that? What is it? I'll be read?
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Oh no, no, Garrett, it isn't you out there? It can't
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be. You're dead. I must be reading dead, I must be.
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Well, you get it? You be there just a month ago? What
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you weren't there? Well you you're dead. Don't you get it? You
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couldn't you just cotton cot George? Because is the strangest layer out everywhere.
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I'm sure we get some strange ones. Dear mister Valentine, will you please
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be my guest at Graystone for a few days. I'm prepared to play whatever
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you ask for your services. Your work will be to Riddney of a ghost
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that I'm sure isn't a ghost at all. When you arrive, please cough
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from the telephone at the gatekeeper's lodge, as you won't be able to get
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across the moat until I lower the drawbridge. Signed them on to Gray.
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Down comes the drawbridge excites the imagination personally, I think, imagine the bridge
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over the moat is down. We ended the palace. It certainly looks like
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one. Mister Ben Til Yes, missus Gray coming right in? Suppose she
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goes the bridge backup? How do we get out of here? We'll face
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that problem when we come to it, as is Gray. This is miss
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Brooks my assistance. How do you, my dear, I'm happy to have
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yes, dry, I think we finish all of our business for today.
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So oh you have guessed? Yes, of course. Dwight. I want
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you to meet mister Valentine and miss Brooks. Mister Dwight owned my attorney.
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How do you do. Please come out to help me, Dwight. He's
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going to help find out about these things. Oh, yes, well,
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I certainly hope you can. Valentine, a man is pretty upset about the
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whole thing. I hope I can't too, mister h are you. I
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just don't have it I know what my job is yet. Oh, well,
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of course you don't. If you'll excuse me, goodbye, man,
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I'll see you, yes, right, and now if you tool step in
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a little farther it, come in study. Please. I expect you to
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think I'm completely crazy, don't you. No, I won't blame you if
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you did. A woman living in a house with a moat around it this
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day and alien, Oh, there must be a reason for any cross stairs
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a sit down for. My husband was an architect. His name was Garrett
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Gray. Oh, yes, I've heard of him. He was notority on
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old English architecture. He loved it. That's why he brought His house was
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a short place. I can see that. It was. The bridge over
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the moon was set and raised before his death. But since then things had
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happened. It needed quite necessary, I see. Oh would you tell us
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exactly what has happened, missus Green? Certainly, my husband died a month
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ago, just two weeks ago. I was awakened to see his face in
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my bedroom window. You do, of course I didn't. I told her
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my husband is dead. I saw him buried. And how do you account
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for the seen his face? It's quite simple. Some years ago a scoop
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defriend of Garrett's, did a bust of him. The next morning after my
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apparition, I on the bust on the ground outside my bedroom window. Some
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practical joker. I suppose. They seldom have any regard for personal feelings.
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I know, but my practical joker must have had extraordinary powers. Mister Valentine.
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The house was completely locked. The bust was in this room. Ah,
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I see a whole is here besides yourself, Missus Grey, just my
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niece and nephew, Ronald and Sylvia Gray. They are really my husband's niece
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and nephew. Of course they're Stevens. He's the butler, Missus Gray.
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Is that when you began raising that bridge over the moat? No, not
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until after the second thing happened. What was that? A large portrait of
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my husband disappeared over the metal in the living room one night. I searched
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everyone for it, to the Utalian Nisan nephew about it, of course,
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and Stevens too. They were all as amazed as I. The next day
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it was in place again. Well, Missus, why I still think somedood
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stains on it? Oh? And there were those signs that any of your
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household have been hurt, none at all. Well, one thing seems certain,
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Missus Gray. Somebody's trying to get you to move. I trt with
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you. I'm all sounded like an explosion of some kind. Stay here with
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Missus Gray Brooks. I'm going to see what this is all about. Hello,
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who are you? And what do you want? Just having to be
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a guest of Missus Gray, Valentine's and Amy, I am anagine your Stevens.
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Yes, what happened back there? I was just going to tell Missus
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Gray about it. There was an exclusion in the kitchen. Come on back,
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we'll have a look. Yes, but I must tell missus Grays.
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Come on, where's the kitchen? Right through this door? Styre gone?
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Oh well yeah, I stop that corner pretty well, didn't it. Yes,
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sir, I was in my room, the first one down the hall,
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and it practically threw me out of my chair, right I say this
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moment and the burned up fuse the wire running right out here. Come on,
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Stevens, let's follow this wire out the back. Don't see where it
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goes very well? But I feel very uncomfortable about this whole business. Things
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have been happening. That's why I'm here. I think there is a ghost
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around here, mister Vallings. And here's a live ghost around here, Stevens,
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A pretty clever live ghost too. Here take a look at this.
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Why that is my alarm clock. It disappeared yesterday, very mystuously, and
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I had it's all ragged up to spark that fuse at exactly this hour.
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The job was a little lamatorish, but it worked, didn't it, Stevens,
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Yes, sir, it didn't. But what I want to know is
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who could have done it? That's what I want to know, too,
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So come on, let's find out. You mean you have a way of
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knowing? Not sure. I just don't like all these things happening to my
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friend, missus Gray. Well, naturally neither do I, sir. Right,
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then do something for me. Get the niece and nephew, Sylvia and
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Ronald, and come to again. We're then as soon as possible, I'd
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like to have a little conference. Anna murmur Yes, Sylvia, who steven
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says, there's a man here who wants to see us. That's right,
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my dear, come in all three of us personally, mister Valentine. This
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is my niece Sylvia and my nephew, Ronald, and you've missed Steve.
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Yes, that's right. And miss Brooks, we're here, is your ansk.
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Yes, but we're also here to help her get rid of a live
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post. Mister Valentine, I don't like to say this. Isn't it possible?
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Forgive me, adam Man, I don't want to, right, my
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dear. You mean that perhaps I've been imagining things that's possible, isn't it.
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I feel just as Sylvia doesn't. Neither one of you or Steven's here.
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I saw the face in the window, of course, but you'll move
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about the portrait being missing. I must make a confession about the portrait,
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mister Valentine. After Missus Gray told me about it, I made a thorough
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search of the house. I found it in the storeroom and put it back
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quite belong with the blood stains on it. I expect I shall lose my
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position anyway, so I may as well say it. Did you notice the
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bendige on Missus Gray finger? Oh? No, no, I guess I
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didn't. But we've got another thing to think about. Ronald, Sylvia,
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didn't you hit explosion a few minutes ago? I didn't. I was asleep.
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I heard it. Of course, it sounded like a car back firing
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to me. Okay, then I want to ask you one thing. Don't
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you all think missus Gray should move out of this house? I do.
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If she doesn't, something really bad might happen to her. Well, I
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don't. If somebody is trying to make her move for some reason, you
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can find out who it is, can't you, mister Valentine? Yes,
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I think he cares. How about your Stevens. I happen to have one
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theory, mister Valentine. I don't agree with what I'm sure you are thinking.
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If I may say so, I don't think this is an inside job.
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Oh you don't know. And for one, I am happy to have
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you here. I just hope nothing bad happens to you too. Very nicely
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spoken Stevens. All right, we'll shawnas Brooks and me to our rooms,
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will freshen up for dinner, and tomorrow, well tomorrow, we'll see what
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happens. Is who's that? What do you want in my room? I
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can see you moving. I warn you I have a gun, go away
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or a shoot this room. You don't come any clus around time? Ray?
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I heard a shop on who's the delegation in my room on the floor,
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And now back to tonight's adventure of George Valentine. You're sent for by
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the widow of a well known architect to help her dispose of a ghost that
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isn't the ghost. You can see nothing supernatural in the face at the window,
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the disappearing portrait, or the crude bomb. Someone is obviously trying to
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frighten your client out of this strange house that is surrounded by a moat.
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If your name is George Valentine, you suspect that a man the gray has
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solved the case herself by shooting a nocturnal prowler in the room, and as
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you hurry with her on the hallway, you're, mister Valentine, all and
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white like a ghost. It opened the door and came into my room.
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I shot and it fell on the door. All right, now we'll find
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out down the hall. Brook say this is your own listeners, Yes,
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Ry know where's the white switch? It's right here. Where did you see
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this? Oh? It was someone? I know it. You are right,
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Missus Gray, Yes, yes, but your ghost left it's why sheet
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All right, Missus Gray, I'm afraid your aim wasn't so good. He
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or she has climbed out of the shroud and left shot. I didn't down
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the floor. Wait a minute, let's see your gun? Yes, yes,
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is here on my ta Something sounds pretty funny about this. Yeah,
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yeah, here's the answer. All right. You're sure this gun was properly
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loaded, Missus Gray. Yes, and men loaded it for me in the
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store. Well, I'm afraid something has happened in the meantime, George,
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what do you mean? This is great? I didn't kill anybody, Brook.
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See she couldn't because this gun is loaded with blank cartridges flesh. But
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it couldn't be mister Valentine, I saw him put in the real bullet.
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Oh, I'm sure he did, but someone else decided it would be safer
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this way. Somebody in this house, Jeworge, Oh, it's pretty obvious
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anyone coming in from outside would have to swim across the moat. I don't
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see any signs of water around here. The sheet is perfectly dry. This
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is great, This is great. I heard the commotion as anything wrong.
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Well, Stevens, you're quite well dressed for the middle of the night.
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I came as quickly as I could. And if you're trying to accuse me
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of sometime, yeah, gathering the clan, just one more party to be
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heard from. Now, what's the matter? Why are you all here an
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Anima's room? Your aunt shot a ghost, Sylvia, She was, yeah,
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what's that you said, Valentine? You heard me, Ronald. Pretty
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frightful experience for your aunt, for all of you, in fact, imagine
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a ghost in the house. But that's nonsense. There's no such thing as
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a real, live ghost. I think there is. I wonder if any
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of you would like to try on this sheet, just for si. Missus
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Valentine, I realize you're trying to help me. But now you're casting suspicions
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on Sylvia and Ronald and Steven's They wouldn't do anything like this. No,
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no, I suppose not. All right, we've had our little excitement for
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to night. Suppose you will go back to your arms. Eh. I'd
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like to ask a few questions of missus Gray. What are you thinking,
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George? Oh? I was just trying to go along with Stevens theory for
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a moment. You know that this isn't an inside job, as he so
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quietly puts it. But that is impossible, is it? Oh? I
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don't know, Missus Gray. Your husband left it, will, I suppose,
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of course. Well, then tell me. Was there any provision that
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someone else would get the house if you moved out of it? Oh?
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No, nothing like that. He left everything to me outright, just with
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a provision that I take care of his niece and nephew, see that they
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had a whole Well, I blast another theory. My husband left the holographic
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will wrote it himself. No, no one had ever seen it. It
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was sealed and in the safe at our attorneys. But the holographic world an
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unusual As a George, that part wasn't unusual. No, just one paragraph
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in it. I've never found out what it meant or what was it.
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I said something like, my beloved Amanda, there is more fortune than I
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leave you. It is in Graystone, and you alone will know the key
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to finding it. Just remember how well we loved Pennsylvania, and remember my
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work. This treasure is for you, and you only. I haven't the
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least idea. I've never been able to figure it out. I see the
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world, certainly, but not tonight. I return it right own. You
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met him this afternoon he has, remember, Yes, Well, tell me
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how many people know about this? Just the people to whom he left something,
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Sylvia and Ronald Stevens, He's secretary, mister Carver, and myself righthead
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is all together when he read it. The same people keep cropping up,
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don't they, George you? One exception? What about the secretary Carver?
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Where is he now? He's living in town, works for another architect.
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I believe I got his address. Yes, I'll get it for you good.
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And I'd like to see the exact wording in that clause in the world
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he's a word. You could have, mister Owen bring it out here tomorrow
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morning, of course, But I think I puted it almost word for work.
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I'm sure you have, but sometimes just one little word makes a difference.
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Very well, how cold, Dwight bursting in the morning here Angel in
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the study, Jorge, something else has happened, missus Bray and I just
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went in the morning room today and the place is a math darling, an
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old hutch cabinet assess been pried apart, and there an American chair was mister
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Valentine. I can't understand. I think I can. This is gray.
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It's probably our fault because we're here. I mean those early American pieces might
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be from Pennsylvania spots. I suppose, so at least it's a good try.
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Then might what are you talking about, George? Just but with us
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in the house to check up on what's going on, somebody's getting frantic to
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find the answer first. Oh here's the will a man, as you asked,
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I don't quite understand, though we've been over it many times. Yes,
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Dwight, I know I wanted mister Valentine to see you. Oh that's
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okay, nice. I suppose we could save a little time here. I'm
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just interested in one clause the Pennsylvania So that's why you got these people out
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here about it. No, Dwight, actually it isn't. Let me show
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you. Let's see, it's here. We are right here. Why you
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be loving, Amanda. There is more fortune than I leave you. It
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is in Graystown, and you alone will know the key to finding it.
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Just remember how well we love the state of Pennsylvania and what it symbolizes,
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and remember what I did about it in my work. This treasure is for
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you, and you only, Valentine, I must tell you, and I
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hope you will forgive me Amanda it. Garrett Gray was a little eccentric about
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thing, and also a pretty good architect, one of the best. By
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the way, mister On, did you know mister Gray's secretary Carver quite well?
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Oh yes, he's a nice sort of fellow. Any reason if you're
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asking that, Oh no, not at all. Understandsterested in everybody mister Gray
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mentioned in its way Miss Gray. Yes, mister Baron, I'm going to
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look up miss Brooks, and then would you mind lowing the bridge over the
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mode for us. You are not going to be here for lunch, it's
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almost ready. No, I'm sorry. I have some business of my own
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to take care of in town. We'll be back later though. I see
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you stay, won't you do? I? Oh, certainly, Amanda,
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I'd love too. I hope you will come back, mister Valentine in spite
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of everything that happened, Missus gray you don't have to worry about that.
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And when I get back, we'll have an answer to this thing. George,
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I'm sure you know what you're doing. I think so. For se
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well, I don't why. You see, we're up against a paradox.
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Nobody inside Graystone seemed to be guilty of those stunts, and nobody from outside
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could get in the paradox. Are one fact or the other had to be
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wrong, and I figured it must be the second. You mean, if
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somebody could get in some way. Sure, then I remembered seeing a pile
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of planks outside the house on the far side of the moat, the once
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you looked at when you came out. Yeah, that's right. That's when
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I knew I was right after dark. It wouldn't be hard to throw one
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of those planks across the mold and get in the house. You'd have a
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hard time. I'm proving that, wouldn't I don't think so. One of
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the planks had quite a lot of dried blood on it. Somebody had hurt
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himself on a rough edge, so I don't forget. There was also blood
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on that portrait that disappeared and then showed up. Oh yes, that's right.
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Well, where are we going now? Like a call in town for
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just a little more evidence. We can tell missus Gray who's trying to run
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her out of our house. It doesn't seem to be anyone in the apartment.
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Choice. Oh no, that's fine, much easier to find what I'm
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looking for. Come didn't find, but here he could have us arrested.
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I don't take that chance. Angel, they're gonna like this thing. Yeah,
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No, one's hutter. It's one in. Angel. Let's stay right
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there by the door, call out if anyone comes, Yes, all right,
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please be careful or would anybody be liable to him? Let's try this
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no soup desk maybe? Yeah, yeah, I thought so, Peter,
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George, I'm fired. You're right with the Angel. I struck pay dirt.
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Sure, take a look at this. Those are cartridges, that's right,
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a box partly full of blanks, plus some real shells. Angel.
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It looks as though we have this deal pretty well pinned down. What's next
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after we get out of this place, I'm not a fast telephone call to
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our client, and then a little later we'll go back out to Graystone and
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start some fireworks. All right, Missus Gray, you've got everybody in the
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study there all acceptmence to Carver. I called several numbers after I talk to
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you on the phone, but couldn't find him. Oh that's too bad.
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I'd like to have had him here. Well, let's get on with anyway.
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Come on in. Yes, I'm talking to George. You have really
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found something conserving, Missus Gray. Well, hello, there should well.
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I wanted you all here so I could put your minds at rest about these
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strange happenings out here. You mean you found up? Yes, yes,
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I believe we have. What is it? Come on, come and time?
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Tell us? Are you're sure you want me too? On? I
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don't know what you mean. You see, when we first met yesterday,
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I didn't notice that your left hand is bandaged, the one that you heard
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on those boards across the moon. You're making an accusation, that's right.
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It would have been the same night the portrait of mister Gray reappeared with blood
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on it. Mister Vant you can't be so afraid. I am missus Gray,
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you see her. And I took the liberty of looking around your apartment
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this afternoon, and I came across these meddling young food buet bullets that were
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taken out of your gun, the rest of blanks, just like the ones
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that replaced them. Do what. I can't believe you of all. I
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don't know what you can do to him. Of course, kind of a
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prowling, I suppose. Maybe if you're trying to frighten you to desks so
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we can have time to search the house for more treasure, possibly we can
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have in this Bard at least. I'm sure he won't be an attorney any
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longer. But George, you still haven't found what's hidden here. Now we'll
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find it now, all right, it says Gray. If you'll call in
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George Angel, why are you having those ment down that stone arch over
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the trunk or yes, mister Valentine, I'm willing to do what you say.
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I finally figured out that clause in your husband's will, Missus Gray.
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The state of Pennsylvania and his work? How did they fit together? Simple?
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His work was architecture. Pennsylvania is the keystone states yo'd you figured that
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out? And the keystone is one of the important parts of architecture. There's
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only one in this house. Why I should have thought of that? Probably
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On would have liked to also, Oh, there, it looks like they've
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got into it. It was apparently hollow, all right, ad at Adam
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and that keystone was hollow, just as Valentine thought it would be. Is
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there anything? Of course, it's packed with currency, big bills. Come
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on, come and see. Yes, I'm coming brock Well, Angel,
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I guess we've got rid of missus Gray's ghost for nothing more for him to
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look for George. Do you know what I'd like a house just like this
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one with a moat around it, and you could hide something in the keystone
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for me. Oh no, I man at Angel, I'm still alive,
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you know. Oh prove it? Uh yeah, come on, broke see
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facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service. This is the mutual Don Lee Broadcasting
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System and welcome back. Another solution successfully brought about by George Valentine. An
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illustration of an answer I give. I'm part of. If you're on Facebook,
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they have a group called Old Time Radio Lovers and they post a lot
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of lengths and questions and just great old time radio discussion. There's sixteen hundred
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and ninety seven members currently, so a little less than our Great Detectives group,
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but a lot of discussion. And they ask a question, you suspect
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your business partner of some dirty dealing. What Golden age radio detective would you
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hire to get to the bottom of this? And why? I actually answered
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George Valentine. He seems to get the best results. Now. I know
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some folks take a question like that. It's like who is is uh the
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coolest m the coolest detective around? But I didn't look at it. It's
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who's actually going to be able to solve the problem? Uh? That I
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think is a big challenge. George Allenheine intended to get the best results.
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He has some clients die on him, and he has some cases that escalate
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to murder, but he seems to have a lower percentage than the others.
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So uh, you know, some people said Pat Nolvac for hire and Pete
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Kelly. Um, wow, those guys don't tend to get the best results,
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even though they're interesting to listen to. I'd probably rather listen to Pat
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Novac, but I'd rather hire George Valentine. Well, anyway, we do
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have a comment. This one comes off of podcast ally. I love to
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listen to the great detective stories. They're very in or my faves are Pat
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Novac and let George do it. Did anyone ever consider doing a TV series
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for Novak? My answer is sort of. There were actually a series of
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three movies that were that actually could have been and we're basically said that could
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be packaged as movies or they could be practiced as a TV episode pilot,
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and it starred Hugh Beaumont better known as Ward Cleaver as Dennis O'Brien, and
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these episodes are often identified as bean Pat Novak for higher stories, but they're
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not. The writer on those particular stories was Herbert Margolis. Margolis was a
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writer for Johnny Madero, which how if you've been with us a long time,
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Johnny Madero was a show was done by mutual. Jack Webbs started it,
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and what they did is they basically ripped off Jack Webb's earlier show,
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Pat Novac for Higher ABC complained they made a few changes, but if you
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listen to it, it's pretty close in tone. But the big difference,
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of course was Herb Margolis did the writing on Johnny Madero, but Pat Novak
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was really the brain child of of Richard Breen, who had no involvement with
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in terms of officially with the Johnny Madero series. And so if you read
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the synopsises like Pure twenty three, they did a series of three of these
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that were adapted adapted to the radio show, and you see that these are
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actually the these are acts the synopsis of Johnny Madero episodes, not Pat Novac
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episodes. So the answer is it was tried. In terms of the Johnny
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Madero copy. The film Producers is very low budget. So you know,
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I've not watched them, and they tend to be in kind of some odd
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and hard to get sense, and from the reviews, I'm not certain they
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would be worth the money and effort to get so. I hope that answered
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your question, and I'm glad you're listening out there. I should mention those
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movies really quick. The titles are Danger's Own Roaring City and Pure twenty three.
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All right, well, we'll see you on Thursday with Sherlock Holmes and
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join us back here on Wednesday for another episode of La George Do It.
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