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Casebook of Gregory Hood: The Sad Clown (EP1222) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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to today's episode of Casebook of Gregory Hood. The title is The Sad Clown.
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Original airitate is October seventh, nineteen forty six. FT Free Wine brings
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once again at Funday night in San Francisco, in time for our weekly visit
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with Gregory Hoods and his friend and attorney Sanderson Taylor. Tonight, our rendezvous
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is at Gregg's apartment high on Knob Hill, overlooking the Golden Gate. That's
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Johnny Man. Shall we hello? How am I tell mister Taylor? I
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won't ask you where Greg is? I can hear it. He's working on
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some ideas for his new suite. Where hate to said, Oh no,
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he's a second come along and hello you sneaked and so quietly. I didn't
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see him evening, Greg, don't stop playing. Oh I like it.
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I think I'll call it Sarafan for a sad cloud might be rather effective if
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I can get back just breaking. Oh well, you haven't come here to
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listen to me composing. Well, it does put us in the atmosphere for
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the nice story, Harry. Well you mean the circus motive. Yeah,
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last week you told us the adventure took play some of the big top.
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That's right, Harry. And these cameos lying on the table here help me
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to put me in the movie, too, beautiful, Greg, I bet
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they're old, h sixteenth century. They had a complete set of Mile Trevor
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cameos, and they have quite an exciting history. Well, Greg, how
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did the cameos tie up with a circus? That's what I'm going to tell
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you, Harry. One summer morning last year, I was in my office
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at Hood and Company working on a far eastern important concession that involved quite a
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lot of money. Just before lunch, my secretary came in and told me
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that. I told me, mister Hud, there's a funny little man here
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to see you. Like, funny little man, what do you want?
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Well? He didn't say, but he kept thrusting his card at me and
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pointing at your door. Let's see, the card seems very gentle. But
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I have never seen anyone look quite as dad. Well, this cart explains
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it simply says Tommy is the saddest clown in the world without a haunting title.
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Have him commandments? First? Yes? Him? This was Oh hello,
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Tommy, that's a little hello. You use that horn for conversation.
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I see, Tommy. You must be dumb. I beg your pardon.
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Mute. That's the term you prefer, isn't it. Oh? This is
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fascinating. What can I do for you? Tommy? You want me to
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look in that package? For sure? I will do. You want to
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know what I think of it? Only smoke? Where'd you get it last?
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I'm crazy? This is one of the famous mouth Traver cameos that was
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stolen in Canada a few months ago. It worth a lot more than their
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Wait and Go. Have you get hold of one of them? I don't
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follow you on that one, Tommy. Oh, I don't understand your gesture
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either. Oh, I get it. You want to use my typewriter?
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Sure, I'll put some paper in it for you. Yeah, there you
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are. Go ahead, Tommy, knew you were and experts thoughts you might
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recognize cameo? For sure, I recognize that, Tommy. Go on,
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if you want to see rest of cameos, well you bet I do.
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Come see me at circus this afternoon. I certainly will, Tolly. But
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can't you tell me more right now? No? Oh, come on,
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Tommy, tell you all when I can show you the Tommy one thing.
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Where did you find this cameo? Oh? Z ohs I don't get it?
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See yeare you eat clue? I don't get it? Son, can't
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you go a little friend of Tommy? Hell, okay, I'll meet you
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at the circus. Thanks for coming here, Go on, Tommy, all
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he died. Get Sandy Taylor on the phone for me, please, Miss
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Ferris, and I won't be at the office this afternoon. I have some
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business to do, believe it or not. I'm going to the circus first.
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How about you by coming into circus if you how did you told him
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the store? Practically speech a rare condition for an attorney, but specilessness certainly
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cued me into this business. In spite of his affliction. Time I got
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the story over very clearly, you're sure the cameo he showed you was one
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of the stolen mouth Trevisa. I was nearly positive, but I took it
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to Dick Gump before I came out here and had him confirm my clon the
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cameo is one of a set of twelve, and they're extremely valuable. There's
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a big reward offered for them. Well, how ever, with a mute
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circus clown, get a hold of my valuebook, canon, I can.
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I think that wouldn't be hard to go bout. These cameos are stolen goods.
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They came across the border from Canada. The circus would offer wonderful possibilities
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for smuggling stuff past custom Yes, w never thought of that before. Did
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die until sad Tommy can't see me this morning? Oh you want see program?
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Oh yeah, you know Greg, I've never gotten over my boyhood passion
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the circuses. Nor am I that's you? Oh? I won't Yeah,
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and did give neither ticking a dandrif this well proportioned lady on pac No,
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he's stunning, Madam Belinda, Queen of the snow Leopards snow Leffords. Now
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that rings a bell somewhere. I'd say she'd be enough inducement to bring you
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to a circus, even without the problem with stolen cameos and sad blowns.
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The grand entry. Come to the bareback Rider, sit back and enjoying yourself,
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Sandy. Even though we are here on business, we might as welcome
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fine it with pleasure to come the clowns. Where get your eye on my
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little tad Toddy. Even though he can't talk, I hope he's starting to
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give us the clue to a mighty big secret. I think that's him now.
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Hard to tell him clouds make up yesterday, a little hard to hanging
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around his name. Huh. I don't want to use my office this morning.
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You got a wonderful sens a panamime. Isn't it always turning in front
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of our boss? I think he's gonna signal me the one you got it
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there? Oh, the children are crazy about it. Look standy, this
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is a new trick. He's looking up a giant puddle. It label a
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black market. He's putting it to his lips. He's putting the stagger.
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He's pretending to black market. He's poised. How right he is? I
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said, and listen to Kim. Look here comes my favorite turn collapsing car.
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Yeah it was he a crozy driving the car. Flims all over the
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room. Wow, de Penders, he's the searing wine. There goes that's
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a driver. Oh boy, the driver. Yes, the car is at
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to drive a little he's summer. No take it easy, Satday. I
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know this sag. The car is being driven by a clown. Prod under
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that weird scene, that steering with a special lever. Right, you clown.
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She's right in the top of the car. Why did he get up
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here? Will he's not getting up? Look out Tommy. Heck easy,
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fuck, how the heck it is? Hold on, Saddy, We're going
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back to do some checking. That looked to me like a deliberate attempted murder.
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Please, please, all of you step away from the fire. The
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body Tommy dead. See he died in a pack where this wasn't an accident.
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I know that particular car routine too. Well. Please, gentlemen who
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are not flambers of the circus, I m ask you to me without looking
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at the body. See, Tommy was a friend of mine. He came
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to me on business this morning. Important business. Yes, and that business
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might well tie in with his death if it does prove not to be accident.
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Very pertinent point, Succi, you'd better let me look at the body.
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I think you don't want the circus to be involved in scandal. Day.
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Who are you, gentlemen? Please? My name is Gregory hood put
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Importing company. A friend here is Sanderson Taylor, and turn it very well.
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I will allow you to see for coping, so out of the way.
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Yeah, Sully lies my friend. He carries me on that Sletcher has
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a doctor seen him? No, he have a sinful one. But you
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know he is dead. Sure, he's dead, but I don't think the
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car injuries account for it. He doesn't look badly man like ladies little crush,
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and when I'm hanging I think that these guys are hot. Pay Tommy
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did not have so good eyes. Yeah, well, signor Parducci. I
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don't think he died of heart failure. Who was the driver of the car
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that hit him? The hidden driver was lying in the back seat. How
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do you know that is important? Now? Who is the driver? Hans
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MONI? Well, where is he? He might be able to throw some
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light on the hands. Yeah, yeah, somebody on me? Yes,
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I do you were driving the car that hit Tell me, sure I were,
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but it couldn't have kill him. Didn't hit him hard. No,
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that's what I's thinking. Tell me, how long have you and the jet
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by'm been doing this comedy car routine together? Oh year now? Ever since
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I joined the circus in Canada. Right when you made that last swerve,
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taught him as he was lying on the ground, you expected him to jump
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up, didn't you. I'm sure I did, mister. That's what we
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had to figure out. It turned a couple of hundred times that day for
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in seconds, you know. As soon as I realized that something the song
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with time, I served and jam down the brakes. But I couldn't have
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hitting him. How do you account for the fact that tonight he didn't spring
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out of the ways when you expected him. I think it must have been
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his tiger tom had a bad heart, you see, That is what I
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tell you seen? And now please I must fast. Sorry, but I
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can't believe what is this? He said? Tommy is dead, Pope long,
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let's let me see him. What do you mean. I'm a recent
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friend of Tommy, that's Madam Belinda. We're trying to find out how he's
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done. They said they can hit him. Yeah, that's right, Belinda,
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But that didn't kid him. His ticker simply came out. Who was
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come? He was so sweet, so sad. All the years has known
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him, I've never seen his smile. No, I'm death life there,
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that's what was worrying me. Say give me a handkerchief with you? What
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do you want? Clown's grease painter has laid on pretty thick. It looks
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as if he's still sad. There's something about the mouth. Oh what are
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you going to do with your wipe off some of this makeup? No,
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no, no, leave him alone. He's said, Linda, the time
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for your entrance the music and committed. I'm not it would have done when
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I removed the makeup from around his mouth frozen into a deathte smile. Yeah,
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and that smile is characteristic of a certain kind of poison strickenan. We'll
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give Gregory Hood a breathing spell for a second now, while I'll remind you
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muscatel, because all Petrie wines are good wines. This is quite a story
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that I had us. Not in the world did in full view of a
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crowded surfage, he did, Harry. There was a violent difference of opinion
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as to the cause of his death, and so I gathered some people thought
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it was the car accident to kill him, others that he died of heart
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failure. And you thought it was stricken and poisoned. Yes, Harry.
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As soon as I saw that ghastly smile on his face, you know,
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Greg, when you said it was poisoning, I had a sudden hunt.
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So good for you, Harry, What was it? Well, I'm probably
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leading with my chin. I had a hunch that the poison was placed in
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that large fake bottle marked black market. That's a perfectly logical assumption, and
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it was the same logic that I followed. The police hadn't arrived, so
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I sent for that fake bottle, and while I was waiting for it,
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Sandy and I stood guard over the bottoms. Greg, It's pretty horrible,
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isn't it. What we thought were comedy and it's down starting along in the
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ring, they were really the guying compulsions of a man poisoned. Yes,
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where that to me? Do you think the poison was administered in that big,
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bodily raciousness. Well, that's the way it would seem, and yet
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it's such a clumsy way of committing more. The last person to have that
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bottle to the dead cloud would be the obvious suspect because of moti from murder,
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would be that the dead man had latched onto the fact that somebody in
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the circus had smuggled those cameos in the country. Therefore Tommy had to be
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signed that could be sadly, incidentally, I guess you noticed that Haunt Mannheim,
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the man who was driving the car, joined the circus in Kennedy.
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Yes, Mcamews was storing in Canada, I also know that something else great,
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What was that? Madam Blinda seems mighty anxious that he didn't bite the
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grease pain off the dead man's stay. Yeah, but that might be a
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perfectly natural reaction in the person seeing you about the experiment and a dead friend's
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body. Ah, that comes Signor Byducci. Yes, Sena, this is
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the big bottle. See for yourself. It is that idea. The bottle
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is empty. It had already been there, Thank you, Senor. Not
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only Elsie, but there's a strong musty smell. Yes, Signor. I'm
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sure this bottle is an empty for some time. And the poison wasn't in
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this bottle? How was it minute? That's why we have to find out,
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Sandy, that particular poison often doesn't act in the fifteen or twenty minutes,
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sing of Paducci. Yes, did the dead man share a dressing room
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with the rest of the clowns? No, he without principal clouds. He
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had his own dressing pot. May I examine it? See it is behind
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the leopard gave. You can't see it from here through with a yellow door.
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Oh yeah, thank you. Come on, Sandy, the police will
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be here any moment. I have the greatest respect for them, But we're
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already two jumps ahead. We might as well try to make it three.
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The dead man's dressing room is surprisingly comfortable. I had no idea that circus
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folks live so well. They deserve it, Sandy, and no man's gypsy.
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A third of their lives is spent on sleeper jumps. Hey, Sandy,
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come over here. Huh what is it? Look here on his dressing
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table, pot of tea and tea cup. Yeah, on the pot still
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warm. This is probably the answer, Sandy. The point, Yeah,
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I'd say the strictnam was adminised in the tea. Panic acid retards the action
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of stricton. That's why it didn't take effect on him until he was in
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the ring. One of the cuts is empty, and the other hasn't been
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touched, the untouched one being the murderers who's sat and had tea with him
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here. Well, we know the murderers sat here in this chair that's in
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front of the untouched cup of tea. Hey, but see these long hairs
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sticking the upholstery. Yes, they might give acluded the murder's identity could be
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long hairs might suggest leopards and leopards suggests he was. Sand I'm glad you're
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on this case. Oh my drag, I guess you're a huge jumps ahead
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of me. The police surgeon just examined the body. It's strict and poisoning,
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all right, and you figured out how it was human. I'd say
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it was given him this pot of tea. Okay, I'll have an analyt
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while you're doing this. Then it's another important check you can make. What
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is it drink? The murderers sat in this chair. There are some long
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hairs on it. Look for yourself. I'm pretty sure they aren't human hairs.
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I suggest you're to the flyshacker Zoo and have him examined. Okay.
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I think the result of that test will probably give us the answer to the
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killer's identity. Greg, we headed for Madame Belinda's vest. Yeah, you
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set sure, I do. And it all ties in with the clue that
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Tommy spelled out on a typewriter this morning. You mean about those two letters,
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oh z yes, Sandy. I couldn't figure it out at the time,
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but Tommy added the type of fact that it was a clue. I
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was still confused until I saw the Circus program tonight and read about the snow
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leffort and I still don't get it. What are the two letters oh Z
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have to do with snow lefterd Well, Tommy said it was a clue,
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Sandy. What abbreviation does oh Z suggest? Oh Z that's abbreviation of the
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word out check and the word else is another name for a snow lefpard.
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And that would seemed to prove that Madam Belinda, the training of the snow
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Lepards, is the smugger of the canyon. Possibly, you know, maybe
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we can make a time check on her. There's still a warm pot of
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tea, would prove that the poison was administered not more than twenty minutes or
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so before Tommy died in the ring. Yes, well, Yeahlinda's dressing.
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We'll still fight out. Who are you looking for, Madame Belinda? She
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ain't here, she's out in the ring. What did you want? What's
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the information? Are you her dresser? Yes? I am, Well tell
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me were you with her about half an hour ago? No? She summed
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out of here about an hour ago after we had a fight. I'm thinking
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it quick. No one can talk to me that way. Oh you had
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a fight, Sure did, mister he was wearing a brand new costumes straight
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from the tailor's and one of the buttons was missing. He raised the roof
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and bowled me out. I can't figure out how it was my ball though,
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Thank you much obliged for the information. You're welcome. Apparently Madame Belinda
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has no alibi that what her dresser said was true. I'm afraid he has
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a perfect one. But come on, Madame Belinda's in the ring. Let's
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go and examine the Land of Oz before she brings the animal to back.
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The Land of Honor a snow leopard's cage, Sandy. Since it's empty,
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let's give it a once over. It's a great soon on the back of
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the key. Yeah, what's one of the clowns? Who are you?
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I'm happy, iMac. What are you doing in this cage? It isn't
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part of your act? What business is it of yours? Pad? I'm
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a friend of Promise. I'm investigating his murder. You're cop? No?
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What's your name? Gregory Hood? Oh, I've heard of you. Look,
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mister Rudas. It will save a lot of explanation if I show you
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my wallet, Yeah, and some identification man. Oh, so you're a
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Canadian private detector. I have a detective, and you're only disguised as a
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clown. Sure that I was hired in Montreal to crack down the Mount Trevor
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back, but joined forces were on the same trail. Who do you suspect,
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madam Belinda? You see, I've been watching the dead clown Tommy around
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this cage when he got killed in the ring. Just now. I figured
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it tied in with Belinda and Tommy's interest in the cage. So I came
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here and did some snooping. I sure did come and look in this tackle
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box in the corner. Now get a load of deck the missing carryers for
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only five of them? Yeah? Five? The original set that was stolen
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numbered a dozen, didn't it make right? Six are still missing. I
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figured Belinda's been getting rid of them one by one. Is the circus table
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down from the border? Too bad? I couldn't never do it before,
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and she wasn't tom because he spotted to Sure, that's the way it must
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have been. To come out of Belinda. Yeah, I'm the big cats
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are with a g to get out of here, but fast? What are
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you enjoying to the cake? Just taking a look to see Belinda and we
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found plenty too enough to send it to the chair, stole the cameos,
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and you poison Tommy. I you tell me, wait, I tent the
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animals on you station. You will, you will. I'm not your covered
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silver. I'm mighty glad to see you your animals. Madam did Oh that
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was a close one. Did you get a report on those hairs I found
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on the killer chair, Sam? Yeah, Greg, you were right.
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They were hairs from the snow ripe. They were Well, now I know
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who murdered Tommy. Sure it was Madamlinda. That's what I figured, Anamallenda,
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You're real easy, Sam. You can arrest her for robbery, maybe
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for attempted murderer. Snow leopards can be considered lethal weapons. But if you
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want Tommy's murderer arrestless man Max the Canadian private detective, Well, big back
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in the apartment and Max and your arrest. I was confessed that I was
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off on the wrong track, complete so as I most of the time.
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The sooner stand told me that those hairs were snow leopard hairs, and I
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knew it wasn't Madame Belinda. And that's when I was certainly it was hair
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Sandy. Remember she was dressed in a brand new uniform straight from the tailor's
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and she hadn't started her act when Tommy died, so she couldn't have had
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the hairs on her costume. Then Matt planted them on the chair, climbing
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to frame sure By his own admission, he'd been searching the cave. He
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had every opportunity to obtain the hair. Let me get this straight out.
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He poisoned Tommy the clown because Tommy had discovered the stolen canon check and Tommy
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undoubtedly saw the original twelve cameo. She r Matt killed at double check,
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and he tried to frame Belinda by placing those hairs on the chair. Then
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he planted the six cameos in a very obvious spot on the leopard's cage,
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knowing Belinda would be the logical sessmer. The cameo was gray. Why were
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there only six of them? Well, there's a neat slant on that.
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When Mac was engaged as a private detective on the case, he was right
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about that. He tried down the twelve cameos all right in the headstone,
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yes, but he played both ends against the middle. He pocketed six himself,
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then said Belinda had disposed of them, the fact that she wouldn't have
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been able to dispose. Then he was going to go back to Canada with
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half the collection to claim the reward. His return would cast all suspicion away
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from him. He'd had disposed of his sixth cameos on the side right thirty
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a combination of murder and double cross? What ever I tangled up with?
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And course said Tommy get killed because of his curiosity? Yeah, poor little
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devil. I'll tell you one thing, Sandy, what's that I'm going to
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Montreal as soon as these cameos are return of their rifle owner. You bet
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your wife, Sandy, But this time he'll be crossing the border legally as
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the property of Gregory Hood and Company importers. Brother, what won't you get
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into the next the circus ship? Oh? Yes, so I went to
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the animal fair. All the murderers and characters were there. That's enough planning,
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right, But it was interesting that we can say that we can't.
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Hey, Gregor was too bad you had to miss the act with the snow
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leverage. Yes, it was that sort of thing appeals to the esthetic and
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me. So many things do part I said so many things do well,
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sure, I'll admit it. That's where I am, not me. I'm
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defin you're telling me I found just one thing to please the aesthetic in you.
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Petrie wine. That's right, Greg, Harry, the floor is yours.
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Well, that's the wine I want to talk about, Greg, because
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you know Petrie wine is wonderful. Honestly it should be. The Petrie family
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has been making wine for generations now. The art of making fine wine is
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a heritage in the Petrie family, passed down from father to son, from
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father to son. All those years of experience and knowledge go into making Petrie
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wine. So it's no wonder if Petrie wine is so good, And there's
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no wonder the tree business has grown until today, the Petrie family is America's
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largest independent wine maker. Yes, the making of Petrie wine is a family
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affair. The Petrie family has every intention of keeping it just that. So
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you know, the name Petrie on a bottle of wine is more than a
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trademark. It's the personal assurance of the Petrie family that Petree wine is and
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always will be good wine. Well, Greg, which story out of the
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case book you're planning to tell us tightly. Next Monday, I'm going to
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tell you about one of the strangest adventures that Sandy and I ever had.
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Concerns a strangled dancer, a somewhat bewildered businessman, and a cryptic message from
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beyond the grave, a message that proved to give the clue to murder.
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The next Monday, Harry. The Case Book of Gregory Hood is written by
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Dennis Green and Anthony Boxer. Original music composed and played by Dean Fossler.
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Elliot Lewis played the part of Gregory Hood. Sanderson Taylor is played by Howard
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McNeil. The pettere Wine Company of San Francisco, California invites you to tune
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in again next week at same time, same station. The Case Book of
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Gregory Hood comes to you from our Hollywood studio. This is Harry Bartel saying
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good night for the Petrie family, welcome back. Well, if you didn't
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notice, the opening was a little bit of a April fool's joke traded by
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myself and Andrew Wines of the Old Time Radio Daily Westerns podcast, who also
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edits sound for this show at Otrwesterns dot com. Sad Clowns are a recurring
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theme. There was a Jeff Reagan case with Frank Graham about a sad clown.
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This one was a different setup. It was an interesting twist having the
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private detective from Canada turn out to be the criminal. It was somewhat obvious
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when greg had indicated that he had eliminated the snow Lepard trainer. Well,
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now we do turn to some listener comments and feedback. Have this from Bill,
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Hey, Adam, love with you what you do with Old Time Radio.
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Of your current lineup, the Casebook of Gregoryhood is my favorite. I
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look forward to any new shows I haven't heard about. I was wondering if
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you know of anyone that does what you do for the Shadow. There are
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plenty of shadow shows out there, none that do what you do. Either
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way, up, keep up what you're doing. Well, thanks so much,
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Bell, And the answer is, I'm not aware of anybody doing this
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with the Shadow. I'd love to hear about it, but yeah, not
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at this time. Also had a listener post on Facebook. Becky says,
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I was wondering if there was a great detectives app for Android phones. There
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is, Indeed, you can get it in the Amazon App Store. So
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if you don't have the Amazon App Store on your phone just or other mobile
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device. Just go ahead and download it, and then you will be able
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to go ahead ahead and purchase the Great Detectors of Old Time Radio app.
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And Thomas Oates shared a pretty interesting interview on the Wall with John Banville,
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who is the writer writing under the pseudonym Benjamin Black was actually continuing on the
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Philip Marlowe stories. It seemed like a pretty interesting interview and I will probably
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take a look at his book Black Eyed Blonde once I finish up Raymond Chandler's
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low I just started on book four, The Lady in the Lake. I
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don't have a lot of interest in Robert Packer's continuation of marlow listen to the
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Poodle Springs BBC Radio for program. It wasn't terribly impressed with that, but
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this does look like one I might pick up. And thanks so much for
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sharing about that, Thomas. And that'll do it for today. We will
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be back tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and then join us next
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Tuesday for another episode of the Casebook of Gregory Hood. Also coming in four
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weeks will be again our second look through Pat Noback for high in the meantime,
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