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dot Great Attractives dot net. Well, folks, it's time now to get
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today's episode is from December twenty fourth of nineteen forty four, and the tunnel
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is Murder goes to College. What's the matter? What is it? Another
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with Nick cutter. As we start our story today, we find Nick and
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his assistant Patsy, a Nick's car racing toward Mount Alban's College for Girls in
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response to a hurried phone call from the dean of the school. But if
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this girl killed her self, Nick, what are you supposed to do?
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The girl kills herself, there's no criminal to catch if it was suicide.
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Dean Collingwood wants me to find the reason for it. Isn't that a little
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out of your line? Well, yes, it is, Patsy, but
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she's an old friend of mine, so I said I'd do it. But
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why does she care why the girl killed herself? Oh? She thinks that
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if some of the parents felt that the girl disliked the school enough to kill
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herself to get out of it, they'd take their own daughters out of Mount
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Albans and droves the school will be ruined. How did she dine yet?
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Dadean said she found a box of sleeping capsules on the table beside the girl's
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bed, together with an empty water glass. She thought they might be the
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cause. Well, when Nicholas Carter gets on the scene, everything will be
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all straightened out. We'll all know exactly what happened and why? And this
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Margaret is my assistant and severest critic. Patsy Bowen, Patsy Dean Collingwood,
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head of Mount Albins. How do you do, miss Bowen? Fine?
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Thank you? Have you notified the police yet? Margaret? Why? No?
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I wanted you to look things over first, sneak I see? But
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who found the body? When Miss Jordan failed to appear for breakfast, one
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of the maids was sent to see if she needed help, if she were
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ill. When no one answered, the maid's course, she came back me.
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Then you found her? Yes, I found her dead. How many
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people know about the tragedy so far? Oh? Only the maid myself and
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of course you too. Good. Let's keep it that way for a while
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longer. Now may I see her room? Please? Yes, of course
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it's on the next floor, this way? Please? What can you tell
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me about this Jordan girl? She was an only child, Her mother is
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a widow. Did you have any close friends? Yes, she and three
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other girls were together quite a lot. They were Miss Her and Miss Grinnell
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and Miss Brown. They are all interested in the same things. Three friends
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were interested primarily in young men and good times. But miss Jordan's hobby was
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amateur photography. Did you have money? Yes? She did. Her mother
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gave her everything she wanted. This is her room, Nick, I'll say
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she had money. Nick. You don't get rugs like these with the Gaco
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plans. Are these the sleeping capsules? Margaret? Yes, hmm. You
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can't buy these in this state without a prescription. She had a prescription,
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the number of it in the physician's name on the box. So I see,
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and I'll check with him later. I pass. He suppose you look
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over the things on that side of the room while I go through her desk
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here. See if you can find anything that might help us learn what's happened.
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Right, Any letters, Bill's notes and so on. You know you
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rarely shouldn't read her letters, Nick, There their private. Well, if
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any reporters happen to get hold of them, they'll be as public as Central
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Park reporters. What have they to do with this? Everything? You can't
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hide suicide or murder? Please this this mustn't be murder. Well, I
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hope not, Margaret, for your sake, Oh, this is interesting.
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Letter to her mother started but never finished. Darling mother, I hope you
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will remember all is how close we have been, and how much happiness we've
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had together. You've been so good to me, and that's as far as
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you got. I wonder why she didn't finish it. That sounds like a
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farewell letter. It was a farewell know, of course, Well I wasn't
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it finished? Then she's probably overcome with emotion. I don't think so.
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She hadn't been crying. Her eyelids aren't red or swollen. Good girl,
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passy, Oh Margaret. Will you ask your chemistry professor to analyze one of
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these sleeping capsules? Very well, Nick, although I still think that this
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is all nonsense. Also, i'd like to use your study. I want
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to talk to this Jordan girl's three friends one at a time, very well.
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I don't tell them anything about the Jordan girls being dead. All right,
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Nick, I'll send the first girl into you in a few minutes.
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Come in you wanted to see me, sir. I'm Mary Garnell. Yes,
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come in, yes, sir as Granell. I'm afraid I have a
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shock for you. Your friend Edith Jordan has just killed herself. Oh no,
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Edith wouldn't do that. She just wouldn't. No, at any rate,
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she's dead. I'm sorry to say. Can you shed any light on
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the situation? I'm afraid not. I'm sorry, But do you know anything
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about her actions? Last night? We studied together for at her exams in
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your room or hers in mine. She went back to her room early though
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that she wanted to write a letter and then turn in early. That must
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have been the letter we found in it? Probably Can you tell me anything
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else, Miss Ganew, No, sir, nothing, all right? Then
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run along and please don't mention what I've told you to anyone. Mister Hearne,
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I'm sure you'll be sorry to learn that your friend Edith Jordan has killed
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herself. Oh no, she wouldn't. Was she couldn't. She wasn't that
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kind of a girl. What makes you say that? Oh? Lots of
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things, and especially because we planned to go to a matinee together on day.
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She even got the tickets for us. Tell me, Miss so Hearn
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in your opinion that Edith ever seen morbid or unhappy? Oh? No?
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Never? Uh oh, except except what will? When Edith first came here
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she was very gay. Lately she's been very quiet. I don't know why,
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though, Well, thanks very much, Miss hern ask Miss Brown to
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come in. Will you, Yes, sir, you can go in now
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else all right? You wanted to see me, Miss Brown. Edith Jordan
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killed herself last night, killed herself. No, you couldn't make me believe
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that. Why do you say that? Edith wasn't that kind of beside?
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Lately she's been afraid of something, afraid afraid of what. I don't know.
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But for the last month she's lived in fears, something that might have
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come for the sleeping capsule. Possibly, How do you know she was afraid,
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Miss Brown? Oh, the girls never lock our doors here in the
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dormitory, but she did. Perhaps she was just timid. She wasn't timid
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when she first came here. No, what do you know when she first
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began locking her door? Yes, it was right after someone took a shot
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at her in the woods. What's that someone shot at her? Are you
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sure? Jdith said she knew it was true, but she asked me not
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to mention it to anyone. Was she alone when this happened? Yes,
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she often went into the woods alone with her camera. And did she go
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into the woods after this someone took a shot at her? Oh? No,
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after that she used her car and took pictures from the highway. Oh,
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she had her own car? Yes? Or do you happen to know
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whether miss Jordan was taking a sleeping remedy lately? I don't think she was.
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She had some harmless preparation the doctor gave her, but I don't think
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she ever used. Apparently it wasn't entirely harmless, unless I'm mistaken she died
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from taking it. Thank you, Miss Brown. Yes and cutter Dean Collenwood
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asked me to let you know what I found out when I analyzed the sleeping
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capsule she gave me. Oh, yes, yes, what was it?
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Now? I found nothing unusual about it. It's a sleeping remedy that's in
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common use. Would they be enough to kill anybody? Oh? No,
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indeed not unless they were accompanied by something far more deadly. Thank you for
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Thank you very much. Oh hello, Margaret, come in Well, Nick,
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have you learned anything yet? Only that I'm sure Miss Jordan didn't kill
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herself. But Nick, that's the one thing I don't want to find out.
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Yes, I know, Margaret, but I can't help facts being facts.
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Well, but now I think I'll take a run into town and talk
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with a physician who prescribed capsules for her. Will you do something for men.
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Certainly, will you take the bus into town and come back in Miss
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Jordan's car. It's being repaired there, and the garage phoned a short time
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ago that it's ready. I promised to send someone in for it. Of
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course, passy while I'm gone, I want you to go over Edith Jordan's
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room with a fine tooth comb. Notice every little thing will look for you,
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anything specially no Patsy, just looking. You've heard what these girls have
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told us. See if you can find anything, explain the Jordan girl's actions
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during the past few weeks. I'll see you when I get back in town,
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Doctor Steele. According to the label on the package, you prescribe some
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sleeping capsules for Miss Edith Jordan. Edith Jordan, Oh yes, I remember
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her now, Plucky Kidden. I'm not a whimper out of her when I
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set her collar bone, even refuse an anaesthetic. Did you say she broke
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her collar bone? Why? Yes, it was about two months ago,
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I should say, but there were no complications and the injury healed rapidly.
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Do you remember how it happened? Oh? Well, yes, in an
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automobile accident, and that was when I prescribed the sleeping remedy for her,
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just as a precaution. I don't suppose she needed a very strong dose.
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No, no, it was a very small one, one three quarter grain
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capsule, and well second one an hour later if required. What would be
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a deadly dose, doctor, Oh, from forty to fifty times that much?
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Probably did you give her the prescription? No? No, I phoned
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it into the drug store and he had it ready for when she got there.
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I often do. Then, I see, well, thank you very
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much, doctor, you've been very kind. Now, if you'll tell me
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which way the drug store is, I won't bother you any longer. Well,
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so, Edith Jordan had a broken collar bone a few weeks ago.
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That's something no one but the doctor had ever known about before. What else
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is Nick going to uncover in his search for the real reason why Edith Jordan
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And I'm back to our story. As we left Nick, he was
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learning things about the dead girl Edith Jordan that not even Dean Collinwood. Dean
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of exclusive mod Albans College for Girls knew. Did she commit suicide or was
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it murder? Let's pick up Nick as he calls at the drug store where
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the sleeping capsules the doctor prescribed for Edith Jordan were made up. Yes,
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sir, I'm sorry to bother you, but would you be good enough to
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allow me to see the prescription for a sleeping remedy prescribed for miss Edith Jordan
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by doctor Steele about two months ago. I'm sorry, Savi it our records
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are available only to the police or the doctor, but I can ensure you
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that the prescription was filled exactly as ordered. Very well, I understand I
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thought you would. Sad case, isn't it? Yes? Very Oh did
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you fill the prescription yourself? I believe I did. I remember thinking that
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college girls these days used five too many sleeping preparations. Yes, course,
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thank you. This is her car, mister Carter. I should have expected
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a girl with her money to have a more expensive car. She wasn't.
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No shore, Yeah, too bad of luck ran out. Finally luck ran
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out. What do you mean by thatcident? Look? God, that was
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no accident. How do you mean why someone saw the gadget on the steir
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and wheel almost threw. First time the car went around a sharp curve at
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high speed, it gave way only as luck to have it. Instead of
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going over the embankment, the car just turned into a hill of dert along
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the road and buried its snows in the dirt as Jordan got off with just
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a broken collar board instead of being killed altogether. Did you tell miss Jordan
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what you just told me? You bet? I did. Didn't worry her
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at all, and I told the cops too, Only the boss said it
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was none of our business if she didn't want to report it. I see,
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Well, thanks very much for seeing you. Well, what can I
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do for you? Miss Carr? You're running a story on the suicide of
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the Jordan girl at Mount Alban's College. Sure we are big news for this
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time. O. Could you add one little paragraph to your story? What
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kind of paragraph? Miss Jordan left a diary? It's locked in a steel
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box for which we've not been able to locate the key. May take a
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day or so to have a new key made. Is it's a very special
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type of lock, But we expect to die really clear up the motive for
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the suicide. That's very interesting. It's Coulter. May I coach you on
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them? Well, if you don't mind, I'd rather you use that well
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known phrase it is understood. Oh that should cover it. I see what
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you mean. I don't know what you've got up your sleeve, mister cutter,
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but we'll play along with you. Your little item will be understood in
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this evening's paper. Thank you, Thank you very much. Should help us
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immensely well. Patsy find anything in Edith Jordan's room, I don't expect it
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to master that, Nick. And here it is Exhibit A, A hat
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with what looks like a bullet hole through the crown. Yes, so miss
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Brown was right, someone did shoot at it. Anything else. The only
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other thing I found was this Exhibit D, the picture that Edith Jordan took
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just before she was shot at. She didn't have any enlarging apparatus, so
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she gave it to Alice Brown, who does have an inlarger She wanted it
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blown up. But why look, Nick, it's a picture of spring Lake
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that's just north of here. Here in the center of the backgrounds a figure.
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Neither Edith nor Alice knew who or what it was, so Alice made
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an enlargement of it to see if they could recognize it. Beyond the fact
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that it seems to be the figure of a man, it doesn't mean much.
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You can't see who he is. Patsy, Where did you get this?
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Alice Brown gave it to me. She had it in her room.
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She and Edith thought there might be some connection between the shooting and this picture.
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That they couldn't seem to find any doesn't mean much, does it?
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And yet did you find out anything in town? Oh? Yes, and
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no. The way things look now, this is the situation. Edith Jordan,
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perhaps I'm on to herself, knew something that placed her life in what
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she was shot at, and she was in a phony auto accident in which
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she got a broken collarbone. I don't think she ever used the sleeping capsule
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she got from doctor Steel until very recently. Yeah, she'd probably been getting
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more and more nervous about things, until at last she felt she had to
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have something to put her asleep. So last night she took one or more
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of the capsules and they killed her. And yet the physician who prescribed them
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as a reputable man at the drug store, whether we made up, also
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has a good reputation so far. That's as far as here. Mind if
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I come in and bother you a few minutes, mister Carr, first,
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nutsheff, come right on in, thank you. Oh man, Hey,
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look, mister Carr, you got some theory about this kid committed suicide?
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Only one theory is there? She didn't kill herself? Can you prove it?
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I expect to be able to when in the next twenty four hours?
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Twenty four hours? Would you give me that long without interfering? Yeah,
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yep, you got it. You know that pictures lake there and your desk
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reminds me we we came across a murder out there at the lake just yesterday.
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What was the murder? Well? Do yes? Thought maybe there might
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be some connection between the two killings, that's all? Oh heck, no,
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notice this college girl and a woman we found out the lake are two
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different kinds of people. No connection told or what was it you found at
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the lake? Yeah? Woman and there a couple of months. It was
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a waitress at the roadhouse near the lake. And what happened to her,
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Oh, slugging the back of the head, skull crushed and almost buried in
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the brush. Hunter found her yesterday too, bad. By the way,
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mister Carter, what's the idea with whole inevidence? What evidence at their diary?
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Oh? The diary? Yeah, you know, I'm going to break
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somebody for overlooking that this morning when they searched that girl's room. Wait,
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twenty four hours there, Remember you hit me twenty four hours? Yeah?
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Yeah, I remember why I let you wind me around your finger this way.
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I don't know. It couldn't be because you you haven't any clues,
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and you think that I might have one. Eh, well, could be,
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Cotter, could be? Did I understand you correctly? Nick? You
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want to spend the night in the girl's dormitory. That's what I said,
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Margaret, I want your permission to spend the night in Edith Jordan's room.
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Nick, That would be most irregular, Margaret. Murder is most irregular too.
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I'm sure it is murdered, absolutely positive, and I hope to solve
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it by spending the night in her room. But if it was murder,
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how was it done? Babarbai? The contents of one of the sleeping capsules
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was changed to a deadly poison. But Nick means that means that no stone
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must be left unturned to catch the murderer. It's time for lights up,
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Nick. I just want to see if you needed anything you don't have before
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I leave you. No, Patsy, I'm all set. What are you
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going to do? Nick? Just sit here and wait. Let's it exactly,
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Just wait. I have all the evidence I need for a conviction except
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the name of the killer. I could guess at that, but I couldn't
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prove it. I expect the killer to prove it for me. Why do
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you suppose Edith Jordan never told anyone about her fears. Probably she didn't want
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to worry anyone. She'd only suspicions, no matter how strong those suspicions were.
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And if I guess correctly the kind of girl she was, she wouldn't
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want to burden anyone else with her troubles. It's too bad, isn't It
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might have been alive now if she'd only told somebody true enough, Patty,
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and hindsight is always better than foresight. Well, Nick, I'll say good
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night, happy hunting to you. Thanks, Patsy. I'll just sit here
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in the dark and wait. Get your hands up. I'll in their hands,
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I said, I can see you plain enough. That's better now for
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some light. Well, so it's you, the mechanic from the garage.
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What's all this about? Anyway? You came here to get the diary,
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didn't you? Oh? Did I? I thought? So? That was
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your picture Miss Jordan got on her snapshot of spring Lake, wasn't it?
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Now? Was it proven? I can do that too. In the picture,
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the cap on the head of the little figure has two white dots on
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it in the same place where you wear your two white union buttons. You
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can't call that proof. Anybody could have those. You must have taken that
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picture at the time you were burying that girl you killed the waitress. You
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were afraid she'd identify you was the one of the pictures, so you took
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a shot at her, but you missed, and you tried another sound.
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You worked late at the garage one night and weakened the steering gear a car.
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When that failed to kill her, you were very careful to be the
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first to point out to her that the steering gear had been tampered with,
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and that way she'd never think to blame you for it, which was very
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clever, my friend. But then you were stumped until you found out that
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her doctor had given her that sleeping prescription. So being a morphine addict yourself,
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how do you know that? I saw your arms the other day and
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I recognized the scars of the needle. O. Kay, okay, you
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got it on me. You win. So, as I said, being
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a morphine addict yourself, you broke into her room just as you did tonight
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and filled one of the capsules in the top row with morphine, which would
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kill her instantly. Yeah, I knew she couldn't take that much of a
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dose. By the way, how did you find out about that prescription?
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She told me about it itself when we were talking one time. But if
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you knew all this stuff before, why don't you pull me in down the
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garage instead of laye and wait for me? Like this, I could prove
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it all her myself, but I couldn't prove it to a jury. However,
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now I can because you're coming here. You've confessed. It's a shame
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killing her like that, because she never had the slightest suspicion you were the
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Spring Lake murderer. I don't try to kid me. She knew right enough.
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That's why I had to get that diary. A whole story would have
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been in that Maybe that girl I killed. She was in love with me.
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She wanted me to marry her. Said if I didn't, she tell
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the cops where I bought my dope. It's such a fuss. I finally
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had to hit her over the head and you were burying her by the lake
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when the Jordan girl came along and took that picture here. Then I knew
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that when the body was discovered like it would be someday this day. Remember
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seeing me out there. So I had to get that diary before the cops
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got it. Well, as you go to the electric chair, I want
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you to remember one thing, my friend. There is no diary. Huh.
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I invented it to smoke you out in the open. You've convicted yourself.
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A man's own conscience is a better detective than the greatest detective on earth.
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Always, in just a moment, Nick and Patsy will bring you a
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preview of next week's exciting case. But now a thought for this holiday season.
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And now let's hear from Nick Catter himself. And now, Nick,
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what's the story you're going to tell us next time? Well? Can next
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week? I want to tell you about an adventure I had just because I
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went to a party to meet a famous man and the famous man never showed
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up at all. Doesn't sound as if the party was much of a success.
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As far as I was concerned, it was a total flop socially speaking,
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and there were three murders as a result of that evening's get together,
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and Nick himself was almost added to the list, all due to a decanter
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of whiskey that turned out not to be whiskey at all. I think that's
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about enough for now, Patsy. Let's save the rest for next week and
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on behalf of myself from the rest of our cast, our organist Lou White,
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our sound effects Walt Shaver, our engineer Hermann Berger, and I writer
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and director Jack McGregor. May I wish every one of you the season's greetings
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in the biggest possible way. And that goes for me too. So long,
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everybody, So long to both. We'll be seeing again next week.
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Next week. At the same time, listen to another curious experience of Nick
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the Missing Brother Nick Cotter, Master Detective is featured in Street and Smith magazines.
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Lawn Clark is starred as Nick with Helen Choultis. Patsy original music is
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played by Lou White, and the programs are written and directed by Jock McGregor,
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the hardiest breathings of the holiday season and invite you to be listening next week,
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when ACNE will again present. Nick caught her Master Detective over these same
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stations, Ken Powell speaking, this is mutual welcome back. Well, this
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one was just a solid kind of nuts and bolts investigation by Nick. Nothing
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really unbelievable. But the only thing I struggled with was Nick Carter being called
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in to investigate it, just because he seems to have such a high status,
31:49
plus the he tends to have sensational cases and that was a little log
31:55
given her worries about publicity. But other than that, when he actually came
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down to the stre I thought everything here was just excellent and very very entertaining,
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and I definitely enjoyed this episode in the way it just naturally developed the
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cases to who did it all? Right? Well, now on to some
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listener comments and feedback. I want to thank Chuck b for a retweeting episode
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eleven twenty the funeral wreath to his listeners. Thanks so much. Then we
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have an email from Randy with an I. She writes, it recently occurred
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to me that I may not be the only person who enjoys old radio shows.
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I decided to see if perhaps an iPhone app actually existed for them.
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To my great surprise, I found yours. First, I want you to
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know that I've been enjoying your podcast very much. I started episode one and
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I'm pretty sure I'll never catch up, but that is okay. Second,
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my reason for the email. Why has Pat nallvac played as such an angry,
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short tempered person. Was it overacting? Thank you so much for the
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podcast, and I hope you'll continue for years to come. Well, I
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definitely hope so as well, and I appreciate your con email. Randy.
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I don't think it was overacting as much as it was the nature of the
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show to really go over the top. There were we kind of transitioned away
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when you got into the middle part of the nineteen forties forty six forty seven,
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we kind of trans went away from a lot of the more gentlemanly detectives.
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The mister Keynes and the and the Nick and the Nick Charles characters,
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you know, the Mister and Missus North. Those those shows were still around,
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but they weren't the ones that were coming out. You had much more
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hard boiled characters like Sam Spay. You had Richard Rogue by Dick Powell.
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You had Ross Dolan played by William Gargan, and so you had a lot
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of these characters that were a lot tougher and rougher. And really it was
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a decision just to take everything over the top, and they took it over
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the top, and they did it really so well in making it, you
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know, just the epitome of hard boiled. The dialogue, the situations,
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everything just really taken to extreme in a way that I think still works pretty
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well. So it wasn't overacting. It was just the way the show was
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written, and it worked perfectly for Web and it worked perfectly for bringing the
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writer. Thanks so much for the comment. Then, Roderick emails in love
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the show listen. Used to listen to your drag Nap podcast, but finished
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it the week after you stopped. Keep up the good work. Well,
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thanks so much, Roderick, And we're about a little less than six months
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away from restarting Dragnet on the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio. And it'll
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be a pleasure to take another run through the series and appreciate everyone who listened
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to the to our first run on the Old Time Dragnet Show. And pretty
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soon we'll get started on the second run through with a lot of better audio
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and a better host just by nature of experience, since we've been doing this
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nearly seven years now. Then we have a comment by Vowel that will be
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of relevance to our UK listeners. UK fans might be interested to know that
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Channel seven to ninety one, or the very last channel on Freeboot started broadcasting
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old Tom Kelly last week got to see several episodes of Dragnet over the weekend.
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Great to hear and I hope that those UK listeners that watch television will
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avail themselves of that opportunity. Thank you so much. And before we did
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go or did finish, I wanted to mention the lost episode the titles.
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The two that were lost between this week and last week were Murder Boss Suicide
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from December tenth of nineteen forty four and Strands of Murder from December seventeenth,
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and it will be a while till we have another lost episode. Nick Carter
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is somewhat of an odd series in that there are more a higher percentage of
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missing programs before after the war than there are before the war, which is
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unusual, just because various shortages and drives tended to cause a lot of the
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wartime programs for most series to get lost. But there are a lot of
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Nick Carter war programs available, but the post war ones. You get to
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nineteen forty nine and you can only find three episodes from that whole year,
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and then none of the episodes that aired over the next six seasons. So
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that's an unusual feature of that series. All right, And before we do
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go, I want to again remind you to support a Listener support campaign.
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