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Michael Shayne: Body in the Trunk (EP1707) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time for
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  Speaker 1: today's episode of Michael Shane. The original air date April
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  Speaker 1: twenty third, nineteen forty five, and the title is Body
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  Speaker 1: in the Trunk.
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  Speaker 2: The Adventures of Michael Shane Private Detective, The People who
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  Speaker 2: Wallimeyer and Kathy Lewis.
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  Speaker 3: When Mike Shane.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't burning the midnight oil over some unsolved crime, he's
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  Speaker 2: generally doing the next most interesting thing talking about one.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, he's leaning back in his easy chair doing
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  Speaker 2: a powerful out of talking to his old friend, Inspector Faraday.
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  Speaker 2: It's a stag session for Mike's assistant, Phyllis Knight has
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  Speaker 2: gone home early this evening.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, Paraday, I don't know much about the case
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  Speaker 4: except what I've read in the papers, but it seems
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  Speaker 4: to me that you're going after the wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Guy, Mike.
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  Speaker 5: This Joe has got a prison record as long as
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  Speaker 5: a kangaroo's tale. Why should he sidestep a little thing
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  Speaker 5: like murder?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, because he has got a prison record as long
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  Speaker 4: as a kangaroo's tale. Look, I remember a case back
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  Speaker 4: in New York, almost a coffin copy of this app.
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  Speaker 4: I've got some newspaper companies on it in the file,
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  Speaker 4: so I'll read them to your just a second.
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  Speaker 5: You don't get the point, Mike. This killing is gruesome, horrible,
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  Speaker 5: will take a hardened criminal to carry it through.
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  Speaker 4: I've gone it there here in the files, somewhere now,
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  Speaker 4: Phil could turn right to it.
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  Speaker 3: She went home kind of early this evening, didn't.
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  Speaker 4: She Yeah, she's got a girlfriend staying up at the
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  Speaker 4: copping with her. Went home to help her pack.
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  Speaker 3: Up friend from out of town. Uh huh.
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  Speaker 4: Girl had a fight with her fiance and wants to
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  Speaker 4: play him for a few days.
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  Speaker 5: The old feminine trick would buy forever till next Saturday night.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get it, Mike. Hello, you're still there. This is
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  Speaker 3: Faraday Phyllis. Mike's ransacking his files. I'll get them. Point.
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  Speaker 3: You better hear this.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe it's your business.
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  Speaker 3: What's wrong? Girl? You sound scared? Blue.
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  Speaker 7: I know something's happened.
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  Speaker 3: I don't dare look all right, but what is it?
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  Speaker 4: There?
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  Speaker 3: Wait?
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, let me talk to her here.
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  Speaker 3: She sounds like she's gonna cry.
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  Speaker 7: Hello, angel, mine, get over here quick.
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  Speaker 4: Now Wait a minute, calm down, honey, Now tell me
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  Speaker 4: what's wrong.
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  Speaker 7: You know Lewis was leaving my apartments made, and I
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  Speaker 7: came home to help the pack.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Sure, sure, she's not here, at least I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: Now, please, Angel, wait a minute, I can't tell what
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  Speaker 4: you're talking about.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I found her trunk already packed and locked.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think, ye what, honey, what.
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  Speaker 6: I think her body's inside?
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  Speaker 7: Well, at last I thought you'd never get here.
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  Speaker 4: We came as fast as we could.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, where's the trunk in the bedroom?
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  Speaker 4: All right, Now, tell me what happened.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I found the hall door off the lock, so
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  Speaker 7: I expected she'd be right back. I kept waiting, and
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  Speaker 7: then I started to worry. She had that row with Nelson.
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  Speaker 7: He threatened her.
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  Speaker 4: You see what I mean, paraday, a woman's intuition.
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  Speaker 7: Well, the baggage man came. He started to take the trunk,
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  Speaker 7: but then then I heard it. But what Something slumped inside?
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  Speaker 7: And the trunk seems so heavy. I I told the
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  Speaker 7: man to leave it. We weren't going to send it
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  Speaker 7: after all.
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  Speaker 4: Oh great.
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  Speaker 7: I looked at it real close, and and when I
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  Speaker 7: saw the padlock. Oh that's when I phoned you, Mike.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I see it. This mere blood on the lock.
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  Speaker 4: That's not unusual, honey, Maybe she cut her hand when
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  Speaker 4: she closed the trunk.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, for heaven's sakes, I'm no child. Look here in
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  Speaker 7: this closet. There there are all OAS's dresses still on
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  Speaker 7: the hangars. They weren't packed in the trunk.
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  Speaker 4: Mean he hasn't finished packing.
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  Speaker 7: I thought of that tool, Mike. I started to push
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  Speaker 7: the trunk back against the wall, but it wouldn't budge.
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  Speaker 7: There's something inside of it, and it isn't clothing.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's see, it's looaded with something.
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  Speaker 7: There there You hear that something slumped inside just as
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  Speaker 7: you tipped the trunk.
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  Speaker 4: Fair They Okay, I guess the only way we can
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  Speaker 4: satisfy you is to open it if we can find
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  Speaker 4: the key.
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  Speaker 7: Here, I've got it. It's here in her purse. That's
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  Speaker 7: another thing that scared me, Mike, lois is handbag just
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  Speaker 7: laying here on the dressing table.
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  Speaker 4: Let's have it feel, honey, wasn't that the hold?
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  Speaker 3: Or? Of course there's your girl now?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, oh, it's a bad time that you. No, No,
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  Speaker 7: it's Nelson.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see. Yeah, you're looking for somebody partner.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't think there was anybody. You always walk
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  Speaker 3: right in when there's nobody home.
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  Speaker 4: I meant I thought Loss was here alone. I'll come
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  Speaker 4: back again. No, no, no, no, we'd like you to stay.
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  Speaker 4: She may be in any minute. I really come in
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  Speaker 4: a minute, come on in. We'd like to talk to ourselves.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, come on. I don't understand you're friends of laws.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, this is Mike Shane and Inspector Faraday.
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand. You don't have to, okay, Phil, Let's
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  Speaker 3: have that key here. Thanks?
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  Speaker 8: Hey, here, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: That's Lowis's trunk.
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  Speaker 8: You have any right?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe not, but we like to open surprise packages.
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  Speaker 7: Oh oh, I hope I'm wrong. I hope it's a mistake.
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  Speaker 3: Let's swing her open.
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  Speaker 7: Honey, Yeah, what what's inside?
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  Speaker 9: No, no, don't look. I'm afraid you were right.
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  Speaker 3: Karen is on his way.
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  Speaker 7: It doesn't seem real. Just a few hours ago I
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  Speaker 7: was talking to her.
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  Speaker 3: And now I know it's hard to take you, young fellow.
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  Speaker 3: What's your name? Nelson Carter? Supposed to be the girl's fiance. Huh.
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  Speaker 3: You don't seem to be particularly upset. I'm stunned.
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  Speaker 4: What Yeah, what brought you here? I came to see lawasie.
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  Speaker 4: I was here this afternoon.
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  Speaker 8: We had another fight.
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  Speaker 4: I came back to apologize.
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  Speaker 7: That's something new. First time you ever apologized for anything.
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  Speaker 7: He drove the poor girl half crazy.
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  Speaker 8: It was her fault.
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  Speaker 3: She would listen to me.
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  Speaker 4: I was right from the verse of.
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  Speaker 7: Oh sure, so right. You never let her have a
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  Speaker 7: thought of her own. You hounded her with your rightness.
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  Speaker 7: That's why she moved in with me, to get away
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  Speaker 7: from you and your pestering phone calls and your fight.
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  Speaker 3: That's a lie.
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  Speaker 4: You came between us.
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  Speaker 8: Laws told me this afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: You said she should forget me.
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  Speaker 7: I told her so at breakfast. She couldn't. She was
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  Speaker 7: still in love with you. She was going back to
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  Speaker 7: her apartment tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 3: There's something I don't get. But Lois was using Phil's
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  Speaker 3: apartment as a soda hide on. How did this fellow
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  Speaker 3: know she was here?
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  Speaker 4: That's it's also ours. Then What time did you come
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  Speaker 4: here this afternoon?
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  Speaker 3: Why about four thirty? The girl's been dead three or
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  Speaker 3: four hours.
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  Speaker 8: Say look here.
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  Speaker 4: If you're trying to pin this on me, you are crazy.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe Lois told me about your insane temper. You threatened
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  Speaker 7: to kill her.
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  Speaker 4: I did not. Oh you're a pack of fools, But
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  Speaker 4: I think I do know who did it.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Oh, wait a minute, who can that be?
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  Speaker 4: It's too soon for the counter. I'll answer. Good evening.
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  Speaker 10: I'm sorry the body of this hour, but we had
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  Speaker 10: some trouble about a pickup at this address.
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  Speaker 4: Oh what kind of a pickup?
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 4: A trunk?
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  Speaker 10: And the traffic investigated for the transfer company. Heave one
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  Speaker 10: of our drivers a pickup ordered this apartment, but he
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  Speaker 10: didn't bring it. In fact, he's disappeared.
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  Speaker 7: Wait a minute, I can explain part of it. I
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  Speaker 7: told your driver I changed my mind. I didn't want
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  Speaker 7: the trunk sent.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, oh, I see you. Oh you're missed for this night.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, haven't I yet? Haven't I met you somewhere before?
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  Speaker 4: Your voice sounds familian?
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  Speaker 3: Ordered mister shame. You used to hear it every day
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  Speaker 3: going up, Sir florist.
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  Speaker 4: Please, I'm a bit of operator in the rest building.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm sorry, I disturbed. You were just trying to
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  Speaker 3: locate that driver. Good night.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah didn't I.
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  Speaker 7: That's funny. Why should a baggage company driver disappear right
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  Speaker 7: after he came for this trunk?
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  Speaker 4: I wondered?
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  Speaker 5: All right, kids, let's get back to business now. Mister Carter,
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  Speaker 5: you started to say you knew the killer.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Lois is old boss Joseph Spiegel. He's ahead of
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  Speaker 8: the Spiegel Chemical laboratories. She told me this afternoon he
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  Speaker 8: was coming to see her.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, but he doesn't know she was here. Lois quitter
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  Speaker 7: job with him last week.
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  Speaker 3: As soon as he did know. Why should that next
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  Speaker 3: boss want to kill a.
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  Speaker 4: Girl because he's a crook.
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  Speaker 8: I used to work in Spiegel's laboratory, and I discovered
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  Speaker 8: he was stealing formulas from other companies, so I quit.
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  Speaker 3: But not loss Anna.
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  Speaker 8: She was his private secretary, and our boss was just
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  Speaker 8: the soul of honor.
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  Speaker 4: That's what started off fighting.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, but when she learned you were right, she did
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  Speaker 7: quit three days ago.
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  Speaker 3: All right, but it sounds like a pretty flimsy reason
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  Speaker 3: to kill a girl, not if Lawis had the goods
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  Speaker 3: on it.
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  Speaker 8: He wanted to stop her tongue.
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  Speaker 4: You weren't fighting about that this afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: Now, she told me she was.
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  Speaker 8: Gonna go to work for another chemical company. I told
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  Speaker 8: her when I married, I didn't want my wife working. Well,
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  Speaker 8: we've both got pretty mad. She said she'd never married me.
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  Speaker 7: I can imagine how you took that with your conceit.
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  Speaker 3: How about it, Mike, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a little worried. Paraday. This is Phil's apartment. She's
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  Speaker 4: been living here alone up till the past few days. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: Lewis and Phyllis are about the same height, same color hair.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe maybe somebody thought he was killing Phyllis.
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  Speaker 7: Huh, who'd want you? I haven't an enemy in the world.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you've got hundreds of angels as many as I've gotten.
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  Speaker 4: Mike Chane and Phyllis Knight have sent plenty of lugs
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  Speaker 4: up the river.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, but Lois and I don't really look alike. Mike,
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  Speaker 7: a killer would be awfully certain before he did it.
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  Speaker 4: Why should he, Honey, yours is the only name on
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  Speaker 4: the mailbox. If some crook hired a gunman to come
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  Speaker 4: to this address and knock off the girl living in
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  Speaker 4: an apartment six sixth.
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  Speaker 5: Less and Mike, bad stuff doesn't happen in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 5: Those are the old al Capone days.
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  Speaker 4: Well, maybe I'm a nervous Nelly. I just don't want
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  Speaker 4: Phil running any danger.
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  Speaker 3: Mike.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, a minute, look here here this ash tray.
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  Speaker 4: I see, mister cotton.
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  Speaker 3: Do you smoke? But uh yes, uh pipe?
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  Speaker 4: Oh there's a cigar butt in this ash tray.
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  Speaker 8: Spiegel, he smokes him all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I told you he was coming here.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we should check that right now. You know where
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  Speaker 3: he lives.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, he's got an apartment of his plant. It's next
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  Speaker 8: to the laboratory that's on Bay Street.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, suppose Phil and Imosi over there right now and
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  Speaker 4: swap formulas with doctor Spiegord.
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  Speaker 3: And if the carner gets through here in time, I'll
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  Speaker 3: join you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, mister Shane, have you got a gun? You think
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  Speaker 4: I'll need it?
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  Speaker 2: You might.
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  Speaker 4: Spiegel is a huge man with a cunning, fiendish mine. Well,
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  Speaker 4: thanks for the warning. I'll be ready with a few
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  Speaker 4: Shane Nannigans of my own.
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  Speaker 2: into the night through an open door the entrance to
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  Speaker 2: the Spiegel Chemical Laboratories. In the doorway is the huge
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  Speaker 2: silhouette of a man.
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  Speaker 4: Shane Michael Shane. Yes, sir, I do not know you, Sir,
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  Speaker 4: I'm aware of that doctor Spiegel with miss night Than.
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  Speaker 4: I would like to talk to you. It's very important.
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  Speaker 4: Impossible tonight. I'm working in my laboratory.
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  Speaker 7: It's about Lois Labors.
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  Speaker 4: Doctor Lewis. Oh, come in close the door please, we
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  Speaker 4: will talk in the laboratory. I must get back to
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  Speaker 4: my experiment. It's way please, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Cheapers. He is a giant mike and.
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: Those thick glasses make him look like a movie hammer man.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Shane, you are a detective. How did you know that?
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  Speaker 7: Well?
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  Speaker 4: I rather expected Lewis might talk to someone. She's a
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  Speaker 4: very neurotic girl. She imagines things. I'm afraid she's passed
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  Speaker 4: that doctor Spiegel. She's dead, dead, murdered. It's a pity.
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  Speaker 4: She had a fine brain, but too much imagination. My laboratory.
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  Speaker 4: I caution you both not to handle the tubes or retorts.
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  Speaker 4: They are very fretgile, golly.
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  Speaker 7: It's it's an elaborate place. What are you experimenting on?
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  Speaker 4: That? Madam? Is my business? Doctor? I believe you knew
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  Speaker 4: Nelson Carter. Lois fiance. He used to work here, capable,
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  Speaker 4: but a wild temper and very jealous of you.
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  Speaker 7: Perhaps, yes, I.
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  Speaker 4: Used to take Lois to dinner so I could continue
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  Speaker 4: my work without interruption. Nelson misunderstood. Yes, I should not
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  Speaker 4: be surprised if he killed her. Perhaps you saw Lois
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  Speaker 4: this afternoon, doctor, about what time? They're very good detective?
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  Speaker 4: About the five o'clock, I would say.
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  Speaker 7: How did you know she was staying in my apartment?
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  Speaker 4: One moment? There is trouble with his retort?
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  Speaker 3: Letter?
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  Speaker 4: Better, how did I know? It's very simple? Lois telephoned
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  Speaker 4: me her last paycheck was incorrect. I brought her a
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  Speaker 4: new one.
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  Speaker 7: Is that all you want to see her about?
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  Speaker 4: Also? I asked her to come back an excellent secretary.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Shane, what are you doing just admiring your laundry
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  Speaker 4: in the sink laundry? Does your experiment include breaching of
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  Speaker 4: blood soaked handkerchiefs? Doctor good heavens, Yes, they are my handkerchiefs. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: but the blood is not from Lois's veins. She was
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  Speaker 4: strangled and stabbed out by a sharp instrument, doctor, like
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  Speaker 4: the surgical knife here, Perhaps I show you how I
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  Speaker 4: use that knife in this cage.
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  Speaker 7: Rats, hundreds of.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Them, one hundred, madam disease, very sick rats. When my
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: experiments are concluded, they go in here into this bim
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Ooh no, very dramatic, doctor, But it doesn't fool us. Sure,
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: sure you wanted those to come back to work. But
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: she told you she was going to another chemical company.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: That scared you, doctor, if she told about your stolen
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: formulas and your other crokerry. She did talk, and I
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: thought this was a trick. Don't you rety your gun,
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: mister Shane. My end is already in my pocket.
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: You killed her, She's not dead.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: It's a trick to get.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Something on me.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Get out, get out of your pose. You now, you
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: will forget you ever came here. You will drop this investigation.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: I don't take orders from you, doctor Spiegel. This time
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: you will. Your young lady has sense. If you have
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: not good night.
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: Oh. I thought he was going to keep us in
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: there and experiment on us.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Yes, he's a cold blooded baby.
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: H Hey the inspector there, he's part in that police.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: Car with Nelson.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's got here in time to see the bums rush.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: One of the odds.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: I don't know expect that he's his devilish enough to
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: commit murder.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Should I take him in for questioning?
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: No, no, not yet, not yet. He'll be here. He
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: doesn't scare out.
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: Mike found handkerchief soaking with blood. He said he was
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: experimenting with rests.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: I think he was sincere though he figured we were
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: on the trail of those stolen formula.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: He killed her. I tell you, if the police don't
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: get him, I will stop acting. You're too dead anxious.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Dependent on Spiel, Yes, yes, and the good doctor through
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: the honor. Right back at Nelson, I'm on the fence.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Spiegel had the motive, Nelson had the jealousy and the
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: temper to do it. Each saw the girl about the
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: time she died.
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: Mike, if you ask me, you're passing up a bit.
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: The killer stuff lows into the trunk so her body
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: could be smuggled out of the building. Find where the
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: trunk was going, and perhaps we'll have the address of
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: the murderer.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: But she ordered the trunk picked up herself.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Phil, maybe she didn't. Anyway, it's worth a try, hopping Angel,
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: we're heading for that transfer company.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: We appreciate it. So you're coming down and open the
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: office at this time of the night.
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: Un lucky my wife saw you were a policeman. She'd
• 20:14
  Speaker 11: never let me out of the house. This is our
• 20:18
  Speaker 11: dispatch office.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, have you located your missing driver?
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Missing driver?
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: I don't understand why your traffic investigator came to the apartment.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: The driver that was to pick up the trunk had disappeared.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: He was checking up.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Well, that's impossible.
• 20:33
  Speaker 11: All of our men checked into that, and we don't
• 20:35
  Speaker 11: have a what did you call him a traffic investigator.
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: Mike, he was a fake.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: It's not so good. Probably never ran an elevator in
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: the rust building either.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: This thing is getting screwy over the minute. Oh, here
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: we are.
• 20:47
  Speaker 11: Here's the pickup order on the trunk.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: So under the name, Oh yes, Phyllis.
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: Knights, not under Lois Lavers.
• 20:55
  Speaker 11: Let's see it was a full order. We see five
• 20:59
  Speaker 11: twenty five PM trunk to be sent to nine oh
• 21:02
  Speaker 11: five three Jennifer Street.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Seems to me I've heard the address before, nine.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Five three Jennifer, nine five three Jennifer. Yeah, there's something
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: about it, I should hope.
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: So it's the address of Michael Shane.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: I was right, Inspector, I was right. Lois was killed
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: by mistake. It was intended to be filled.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: Well, that's the case, then Carter and Spiegel cancel out.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Correct, Honey, the murderer had planned to kill Phyllis, send
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: her body in a trunk to my apartment, and lead
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: me to explain it to the police.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: All right, maybe, so say the motive is revenge. You
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: got one hundred enemies, Mike. One of them poses a
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: transfer company investigator.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: But who is he? He didn't leave a single finger
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: printing Phil's apartment. Where do we start looking?
• 21:54
  Speaker 10: Oh?
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: If I could only remember the guy, I know his voice?
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Where have I heard that? When? Did I? I must
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: know him.
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: Well, he didn't know me very well, or he'd never
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: have killed the wrong girl. Lois and I were the
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: same height, same color of hair, Mike, But that's all.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Maybe maybe he figured you changed a lot of honey.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: If if he hadn't seen you in a long time,
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: if he'd been away, if he'd had been.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Paraday, Yeah, if he'd been away in prisoner kids were
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: going to make a phone call right now?
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Hello, give me Sam Quentin.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Phil fill Honey closed that door to the other room.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: I can't do it, Hello, Inspector Friarty San Francisco calling. Yes,
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: I want to speak to him personally. Might get on
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: an extension phone. Yeah, okay, plenty, sir. We need a
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: list of all prisoners you've released from your little sanatorium
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: in the past two weeks.
• 22:45
  Speaker 12: Last two weeks.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll hardly.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Make a list.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: What's his name?
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Let me see?
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: It was Harold Ford. That means anything to you, Mike.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Mike, Well, you've got job here. We we figured maybe
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: you had released a prisoner who had a gudge against me, some.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Old enemy of Mike's who might try his hand at revenge.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's the.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Only release we've had lately.
• 23:11
  Speaker 11: In fact, Mike, you can subtract one anemy from your book.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Died here last week, Al Schmock.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Al, Holy jumpin' now? I remember it's Al Smock's brother,
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Jack Smock.
• 23:23
  Speaker 12: That's right here.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: A brother came up here and blamed the body.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Does that mean anything to you?
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Ha hah?
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Does it set an extra fight in your dining room?
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Chief?
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: We're sending you and you.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Border goodbye, sir, and thanks a million for your help.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Jack Smock, Jack Smock. He must have died his hair
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: and put on glasses. Phil, Phil, you remember the Casey
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: the two brothers about four years ago.
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, vaguely it was. It was manslaughter. You helped
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: send the one called al Smock up for twenty.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Years, right, honey, right. Jack was supposed to be brothers
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: al Alibi, but our Testimoni tied him up in bow Knox.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: So our guide him prison. Now brother Jack is out
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: for revenge.
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: Oh fine, but where is brother Jack right now? And
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: how do we catch him?
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Got it?
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Honey? Jack claim the body, so he must have buried him.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Now we got to find that body.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: We'll return to Mike Shane and his adventures in just
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: a moment. Due to their position, the front wheel bearings
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: of your automobile are subject to damage from dirt, water, grit,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: and brake dust. Because of their more exposed position, and
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: because they are so important to safe easy driving, front
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: wheel bearings need the.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Best possible lubrication.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Failure to keep these bearings well greased can mean wheel shimmy,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: hard steering, and weakening of the whole front assembly. For
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: these reasons, your neighborhood Union oil minuteman uses extra care
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: when he lubricates your front wheel bearings. First, he washes
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: out all the old grease and dirt with solvents. Then
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: the bearings and races are individually cleaned until they are
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: dry and shiny. Finally, the clean, polished bearings are carefully
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: assembled in the races and greased with special equipment. With
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: each bearing snugly sealed in a smooth, sturdy coating of
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Union oil ball roll grease. Your front wheels are all
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: set for months of well lubricated easy rolling. The cost
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: for the entire service is nominal, So for safer, easier driving,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: just stop in wherever you see the sign of the
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: big orange and blue seventy six and ask for Union
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: oil front wheel bearing surface.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: At police headquarters, Mike and Inspector Parody each holds a
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: telephone in his hands. They have checked every cemetery in
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: the book.
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: Well, here's the last one, Shadow Mountain Cemetery.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, here the.
• 25:59
  Speaker 12: Is Albert Smock entered last Friday. The plat was bought
• 26:05
  Speaker 12: by a mister Jack Smock.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Swell, swell, what's his address?
• 26:08
  Speaker 12: Our records show it as one nine six old Waterfront.
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: This is it, kids, looks like a busted down rooming
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: house and somebody's head sticking out of every window.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: There there's a.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Sergeant at the entrance.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Good work, sergeant. Anybody tried to leave the building and alser.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: I got two boys at the back door, two in
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: the alley, and two by the fire escape. Okay, let's
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: go in, Mike.
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: I'm coming to you.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Are not you want to hold in your head.
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: I might get one just standing here, Smarty Smock may
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: be in that crowd across the street something.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: So that Mic, Sergeant, your job will be to take
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: care of miss Knight. We're all going in.
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: Right, come on, Oh sheres it's dark again. Why don't
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: they light these stairs.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Like any quir he's on this next floor. If he's
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: in his room, the landlord said, the room three h five. Ah,
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: let me see that'd be here to the left.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Keep close to the wall.
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: There it is that there, there's no light shining under it.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Maybe he's playing possole Sergeant, You won't. He'll stay here
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: lapping out against the wall. Now you ready, already.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: He's playing coy Open up, Smock. You're completely surrounded.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Okay, so you won't open up?
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's his answer. Okay, Mike, let's go Wait
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: a minute.
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: Not give the light, Mike.
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: Oh, he's flat on the floor.
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: Micha, are you all right?
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess so.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Okay, inspector, Okay, climb off from under that table.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: I know somebody got hit, but cool shut the gun
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: right out of my hand.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. I didn't know where to aim in
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: the dark till he fired and I saw his flash.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Thanks to you, Mike, I'm still breathing.
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: Yeah, this man on the floor won't be unless we
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: get an ambulance quick.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: You found out.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: I didn't think you're right, bully, you didn't think period.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: But then it doesn't take much in the way of brains,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: just an awful lot of lives.
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: Don't be silly, Phyllis, This is fairy. I'll be glad
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: to put you out for a couple of nights. Yeah,
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: break this down.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: He's right, honey, stay out of your apartment for a
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: few days to you sort of forget what's happened.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: I was just thinking, you know, this was a freak case.
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: Everything stacked up so strongly against Nelson Carter and doctor Spiegel,
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: and yet at the last minute it turned out to
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: be almost a complete stranger.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: Because we were looking for the wrong motor.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: And worried about that guy Spiegel. He looks to me
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: like a guy.
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: Who commit plenty of murder and will before he gets
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: through with his career.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: No, you can spike that parody, knock him up for
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: stealing chemical formulas. That'll keep him quiet.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: Not a bad idea, keeping so busy making little ones
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: out of big ones that he can't make dead ones
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: out a live one.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Well, I hope I need that this episode won't scare
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: you out of the detecting business, nearly getting bumped off
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: by your boss's enemies.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: He's got plenty more enemies besides Jack Smark.
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: Oh, I don't know. I'd stick anyway. My boss forgets
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: the attractions.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Of the job.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: What What Why? Honey?
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Tune in again next week at eight thirty for another
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: adventure with Michael Shane Private Detectives, starring Wally Mayer and
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Kathy Lewis and Joe Forte as Inspector Faraday. Goodnight's story
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: was written by Richard de Graff and based on the
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: character created by Brett Holliday. Music was composed and directed
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: by Bernard Katz. This is John Lang saying good night
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: for the people who make seventy six Gasoline and Triton
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Motor Oil. Junion Oil Company. This is the Mutual Donaly
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Broadcasting System.
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: This is Andrew J. Graham, author of the web surface
• 31:23
  Speaker 11: series Oh and a Man.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Of His Wife.
• 31:25
  Speaker 11: You're listening to the great detectives of Old time radio.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Welcome back.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: I like this episode and it was very well written, uh,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: with some good twist in the mystery though that investigator
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I think I had a sense even the first time
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: listening to it this was somebody who was a bit suspicious.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Wally Mayor brought a lot of warmth and understanding the
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: way that his portrayal works here, which is different from
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of other detectives. Of course, I'm thinking in
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: particular here of Nick Carter, who would just be focused
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: on solving the case, and that does give the characters
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: a little bit more depth. Though we may struggle a
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: bit to relate with how fast she's expected to get
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: over it, but there's at least some acknowledgment that she
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: needs some time. So again, a very well crafted episode.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: And interesting thing about this particular episode is it's unlike
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: any episode we've played so far of Michael Shane in
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: that it's been in circulation a very long time. Actually,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I originally intended to do Michael Shane before I did
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: The Saint. However, I was very focused on that idea
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: that we would do the Price of Fame matter while
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: we were on Johnny Daller, while we were playing Vins
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: The Saint with Vincent Price. And that became a problem
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: because in short order we went from a total of
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: five episodes of Michael Shane Private Detective with Wally Meyer
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: in circulation to twenty eight episodes, which is great listening,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: but literally I think it was a week or two
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: before we were scheduled to announce the series that we
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: would be running for that season, I had to change
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: from doing The Saint to doing Michael Shane. But this
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: one has been in circulation a long time and I
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: enjoyed it the first time I heard it, and I
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: was glad to hear it again. But at any rate,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: we do turn to listener comments and feedback. I received
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: a tweet from Levi, who writes in Kathy Lewis does
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: has such an amazing voice, I can't get enough of it. Well,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: thanks so much, Levi, and she's definitely got a very
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: strong voice, and I will think about doing a Kathy
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Lewis app extra for those of you with the app
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: or the premium site. Usually I do app extras with
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: just the stars of the given series, but Kathy Lewis
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: was one of the great. She ranked number sixty four
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: on my list of Radio's most Essential people, and I
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: may have even underrated her at that. So we'll see
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: what we can do about that. But that we'll do
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: it for today. Join us tomorrow as we premiere The
• 34:30
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• 34:34
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• 34:49
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