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here now is today's episode of the Case Book of Gregory Hood The Murder
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fell the proudest name in the long history of fine wine. Well, it's
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Monday night and San Francisco, and we have a date with Gregory Hood.
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A little earlier, Gregory phoned me to say that he was working late at
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his office, So let's join him there, shall we come in? Hello
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Harry in Gregory. Sorry to drag you over here, but I really was
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tied up. Is that's all right? I'm quite impressed to see the sea
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head of Gregory Hood. Importers has to work late occasionally, dislike anyone else.
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Oh, yes, Harry, I mustn't think that all my time is
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spent gallivanting around San Francisco quite a hard working man. On occasion, this
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afternoon, for instance, we received a particularly valuable shipment from China, some
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exquisite jade pieces. I've been examining and cataloging them myself. Is this peace
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on the desk part of the collection? Yes? You want to buy its?
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Well? What is? It? Looks like just a chunk of jade
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where a hole through it? It is, Harry, but it also happens
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to be an archer summaring ten period, two hundred and six PCs. How
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much in your case, Harry, I'll make a special price, say fifteen
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thousand dollars. I'm afraid not. I'm a little short this month. It's
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a beautiful specimen, Harry. I must show this to Richard Gump. He's
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got the finest collection in town. You know, it's funny this shipment arrived
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today. Why because the story I'm going to tell you tonight concerned the shipment
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of jade that I received just over a year ago. Only on that occasion,
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it was for me jade, and it gave me one of the worst
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headaches I've ever had. In fact, i'd done nearly got myself murdered.
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Murdered how well, it's a salliatory tale that proves that being an amateur detective
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is a foolish and dangerous occupation. I suppose the story really began about six
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years ago in Lieutenant Silver's office in homicide. My old friend was patiently trying
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to sweat the truth out of a certain gent by the name of Lenn Carter,
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a murderer with come on, Carty, you know we've got your cold.
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Ain't got nothing on recovery. Why don't you be smart, Pete guilty
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and take a self defense wrap. Otherwise it's the gas chamber. Not to
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that I was in tom Ell at the time of the murder. See,
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I'm sticking to it. Hello, Hi, Greg, STI lat today.
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Yeah, this is one rat that won't squeal. Greg. I've got a
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friend outside Stan. I'd like you to meet her. Look, Greg,
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I have no time for wenches now. I don't know that i'd call her
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a wench. Stan inflation is set in somewhat, but I think she'll interest
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you and you Carter, I do not know if they it's funny. She
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knows you. Her name's Dodo Wearing, and she's prepared to testify that she
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spent an hour with you in San Francisco on the night of the murder.
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Okay, gregoryhood, I know who you are, and I'll get you for
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this. I'll get you at the last thing I do. As a matter
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of fact, it was the last thing he did too, but that comes
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later. How did you round up the girl, Gregory? I have my
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contact Harry. How bad? What happened to corner? Well? He had
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a good lawyer and got off at Man's daughter went off to San Quentin,
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still swearing I'd pay with my life for putting the finger on him. I
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never gave him another thought until one night just over a year ago, when
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my friend and attorney Sanderson Taylor, and I were having drinks at the top
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of the Mark. I, by an art coincidence, was waiting there to
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keep an appointment with an leaving a beautiful young woman. Gregory, Yes,
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Sandy, what's her name? Whose name? The girl you're waiting for?
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I didn't say I was waiting for a girl. You didn't have to.
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I know you well enough to recognize the symptoms, the red carnation in your
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button hole and the way you've been eyeing your watch. Tell their own story.
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What's her name, Sherry Drake, New Conquest. This is to be
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something of a business meeting, Sandy, And I'm sure you use the word
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business loosely. Don't be cynical, Sandy. By the way, much as
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I love your company, will you beat a snappy retreat when the young lady
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arrived afraid of competition? Eh, you're aging, Gregory, don't worry.
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Soon as I finished his last support, I'll be on my way in any
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case, I have a wife and two children waiting for me in Berkeley.
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Hell no, isn't that Lieutenant Silver standing in the entrance at Oh? Sure
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it is Benley? There he comes, Oh Gregory, Oh evening, mister
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t Gregory, my boy, are stuck with a guest tonight. I know
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it's due any moment. I don't know about it. She You're stuck with
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me for the evening. Look stand, you are a man of irresistible charms.
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Some of your anecdotes are fascinating, and you play a wizard a game
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of chess. Another evening. We'll have a long session together. But great,
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I'm going to have to insist, greg what's up? Lam Carter got
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parole today? Lin Carter that's the man that you put the finger on five
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years ago. And Greg, remember he touched you at the time I talk.
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The guys were in store with him. Greg, he's still squaring vengeance
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and no need to take that very seriously. Is I think there is?
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We put a tail on him the moment he got turned loose, but he
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gave him a slip, and I'm sticking with you, Greg until he turns
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up. If he's hurting a rod, there's a parole violation and we've got
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him. But I'm keeping you safe until then. I appreciate your concerns,
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Stand, but I can look after myself and it'll be safer to let the
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lieutenant stick with you Gregory. But I've got a date and see'ze a crowd.
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Don't you worry. Greg, I can be the scold, but stand,
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I'm going I'll leave you guys to fight it out. What's in the
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package? Look a little presence for you? Greg? What is it?
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A wig? One for grinding smoke? Oh? Greg, it's a lot
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more practical than that, and it's something we'd better discuss before your young lady
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shows up. All right, but that's not all we're going to discuss.
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You Doenna. Are you sure we're not boring you, Lieutenant Silver, don't
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worry about me, young lady, but we do worry about you, San.
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We've been sitting here at the top of the mark for nearly an hour
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and all you've done is to drink four gigantic orangeades and look gloomy. Are
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you quite sure you wouldn't like to take a nice long ride on the cable
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car and meet us somewhere later? Yes, greg I'm quite sure. Just
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carry on, don't mind me. Do you usually have a chaperone you take
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girls? Greg's not as a rule. It's rather cramped my stone and it's
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quite as that, Gregory. Where did you get my numbers? Harry Bartel
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gave me the idea by an art coincidence. He was talking about Sherry the
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other night, and I thought what a nice name it would be for girls.
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So I summed through the phone until I found your Seriously, Gregory,
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how did you get it? Oh? Excuse me back in the don't hurry,
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yesda, take your time, my dear young lady. Let's not pry
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into his personal life. Let's accept the miracle of his disappearance gratefully and gets
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out of business. Disney. Yes, Sherry, I have a little unfinished
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business that I think you can help me with. Oh, this is a
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new one. Go on, Gregory. I am an importer, Sherry.
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Two months ago, somebody switched the shipment of jade on me somewhere between Hong
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Kong and San Francisco. You mean I substituted Pony jade for the real star.
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Yes, Sherry, I've been doing a little private snooping and I have
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a hunch that are gent by the name of Hillary Pierson is at the back
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of it. I found out that you knew him, and that's why I
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called you. Oh, yes, I do know him slightly, but I'm
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sure you're making a mistake, Gregory. Hillary is a straight shoot. Write
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that on that. I wouldn't. I found out quite a bit about the
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gentleman in the past few days. He's just about as straight as a regular
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worm. Good evening. She Oh, hello, Hillary, introduce me to
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your friend, won't you? Why? Yes? Hillary? Yes, missus,
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Gregory, how do you do? How do you do? So?
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I was just talking about you and I thought you might be That's why I
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came to your table. I think I know what you're doing, mister hood
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you're interested in that shipment of Sony j Stip by your agent, don't you.
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I'd be a mighty poor business man if I weren't interested. My friends
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and you somewhere required the curious notion that Sherry knows something about it? Have
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you ever thought of taking up mine? Reading? Funny, very very funny,
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mister Hood. But I warn you you're making a great mistake. I
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might even say you'd live to the greatest if I thought it was the least
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likelihood that you live at all. What are you talking about? You know
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what I'm talking about, don't you, mister Hood? Oh sure, I
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can recognize the threat just like the next man. Listen, mister Pearson.
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We're being chaperone by Lieutenant Silver, the Parmecide. He'll be back in a
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moment. Why not sit down and wait for him. He'd love to meet
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you. I have no interest in meeting policemen. Don't forget what I said
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before. You certainly had me for Gregory. Why aren't you grabbing me?
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Threatened you? Oh he's not dangerous by himself. I'll have Silver for the
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tail on him. Maybe he'll lead us to the whole game. Well,
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Cherry, do you still think he's a great shooter. He's a raft.
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I'll never see him again. Perhaps you can help me, Nevin Cherry.
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I'll tell you anything I can, Gregory, but there isn't much had a
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cute dates with the guy, Oh Deepers. Here comes to lieutenant again.
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Welcome home, San all is forgiven. Anything interesting happened in my absence,
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greg No, No, just another death threat. You're kidding, I'm not.
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People are queuing up to kill me. Well, I start a line
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for anything these days. Come on, greg give well A rather oly edge
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inist. Gentleman by the name of Hillary Pierson just came up to our tables.
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In a voice simply dripping with vitriol. He suggested, Grace Scott Sanday's
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come back. Remember I'm popular tonight. What's wrong? Sandays? I was
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worried about what the lieutenant told us about Lem Carter, so I told buy
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your apartments. I didn't get too good a look at the man across the
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street, but I'm certain it was caught good. We've got him. Now,
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come on, how about me. I'm not letting go of you now,
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Jerry, come along and watch the fan. I'm Gregory. You can't
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bring a girl. Look Sandy, whose murder is this yours or mine?
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Come on, come on, everybody, Well, here's the apartment. If
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there's any shooting. Jerry dropped down in the back seat and keeps down.
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Don't worry about me, Gregory. The guy's still there. See him in
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the doorways. Carter, all right, I'll open the side window a little.
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I don't want to have to use this rod, but i'll keep his
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handy. Cart has spotted us. He's moving back in the doorway. Let's
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see if I can talk a little sentimto him. Carter, don't be a
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Doerry. Okay, Carter, tryus went off the side, got him then,
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come on. Held down the steps when you're winged. I think he's
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dead, Jerry, he's gonna stayed in the car. I can't feel he
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is dead. He can't see. I wasn't flaiming to kill. Here's one
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of your bullets in his legs. He must have hit his head as he
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fell down the steps. His neck's broken. Must have died, you shuret
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darling. You seem remarkably handed with corpses. I can take it up.
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I'm so saying she fainted, Okay, Sandy, I've got her. Poor
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kid. The whole thing has been little too much for her. It's been
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a little bit too much for me too. He's a brave girl, Greg
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here, Yes, but it's rather spoils of the evening, doesn't it.
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Nothing else to do now but take the lady home and the crops of the
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margue. Oh understand? Yes? Greg? Uh? Thanks? What for
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about Copper? I mean, whether he was gunning for me or gip it?
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Greg? Come on, let's get moving. Well, this evening didn't
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turned out the way I planned it, Not for me. I should have
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been back in Berkeley hours ago. I was speaking for myself. I had
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a twelve minute what a bride kid, Greg, very welcome Fan, and
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I'm glad to see you sand If you driving me home, I'll see you
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in the morney. Okay, good night, Rag, good night night fan.
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A right, Greg, wait here until we see your lights go on?
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Might be someone else waiting for it. Okay, but I think you
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overestimate my popularity. No, m I get my food into the doom,
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lem talk to get the castered, and my girl friends friends, and he's
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got a family who's there? Because I know you're there, Come out of
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those shadows. Come on, my right, Gregory, Right? Did I
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get you? Help me out? I'm okay? So you see who it
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was? No, only must escape by the backstairs. Oh thank the lord
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who brought me that bullet hoop best slam. Oh so that was the presence
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he gave Gregory at the marks And yes, here sucky thing. I didn't
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take it off after Carter was dead, and even with a steel vest.
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Three bullets in the belly kind of knocked you off load. Here's a note
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under your door, mat What is it? Flame, mister Taylor. See,
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I told you i'd get you if it was the last thing I did
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well, and it signed lemb Cotter. But Lamb's dead. Oh I gets
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the pattern now. Somebody who wanted to kill me took advantage of Carter's release
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to frame it on him, not knowing he was dead already. And so
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it didn't work. Oh yes it did. Stand I was murdered. What
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what bright new triggers this? Gregory? I was killed? Or at least
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we'll let the would be murderer think though it will lull him. Good idea,
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Gregg, I'll go ahead with an official vest investigation. Sign Stan,
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you do that and I'll calm the underground in my own ways, speaking of
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a very recent corpse, I think I may say I'm going to enjoy solving
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my own murder. You'll hear the rest of Gregory Hood's story in the second,
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which is all the time I need to tell you about Petrie California muscatell.
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If you ever tried Petrie muscatels, I've noticed that it seems to be
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a particular favorite of the lady. Perhaps that's because Petrie Muscatel has such a
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beautiful golden color, bright as sunshine, But most likely it's because Petrie Muscatel
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has a flavor. It comes right from the heart of plump, luscious muscat
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grape. Like Petri Port, Petri Muscatel is just perfect at the dinner.
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As a matter of fact, why not buy a bottle of Petri and the
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bottle of Petrie muskuld Tell don't buy one by two, but remember always by
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Petrick Gregory. How did it feel to be a walking court? Surprisingly pleasant,
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Harry. In fact, I'd say that the professional zombie probably has quite
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a gay life. Did you find out who fired those three shots? Ackings?
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Oh? Yes, yes, but that comes a little later in the
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story. At the time, my only suspect was Hillary piss After all,
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he threatened my life a short while before. True. But and this is
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almost terresy, Gregg, you know who I suspect, fool the girl Jerry,
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And may I say how much I like that name? You may?
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In fact, I'd like to go a little further and Harry. Okay,
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but it seemed to me that if this girl was mixed up with the Jay
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get Harry, don't you see? Because she was with us when len Carter
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was killed, she was the only person who knew positively that she couldn't hope
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to frame a later killing on him. Yes, so well, Greg,
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what did you do next? I say, Harry person was my only suspect,
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and I had a hunch it wasn't he. First, it wasn't his
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style, and second, the time element seemed to rule him out. But
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fortunately I have some interesting contacts with the underworld, and I knew where to
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look for further suspects. While Sandy Taylor waited in my apartment, I spent
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a profitable half hour with some crape hair and a bottle of spirit gum,
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giving myself what I thought would be quite a convincing beard. Yeah, there's
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an official corpse. I guess you had to disguise yourself. And then Sandy
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and I drove over to a little hideaway on Market Street, a bar known
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as the Scarlet Dolphins. It has the most persistent juke box. Oh,
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poor old Sandy, he's so patient with me. Then, ah, I
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just call Mary. Well, Sandy, did you explain your absence satisfactorily?
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Yes, Mary's wonderfully understanding, just the same. I can almost see that
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patient, knowing smile of hers when I tell her I'm going to a bar
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with you strictly on business. Mary is a very remarkable girl. Incidentally,
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now that we're here, what are we doing in the Scarlet souton? Waiting
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to talk to Ole O'Leary. Oleo'laring an expert on yodling, no doubt?
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Can he help it? If he had an Irish father and the Swedish mother,
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what's his specialtist? He's a windshil of the underworld. Oh, Famley,
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this grape hair is driving me crazy. If you must go around being
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a corpse, Greggory, at least you deserve to be uncomfortable. Becomes only
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enough. I let's seem actually we don't want to drink only just information.
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Uh, Gregory, what did you do with that chim being a corpse only?
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Can you use a fins? Are you kidding? Come to daddy?
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Thanks? Gregs. What do you want to know? Did you know Lem
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Cotton was out of hawk Sure get out this morning? You know his contact?
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Yeah? Just one though, Greg a day, name and address only.
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We'll be hat defon's your apartment, son Turk. Thanks Oly Hello,
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Okay, thanks for the finn. Good luck Greg. Now when Ruby comes
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through the doors, Andy, remember that you're playing this scene. I don't
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worry, Gregory. I'm not simple mind and the child of three. Yeah,
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miss Ruby Hart? Yeah, may we come in? Who are you?
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I'm mister Gregory Hood's lawyer, and this is my secretary, mister Bunker
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Gregory Hood's lawyer. Huh, yes, okay, come in. Well that's
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on your mind. You may have heard that lem Carter was killed at tee
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me. No I didn't. I'm as cares all running because I was reading
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a sad book. And listen, brother, if you can't hit a glow
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on idle of Crown yet but I haven't. Mister Hood feels that he is
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in part liable for Lem Carter's death. And he ain't hidden brother. He
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wishes to make some financial contribution. He feels that if mister Carter had any
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close associates or depends them had me. That's all and that's enough, or
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it could have been you've known him for some time. I've known him no
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time. Never heard him before he went to San Quentin. But I had
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a brother, mister buddy of Len's Fair. Then got my letter to go,
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and so he started writing to me and I wrote back to him.
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See made me come alive all over that letter writing. So he came out
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and saw me. That's once. Yes today it was just like his letter
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when he was fresh and blood in him. The night's dead and I got
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lawyers calling around me asking about financial dependence and stuff. It was just us.
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See then, didn't see nobody else before they got him. All our
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lives there was going to be nobody but us. And I want to get
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this can hill out of here. I want to go on reading that sad
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book. Leave me, miss Park. When I say that, mister wood
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cam futher you so brother gets moving, I'm yeah, yeah, break your
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heart good night, then sorry that he missed it, all right, that
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was your job then, man me too, poor girl. I'm sorry for
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her, oh am, I Sandy, I feel like a rather elderly near
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white flood about those financial contributions. As Ruby would say, I ain't kidding,
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brother. Anybody that can find good in limb cotta desaves all I can
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do. But this was a dead end. No food's there. What's the
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next move, Gregory? The jade trail and the girl named Sherry. It's
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only eleven, said, he not too late to call. Why not remove
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the beard? No, Sandy, No, she's a brave girl. Let's
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see how she faces up to midnight shadow ptentually. I'll play the next scene
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alone if you don't mind. I don't mind. I'll wait for you in
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your apartment. Too late to drive back to Berkeley to night anyway, If
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your wife only knew a smart attorney, she could cite me as good ground
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for divorce. Okay, Sandy, wait for me back at the apartment.
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I have the feeling that the next scene won't take very long, Gregory,
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I'm so glad you came back. Seems to night. That's the same when
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you walked in wearing that risdicul you were down near fainted again. Sury,
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I should have might have been smart too. I understand it, and like
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a lady likes woon, not to the extent of complete unconsciousness. How are
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you feeling now? Nice place you have here, Sherry. It's a modest
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little check, but I like it, Gregory. Yes, you look worried.
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Quite frankly, I am what's wrong? If try I let you tonight?
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Somebody tried to ventilate me with billets? Great? No, fortunately I
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was wearing a tin vest. Otherwise I'd be in the morgue. Now where
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did it happening my apartment? Could you see what it was? No?
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No, it was too dark. Sure. Yes, I've got a list
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of questions a yard long for you, But before I asked them, I
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I want to do a little checking. Do you mind if I use your
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phone? Of course? Not good? You see, officially I'm supposed to
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be a corpse. Well I wish you'd stop being one. I don't like
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bearded man. Well, I may be able to take it off as soon
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as I've made this call, Lieutenant Silver's in time for you. Yes a
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minute. Did Hillary Pearson call you this evening? Jerry? Really? No,
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no one's called This is Gregory. Hi, greg did you dig up
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any leaves, No san how about you? Nothing yet? Well, that's
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one thing you might want to know about that note we caught in your doorsteps,
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the one from Carter. Yah, there's no chance to navigate the handwriting
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yet, but loudly with Cotton's fingerprints. What's that? I think the note
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was loudly with Cotton's fingerprint? That a gett anything to you? Yes?
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Yes it does. It gives me the answer. Thanks? Then learn anything,
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Gregory, Yes, I did, Serry, maybe everything before you tell
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me about it. Come over here on the sofa. I want to show
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you my pet. You no night on the day. We don't need a
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life, do we. Oh it's beautiful, Gregory. So are you,
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Sherry? Thank you, sir. You're very beautiful, and you wore gloves
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this evening. Didn't you don't talk much? Yes? Maybe I could lend
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you like the night. There's only one end of that, darling. That
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wasn't a very gentlemanly action, Gregory. I know, Sandy, but my
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old father used to say, never strike a woman until she pulls a knife
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on your Shouldn't that be unless my old father always said until? Maybe that's
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why I'm still a bachelor. Did you have much of a job getting her
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over to the station. No, she was out cold until Silvera's got there,
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and then she screamed bloody murder and fought like a wildcat. Quite a
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female. Did he still anything? Splenty? Who if Pearson was at the
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back of it, philba is picking him up tonight and in the morning.
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I prefer charges, and with Sherry on the spot, I don't think it's
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going to be hard to track down our jay. She was a smart girl
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and realized you'd guessed her secret the moment you'd talk to Silvery. No,
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she must have heard him talking about the fingerprints. But it was smart figuring
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on her past and on yours to Gregory. You see, the fingerprints proved
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the note was genuinely from Carta. He planned to leave it by your body
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after he shot you. I stole it instead of which he was shot first.
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Therefore the note was stolen from his body. Only Sherry could have done
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that while she was performing her nurse's aid act of the corpse. The fact
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that she was wearing gloves kept her fingerprints off the note. She was a
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SmartLess dance, smart because she appeared to be the one person who couldn't have
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framed the dead carta. She thought the frame up attempts would clear her completely.
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The doubles, which a rule, very neat, and I nearly fell
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for it. It was quick thinking on your piece it all together as soon
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as you had the phone message. I almost wish I hadn't pieced it together
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quite so fast. Sandy? Why Gregory? Oh? The man asks why?
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Sherry was a very beautiful girl, Sandy, And the moonlight was quite
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potent. Sometimes I must tell you what my old father used to say about
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that. Well, Greg is usual. That story was a knockout. You're
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the most popular corpse i've met an eighty Yes, Harry means that everybody's just
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dying to kill me. Ooh, and that girl Sherry. You know,
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Harry, there's one woman who almost got me for live and I didn't tell
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me, Harry, if she succeeded, would you miss me? Greg?
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How can you talk like that? Would you really miss our little Monday evening
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get together? Why? Sure? I feel a little silly talking about Petry
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wine and myself. I should have known one track mind battel. But I
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guess you're right. Good detectives are a dime a dozen, but good wine
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ah, And when you say good wine, naturally you mean Petrie wine.
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Why. The Petrie family has been making wine for generations. The art of
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turning luscious sun ripened grapes into delicious, fragrant wine is their heritage, a
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heritage handed on down within the Petrie family from father to son and fathered his
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son. No wonder Petrie wine is so good. No wonder the Petrie business
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is grown and grown so. But today the Petrie family are America's largest independent
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wine makers. Yes, the making of Petrie wine is a family affair,
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and the Petrie family has every intention of keeping it that way, because by
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so doing they can be sure that every bottle of wine that bears the name
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Petrie is and always will be good wine. Well, graduate, what page
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of your notebook are you turning to next week? Next week, Harry,
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I'm going to tell you an odd story that took place in an extremely dense
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fog in the Berkeley Hills. It concerns the disappearing wife, a haunted house,
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and a hot playonet player. And see your next Monday, Harry.
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The Case Book of Gregory Hood is written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher.
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Original music is composed and played by Dean Fossler. Dale Gordon plays the part
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of Gregory Hood and Sanderson Taylor is played by Art Gilmore. The Petry Wine
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Company of San Francisco, California invites you to tune in again next week,
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same time, same station. The Case Book of Gregory Hood comes to you
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from our Hollywood studio. This is Harry Bartel saying good night for the Patrie
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family, welcome back. Well. I liked him working Harry Bartel into the
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story and with the suggestion that he dated her because her name was Sherry,
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and Harry Bartell mentioned Sherry quite a bit, though I get from what I
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gather the next week his date will be with a girl named Muscatel. The
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one thing, of course, that doesn't quite work about this is that the
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meeting between Gregory Hood and Harry Bartell was a lot more recent than the year
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before. But we go ahead and we'll let that pass. For the most
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part, this was just a pretty entertaining case and nice bit of a twist.
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Ending all right, want to listener comments and feedback, And we have
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this from Brian who writes regarding the Case Book of Gregory Hood, looking forward
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to hearing this really enjoyed mister Cameleon skips and all. Well, thanks so
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much, Brian, glad to hear it about mister Cameleon. And actually Andrew
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Ryans several years ago he did a survey of his audience as to what they
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wanted him to do with poor sound quality programs and injurynes of course at OTR
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Westerns dot com, and they said to go ahead and play them. And
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while I've never conducted a formal survey, that has been my instinct, and
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I think that in indication of what most people want to hear, we're understanding
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of difficulties that sometimes occur with old time radio programs, which were after all
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saved by people who were in many cases great radio fans but amateurs, or
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were captured in some way like a real to real recording tape off the radio
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that doesn't necessarily produce the best recordings. So if it's intelligible and we can
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get the ending and we kind of get what's going on in the case,
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and it's in a series we're doing, we'll probably play it. So thanks
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for your comment, Brian, I truly appreciate it. That'll do it for
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today, Join us tomorrow as we continue on with the open town matter,
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