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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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Radio Detectives. This episode we're bringing you it comes as a result of our
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eight hundred and fiftieth show, which was actually on Tuesday. By the nature
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of doing six shows a week is that we don't always end up at the
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end of our show, even when we get to a special like number eight
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to five. Oh and there may be a point when I go ahead and
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I upload one episode at midnight one episode at noon. But in this case,
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I just decided we'll go ahead and do it on the Sunday closest and
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we're gonna bring you an episode of a series we brought to you before for
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our special. However, it's been a long time since we presented it,
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so I'm gonna give you an introduction. In nineteen forty two, Mutual introduced
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a program called Murder Clinic. Murder Clinic ran for sixty episodes, and it
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was a fascinating concept. What they did was they ran in anthology series.
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Each week it featured a different great fictional detectives. Now, some of these
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have been well remembered. There were episodes of the series done featuring Poi Row,
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Miss Marple, Father Brown, and wide variety of others that are still
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remembered today. There are others that are far more obscure. Superintendent Henry Wilson,
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there was a doctor Colin Starr, Horn Fisher, things like that.
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So it was a mix. But each one of these quantum plane a detective
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who was at the time considered one of the best ever. And that was
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the case with today's episode. This was the sixth or fifth episode of Murder
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Clinic and it tells the story a story in the Adventures of Max Carroll.
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Mister Carrados was introduced in nineteen fourteen and his stories appeared in The Strand along
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with Sherlock Holmes and sometimes the editors of The Strand actually gave Max Carrados top
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billing. Believe it or not. Oh, there's a lot of details about
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Max Carrados. But before we go into any explanation, we'll play the program
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for you. I do want to let you know today's program is brought to
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you by the financial support of our listeners. Thanks so much for your support.
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Here now is the Holloway Flat Tragedy Murder Clinic, stories of the world's
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great detectives of fiction, men against murder, All but the exploits are you
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neiques. Each week at this time, wr Mutual invite you to Murder Clinic,
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where you will meet one member of this select band in his most interesting
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case, The Curtains part in our emphatheet or of mystery. All is dark
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save for one brilliant spotlight, and out of the shadows comes Max Carrados for
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mister Carradoss. Look out, look out, sir, there's a set down
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there. May I help you? No, I can get along, good
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father, mister Knight. I can see the dark, mister Caradoss. I
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thought that you thought I was blind. Well you're right, I am.
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It's pretty bed. Thank you. Yes, I see that you do.
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But tell me, don't you find your blindness and enormous handicap and your detective
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on the contrary, it prevents me from being deceived by the obvious. I
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must rely on my other senses, which are more reliable. I assure you,
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but with the carols, I really don't you admitted, and yet you
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have eyes? Well, I shall try to convince your ears, my friend.
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Let me tell you the story of the Holloway Flat tragedy, in which
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those who had eyes saw nothing. You may recall Louis Carlyle, my very
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good friend and associate. He was a privat quarry agent and often didn't the
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honor of asking my help in some of his are more complex cases. One
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morning I have dropped in at his office. Parkinson was with me. Of
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course, he has been my personal attendant and my physical eyes for many years.
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Louis was a bit bewildered by a letter that had arrived in the morning.
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What do you make of this letter? Max? It's certainly out of
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the ordinary run of my correspondence. Good done paper, little head, engraved
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Albert Henry Purish, written by hand. I see did see what he has
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to say? Important? See you alone, absolutely privacy. We'll call ten
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o'clock tomorrow morning and age punished again. Max? How do you do it?
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I've seen it a hundred times. I still can't believe it. My
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idea, Why are things you can't see so mysterious to you? You wouldn't
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be surprised to watch me reading Brail, would you? Well? The income
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this paper is as clear as Brail to me. But to get back to
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this letter, you're a mysterious If it's a Polish because he's coming this morning,
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perhaps I'd better go. I wish you wouldn't, Max, but he
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says here absolutely privacy. M Yeah, Look Max, I have an idea.
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Why didn't you win Parkinson? Go into the next office and leave the
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door cracked just a bit, so if you can listen in this Polish affair,
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might in pishit? Yes? What is it? Ah? It send
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him in in one minute. It's here now, all right, Louis,
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if you wish it, come on Parkinson. Let's go very well, sir
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whom the door too, but it's not too close to Parkinson. Yes,
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sir Ah, that must be often Polish. Now yes? Are you alone?
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Why? Yes? I don't think he sat me to come here.
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I was careful the girl. What did you wish to tell me about?
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Is the Carlisle? Someone is trying to murder me when talking this promises to
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be surely I know it sounds impossible that I kill you. It's true.
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He's made one attempt to my life already. Oh, Peter, Peter r
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I durning his last name. He's a polliner, used to be engaged to
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the girl, the girl you wish to marry. Oh no, nothing like
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that. I met it already. Oh, I see, it's not what
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you're thinking. There's nothing between us really. But you see, well,
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my wife, she's a highly nervous woman to Carlisle insomnia. And that's all
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of a sudden. As a matter of fact, we've had separate rooms for
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every year. Now. Yeah, I understand. Well when mother this girl
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found out I was married, there was a scene as well, yes,
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most unpleasant, but nothing compared to what happened when she told her boyfriend Peter.
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He tried to murder me. Are you quite sure that? Let me
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tell you what happened that night after the row. I mean I couldn't sleep,
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I was jumping. I saw that I go out for a bit,
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walk it on. So I got up, fixed a bolster and a pillow
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with my bathrobe over it in the bed. And then excuse me, and
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why did you do that? I told you my wife's a highly nervous woman.
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You saw me up? If she came in and saw my bed empty,
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she'd be likely to get his tereks or sometimes see well. I fixed
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up this dummy in my bed and went out. I walked around maybe half
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an hour. When I got back, he was coming up the stairs.
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We live in a block of plants. I came face to face with a
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man coming up. It was Peter. What did you do? I didn't
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do anything. When he saw me, he hurried back against the ball and
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gasped, looked as we'd seen a ghost. That's what I could say a
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word. He gas passed me down the stairs and out of a house like
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a shot. And when I got up to my room there was a booster
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in the bathrobe I left in the bed stapped through him through the knife.
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They had written a knife do what you thought was my body? Well,
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mister Polish, that's plain evidence of attempted murder. This this is a policeman.
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That's just what I can't have. I think what it wouldn't is it
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inquiries, cross examinations, explanations. The whole thing would come up. My
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home would be broken up, my whole life room. What can I do,
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mister Polish? What you want? I continue when I don't want mister
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callis I don't want to be murdered and I don't want my wife to get
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wind of this in this affair. Well, mister Polish, I should advise
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your going away for a while. It's impossible just now my business. Well
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then until you can, I should advise new locks on all your doors,
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in your windows. That means locksmith's more questions my wife's nerve Not surely,
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mister Polish. That's caring consideration a bit far. How did you account for
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the cut linen the bolster? Oh, I've hidden them away in the drawer
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until I can buy another sheet and cover. I managed to serve up the
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bolster. Well, mister Polish, it's a unique problem. I don't see
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a moment just how I can advise cam Parkinston. This interview is practically over.
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Let's get out into the anteroom. I should like to see this fool
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heartad but diverse. It has been good day, Colin. It's been a
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great relief to me telling more about I see that someone in the anteroom isn't
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another way out of I don't want to see quite all right? As Polished
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is the carodot blind, I'd like you to meet him blind do say you
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all right? Oh? Next, I'd like you to meet mister Polish.
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How do you do, mister Polish? Oh yes, yes, pardon my
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glad, won't you You see I'm missing part of the single in my right
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hand, and I'm sensitive about you needn't be misster Polish. I found physically
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infirmative. They have their compensations. I can see that. I must be
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going, mister Carl, I'm get in touch with you with anything further develops.
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Good mister alive? All right, Parking, you can come out from
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behind that screen. He's gone, Come come, Max? Why why does
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elaborate device? Surely I could have told you what the fellow looks like for
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the right Luis, tell me what does mister Polish look like? Why?
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Max? He's a medium height, average weight. He's got got of Browning's
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hair, and I see, Luis medium average, a perfect picture. And
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what would you say, Parking? And mister Polish is five foot nine,
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sir. He weighs in the neighborhood of eleven stone six. His hair is
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light brown, several shades lighter than his brow. He has a small mold
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beneath the left eye. Clothing but material but not custom me glove on right,
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hair only coskin, I should say help Foster enough. Incidentally, you
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know he's quite the most nervous chat I've ever meant. Yes, I must
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have polished seems absurd, obsessed with nerves. Very interesting, you must have
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you know how the secret to this morning's product turns out? Now? But
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I really came here to see you about Louis. There's an option of old
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Roman coins Ndicotts next Monday. How about journey for lunch at the club and
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going on to it afterwards. You couldn't resist that, Max Gould you well,
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neither can I? All right, I'll be on hand next Monday.
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It is see you then, fine lunch. I hope there's aw isn't that?
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You're just you're remarkable caller last Thursday. What was the father's name?
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Here? Boy? Boy? Your paper? Please? Thank you? Fat
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you're right back. It is polish. I'm dead. He's dead. This
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morning. I'm going in the room of how woman's grewsome discovery earlier this morning
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shocking injuries. Hey, Gabby, Gabby, stop from the yard upon inspected
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mister Kadados And this is my nephew George just promoted to the Detective Division.
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I am very glad to know you, mister Kadidas. My uncle Inspector Badi.
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He has been telling me a lot about your really. But now,
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uncle headn't we better be getting along the Holloway flats? Oh so you're on
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the Polish case, middle splendid. I think you'll be interested in what I
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have to tell you about this case. And we'll take a cab and I'll
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give you the information as we drive along. And that's the young Polish told
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me not four days ago. A bit of mick, I could say,
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with the Carlisle, because we've got our murderer before we even start. Polish
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didn't happen to give you the name? The dress of this young lady?
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Did eat? No? No, I mean they left something to unify.
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Now that oughtn't to be hard? Uncle shop girl get company with a foreigner
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and named Peter. All right, well here's the Polish flat. Now pull
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over, driver, I'm Inspector Beadle, sergeant. It's the Polish house.
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Yes? Are they go over? Now? Is this missus Polish? I'm
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Inspector beat or missus Polish. Won't you come? These men are my associates.
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We'd like to see the body of your husband. Unbelievable. Who could
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have done this terrible thing? Much? Poor Elbert? It is so good,
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oh kind. When I got the worret talky, I rushed right back.
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We wonder at home when this happened. We all know Elbert had insisted
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I go down to Cookey to my sisters for the weekend. Where did I
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go? If I don't say, man, you mustn't disturb yourself, would
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just leave everything to stop her inspector horrible better and get it out of here?
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He is Come on, nummy, he is an arst sip. I've
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seen dead ones before, but this His face is slashed like a fancy loafe.
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It looks like there's been a wild beast at work. It fits him
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with what we know what he told me himself, then rage and sheer blood,
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cirstams eecters. Mister Cadadas. Are you sure the corpse is Polish?
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Why I might have been for granted, mister Cadadas, Why do you are
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I'm always suspicious of these murders where the victim's face is best beyond recognition metals.
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You are right, Max, he's fairly unrecognizable. Wait, yes,
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yes, it's Polish. All right here, I seemed the missing on the
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right hand. Remember Max, he told us about that when he shook hands
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with him the other day in the office. Yes, I remember that,
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but it will nevertheless inspected. I'd compare our victim's finger Prince, the doors
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of mister Polish's if I were you, mister Caddas, we haven't polished his
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fingerprintip, my dear, and then must be literally hundreds of them around this
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room. Everything he must be covered with them. Of course, stupid,
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aread George attend to that? Yes, sir? Well, by the way,
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George, did you get the doctor's report? Yes? I did,
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Uncle, He says. It must have happened sometime between Saturday midnight and early
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Sunday morning. The neighbors saw him come home after taking mister Missus Polish to
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the station Saturday afternoon. They saw the Sunday Papers milk bottle outside his door.
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On Sunday, he wasn't found. Missus Jones carwoman came to keen up
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this morning. Where was this Missus Jones Saturday? George? She says,
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Missus Pody let her go early Saturday. Mister Kados was they're going away to
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talk Key for the weekend, and see good Chapman only taking my advice about
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changing those loves. I say, mag what are you doing there? Right?
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I'm looking for that cheating poster, he said, he's putting the bureau
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drawer that first attend on his life. That's a good time, mister Cadados.
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Let George help you shirt whatever, and then let's try the next door.
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Ah, here we are. This looks like I'm all crappled up in
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the corner, he steadied. Yes, here's the night cut, very ill,
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very interesting, but no more than we expected. Let's get on him,
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mister Karados, you go ahead. I'll join you in a moment.
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In the living room, and it's just throwed up this linen tidy beat it
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a blind man wanting seems tidy, as though he could see. I say,
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uncle, take a look at this. Here's whether Peter Fellow must have
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come in. Here's marks on the window sill. You're right, George,
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easy is ring of roses. There's the balcony in the stairway window and on
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the yard aware Kimurders seems to have gone out of his way and make things
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easy for you. It fits max its blind jealous rage and didn't have the
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wit to cover his clack. Too bad, polish didn't take my advice about
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changing the locks on his door and window. I mean, yes, what
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is it comfortable. Sorry to disturb your inspector, but there's a check out
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here with tool because he came to put in new locks. That's locking the
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stable door. All right, let's have him in all right, you there,
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inspector wants to see you. Oh how are you, mister inspector?
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La me, what's the mild? You're a locksmithy right? Governor's me name
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Joseph Piggs with a shop at Maston Crossing. Mister police. Asked you to
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come here and do some work for him, that's right, coming Friday.
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He did polite as you please, asked me if I work saturdays? Not
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as a rule, I said, tell me he needed his lockspigs, never
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you mind? Saturday closed and he says Monday you'll do. And now here
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eye comes one hour in the bus from my shop. It's hard lines,
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that's what it is. It's hardline. We just get along with him.
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Now full me. I'm calling to a job and it's both out of it.
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Oh that's that. Just one more thing, sergeant. If you ask
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missus Jones whether there's been a far in this great recently, Yes, said
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the edmont one for a week shoe, and these acts may be significant.
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Yeah, he looked. God, it looks like some papers been burned,
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not much left. Hey, what's this? Look? It's a bit of
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newspaper, never mind of printing. Why it's Italian? Just one more sign
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pointing in the same direction, Peter, Yes, isn't it inspected? Beetles.
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Did anyone happen to notice if he had written te calorie caliano in bed
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on the wall over the bed? Why no, mister Carrados, I'll go
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look, Oh, no, yours don't bother. When you know mister Carrados
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as well as I do, you, you'll understand that all theo there's always
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something in what he says. It's not always what you think it is.
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That's right, mister Carroda. That's just why do you think the murderer might
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have written, I tell you spoken on the bed obviously inspected to make sure
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you wouldn't miss it. No, you're right, mister Kadace. This pee,
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Peter has been pretty helpful. Nothing too the case, just a simple
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routine job of finding the shop girl and an Italian boy bull dog. You
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are inspector, but I wonder while you're pursuing this simple routine job, would
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you do a favor for me? Why? Of course, mister cares anything
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alike if it was, if you think it'll help find the murderer. Thanks,
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Inspector. Now this is what I want you to do. Yes,
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this is next careadas. Oh your any news? Well, we followed our
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parties you ordered. Yeah. He left the house in the afternoons to the
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bus. They're there in the park, to our taking a walk. They
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went right back as the third sit didn't talk to anybody making the phone pause.
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No, sir, nothing any other news. Justin We checked the fingerprints.
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He was bot all right, and Peter report. We are hopeful.
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Good chat. We'll keep on with it. George, nothing, sir,
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don't sign of Peters. Nothing except one thing. There are three locksmans in
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the excellent. But don't get discouraged, George, keep at it, No,
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sir, nothing, it's been three weeks now it's the Canada. We
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keep as George. It's absoluted by too. Absolutely hello, yes you're a
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writer, absolutely right, get together now at the Peacock Club. I'm phoning
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from a boot. Don't let them out of your side. I won't be
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sure to stay there, right, sir, I'll do that. Parkinson,
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Parkinson, Sir Parkinson, soon mister Carlyle and inspected beg Tell them to meet
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us in half an hour. Then call a cat. Yes, sir,
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the pardon is sir. Just where shall I tell them to meet us?
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The court parking in good Man. I'm been more excited than I thought.
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And tell them to meet us in the lobby of the Peacot Club and tell
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them to be sure to wait in the lobby for me. Oh, Louis,
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you got you before me? Hello, man, and its sect to
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be mister Karadas. You called it to a turn? How you ever guessed
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it? Now? No time for that now, George? That inside,
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yes, sir, at that table there, sir, when I'm pointing,
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see Oh oh, I'm sorry, sir, I clean forgot that. I'm
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blind that a man, George, that's the famous compliment you could have paid
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me. Now, what's happened so far? Well? As soon as we
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had them spotted, I talked to the manager. There was a little trouble,
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but Uncle fixed that as soon as he got here. One of our
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own men took over the waiter's job at their table, though they seemed careful
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when he was around. Just one thing he caught though. When our men
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came up, she was saying something about there might even be a raid here,
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to look for Peter the Italian, and then they both laughed. Yet
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they wouldn't laugh. I'm going in there alone. We can't hear the mister
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Cadadas. It's still big a risk. The man has a gun on him.
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We spotted that these people are desperate, dangerous. It would turn to
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what he inspect to believe me, I'll be see just one thing he eyes
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on me when I unloosened my scarf, so that master switch in the US
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box turn out a mid night in the place. It's important, mister Kada.
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I won't hear of it. I last it. He's in there already.
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Made you finish yours. No hurry, we have plenty of time.
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Oh, don't finish your carritake. I'm nervous here. I still think it
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was a crazy standard. Don't worry. It's over a month now. Nothing
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good evening, good evening. He listened to meet you again, mister Polish.
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Well, what do you mean what the course. How stupid of me.
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I couldn't expect you to remender me, mister Polish, after all we
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met only one muster some mistake I never joined, mister Polish, you would
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recall your visit to mister Carlyle. As you were leaving, I was sitting
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in the answer room. I've told you there must be some mistake. My
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name is not Polish. Of course, how stupid of me. Oh,
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you must forgive me. You couldn't be tolish, could you. I remember
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now I've been somewhere the pope and it was murdered one was it? Yes,
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terrible thing. But what an embarrassing mistake. You know. It's only
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the second time in my life it's happened to me. I'm mistaking a voice.
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I mean you see I'm blind, Oh, yes, miss pipe blind.
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And I've always prided myself on never forgetting a voice, and now here
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I am forgetting the first. You've made your second mistake, So if you'll
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excuse me, Yes, it's all coming back to me now. How could
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I have forgotten? Why? Only the other day mister Carlyle was telling me
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about that Ligro murder game. The police setting in on the little game they're
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playing what little game? What do you mean? Well, I shouldn't tell
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you. It's in the strictest confidence, of course, but you've been so
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kind. Yes, yes, what little game? Fine, it's Peter.
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Tell you who mean they found him? Found? That's Jestic the police.
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No, there's no such a person. Ridiculous. I all the evidence in
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the newspapers planted every Pacific. Imagine that why they even know who didn't do
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it? You see, the police had discovered that the man who called on
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Carlyle that day wasn't used to Polish at all. He was the wife's lover.
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This is Polish. I mean, that's very interesting. He didn't,
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you see, Polish's wife and her lover had tend to murder Polish all along.
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So he the lover I mean went to Carlyle was Polish and study yarn
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about some non existent Italian who would already tried to kill him that's never loved
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them to supply the police would have murdered. They've never good time. Why
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are you telling me all this when I thought this is under strictly for Polish
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and all that, you might be interested. But if I'm boring you,
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it must have been the wife who planned the whole She wanted the lover and
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her husband's money booth. The police know that. Cant to a thing about
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it, that is it didn't they find a lover? Of course, if
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they once find him, it's simple they've both hangs unless the lover turns toshibidence
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and that's a saved his life is good? You shutter back, were absolutely
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what are you thinking? But on the other hand, if they never find
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him, she's shore back. It's warm in here, isn't he that show?
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He must loosen this car? Life one charger max max max? Are
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you all right? Turned us? What happened? As you see? Instead
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to missus, Pulish has just shot and killed her partner in clime, you
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know, dead men tell their tables. If I hadn't consented it by catching
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her would have found the gun in his hand and the verdict might have been
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suicide. Who is mostly young? Lady armisis to you tell you so I
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could kill you? No, no, my dear lady, you mean you
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would kill me? The two are not synonymous. Well, mister Carodoffs,
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that was a very pretty trap that elaborate, perhaps was privy elaborate. Yes,
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Rather, I weren't you taking a chance personally and turning out the lights
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that way? Who you could get this to night in the dark? It
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is I who can see, I who have the advantage without light. We
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were killing in my backyard. Yes, I could see how your blindness helped
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you there. But tell me this, how did you get onto them in
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the first I gotten my first clue to the truth because I didn't trust my
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eyes having their eyes. You remember when we found that she didn't those two
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cases so beautifully didn't fast in mind, the knife thrusting just the right place
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to bear out the story Louis her Yes, yes, But Beetle and Carlisle
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and George, they saw them too, exactly they saw them, but I
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I smelled them. They were perfumed, my friend. They had been taken
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from her bed, not his, A small mistake, but the tatle one.
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You have been listening to Murder when w Our Mutual series which brings you
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each week one exciting case. One member from the Select Band of the World's
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Great Detective. Tonight's detective was mister Max Caronon and was played by Alfred show
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Lloyd. Carlisle was played by Horace Brayer. Original music was composed by Ralph
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Barnhardt and conducted by Bob stem The tales told on Murder Clinic are adapted by
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authors Lee Wright and John A. Bappan. Murder Clinic is produced under the
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direction of Elvin Flanagan. This is Frank Knight speaking. This is the mutual
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broadcast season Welcome Back. While a very neat solution, and I had to
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love the gentle way he read the police about being taken in by this ruse
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that he saw through. Really a great concept. It's been done since,
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but this was as far as I know, the original Blind Detective story.
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There were four separate Max Carrados books publish There was Max Carrados in nineteen fourteen,
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The Eyes of Max Carrados Max in nineteen twenty three, The Max Carrados
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Mysteries in nineteen twenty seven, and The Bravo of London in nineteen thirty four,
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which was actually a full fledged novel. And Carados has appeared in quite
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in a few I shouldn't say quite a few, but in a few other
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media productions. One of them was on the television series The Rivals of Sherlock
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Holmes from the nineteen seventies and That's been a series I've always been somewhat fascinated
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with because they had a lot of forgotten detectives in that series well, including
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Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, which has always sounded like an interesting concept from
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Baroness Orczy, who of course wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel, and of course Alfred
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Shirley, who played Max Carrados in this episode, would have a few other
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claims to fame as well. Longtime listeners of the show will remember him as
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the first Doctor Watson to John Stanley's Holmes. He also played in the CBS
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Radio series as a Hearthstone of the Desquad. All right, well, that'll
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do it for today. We'll be back with you on Monday with Frank Race.
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