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Suspense - "Murder by the Book" (Old Time Radio, 1947) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Emily Carlyle, a mystery novelist unsettled by memory lapses after
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  Speaker 1: her husband's drowning, is asked to cover the murder of
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  Speaker 1: psychiatrist Dr. Winter for a newspaper syndicate. Her inquiries bring
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  Speaker 1: her to evidence against a young woman in custody, while
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  Speaker 1: Carlyle's own grief and uncertain recollections remain close at hand.
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  Speaker 1: From suspense comes Murder by the Book, listed as episode
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  Speaker 1: zero and dated July 1st, 1947. Gloria Swanson stars as
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  Speaker 1: Emily Carlyle, with Joseph Kearns as Lieutenant Hahn, and Barry
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  Speaker 1: Kroger as Harry Bailey. It was a CBS presentation sponsored
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  Speaker 1: by Roma Wines, with a script by Robert L. Richards.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight, Roma Wines of Fresno, California, bring you Gloria Swanson
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  Speaker 4: in Murder by the Book, a suspense play produced, edited,
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  Speaker 4: and directed for Shenley by William Spear for Suspense.
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  Speaker 5: I must have been asleep. At first I thought it
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  Speaker 5: was one of those dreams. And then I realized the
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  Speaker 5: phone was really ringing. I seemed to remember. It had
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  Speaker 5: rung before and I hadn't answered it. But maybe it
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  Speaker 5: had been only this once, ringing a long time. Because
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  Speaker 5: just as I got there, it stopped.
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  Speaker 6: Hello?
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  Speaker 7: Hello?
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  Speaker 5: Hello? I suppose I'd had one of my spells. I
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  Speaker 5: never could remember very well just after them, but I
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  Speaker 5: know I'd been working or trying to. It was my latest,
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  Speaker 5: and I thought it would be my best. It was
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  Speaker 5: about a woman who killed her husband, but I'd had
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  Speaker 5: all kinds of trouble with the end. Everything was all
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  Speaker 5: right up until the explanation, how she did it. I knew,
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  Speaker 5: of course, but Somehow I just couldn't write it. It
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't gel. It had been going on like that for
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  Speaker 5: some weeks. Then today I must have had another spell.
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  Speaker 5: I'd been having them ever since the accident. Ever since
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  Speaker 5: Ned was drowned. They'd begin with headaches. It would get
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  Speaker 5: worse and worse, and I'd lie down. And when I'd
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  Speaker 5: wake up, I wouldn't remember for a while. Sometimes when
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  Speaker 5: I woke up, I wouldn't even be in the same place.
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  Speaker 5: Instead of lying on the couch or on my bed, I'd...
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  Speaker 5: I'd be sitting up in a chair or at my typewriter.
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  Speaker 5: Once I even found myself sitting in a car out
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  Speaker 5: in the garage. It was a strain of everything, of course.
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  Speaker 5: That's why I'd started going to Dr. Winter. And now
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  Speaker 5: it seemed as though my poor nerves were fated. One
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  Speaker 5: shock after another. Because now, Dr. Winter was dead. You see,
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  Speaker 5: he'd been murdered. Yes?
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  Speaker 7: Emily?
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  Speaker 8: Yes?
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  Speaker 7: This is Harry, Harry Bailey. Where have you been?
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  Speaker 5: Why, I've been right here, Harry.
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  Speaker 7: Why don't you answer your phone? I've been trying to
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  Speaker 7: get you all afternoon.
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  Speaker 5: I must have been asleep.
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  Speaker 7: Oh. How's the book coming?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, not very well, I'm afraid, Harry.
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  Speaker 7: Still stale?
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  Speaker 5: I guess so. I'm awfully sorry, Harry. I know I
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  Speaker 5: promised it to you weeks ago, but.
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  Speaker 7: Forget it. Those things happen.
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  Speaker 9: Listen, Emily, I've got a great little proposition for you.
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  Speaker 9: It'll make you some money, it'll get your mind off
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  Speaker 9: the book for a while, and it'll be worth a
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  Speaker 9: million dollars worth of publicity for us.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, what's the catch?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I was talking to young Hayes. He practically runs
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  Speaker 9: the old man's newspaper chain for him now, you know.
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  Speaker 9: And he wants you to cover the winter case for
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  Speaker 9: the whole syndicate.
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  Speaker 7: Oh. Now, wait a minute before you make any snap judgments.
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  Speaker 9: In all the time I've been your publisher, I've never
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  Speaker 9: given you a bump steer.
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  Speaker 7: Yet, have I? But.
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  Speaker 5: Harry, I'm not a reporter.
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  Speaker 7: That's just it. You write it from your point of view.
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  Speaker 9: The way it looks to the country's foremost woman detective
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  Speaker 9: story writer. The clues, the evidence, how it all fits together.
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  Speaker 9: Truth is stranger than fiction and so on. You see
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  Speaker 9: what I mean?
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  Speaker 5: Well, oh, I don't know. You see, I was as
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  Speaker 5: I was a patient of his, Harry.
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  Speaker 9: All right, all the better. Famous man murdered in small
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  Speaker 9: resort town. Just so happens famous woman mystery writer lived
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  Speaker 9: in same small town. Even was murdered man's patient. Knows
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  Speaker 9: everybody by their first names and so forth and so on. Emily,
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  Speaker 9: this will put your name in headlines in every city
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  Speaker 9: in the country.
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  Speaker 5: I know that's the trouble. You see, well, what will
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  Speaker 5: Cora say?
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  Speaker 7: Well, why? What's it to Cora?
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  Speaker 8: Well.
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  Speaker 5: I'll grant you she may have had a slightly exaggerated
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  Speaker 5: idea of his importance, but after all, she was his
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  Speaker 5: man Friday for the past year. And now to have
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  Speaker 5: her own mother, stepmother anyway, writing it all up in
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  Speaker 5: the papers and making capital out of it.
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  Speaker 9: Don't be silly, Emily. Somebody's got to write it. And
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  Speaker 9: you'll do it with sympathy and honesty and understanding. What's
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  Speaker 9: the greatest thing that could happen as far as getting
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  Speaker 9: a fair break in the papers is concerned?
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  Speaker 7: And it's a chance in a lifetime for you, Emily.
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  Speaker 7: No kidding.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'd like to, as I say. All right, Harry,
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  Speaker 5: I'll do it.
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  Speaker 7: That a girl. Now, listen, I'll have Hayes draw up
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  Speaker 7: the contracts right away.
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  Speaker 5: Anything you say, Harry. As well.
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  Speaker 7: I'll be in touch. Right now.
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  Speaker 5: Good night, Harry. Hello, Mother. Hello, darling.
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  Speaker 8: Who was that?
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  Speaker 5: Harry Bailey. He wants me to cover the winter case
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  Speaker 5: for the Hayes syndicate. He what? I told him I would. Oh, Mother.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Mother, how could you?
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  Speaker 5: Why not, Cora? Because.
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  Speaker 8: Because it's bad enough that he's dead without dragging it
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  Speaker 8: through the papers all over again.
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  Speaker 5: But it will be in the papers anyway, darling. And
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  Speaker 5: as Harry says, at least I can give it sympathy
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  Speaker 5: and understanding.
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  Speaker 8: Sympathy and understanding.
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  Speaker 5: Like Cora.
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  Speaker 8: Please, mother, please don't do it. Stay out of it.
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  Speaker 8: We'll only get more heartaches out of it, that's all.
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  Speaker 5: Why, Cora? Why, you almost sound as though you were afraid.
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  Speaker 5: Are you afraid of anything?
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  Speaker 8: Afraid? All right, then maybe I am. Maybe that's just
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  Speaker 8: what I am. Afraid.
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  Speaker 5: I had never really understood Cora. She was Ned's child,
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  Speaker 5: not mine. I was only her stepmother. Not that we
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  Speaker 5: weren't the best of friends, but... She'd always been a
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  Speaker 5: little strange. More like her mother, I imagine. and then
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  Speaker 5: the shock of losing Ned, and this on top of it.
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  Speaker 5: There were times when she seemed almost in a daze.
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  Speaker 5: It was hard to blame her. The next day, Harry
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  Speaker 5: phoned to say the contracts were all in order, and
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  Speaker 5: I was to report to Lieutenant Hahn of the Homicide Bureau,
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  Speaker 5: who would permit me to interview the girl they were
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  Speaker 5: holding for the murder, and in general, act as my guide, philosopher,
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  Speaker 5: and friend. But upon appearing at his office, I found
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  Speaker 5: a gentleman with his hat on his head and his
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  Speaker 5: feet on his desk who didn't bother to remove either
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  Speaker 5: and merely stared at me.
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  Speaker 2: Something?
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  Speaker 5: I'm Emily Carlisle. I was told to report to you.
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  Speaker 5: You're Lieutenant Hahn?
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  Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 5: I was told that you would sort of show me
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  Speaker 5: the ropes.
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  Speaker 7: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 5: I deduce from your attitude that you are not particularly
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  Speaker 5: pleased by the prospect.
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  Speaker 4: I cannot tell a lie. You deduce rightly.
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  Speaker 5: Well, isn't this nice? We're not going to get along.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say that, Miss Carlisle, or is it, Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Miss, my married name is Wales. I was married to
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  Speaker 5: Ned Wales, you know.
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  Speaker 7: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Suppose we clear the air a little, Lieutenant. I take
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  Speaker 5: it the barrier between us is the old one of
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  Speaker 5: professional versus amateur, dealer in fact versus dealer in fiction,
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  Speaker 5: and you disapprove of fiction?
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  Speaker 4: No, I got nothing against detective stories or detective story writers.
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  Speaker 4: I even read them myself once in a while for laughs.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that is encouraging.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 5: To find that you can not only read, but laugh.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Then, uh, just what is the difficulty, Lieutenant?
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  Speaker 4: I don't like to see people tried in the newspapers.
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  Speaker 5: I have no intention of trying this girl. Uh, what's
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  Speaker 5: her name?
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  Speaker 2: Claire Ogilvie.
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  Speaker 5: I have no intention of trying her. All I want
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  Speaker 5: to do is present the facts. Tell the story.
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  Speaker 10: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess you want to see her, don't you?
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  Speaker 5: Among other things, yes. Unless, of course, you have something
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  Speaker 5: better to do.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: You're my assignment from now on. I'm in the doghouse.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I can think of less appropriate places.
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  Speaker 7: Okay. Why?
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  Speaker 2: This is a big case.
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  Speaker 4: National sensation, special prosecutors, hullabaloo in the papers, special feature
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  Speaker 4: writers like you.
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  Speaker 7: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: And I'm in a minority of one around here, so
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  Speaker 4: nobody likes me.
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  Speaker 5: Stop being cryptic, Lieutenant. What are you driving at?
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  Speaker 4: They've got a big thing on their hands and they
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  Speaker 4: want a conviction.
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  Speaker 2: I don't agree.
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  Speaker 5: About what?
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  Speaker 2: About the girl. You see, I think she's innocent.
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  Speaker 5: That was interesting. The girl was even more interesting. She
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  Speaker 5: was about 25, a pretty girl, and she was lying
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  Speaker 5: on her bunk in the cell, staring up at the
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  Speaker 5: one dim light in the ceiling. She didn't even look
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  Speaker 5: around when I came in.
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  Speaker 4: This is Miss Emily Carlisle, the writer, Claire.
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  Speaker 2: She wants to talk to you. I'll be back after
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  Speaker 2: a while, Miss Carlisle.
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  Speaker 5: Go away. Leave me alone. I can't, Claire. I have
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  Speaker 5: a job to do.
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  Speaker 6: That makes you different, I suppose.
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  Speaker 5: No, but I still have a job to do. That's
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  Speaker 5: what they all say.
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  Speaker 6: They've got a job to do on me.
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  Speaker 5: Who's trying to do a job on you, Claire?
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  Speaker 6: A lot of smart people who make their living at it,
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  Speaker 6: like you.
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  Speaker 5: You mean that they're trying to say that you killed
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  Speaker 5: him and you didn't? I loved him, you fool. Why
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  Speaker 5: would I kill him? Why would I kill him? Why
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  Speaker 5: did you confess to killing him?
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  Speaker 6: He was dead, wasn't he? What difference did it make?
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  Speaker 6: That's what they wanted me to say. So what difference
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  Speaker 6: did it make?
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  Speaker 5: Then you didn't kill him.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 5: I killed him.
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  Speaker 8: That's what you want me to say, too.
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  Speaker 5: All right, I killed him. I don't want you to
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  Speaker 5: say anything, dear. I just want to know what happened.
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  Speaker 5: He was killed.
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  Speaker 7: Murdered.
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  Speaker 5: That's what happened. They say you quarreled with him.
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  Speaker 6: I dug my nails into him. I wanted to hurt him.
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  Speaker 6: There was blood on my dress, and so I burned it,
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  Speaker 6: and they found that. Then when I heard what had happened,
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  Speaker 6: I ran away, and they found me. Oh, they've got
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  Speaker 6: everything fixed just fine.
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  Speaker 5: I had a job to do, that's all, and they
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  Speaker 5: did it.
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  Speaker 6: And the sooner they get it over with, the better,
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  Speaker 6: and then everybody will be happy. Maybe even me.
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  Speaker 5: Why did you quarrel with him?
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  Speaker 6: Have you ever been in love with some man, and
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  Speaker 6: then one fine day you found out you were just
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  Speaker 6: The last of a long list of other women.
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  Speaker 8: Have you? Have you?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, I have.
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  Speaker 6: Then you know why I quarreled with him.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: All right, then, and I'll tell you something else, too.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't kill him, but now I wish I had.
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  Speaker 8: Do you hear me? I wish I had!
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  Speaker 10: I wish I had!
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  Speaker 4: Well, I suppose she told you she killed him and
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  Speaker 4: you believed it.
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  Speaker 5: First she said she had killed him, and then she
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  Speaker 5: said she hadn't.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't answer the second part.
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  Speaker 5: She indicated you have certain evidence.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Come in here.
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  Speaker 4: The DA's got the original sample, but pictures should give
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  Speaker 4: you a rough idea.
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  Speaker 5: What's that?
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  Speaker 4: A piece of a dress that was found under the bed.
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  Speaker 4: They matched it to the dress she burned.
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  Speaker 2: More or less.
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  Speaker 5: And what's that plaster thing?
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  Speaker 2: Cast of tire marks. Did you read Dick Tracy?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I've used plaster casts of tire marks myself in
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  Speaker 5: my books. But, you know, they look a little vague.
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  Speaker 2: They are.
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  Speaker 5: You know something, Lieutenant? I'm inclined to agree with you.
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  Speaker 2: About what?
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  Speaker 5: About the girl. I think she is innocent.
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  Speaker 7: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: So you can write it from the whodunit angle, huh?
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  Speaker 5: Bless his parity, Lieutenant, if you please. And a little
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  Speaker 5: more attention to detail. By the way, why is everyone
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  Speaker 5: so anxious to believe this particular girl did it?
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  Speaker 4: Because they think they can make it stick.
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  Speaker 2: Why look further? Because it's good for them.
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  Speaker 4: They make their reputations that way, just like your boss
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  Speaker 4: makes circulation.
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  Speaker 5: Let's face it. You and I know what Dr. Winter
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  Speaker 5: was like. There must be a dozen girls in this
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  Speaker 5: town who have just as much reason for killing him
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  Speaker 5: as this one.
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  Speaker 2: What I said.
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  Speaker 5: As for the confession, she's obviously an hysteric. Any good
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  Speaker 5: alienist could break that down.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, said that too?
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  Speaker 5: And as for this stuff, I don't know much about tires,
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  Speaker 5: but this dress pattern is as common as a cotton handkerchief.
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  Speaker 5: There must be 50 of them within a mile of
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  Speaker 5: where we're standing right now.
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  Speaker 2: Same goes for the tires. I've told them all that.
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  Speaker 5: Then there must be something wrong with your methods, Lieutenant. Now,
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  Speaker 5: what do we deduce from all this?
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I deduce.
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  Speaker 4: What? There's a woman who's killed a man in this town.
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  Speaker 2: A murderess. A murderess that's still on the loose.
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  Speaker 5: At first I was quite excited about the whole thing.
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  Speaker 5: About covering a murder case, I mean. It was good
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  Speaker 5: for me. It took my mind off myself. The book
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  Speaker 5: I should have been finishing and couldn't. And poor Ned
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  Speaker 5: being drowned last summer. That had been more of a
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  Speaker 5: strain than even I realized. I knew that now. Not
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  Speaker 5: that I wasn't terribly fond of Ned, but we hadn't
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  Speaker 5: been as close as we once were. But it had
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  Speaker 5: been a shock. That's why I'd been going to Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Winter myself. It as much as told me that the
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  Speaker 5: spells I had were a direct result of what happened
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  Speaker 5: to Ned. Oh, it shows you how tiny and yet
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  Speaker 5: how strange our little world can be, yes. Here I was,
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  Speaker 5: writing up the case of Dr. Winter's murder for the newspapers.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, right away I discovered that the evidence against
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: the girl they were holding was all circumstantial. And Lieutenant
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: Hahn got me prints of the pictures. A piece from
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: the dress they said she was wearing and attire marks.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: And I went out to do a little checking of
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: my own. First I went to Gorman's department store. Actually,
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: it's the only real store for women's things in town.
• 17:30
  Speaker 11: Well, well, well, well, Miss Carlyle. Long time no see, eh?
• 17:34
  Speaker 11: What can I do for you?
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: I was wondering if you could identify a dress for me.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: A certain dress.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: A dress?
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: Why, sure.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: What kind of a dress? You have mine.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: No, I don't want to buy one. I just want
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: to find out about one. A particular dress. This dress
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: that this picture was taken of. That's only a piece of.
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: It, of course.
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: Oh. Oh, that?
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: Yes. You've sold quite a few of them, haven't you?
• 17:58
  Speaker 11: Say, I hear you're going to write up this winter
• 18:00
  Speaker 11: case for the papers. Is that right, Miss Carlyle?
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: Why, yes, I am. As a matter of fact, this dress.
• 18:05
  Speaker 11: Oh, I know this dress all right. We had them
• 18:07
  Speaker 11: last spring. Sold like hotcakes. Four dozen of them.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: Did you keep any record of who you sold them to?
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: Could I get a list?
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: No, no.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: No complete record. Mostly cash sales, you know. Made up
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: a partial list. That's all, a partial list.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: Well, that's what I want. That's better than nothing.
• 18:23
  Speaker 11: Going into competition with the police department now, huh?
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: No, I'm trying to help them, Mr. Gorman. If you'll
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: give me.
• 18:31
  Speaker 11: You better see them about that yourself, then. Lieutenant Hahn.
• 18:34
  Speaker 11: Gave him the list three weeks ago. You better see him.
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: I didn't know he had one. He never told me.
• 18:41
  Speaker 11: Cops don't always tell everything they know, eh? You go
• 18:46
  Speaker 11: see Lieutenant Hahn. He's the man you want to see,
• 18:49
  Speaker 11: Lieutenant Hahn.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: I felt a little silly. Why hadn't he told me?
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: But then, of course, I had never asked him. My
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: next stop was Morton's big service station on the corner
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: of North and Main. They did practically all the tire
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: business in town.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: How do, Miss Carlisle? Fill it up?
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Why, yes, I guess so. Oh, but I wanted to
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: ask you something.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: Sure, Miss Carlisle. What is it?
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Well, you see this thing? It's the imprint of an
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: auto tire, and I wonder.
• 19:22
  Speaker 12: Oh, from the winter case, huh? The cops was already
• 19:25
  Speaker 12: in here. I heard you was working on the.
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: Case, Miss Carla.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: In a way. And I was trying to find out
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: about this tire. I mean.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Well, that tire, ma'am, that's a 616 Goodstone. It's pretty new, too.
• 19:35
  Speaker 12: You can see from this middle tread here, you see.
• 19:37
  Speaker 12: I don't see how anybody could prove much by this here.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Do you sell many of these? What did you call them?
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: 616 Goodstone.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah. Plenty.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: That's what I mean.
• 19:47
  Speaker 12: I don't see how you can prove much without their tire.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: You find them on all kind of cars.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: I know, but.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Look here, you got them on your own car, Miss Carlisle.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Same kind, 616 Goodstone.
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: Almost new, too. You see what I mean?
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes. Yeah, I see.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, plenty of them kind of tires around.
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: Hey, you want that tank of gas now, Miss Carlisle?
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: No. No, thank you. Never mind.
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: Never mind.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: It's funny how you never notice things. Like tires, if
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: you're a woman anyway. They did always handle things like that.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: And then afterwards, Cora had done it. Cora. And of course,
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: as the boy had said, there were hundreds of tires
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: like it. Hundreds. Cora wasn't home yet. And I wandered
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: around the house and tried to think. But I didn't
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: get very far. I was afraid one of my headaches
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: was coming on. I decided to try and write my
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: first article... But when I sat down at the typewriter,
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: I remembered I hadn't put the cover over it the
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: last time, and it was all dusty. I went to
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: the broom closet and rummaged around in the basket we
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: keep there for old rags. I just started to dust
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: off the typewriter when I noticed it. The rag I
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: held in my hand. It wasn't just an ordinary rag.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: It was a piece of a dress. And it wasn't
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: just an ordinary dress. It had a cute little red
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: and white print pattern. The kind of a dress the
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: police said was worn by the woman who had murdered Dr. Winter.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: It was then I heard Cora coming in. Instinctively, I
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: thrust the rag that was in my hand into the desk.
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: Mother, you home?
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: Oh, hello, darling. been shopping just a few odds and
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: ends what have you been doing oh a little of
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: this a little of that um Cora what about the
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: car won't we uh be needing new tires pretty soon
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: well now I had new ones put on all around
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: only a little while ago you remember uh I'd forgotten
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: when was that oh six weeks ago anyway then it
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: was before before what the murder.
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: Will you stop it Do you have to go through
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: with this thing, Mother?
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: I think it's better for me to write it than
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: some stranger, don't you?
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: If you wish.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: But it's so different from what happens in stories. For instance,
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: I can't even remember what we were doing the night...
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: the night it happened. Can you?
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: We were home.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: Are you sure?
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: Don't you remember?
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: It's... isn't it silly?
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: You had one of your headaches. I was in my room,
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: you were in yours.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Then I was... Asleep all evening.
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: I suppose you were.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: But you don't know. You weren't with me.
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: What a pity. I'll start supper. Oh, Cora.
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: Yes?
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Whatever happened to that old print dress? It was yours,
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: I think.
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: What print dress?
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: You know, with the red and white flowered print. You
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: did have one like that, didn't you?
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: I haven't seen it for quite a while.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: But it couldn't have just disappeared.
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: The last time I saw it, you had it. And
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: then I don't know what happened to it.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: I had it? Don't you remember?
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: No. Would, uh.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Would this be it, Cora?
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: So this has all been a cross-examination, has it?
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: There were certain things I had to know, Cora.
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: But I won't stand for it, do you hear? You
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: can do anything you like about yourself, but I won't
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: let you drag me into it.
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: I won't.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: You were in love with him, too, weren't you, Cora? Yes.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: Now are you satisfied? Yes, I was in love with him.
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: I was in love with him!
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: When I woke up, the sun was shining, and I
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: was lying on the bed in Kara's room. And Kara
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: was gone. I made some coffee, and then I went
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: down to see Lieutenant Hahn.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: What's the matter, Miss Carlyle? You look sort of played out. Uh.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: I had rather a restless night. I've been thinking about
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: this thing, Lieutenant. I've been thinking about it a lot.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Been doing a little checking up, I hear.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Yes, Lieutenant. Why didn't you tell me you had that
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: list about the dresses? Was it because you knew that
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: someone in my house had bought one of those dresses?
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: You're speaking of your stepdaughter, Cora Wales.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: We did know it, of course, but we knew the
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: same thing about a couple of dozen other women.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: It didn't make much difference.
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: Oh, well.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Got any new ideas?
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: Look, Lieutenant, I've been writing a new book, or trying to,
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: about a murder. A woman who kills her husband. I
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: didn't know how to finish it. Now, look, it's all
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: sort of mixed up in my mind, but you know
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: the old theory about a murderer will always return to
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: the scene of the crime?
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I don't get it.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: I know. Put it this way. If someone killed because
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: the person they killed knew something... They'd have to kill
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: anyone else who knew that same thing now, wouldn't they?
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: You still going on the theory the Ogilvy girl's innocent?
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: I know she's innocent.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: That's pretty strong talk, Miss Carlisle.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Well, call it woman's intuition. Call it whatever you like.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: I just know that there's someone.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Look, Miss Carlisle, maybe I had you wrong yesterday. I
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: can see you're not kidding about this thing. Not that
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: I pretend to know what you're talking about, but... If
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: you've really got something, you better tell Papa.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: No, no, I can't.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: You say you.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: Think somebody's going to come back to the scene of
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: the crime.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know what I think. I
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: just know that.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Look, Miss Carlisle, I don't like it.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: You're upset and you're frightened.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: No.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: I want to help you.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: No, no, I have to do this my own way.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Do what?
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Well, I can't very well use a rubber hose to
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: get it out of you. But I just want you
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: to remember that whatever I do, it's part of my job.
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: What?
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: What's part of your job?
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: To see that nobody else gets killed around here, including you.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: I could feel the headache coming on as I left
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: his office. I almost ran to my car. All I
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: could think of was that I had to get home
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: before it happened. But it was coming over me awfully fast,
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: faster than it ever had before. The house was empty.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: I threw myself on the couch and pressed my hands
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: over my eyes. The pain was horrible.
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: Horrible.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: And then suddenly I had the feeling that I wasn't alone.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: That someone was standing there, standing over me. Someone I
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: couldn't see. Someone who was crushing my brain, squeezing my
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: temples in a kind of terrible, invisible vice. Someone was
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: trying to kill me. I was having a dream. Another
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: of those horrible dreams. I was dreaming that I'd gone
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: upstairs to Cora's room and she was there packing her things.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: She didn't see me or hear me. And I crept
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: into the room very softly. It seemed as though I
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: had a heavy poker or something in my hand. I
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: crept up very softly behind her. I raised the poker
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: and then she whirled around. She saw me. You knew
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: it wasn't an accident, didn't you? You knew he didn't
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: just drown. You knew I killed your father. I pushed him.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: And when I went to Dr. Winter, he found out, too.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: Something buried in my subconscious, he said. And he made
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: me tell him. He told you all that, didn't he?
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: So now I'm going to have to kill you, too, Cora.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: I'm going to have to kill you.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: Ah!
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: All right, Miss Carlisle, all right. You better come along now.
• 27:37
  Speaker 10: I hear the doctors keep talking about schizophrenia. That's a
• 27:41
  Speaker 10: double personality, you know. They seem to think I did
• 27:44
  Speaker 10: all those things without even knowing it.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: Drowning Nedge. Trying to kill Cora. That's what the spells were,
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: they say. The other personality. Like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: But I wish I could talk to Dr. Winter. I
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: went to him first about the spells. He said it
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: could cure me if I told him the truth. Only,
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: of course, I can't talk to him now. He's dead.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: I killed him.
• 28:48
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• 28:51
  Speaker 4: tonight's star of Suspense.
• 28:55
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• 29:02
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• 29:59
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• 30:02
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• 30:12
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• 30:12
  Speaker 4: Tonight's Suspense play was written by Robert L.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Richards.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Mr. Vincent Price
• 30:17
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• 30:23
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• 30:45
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