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Ellery Queen: The Case of the Number Thirty-One (EP1642) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: supporters at Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, now
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  Speaker 1: it's time for today's episode of Ellery Queen. It should
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  Speaker 1: be noted that the CBS version of Ellery Queen came
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  Speaker 1: to an end on April sixteenth of nineteen forty seven. However,
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  Speaker 1: the show returned as a summer replacement over NBAC a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks later. On June the first of nineteen forty seven, however,
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  Speaker 1: there was a new cast with Larry Dopkin as Ellery Queen,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Smith as Inspector, Queen at Latimer as Sergeant Veeley,
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  Speaker 1: and Charlotte Keene as Nicki Porter. And this was an
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  Speaker 1: NBC version that aired during the summer of nineteen forty seven.
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  Speaker 1: We only have one episode from that run. The original
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  Speaker 1: airdate of this program is September the seventh of nineteen
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  Speaker 1: forty seven, and the title is the Case of Number
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  Speaker 1: thirty one.
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  Speaker 3: Ellery Queen in the interest of a safer.
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  Speaker 3: The makers of Anison bring you Ellery, Queen.
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  Speaker 4: I dedicate this program to the fight against crime, not
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  Speaker 4: merely crimes of violence and crimes of dishonesty, but crimes
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  Speaker 4: of intolerance, discrimination, and bad citizenship, crimes against America. Anison
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  Speaker 4: for the fast prolonged relief of headache pain brings you
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  Speaker 4: another case in the career of Ellery Queen, celebrated.
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  Speaker 2: Fighter of crime. Anison's guest armed detective who's in the
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  Speaker 2: studio to solve the mystery before Ellery reveals the solution
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  Speaker 2: as mister Kent Smith and now Ellery Queen tells the
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  Speaker 2: story of a mysterious international figure suspected of diamond smuggling
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  Speaker 2: Number thirty one. Just a minute, Charlie, Inspector, who is
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  Speaker 2: a radiophone? Charlie says, some guys calling the police department
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  Speaker 2: from the steamship of g at C. Who I'm elected,
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  Speaker 2: Inspector Queen speaking?
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  Speaker 3: You keep me waiting, Hi, Kip?
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  Speaker 2: Who is they?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, mister Carris, Well, what can I do for you?
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  Speaker 5: You and your police and your customs offs?
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  Speaker 2: You can let me alone.
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  Speaker 3: That's what you can do for me, inspector, whoever you are.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't get you, mister Carris. If you're on
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  Speaker 2: shipboard in mid Atlantic.
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  Speaker 3: You can let me alone on the ship docks in
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  Speaker 3: New York.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, expecting trouble with the customs, mister.
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  Speaker 3: Carris, very humorous.
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  Speaker 5: Three times I've in certain your customs like a common
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  Speaker 5: criminal with the This time I shall make the most
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  Speaker 5: speak of his representations to my government.
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  Speaker 2: Do you understand me, inspector?
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  Speaker 6: What is your name?
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  Speaker 2: I understand you. He's gonna make trouble, inspector, That's what
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  Speaker 2: he says. VILLI is this a private fight there?
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  Speaker 3: Or can anyone get in on it? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: That was a bird named Georgia Carras Henry. He's from
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  Speaker 2: the Near East and he has plenty of connections our Caras.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, what's your interest in him?
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  Speaker 2: Well, something about a year ago we got a tippy
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  Speaker 2: with smuggling diamonds in. He passed the tip to customs.
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  Speaker 2: They gave him the business, but no diamonds.
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  Speaker 3: I take it.
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  Speaker 2: No diamonds. Still, after our Caras sailed back to his homeland,
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  Speaker 2: some stuff turned up around New York that seemed to
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  Speaker 2: gibe with our tip.
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  Speaker 3: The same thing happened only his next two trips Maestrop.
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  Speaker 2: Now he calls from mid Ocean to say that if
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  Speaker 2: he's bothered again, he'll make a diplomatic issue of it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if he's innocent, you can't blame him. Listen, miss Porter.
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  Speaker 7: This our carous is an international mystery man.
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  Speaker 2: And he's suspected of everything from espionnage to murder, but
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  Speaker 2: never any proof.
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  Speaker 8: It certainly doesn't keep him out of cafe society. He's
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  Speaker 8: always being whined and dying by people like Pip instruments mounting.
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  Speaker 6: In that crowd.
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  Speaker 3: Oh who's been passing these tips along? Dad?
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  Speaker 2: I'lly've been coming in by way of the underground being
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  Speaker 2: to give me zk at customs.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, right of.
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  Speaker 4: Course it's occurred to you, Dad that our carras maybe
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  Speaker 4: smuggling the diamonds in through a confederate.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's occurred to us. But what can you do?
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  Speaker 3: It's one of those things. He's simple, Zach.
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  Speaker 2: Anything coming on, George ar Carris, Ah, yes, yes, I know.
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  Speaker 2: Well I just got a notion about that. I'll call
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  Speaker 2: you right back. There's been another tip. Now listen, Eery,
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  Speaker 2: we must make sure that our carrous isn't slipping the
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  Speaker 2: ice to a co work at.
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  Speaker 3: To carry off.
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  Speaker 2: Now, would you make sure for us?
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  Speaker 7: It's a delicate situation, my stroke.
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  Speaker 2: If you tell us he hasn't passed anything to a pal,
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  Speaker 2: we'll search our carris and customs energy. I'd have to
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  Speaker 2: board the edge here quite a bit before she died.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be a cinch. Now I can arrange him to
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  Speaker 2: the Portant customs people. All right, Now look here, you'll
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  Speaker 2: go out Sunday with the pilot and mingle with the pest.
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  Speaker 3: We don't hurt. Don't see.
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  Speaker 6: How are we getting up?
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  Speaker 9: Inspect?
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  Speaker 3: Oh wait a minute, there he is.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be be ready to take our Carris over Nethering. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: keep going.
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  Speaker 6: So that's mister Arcarras.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get closer, Nikki.
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  Speaker 9: I inspect you this instrument, Susu morning.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see il say his society friends and be susue. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: very is joy waning.
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  Speaker 3: Hi. I'll see you as soon as I'm finished with
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  Speaker 3: the costs. Don't let him push you around, j cod
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  Speaker 3: what well, nothing doing?
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  Speaker 4: He didn't pass and I'm positive I haven't had my
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  Speaker 4: eyes off him. If he's smuggling anything, Dad, it's in
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  Speaker 4: his luggage or on him.
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  Speaker 2: That means a buddy search and I better go tell
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  Speaker 2: his thanks. So call me at home, Dad, will him.
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  Speaker 6: I wonder if you'll find anything.
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  Speaker 3: Ellary, I wonder nothing, eh not. I'm glad to think.
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  Speaker 2: Son and really swears Oat didn't pass anything to anyone
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  Speaker 2: from the gang way to the customer.
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  Speaker 3: Kars raising Kane, Hi.
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  Speaker 2: Carlin Washington right now. I guess those tips are funnies.
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  Speaker 4: And we've failed for keep me informed, Dad, Oh, Nikki
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  Speaker 4: the inspector.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and it's a wash out.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: By the way, Larie, there's a missus Prian waiting to
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  Speaker 8: see you. She's terribly concerned about her son.
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  Speaker 3: Well all right, Oh, as long as she's here already.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, come in, missus Pride.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, please come in, missus Priyan, and sit down, won't you.
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  Speaker 6: It's about Arthur, my boy.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, he's missing.
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  Speaker 6: He didn't come home.
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  Speaker 3: Suppose you tell me all about it.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we live in Harlem, mister Queen just author and me.
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  Speaker 6: I'm a widow. I'm sickly, and Authur supports me.
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  Speaker 4: Where was Arthur supposed to be coming home from Missus
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  Speaker 4: Prime from his job?
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  Speaker 6: He's got a buttler job over on Park Avenue, employed
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  Speaker 6: by misterston.
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  Speaker 4: Ellary, the buddy of our good friend Nikki. Please go on,
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  Speaker 4: missus prime.
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  Speaker 6: Well, every Saturday for three years, mister Queen, that boyce
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  Speaker 6: comes straight home from Park Avenue with his salary. Here
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  Speaker 6: it is Sunday in he ain't home yet.
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  Speaker 3: Have you called Misterstram.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yes, sir, yesterday evening, but he said the Arthur
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  Speaker 6: had left at the usual time, saying he was going
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  Speaker 6: right home. Don't well what I'll do if Arthur don't
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  Speaker 6: show up by tonight. Missus Pride is afraid he lose
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  Speaker 6: his job. Ellery. Mister Isstram's awful strict Every morning Arthur
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  Speaker 6: has to have mister Isstram's breakfast ready by nine o'clock.
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  Speaker 6: Monday mornings. Arthur always gets there by eight thirty, just
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  Speaker 6: so Misterstram can eat on time.
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  Speaker 3: Did Istram offer any possible explanation, Missus Bryan.
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  Speaker 6: He said, not to worry. But I don't know, mister Queen.
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  Speaker 6: It don't sound like Arthur.
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  Speaker 3: Have you notified the police?
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  Speaker 6: Oh no, sir, Misterstram wouldn't like that. That's why I
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  Speaker 6: come to you, mister Quan.
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  Speaker 4: Well now you. You go home and stop worrying. Missus Bryan,
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  Speaker 4: I'll make the inquiries.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, thank you, mister.
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  Speaker 3: That's all right, thank you, good bye bye.
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  Speaker 9: Pip Istram's butler. And today Georgia Carris came in.
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  Speaker 4: Funny coincidence that me the Missing Person's Bureau. She is
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  Speaker 4: l y Oh morning, Missus Bryan, mister.
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  Speaker 6: Queen, Missus Porter, I got done. You're just as fast
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  Speaker 6: as I couldn't.
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  Speaker 4: Brian, m I I I think we've found Arthur.
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  Speaker 6: Would you have where is Missus Prime?
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid we have some dreadful news for you. This
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  Speaker 3: is the city.
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  Speaker 10: Mortuary, what sir? This is the morgue, Missus Prime, Becky,
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  Speaker 10: it's all right, sir, it's all right. Lean on me,
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  Speaker 10: Missus Bryan.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think that you're up to identifying author officially
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  Speaker 4: for us Missus.
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  Speaker 6: Bryan, I won't to see my boy y all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Missus Bryan, Sergeant right, my stroke, that's my son.
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  Speaker 6: He was all there.
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  Speaker 4: We like his body was taken out of the East
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  Speaker 4: River at five o'clock this morning.
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  Speaker 6: Arson never did a wrong thing in his life, only
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  Speaker 6: maybe play ten cents on the numbers once in a while.
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  Speaker 6: He won twenty dollars last month playing the number thirty one. What, yes,
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  Speaker 6: he liked that number thirty one, been playing it for
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  Speaker 6: most a year. All right, go home now.
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  Speaker 3: Sergeant, take missus Brian home now. Yeah, well, miss.
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  Speaker 6: Brian, easy, I think I'd like a cup of coffee.
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  Speaker 8: Ellery and the pistrum is going to have to give
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  Speaker 8: it to you. But Ellery, it's really in the morning.
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  Speaker 8: It's only seven fifty.
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  Speaker 4: And wait, Nikki, there's a connection between Arthur's death and
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  Speaker 4: Georgia Karis.
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  Speaker 3: That number thirty one?
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  Speaker 8: You mean just because Arthur played thirty one all the
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  Speaker 8: time in the number of sex.
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  Speaker 4: Number of our Karis's cabin on the Ageo was also
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  Speaker 4: thirty one.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Nikki, and there, ladies and gentlemen, you have
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  Speaker 2: I M now back to our story. Hopping into a cab,
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  Speaker 2: Hillary and Nicky go directly from the City Mortuary to
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  Speaker 2: Pipstrum's apartment on Park Cabin. I can't see anyone at
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  Speaker 2: this hour. I'm just having my breakfast. Misterstram, your butler
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  Speaker 2: is dead, Arthur dead. Well, come in, thank you, yes,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, Please forgive the appearance of my apartment. Arthur
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  Speaker 2: was the only servant I employed. Then it's something of
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  Speaker 2: a blow. He was a jewel.
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  Speaker 3: Won't you sit down?
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  Speaker 6: Thanks?
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  Speaker 2: But mind I have another cup of coffee.
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  Speaker 3: All join me?
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  Speaker 6: No thanks.
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  Speaker 3: Arthur's mother phoned me Saturday night. But naturally many dive
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  Speaker 3: run over stabbed in some Harlem.
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  Speaker 4: Even if he was in a brawl, mister Ristram, I
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  Speaker 4: strongly doubted it took place in Harlem.
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  Speaker 3: He died of a cerebral fracture.
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  Speaker 4: There's a bruise on his jaw and the back of
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  Speaker 4: his head is not pretty hmmm.
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  Speaker 6: And then his body was dumped in the East River.
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  Speaker 6: Like a sack of garbage.
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  Speaker 3: In a word, mister Ristram, Arthur was murdered. That's clumsy
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  Speaker 3: of me. We'll see here, Queen. Does the police think
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  Speaker 3: I did it? At some such nonsense?
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  Speaker 2: The last time I saw Arthur was Saturday evening when
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  Speaker 2: he left you perfectly all right?
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  Speaker 3: I take it to your friend, Georgie Arcaris, new author.
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  Speaker 2: Sure what has our courage to do with Arthur's death?
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  Speaker 3: Queen? That, mister Ristram is what I propose to find out, George.
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  Speaker 3: He only got into the States yesterday morning.
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  Speaker 4: Arthur may not have been murdered until yesterday afternoon. Immersion
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  Speaker 4: and water, you see, often makes it difficult to fix
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  Speaker 4: the exact time of death.
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  Speaker 2: Now look here, I'm getting a little bit bored with
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  Speaker 2: all this. My fiancee mismounting and I have known mister
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  Speaker 2: Arcaris for a long time, and I'm quite thirty one.
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  Speaker 2: I beg your pardon, I said, thirty one. Does the
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  Speaker 2: number thirty one mean anything to you? Mister instrum?
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  Speaker 3: Another thing?
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  Speaker 4: Then I'll let you return to your breakfast. Thanky.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're way off, son. What possible connection could there be?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that, but there is one.
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  Speaker 2: All on account of a number thirty one a coincidence,
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  Speaker 2: just to say one, a coincidence, just the same. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to see our carge, Elary, No, why now layoff
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  Speaker 2: our carriage, will you? You don't know the stink she's made?
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  Speaker 2: Now please? Son?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, but Dad, I think you're making a big mistake.
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  Speaker 8: And that seemed to be the end of the diamond
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  Speaker 8: smuggling case and the author prime case too.
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  Speaker 6: The police got nowhere on.
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  Speaker 9: It, Ellery got grumpy or every day.
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  Speaker 6: Then two weeks later it was.
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  Speaker 9: A Sunday, Nicky, is that you in my Sunday?
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  Speaker 3: Best? Hillary? What's the matter, dear Jeah?
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  Speaker 4: It's sailing today, so what George ar cars are sailing
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  Speaker 4: on it?
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  Speaker 3: He is thanky? We can just make it make why
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  Speaker 3: I just salved it?
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  Speaker 1: Nikki?
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  Speaker 7: Come on, I hope you know what you're doing, mister Queen.
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  Speaker 2: Trust me, Captain, Captain Julian and Miss dark Carus open
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  Speaker 2: your cabin door, please?
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  Speaker 3: Yes? But is it?
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  Speaker 2: Captain? Where are these people?
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  Speaker 7: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Miss dark Carus?
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  Speaker 7: Would you mind if this gentleman seuch.
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  Speaker 3: As your cabin so I mind very definitely, Captain. Perhaps
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  Speaker 3: if I.
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  Speaker 4: Explained mister o Karus, it's my theory that this cabin
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  Speaker 4: contains a hiding place.
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  Speaker 3: Hiding place of what of some diamonds?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I see, formally, I've been accused of smuggling diamonds into
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  Speaker 2: the United States. Now I am accused of smuggling them out.
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  Speaker 4: Is that it not exactly? But you will admit, mister Rocharis,
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  Speaker 4: won't you. And it's a very odd coincidence. You're always
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  Speaker 4: booking cabin thirty one on the Aga, both coming and going.
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  Speaker 3: And it's demented hm hmm everywhere. Go okay, sir, I.
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  Speaker 7: Can't hold up the ship, mister Queen.
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  Speaker 2: We sail in ten minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Ten minutes one side, Nikki. You'll have to hurry, miss Queen.
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  Speaker 2: He's a pity.
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  Speaker 5: My good friend, mister easterm and Miss Mounting did not
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  Speaker 5: stand board long enough to witness this spectacle.
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  Speaker 4: Sostrom and Miss Mounting were here, mister Arcarras here in
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  Speaker 4: your cabin.
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  Speaker 5: You know them, yes, mister Queen, they always see me out.
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  Speaker 4: That's very interesting our carres because the steel support of
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  Speaker 4: this bunk comes up, revealing a very effective hiding place.
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  Speaker 6: Why it's big enough to hide a fortune in diamonds.
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  Speaker 4: But mister Queen, it's empty, certainly, Captain, but it was
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  Speaker 4: full of diamonds when the Edge adopted ellery.
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  Speaker 6: He was searched when he got off the ship.
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  Speaker 4: Arcarras left the diamonds on board Nikki. He never carried
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  Speaker 4: him off when the ship made port, but he made
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  Speaker 4: sure always to get Kevin, for he won for the
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  Speaker 4: return trip. You heard him just now hit the strim
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  Speaker 4: and Sussu mounting always see him off. Visitors to the
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  Speaker 4: ship on its outgoing voyage. Such visitors are not searched
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  Speaker 4: when they leave. One of them carry the diamonds off
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  Speaker 4: just a few minutes ago.
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  Speaker 5: Stand very steel, my era, do not move, please not
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  Speaker 5: even editor, very good.
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  Speaker 3: Oh the swine.
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  Speaker 6: We look here to the porthole.
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  Speaker 9: He's running down the gangway just as they're pulling it in.
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  Speaker 3: But my dark cars, Nicky, we've got to get to Wistroms.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Captain, get us off your ship, and.
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  Speaker 3: So mister Istram, I will trouble you for those diamonds.
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  Speaker 2: Because Queen, they have nothing to do with our carrots.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: My fiance Mismounting did turn some jewels over to me
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  Speaker 2: this afternoon, yes, or she did, yes, she happened to
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  Speaker 2: us since it was very popular before our engagement, you know,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: with some extremely wealthy gentry. She gambles a little, I'm afraid,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: and she turned some of their gifts over to me
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  Speaker 2: for disposal. Now, my father made his money in South
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: African diamonds. I still have some father's connection. Do you
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: doubt my word?
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  Speaker 3: It was big? An idiot as you sound.
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  Speaker 4: Your PreCure, Susu has been smuggling diamonds into the United
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  Speaker 4: States for your friend our carras and getting you to
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  Speaker 4: turn them into cash.
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  Speaker 3: That's a lie, queen, that's a filthy law. Sorry.
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  Speaker 6: Oh she knocked him out.
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  Speaker 9: He's out cold.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Now to find those diamonds, don't bother so moaning.
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  Speaker 6: I've got them, mister queen, isn't it You know?
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  Speaker 4: Miss body? That gun is probably loaded. Are you sure
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  Speaker 4: you know what you're doing?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Stop it now.
• 21:38
  Speaker 11: So we're gonna march out of here and go down
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  Speaker 11: to the street. You'll pretend nothing's wrong. You'll get into
• 21:43
  Speaker 11: my car, drive it. I'll be in the back with
• 21:47
  Speaker 11: this thing pointing at you.
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  Speaker 6: And you'll drive out of the country. Sounds cozy. Shut up?
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Where are we going, Susue?
• 21:55
  Speaker 11: To a little hideaway cottage used by George r. Karras
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  Speaker 11: our carros get going.
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  Speaker 3: You are an idiot, so so you bring them here?
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Why did you not shoot me?
• 22:13
  Speaker 12: Well, I'm not as used to shooting people as you.
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  Speaker 2: Are, George.
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  Speaker 6: I'm getting out of you.
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  Speaker 1: You are.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps it is just as well, mister Queen, I owe
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: you something personally. Now the tuso has brought you here.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: We will make the best of it. We have the diamonds.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: This is Pep Eastm's pistol. We will concuct the plot.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: It's all right, Nick, our garas wouldn't be that foolish scholish.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: This cottage is on by pip Easter, mister Queen an
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: accommodation to his good friend Jeorge m hm.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: But nothing on paper, you understand.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: So we will better you here.
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  Speaker 5: By the time you have found Misterstrim, who has been
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: a duke throughout, we'll have something.
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  Speaker 3: Explaining to do.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, George, wait, it's wait like go way with you.
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  Speaker 5: My dear miss Mounting. We smuggle diamonds together. We will
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  Speaker 5: commit murder together, or would you rather join them?
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I give you five seconds or so.
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  Speaker 3: Get it over with quick, doc, NICKI gone that shooting minute.
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  Speaker 3: Stand still, girl friend, you pours off me.
• 23:34
  Speaker 12: HiT's mister Instram, you shio, has anybody going to drink?
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Done your last drinking for some time? S mounting, And
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I don't think that cares that you will smuggle anymore
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: diamonds like these in the United States for some time.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: You will get me a physician and my counsulate at once.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Oh sure the son another narrow speak you got, mister,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Thank maestro, he came to a way for the murving
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: woman hustled you out and phonus.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: I heard Susu's confession. Mister queen had quite restored my sanity.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Thanks for saving all Livestram. Well, Dad, Nolly, let's get
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: out of here.
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  Speaker 9: Nikki.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Don't you want to know who killed missus Bryanne's song
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: author the murder of mister Ristram's butler, you mean.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Son of the two cases are connected?
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Yes, Dad, and I'll tell you how right now. And here,
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: ladies and gentlemen, you have the mystery. Now, Nikki, will
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: you introduce how?
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: I guess?
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: Sure thing?
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Lli.
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: He's the popular screen and stage star, most recently seen
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: with Anne Sheridan in the film Nora Apprentice.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Mister Kent Smith, Good evening, mister Smith. Nice to have
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: you here. Good evening, Ery, thanks for inviting me.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: I understand that this season you're going to be playing
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: for the fourth time with Catherine Cornell and Shakespeare's Anthony
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: and Cleopatra.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Is it right? That's right? Iry.
• 25:06
  Speaker 13: I played with Miss Cornell in Canada Saint Joan Wingless victory,
• 25:10
  Speaker 13: and I'm looking forward with great enjoyment.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: To Anthony and Cleopatra. Lots of luck, mister Smith. Let's
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: if the play has a long run. But now let's
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: get down to business. Shall we tell me who killed
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: Arthur Prime? Well, I it seems rather simple from where
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: I sit. I don't know whether it is or not,
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: but I guess that SEUs is a real villain in
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: this piece, except the chief.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Villainess, the villainette. Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Just to be grammatically, well, if I must say that
• 25:37
  Speaker 13: I was fool about Pip, but as long as he
• 25:40
  Speaker 13: turns out to be okay, he probably having said our
• 25:43
  Speaker 13: lives to me, Yeah, yeah, yeah, he came in handed
• 25:46
  Speaker 13: and you got it.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:48
  Speaker 13: And the motive, well that I can't quite establish, except
• 25:53
  Speaker 13: she might have found him. He sent a Pip sent
• 25:57
  Speaker 13: his butler to Cavin thirty one on the code they
• 26:01
  Speaker 13: use and connect it with the diamonds. Yeah, I say, well,
• 26:03
  Speaker 13: thank you very much. Let's smith and you'll find out
• 26:05
  Speaker 13: in just a moment.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: What the solution is. I can't wait. Now here is
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Don Hancock.
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• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Listen.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Every morning for three years, Athur Prime prepared his employer's
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: breakfast by nine o'clock on Monday mornings. Author always got
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: a mister instrum apartment by eight thirty. Missus Prime told
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: us Nikki, just so mister Istram can eat on time. Now,
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: nikkod he recall the morning Missus Prine identified Arthur's body
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: at the morgue.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: Yes, it was a Monday morning.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: And what time was it when we.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Left the morgue to go to mister Istram's apartment?
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Very early?
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: I think I said it was seven fifteen right.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: We took a cab.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: We went directly from the morgue to Wistram's Park Avenue apartment.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: So when we saw Istram, no more than fifteen to
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: twenty minutes could have elapsed. In other words, it was
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: around seven thirty in the morning. And what was Istram
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: doing when we called on him.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: At that hour? Eating his breakfast at seven thirty am?
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: But this was breaking a fixed habit of years.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Why on that particular Monday morning did not pi if
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Istram wait for his man Author to turn up to
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: prepare breakfast for him because he knew Author was dead?
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Dinnery?
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, They're the only ones who knew Arthur was dead
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: at that time were ourselves and Arthur's mother. Arthur's body
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: hadn't been fished out of the East River until five am,
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: hadn't been identified by his mother until seven fifteen am,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: fifteen minutes before we found Istram eating a breaka, because
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: he himself must have prepared since Arthur was his only servant.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: There is only one way.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Istram could have known Arthur was dead, and that's if
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Istram had killed him.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Correct Istram, correct here, But Maestrow, why and what did
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: the number thirty one have to do with it?
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: For some time, Arthur, who had a weakness for playing
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: the numbers game, had been playing thirty one because he
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: had noticed that your good friend Arcaris always occupied cabin
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: thirty one of the Aga. Arthur took that as a hunch,
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: as so many numbers players do. But that last Saturday,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: Arthur suddenly realized that Arcaris wasn't using cabin thirty one.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Of the Agia just because he liked it.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: He had probably noticed also that each time after Karas
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: sailed in Cabin thirty one on the Aga, your fiance
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Istram invariably deposited some diamonds with you, and your butler
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: made the connection you were too blind to make.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: He told you that that Saturday afternoon, and you must.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: I was so outraged.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: I lost my temper and hit Arthur in the jar
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: my strength. He fell hard and fractured his head on
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: the floor. I didn't mean to kill him.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I hid his body then middle of the ninth I
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: took it down service elevator into my car, disposed of
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: it in the river.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: I'm afraidst And that you've been your own worst enemy throughout,
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: too infatuated with susu mounting to see what she really was,
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: too hot headed to control that murderous temper of yours,
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: and too foolish to call the police when Arthur died
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: and rely on the simple truth. Now you'll have to
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: face a jury under very different circumstances.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: And be your own fault, his true If they don't
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: believe your story, sergeant, take him.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: In too, And there, ladies and gentlemen, you have the
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: solution to our mystery. Thank you again, mister Kent Smith
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: for being our guest arm care detective this evening, and
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: as mementos if your visit with us, Anderson is proud
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: to present you with this autograph copy my new anthology,
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: The Queen's Awards nineteen forty six, and a subscription to
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. As a special gift, we have
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: for you a Stromberg Carson radio phonograph combination, complete with
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: push button tuning.
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  Speaker 4: human relations and crime.
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  Speaker 3: I call it tragedy in blue.
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• 31:30
  Speaker 2: refer to real people, either living or dead. Among the
• 31:33
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  Speaker 6: This is Andrew J. Graham, author of the web surface
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: series Oh and a Man of His Wife. You're listening
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: to the great detectives of Old time radio.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, we've talked before on this program about
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: my admiration and respect for everything that Lawrence Dopkin contributed
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: to the golden age of radio, and this is another
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: great example. Turns in a very good performance, perhaps the
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: best version of Ellery Queen we've heard on the radio
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  Speaker 1: so far. The script I think was a little bit
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  Speaker 1: better too. And of course the tolerance theme of the
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  Speaker 1: commercials or public service announcements, I should say at the end,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: really did reflect the tone of this post war era,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: and I thought the mystery was solid, though the pursuit
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: of the diamond smuggling almost made me wonder what our
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: armchair detective was gonna solve. In some ways, this had
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: a more exciting, almost Nick carterish feel to it. Well,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: at any rate, let's go ahead and Dick look at
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: some listener comments and feedback, and the word is Broma Seltzer.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Mary emails in, Hey, Adam, thanks for all you do.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: I'm in complete agreement with the listener who wrote you,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: asking if anyone else is creeped out by the trained
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: voice from Broma Seltzer. I knew I'd heard that effect before,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: and there was a reason it scared me. There was
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: a movie from nineteen forty called You'll Find Out, where
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: bandleader Kaike Kaiser shows off some new technology Sono Box,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: and there's a clip word it's kind of lighthearted, she said.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: This example is pretty whimsical, but later in the film
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: they do a seance and it's used in a more
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: spone tingling way, which is not surprising since the cast
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: also includes Wore Greats, Peter Loriie Bella Lugus, and Boris Carloff.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Wow don't plan on going to sleep after watching that movie,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: but have trouble sleeping after watching the credits. Anyway. Mary
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: goes on to write, thanks again for all the great
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: old material. We love it well, thanks so much, Mary,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: and Bobby Lee Walker says, I agree the train is
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: a little scary when he's trying to talk. Well, thanks
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: so much. Do appreciate all the insights we've received on
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: the Bromo Seltzer train and maybe a little bit of
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: what makes it so scary. All right, Well, that will
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: be it for today. Join us back here tomorrow the
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Adventures of Philip Marlowe, and then next week another episode
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: of Ellery Queen. In the meantime, send your comments to
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• 35:07
  Speaker 1: your host, Adam Graham signing off.