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Nick Carter: Records of Death (EP1080) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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talk a little bit about the movie Nick Carter, Master Detective. I've seen
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the first of the three MGM Nick Carter movies, and I figure if we
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talk about it on the show, But let's go ahead and listen today's episode
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of Nick Carter Records of Death. Another call. Yes, it's another case
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for that most famous of all man hunters, the detective whose ability it's solving
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crime is unequaled. In the history of detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master
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Detective. So that's Curious Adventure. Records of death are Nick Carter and the
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Mystery of the Unclaimed Fox. The thank of the matter is, mister Carter.
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But I have quite accidentally stumbled on a terrible crime, or to be
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more correct, I've stumbled on evidence that a terrible crime has been committed.
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But even so, mister Field, why do you come to me with it?
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That's sort of things to be reported to the police. Mister Carter,
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What police would I report it to? Where was the murder committed? I
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don't know. How can I know that a murder's been done if you don't
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know where it was done. That's what makes this particular crime different from any
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other. Somewhere sometime a murder has been committed, yet I don't know when
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or where. A matter of fact, I doubt if anyone in the world
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knows of it. He said, those who did it and me? And
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how are you having in all of it? Because victim, a young and
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beautiful girl, has told me so in her own words. I have the
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knowledge from her own lips. Oh, and you've seen and talked to her.
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Well, here's the story. Miss Carter. About a month ago,
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I attended one of the sales of unclaimed packages that the Express Company holds twice
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a year. Among other things I bought was a box about once the size
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of a steamer trunk. It contains some miscellaneous articles of clothing and ten phonograph
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records. Phonograph records, huh, regular professional records, no, Miss Carter.
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They were small record blanks you buy when you make home recordings for yourself.
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I immediately played the records, and since then I've played them so often
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I almost know them by heart. And you learn about this crime from those
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records? Yesel you wonder arouse my curiosity? You certainly succeeded. Why could
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I hear these records immediately? Miss Carter? I have them in my room.
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You'll go there with me. We can listen to them at once,
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splendid, no matter if I take my assistant, Patsy born of me,
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of course not. And as soon as she's ready to go, Patsy,
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yes, get your hat. We're leaving at once to listen to a murder.
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This is the box mister got him. Yereful, isn't it? I
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must have here before we go further. There are a few things. I
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should like to know. How long ago did you buy this box at the
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auction? A little over a month ago? On the Express company must have
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had it for about a year or so. Another thing, were there any
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wrappings on the box when you bought it? Yes, it was well wrapped
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in a heavy burlap. Have those rappings now, I, I'm sorry to
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say I don't. For the time I realized that the rappings might have furnished
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the clue to the mystery, they've been burned in the incinerator, too bad.
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Well, do you've had a chance. Whatever we call the name and
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addressed to which the box was consigned, Fortunately I do. It was addressed
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to an Alex delanois New York City. But I've searched every city directory,
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every telephone book, every place where names are listed, and I can find
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no such name anywhere. There was no street address, and the rest of
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the label, as I remember it was practically obliterated. I see, all
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right, mister Pheer, Let's listen to the records, and gladly, I'm
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very anxious to get your opinion of them. Are they in any kind of
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order? After hearing them over and over, I've done I believe that I
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have finally arranged them in their proper order. They're so peculiar I can hardly
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wait to see if you can tell me the answer. Here's a good one.
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I have a terrible story tale. But even while I try to tell
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it, I'm afraid that you who may listen to this will not believe me.
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But I beg you. If justice means anything to you, believe me
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and a binge me. I shall rest easier in my grave if I know
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that those who hope to prophet for my death have been deprived of a fortunately
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plan to get by killing me. I am very rich, but I am
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not rich enough to avoid the fate that is in store for me. She
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sounded if she meant it, didn't she I thought he was coming in,
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but he went away. I've tried several times to escape, but I've failed
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each time. I wish I could tell you where I am, but I
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can't. But I was gone when they brought me here. Oh I forgot
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to say. My name is Nancy Deary, and I'm twenty two years old.
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You who listened to this will recognize the name at once. Of course,
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I only hope they don't hurt of me until I can. Is that
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the end of it? I quiet he almost caught me that time, but
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now he's left me alone again. Maybe I can't. That's all. Apparently
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he came back before she expected him. Had any of terbal getting a theory
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out of the records, didn't she? He is she was interrupted many times
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and didn't lay in the wrong places. I imagine no travel is too great
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if you're really desperate, but a terrible feeling it must be to be killed.
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Here's the second record if you're ready. Okay, I don't know where
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I left off with my story last time, and I dare not play it
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back. If they should ever hear what I'm trying to do, they take
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the machine away from me, then I'd be completely lost. I feel that
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my end is coming very soon. Now they may carry out their plans to
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in lovel all my doll, when lie's are all t lo a lovely.
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I think he's gone now. I'm sure Ralph was listening at the door,
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but the singing apparently convinced him. I was listening to the radio. When
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the time comes, I know it will be Ralph who kills me. Well,
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it will undoubtedly help him, but Ralph is the leader. I found
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that out the other day when they tried to get me to sign the papers
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which will give them possession of my fortune. I shall never sign. But
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that lie the bad you didn't think they better. She managed to get most
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of her story on the record, one way or another. The things she
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really missed out. I was telling us more about herself than just her name.
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I have never occurred to her that the records might travel thousands of miles
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before someone would hear them. Here's a third record. Last night, somebody
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searched my rooms while I was in bed. Maybe they suspect that I'm making
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these records. Hello, I'm very careful. I'd play the radio all the
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time so they'll be used to hearing the noise. Ralph told me yesterday he
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was sure I was going crazy. Maybe I all of asked me to tell
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you that and let end that Who's what at the end, I suspect it
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was Ralph's. It's amazing how much of the scenes she recreates this way without
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really saying anything definite of the suspense right along with her On the fourth record,
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she was able to get part of the visit that ralphada one day Nooney
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was coming and prepared for it by putting a ragged blank in the machine and
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advance, and then when you heard him at the door, she probably turned
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it on. You got this one, Well, my beautiful young half sister,
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have you decided to sign over your fortune to me? I told you
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love it. If you sign, will set you free, just as we
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promised. You go up, Ralph. Unless I have signed my name to
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that paper you have there, you'll kill me. You know that as well
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as I do. You have me freak. Yeah, you have done it
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when you're well off, Nancy. If you did, you sign and go
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free. I do, and I also think it won't be long before you
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wish you had. Oh I wonder how they help killed me? Ralph had
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hanged me, I'm sure, And she used poison moable. That's all there
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is on that one. The pit is you're going to put more on each
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recom than she did. She really used only a small portion of each blank,
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yes, Betty, but she had trouble enough to get even that much
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on them. The way they watched her. Nick, where could she get
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the blank record in the first place? You certainly wouldn't have let her have
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them knowingly I would have made a guess, Betsy, I had to say
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that. One they took her to the place where she was kept prisoner,
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the Papa Betok, along her clothes and some of the furnishings, and among
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them, pably was this radio phonograph. Perhaps she especially asked for it because
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she loved music or something, and the record blanks would probably the machine,
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along with the other records that could be Now, how about the fifth record.
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I've never been able to make much out of this one. Maybe you'll
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have a better love. You mean, it's not like yeah, that's quite
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different, you know. I started near the end the whole first party,
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just scratch nothing else. That's the idea of locking herself fancy very dog out.
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No I'm bringing off the hall. What there really chair? It succeeds,
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little devil, but so very clear that I haven't there to me that
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locked your doors out of the record for some reason. So you waited before
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saying anything. Then Ralph and Olive came from the door, locked and being
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suspicious, broken down. Nancy hid and they dragged her out. There was
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an argument about something and I didn't get Nancy grabbed Ralph's pistole and took a
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quick shot at him, but you missed for you couldull the trigger again.
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He took the gun away from him. Good griefous courage, clear enough when
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you tell him, well, he's the sixth one. Hurry the time is
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very short. I may be interrupted any minute. I'm seldom left alone any
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more. They seem to be afraid of what I'll do if I'm left alone.
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I wondered if they hadn't killed me before this. I wonder if fake.
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There's nothing but scratch, but quite a bit here, and she's notes
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again. Ali came in. I had to stop. Now she's gone for
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a few minutes at least yet to day. I little letter to my father,
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and I threw it out the window, hoping someone would find it and
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mail it. But Ralph found it and brought it back to me and laughs
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at me. I keep asking him for news of my father, but he'll
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tell me nothing. If Father only knew where I am, he'd rescue me,
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maybe if I can jump. And that's the end of that. We
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didn't get me out of it. I wonder where father comes in before we
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through The seventh Regged is more interesting. You have recorded a complete conversation between
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Nancy and Ralph. Good, that's here. Well, my dear Nancy,
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how are you to day? You had your way out of me? Day?
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Ohy, don't you kid yourself? Save us the trouble you mean,
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sabe you've been having a murder on your conscience. You have to say you're
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learning me. It's fine inch every day that I've said you, well,
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I don't object to doing it that way if I can't. If you ever
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throw anything like that again, how'll tie up so you won't be a long
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one of your chair? Well, if you really want me to tie those
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papers for you, just let me go to my father. You don't want
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anything, you are out of the question. But if you sign, we'll
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see that your father finds you soon enough. And it's only because i'm your
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half brother that I offer you this. How long next time? I won
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with my half sis trying to do it right now, and I do enjoy
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doing it, so don't tell me too far. I might forget that you're
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mother and mine with a saint see row, would you get a glass of
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water? Please? Please? Well? All right, but no tricks surrounds.
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Oh gosh, I wish we could have had more of that. Yes,
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I might have learned something really important. You will, Limsey knew the
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record was near the end of that glass of water was merely an excuse to
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get rapped out of the room once she put on a new one. Good
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for her, a clever girl, but what a terrible idea she went through,
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never knowing from one day to the neck whether it was her last.
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Quite batch you please, thank you? You were going about a long time.
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I met all of in the hall. Sure reminded me to tell you.
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We've decided that unless you do is we want you to You have just
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one more day to live. Just what doing that frightens me? Hello,
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welcome. It's the only way I'm ever get away from you too. I'm
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fairly convinced you'll never succeed in getting possession of my fortune. Of course,
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we're getting no doubt about that. I don't think you. No, No,
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that is, you won't get it unless you're planning on murdering my father
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too. Have you for it? And you will want to leave behind him?
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It's smart. Don't you guessed it the first time? No? Don't
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you would? No? Why not? He's not my father and he want
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his fortune? Draw singles. I can't believe that any human created you too,
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really exist. Our mother bore a strange lot of children didn't see.
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On one hand we have you, my saintly Nancy, and on the other
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hand we have the twins. All of it or anything but safe. Yes,
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this is very strange sometimes. Yeah, the next idea, I'll be
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gonna hear about fifteen minutes. If you're wise, you won't be alive when
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I have returned. Good Bye. I hope for you heard what he said.
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It was the best evidence I could well really made a poor confession without
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knowing that everybody was being preserved for you to hear my father why he died?
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Oh, I thank you? Who you want? He would? You
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can do anything to a bench up the can's name? Do it? I
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go to my dea. Who you are? Sha't have my right? Ben
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fah, Oh, let's see the record? What not me? If you
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didn't know she wasn't dead ages, you'd almost think she was putting on an
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act. I still feel terribly moved when I hear that record. If you
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never had a chance, really well, I'm gonna say the next one,
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that's the ninth, isn't it? Number nine is almost a blank here it
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is they almost caught me that time. They mustn't do that because they might
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find the records I've already made and destroyed them. They're both coming back in
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a few minutes, but maybe I can. Is that all there is on
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that one? That's all? That's the end of the record. That's one
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more, isn't it? Yes? And number ten the verse two thirds of
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it's blank. It's done here and that both. But you'll see. I'm
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mob you know, I can shoo shoes straight. I will kill my friend
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one of you to move? My god, where did you get it all?
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I gave it to me so I prepared myself. Why your little sign
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you aren't waiting much this time? Well that takes care of you. Oh
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oh yes, yeah, what happened? The bullet just raised your temper?
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Stuff you momentary, Nancy did? Yes? What do we do with the
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body? The old man will be here in a couple of hours. We
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don't want to be. That's the end of the last record. She certainly
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got a tough break. I truly believe that's the most remarkably told tragedy in
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history. Whomost god? Have you got the ideas I have? I'm not
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ready to talk about them yet. What's the next step now, Nick,
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Well, first of all, Patsy, I want to examine the other contents
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of the dox thairly. I can look them over more intelligently now that I've
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heard the records. Then I want to play those records over and over till
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I know them by heart. And then then I expect to be able to
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give you the answer to the problem. Got a sandwich in your pocket,
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Betsy? Oh, Nick, I thought you'd never finished listening to Oh.
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I want to be sure I didn't miss anything anyway, And I believe I've
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learned everything those records can tell me. You mean you really found some clue
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with me. Yes, indeed, Betsy, several clues marked out works very
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plainly. Oh, that's wonderful. Want to go over that list from hit
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of the other things that when that dox addressed to Alex seven what court?
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Let me see now? When mayas here? It is Alpa poke would Mabel
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Felix and Company, Toronto, and a beautiful and expensive thing. It was
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too silk slipped with the name Olivette du Prey pinned on it. Wish I
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could win thoak like that, Patsy silk slipped with the name Nancy Deering pin
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to it, the New Testament with the name Avengeline du Prey on the fly
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leaves, several rings, all very valuable, a real pearl necklace and some
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beautiful and very extensive lace. Also, of course the bloodstained nightclift, which
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must have been the one that Nancy was murdered him. And the three snapshots
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of course, oh he is one with the name Olivette on the back,
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one with the name Ralph, and one with the name Avengeline du Prey Dearing.
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Whoever packed that dox knew exactly what are we doing, Patsy, I'll
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ask together beautifully he or she has given us all the clues he could to
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the people concerning the affair. Avengeline dou Prey Dearing must have been the mother.
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Yes, she had two children, twins, Ralph and olivet by her
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first marriage. Then she married Nancy's brother, man named Deering. But that
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doesn't get as much nearer a solution there, am it does, Patsy?
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Did you notice that all the voices were heard on the records were American?
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Well, yes, I guess they were, And yet the names are mostly
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French aren't they wouldn't we find a combination like carry around here? Why in
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Canada? I suppose exactly. And the label on the opera cloak says Toronto,
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which confirms the Canada idea perfectly. You mean that the Deerings lived in
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Toronto. It's certainly quite logical to assume that the scene of the murders Canada,
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very possibly in the vicinity of Toronto, which start the run away.
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Maybe the Toronto police can help us. But Nick, even if you're right,
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it doesn't mean that the police would know anything about the murder. It
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was all done so secretly. You're overlooking one thing, Betsy, I am
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what is it? The family from which these people came was in a rich
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family, very rich indeed, if we may guess from the beautiful laces and
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from the jewelry and other things. Back to the box, and remember also
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that Nancy's father was probably killed two now, I can't believe that the head
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of a rich and probably well known family could disappear without anyone knowing it.
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You mean you think the police will know that something happened to him about a
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year ago, even if they don't think that there's anything wrong about it.
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Exactly. So pack your bag, Betsy in order a taxi to take us
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to the airport. We're applying to Toronto immediately. I'm very happy to welcome
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you back to Toronto, mister Carthy. It's been many years since you've been
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up here. Just us. Thanks very much. See you might have I
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asked a few questions. Of course, now go right ahead. Did you
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get a letter about a year ago telling that a murder had been done?
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Never? If you wanted proof, you should claim an express box sent to
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New York City in the name of Alex Donnwell wait a minute, George Carley,
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we did get just such a letter, but we thought it was the
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work of a crank and destroyed it. You mean it was true. I
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have every reason to believe it was. Now another question, Would you know
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anything about a girl named Nancy Deary or about her father? Heaven? Say,
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gotter, what do you know about the Deering family? Who answered my
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question first, I'll answer yours. What about the Dearing father? Charles steering
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Is was a younger son of an English nobleman. He was immensely rich at
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a house here in town, the country place called Deering Hall. He married
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a woman with two children, twins, I believe, and she died when
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his daughter Nancy was born. He always prominent in local affairs up to about
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a year ago when he said to have disappeared. Have been seen since.
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I understand he started for Deering Hall but never arrived there, according to his
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two stepchildren. What about his daughter Nancy? Nancy was brought up by relatives
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in Montreal. Two people here know her at all, But as I remember
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it, she was supposed to have disappeared just before her father did, although
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I now understand that she was at Deering Hall with her half brother and sister
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all the time. Is say Nancy didn't disappear after all? I know as
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a matter of fact, she was here in Toronto this past week. She
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believes her father is dead, so she's applied for letters of administration for the
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estate. I thought, so, who did? What? You know about
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it enough to know that this girl who calls herself Nancy Dearing isn't Nancy Thereing
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at all. She's an impostor from the step children and brought into impersonator chief.
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We got to get up to Deering Hall. At once, road leading
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into the dealing estate turns off somewhere right in here, Carter. I'm quite
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sure. I look the man turning in the road up ahead. So there
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is, and he's motioning to us this time a queer looking individual. Help
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you are going into the oil, Yes we are. Why could you take
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me back there? I walked so far dog of course climbing. What you
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are police? One more? Yes? Then you can help me? And
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I need to have so very much what seems to be the trouble. I
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am Alex Delenoi. Yes you know you won't set a box packed with records,
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not the thanks in New York City addressed yourself. But yes you have
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seen it. Yes, that's why we're here. Tell me how did you?
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Ever? Yes, I will tell you everything. I was the captake
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and r steering. Let me stay in one of the fold tower rooms because
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I am, as you see, a creeper. Sometimes I do not get
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out of bed for days of the time. About a year ago the two
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stepchildren of those very weak devils came to the hall. It what the girl
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who was kept the personal in one of the bed rooms. Alex is not
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the horrorad to the hardest. I had no but yes, the hall is
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about half a mile in of this world go on with the story. Act
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here the girl was so carefully guarded by those two. I could not get
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to her room. I could not help. But I am a crapper.
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Now you did what you carry like you being a hatter? And how did
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you manage to get the things backed in the box? After they killed Nancy?
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They did not guard their rooms so carefully. I got in. I
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took the records and the other things and packed them in the box. A
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fu shureman I know up by the lake to send the box by experts for
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me. I rode to the police in Toronto and in New York and told
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them what had happened, and asked them to claim this box. But I
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am afraid they did not do it. No, we didn't. We thought
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that it was just a hoax. What about Nancy's father? Ah, the
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day after Nancy was killed, he came here and they tried to kill him
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too, tried to You mean they didn't screep No, no, not quite.
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They ate him on the head with a pistol and throw him into the
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lake from the high cliff. Ah. But I saw them do it,
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and I rescued him. I took him to my home and nursed him myself
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until he could get a doctor's about. Well, now I think there's a
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house right ahead, Nick, rap right up to the door. Chief,
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I'll go ahead. You keep in the background in case they know you.
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Okay, got her, and I'll be right behind you. Alex, you
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and Patsy stay here in the car. Yes, what does it? Please?
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Please tell them it's jeering that we've come to take some Affidavid's considering her
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application as administrators for the estate. Yes, I'll come in. Please,
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I'll announce you it's your turn, not Chief. I'll stand here one side
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of the door, just in case I can handle them. May be here
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they come. Well, gentlemen, what can we all pray? I arrest
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you and your sister Olivet for the murder. I'll think I come to fight.
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Oh no, you're going to take care. I cantigure him. I
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sure carter the ankers on him. They both keep safely, and we can
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put them behind the bars and we can now restore hearing hold. It was
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rightful owner. What's for? Even though it's almost a year later, the
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box said, Alex and andwa pact has fulfilled his destiny. This has been
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another of the Strange Adventures of Nick Carter, Master Detective, which are brought
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to you regularly at the same time by w O R Mutual. What's your
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starty going to be about? Next week? Mat next week, I'm going
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to tell you the tale of the thief and murderer. I had to be
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caught twice before he was really caught it all. And when Nick caught him
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the second time, it was because he was able to get an advance exactly
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what the criminal was going to do, as well as exactly what he was
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going to think. And what did you say? The crime was merely a
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matter of murder and robbery. There was nothing unusual in the crime itself.
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The excitement came and the way Nick chased him, outsmarted him and finally caught
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him a very special example of the criminal. It was just a little too
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clever for his own good. He overrated himself and underrated Nick. That's always
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dangerous where Nick Carter is concerned. Thank for the government, and so long
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until next week. So long everybody, and so long to you both.
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In the strange adventure you've just heard, Nick Carter was impersonated by Lon Clark.
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Patsy by Helen Chot original music was played by Lou White, and the
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entire production was written and directed by Jack McGregor. Next week, at the
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same time, listen to another curious experience of Nick Carter entitled The Unwilling Accomplice
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or Nick Carter and the Mystery of the Society of Burglar. This story is
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a copyrighted feature of Streed and Smith Publications Incorporated. This is mutual, all
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right, welcome back. I love the concept of this episode in so many
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ways. It's fascinating and a bit creepy at the same time. The downsigns
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to this episode or that we had a great deal of the show where our
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hero was listening to the tape, so less time for real detective work and
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action, though they tried to make up for that at the end. Plus
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the tapes themselves were a little bit more over the top and melodramatic than even
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the typical show materials. But again, I think it's just it's an interesting
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concept of finding these things, and it's probably something that could only really effectively
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be done over the radio. If you're aware of any memorable stories that did
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this similarly, I'd love to hear about it. Just feel free to drop
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me a line. Email me Box thirteen, Great Detectives dot Net. All
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right, well we'll get in at one listener comment, and then I'm going
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to go ahead and talk a bit about the Nick Carter the movie. Derek
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says, Hello, Adam, I have to say that I absolutely love listening
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to your podcast while I'm working. I make furniture and cabinetry, and on
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those long days when I'm sanding and sanding, I think I'd go crazy without
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your podcast. I finally got caught up on all your shows, except on
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iTunes, I can only access back to number two forty five. Is there
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a way I can access the first two hundred and forty four episodes? Thank
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you for all you do And answer to your question, Derek, I'm well,
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I'm surprised you were able to get back to that far. He's put
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this on the page archives dot Great Detectives dot Net. The easiest way really
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is to go back to the individual shows and the programs that we had done
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in those first two hundred and forty four episodes. We did Box thirteen,
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we did Jeff Reagan, we did Pat Novac for Hire. Actually we did
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Pat Novac for Hire first. Let George do it, Sherlock Holmes and of
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course yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and we've got to complete archive there.
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So my best answer is to most of those, you should just be able
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to go through the individual show freeds for those programs. For Johnny Dollar,
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you'd want to download the individual episodes off of the side. But thanks so
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much for listening. All right, Well, now on to Nick Harter Master
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Detective. First of all, I do want to say that this is a
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movie that would not have been available on DVD. Tell about six months ago
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when Warner Archives released it, and when I found out about the that had
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been released, I definitely wanted to watch it so I could talk about him.
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We kind of be informed. Host. I have bought this along with
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some pro DVD of Saint movies, which we're going to start in six months.
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The film was released in December of nineteen thirty nine and it starred Walter
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Pigeon as Nick Carter, and Nick is investigating a case of aerospace sabotage or
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I should say industrial theft, where plans are being smuggled out of an aircraft
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manufacturing plant despite some very stringent regulations. Though Nick has to find out who's
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behind it and what is up with the case. Overall, I really like
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the movie Nick Carter made. Was played pretty well by Walter Pigeon. A
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charming competent characters is the way that Pigeon portrayed Carter, with some nice touches
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of humor, would often take in this film. They would take he would
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take precautionary snaps in case somebody was a part of the conspiracy. His catchphrase
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in this movie was if I'm wrong, I'll apologize. I also have to
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say that some of these early aviation scenes were pretty fascinating, just showing a
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lot of what this of what it was like to fly in the nineteen thirties,
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some interesting planes and it's just very different from the modern era of planes.
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For those who are fans of the program will remember the actor walllly Mayer
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Mayor of course appeared on the lineup and also let George do it, And
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this was the first time I saw him one film. He did a decent
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job. It was a bit role. He died off pretty early. Also,
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Donald Meek provided the comic relief as a want to be detective Beekeeper,
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which I don't know if that was a reference to Sherlock Holmes Sue in his
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retirement was a beekeeper. May have been a subconscious or unconscious reference. I
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should say. The one thing that really impressed me about the film overall was
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just the action scenes from it, because I've seen a lot of Golden Age
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films and usually the action scenes they don't stand up really well, and this
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one it really did. They had one scene towards the end where they were
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shooting down from the sky and they just did a great job. It felt
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real and sounded real. Really was a very well done sequence both times with
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the effects in that scene. It was just very surprising, not something expect
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from. Was actually a pretty short, breezy film. It was under an
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hour at fifty nine minutes. And there were two other Nick Carter films,
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and I'll watch those in coming weeks, certainly before we finish the show.
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I plan to watch two episode two Saint movies for every Nick Carter movie,
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so that we'll have things balanced out well and be well versed in the George
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Sander Saint movies, but also want to enjoy this series. I think it'll
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be a trade. If these next two are as good as the first one
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was, all right, well, that will actually do it for today.
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We'll be back tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny Dler as well as doctor Tim
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Detective, and then join us back here next Thursday for Nick Carter. If
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Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.