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Ellery Queen: Adventure of the Circus Train (EP1588) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. That's PA t R EO N dot Great
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Detectives dot net. Young was a significant player in radio and many of the
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more obscure programs. We'll later hear him in Hollywood Mystery Time. He also
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played The Whisperer, a very late radio drama. In it, he played
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a lawyer named Philip Gold who law lost his voice and basically went undercover as
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the Whisperer gets to get involved in this syndicate in order to bring it down,
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and that definitely sounds like an intriguing concept. Like I said, sounds
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like a bit of a take off on the Green Hornet. But anyway,
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he was the second Ellery Queen. He took over the role with the return
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of the series in January of nineteen forty two, but we'd be gone by
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the fall of nineteen forty three and give way to Sydney Smith. Today's episode
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is one of only three that we have left from this era. But speaking
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of that, let's get into today's episode and we have our first listener mystery
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panel substitution. The original air date is March twenty seventh of nineteen forty three,
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and the title is The Adventure of the Circus Train. Romo Salter presents
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the Adventures of Ellery Queen. Good Night, the makers of Brumo Seltz bring
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you another thrilling adventure with Ellery Queen, the celebrated gentleman detective in person.
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Ellery Queen again gives you a chance to metch with with him as he relates
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another story of a crime heal on unraveled. Then at the point where he
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was able to solve the mystery, he stops the play gives you a chance
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to guess the criminal's name. In the studio to night, we have as
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our guests mister George R. Crowley, Superintendent of the New York, New
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Haven and Hartford Railroad Police Forts, and mister F. Beverly Kelly, director
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of radio publicity for the Ringing Brothers and Varnaman Bailey combined shows. Mister Carley
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and mister Kelly have accepted Ellery Queen's challenge to solve the mystery before the solution
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is revealed, and now Ellery Queen, Master Detective and your host for the
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next half hour, Good evening. In tonight's story, we run across one
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of the boldest and most dastardly murders in our memory, a murder on a
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speeding train, and among our suspects are included a giant, a midget,
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and a fortune teller. I call it the Adventure of the Circus Train.
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I'm sure glad the Chicago case is wrapped up. Inspector Yes, it'll be
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good to get back to me. Hellry got a ticket? Just dad ever
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know leary to forget anything. Here's our pullman. Oh, who's this?
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I'm the station master. May I see your tickets? Sorry, mister queen,
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the Army's requisitioned all available space on this train. Your reservations are canceled
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on the next train, station Master. Hell the earliest accommodations available are on
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the special section of the eleven fifty nine to night. Mister queen. It
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has three compartments left. We'll take them. I'd better tell you about it
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first, sir. That section's carrying up, goes Mamma, show the Midwest
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Circus outfreet You mean we have to travel with tigers and elephants and get taught
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us Not quite mess. Your accommodations would be in the end car. It's
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an all compartment car with a small lounge and bar at the rear. Mister
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Marco himself travels in that car and his business manager, John Brady. Oh,
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we certainly don't object a traveling and mister Marco, mister Brady, station
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master, but they're not the only ones in that car, sircom I got
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to double up with a talking snake, I'll walk to them. Who are
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the others? Well, there's Goliath, he's eight foot tall, Goliath,
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the circus giant. Yes, miss. Then there's Captain Pinkey, he's a
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midget. Madame Zara, she's the circus fortune teller. Tur nice folks.
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Been with Marco's circus a long time. But I thought i'll tell you ever
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since I was a kid over at the end to travel with a circus.
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What do you saying? We don't mind one bet station master. Okay,
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mister queen, I'll fix it hard to be an interesting trip. Why this
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is solid? Com My, this lounge back? He is off becausey Allery,
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Yes, we should be putting hot soon, Nicky Macael, I hope
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we're not putting you out in any way. Carry expect normal conditions in our
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time, Inspector Edward. Edward shut him up, having a little celebration.
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Folks. On that case, maybe we ought to get out of the lounge
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and go to our compartments. Mister Martin. Yes, we don't want to
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spoil any plans you have. No, I won't hear of it. They
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might have proud if you don't join me. In fact, Oh, John,
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yes, did you tell him all about it. Well, I left
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the telling to you, Mark. Folks meet John Brady'm a business manager and
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this is long Joe Stebbens, professionally known as mister Golife, Madam, the
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smartest crystal gazer under the big top. How do you do? And Captain
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Pinky forty four years old and you can put him in your best package.
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Any friend of Mink Marchles is a friend of mine old past. Thank you.
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Well, you three must be wondering what this is all about. We
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are as you know. I've been in show business over fifty years. Well,
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Mark, Marco's getting to older on a circuit. Know I know,
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but I am need younger blood. So I've just showed Marco's Mamma showed to
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John Brady. Here, John, here's the billishill all work sign here than
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delivering? Well, thanks Mark, And here's my advanced payment in cash thirty
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thousand dollars. Why penty Goliath, you look at that three ten thousand dollars
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bills. I never seen so much money, Captain Pinky. Money means trouble.
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I smell trouble. I smell in Indiana farm and rest from my old
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bones are where pops drink cop mis Marco, thank you one minute at midnight,
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we're leaving on the dot. How about for mister Marca, Well,
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he's a john. He's gotten pretty late. Rational. I was about we
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get the hazy wastes. I suppose we may as well. Sergeants, it's
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brothering you. Where do you want to come? Out? Here? On
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the pun platform the gun clim I had that. It was an atmosphere and
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the lounge. I didn't like. You mean them expressions of gimme, gimme
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on the faces of the giant, the midget and Madam's arm. Oh,
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that's only nature. These circus people don't see ten thousand dollar bills every day,
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not only circus people. What's the matter of the water. I was
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just cleaning up my bar. Allows. Yes, good, Bill's signal from
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mister Michael's compartments out of your mouth. A rang his bells. There's no
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answer. I tried the door. It was unlocked. I opened the door.
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I saw saw the man said that let's go see for us. Olf.
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Come Marco's compartment. Dad, look Michael. His head dashed in right
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there and there, ladies and gentlemen, you have the beginning of our story.
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We'll be back in just a moment to tell you more. But first,
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Ernest Chappel with a mystery of his own, and it ben's fair to
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be his baffling is any mystery. But he's been up again. By the
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way, folks, what's your batting average? Missus Neelie Jarvey of Lakewood,
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Ohio is frank to admit that she and her family haven't piled up a very
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imposing score of correct deductans, but she says they still get a big kick
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out of trying to decide who done it good for you? Missus Jarviy,
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that's what we like to hear. And here's something else we like to hear.
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But suppose I let you folks have it. Of Missus Jarvie's own words,
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she right, we are never without Bromo Seltzer in our homes. Not
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long ago, when I became a volunteer nurse at our local hospital, I
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had just one more reason to be grateful for Bromo Selser's quick, effective relief.
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After my first evening of routine floor work, I came home with my
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nerves on edge and a bad headache brought on by nevius excitement. Well as
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soon as I got in the house, I took a Bromo Seltzer, and
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oh what relief. I'm not so nervous and excited about my volunteer work as
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I was at first. But I know that I can rely on Bromo Seltzer
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whenever I have a common sick headache like that. Again, Well, now
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there you have a mighty fine piece of advice from a lady who ought to
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know. So the next time you have a common sick headache, try Bromo
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Seltzer. I bet you'll feel the same as missus Jarvi about it, and
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say, we'd like to hear from all of you about your Promo Celzer experiences.
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Just send your letters to Ellerie Queen care of the station to which you
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are listening. And now back to our story. It's a short time after
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the discovery of all mister Marco's body. The car has been locked front and
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rear. Nikki has been awakened. But I inspect you how it happen.
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That's what we've got to figure out. Nikki, Elleryville and I were standing
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on the front platform from the time the party in the round here broke up.
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We know no one from the forward guys come into our car. I
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left, and the two conductors were sitting at the end of the lounge near
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the rear platform, Nikki, checking their tickets, and both conductors say no
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one got into the car through the back. So mister Marco must have been
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murdered by someone in this car. That's the size of it, Nikki.
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But who which one? The two conductors allied by each other, and they
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both alive by the porter, So the killer be one of the four circus
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people, that nice old man. Why and you remember Brady handing Marco three
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ten thousand dollar bills in front of her eyes, Nikki. They're not in
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his wallet now or anywhere in Marco's compartment. He was bumped off for that
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thirty grand Miss pig kill. It probably wrapped on Marco's door. Marcao led
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him in visitors saulid the old man stole the money and left Marco for dead,
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but he didn't die right off. Managed to reach the porter's bell and
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ring it before dying. What was the weapon? A man's shoe? What?
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Yes, the shoe A shoe big enough to ship freight in miss Porter,
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A man's shoe size twenty two. Little nice twenty two got to shoe
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that side. It must be the giant. The glass must have killed mister
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Marko and used his own shoe, miss porter and the top it off,
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left it in Marco's room for us to find no killer would be so simple
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minded, Nikki. The big boys being framed. Only question is by who.
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Then we better start asking questions. Yes, did he Yeah, called
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him out of their compartments one at a time while were attacking each one new
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touches, compopping for that door that's on this case of inch. Marca was
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killed for the thirty grand. So when we find the cash, we find
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the killer. Oh, mister Glyn, sorry, it's hard not to wake
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it. What time is the precriming? He said, to keep you're working
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on one shoe, then you've got on only one shoe, mister gly Oh,
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dying to find no inspector. When I went to bed, I put
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my shoes and that little doo jigger on the floor of the compartment. I
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know, I know, so the closet. You know that the porter can
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open from outside, and they got your shoes and shot him during the night.
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Where's him? Just now, mister Bealley comes fetching me and I look
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for my shoes, and that shoes ain't going to somebody, ain't still one
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of my shoes? What am I gonna do? It's the only pair of
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God we hit Pittsburgh in the morning, mister Clive, so we'll send out
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prepare of shoes for you then, humm, and a shoe store in Pittsburgh
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or anywhere's else carries size twenty two. Oh, inspector, what do you
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want me for? In the marker's room glass? And I'll show you sure
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I can't look stay on the card of a well, where's mister Marco,
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inspector? What's ends that piece of newspaper? Yes, your shoe, mister
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cly Well, I'll be what's blood doing all over it? What's under that
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blanket? Mister Marco? It was murdered tonight with your shoe murder? What
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happened in the anyway? Revived this eight footeen man right there? And they
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can't call John Brady in there. Here's mister Brady ellery as he's hoppling too.
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Somebody stole one of my shoes from your shoe and popping mister Brady.
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That's right. I found two shoes in it, all right, but one
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of them is a woman's here. Look and what's going on? Mark you
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the moment, mister Brady, nicky is this woman's shoe? Mister Brady just
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found a shoe receptacle? Yars? No secret must be madam nick You better
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go fetch the zar woman. All right? Suppose you go in now,
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mister Brady and see mister Marco. I don't get all their sight. Marcam
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put the blanket back ellery right, dad? But who why thirty dollars you
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handed market? And I'm mister Brady. That's why Adams do is hopping mad
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about her shoe? And I mean hopping. I don't care for jokes.
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If you please, mister Brady, is this your shoe? I just founded
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my shoe compartment and one of mine is gone. Let me see. Yes,
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uh that's my shoe. Here's yours? Thank you? What was I
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awaken in the middle of the night? Has anything happened to mister Markham?
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Why do you ask that? Madam's arn? Yes? Of course, mister
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Marco is lying under that blanket. He's dead, Yes, Madam's a look.
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I should have warned him. You knew Marco was going to be knocked
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off before retiring. I looked into my crystal ball. It never lies.
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I saw an old man lying there dead. Now I realized it was mister
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Marco, an old man with blood done's head. Oh mind, as she
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always talks like this. You saw this in your crystal ball, you say,
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with blood on his head? Did you all also see Marco's murderer and
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you a magic ball? Madam's aarn No, but I could really if the
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conditions were right. Yes, mister cut that out. Seen murderers in a
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hunter of grass? There, go back to your room, you tell mister
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Brady very well in rist bar, where's really find the name of Podliously back
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with a thirty grand haven't you forgotten? Someone inspected? Poonick Captain Pinky the
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mid Oh the Mitic couldn't have done it. He's too tiny. He could
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have stood on something bad, and that big, heavy shoe would be a
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murderous weapon, even in the hands of a child. What's all the excited
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about, is Captain Pinky? Hello? What the devil's going on? Why
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is everybody rushing around like crazy? It's an unusual trip, Captain Pinky.
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By the way, anybody's wipe your shoes? My shoes? Heck no,
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what would anybody want with my shoes. Good blasted all. What's happened?
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Mister Marco has been murdered. Captain, mister Marco murder murder Dear, he's
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crying, it's Gane's crystal bar. Billy, Well, let's you find the
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money. I didn't find it, Inspector, you did. I searched every
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compartment. No, don't. Could you find your head? Where are we
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now? A half hour out of Fort Wayne, Indiana at the next stip
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Why have Pittsburg to have some detectives waiting for us when we pull in tomorrow
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morning and give this kind everybody into the vacuum cleaning, Billy, even if
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the Pittsburgh boys have to go to New York with us. Very well,
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sir, this bar all right, show you how to serve this case.
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Hellary, find that money and you've got Marco's murder hill Jelse and keeping Billie
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and those Pittsburgh men they were searching after ten hours. But it must be
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in this kind that I got it with the money is said, No,
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No, I mean the explanation for that shoe accent. Eh Kill wanted a
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weapon that couldn't be traced to him, so he stole one of Zara's shoes
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from her receptacle, but realized it was too light as a weapon, So
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we're right for Brady's shoe recept and then decided he wouldn't use either ones.
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He'd use Goliath's shoe. That would make a weapon, So he stole Golia's
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shoe and then putting back mister Brady's. Madame csar, I made a mistake
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and mixed them up. Oh how much longer do I have to walk a
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ride on my socks? I want my shoes. We're taking it for finger
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Prince. Mister Glas, you'll have it back by the time we reached New
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York. Would you moist the blood off? Cure? Sure? Mister glad
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Right, I made up my mind. I'm arresting Zara. Why tsar Dad
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Genio Michael was dead, the only one who did. How could she have
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known unless she bumped them off? That is a puzzle. How she knew
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Dad? She claims she might see the criminal in her crystal ball. Why
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not call her block see whom she accuses. That's an Ideah, okay,
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we're trying. I have a hunch. Madame Zara has something of her sleeve,
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and it isn't a crystal ball. Why is that you people can't ever
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do anything in the light. We consult other worlds. Light is a disturbance.
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I must have darkness, Conductor twitch the lights up hand the lounge.
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But that's hot and biddy to have both into the car. Watch you will
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all join him? Silly Yellow. She knows it's silly to Nikki. So
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I was trying to tell her something using the sak goes the light. I
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must have quiet, or my crystal will tell me nothing. Come up here,
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you who shed Marco's blood? Here in the crystal of truth. It's
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getting a sat phosphorus. The one who spills the blood of old men,
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he takes shape. His face comes out of a miss in a moment.
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Now I see him. I see him much obliged, Adam, who done
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it? The spiller of blood is mad? Why do you stop? Right?
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Do you think she's here? The lights? Sarah? She's sitting so
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still. Come out of that now she's in one of her chances. Oh,
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I thought you was dead, mister Brady. Gosh, captain, sure
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did I take up Sarah? Thank goodness? Whose face did you see in
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that thing? I must not tell you, not yet? And why not
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yet? The time isn't right right? Perhaps later, Madame Jarry, you're
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a fast plants, fake fake. I'm not gonna stay around here and be
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in out of your back to their compartments. So that's that. Oh well,
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why am I pool the money? Sergeant? Those Pittsburgh guys and me,
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we've gone over this car three times, No, dog meanie, lock,
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Inspector, we are those blame compartments practically apart you, sorrow. We
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searched this lounge, the bar, the porter's pantry, the light fixtures,
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the radio, the front. Well, do you want me to go on
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about the people, sergeants? Yeah, I had the toe, clothes,
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luggage, cigarettes, We even examined Zara's crystal ball, and we searched the
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two conductors in the porter too. No, dog meanie, you're a crook's
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idea of Santa Claus. Shut it all over again. I want that thirty
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thousand dollars before we reached New York. We're in end of the line and
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we're way to do that zone money can't imagine we're dad. I must see
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the inspector's own squad waiting on the platform. Now's everybody as yeah, ready,
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Goliath, thinky madam hocus pocus, that Darrow woman. She isn't here,
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inspect, but you must know. We're in the train stopped going to
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get her out here. Okay, inspect, Vicky, don't look dead.
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Cherry has been bumped off head smashed him with a crystal ball, heady hurd.
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Everybody who did thought that, Why Madam's don It's clear now. We
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wondered how Zara knew about Marco's being dead, don't you see? Zara must
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have spied on the murder in the car the last night. She must have
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seen the killer go into Marco's room with goliath shoe. And why didn't she
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tell? Because she had her own ax to grind Nikki. The seance was
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a veiled threat to the killer. She was warning him she could give him
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away if she chose, so that he'd spit the thirty grand with her,
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but instead he spit her head. Oh wait a minute, of course,
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now I see it all we've been blind and there, ladies and gentlemen,
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you have the mystery, and I hope a solution as well. Will you
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be good enough to introduce our guest. I'm chair detectives for this evening?
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All right, Well, we are in that portion of the program where we
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turned to our armchair detectives, and since most of the recording of the armchair
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detectives in the original story did not survive, we have two listeners who will
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serve as our armchair detectives and offer their thoughts and see if they can solve
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the case with Ellery Queen. First of all, we have Morgan Blayton from
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Vancouver, British Columbia, who is a writer and a comedian. And thanks
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so much for being with us, Morgan, and I would love to hear
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your solution. Who do you think committed the murder? I think it was
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the one we suspect least teeny tiny Captain Pinky. Captain Pinky. Any reason
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why did you think Captain Pinky? Well, there is perhaps I'm projecting because
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mister Marco said something about he's forty four years old and you can fit him
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in your pocket, or something to that effect, and so I think he
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wants to retire with mister Marco. I think he went to his room to
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ask him and he was turned down, and he realized he was forty four,
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which for a circus guy is the end of the line. He and
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he lost it and he murdered mister Marco and then had to frame Madame Hoak's
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pocus and the other guy, the business manager. All right, well,
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thanks so much, Morgan, and that's an interesting theory and we'll find out
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if that's correct. Now we turn to Dave Milman, who is from Los
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Gatos, California, and she is a high tech marketing executive who also provided
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us the microphone that we use for our openings and closing on the show.
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And his father loved old time radio and he actually played Orson Wells in a
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nineteen seventy to reenactment of the War of the World's play. Dave, you
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emailed me and you said you had a theory. What's your working theory as
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to who's it? Oh man, My first theory was that it was also
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the midget because of the shoes. I figured that he went and grabbed a
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shoe in anger and then couldn't see back into the shoe bin because he was
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too short. We couldn't see where to return the shoe, and that's how
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all the shoes got mixed up. That was my first theory, okay,
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but never had a motive. So I'm thinking, who's got a motive?
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To kill the owner, the old o retiring owner. The only guy I
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could figure who had a motive was Brady, the business manager. But I
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can't figure out what it was all about and where did the money go.
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I have no idea where the money went. So I'm thinking still with the
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break business manager because he had a motive, but I don't know where the
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money went. And because it was cash, it doesn't make sense to do
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anything with it. It doesn't make sense to burn a check or something like
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that. Right if it was a check, they'd burn it or whatever.
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But it's cash. Anybody's going to hold out a three ten thousand dollars bill.
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So my first theory evaporated. My second theory is business manager, but
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I don't know how and why. Okay, well, thanks so much,
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Dave, and we're going to go ahead and get back into Ellery Queen and
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see what Ellery's solution is to this whole case. Thank you very much.
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In the moment you'll learn what the correct solution is. But first, the
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search for an honest man has come to an end in the person of our
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own Ernest Chapel. Oh me. What Ellery undottedly means is that I'm not
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going to make a single claim for Bromo celtz that isn't absolutely true. I'm
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not going to tell you that it'll do all your errands and finish your housework
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for you, but I do say there's just nothing better than Bromo Seltzer for
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common sick headache. You know the kind pounding head pain, jumping nerves,
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upset stomach. Well, Bromo Seltzer fights headache like that three ways you get
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effect to relie quickly, feel more like your old self. So I'll be
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prepared. Keep Bromo Seltzer handy where you work as well as at home.
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Hide inside. Come on, whys no one gets into Lus's off alren't sadania
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people? Okay, and spranker. Here's the way this case stacks up.
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We know the killer wanted the weapon that couldn't be traced to him. What
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did he pick? Nobody else's shoe mark? Somebody answers you So whatever shoe
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was, shoes he stole last night belonged to innocent people, not to the
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murderer. Makes sense to me? Huh, snickky, I want to follow
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this whose shoes were stolen last night? Madam's eyes? Oh, she's innocent
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mister Brady's so he's innocent, and finally Golias, so he's innocent. Who's
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left who could be Togethery Man, only Captain Pinky. Captain Prinky? Where'd
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you hide that doll? But I didn't tell Micha Marker? Dad? Haven't
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you left out one possibility? But y Spinity said that the murderer wanted you
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to think just what you do. Think that the crime was committed by the
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one person whose shoe was not involved. He deliberately involved all the shoes,
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that Captain Pinky. He was framing Pinky. I'm afraid so, Dad.
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The big point of this case is one you made yourself repeatedly that to find
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the killer we had to find the money he stole. But we didn't find
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the money sent And why didn't we because it wasn't in the car But it
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was in the car, Dad, it had to be murray. The car
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was practically demolished. Everybody and everything in it was searched. That can't be,
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Dad, that the thirty thousand dollars would have been found. Obviously,
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then one place was not searched. So that place is where the missing money
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must be. What place? Where didn't we search? My show. Did
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you search the weapon, Sergeant, the weapon that killed Marco? Who do
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you ever think of searching the web? Exactly? That's what the killer figured
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too, that we wouldn't dream. The hiding place of the money was the
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very shoe which bashed poor Marco's head in. But Emory, what good is
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that doing? How could he expect to get hold of the money again?
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That shoe was a murder weapon held by the police. Therefore, Nikki,
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the murderer could be only one person, the owner of the shoe, to
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whom it would eventually be returned. Eventually, that's pretty shoe even before we
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reached Penn station, and I just gave it to him. Can I take
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that murder show up? Oh you're wrong? If really you're that shoe lining,
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Yes, sir, here they are three ten thousand dollars. Bill have
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a crime golife, because who'd be foolish enough to use his own shoe as
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a murder weapon and then leave it behind to be found. You knew we'd
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believe you innocent. You knew we'd therefore return the shoe with a titten money
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to you. But there's one thing Goliath didn't know. He didn't know he
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was traveling with Ellery the Giant Killer, and there, ladies and gentlemen,
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you have the solution to the mystery. I want to thank mister George R.
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Crawley and mister F. Beverly Kelly for appearing his guest armchair detective this
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evening. And we have for both mister Crawley and mister Kelly a personal gift
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from Bromo Seltzer, an autograph copy of my new mystery novel, There was
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you can't top it next week. I'll take that bet, Chappie, and
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next week. You got something nice and cheerful, very chavvy. In fact,
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it's the story about a perfect gentleman that is perfect except for one little
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obsession. What's up? He wants to murder his wife, So chabby,
33:08
You better listen again next Saturday for the adventure of the Human Weapon, and
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Consult your local paper for the time and station. Music for the Adventures
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of Ellery Queen is by Charles Paul. Production is directed by Bruce Common.
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This program came to you from New York. This is the National Broadcast Company.
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I hope our substitute Armchair Detectives did well, but I have to say
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that I found the choice that was originally on there to be a very intriguing
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one. You have a railroad detective and somebody from Barnum and Bailey. That
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would have been perfect. So I'm sorry we missed out on the original segment.
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I hope you like the substitute segment and that it was good. I'm
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sure it will be, though I'm recording this before we record that panel segment.
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The other thing I liked about this was the use of organ music.
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I know some people are never a fan of organ music on a Golden Age
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radio program. Well, some people love it. I can either take it
34:49
or leave it. It kind of depends on how it was done. I
34:52
like the use of the organ to kind of create this riff on the circus
34:58
theme. Very fitting. All right, Well, onto the Patreon individual rewards.
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I got into it, I was glad to see these two episodes pop up.
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It isn't great mysteries, but it's still enjoyable, and she expresses her
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and then says, thanks, Adam. You'll always make my day whenever
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I get to listen to these shows that you put out. You have grown
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