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Detectives dot net. Or Beginning a new series, This one is called The
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case Book of Gregory Hood. And if you listen to the Basil Wrathbone and
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Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes series, particularly the last season from nineteen thirty five to
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thirty six, there'll be some familiarity here. Patrick Wine, the sponsor of
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Sherlock Holmes, sponsored the Casebook of Gregory Hood as a replacement series for the
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summer with the hops that Sherlock Holmes would return for another season with Wrathbone and
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Bruce. However, Wrathbone was tired of the series and the series would continue
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on with Tom Kong and Nigel Bruce over on ABC. The series was written
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by by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher, who were the writers of of Sherlock
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Holmes. This was a series that would have a surprising life and continue off
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and on until the nineteen early nineteen fifties. And we'll start off with the
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very first ten episodes, and the star of that series is mister Gail Gordon.
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Gordon was listed as number six on my list of Radio's most Essential People,
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so we'll have quite a bit to say about Gail Gordon, and of
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course he will feature prominently in our ap extras. And the co star at
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the start of the series is William Johnstone, who of course stars on Saturday's
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episode of the lineup. So for a few weeks you'll hear William Johnstone as
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the co star on Tuesday and the star on Saturday. So all right,
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well, let's go ahead and take a listen. Let's go open up the
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casebook for of Gregory Hood from June third of nineteen forty six. Petree Wine
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brings you the Casebook of Gregory Hood Tonight for Petrie Family, the family that
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took time to bring you good wines. Invite you to listen to the story
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of the Free Silver Papers, another exciting story from the case Book of Gregory
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Hood. And I'd like to invite you to try something that will turn those
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impatient minutes you spend waiting for dinner to be served into a time you really
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look forward to. You can do that by pouring yourself a glass of Petrie
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California's sharing. Yes, just sit back and enjoy that Petrie sherry. Good.
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It's great. Just hold that glass of Petrie sherry to the light and
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notice the beautiful, deep ambered color, clear as crystal. Get the aroma
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of this fine wild It has all the fragrance of the luscious sun life and
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grapes from which it's made. But wait, do you taste that Petrie sherry.
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Then I can stop talking, because you'll know for yourself how good it
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is. Oh and say, if you like your sherry dry, you know
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not sweet. Petrie makes a delicious dry sherry, Petrie pale dry. If
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you don't know which you prefer, the regular sherry or the pale dry?
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Why not dry them both. Don't buy one, buy two, but just
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be sure you always buy Petrick. Well, it's Monday evening in San Francisco
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and we have a date with Gregory Hood and his friend Sanderson Sayre Rondezvous to
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night is at Gregory's apartment high on nob Hill and overlooking the San Francisco Bay.
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That's keep our date, Joey. Good evening is about Hello, Quong,
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mister Hurd expecting you. I've already arrived. Please to go into thanks
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pan he what tell hell? Hello, Sandy, sand is here? Good
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evening, Harry in Gregory, Oh please don't stop playing? That sounded as
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well? Oh you like it. This is our first appearance on the radio.
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I thought i'd whip up a little number in honor of the occasional other
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radio shows have a museful theme. I thought this might be appropriate for aum.
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So. As well as being the head of Gregory Hood and Company Imported
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and an amateur detective, you're also a composer in a very modest way,
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Harry, how about you, Sandy. I know that you're mister HUD's attorney
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as well. As as close as flans. Do you have any unusual talent
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you've been hiding under a bushel? No, Harry, I'm a very dull
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dog, complander Gregory. I'm a good family man. I should an erratic
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game of golf, and I wield a writ of habeas coffee with the moderate
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ticket. Don't believe a word, he says, Harry, Sandy has many
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hidden talents. The fact that you will find out it's tonight's story gets under
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way with Rukeffert glass of Sherry. Oh, that'd be very nice story.
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Which particular page of a notebook if you decided to turn two for your first
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story, a page that has the heading the Case of the Three Silver Pasos.
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So we thought it was an adventure that would show you, Harry,
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that Gregory and I really don't go looking for trouble, although we do have
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an uncanny facility for meeting up with it. And how did the three Silver
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Pasos catch up with him? Well, it was about six o'clock one evening
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a few weeks ago that Sandy and I started our drive across the Bay Bridge
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found for Sandy's home in the berg the Hills. Little did we think that
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what promised to be an evening of present. Domesticity was destined, and it
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was wild and bullying adventure. Bridge is beautiful and design isn't dragging sun.
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It's just the same. I'm necessary boat. Well, if you made the
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trip across as often as I do, you wouldn't. The bridge is not
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half an hour off the trip. Even so, I see, hey,
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look at that cord. Why doesn't he stand in his own lane? He's
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an oozer. They drives me crazy. What's an oozer? Plenty of them
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on the roads. When they change reins and never give a signal. They
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just ooh, watch out. He's weaving from side to side. Now he's
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pulling in toward the rail. He's going to stop and but you cannot allow
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to stop on the brim. He must be ill and I'm going to pull
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up at ky. He's helping the car down. He's staggering for the pos
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suicide is the com get away from that terrific too hired jop for you,
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my friends, Sandy hold him, say who are you God? God?
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Yes? Yes, a gun would be simpler. Come on, get in
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our car. We'll see you home greatly thick, he's James. Get into
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the car for devil. I suppose his heart gave him his wish and get
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into a doctor fast. We may be wrong. Oh hit him a copy
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your car stop on the bread moment, and we've got to get this man,
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doctor, officer. He's sill his hells. What about a car?
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You get his car cleared off the brig officer. We'll call back when we
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get to the Oakland side and make our reports. Okay, get movements.
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He is dead, Gregory. I'm sure as you find any identification on him.
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According to his valet, his name is Harrison Travers and he's from Los
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Angeles. Anything in his pocket package to chest the fuse room key from the
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hotel? Bottom o that one of those flea dumps on Search Street. What
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else we till the fellow? Is it a small glass vial simply regulating?
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Slow it? Good, lord tynide. Do you suppose he swallowed it as
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he stepped out of the car for these As soon as we get across the
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bridge, we'll stop at the mirror doctors and find out. And that's not
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story, Doc Donald, What explanation can you give? Doctor? This is
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a fantastic keys gentleman. You see that the man talked of the gun,
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carried an empty cyanide vial, tried to jump off the bridge and apparently died
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of heart faisi. I tried doctors. All very interesting, my friends,
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But this body happens to have been stabbed. Sad what He died from a
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sharp instrument piercing the chest near the hut. This gentleman is murdered. Yeah.
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Back, we head for the bridge to San Francisco with a corpse as
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a passenger, just at the time we should be having a martini. Who
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am, It's the only tenable thing to do, Gregreen. The border line
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between San Francisco and Alameda County runs right through the center of the bridge.
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The murder happened on the San Francisco side, So we hand a nice new
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corpse over to Lieutenant Macgruder of Homicide, who hates me and probably won't believe
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a word with saying we can't take any chances. Gregory, we're mixed up
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in a murder key true, true, but Macgruder will probably say the guy
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was stabbed to death in my arms. I'll have a heck of a job
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proving he wasn't. Macgrudor loves to put the finger on me. Now,
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Gregory I'm not going to allow you to get mixed up in this any further.
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But I am an expander up to my chin. I've dropped to follow
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through to clear myself. But doctor Arnold made that stabbing business perfectly clear,
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Gregory. A man who such a wound might easily think it a mere scratch
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and walk around for an hour before he drops in The police. Surgeon will
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understand, I hope. So did you call Mary? Yes, yes,
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I said we'd be back by seven thirty. It's all right. I suppose
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you told her we just had to run across back to the city. Yes,
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a wonderfully understanding girl man when she knows I'm with you, Gregory,
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she's bad for anything. Why it was shoving? Don't you see the damsel
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in distress teetering on the curve ahead of him? Damsel nothing, Damsels don't
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come rhyme? Oh you must God against being snobbish. Then in many kids
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we've got a sah. We will say he's a bit under the weather.
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Have been young Rader's room for three in front so oh godly, I was
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beginning to think you've never got along, Sam. I'm Denallopy Tennis is good.
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My name is Taylor and mine's good. What's wrong with your friends about
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him? Oh? You got to feel very well, dear sir, Oh
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well was that before? Don't you think it's a little dangerous for young girls
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to hit rhymes across to Britain. Don't worry, mister Penny can take care
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of herself. I had a day of seven sixteen and I just mister trainer
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didn't want to wait. Well, I'm sure you didn't have to wait long
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for a hour. I didn't, but I'm choosy. Too many long wolves
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on wheels and when we slowed down ten air, suppose the natural honesty of
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our expressions socided you that you'd be safe without say, you're pretty smooth.
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What's your other name, mister hood? Gregory? I don't know how safe
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a girl would be with you, Gregory. I got you. You're a
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good time. I am refuted to have my moment, Penny Gregory. Don't
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you think it was the mister Travers in the banquet programs? Off shopping?
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Let me out of brand new. That's a couple with these modern hats.
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I have no stamina. I'll go back and get it for I watch the
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traffic, Gregory, don't get out that side. I don't worry, Sanny.
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I never commit to a side. On Monday, I move a little
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bit. I'll be back in your friends mine. What did he do?
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Why he's in the importing business along? Here's not a Honolulu tripper going to
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help. I don't see it good well, I'll be what happened Henny stole
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our car and our car and the Lieutenant Magruder is never going to believe this
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one. And that's a story, lie Tennant magudda, And you're expecting me
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to believe it. I suppose what did I tell you? Sandays? Misterhood
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you're in the importing business. I keep my nose out of that kind of
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stuff. Why do you make yourself up with a homicide gig? I didn't,
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Magruder. It mixed yourself up with me. Yeah, don't give me
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that. You think you're a hot shot detective. You're a smart boy who's
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always trying to show us up as a bunch of flat foot Don't waste my
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time, Magruder. The San Francisco Police Force is one of the finests in
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the country. Why do you have to spoil the records? What do I
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have to do to make you realize it's been a murder. Show me a
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murdered man. But we had him. His corps was in the stolen car.
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Sure, sure, And before he was stiff, you thought he was
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going to jump off the bridge. Then he had a heart attack, then
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he was going to shoot himself, then that he's poisoned himself, and finally
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a doctor told he been nice. Yeah to cap it all off, a
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blonde babe steals your cock and your car. Who you're trying to kid?
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Well, I admit that it sounds unlikely, but it's true, Magruder,
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prove it. How about the traffic cop who came up to us on the
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bridge, Yeah, he drove the dead man's car way ahead of it.
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He must have senn in a report. He Now, well, I've checked
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your records and there hasn't been a traffic report from the babe bridge since four
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o'clock. Now, what are you saying, mister Hood, that I'll prove
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it to you? Come on, Sandy, come back on Saturday, mons
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Hood, it's my day off. You see how much your law abiding instincts,
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super sender Magruder doesn't believe us, And see what your shivalrous instincts did
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for it your damsel in distress runs off with your car and the evidence start
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follow this thing through the pool. I'm a bruder that we're not nuts.
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You've got to call Mary and tell her it will have to be a midnight
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snack. Okay, Gregory, but I don't see where we go from here.
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Luckily I kept these three objects that were in the dead man's pocket.
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They're the only clues. We've got a hotel key, empty vial, and
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free silver pat here. Let's take the key first, Hotels, bottom room
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seven. All right, time it that's our first port of call. What
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a ghastly jump, guigery. But as you see service with an allaed smile.
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Oh good evening. Well, I'm so glad. I hope you stay
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that way. What do you want to see, mister Harrison trappers now travers
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here? Never while? But this key to our seventh God glad to have
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it back, stolen promised months ago? Thanks mine? Who's living in that
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room? I am night? You know, Gregory, I'm beginning to think
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that Magruder was nice and that this whole business didn't happen after all, And
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I'm getting his office in It's all get out. I didn't believe that hotel
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clerk. But I couldn't first the room without a police warrant, and with
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mcgrudy in his present frame of mind, that wouldn't be the easiest things.
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Again, where we headed for now? The shop of my old friend Goldwasser
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along here somewhere. How can he help us? He's a coin dealer,
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the best in San Francisco. I want to ask him about these three silver
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papos. Ah, here's a shop. Hello Hendrick here? Why? How
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good to see you? This is mister Sanderson's Taylor. How do you do?
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Who's gone? Let's go into my romance affair. We can't sit down
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and becomfortable, kind Gregory fine has thought it better for seeing you after this
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long time, So sit down just a very special occasion. Perhaps you will
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join me in a little glass of thought, my prayer. Wonderful idea,
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Heinrich, we're in something of a jam. I'm hoping you can help us,
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So tell me to see what you can do. Take Gregory, mister
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Taylor, No, show me how I may help you. Henry. I
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want you to look at the subotasters. Is there anything odd or rare about
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them? Or any way we could trace their ownership non comen call from you.
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I have many such deplicate cards here. I would check this for wad
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rather put one of your coins on the scale, though, and on the
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other scale I have put one of my dupicate cones. Are not beginning though?
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And what did you find the coin I gave you as much lighter and
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must be count of it, you might do not think. Let me look
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at it through my glass? Oh gee, what is it? It's coin?
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Unscool? The hollow section inside is a white pounder inside dope. At
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last we know what were up against. Man, use your telephone, Henric.
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So we are mixed up with a dope ring Gregory, no doubt about
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it than that. Now perhaps I can make the magruder nibble a little humble
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pie, please said Macgrouthor's speaking Maguga. This is the Gregory hood. It
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is h Where are you volde boss coin shop on market? I've got some
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news for you mcgrothor, and I've got some for you. We'd mind your
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car deserted on Turkey Street with a corpse sho the not perhaps to believe the
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play. It wasn't the corpse you would described. It was a nice prey
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of corpse by the name of Penelope Penny Dead. Stay away, I'll be
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right over to wrest you on suspicion of them. You'll hear the rest of
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tonight's story from the case Book of Gregory Hood in just a second. It's
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time for me to mention that the only thing necessary to make a good dinner
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just perfect is to serve that good dinner with a good pet Tree dinner wine,
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with steak or chops or stew, and in fact, with any meat
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or a meat dish. You couldn't ask for a better companion than a glass
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of Petree California Burgundy. Petri Burgundy is a hoty, full bodied red wine.
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It's the very last word and wonderful flavor. If you're having fish or
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chicken for dinner, then you'd love Petree California So Turn. Petrie So Turn
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is a delicately flavored, subtle white wine that your whole family will enjoy.
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Get a bottle of boat Petrie Burgundy and Petree So Turned. It's bound to
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be good if it's Petrie. Oh, Sandy, you certainly weren't up to
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your ears that time. I guess you were able to talk yourself out of
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it with Magruder, No, Harry. The more eloquent Gregory became, the
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more suspicious it seemed to make Magruder, and I couldn't do anything to prevent
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Magruder booking him on suspicion of money. Do you mean to say you were
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actually locked up? Yes, Harry. I landed in the jug with a
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resounding splash at just about the time a civilized man is warming his cockles with
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a good branda, and this scurried off to get a rid of Havieer's caufus.
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But for nearly an hour I found myself in a cellar joining a certain
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unhappy character named Joe. Joe, I don't see what made me. I
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don't put your handle mat Sam, Sam McGhee, you look strict. You
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want to charlish mom work ime on, have a censure for Sam. The
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words sliced up my Maal. You kidn't didn't You're talking to Sam as a
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slicer. I ought to see what I did to Fanning father in nineteen pieces.
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A surgeon couldn't have done a better job, not as neat as slicing
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as I did on an Agatha, though I can still see her expression as
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I cut her head out. Look kind just a small time prat man.
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They shouldn't want to put me next to you. Hey, of it,
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Joe, I'm gonna spring. I'm gonna spring both of us. I don't
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want to go nowhere with you. Hi, down, go, I got
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a pineapple in my pocket. I'm gonna talk it out there in the island.
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Blow this coop sky high. Don't do it, taste Johnny, come
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here, Samda slicers try to let the price set care away from him with
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us, I shave him. I kind to do right. I guy gotta
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right to be locked up nice and squire. I don't you your attorney to
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mister I am sorry to so along, Gregory. Come on, it's a
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cozy little cell. But I don't want to overstay my welcome or so long
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ago. You stick your body and mister no, no, he's got the
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gold down this imagination. Did you get the car back landing? No?
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Still being held is evidence? I mean, miss, grab a cab as
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fast as we can. There's a lot of unfinished business ahead of us.
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Fisherman's Way, Why Fisherman's walk. Stranger just put in a call to a
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herb Kane of the fantasist. So chronicle, he tells me, there's a
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film company shooting night location there. How does a film company tie in with
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our little headache? It's simple, I'm looking for an access. Now,
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what's playing at Secury there? Drawing room comedy? Yeah, and there's a
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costume music with the current right stay showed the Golden Gate is advanced fandom singers,
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no access, So that's out. Therefore a film company, get it,
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absolutely and unequivocally. No, very well, let's work the case out
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backwards. No, that would be a great help. Why not sideways?
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Maybe my recent incarporation that made me a little stir crazy. Tell me how
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you figured the thing out so far? Fans will obviously tibers. The man
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we found on the bridge was mixed up with the Dope gang and was probably
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killed in some internal quarrel. And exhibit number two, the late Penelope.
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Where did she sit in? I don't think that's a hard one. She
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was a member of the ring. They stationed her near the entrance to the
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bridge, knowing that a man of your notorious susceptibilities would be bound to pick
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her up. And oh yeah, yes, indeed, and then she stole
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the pause. The hotel clerk was bribed to deny the murdered man's existence,
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and later they killed the girl who make things favorite or maybe she wanted too
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much of a cut fan. You're excelling your film elementary, my dear Gregorg,
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but that I still don't see where an actor enters the picture. But
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surely you see who the killer is, now, don't you. Well,
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I've read enough mystery stories to know that it must be the LST the least
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suspected person. You have that LSP tone in your voice, flingery, but
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we haven't met any LSPs, unless it's or doctor Arnold. Remember sand that
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the original bridge episode was never reported, nor was Tavers cot and in Magruder
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told us that. So the traffic cop to whom we turned over Travis Corvers,
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a pony and a killer. Probably he was tailing Tavers to make sure
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he died, which he did, but we got away with the car.
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So he phoned poor Penelope across the bay to stop us on the approach to
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the bridge on the way back. Now, who could, at a moment's
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notice outed himself as a traffic top for shadowing purposes? I get it,
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Gregory, an access right an actor having a uniform for such a role,
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M Max Fisherman's wife. Fine, wait here for a driver. Won't be
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a minute. Come on, well, look at the crowds, Gregory,
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that's not surprising Hollywood putting on a free outdoor floor show. You can't come
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any father Sally, who's the director on this picture? Or jets? I'm
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Bud Denton second assistance. Can I help him? I hope? So do
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you have an actor in this production who's playing a traffic cup? Funny?
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You should ask that he's been missing all day? So there's motorcycles and no
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answer from his hotel either. Do you happen to remember the name of his
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hotel? Here? Hotel Batman Turksby and his name gun Fred Gunn Bread Gunn.
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That's obliged to you. I'm on Sanday. You're welcome. Now.
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It's clear, Sandy, the dying man's words meant not a weapon but a
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name. What Bread's gun Let's get back into our cab and go back to
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the hotel. Botm and visited him. When I tell you there's no Fred
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Gunn ben Leving, and I tell you that he's still living in two o
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seven, give us a fast key you can't know, but we are sending
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for them in a few minutes. You might as well keep yourself out of
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a bad mess. Here, here's a passcake, and don't tie me up
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in anything. I just did when I was told, And what were you
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told my friend to say that I was living in two or seven? I
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didn't see any harm in that. We we don't ask too many questions.
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Here is Fred Gunn in his room. Now, yeah, it came in
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an hour ago. It's some drunken bum It couldn't stand up. They were
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plastered as hoodie all s. All right, might as well walk up.
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It's only the second floor. I suppose if I were in this game professionally,
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I'd be carrying a gun, Sandy. I'd feel safer if you were.
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Gregory looks as if we've got to kill a corner in a rat hole.
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He might shoot before he asked questions, you know, Sandy. Hmmm,
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I don't want to be melodramatic. If you've got a wife and two
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children. Now, I wish you'd go back and wait for me in the
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lobby. Nice of you, Gregory, but this is hood company business.
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In any case, I don't want to miss the fun. You're a remarkably
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square man, Sandy. There are times when I'm quite fond of you.
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Yeah, here we are two hundred and seven, are not. Our only
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chance is to rush him. Open the doors in the block. Watch out,
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family, done done. He's asleep on the bed. Take it easy,
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Gregory. We can time with the bed clothes. He doesn't need bed
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clothes, family, He needs a shroud. He's dead. Smell a bottle
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of whiskey, can spike with cyanide, Great Scott Figery. Look here on
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the floor, so now familiar corpse of mister Travers. How it does get
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around. We're in a serious gem now, Gregory, deepen corpses are not
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a single suspect left. We don't need one. I know who murdered gun
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and oddly enough he's in the room. Now we are closer than that family.
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Oh now look, Gregory, if you're going to put the finger on
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me as the least suspected president is going too far, I won't stand worth
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no, no family. Mister Travers lying on the floor is the latest killer?
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Do you mean that the cop system? Sure? Remember the Ampti sianiye
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vial. Before Travers was killed himself, he'd poisoned guns whiskey gun figured he'd
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stay sober until he'd retrieved travers cough. He thought it back here, started
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to figure out how he was going to disport him exactly. He decided to
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take a slug of whiskey to help his thinking machinery, and so he died,
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murdered by his own victim. Oh, I see now I have a
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call made Elmwood six four two two two calling Lieutenant Magruda. Sure this is
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going to be fun, Magruder and homicidally. After you threw Gregory, I'll
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call Mary, we'll have one of her delicious rabbits, and you'll stay the
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night. It's the day, Magruder, this is Gregory Hood. Now settle
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back in your chair and make yourself comfortable, because I've got a fairy story
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to tell you. Once upon a time, a couple of worthy citizens were
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driving across the Bay Bridge when the car in front of them started to weed.
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He will never believe this, Magruder. But well, Gregory, that
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was a twelve star very different too, Yes, and I might say it
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almost mass the end of my beautiful friendship with Margrud. Oh, it's quite
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a Swiss, Gregory. The murderer being murdered by a victim. And I'd
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like to point out tomorrow, if you parton my point ahead, the story
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proved that you get what you give. Unfortunately that works for the best.
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So quite a philosopher, aren't you just what you mean? Well, we
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all get what we get. Look, when you drop by my house,
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what do I get? It a warm welcome and a good dinner, and
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oh, a glass of Petrie on right. And when I visit you,
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I get Petrie one right again. And that's because we know that Petrie wine
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is a good wine. Petrie wine has got to be good wine. Look
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at the long years of skill and experience that goes into its making. Why
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the Petrie family has been making wine for generations. Wine making is their heritage,
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a heritage handed on down from father to son, from father to son.
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And don't forget ever since the Petrie family first went into business, they've
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watched over that business person. Yes, the making of Petrie wine is a
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family affair, and the Petrie family has every intention of keeping it just that.
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So you know that the name Petrie on a bottle of wine is more
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than a trademark. It's the personal assurance of the Petrie family. If Petree
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Wine is and always will be good wine, Well, Gredory to what page
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of your casebook are you turning next month? Next Monday, Harry, I'm
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going to tell you an odd story that concerns the San Francisco cable car,
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a rather unusual brunette, and a bloodstained hatchet. I call it the Black
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Music. See you next Monday. Here. The Case Book of Gregory Hood
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is written by Dannis Green and Anthony Boucher. Original music is composed and played
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by Dean Foxwood. Mister Gail Gordon plays the part of Gregory Hood, and
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Sanderson Taylor is played by mister Bill Johnston. The Pettery Wine Company of San
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Francisco, California invites you to tune in again next week, same time,
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same station. The Case Book of Gregory Hood comes to you from our Hollywood
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studio. This is Harry Bartowell saying good night for the Patrick family. For
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the solid a all of exciting mystery dramas. Listen every Monday on most of
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these same stations at eight o'clock too. Michael James, followed immediately by Casebooks
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of Gregory Hood. This is a mutual podcasting. Welcome back, Well outside
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of yours truly, Johnny Dollar, I have to say it's probably been a
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while since we've had a case that that was that cleverly concocted. And to
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be honest, having listened to a lot of the Green and Boucher Sherlock Holmes,
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their casebook of Gregory Hood actually seems better. Gail Gordon does a great
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job, and we'll talk more about him, like I said on Tuesday,
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but it's very interesting to see him in this role of the swave amateur detective,
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given that he's best known for parts like Lucille Ball's boss on The Lucy
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Show. But like I said, more about him next Tuesday, and I
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hope you enjoyed this series as much as I am. All Right, Well,
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that will do it for today. Sendra commons to Box thirteen at Great
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