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dot net. Well, now it's time for this week's episode of Nick Carter.
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The program aired four weeks after the prior episode, so from May twenty
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first, nineteen forty six. Here now is the case of the Poker Murders.
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What's the matter? What is It's a case for Nick Carter, my
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study tetch you. Yes, it's the case of the Poker Murders. Another
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case for that most famous of all man hunters, a detective whose ability at
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solving crime is unequaled in the history of detective fiction. Nick Carter, Master
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Detective. Even the waterfront section of the city there lies a condemned slum area.
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The streets dark and deserted, lined with empty, crumbling tenements. Deep
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in a grimy tenement, deep within, a masked man sits in a hidden
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room and plays solitaire. This is the sinister master of crime known as the
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Ace of State. Yes, A, six and seven are close to see
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Ace. Send the man now you yi? Yeah, you're five minutes late.
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I'm sorry he used the cups in watching this area. We have trouble
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slipping in since when of I accepted excuses? Yeh, we know? What
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about the other three? Are they waiting at the rendezvous? Yes, you
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both memorized my instructions. We got it down cold, Chief. But suppose
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it's a hitch. There won't be a hitch. The Ace of Spades doesn't
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make mistakes. Of course, if you make one, oh we won't.
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All right, are you too? It? Better get going? One thing?
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What is it? Chief? Don't forget to leave your calling cards.
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I don't want to disappoint my dear friend, Sergeant Mathison. The Spade SUT's
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a game. First story to our house quarter hundred dollars and first loaded.
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Good kill. This pocket gang makes clean get away. Hey is it mister
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Ralph Williams? Here? See you? Ralph Williams, special investigator for ask
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me underwriters. Oh show him in Patsy by the retainer they're paying me.
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I see him. That's why mister Williams was the card of my company's in
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trouble. Yes, sit down, mister Williams, tell me about it,
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as you'll know where the biggest underwriters in the business. With this fur storage
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robbery yesterday, we can't take any more of those. Oh the Ace of
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Spades, Uh, yes, whoever he is, He's hit us five times
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in the last two weeks. We're paying out a fortune and claims you're working
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with the police on this. The police, they're helpless. The Ace of
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Spades has been too smart for them. Take that fur warehouse job last night,
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for instance. Yes, every burglar alarm was cut, disconnected, The
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vault combinations were known beforehand, and the locations of the most valuable furs.
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What about the guard. Is he one of your own operators? Yes,
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one of our best men too. They locked him into one of the refrigerated
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vaults. The Ace of Spades men leave the usual calling cards. Yes,
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it was a five man job. Apparently they left the six, seven,
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eight, nine, and ten of clubs a straight flush. It's a pretty
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high Programand while those other accomplishments, our friend seems to have a perverted sense
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of humor. What's a brand of humor? I can't say, I relish
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it's a color. Will you help us with the case. I will carling
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the truth, mister Williams. I was just about to drop down and discuss
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it with my old friend, Sergeant Matheson in the homicide division. You see,
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the gentleman who calls himself the Ace of Spades interests me and I'm looking
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forward to meeting him personally. A black Yes, put her on eight.
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I got to see you. I thought I told you don't never to come
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down here. I've just heard some news. Car I know he's been called
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in by actme underwriters. How did you know? I make it my business
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to know everything, my dear, But a CK card is clever, dangerous.
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Yes, I know it will be intriguing to match wits within now than
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my day. You'd better run along. You work to do tonight. Aren't
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you going to see me. I'm sorry, but I'm busy. I know
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you're playing Solitaire. Sometimes I think you love that game more than you love
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me. Come come, my dear, there's no basis for comparison. Solitaire,
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like every other card game, is relaxing women when they're as lovely as
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you are, exciting as Please good night, my dear Nick. You will
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be Paroda Stanley's birthday party, were you? Oh, Patsy, you drop
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me to headquarters and go right out. I'll join you later. Uh huh.
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It's funny the way I bumped into Oda after all these years, hadn't
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seen her since college, and then all of a sudden I was standing in
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a nylonline of trembles, and there she was. Yes, so now we're
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going to a birthday party? Uh huh. The minute she found out I
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worked with you, she insisted on our coming. She's dying to meet you,
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and well, I promise to produce you. Sure you don't mind me?
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No, no, of course not, Patsy. Oh, it ought
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to be something. She's married to John Stanley the banker. Ah, that's
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right, which is the same thing as saying she's married to ten million dollars.
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And I was the girl in my graduating class voted most likely to succeed.
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Oh, Patsy's a funny thing. What's funny? Fanley's bank? The
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Marine Trust is putting up the capital to ted down that slum area where the
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Ace of Spage is supposed to be hiding. Oh do you really think that's
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where the Ace of Stages hidhout is could be. There are more than two
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hundred abandon tenements now there. Patrolman murdered in that section seemed to point to
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it. I won't forget those two homicides in a hurry. Each of them
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had a playing card pinned right over the bullet holes. It's a pair of
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jacks. Fair sample of the Ace's grizzly humor. What kind of a man
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can he be? Anyway? Infernally clever, Betsy, we know that much.
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A brilliant planner with a mind that doesn't overlook the minutest details might trap
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him. Why are those poker hands? Whenever he's pulled a job? He's
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an egotist. Have a criminal glorifies and his crimes and enjoys leaving his signatures
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and each one of them? Oh this close enough, Nick, Yes,
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I can work together halfclock to headquarters. Nick, I, please be careful,
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don't take any chances. Oh, don't worry. The Ace of Spades
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may play his cards according to Hoyle, but I'll play him any way I
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can to win. Hi, Mandy, Eh, Nick, I tell you
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the truth for once. I'm glad to see you. This Aces Spades has
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really got me on the Murray ground. First he knocks over two of our
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best cops. Then he kills this watchman on that warehouse job last night,
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and he leaves nothing, no evidence except those blasted playing cards. Yes I
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know, Nick, I tell you this Aces Spades is like a ghost.
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This whole case like a nightmare. Mad either got the cards as men left.
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Yeah, get a common pattern. I selve hundreds of dicks like this
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all over town. What about the fingerprints? Yeah no none. We powdered
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every card, even used the iodine test. Nothing doing. I suppose you
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searched that abandoned slum area. Look are you kidding? Nick? Of course
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we did the night Berk and Fittigan were killed. We went through it with
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a fine tooth comb, a devil of a job. It was too as
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I can imagine, and as much that place has been blacked out ever since
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the city decided to dismantle their street labs in the area, had to save
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electricity. Yeah, with all these hundreds of empty tenements, these could change
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his head as it will. You could drive a car through the da where
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the head lights turned off, never be seen. Yeah. No, that's
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what makes it tough. The places as black as well, the Asius spades.
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I got a couple of men down there now nosing around, Not that
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I expect to find anything. Homicide. Sergeant Madison caught it from a car
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box. Done. Yeah, yeah, I'll talk to him. Oh hello,
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is that you, Sage? Yeah? What is it? Nolan O'Connor's
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and myself saw a light in one of these aier tenements. Are you sure?
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Yeah? Positive? The light's pawn now, but we've got the glace
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spotted. Shall we go in and investigation? No? No, now,
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now listen, Knowlan, you and Connors stay there and keep your eyes peel
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on that tenement. I'll be right down with a squad. Okay, s
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They'll be on the corner. Know it, know it? You say that
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call box is located at the corner of sixteenth Street and Avenue ap Many.
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Yeah, that's right, Nick. A couple more blocks and we'll be there.
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And the looks of things, you must have every cruise car on the
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force in this area now, But judging by what's going before, I don't
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think it's gonna do us any good. Maddy. Just look at this area,
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not of it. Rows and rows of dark tenements and boarded up store.
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Yeah, there isn't a whole pane of glass in the place. The
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streets and the sidewalks are certainly littered with this point. Hey, Nick,
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I heard one of your boys up here, just blue a tire picked up
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a piece of broken glass. Partly oh oh yeah, yeah, Oh,
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this place gives me the creeps, I guess. Oh, there's the call
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box that Nolan called from. I don't see anything you many, No,
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Nolan and Connors must be somewhere around one way or the other. They have
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the walls. Many. Now we're out in the open like a couple of
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sitting pigeons. Theys Maddie. Here in this doorway. Nolan and Connor's dead,
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Yes, riddled by bullets. Look, Mattie. The Ace left his
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usual calling cards, a Jack of Hearts and Nolan and the Jack of Diamonds
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on Connor's and Burke and Finnegan drew a pair of jacks two when they were
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murdered down here, or jacks or of a kind. Well, whatever,
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the ace of spades is matting, he's consistent. He's still killing. And
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according to Hoyle Bethy, what's happened to the matter is detective, you promise
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to produce tonight. Well, I can't understand what's keeping nekrota. He was
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supposed to be here long ago. Well, we won't worry about it.
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Let's just have another cocktail. Huh. After all, it is my birthday,
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as you know, Patsy, I'm lucky woman to be missus John Stanley.
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Look at the birthday present. John gave me this necklace. Oh I've
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been noticing that road match diamonds. It's a magnificent thing. Oh that must
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be Nick. Now I'll get it. What's the devil? All right?
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Stanley? Get those hands up? Yeah fast? You know what a minute?
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What does this mean? We're playing cops and robbers. That's why we're
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wearing these masks? Shut up, Stanley? How do well? They're talking
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around here? All right, Joe, you get to work on that wall.
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Save it's behind that picture. You know the combination, right, John,
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know my jewelry is in there. No, my dear, I'm afraid
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there's nothing we can do now or any other time. Pretty sure of yourself,
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aren't you? Yeah, lady, I sure am. How you doing,
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Joe? Okay, just got the safe bolk? Swell now, missus
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Stanley. I'll take that necklace, oh John, my birthday president. You
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give it to me, and do I have to tear it off your neck?
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Rude? I'm afraid you don't have to do as he says. No,
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No, I won't roa to your husband's right. We're helpless now.
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They're not going to take my neck, right, lady, looks like I'll
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have to rip it off that pretty white neck. Take your hand off,
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my wife? How up? Fairly say what you are along here? Take
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your hand job? Job. Yeah, they had a chance to use that
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black jack in a long time. You'll kill him. He is a breezing
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naturally, Lady. There was no love tap I gave him. You got
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all that stuff out of save Joe. Everything's worked like clockwork, as the
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chief would say, according to plans. You'll pay for this, both of
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you. That's what you think, lady. Oh, here's a couple of
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calling colls just to remember us by, So they left the Ace of Hearts
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and the Ace of Clubs Y, Yes, Nick, and both of them
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then were masked. We couldn't tell who they were they John killed him.
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Did you try to predict him? Now, Rhoda, don't try to talk.
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You've had a terrible shock. Just lie back on the couch and try
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to rest. The doctor will be here soon, John, John, I'm
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sorry, missus Stanley, but someday you'll have the satisfaction of seeing those killers
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go to the chair. Nick, one of those crooks said, everything went
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according to plan. Do you think the Ace of Spades planning John's murder?
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Yes, Patsy, I do, but it was so wanton. Whenever the
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Ace of Spades kills, he kills for a reason. He isn't the type
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to kill just for the pleasure of it. Now, Patsy, did you
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notice anything about these stubs, anything unusual that might give us a clue.
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No, they were both masked about medium hike wore black gloves. Wait a
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minute, Nte, Yes, I do remember something now. When the man
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who hit John with the black jack raised his arm, I saw his cufflinks,
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and what about them? They were little black aces of clubs. Unusual?
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Did they look expensive? Oh? Yes, very and not the usual
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kind of thing you pick up in a Jebbilry store. Probably made to order.
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That's your magnificence, I am nick. You are. You've stumbled on
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something we've badly needed on this case. A good lead. Now we're going
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to play a little game, a little game, a little game of poker.
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Mind if I use your phone, Sergeant Mathieson, I know, mister
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will sergeants my company is demanding action from you. Went mister Carter here,
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Yes, now wait a minute, mister william Ley. We can't wait for
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anything much longer. You realize the loss attack me and the writers are taking.
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Oh well, Bulevard Garage. This is mister Williams. It's my car.
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Ready? What two new tires? I see? The old ones are
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pretty badly cut up? Eh, but that makes three new tires and all
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mm hmm, all right, go ahead. I suppose it can't be helped
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car traveler. Yes, but that's the least of my worries. Mid My
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firms ensured the Stanley jewels along with that diamond necklace for almost one hundred thousand
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dollars. Unless you nail down the Ace of Spades pretty quickly. Well,
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might as well try to nail down a ghost. Well, do what we
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can, mister Williams. I've got a lead on them now, I think
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not lead. Well, I'd rather not say until I am sure to be
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of value. Very well. I don't care how you get the Ace of
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Spades, as long as you get him and soon. Good day, gentlemen.
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Hey, Nick, what's this lead you're talking about. I'll let you
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know marry when and if it pays dividends. Oh, by the way,
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I wint homicide sjan mathieson there. Oh yeah, sure, Patsy, heh.
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Nicke's for you, Patsy. Do you find anything? Planny? I
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can miss the big jewelry store, just as you told me to do.
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And after walking my feet off and talking to about one hundred supercilious jewelry clerks,
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I finally made a strike at relatives. They make up those couplnks.
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Yes, did have a carbon of the sailes slip, Yes, Nick,
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they did. The man who wandered those couplints was Frankie Morella. Ah real
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well, good work, Patsy. Go home now, so get eating hot
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water. I'll let you know what I need you again? Yes, a
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club says here to see you? Send him in? Hello, Chief?
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You sent for me? Yes, Frankie, sit down, gay well Chief?
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How'd you like the way Joe and me pulled off at stanleych other?
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That's an interesting pair of conflicts. You're wearing, Frankie, little aces of
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clubs? Eh? Pretty neat if I do say so? Had him made
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daughter? That was very careless of you, Frankie. Hey, what do
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you mean by that? You wore them on a Stanley job? You gave
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Nick Cotter a clue. You'll find out who you are sooner or later.
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Have a chief as a dangerous man with a clue, Frankie. Now he
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hopes to get at me through you. It's going to be embarrassing to have
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you around the chief, for I didn't wear these couplings at the Stanleys that
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square. I didn't, didn't you, Frankie? No, No, you're
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gonna believe me. Yesh, send in the Queen of hearts? Right?
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What meets the Queen of hearts? Frankie? You? Yes, Frankie,
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it's I sorry, Thanky Chief? No nostra stra funny of Frankie Morrell found
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on Molly Country Roads, the Spray Thinker, Copter Caangster, Extra Red Fine
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Stated Affairs, Nick, Frankie Morella. Our only clue wiped out. So
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you and I you about that couplings clue? Nick, what is this Ace
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of Spades a mind reader? Let's see you forget? When you and I
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were discussing it at John Stanley's house, someone else was there who could have
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overhurt us. Oh, Nick, you're not suggesting that. Rhoda. She
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was in the room with us when we talked it over. Well, I
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know, but she was in a severe state of shock. Why she,
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Nick, you don't mean, I mean that things are beginning to add a
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look, Betsy, as Crooks knew where the wall safe was even at the
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combination. Yes, that's right. The Ace of Spades could have received that
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valuable information direct from Rhodo. Yes, but we can't be sure of that,
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Nick. But there's one thing we can be sure of. Neither you
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nor I tipped off the Ace of Spades about that Coupling's clue. And somebody
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did, and the Ace Fella was important enough to force him to destroy the
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evidence his own henchman. It must have been Rhoda who tipped him off,
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she was the only other person who knew about the couplings exactly what. I
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can't believe it? What well I Nen wrote to Stanley, Well, of
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course I haven't seen him for oh, Nick conquered Rhoda being accomplice of the
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murder of a husband before her own eyes. At say, those jewels and
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the safe were insured for one hundred thousand dollars. That's a lot of money,
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not to mention the millions that John Stanley probably left her in his will.
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But if Road is mixed up in this, then who is the ace
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of spades? Well hunts, but I'm not positive yet whoever he is,
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he has an intimate knowledge of the jobs he tackles, and all these jobs
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have been pulled off against ACNE underwriters. Has he supposed someone had easy access
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to the files of the company files? Yes, on banks, burds,
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first storage vaults and other properties giving their floor layouts, burglar alarm set ups,
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and so forth. A clever crook could pull off a nice clean job
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with his information, couldn't he? Yes, But there might be any number
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of men who'd have access to this information. Adjusters, executives, insurance actuaries,
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any number of people on the inside. True, But we can now
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are down further. This man, this ace of spades, would not only
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have to be an inside man. You'd have to be someone who got a
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round on the outside. Tool knew all these places by actual experience, because
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he'd visited them. You want to wake or operate the wa he's doing.
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Wait a minute, Nick, you mean I'm not sure, Betsy, and
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I hope to know within an hour. Come on, get you out.
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Let's go go go where for the bull of our garage? That's where Ralph
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Williams keeps his car. Nick, that garage attendant looked a little suspicious when
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you told him you were a dealer and that mister Williams sent you down to
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make an estimate on his car. I'm gonna make an estimate, all right.
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Anyway, Nick, you still haven't told me why you're interested in mister
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William's car. Not interested in the car itself. Because the tires. The
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tires, Yes, I understand, three of the tires were cut up so
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badly. I had to have new ones. I think I know what cut
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his tires. By the way, I want to be sure I hurry up
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that I had attendant is keeping his eye on us, Betsy have found I've
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been looking for. Nick. I just don't get it. Here. Take
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a good look at all four of these tires. See the glass particles in
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the treads. There's old tires, two of them. Yes, but what
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do they mean? I mean that mister Williams has been driving this car over
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roads littered with broken glass. And the only place in town whether a roads
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like that, is in the abandoned slum section. And Nick, what you're
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saying is that Ralph Williams is the Ace of Spades. Yes, and I
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bet every poker chip in the part of it investigation william speaking, Oh Claims
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Department. Oh yes, mister Redden funny, I was just talking to missus
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Stanley. She's right here in my office now. No, we haven't been
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able to break that Stanley case. The Ace of Spades got clean away with
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those jewels. Huh. I know it's a lot of money, but we'll
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lad and we'll have to pay the claim. Yes, I know, and
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you're perfectly right. But even Nick Carter's falling down on this one, alright,
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mister Rudden, goodbye, Well, my dear, it looks as though
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you're in They're going to okay, the claim. When what does it come
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through the cash? I mean sometime next week. And after that, my
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dear, I suggest you go away for a long vacation trip. In fact,
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I think i'll join you myself. It's uh getting pretty warm in town.
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Yes, come in and that thing your brother is lady for you,
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mister Williams. Oh, thank you, Miss Hamilton. MM from Nick Carter,
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Nick Carter, I wonder what he wants, No, my dear,
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nothing to be nervous about it. Let's see there there's nothing in it but
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a plane card. Yes, but look at that card. It's the joker.
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Nick. The messenger left William's office five minutes ago. I know it's
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almost dark. He'll be off soon. What he does, Patsy, we'll
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tail him, Nick, Why did you just send him that joker? Just
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having a little fun in the ace's own way? Isn't it dangerous? Shouldn't
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we have just gone up and got him? But if he gets away,
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he won't You forget one thing, Patsy, what the loot? The ace
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is almost half a million dollars sell other ways away him, and he's certainly
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not gonna be a town without picking it up. That's the big reason why
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he send him the joker? You know he's around with him now. It'll
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flush him out, of course, and he'll lead us right to the hideaway
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if everything goes according to Hoyle, Nick, do you think it's one of
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those slum tenements somewhere? I better' can't think of a better place to hide
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anything. Get way? Yes, here comes to Williams out of his building.
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Now he isn't rude. Stanley's with him. They're getting into a taxi.
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All right, Bessy, here we go, Nick. Look they've stopped
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at the Riverview boat house. Yes, they're getting into a launch. But
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I don't understand this means they're not going to the tenement area. In the
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contrary, Betsy, you forgot one thing. The river fronts that area,
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and the boat running quietly with its lights out might get in a lot easier
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than a car, especially when all the streets are being watched. We can't
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let them get away, Nick, What now I'm going on to the tenement
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area? You get married in the phone? Uh huh? I have him
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throw a cordon around this entire area and tell him to notify the Harbor police.
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Tool All right, Nick, I fancy make it plain to Marry that
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the harbor police are not to stop the boat. I just keep them on
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a civilians. We want the ace to pick up that money before he tries
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a final get away. Well, Nick, it worked out just as you
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figured. Asius Spades came off that boat went into that five story tenement right
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across the street. Then, yes, lucky young men were posted under those
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docks, Marry, otherwise we might have missed him. Oh, a Stanley
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woman's waiting in the boat. We can pick her up later. Just as
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soon as we, Nick, the Asius Spades is coming out. Get back
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in the doorway. He went in empty handed and came out with a suitcase.
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Yeah, that's the swag, all right. Up he goes gust them
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in a d ice. What no got that gun? Go my sight?
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Nice shut Mary wing them in the arm. Yes, sir, you trumped
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the as of Spades, and neatly I'll nick this to tear down these tenements
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today. Oh at a place, even in daylight, it gives me the
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creeps. Yes, for some day they tell me this is going to be
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a beautiful housing development with parks and playgrounds for the kids. Maybe, but
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right now it looks like a kind of Dead House. And speaking of the
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Dead House, I wonder what the Ace of Spades is thinking about now about
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black on red or red on black. Look, what on earth do you
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mean? I just spoked to Mattie on the phone a few moments ago.
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He tells me the Ace of Spade sits in the death cell all day and
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all night, playing solitad. Say, Nick, how about giving us a
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few of the ingredients that make up your story for next week? Why sure?
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You take a beautiful young girl who's positive she's going crazy, just as
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her mother did before her. Then add her boyfriend who refused to believe she
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was losing her mind in spite of the evidence of the contrary, make them
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together, and had a country doctor who alone knew the secret behind it all.
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And you have the tense and unbelievable situation with which Nick was faced.
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And what do you call this witches brew? Nick? I call it the
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Case of the Demented Daughter Nick Carter, Master Detective, which is produced and
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directed by Jock McGregor, is copyrighted by Street and Smith's Publications Incorporated. Pictured
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stories of Nick Carter appear in every issue of the Shadow Comics. In the
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broadcast of Nick Carter Master Detective. Long Clark has starred as Nick. Charlotte
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Manson has featured as Petty. Matthew is played by a Latimer. Original music
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is played by George Wright. Script is by Max Earlick. Any resemblance in
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these programs to actual persons living or dead, or to actual places as hilly
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Coincidental. Nick Carter Master Detective is presented over most of these Mutual stations each
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week at the same time. This is you Sanders saying so long until next
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week. This program was heard in Canada through the facilities of the Canadian Broadcasting
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Corporation. This is the Mutual Broadcasting System Welcome back. While this once again
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does capture a lot of the early pulp fiction style of early Nick Carter's opposed
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to the more traditional detective stories that we heard with Edith Miser for the show,
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and it was definitely this is one that really does go by the concept
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and really it's a great concept and I think it made for a solid adventure.
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Well, now we turn to some listener comments and feedback and we start
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with Wes who said Nick Carter was among the first radio detectives to have a
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catchphrase, quiet Patsy that I've heard every episode. I don't enjoy them nearly
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as much as Philip Warlow and Johnny Dowler. The character of Nick Carter is
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just written to be too perfectly competent to be believed, and the synophatic way
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that Passy and others regard him as nauseating. Well, I can appreciate your
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opinion, and I will say that I don't really like the way that latter
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scripts have treated Patsy. I think that the early scripts from nineteen forty three
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really presented her as a much more appealing character who you know, obviously wasn't
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Nick Carter, but was brave and generally the person to ham on an adventure.
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And some ways it feels like in these more recent versions that Patsy kind
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of furs to try and get the audience as scared as she is. Regarding
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the general attitude to Nick Carter, it's something really that does come from the
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pulse, and it comes from the fact that in terms of overall fictional stories
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told, there were nine hundred print stories about Nick Carter told before the radio
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show ever started. I mean, this is a guy who, working through
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all the criminals he caught, takes him a whole day to update his files,
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and I'll only get from A to C. Still, that can be
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a challenge for listeners who like a little bit of humility and the fact that
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most of us just did not grow up on Nick Carter stories. Some listeners
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had some comments regarding episode thirteen sixty two, The Eight Records of Death.
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Michael says, this is an interesting glance at technologies of those days. I
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had no realized you could cut records in the privacy of your own home.
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Well, not everybody could. The first really big product that you could do
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that with was an RCA Radiola, which retailed for two hundred and eighty five
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dollars, which was around four thousand dollars today. The RECORDO was a lot
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from will Cox Gray in the nineteen forties. That kind of improved that it
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was believable with eight Records of Death, because we were dealing with a fairly
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wealthy woman for home. Two hundred and eighty five dollars for radio, I
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wouldn't be a big deal. An amateur recording has been dealt with with the
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Golden Age of radio. Usually it's dealing not with people recording in their homes,
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but recording at another location like a penny arcade and there actually have been
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at the very least episodes of Pat Novak for hire. And also I was
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a communist for the FBI that used that arcade recording method. And then there's
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a comment Joel says, the eight Records of Death is a fantastic program.
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It would make a fantastic movie. Thank you for your great podcast. Well,
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thanks so much. I don't know how it would work in the visual
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medium. You really need some good face actors to sell it. Of course,
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you might cut the length of the records in some way, add a
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little bit of parallel. I don't know. Maybe you'd be a modern one.
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You could modernize too, the eight MP freeze of Death. That doesn't
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sound quite right. And finally, the way they'll have an email for from
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Cameron who says, Hi, Adam, maybe you're already aware of it.
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By the name Nick Carter was also the name of a famous bloodhound dog born
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in nineteen hundred in Kentucky who tranks fugitives and apparently is credited with over six
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hundred fines leading to arrest. Just thought you'd find that interesting, and he
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did link to the article on dog names. Woof dot com blog from two
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thousand and seven and yeah, a Kentucky bloodhound named Nick Carter. And again
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this does go back to the earlier comment about the way that Nick Carter is
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treated, probably around the turn of the century when this dog was named Nick
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Carter been out less than twenty years and was huge and really was probably the
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first of the popular great American fictional detective, even though he's not as well
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remembered as Sherlock Holmes. And the fact that he's not somebody who is remembered
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and as he was back then, I think is part of the problem when
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it comes to the to the constant praise of Nick Carter, because you know,
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back in nineteen hundred they think they have a pretty good bloodhound and what
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better name for it than Nick Carter. Though, to be fair, even
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if you were taking Sherlock Holmes and Neal Wolf went out a problem if the
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police were universally revering them to the level that Nick Carter is. But it
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mostly just comes back to the books, without which when't have the radio series
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to start with. Well, that will do it for today. Join us
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back here next Friday for Friday for your Sholey Johnny Dollar. Next Thursday,
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We'll be back with Next Carter and coming next Tuesday, Easy Money. We
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don't want to miss that one. In the meantime. Sendor comments to Box
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