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more. And we're going to go ahead and begin today's program. I'm actually
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excited about this particular series of programs. We're going to take a look at
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the earliest fictional detective stories written by Edgar Allan Poe from eighteen forty one to
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eighteen forty four and featuring August Dupon. Hour before we get started, I
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came across a radio program kind of interesting. It's an episode of Can You
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Imagine That? Can You Imagine That? Was a nineteen forty radio program syndicated
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and this was from its thirty fifth episode, and host Lindsey mccarrey included a
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segment on what he considered the earliest detective story. So let's go ahead and
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we will take a listen to can you imagine that adaptation of Belle and the
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Dragon. What would be your guess as to the oldest detective story in the
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world. Well, I think I've found it. At least I'll challenge anyone
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to find an older detective story. One of the books of the Apocrypha in
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the original King James version of the Bible is entitled The History of the Destruction
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of Bell and the Dragon. And in this book, I believe you'll find
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the oldest detective story in the world. We're going to dramatize it for you,
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and here it is now. The Babylonians had an idol called Belle.
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They were spent upon him every day, twelve great measures of fine flower,
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and forty sheep, and six vessels of wine, and the king worshiped it.
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For Daniel worshiped his own God and said, unto the King, O
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King, be not deceived, for this is but play within and brass without,
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And did never eat or drink anything. What sayest thou, ho,
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my priests, come hither, Ye priests of Babylon if ye tell me not
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who this is that devoureth these expenses, ye shall die. But if ye
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can certify me that Bell devoureth them, then Daniel shall die, for he
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hath spoken blasphemy against Bell. What sayest thou, Daniel, and it be
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according to thy word. Come then to the temple of Bell. Then said
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the high Priest of Bell. Lo we go out, But thou King,
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set on the meat, and make her the wine, and shut the door
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west and seal it with thine own signet. And tomorrow when thou comest him,
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if thou findest nuff that Bell hath eaten up all, we will suffer
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death, or else Steniel that speaketh palsely against us. So when they were
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gone forth the King set meats before Bell. Now Daniel had commanded his servants
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to bring ashes, and those they strewed throughout all the temple in the presence
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of the king alone. Then they went out and shut the door and sealed
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it with the King's signet, and so departed in the morning. By time,
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oh seest thou Daniel, the meats and the wine are gone. Great
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art thou, oh Bell, And with thee is noice seat at all hold
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o King, and turn up the temple. Hear'st thou upon the floor where
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my servants have strewed the ashes. Behold now the pavement, and mark well
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whose footsteps are these? I see the footsteps of men, women and children?
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He priests, what mean footstep? Oh King, forgive us, for
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we have sinned against Steve. Meet us Stoe. We have made under the
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table the secret door through this store we have made Entrey by night we our
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wives and our children. We have eaten of the meats and drunk of the
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wine. Thou has set before Bell, and he shall die. Thus by
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spreading ashes on the floor of the temple, Daniel proved the hooks perpetrated by
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the priests of Bell, and saved his own life and ladies and gentlemen.
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I maintained this is the oldest detective story in the world, for it happened
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six centuries before the birth of Christ. Welcome back, Well. Definitely quite
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a few elements present there, and a pretty interesting program. Our main event
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today is the episode of The Weird Circle. This was a war time NBC
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trans syndicated series with mostly focused on stories with an element of whore, but
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this one plays mostly strongly in the original detective genre in which in which basically
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Edgar Allan Poe created, and we'll see here a lot of things are quite
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familiar in this adaptation of the first of the DuPont stories. We don't have
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cancel list, unfortunately, but we do know that. According to the Digital
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Delhi, this episode aired November twenty of nineteen forty three, and the title
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is The Murders in the Room Morgue, the Weird Circle. In this cave
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with the restless seed, we are meant to call from out of the pastest
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stories, strange and weird Bello. Keeper told the bell so that all may
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know we are gathered again in the weird Circle the world we again be in
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more tale the murder More gentlemen, gentlemen, please may I have your attention
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anyway? I didn't ask you to come to my humble apartment tonight to endeavor
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to stun you with my superior knowledge of crime and criminals. I've asked her
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here only to prove to you that the murders in the room or present no
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great insoluble mysteries. Monsieur du paff, you think the case is so obvious,
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tell me who is the murderer? He will be here shortly. You
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see what I perfect? The police here? Who is it? Murderer here?
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Gentlemen, I give you my word as a man of honor, that
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he will be here in my apartment at precisely ten o'clock the seat. How
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can you be so sure I have asked him to come? It is exactly
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nine o'clock now, gentlemen, and in the hour remaining to us before we
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meet the murderer, I shall explain to you as simply as I can how
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I managed to arrive at my conclusion. Yes, due, Monsieur dupin.
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I'm always interested in guests work. Yes, work, my dear fellow,
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this is not guesswork. No, now, gentlemen, let us retrace the
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case. The story begins if I'm not mistaken with Madame Weiss Bonnet and her
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daughter Camille on the afternoon of December sixteenth, eighteen forty one. Well,
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of course you're correct so far. Anyway, I vow Monsieur le Prefect,
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Madame ais Bonnet and her daughter Camille entered the Bank of France at precisely two
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forty five in the afternoon to transact important business. Ah, Madame Lesbinee,
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I've been waiting for you. So good of you, Monsieur Lebon. Have
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you met my daughter Camille? I don't think I've had the pleasure. How
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do you do, Mademoiselle, How do you do? Missieurs levall? Are
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you quite sure, Madame Lesbine, that you wished with draw all this money
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at this time? Quite positive? But four thousand francs is a great deal
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to keep about one's household, Madame. I'm quite aware of a danger involved,
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Monsieur Lebon. But if the bank keeps this withdrawal quiet, nobody else
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need know that I have a sum of money in the house. Well,
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friends do get about, Madame. There's no use inviting a necessary danger.
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The danger is my problem, Monsieur Lebon. I think we'd better let the
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matter drop at that. Have you any protection against possible theory at home?
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Madame? No, monsieur, but my man are at protection enough. We
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bolt and lock our doors. It's absolutely impossible for anybody to enter the house
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unless he should break the door down. But does any male protector live in
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the house. My husband died many years ago. But doubt miss understands me.
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I'm only asking these questions for your own good. Two unprotected women living
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alone in a large house can invite troubled. That is our problem. If
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Madame insists, and I do insist very well, Madame, I have the
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money here. I myself will see you both home to ensure safe delivery.
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But let me warn you now, the minute you arrive in your home on
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the Rue Morgue, the Bank of France resigns all future responsibility. We understand,
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Missieur Lebonne, We understand perfectly, it really does so, gentlemen,
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the first step in this little tragedy was completed. Madam A's bunney and her
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daughter insisted on taking the money home from the bank. Monsieur le Bonn drove
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them in his carriage to their house, the large bleak house number twelve Rumor.
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When they arrived there, Monsieur le bond looked about, for the gendarme
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was in charge of that particular block. Whoa, whoa, May I help
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you out, mademoiselle commune, Oh, thank you Missieu le bon Madame,
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thank you, thank you. Is that the gendarme on the corner of the
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gendarme usually on this block. Not having had any reason to talk to the
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gendarme, Monsieur lebon I wouldn't know. Yes, I think it is Monsieur
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Jean. Not all this fuss over a little money. Really, you'd think
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we were incapable of taking care of ourselves. Well, I think besie Le
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ball is very thoughtful, Mamma Jean. Not do you live on the first
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floor, Madame Lesboney on the fourth floor, in the back of the house.
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I own this house and I've shut up all the other rooms. You
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mean this entire house is unoccupied it, yes, I did. I want
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you to keep a special watch on this house for the next week or so.
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Madame Lesbona and her daughter will have a considerable amount of money in the
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house. I will watch the house like a watch dog. You would be
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better off if you did it like a man than you'd use your head instead
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of your feet. Masche, what is your name, Jean, dam muse?
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Very well, gendarme, is it our muse? I leave these ladies
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in your care. You needn't worry about a thing, Mademoiselle and Madame I'm
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sure we won't. That is, as long as you don't spread the news
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around the neighborhood that we've got four thousand francs hidden here in the house.
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Woo me, Madame. I am the law and your secret is safe with
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me. Come along, mamma getting hungry. Yes, dear, thank you
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so much for all you've done, Missie Lebonne. It is nothing, mademoiselle,
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nothing at all, just a courtesy extended by the Bank of France.
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I'll keep good watch. Be assured of that. I'll keep very good watch,
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gentleman, gentleman, let us proceed to the next event. Jan Dame
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Isidore Muse kept a very good watch at Number twelve room. At eleven o'clock
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the evening of the tragedy, he strolled into the shop two doors away from
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Number twelve to buy a pouch of tobacco and to chat with the very good
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friend Pierre Moreau, a tiny man known as the neighborhood gossip. Good evening,
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a good evening, good evening, friend, is it? Or good
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evening evening. I've been waiting for you. Yes, I've been waiting for
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you. You usually dropped in at nine o'clock. And I said to myself,
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as I sat here waiting for you, I said, deck, where's
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my good friend? Is it? Or It's been a busy evening this evening,
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That's what I said to myself, if is it or doesn't drop into
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buy his usual box of tobacco, he's busy. There must be big news
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abroad. But then how could there big big news abroad on this plot.
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That's what I said. You were wrong, dear, very wrong, wrong
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e. There is big nose thievery no. No, Well, then I
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give up. It's a secret secret what could be a secret. Somebody got
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married, that's no secret. Somebody died, that's no secret. Either a
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child is ill, a contagious disease, an epidemic, or Paris will be
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infected. Noose, I capt guess if you promise not to tell a soul,
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not a soul, well, Madam Lesbiane and her daughter Camille have withdrawn
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four thousand francs from the bank today and have it hidden in the house somewhere.
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No, and I must stand on God naturally, naturally, but don't
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tell a soul. No, not a soul on honor, not a single
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soul is at my word. I swear it now, And so my midnight,
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gentlemen, the entire neighborhood in the m Orgue was buzzing four thousand thanks
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in the Lesbiony household, I hear it was ten thousand, two women all
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alone. Imagine a twenty thousand francs. I wonder where all that jewelry must
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be a betitable fortune hidden away? Do you know what they say? She's
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got money hidden in every corner of a house. Imagine almost him and Franks
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in that house. I always knew there was something strange about those two women
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living all alone in a house like that, and in the rear fourth floor.
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Yes, sitting in the bedroom of the fourth floor rear. But while
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the neighborhood was busy gassiping and chattering, Mademoiselle Camille and her mother were completely
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unaware of the commotion they had caused. It was almost three in the morning.
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Camille had just finished undressing, and her mother was sitting in front of
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the mirror, brushing her hair so that they didn't notice the window opening in
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back of them. I'm some tired, mamma, poor Camille. It's been
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a very busy day. You know. I thought that Monsieur Lebon was very
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nice. He seems fairly affable, Oh, mamma, fairly affable. I
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thought he was perfectly charming. No concerned over us. No man ever gets
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that concern for me must have been you darling. All men, see I'm
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not look in the mirror, may cam Kenny and don't know he's had a
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razor in his hand. Don't move Kenyan quick, that's hide. He's coming
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closer. Wa Kenny. And where shall we go into the closet, mamma,
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could you my mind to the closet, close the door. Don't want
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him a raking it down? Terrible, how awful? Quite right, gentlemen,
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simply ghastly. We fully realize that this is a horrible atrocity, but
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we must remain factual. While all this was going on on the fourth floor
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of number twelve, whom Morgue the gendarme Isador muse, a little tobacconist,
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Pierre Morole, you sillybone, who strangely enough, was in the neighborhood at
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that very moment, and the passers by a sailor. All four were attracted
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by the screams of the two women and immediately tried to break into the number
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twelve whom I'll stand back everybody while I break the door down. Stand back.
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This is a gendarme's job, and break it down is a door.
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Break it down. Follow me, everybody, I'll be standing to the ball
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floor right behind, right behind cordless. You've gone yes, wait wait,
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wait, listen, listen, we can tell you. No, it's Russians.
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Do no Italian pier. I think it's Polish. Oh would you know
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Polish? Ever heard Polish bogan? No? No, but good listen again.
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I think it's Posian Russian, and none of you know what you're talking
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about. He stopped speaking. Pesney. Yes, probably skate hairs. Probably.
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I wonder try it all. Can you open it this door? No,
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it's locked. I think we're too late. I'm sure if it's say,
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I've warned you about the gendarme. Oh, let's let's break the door
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down. One two three. Look, look what all the entire romansfect just
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exactly if a maniac and turn up the place the bench turn a podcast,
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I say, all the seven seas. But I've never seen a place look
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like this in my entire life. Was her leavar. We're a mademoiselle famili
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and her mother. I don't know. They're not in here. Look where
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they're in the fabla. It's Mademoiselle Camin dead, yes, dead dead,
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poor girl here help me, somebody helped me lift her up. Look look
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this window. The old woman is lying in the court yard below. The
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sailor is right, absolutely right, she's lying in the courtyard below. Dead
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is a dead fish, or probably twice as dead as somebody is. Guilly
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of this somebody, and as a member of the Paris Police, I mean
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to find out who that guilty person is. Yes, gentlemen, is a
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dorm musage, and swore up and down that he would find the murderer.
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Well. At four o'clock that morning, I was awakened from a sound sleep
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and called to number twelve Ville Morgue to examine the evidence. Monsieur le gendarme
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Muse was running around the room destroying the evidence, or at least what little
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evidence there was, as fast as he unearthed it. The three gentlemen who
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had been there with him were still waiting round out of a combined feeling of
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horror and curiosity. The sailor, whose name escape breath, was sitting on
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what was left of the bed, staring blankly around the room. Monsieur Pierre
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Moreau, the tobacconist, was watching Isador Muse the gendarme play detective. He
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played it badly, and Monsieur le band was a picture of dejection. I
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entered the room and gazed about while isador splightly with all the facts in the
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case, at least from his point of view. And that is exactly what
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happened. Monsieur Duvan, very interesting this year is a door muse and now
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a gentleman. I wish to ask just a few questions. Go ahead.
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All of you seem to think you heard the voice of the murder. Yes,
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yes, indeed, well we did definitely out about it. And you,
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sire, is a door muse. You are positive that the murderer isn't
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a Tagian? Positive, Monsieur Japan, absolutely positive. I could tell by
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his intonation. Do you speak Italian? Definitely not. Have you ever heard
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it Taggian spoken? No, missieer never, but I am mad. Yes,
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you imagine what I imagine it would sound like that I see. And
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you and Missie Lebon you said it was Polish, definitely Polish, without a
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doubt. Judge, you have lived in Pollen a long time all but I
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heard Polish spoken once once. Yes, that makes you an excellent judge of
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the Polish language. How about you, mister Pierremore, what language did you
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say? It was Russian. I thought that, But that's only a guess,
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since I admit, and I admitted very freely. I'm not a man
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to hedge. I've never had a word of Russian in my life, I
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thought so. And how about you said, I thought it was Dutch.
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I don't speak the Dutch language, but I have heard a considerable amount of
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Dutch spoken when I was in Holland eighty years ago, eight years ago.
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I don't mean to make a suggestion, Monsieur de pare, but Missiel Levant
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was the only man beside myself who knew about the money being kept in this
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house. What are you insinuating, Monsieur muse insinuoiting. I'm an officer of
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the law, and I think it was very peculiar that you should just happen
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to be in this neighborhood at three o'clock in the morning. Don't you live
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in this neighborhood, missie Le No, but I have good reason to be
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here. Oh, so suppose you tell us, well, I was worried
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about Mademoiselle Camille. I was rather attracted to the young lady, and well,
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I had a feeling that there would be trouble over the money when I
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was in the corner cafe having some tea until about ten minutes before the murder
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occurred, and then you strolled by the house on your way home. Correct,
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quite correct, My tobacco stories open all night. All tobacco stores are
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open all night, Monsieur Pierre More. I was just walking by. I
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didn't see all the money. It was nurturally. Nobody stole the money.
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It's in the safe behind this wall. Are you positive? For sire Japan?
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Perfectly obvious that the money hasn't been touched. These murders were far too
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cruel to be instigated by man's greety desire for financial reward. Here, let
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me open the safe and show you. I happened to know an interesting combination
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that will open any safe. I should have been a thief. Sure there,
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I don't open it. Oh, it did naturally. Now look,
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there's the four thousand francs safe and snug as a four thousand franc group of
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notes should be well. Perhaps Monsieur Levaun was interrupted in the midst of his
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seaberry. Perhaps he didn't have time to finish well runs in Monsieur Lebaun was
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with you when you walked up the stairs. Whoa an accomplice? Perhaps,
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No, no, no, it's the door music. Let me show you
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something. Look at the fingerprints on this girl's neck. Very strong, heavy
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prints and very large too. Why. Yes, the murderer must have been
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a joint. His hand must have been twice as large as mine, and
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I have a large hands hands. Yes, yes, the murderer was a
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giant, a giant with extraordinary strength. Gentlemen, I think now I have
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sufficient clues. Look at this window, it's it's just a window. It's
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just a window with a cord on it, a broken piece of cord.
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Clue number one, Clue number two. Look look at the dead girl's hand.
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Why she has some hair clutched in her hand. Quite correctly. And
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with this cord and this hair, I can find the murderer. Gentlemen,
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Oh oh, and get a good night's sleep, and I'll hand the murderer
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over to the prefective police. Very monsieur, du don't forget to mention that
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I helped you. I'm due for promotion soon. I don't care. And
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song as shoes. That is the story. And you have the fact,
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a piece of cord and some hair, the condition of the room, the
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strength of the murderer, the passion of the deed, the lack of motivation
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should all suggest to you the very same thing it suggested to me, Monsieur
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du Plais. You are talking in circles, so I mean to say you
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still don't know who the murderer is. No, of course I don't know,
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and frankly, Monsieur dupe, I don't think you know either. Really,
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gentlemen, really, gentlemen, do you amaze me? Here? Here,
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Monsieur le prefect, examine this piece of cord if you will. What
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do you make out of it? Piece of cord? Well, let me
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see, well a piece well nothing except that, Well, it's it's been
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tors it's been torn. Yes, try to tear it yourself, Well try
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to, I couldn't. It's a very very strong cord. Notice anything else?
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Yes, now that I look at it's got a very unusual not in
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it. But what does an unusual not prove? You will see what I
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mean. Presently it's the first stroke of TenneT black. Any minute now,
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gentlemen, the murderer will enter this room. May I please ask you to
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extinguish all the candles in the room, all except one? Why if Monsieur
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du Pere, will all be he murdered, which would be no great tragedy.
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But I wouldn't worry if, as you say, Monsieur du pins extinguished
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the candles. Gentlemen. Yes, now we are in semi darkness. That
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is fine. Listen, gentlemen. Downstairs, door to my poseo has opened
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and closed. The murderer is now downstairs. He's walking up the stairs.
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Now listen, listen the love wat wiath. He's coming closer. Gentlemen,
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are you ready to grab him when he enters? Yessie is good, good,
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he's standing outside my door now, mister lip prefective ready, gentlemen,
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yes, I mean brain, Let me go, Let me go. So
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it is you, sailor, help the sailor to sit down. It was,
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but this sailor doesn't look strong enough to commit these murder Let me go,
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Let me go, please please, please, don't you see, sailor,
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Monsieur le Prefect cannot arrest you for the murder, because although you are
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responsible for the crimes, you are not guilty. I'm not guilty. I'm
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not. I couldn't know. Of course you couldn't, gentlemen. It must
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be obvious to you now that no man murdered these two women, the only
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creature able to do it would be a bornees a rangatang rangutan. I matched
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these hairs I found in the dead woman's hand, and of course they belong
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to just such a creature. They're rang it. Yeah, yes, with
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your dupan is right. But tell me how is this sailor involved? I
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only animal you plan put an ad in the paper saying my orangutang was captured.
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Oh that's why I'm here to claim it. But didn't you realize that
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Monsieur Dupin knew that the murder was orangutang. No. No, I didn't
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think anyone could solve the murders. But I didn't know that whoever put the
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ad in the paper knew that I was the owner of the animal, and
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that he was keeping what he thought was a perfectly innocent animal. You see,
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I addressed my ad personally to this sailor. This piece of cord told
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me a sailor owned it. There was a sailor's knot in the cord,
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and the knot was peculiar to those tied on Maltese vessels. Therefore, when
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I put the ad in the paper, I asked the sailor from the Maltese
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vessel. I checked him the name of the vessel from the sailing data in
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the paper, to come and get the beast or. Naturally, I came
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to pick him up. Now I see one question I must ask sailor.
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How did the orangutang get hold of a razor? And how did he manage
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to escape? I had the animal locked in my quarters, I captured him
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in Morton, brought him to this country to sell to the zoo. They're
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very smart, you know. For last night when I entered my room,
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he was trying to shave with my razor. When I tried to chain him
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up, he escaped. He ran out into the streets, saw the light
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in number twelve roulong, climbed up the lightning rod to the ladies apartments.
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Well you know the rest. Indeed, we do well, gentlemen. If
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you have any other problems you wish settled, call on me. Just call
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on Monsieur August Dupin. Incidentally, if you'd like to see the arranged thing,
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you'll find it safely locked up in the zoo. From the time One
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Loved the Immodale Murder the mall Oh from the time worn pages of the pastor
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we have heard another immortal tale in the Weird Circle, Gallkeeper told the bell
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be here in the Sloanely Cave by the Restless Seat once again next time,
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or another immortal the Weird Circle, welcome back. You can definitely u see
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that the program's Weird Circles general format was in that horror genre, but just
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by the opening of the show, and I will say that it can be
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kind of hard to wrap your mind around how pioneering this story was because we've
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heard and read and seen it. I copied so many times similar plots,
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But for eighteen forty one, this was groundbreaking stuff that would really set the
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mode for a lot of characters to come. Even as Sherlock Holmes, there
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were some elements. Even though Doyle had had homes in a couple of stories
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criticizing Dupon, there was still some elements there. And also all right,
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Agatha Christie had Poirot actually writing a book on Edgar Allan Poe, so there's
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some definite influence here. And there's a reason why the Mystery Writers of America
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hand out the Edgar Award, So that's something to keep in mind here.
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You know, with all we've heard of Holmes, and all we've heard of
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these other detectives, so much of it really started right here in eighteen forty
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one, and it was a pleasure to bring it to you. And we'll
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be back with another dupon a mystery, entirely different actors, entirely different series.
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But he only had three cases chronicled by Poe and all were adapted at
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one time or another during the golden age of radio. So it'll be a
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pleasure to bring him to you. All right, listener comments and feedback,
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and we have this from Jason and Arn Hi Adam, how are you?
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Or Aren and Jason, and we just send you a little token of our
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appreciation for all the awesome work you do at Great Detectives. My boyfriend Jason
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and I listen to your show a lot. We used to listen to randomly
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to show us on archive dot org, but it's much more fun to listen
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to a curated selection than it is to try and find our own. Your
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affection and respect for old time radio means that we can depend on you to
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find some real gems. Keep up the great work. Well, thanks so
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much, and I hope you found today's program a gym and appreciate your support.
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We also have a comment from Steve who says, Hi, Adam,
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I've recently discovered your show here in the UK. I would love to know
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how you find old episodes, what format they're in, and the process you
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have to follow to get them to a new electronic format. Well, Steve,
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I have to admit that my overall process is somewhat boring because they're usually
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in electronic condition, actually always, because I don't have any way to adapt
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them into from media like real to reel tapes or transcription desk. There are
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people who do that, And if you come across any transcription tapes or real
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to reels of old time radio, get in touch with a qualified archivists or
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you know, since these things are kind of rare, email me and I'll
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find somebody, because these things that need preserved. But use. Most of
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this is things that have been turned into have been already taken by people who
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love old time radio and taken off of the reel reels or off of the
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transcription disk and put an MP three format. And the vast majority of material
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we use can be found at archive dot org. Though it's a it's a
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bit overwhelming to go through. There are a couple other sites I use for
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downloading the shows and a few other sources, but nothing that we do here
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in terms of playing the programs in the episodes is anything that couldn't be down
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with a little bit of research and internet effort, you know, and so
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mostly off archive dot org. A couple other science won't go into them all
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just mentioning things on the air because bandwidth restrictions, thumb sides just can't afford
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to have, you know, thousands of people just start downloading from them.
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Archive dot org can, but for nearly every series you want to hear,
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you can just go to Google, put the name of the series, Comma
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Old Time Radio MP three, and if they're out there, you can usually
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find some results. And I'll always have intense respect for those people who have
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the machines and are able to take them in digitize them. And that's definitely
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important because so much of the technology that's out there for preserving these in hard
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copy really can deteriorate pretty rapidly. So as much of this stuff as we
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can get digitized, the better, and so I hope, I hope that
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people continue to do that work because it really is vital? All right?
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Well, that will do it for today. We will be back tomorrow where
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we will wrap up Johnny Doller Cereal and start out with another card of brown
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mystery. In the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Defactors
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