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As I mentioned, Elliot Lewis held down the Casebook of Gregory Hood through the
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nineteen forty eight forty nine season, returning going off to do voyage at the
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Scarlet Queen in the middle of this. The last episode that the Digital Laftp
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digitaldalaftp dot com has was from March twenty ninth of nineteen forty nine. Then
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we have the show moving to ABC, and not a whole lot is known
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about it in the log for the ABC run is kind of sketchy. Well,
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Digital Deli FTP has a first recorded ABC episode of January fourth, nineteen
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fifty Today's program is from that ABC air on. It's from October fifteenth of
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nineteen forty nine, and that kind of makes sense that a show would start
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in the fall, even if the earliest episode date that could be found was
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from January. In the Daily Mail listings, first star of the Casebook of
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Gregory Hood, and certainly not the last, was Jackson Beck, who was
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really known for his announcing prowess, particularly on the Adventures of Superman, but
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certainly on some other series as well. He had also played file events in
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the ZIV syndicated version of those stories, so I guess we're playing a radio
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detective. Was somewhat of unnatural. And this is actually the the only example
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of ABC's version of the Casebook of Gregory Hood I haven't been able to find,
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and I just found that this year, so you may not have heard
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it before, but let's go ahead and take a lesson from October fifteenth of
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nineteen forty nine Carnival of Death, The Casebook of Gregory Hood, presented by
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the American Broadcasting Company. His office is high in the tower of a skyscraper
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overlooking San Francisco Bay. His name is Gregory Hood. By day, president
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of the Hood Importing Company, by night, criminologist and man about town.
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To Night's story from out of his casebook, The Carnival of Death. Good
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evening, ladies and gentlemen, This is Gregory Hood. Let's understand this from
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the start. I'm not a playboy. But when a hot blonde who's due
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to inherit a cool million suddenly writes me be sociable, Greg, drop around
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for a drink. It's three to one, I'll drop around. That's how
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I got involved with Leora Thorne. I was in my office with Sanderson Taylor,
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my attorney knows to the grindstone, sticking to business, when along came
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Leora's impaty. Excuse me, Sandy, but this letter's been lying on my
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desk all day. Ah, perfume, Dear Greg, Just because an old
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flame has got hisself happily married, that's no reason to cross her off your
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book. How's about dropping around for a drink Tomorrow afternoon. I want you
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to meet Bradley, my new husband. You like you from quite a lady,
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Greg, judging by your smile. Remember Leora Littleton, Now you are
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a thorn. Oh, the one who's coming into old Colonel Littleton's money one
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million dollars next year. She wants me to drop over this afternoon. What
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for that's for, aud lang xyon. I guess probably getting a big cocktail
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party. Has she still got that big estate on shore drive, h swimming
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pool and all the trimmings. Oh, take my advice and you'll stay put.
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I'm sort of curious to see where you are again. It's been a
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whole year now, Greg, don't get involved. Nonsense. The gal's happily
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married, she says. So. Haven't you ever noticed, Greg that your
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ex girlfriends never invite you to their homes less there's trouble brewing. Oh,
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Sanderson, you're asthenic. I'll be back later to finish those contracts with you.
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Greg. I'm warning you. My attorney, Sanderson Taylor is heap smart
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engine. I should have avoided that perfumed billy doo like rat poison, because
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when I got to Leora's there wasn't any party. There wasn't so much as
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a friendly Greg. How have you been? Instead? Greg? You're just
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in time? Hey, what gives? This is Bratt my husband. I'm
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glad to know you, mister Hood. I've been meaning to drop around ever
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since I read about you two getting married. Chat. Go to that small
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room over there and listen, listen to everything that's Wait a minute. All
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I came for was a nice sociable visas Gig, I need you. I'm
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desperate. That's right, mister Hood, We're both desperate. Before I could
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say I'm booked for this waltz, thank you and walk out, they'd pushed
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me into a small powder room. I watched them go into the library.
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Right alongside, I watched the butler usher in a little runt who wore a
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face like a Doc's unt plus a twitch, an unsavory type. I listened
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to Doc o'face talking to Leora and Brad. My boss is to tell you
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an old Chinese proverb, Confucius say a welshed, I'm not Welsh free,
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grand Wight. I don't owe him a penny? What about the iou The
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game was crooked. I only signed it to get out of the place better
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paid Gurley to stay out of a cough. Say, look, whoever you
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are, have a heart. That crap game was rigged. My wife was
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cheated into losing all that money. Please, I need time. Tell your
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boss to give me time. A week from today? My boss says,
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what about a week from today? That's how long you get all else?
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Gurley? That chess here yours won't look so pretty with a bullet near pulstreak.
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What am I going to do? You've simply got to pay off.
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I will sell your jewelry, re rentless house, anything, just so your
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life isn't in dangerous Please, please preciously. Now, look you two.
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You roped me into this, and you'd better give me the low down.
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Great, you heard that, little man. Where have you been gambling?
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Li Aora? Oh? The Pacific Playland? Pacific Playland, that's an amusement
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park. I beg Leora to stay away. Didn't drop three thousand on ping
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pong and darts, did you? There's a floating crap game out there.
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People never tell me these things. Who runs it? I don't know his
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name. They just call him the boss. Rigged dice game with a honey
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Carnival Leora, have you lost your senses? I can't explain it. Greg.
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Every now and then I get this itch to gamble, it just grabs
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hold of me. And well, this time I got in too deep.
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I tried to stop her. Mister Hood hmm, Well, my advice is
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square up. I didn't like the looks of Jojo the dog faced messenger boy.
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I can't pay Greg what. I haven't the money, Leora Littleton n
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g on the credit. I don't come into the bulk of grandfather's estate for
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another year. You know that right now, I'm in dead all over town.
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Darling. We'll sell things off. It's the only way. You're right,
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Thorn. Take that riskwatch you're wearing, for instance, what about it?
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I had lots of fine Swiss watches at the Hood importing company, but
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nothing that unusual. I've never seen a heart shaped design like that. I
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hadn't made like a heart because I gave it bread. That's a wedding press.
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Well that watch alone at some high class hokshow. No, I can't
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let bad part with you the pressure slam for your own safety and for my
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peace of mind. Your husband's very sensible. Don't risk your life, li
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Aura, Well, then help me, Greg find out who's up to me.
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Well, I'll think it over. Oh you were the one person,
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Greg, on you I could turn to you help us, mister Hood.
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You will never find two people more grateful. Well, I have to go
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now, but you'll be hearing from me, Leora. I'll show you to
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the dor mister Hood this way. I'm so worried about it, mister Hood.
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Naturally, sometimes I wish Leora didn't have all this. She's a swell
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kid. He just needs taken care of and doing my best. You know,
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I think you are. I think you have a pretty level head on
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your shoulders. Thanks. I'm so crazy about her. A lot of folks
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probably think I just married her for the money. Anybody can see that isn't
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the case. Well, chin up, don't let the order get too upset.
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Good meeting you, Thorne, grand meeting you. Please help us out
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of this mess. Well, Greg, how was Leora's cocktail party? What
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cocktail? P ah? I thought? So she only got you out there
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or rope you into something. Put your hat on, mister Taylor. Where
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going places? What? What? What about these business contracts they'll keep?
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We're going to Pacific Playland, the amusement park. What goes on out there,
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it seems isn't so amusing? What did you find out, Greg,
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I've been pumping some of the concession owners. Do they know anything about a
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floating gambling game? They know they're keeping Mum? What about the man they
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called the boss? Wouldn't learn a thing? Oh? What about the little
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man who threatened the aura? Doc Oface? Yes he works out here.
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They recognized my description of him. Who is He names Benny Baker, known
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as hot Licks Baker. Hot Licks is to be a trap drummer until he
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found an easier pitch. He sounds like a charming character. They tell me.
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He works at one of the concessions. Some daredevil trapez act, the
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incomparable Florette whatever that? Yes, it's over there. You see that neon
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sign hanging over that big ten. Oh come on, let's go visiting in
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incomfortable, Watch your death divinely through the Yeah, reppy that from the century
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at two hundred feet with perfect precision. A little lady will the five remedy
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my two tickets, Sandy, Greg? Yeah, that Barker, what about
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it? I have a feeling he's looking at us lor against giving his customers
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the once over. No, it's just that well, he kind of nodded
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when he spotted you, as if look out, Greg, that's the unsign's
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coming loose, break it out of the way. Are you all right,
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Greg? Me sure, Sandy? Oh buggy, thank you. Push.
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I had heart failure. You were standing right under it. If you had
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heart nue how that I could feel the breezes that sign went past me.
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Everybody, okay out there, it will happened well under the break clean up
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on a TV. I mean time to step up playing gents. He threw
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that hurt being comfortable. Hurry, hurry, Greg. That was not an
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accident, was Sandy? The sign just tore loose when you were directly under
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it. I think somebody wanted to kill you. Nonsense, he's right,
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mister hood huh, I said, your friend is right two hundred percent.
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She was best in a kind of spangled costume, a carnival performer. She
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inched her way to us through the crowd. She pulled Sandy and me over
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on the one side and talked in quick whispers as if there wasn't much time.
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He knows you're after it? Who does the boss? The man I
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worked was what does he look like? Where's he hang out? What's it
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worth to you, mister hood, to find out who's threatening? The odd
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thought? Suppose you tell us first who you are? What's a dip?
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Who I am? Make with the cash offer and you'll get what you really
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want to know. Fathy, Oh chicken seed, mister Hood, one hundred,
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come again, double enoughing, heman ain't show the buck. You come
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in, you will see. That's I gotta go in the town. Yeah,
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yeah, sixty far the week. All right, you went, Flaret,
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two hundre of dollars. Let's have it. Where can I find this
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man? They call the boss? But he's always at the same place you'll
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find. Oh look, I ain't got time to talk now, why not
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wait? Come back here? After my e beat me back at the tent
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in my dressroom, we bought our tickets. Standing and Iron followed the crowd
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into the Big ten. Pretty soon the girl appeared and climbed a rope ladder
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one hundred feet up at least four times a day she did this stuff.
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You must have had nerves of iron, lady. Then gentleman without net,
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without tavices, all right, with an alp the all the triple all in
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the air. With PERV timing, you will see her move from one p
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to the other. One mistake, one mistake, ladies and gentlemen, we'll
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mean instant. I don't get it, Greg, get what well? A
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trappee's artist, a hockey tom character. What possible connection can she have with
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a girl like le Aura Thorne? That is what we're going to pay her
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two hundred dollars to find out. Are you ready, miss lutt Oh?
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Ready? Miss I'll take her her to the dressing room. She'll never live
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after that boy. Let's get out of his sandy. Keep your seat.
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An accident, an accident, He's get your seat. Excuse us, please,
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we have to get through. Keep going, Greg right behind you this
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time. I'll bet my most sincere necktie on a sandy. That was deliberate.
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What did you notice the fellow who was beating the temple for her with
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a little fellow with the drum. Huh, yes, what about it?
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He took a powder as soon as she missed that second trefez. Well,
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he was Benny Baker, the man who went to see the orthon. That's
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right, and this was murder, pal deliberate murder in her dressing room.
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The incomparable Florett was dying a death I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
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We pushed our way through before anybody could stop us. An ambulance, in
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turn, was already there, shaking his head. The policeman was there too,
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making duck tracks in his notebook. I could see what was in the
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wind when I heard the copper say, up on an shutcase. Looks like
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just an accident. We may as well get out of here, Greg,
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Not yet, Sandy, it's too late. The girl won't be able to
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talk to us. Maybe she will with her eyes, her eyes, she's
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staring at us. I think she wants us to come closer. Can you
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speak, Florette, try, try hard? Who is he? This boss
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person, the man who made them do this to you? Greg? It's
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no you wait wait, she's moving her lips. What's she's saying? Something
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about death, something about a death ride. Listen, right, come on,
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Gregy, she's dead. Well we didn't get very far, did we,
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Not yet? But you may quote me as saying, I'm hope,
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oh, Greg, for Pete's safe. What call Leora Thorn? Tell her
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you're washing her hands of this? Not a chance, but We have work
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to do back at the office, but this is ridiculous trapesing around an amusement
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park. I'm going to find out who the gentleman known as the Boss is.
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He's responsible for Florette's murder. What makes you so sure that Florette was
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murdered? You'll see right now, I'm wondering what she meant by that death
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right death Rive stuff she may have been referring to Leora would be But on
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the other hand, hey, what down there on the midway and colored lights
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a mile high the death Rive twenty five sets amusement concession. Well, things
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are adding up. Come on. We ran down the midway, past the
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bingo joints and frozen custard stands were only two bits. The death Ride looked
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entertaining enough. It was a long tunnel filled with water, flat bottomed boats
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chained together took you on a dark and dismal voyage. But we didn't go
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on it, not yet. We didn't because just as we got there.
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What's the matter? Do you see what I saw over there? The ticket
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bill? He was buying a ticket on the death Ride. Then he spotted
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us and ducked who Benny Baker? There he goes up that Dolley. Wait,
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handy, we can collar off. I'm trying up all right, slow
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up, figure into the line, hockey. Okay, okay, you're out
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of training, hot legs. It's the life you lead. Who do you
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want? Call him? Sandy? Let me alone by the trick, hot
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legs? Who put you up to it? After what Lorett's bellyflop? How's
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an act slight correction? A murder? You're wacky? Listen, Benny,
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I know how trope artists work. They practice a certain beat, delivery,
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muscle is adjusted to it. When that beat has changed, even by a
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split second. Oh, that's how he did it. That's how he did
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it by changing the drum beat. A couple of Waisenheimers. We'll try and
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pin something on me. We both heard that drums. Oh did a hundred
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other people in that audience. You cooked, Benny? Unless you talk,
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who put you up to it? I suppose I sing? What? Then?
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Do you? Yeah? I don't do business with rats, Benny.
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Here's what I dout it out. I'm sick. Who's the man that hires
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you? Start singing? Sorry? Horror stop. I figure he's a middle
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aged guy, maybe kind of fat, maybe, judging by his voice,
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I have actually seen him. But he paid you to threaten mister and missus
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Thorn and to take care of Florette. Yeah, yeah, only I never
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actually seen him. Where is his gambling place located? He ain't the gambler,
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He ain't the guy he or lost him money to. No, he's
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only using that, see to pull some other racket on mister missus Thorn.
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Some other racket what kind? Don't ask me. I just follow orders.
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Oh how if you've never seen the man? The boss gives me orders on
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the phone, how does he pay you off? And he meets me now
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then? But always in the darkness, in the darkness, Oh, Gregg,
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he's lying to it. I ain't. I asked where? I ain't
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over there where I'm pointing. That's where he meets me on the death ride.
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Yeah, the last boat. You believe him, Greg, m could
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be remember the girl's dying words to us? Yeah? I think he's telling
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the truth. What are you going to do to me, mister till the
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police take over? I'm leaving you in the capable hands of mister Taylor.
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Here, Greig, where are you off to? A sudden end has come
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over mis Sanderson tried one of those amusement rides since I was a small boy.
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You're going on the death ride. If anybody wants me, I'll be
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in the last boat. Keeping a date. In the darkness of the tunnel,
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I strayed over to the ticket booth and put down my quarter. It
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was past midnight now and I was the only customer. I waited by the
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entrance gates. The string of tiny boats emerged from the tunnel, slowed up,
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disgorged a load of giggling bobby sockss. Then it was my turn.
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I asked the old geezer who was in charge, mind if I ride in
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the last one quite anywhere as you please, Richterelle. The death ride got
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under way, with yours truly as the only passenger. Suddenly I felt lonely,
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as if I didn't have a friend in the world. The boats headed
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into the long black tunnel. I couldn't see my hand two inches in front
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of my face. In the inky blackness, I lost all sense of direction.
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I felt stifled, beads of perspiration collected on my forehead. But so
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far no fellow passenger. You know that feeling you get in a dark room,
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that a stranger is right alongside you. Well, Suddenly I knew I
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could sense him sitting behind me in that last boat. I waited for him
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to speak, but all I could hear was the water in that tunnel and
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his watch, the ticking of his watch. I remember how it pichoed.
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Finally, when he talked, his voice was muffled. When I answered,
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I tried to sound like mister Benny Hotlick's duckle face. Bigger bet you,
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Benny, Yeah, take care of Florette. Yeah, good boy, got
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another job for you, Penny, okay, up near Tahoe's gonna be an
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accident up there tomorra morning. What kind of accident? Fallen rocks? Automobile's
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gonna get out of control? Will someone get killed? A girl? Suddenly
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a shaft of light. There must have been a torn place in the canvas
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that lined the tunnel. Suddenly he must have seen that I wasn't Benny.
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Because I couldn't turn around. His hands were on my throat. I still
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couldn't see who he was, and the hands kept gripping tighter tighter, and
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then roman candles started shooting off in my break. One fires danced before my
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eyes, and then my black douse song. Here's where you get off on
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my old fade of water. But enough ground here, Greg, take it
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easy, old man, my throat just lie on that bench from where'd you
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find me? Sandy on the death ride, floating face down? Deserve a
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Carnadian metal for life saving? How come such perfect timing? Well he got
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away, Baker. I was running after him. Just as we passed the
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death ride. I saw a passenger climbing out of the last boat. It
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wasn't you, and I got worried that passenger what did he look like?
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I didn't wait to see. I grabbed a flashlight from the old man and
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went slashing into the tunnel to find you. I never saw that other passenger
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either, dark that was the boss, Yes, and the idea of his
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identity. His hands suddenly sat Yes. I just remember that follows hands has
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left wrist. What never mind, it'll keep We better get after Benny Baker.
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I've learned his professional killer with another job on tap for tomorrow morning.
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Oh and I let him get away. Come on, we've got to stop
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him. What are you stopping for? Greg? We won't have to look
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any further from mister Benny. Hotlake's Baker where I don't see him? Look
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now, do you see him where you're appointing? Yes? That concession over
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there, killbut's waxworks museum. Those figures on display outside. Look at those
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wax figures. Oh oh, Craig, how fantastic? Fantastic was the word?
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All right? Three of them standing upright and motionless, Napoleon, Mary,
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Queen of Scott's, holding her head in her hands, and Jack the
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Ripper, all built of wax. Alongside, slumped over and equally motionless was
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Benny Baker. They made a lovely force that green spotlight on them. It
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almost swear that Benny was a wax figure too. Yeah, except for the
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bullet hole and the blood Sandy. Let's get back to the car there,
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Craig, where are you driving to? You'll see this isn't the direction to
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my house. I'm not taking you home, pal. Oh, Now see
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here, Greig, Enough is enough. I've got a home and a company
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rest mattress waiting for me, yes, and a wife who's probably ready to
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divorce me, was staying out all night. Here we are Leona Thorn's house.
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I know it's late Liora, but I've got to see you this is
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Sandy Taylor my attorney? How did you do come into the library, Leora?
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I want to talk to you. I'll wait out here in the hall.
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Yes, Greg, are you by any chance planning an auto trip?
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How did you know? A little? Bertie told me in the morning Brad
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and I driving out of town for the weekend to Lakewell, who told you
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you're not going? Lia? But Greg, Gret and I is off for
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a very simple reason. If you value your life, Greg, what are
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you talking about? Bad darling? You better come in and listen to this
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all right. I woke up as I heard you going downstairs. Precious Gregg
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says that we caught off our trip to Tahoe. Oh why's that? Mister
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hood falling rocks? What? There's to be an accident on that mountain road
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to Leora's lodge. Leora is scheduled to be a corpse quick You mean they
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actually kill her because of that gambling debt. That petty crap game operator hasn't
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been threatening Leora at all. That somebody who figures this is a perfect time
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to put you in a nice marble mausoleum while he can use that gambling that
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is a cover up. Why haven't any enemy. Su're absolutely sure of this,
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mister Hood. I've met the gentleman in question. You've seen him.
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I didn't say i'd seen him. We met in the darkness. He tried
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to kill me. Oh, he's a bad boy. He had two confederates
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working with him. When they talked too much, he put them both out
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of the way. It sounds so fantastic, guy, Laura's right, mister
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Hood like a bad movie. You don't care for melodramatic doings, Athon,
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Oh, I guess I'm just not used to them. You like things to
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be calm and serene. Yes, I guess you'd call me the matter of
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fact type. Uh, tell me something, Thorn, Yes, don't you
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ever get tired? I'm tired of what of playing cat and mousiad? He
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knows you love him now, or he knows he's mentioned in your will.
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He also knows how changeable you are, and he'd rather be a rich widower
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than a poor ex husband. Get up, I'm not listening bad. I'm
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just not sure. We used to working carnivals in the old days, didn't
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you, Thorn? With Lorett and Fenny, you knew they could be hired
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for a price. Say these things. That's right, Thorn, don't let
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me say them. Okay, that is how you want it. Stand up
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your too, precious, Lamb. No one's told me you die for me.
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Here's your big chance. See he's right, you are too changeable,
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precious. If you're getting tired of me one of these fine days, we
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mustn't have that. What what are you gonna do? And they shot what
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I start? Okay, Sandy, you can come in now, watch out,
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Sandy, Okay, shot with what prop back? Your dirty got him?
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All right? You're coming quietly to the police and we play more patty
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Cake? How come I knew it was you? Ever since that excursion on
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the death right. Huh, say goodbye to your wife. Goodbye, preshous
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Lamb. I'll take off the wristwatch and give it to him. But your
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love gift to him is what put me on to him in the darkness.
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Thrm. It was like an engraved calling guard, a wristwatch, heart shaped,
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extremely unusual, and you forgot all about the luminous dial. You have
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heard. The Carnival of Death, an adventure from the case book of Gregory
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Hood, written this week by Jerome d Ross, directed by Martin Andrews and
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produced by Frank Cooper Associates. Listen again next week at the same time over
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this ABC station for the story of the Mutton Jade Buddha, another adventure from
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the casebook of Gregory Hood. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company,
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Welcome Back. I was impressed by the sound quality of the program. I
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wish it had been a better episode. The music almost seemed overpowering at times.
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I didn't like this version of Sanderson Taylor, and the plot wasn't all
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that great. Plus Gregg seemed to get a little too tough. But I
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did like Jackson Barracks overall portrayal. It was very strong, I think,
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much stronger than he was on File of Vents. I never quite cared for
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that show because he just seemed a bit off and was really hard to enjoy
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him on File of Vents. But I thought he brought a lot of passion
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and interest to the way he did Gregory Hood. And so this may have
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been an off episode, but it was ABC, and ABC's production values at
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this point were not did not have that great of reputation. What little I've
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been able to garner about the rest of the series run is what I get
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from the Digital la FDP's log on this and by March fifteenth of nineteen fifty
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Martin Gable had taken over as Gregory Hood and Paul McGrath would also take a
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run at the role, and the series would go off the air some time
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prior to October of nineteen fifty one, when it would be brought back for
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two weeks with George Petrie, who we've heard as the amazing mister Malone.
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And we also heard and call the Police taking over the role of Gregory Hood,
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which is digital LAFDP notes it's slightly ironic given who actually sponsored the show.
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Well, I always hope for lost episodes of shows to come forward.
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I'll be honest that I would much rather we find somebody find more Gil Gordon
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and Elliott Lewis episodes rather than more of the ABC episodes. But whatever they
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find, I'll take it. Well, We're going to bring you another AB
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show C show next week, but this one is one that has a lot
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of fans and is the epitome of tough guy radio Pat Noovac for Hire,
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so be sure and listen. Coming next Tuesday, Pat Novak for Hire,
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and be sure and listen. Tomorrow for murder My Suite. In the meantime,
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your host, Adam graham Son and Off.