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Homicide O’Kane: The Story Of The Killer Who Returned From The Dead As The Clock Struck The Hour (EP1220) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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two weeks. Well, today we're going to bring you a series called Homicide
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Okaine. And I'll be honest that I do not know a whole lot about
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it, But then again, nobody does. A series aired during the war,
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and it aired over the Blue Network. As we've discussed a few times,
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ABE, which was what the Blue Network become became was not the most
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power pact of networks in terms of talent. This is an unusual series.
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It stars Johnny Easton, but from the best we can tell, that appears
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to be Bud Heaston, who was a longtime radio announcer on a variety of
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programs including the Adventures of Maizie Cinnamon Bear and of course let George do it.
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There's only one circulating episode, and so let me go ahead and I
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will read you the title of today's show from Mark Second, nineteen forty three.
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It's the story of the killer who returned from the dead as the clock
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struck the hour. So here now is the story of the killer who returned
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from the dead as the clock struck the tower. From Hollywood Homicide, Okain,
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Homicide Okain. Listen carefully, I'm dying that You've got to know this.
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When you catch him, you find blood on the money, That's how
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you can prove that he killed me. That's how you know it was.
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That's how you know, when a thief kills for money, several things can
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happen. He can be caught and arrested and pay for his crime, or
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he can vanish for a time with his ill gotten gains. Or and this
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you may have trouble believing he can come back from the dead when the clock
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strikes twelve. I'll that last sounds a little screwy, I know, but
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ask the men down at headquarters, Ask the boys on my homicide squad,
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ask Cocaine about the killer who returned at midnight as the clock struck the hour.
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I'm a side of Kaine. We are still try the part. Well,
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do a little better than just try, sister. It shouldn't be too
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difficult to trace that call. Oh trace call? Okay, Well just a
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second, lieutenant, Look, babe, yes, take your cue from the
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fact that you're talking to the police and that the guy who phoned in had
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all the symptoms of a man being murdered. He didn't hang up, so
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the line's still open. Now you go on from there. One moment,
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one moment, Oh fine, well this is taking up okay, yes,
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lieutenant, trying to trace a call, eh, yes, lieutenant from a
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guy who had all the symptoms of being murdered. Yeah, interesting, yes,
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lieutenant, Yes, lieutenant, is not all you can say out of
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monophoness. I'd say it's a manner, litt kiddy, got your tongue?
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Or is this a private murderer? I shouldn't intrude. It's just that I
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haven't had time yet to draw your map, lieutenant, so you'd understand.
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But in nice easy words of assorted syllables. I just had a phone call,
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who I'll joy, I don't know it from a guy who said he
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was dying and he didn't sound like he was getting fine. He also said
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we could prove who killed him by the blood on the money, because it'll
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be his blood. Isn't that a big help? Do you suppose to go
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on? And then and then the guy was dying? Lieutenant? That's all?
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Yes? One minute? Pay well, gee, I'm pretty grateful.
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Grandma, Oh nothing, it's Dandy's standy. You said it blood on the
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money, Oh, my brother. Operator, don't give me that operator routine,
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sweetheart. Just scurry around and find where that call came from. That's
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all I asked. Believe me, the supervisor, exchange report your phone air
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two three six nine that I can believe. Look right the address, could
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you buy any slight mishap? Managed to secure that? And sub scrubber is
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listed as Oh that's different, that's different address. It's three five three Well,
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gee, good for you and loving kisses. Good night, little peal
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three three five South Thurman the Rigor Gorman Brokerage Company. Is this where our
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cheer madly? This is, lieutenant, where you can go for a little
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spin through the city at night. Would you like that? I bet?
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What's the inducement? Inducement? Well, playing hard to get. When you're
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a lieutenant, you can be choosy. That's right. Well the inducement,
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Lieutenant, is at the end of the ride, a dead man and stuff.
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Pretty gruesome, no doubt to see. It's nice. If you think
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so, you have deplorable taste. Look, Lieutenant House for coming along and
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joining me in a nice long shudder. Three Garman Brokerage Company. The sign
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that says, all right, where's the nice long shudder you promised? Okain,
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Yes, dark in there, no watchman undo? You apparently try the
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door always the realist, lieutenant, Well, well what do you know that?
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Luck? All right, lieutenant? What's all right about a door?
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Let's not a lot. But we can go through and edit the darkness,
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you know, in search of death. Well, where's the body? You
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just can't wait, can you? Lieutenant? You morbid or more? Butid
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you? I'm not at all fond of wild goose chasers. Only we're not
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chasing a wild goose, Lieutenant. Remember, it's a dead man we're after.
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How about this office here? All right? How about it? Let's
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ask go in and find out. That's logical, isn't it. The guy
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who had all the symptoms of being murdered didn't phone me from in here?
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Then I'll admit we've gone a bit of a blank sew your flashlight being more
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there by that desk? Look yike, pretty you think so? Really?
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He should be a switch on the wall somewhere near this jar. Yeah,
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it's better. I prefer a bright light in the presence of death, don't
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you. Spawled forward on his desk, the top of his head, the
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telephone receiver off beside his right hand or fell, and his grip relaxed.
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I think that we found him, all right, the man who phoned them
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to save he's dying. He wasn't exaggerating. Yeah, wait a minute,
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either, The man who's dead or he's not dead? Okay, and make
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up your mind. I'm trying to whoever did this job really meant it?
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I think amazing. I think you might see if that phone is still working,
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lieutenant and put in a call for an ambulance and he's not telling him
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to step on it. This is one time when the boys have a real
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excuse to roll. Okay on, Kenny, All right, oh man,
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make you a touch more comfortable, you know we start him more bleeding.
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And turn your head. Christian, it's a brother. Hello, emergency hospital,
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Lieutenant William's homicide. Take an easy, family, I know it's that
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much. We'll get you picked up in the human want here and the little
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past. That's all. Let's just get you straightened around a little more so
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you'll rest easy. Oh fine, pretty bad, lieutenant. Did you get
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an emergency sending an ambulance? But I'm wondering if it won't be where you
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can wonder from me too. Look, it's not take an ead path.
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You're police. We'll police. We got your call. But never mind trying
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to talk. Save that for later, chump. You got to know you
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better stave your strength. Gorman, your garment. But let's not worry about
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that at the moment. Gorman. That's one of the names on the outer
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door, William Old Gorman, one of the owners of Rigo Garman. What's
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it regor? The other name on the outer door, Rodney Rigor. That's
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my pardner. Yeah, we know he did it fine, nice partner.
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His eyes are opening reg better. If you don't try to talk, take
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it, you can prove it. But the blood on the money, my
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bloody hey, hey, now, look, don't try to get up.
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You're pretty badly hurt. Cue me for the money. He looks pretty bad.
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Okay, yeah, it doesn't look good seeing Pulse is trapped off.
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What's holding him up? Twenty five thousand dollars? Pulse is gone. Cute.
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It's a nice, jolly sort of partner to have. That's Rodney Rigger.
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Feeling a little better now, friend, he's feeling a lot better.
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Doesn't bother him now passed out, not out, but on. I guess
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you better get on that phone again, lieutenant, and cancel that call for
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an ambulance. Canceled. Why ambulances are only for the living. You better
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put in a call for the car in a service car instead. Better keep
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leaning on that doorbell button. Okay, I think that'll do it, Lieutenant,
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even at a quarter past eleven. After all, we're not trying to
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awaken the dead. There'll be cryptic, Lieutenant on you. It doesn't look
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good. You've already seen an example of Rodney Rigger's work tonight. But he
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did to his partner. He's also been doing a little homework in there too,
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always expecting to find bodies. You're cruiesome, Lieutenant, utterly getting results
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at last, Rigor. Somebody's awakened there. Yeah, I just came on
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the hall. I think I heard give him a bill again? What is
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this? Patients? Aren't you? Yes? Why somebody come to the door
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at last? So you can let that high blood pressure simmer down from a
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neat fore f listen about time? Watch it? Well, okay, take
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it easy. Wait a minute. You can't come in here, I said,
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sorry, but we can and have happened. We, Lieutenant, will
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cut the clowning. Okay, in the close our door and we go throwing
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our rank around. Yes, sir, who are you headquarters? My badge?
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Oh? Plase? Yes, police, what do you want? I'll
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ask things? You answer? Who are you? Missus? Martin? Of
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course, I tell us everything, add a little more. I'm mister Rigor's
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housekeeper. Well they're grim bozo this guy. Reason must be he doesn't miss
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anywhere. All right? Where is Riga Reesa whatever his name is? We
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want a few words with a gentleman. You'll wait here. I think we'll
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go wait here. Go on, but tell Rigger enough to keep us waiting,
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all right, And you've got the equipment to do it too, haven't
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you. Baby. I need to tell him that too. If he doesn't
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know it yet, there's no use a little speech. Cinderella, the coachman
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awaits a large, fat, gray wrath, wasn't he? And to think
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of it, he was, wasn't he? He will quote fairy tales.
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Okay, yeah, but that doesn't explain why we're standing here with our feet
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in our mouth. While hatchet Face goes to give Riga the hot tip he
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needs, a potter, Eddie in gen will be around the back of the
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house by now. No one's going to get very far in the meantime to
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straighten things out in my mind. Oh, come now, lieutenant, to
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make sure who's who in this deal. I'm giving him a chance to make
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the first place, and quite generous of you too, I'm sure, and
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it reminds me I should have tucked an extra handful of thirty eight caliber police
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Specials in my pocket if i'd only known. If you're a generous impulse right,
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all right, be very funny, Okay, I don't think I was
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kidding. Quiet sort of place, isn't it. It's a proverbial tomb.
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The stump has all the earmarks. You might recall what I said about waking
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the dead could be oh, poisoning petticoats and riga too. For that matter,
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you're taking that time about making that play you so generously offered him.
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Well, I was thinking myself, and even Lieutenant can fall in his face.
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What are we doing? Now? Take big black duns in hand and
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go for a walk through this sepulcher. Open that front door, step out
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and ring the bell again? Are you kidding? Do what? I'll just
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open the door and reach for that bell. But maybe someday, when we
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really get to be policeman, I beg your pather, Huh did you ring?
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Which crack? Did you pop out for? No? I didn't ring,
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But I was just about to silly of me, wasn't it. I
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distinctly heard the door bell a few minutes ago. Unfortunately I couldn't come at
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once a few minutes ago. Yeah, we did the ring. Then would
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you mind telling me who you are and how you got into the house.
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We're police, little pal, and Missus Martin let us in. Missus Martin
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Rigo's housekeeper. I beg your pa, Missus Martin, Rigger's housekeeper. She
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let us in and went to tell Riga we're here. Oh, how very
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strange is it. It's because there is no Missus Martin. The name is
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quite unfamiliar. In fact, I've never heard of it. Now. Look,
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little man, no one has ever lived here, you see, except
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for the master, mister Rigo. Oh yes, of course, I mean.
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Well, who are you? If you please? I am Parks.
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Oh I see butler in house man and all that. I take it out
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double as a spook after doc huh, Well, Parace, let's put the
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social small dog aside and get to the point. We want to see your
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master right now, and we'll settle a Missus Martin matter later. Oh.
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I'm afraid you can't see you, mister, but if I, if I
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may say so, I'm very glad to see you Now what kind of a
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line is that line? Sat? What do you mean you're glad to see
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it? Are you kidding? Oh? That? Yes, God, yes,
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you see. I was just about the phone for the police set.
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Oh wait a minute, what kind of a GAG's going up? Trying to
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cover a getaway at temp by your boss? Get we want in for murder?
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Don't give us that just about for phone for the police stuff. Oh
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oh, I see? Well then well then what perhaps you understand better if
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you just step this way into the master's study. Whether it happens, is
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just this very in here, gentlemen, if you look at the rug there
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about the desk, you see, oh fie, nice big pool of blood
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soaking into the very nice road. Well, what do you know? The
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scene has been set for the exit of Rodney riger. We make like the
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guy's been murdered. Something new has been added. I never mind that,
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where's riga? I don't know where that blood come from. I don't know.
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I think you better scratch your memory, little friend, and start in
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to know something. Believe me, is very much a skew. You check
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with me, Luken from my money, this ale setup smells of the skies.
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We come here to pick up Rigo for killing his partner. Missus Martin,
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who says she's the housekeeper, lets us in and disappears, And our
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ghostly little pal here creeps out from behind them up board and says he's the
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butler, and that there is no Missus Martin. And then we're brought here
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to gaze upon a shiny new pool of blood about which nothing is known.
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Parks, Oh, yes, sir, look at me, Parks, I
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am look into my eyes a little man, and read what they promise.
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And then, having done that, start in to talk. Oh fuck,
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yes, first place, whose blood is that on the floor? Well,
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now it could be the Master? I see it could be the masters.
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What's the matter? Don't you like to look at it? Why do you
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keep turning away? Look for talking? Oh well, now what do you
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know about that blood? The master? Rigor? Yes, sir, the
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Master retired to his study here this evening. That turned his usual custom to
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read well. A few moments ago at Eleven's he always does, he rang
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for me. He likes a little refreshment, you know, buits a cup
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of coffee, keep on talking. I had his tray already prepared, sir,
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so when he rang I brought it in at once, but when I
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entered the study, well he wasn't here, sir. There was no one
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here, nothing but that blood on the rug. You search the house,
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Oh, yes, sir, at once. But mister Rigo apparently has vanished.
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Wonderful, mister Rigor apparently has vanished just when he was about to be
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a rusted for murder. That's fine, I heard some wonderful there is not
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gone, but never wanted quite like this. It has got its snack que
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a man rings for his butler, suddenly leaves all over the place, and
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boom he is gone, just like in a story voice in real life.
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Simply amazing Springlet fine the phrase look farks the old boy. I'm That's what
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I know is yes, it is, but it isn't enough. Well,
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I know, I know. I'm very sorry, and of course that helps,
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yes, doesn't it? Where I what's just on the floor by the
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end of the desk, empty briefcase regard. Oh, I hardly think I've
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never seen it before. Michels and Ghouls, stanmped on the flap W lg
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Hey William L. Gorman, Riger's partner. Anything in the lieutenant, the
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strips of paper sought the banks fashing around by it one. I'm not going
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this one. There's another another. Keep on looking, Lieutenant, and you'll
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probably find enough to total twenty five thousand for which Rigor killed his partner tonight.
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What's the matter part surprise, that's right, twenty five thousand real fault
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money that he took from his partner after a nice choice for the murder twenty
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five grand Parksy, huh. Nice men have killed for less or gotten themselves
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killed if you know what I mean, yes, or in order to acquire
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which have doped out a smart way to van Then I presume this means you're
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going to arrest me, arrest you? Why should I arrest you? Parks?
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You name the charge of murdering mister Rico for the money you say he
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stole, mister Gormets Knight. That is what you meant, isn't it.
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We'll talk about murder when we got a body to prove it. First,
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we've got to find a body somewhere in this house. Nobody's been found,
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and we'll talk about murder. I'm sure you see what I mean. Any
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luck came and that yet, Lieutenant, which is odd not too easy to
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explain hiding a body isn't the simplest joman and two bodies, not one?
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And missus smart remember, well, the answer might be there aren't anybodies at
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all except blood. We're going to have to convince little Parksy here that it
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is smarter to talk. But I know you don't know anything. I've taken
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back into the study here. Hey, who closed this door? Yeah it
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was open when we left here. You're telling me hope that okay, okay,
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come in it. We turn out the light in here. Fine,
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the three of us in this house alone, step, We've got company who
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goes around ahead of us, closing doors and turning out the lights. Now,
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if I may say so, so Parksy, don't tell us this house
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is harder. Oh no, no, no. Several times as we went
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from room to room, I thought we're good for you. You thought what
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I thought. I heard footsteps not alone, and that thought little chump No,
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I heard him too. Thought it was my imagination to let your imagination
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run on ahead of you. Well, let's get these lights so I don't
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want to have what's a minute listen, keep still from them. This change
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still makes me think of a tomb. Oh it is quiet, isn't it?
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Shut up? Nothing but the ticking of the clock. Oh, yes,
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the clock is don't you hear it? I noticed the big grandfather's clock
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against the wall behind the desk. Tick of the clock. Cut that out,
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party. I really wasn't amused. It's incredible that you could be.
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If you do think it's something funny, Please tell me, say, lieutenant,
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well, turn the lights on just a moment more. Again, something
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very strange going on around here. We heard something toward the rear of the
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house sound like what, for example, don't start that? What kind of
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a sound. It was like a man getting ready to scream. Yes,
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I thought so all you did? He gets strange, isn't it perhaps a
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coincidence? Coincidence doesn't make a noise like that. Get some lights, stand
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on, Let's move fast. I want the man who made that noise,
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I think in that room the star here, Yes, missus Martin's room.
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I thought you said there wasn't any Missus martin parks yead? Oh did I?
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Oh? I must have forgotten. That's funny. Very Let's go in
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there. Whoever that man was who yelled like that, Let's go Missus Martin's
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room. Mate. Over there, I see missus Martin has come back,
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her body stuffed into that trunk alive. Okain, I hardly think it's possible.
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Dad for some time, probably since the time she disappeared, just after
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she let us in unpleasantly dead like Rigo's partner, bloodstained hammer in there with
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her, just like that Gorman died. Bigger has a weakness for beating in
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heads. That doesn't tell us her scream not missus Martin. Well, whoever
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lifted the lid of that trunk was the one? Who you see something?
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Oh? That closet just moved a very trifle. That's all I wanted to
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know. All right, baby, come on there, come riche whoa,
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Okay, I ain't bad at nobody. Whoa, look who's among us?
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Yeah? And please you could turn the heaters away, because, believe me,
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it's true. I ain't done letting. That's harmful. Well cheetah,
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Yeah, a second story acquaintance of long standing yeah cheater gentleman intruder takes things
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as he finds him. Eh, Oh, I ain't really big just because
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I snitched a few knickknacks anytime that's hot. I am really shut up.
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Cheetera the burgler, just a big playboy at heart. Huh what are you
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doing in this house? That's lieutenant. I have been asking myself to know
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Avail it was you? Well, yeah, why because I was most unhappy?
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You see why unhappy? Cheetah? Did it ever happen to you?
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Opening the trunk and a dark room and putting in a hand by the way
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you no harm to see what can be found, and having that hand come
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in contact you might say, with a very dead face, what would you
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do? What did you do? Did you kill her? Me? That
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wooden harm? Even an itchy bitchy we fly? Oh you know me?
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Okay? Oh nice house, tater too long? Maybe a couple of hours.
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I'm kept so busy on the dogs, with people going around. Where's
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the profit? In fact, I am happy you found me. This is
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one house where I will never return to my professional capacity. Right, but
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I know another house where you will. You mean, the big yes up
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the river. Well, at least they got no dead women in trunks.
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In fact, they got no women at all. So it is consequently peaceful
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I can set out my jolt in a breath. You'll get a chance to
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try and fine. You may think the more important things at the moment,
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Missus Martin murdered in spite of the fact that Parks here stated there was no
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Missus Martin another killing in the study, Rigger himself, probably what do you
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make of it? Okay, let's go back to that study. I think
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that the key of the mystery is there in that pool of blood. Well
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in blood, all right, Okay, blood's gonna tell us something. Let's
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go. You think I'm kidding that pool of blood? For instance, here
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goes Sherlock, get ready to be a maid. Where's the man who lost
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that blood? He wouldn't walk far. He didn't walk at all. If
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he had, there'd be a trail of blood drops on the carpet. Well,
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he didn't fly, and he didn't vanish in which means he was carried
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carried where that's the question, Lieutenant Foxy, old boy who always in this
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house at eleven o'clock when Riga ran for you and he came into the study
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to find this here. Now, I was in the house here, of
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course, and Missus Martin. Let's skip Missus Martin, whom you wants tonight
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and just look at you? Yes, you don't mind who not at all?
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I'll get on with it, O Kaine. Let's hear blood tell us
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something more. Some of the blood that'll talk isn't here at the moment.
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Gorman's blood on that money for which Riga killed him. When we got that
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marked money, will know plenty. And proof is Gorman said over the phone,
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a Rigor had killed him. Proof of more than that. Those bud
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stained bills are also the key to what happened in this study tonight. We
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got the man with the money, We got a man who burns. I
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beg your pregnant king, what are you talking about? Why did I hear
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you say something about bloodstained money? I'm afraid you did. And when you
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found the man who's got it he is you might say, sort of out
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of luck? Mistressed? What you getting there, Cheeter? In the course
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of my professional intevils tonight, well you might say I ran across it.
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This to be the money? You mean? Where'd you get that? Water
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barrels? Jeeter? Oh there's more, Lieutenant, Look, there's more,
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wonderful and at last, a mere little handful of one hundred dollars bills the
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voice sees I ever did see, and we part with reluctance. You think
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I'm kidding. I don't know if there's twenty five thousand year lieutenant. There
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could be. I do know that most of these pills are bloodstained, all
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Gorman's money, for which he was killed and for which other people had died
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TONI missus Martin, for instance, Robby rigored himself. Where'd you find this
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money, Jeeter, you might say, purely by accident. I bounced into
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a room where I find a nice suitcase, all packed but not yet blocked,
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so it comes open all at once. Yeah, I hadn't even look
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at it, but it does. And under the nice shots I find it.
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Though Chester or Cheatah, neither back of the house where the servants live.
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I figured I would say, was I asked to express an opinion?
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Yeah, it could be a rumor. This butler jump it had them kind
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of clothes in the closet. He was going to make a trip. So
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blood speaks again. I looked at it's been a parent all along, that
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Parks has been our man. That's right, but there are other things still
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not a parent all right, parksy on you handcuffs. WI look quite handsome.
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I know I have no you want to walk up? No, don't
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turn away. From the very nice policeman's jump, or I will strike you
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again, much obliged to you. That I know is something you like to
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do for yourself, okain, And I didn't like the spoils. You're taking
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a swing in his puss, But I was closest beside him, trying to
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be a very good boy over here, parks You know the handcuffs come up.
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You are arresting me for the miurder of mister Rigal murder. Yes,
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Parksy, then I'm very sorry, very sorry, but you're making a mistall
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So how'd you come to that conclusion, my little pale faced friend? By
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your own statement set, there can be no murder charge unless the murder can
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be proved. Now, where's the master's body to prove that I killed him?
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Oh? He gets technical? Okay, yeah, and that'll save his
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neck. Of course, there is the matter of the body. But then
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I of you like to see the body of the murdered man? Are you
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kidding? Okay? Not especially? I know where it is, all right,
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Producer, Parksy. According to your story, when your buzzy sounded tonight
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at eleven to order Rigo's coffee and biscuits, the man who pressed that buzzer
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button died, disappeared. I think if that buzzer is sounded again, he'll
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return. So I'm not tell me, Parsy, what is the signal for
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the butler in this house? Twice? What was the last time at night
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when Rigo usually sounded for you at midnight? There when he was ready to
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retire for the night. That was my guess. And midnight is only a
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few seconds away, Parksey, stand there by the desk with your finger on
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that button. When I tell you, press twice. Now, this is
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a gun in my hair, little pal. Hey, the rest of you
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come over by the clock so you can watch the time. Shakespeare Ocaine always
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dramatic. All right, do we hear? It's a few seconds to midnight
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when the clock starts to strike, ring twice for the butler, and let's
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see who comes in? Okain? Are you crazy? Not? Very get
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ready, Parsy? All right, ring for the butler. Press that button,
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yes, sir? And now why are you opening the case of that
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grandfather's clock. I see he rang for the butler, and here he is.
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I'm not a dead person stuffed in the big clock. Fine, So
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that's where a rigor's body was hidden, not riger. The old routine was
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still followed tonight. The master pressed the buzzer, the servant appeared. How
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do you know there was a like as two peas like master, like man,
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and I read that someone. They say it happens after years together and
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a little makeup can help. Look at the makeup on the man by the
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desk. Since he started the sweat to make his getaway with the money he
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stole from his partner, Riga planned this method of disappearance to assume the identity
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of his butler to make his get away easier. But missus Mattin she knew
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the butler and riger both, of course, and had to be silent.
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Yes, but more questions, Lieutenant, how did you know the butler's body
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was hidden in the big grandfather's clock. Okay, now listen for the last
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time tonight, Blood speaks. Listen to the tick of the clock. Well,
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I wondered about that when I first heard it. Why, because it
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can't be ticking. It's the dripping of blood. That clock doesn't tick,
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it's electric. The story of the killer who returned from the dead as the
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clock struck the hour brought you the voices of Johnny Easton as Okaine and Richard
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Legrand as Lieutenant Williams. You heard Howard mcneer as the killer, Sarah Selby
31:59
is and this is Martin Harry Lang is Cheater and Grace hold Me as the
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telephone operator. A musical direction by Lou Bring Walter Ronold speaking homicide o'caine comes
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to you from Hollywood. This is the Blue Network. Welcome back now.
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Our challenge is to say the title three times fast. This one had some
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weird, odd moments, but I found it just kind of fun as it
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played out. It's kind of interesting to listen to his unique show. I
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don't know how long would feel if there were thirty or forty episodes of this,
32:45
but for one sample of what this show was, it's kind of interesting.
32:51
The sniping between lieutenant and o'caane was not great, and Ocaine could be
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a bit of a food per but you still have Howard mcneer making appearances wherever
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he can to pick up his scale pay. I will say I think they
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kind of wrote the lieutenant a little just too over the top dumb, particularly
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having to be advised that they would not need an ambulance for a corpse.
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But Anyway, that's all for homicide Okaine. And if you thought nineteen forty
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three was early, next week, we're going back to the thirties for eighteen
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