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Nick Carter: Death Plays the Lead (EP1188) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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week's episode comes from December third of nineteen forty four and the tonnle is Death
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Somewhere in these United States is an Army training camp, and somewhere in that
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camp is the USO Theater, which, on account of the rain pouring down
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outside, is unusually well filled. As our story opens, Nick Carter with
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his two assistants, Patsy and Scubby, are hurrying backstage in the theater and
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the company of their host, Major Wayne right through here. Nick, gosh,
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what a mob book, Scavy, you're a most soldious backstage here the
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night? Yeah, quiet, quiet, please quiet? Where's mister Dexter?
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Right here? Major? I'm glad you could get here so soon. This
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is bad business, mister Dexter, very bad business. Who was it?
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Was killed? My leading lady, Margot Craven. She was shot in her
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dressing room right in here, mister Dexter. This is Nick Carter. He
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just happened to be here visiting me today. But I'm going to ask him
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to take over the investigation for me. We're lucky to have such a great
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detective here when we need him. Thank you, Dexter. I suppose you
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tell me what you know about this right from the beginning, of course,
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it really started right after the first act. I was in my office when
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Ross Craven, Margot's husband, came in. Well next to you've done it
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again. It's a hit. You really like the show, Craven, I
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certainly do, But say, what's the matter with my wife? Why what
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do you mean? Is anything the matter with Margot? I just stopped in
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the dressing room and she was crying, and she swears she won't go on
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for the second act. She will if I have to drag her on.
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Those boys will be disappointed. You go out front, Craven, and don't
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worry. I'll go back and see her, all right, Dexter, You
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know sometimes I think she should have married you instead of me. You certainly
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can have better than I can. Did he mean anything special by that,
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dex term. It's no secret that I've been in love with Margot for years,
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but she married Craven and that was the end of it for me.
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I see, suppose you go on with your story. I started backstage,
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and just as I got to the passageway where Margo's dressing room was, I
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heard a shot. I ran to her room, opened the door, and
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found her lying on the floor. I just had time to be sure she
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was dead when Patty came in. Who's Patty? Petty Bird my assistant,
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my best friend, and my pal and protector. He entered the dressing room
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right behind me. Is she is she dead? Yes? Yes, she's
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dead, Patty? Well did she kill herself? I don't know. That
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must be the gun on the floor. There a pearl handled thirty two,
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and I think I have seen her have it before. Now yeah, oh
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hey, she went the window open. It's raining in I'd better close it.
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That's lucky you want in here with her. When it happened, I
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saw you crossing backstage. The shot was fired. But I wish someone else
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had seen you? Meaning what? Meaning that lots of people knew you was
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in love with her, that it nearly broke up when she married Craven,
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that's all. They might think you killed her because it was jealous. That's
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absurd, Miss Craven, five of it. Well, Patty, there's one
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call she'll never answer, never again. Gosh, mister Dexter. That's I've
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been examining the gun, Nick. There no prints on it at all I
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see next to You have any idea why missus Craven refused to go on for
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the second act tonight? Why she? I caldn't tell you? Why?
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Yes? And who are you? That is? Kyl Shaw our star Shaw?
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What do you mean by saying you could tell why Margot Craven was in
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love with Dexter? She was eating her heart out for him said if she
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couldn't have him, she'd wrecked the show. That's why she wouldn't go on
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for the second act. And I'll bet he went in to argue with her.
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Maybe he threatened her and she read the gun for protection. They struggled
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for it and it went off, killing her. Do you know that that
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happened? No? But I know Margo and I know Dexter. Look here,
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Shaw, dex won't defend himself. I'll do it for him. Why
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don't you tell mister Carter and the truth that you were in love with Margo
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yourself, that you've been threatened to kill her ever since she married Craven.
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Sometimes she teased you and you got some madge almost went crazy. Are you
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insinuating that I killed? I am and write to your face, what's the
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matter here? What's happen? Margo? Margo husband, mister Carter, Your
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wife's dead, mister Craven dead. You didn't kill her, did your Dexter?
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We don't know who killed her yet, we aren't even certain she didn't
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kill herself. I was afraid Dexter might have done it. Yes, it's
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a rotten temper and it would have been my fault because I asked him to
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come back here and argue with her. Mister Craven, do you know anyone
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who might have had reason to kill her? Yes, Carl Shaw. He
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had a filthy temper and Margo was always teasing him. You lie, Maybe
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you killed Margot yourself. Why do you say that, mister sharp Craven didn't
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love his wife. He wanted to be rid of her. Told me that's
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a lie, and you know it. Mister Craven. Why have you been
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since you talked to Dexter before? You certainly didn't get as soaked as you
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are now sitting in a theater. Well, no, I went out and
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walked around to cool off. Then I saw the soldiers leaving the theater,
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so I came back to find out what happened. Nick, It moved too
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suddenly, as soon as you can look at the window, the window,
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what oh, how is that? Nick? Now it's gone. Now there
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was a face at the window staring in at us. Measure, there's nothing
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but rain there now, scubby Here, Nick, take a look outside,
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see if you can find any footprints. The MUD's so thick out there.
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You want to be able to find some good ones? Sure thing, Nick,
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I'll be right back. Well, Major, I'm afraid we'll have to
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ask the whole company to stay here in town tonight. Accommodations may not be
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too good, but they'll have to do until the case is cleared up.
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Looks to me as if any one of several people might all equally well be
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guilty. We'll see that they're all taken care of. Nick. There are
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tracks, all right, Nick, but there's nobody there now. I'll put
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a guard out there for the night. Nick. We can take a better
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look at the princes in the morning. That's all, folks, but don't
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go anywhere until I say so, Room two eleven. The clerks should be
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about here, are weird hight Dick? Did I? I didn't have a
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drink, Thanks Craven. I don't drink. I don't ever want to be
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sober again. I'm sober. I remember all the rocky little things I did
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to Margot. She should have married Dexter. He's always been the kind of
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man that I wanted to be. He never was, but I beat him
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just once when I married Margot. And brother evens things up, does So
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that's why you married him, because Dexter loved her and you wanted to beat
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him at something. Yeah, I don't tell anybody, Craven. Did you
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kill Margot? No? Why should I kill her? You were outside and
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could have shot her through the window. She was shut with her own gun,
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and you admitted you'd been in a dressing room just before you talk to
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Dexter. You could have taken her gun then, So now you're trying to
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frame me for her word. I am not trying to frame anyone. I'm
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trying to find out the truth. Well, why don't you ask Dexter?
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Then he was the first one in her room. He found her, or
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asked karl Shaw. He hated her, I loved her. I guess they're
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the same thing sometimes. Sorry to see you in this condition, Craven.
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I'll talk to you again when you're more yourself than you are now. Good
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night, Raven? Are Nick Goby and even wait to hear in the lobby
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corn? Yeah? Did you get any more dope? Nicodemus? Too many
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suspects and too few clues. Can we do anything for you, Nick?
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No? Not just now, passy. He's getting late. I think I'll
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turn in. Well, off to my room then if nobody mine. Okay,
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Bessie, see you're bright and early in the morning. Good night,
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Patsy, old kid, got lots of nice, pretty beauty sleep. It
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wouldn't do you any harm to get some of that duties think you're talking about.
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You need them more than I do. That's what you think I got,
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all kind. I guess I'll put my car in the garage I left
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to standing outside when I drove down from the theater. He Nick, I've
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got something important to tell you. How about going to your room or we
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can talk? Ay? Sure, thanks, gby. Just as soon as
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I got the car put away for the night, I'll be right with you.
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Then one take me about a couple of minutes, right, Nick,
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I'll wait for you here in the lobby. Good evening, mister kada Keep
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your mouth closed, misster Kadai, and climb in behind the wheels. Get
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a moment hoey one gun tonight. Eh, that's all okay, good going
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very well. You're giving the orders for now. Drive straight out main street,
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mister Kadam. Oh, so it's you. You know me. Don't
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know your name, but I do know that you're the man I saw staring
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in the dressing room window earlier this evening. Yes, you'll drive straight ahead
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for about five miles. When you come to a cross road, you'll turn
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left and continue on. I'll give you for the directions. Then pull up
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behind that car gets head on the left you. Yes, I haven't had
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time to search him yet, but he must have him. The MP didn't
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get him. We know that. If you'd only tell me what this is
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all about, maybe I could help you. Step out of your car.
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Please, It's very simple. Margo Craven got some papers which didn't belong to
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her, got them by accident. They belong to us, and we want
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them. Papers. White papers are nothing that concerns you. We're sorry we
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have to drag you into this. I admire your work greatly, but we
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think you may have those documents and we must have them. They wait a
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bit. Is that why she was killed because she had them? No,
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mister Carter, they had nothing to do with her murder, nothing at all.
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Come on, search. You may be done with it. I don't
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enjoy standing out here in the rain, of course, permit me to be
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sure you have no papers on you, mister Carter. Go ahead. Craven's
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been taken care of. I searched Carter's car while I waited for him.
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So if he doesn't have the money, I don't know where they are.
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Well they are not on him, mister Carter, on your word of honor,
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you know nothing about our papers? I do not. How much does
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that mean? Oh with mister Carter, it means a great deal. Well,
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thank you. That's a bit unexpected, but very welcome. If we
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hind later that you've lied, we shall of course kill you. Now.
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You may get back your car. Watch out, we're still covering you with
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our guns. It's better now, what now I take over. We're gonna
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drive away and leave you here. I'm sure you won't try to follow us.
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And why not, because you're going to sleep right now miles from the
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little army camp town, alone and unconscious in his car. What's going to
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happen to Nick? Now? Are the many just met mixed up in the
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murder? Or was Margot Craven killed by one of her so called friends.
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now back to our story. Slugged unconscious by a pair of desperate men,
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Nick lay slumped over the wheel of his car for several long minutes. Then,
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when the sharp stabs of pain which accompanied his return to consciousness had died
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down slightly, he slowly drove back to the hotel where Scubby was waiting for
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him. Taking Scubby to his room, he told him what had happened.
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Well, I'll be dog gun, Nick, you're the luckiest guy in the
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world. What's lucky about getting your head split open? I mean, you're
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lucky that you didn't stop and talk with me before you went to put your
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car away. Here. Oh, what's this? So I'm not mistaken?
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Those are the papers your friends wanted. Where'd you get them? Scubby?
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I found them behind the dressing table in Margot's room. You did? When
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was that? While you were busy talking to Dexter, I was looking around
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and well, I ran into the well. Why didn't you say something about
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it? Then? I thought you might like to go through them before we
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turned them over to the police. This is the first time since then that
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I've had a chance to give them to you alone. Hmmm, Scubby,
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these are in code. I rather think they should be turned over to Major
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Wayne at the camp. Well, why give them to him? Use your
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head, scubby. They're in code, I said, And Margot got them
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at an army camp. These were given to her by mistake, and that
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can mean only one thing, as I see it, spies. Gosh,
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you really think so I do. Come on, I'll get my car out
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of the garage and take them out to camp right now and turn them over
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to Major Wayne. Maybe these papers will help us catch the killer of Margot
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Craven. Oh gosh, it's still raining. What a night, Yes,
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what a night in more ways than one. So we meet again, mistakes.
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What did you see you again? If by way, you would be
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very quiet, I won't hesitate to shoot you both. If I had to
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keep your hand in plain sight and walk over to the little door at the
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far end of the bar room, carefully and slowly, shall we walk nick
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slowly and carefully, as the gentleman says, I guess we'd better sca well,
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mister Carter, I've told you I was not a man who could safely
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be lied to. I didn't lie to you, mister Carter. Those papers
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we are looking for in your overcoat pocket right now, please give them to
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me at once. Certainly, thank you for a man of sense. I
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regret it is a little late for having sense. Here are the others now,
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oh well, it's about time you were coming, Nick, so I
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see sure, will this is fine? You get the peoples from him?
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Yes, well, thanks to you. It wasn't our fault that my sister
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was assigned to the wrong dressing room. I had a devil of a time
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getting things fixed up so she could change. But runs through the papers through
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the window before Margot got her things out. She had never seen my sister,
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so the mistake was natural. Mistakes are never natural, and mistakes are
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never tolerated. I'll be happy when that man Catter dies. He's too clever
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to be allowed at large. Yes, you're right, but he's such a
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prominent man his death will make quite a stir. It's unfortunate. It will
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break up the show unit which we have so carefully organized. Now, sure
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you will have to form a new unit of your own and take it around
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to the different camps. The work must go on, of course, when
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we take care of Katter. As soon as we've finished our work here,
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we're going to pack up and move on to another town. On the way.
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We shall dispose of mister Carter and his able assistant right now, we
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may see about the contents of these papers. They must go out at once,
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and we better tie up these two guys so to be sure they still
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be here when we get back. Yes, Mike, tie them both hand
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and foot and leave them back at the bar. We'll take care of them
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later. Hey, what are you doing, Nick? We've been wriggling around
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like that for the last half hour. I'm getting these ropes off my wrist,
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Gubby, I hope here. How are you coming. I'll have my
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hands loose in another few minutes. Why are you doing it? Nick?
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I tried to get my hands free. Gosh, these ropes are too light
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for me. Hey, what's the secret. The secret's very simple, Scubby.
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When the ropes were put on us, they were damp. I enlarged
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my wrist muscles as much as I could, but he tied the rope too
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tight for me to get out of it. But I found a hot water
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pipe under the bar here, and I've been drying the ropes out against that.
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As it dries, the rope is stretching just enough to let me get
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loose, but I've had to keep wriggling around so as to keep the wet
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the rope against the hot pipe. Nice worth that, Oh boy, you'll
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pool these thugs. Yet they only leave us alone just a couple of minutes
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longer, we'll be out of here. You had better not drive too close
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to their hangout, Major Wayne, No, I won't, Nick. I'll
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stop a couple of blocks away, and we'll sneak up on them from there.
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Sorry, I couldn't arrest them myself and save you the trouble, but
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I have no official standing in cases of espionage naturally. Quite so, Nick,
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I'm glad you're going to give me a hand to capture them. Don't
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forget Paddy and I are here too, Major, of course, Dexer,
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I'm only too glad that you and Patty happen to be with me when Nick
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brought me the news. Now we'd better work out a plan of action before
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we get there. You know the layout, Nick, What do you suggest?
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I think it'd be a good idea for one of us to knock on
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the door of the place. Then when it opened, the rest of us
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will be in hiding just out of side of the door. We'll rush in
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and take over. We try to rush them from outside, someone may get
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killed before we can get inside. Good, I'll go ahead and knock at
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the door. No, Major, let me do that. I'd like that
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job, Paddy. I can't let you risk yourself like that. That's my
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job, Please, Major, I want to do it. I got a
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special reason. But I think it's too dangerous. I can't. I think
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it's a good idea. Major, Paddy would be just the man for the
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job. Well, of course, Nick, if you say so, but
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I do. Thanks, mister Catty, you're a good egg. Well you
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better stop somewhere and hear Major. This is close enough right now. Give
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me your attention. Please, we'll hide near the front door of the building,
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except Patty. You'll go to the door. I'm knocking it. I
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hope nothing happens to Patty. I can't understand you're wanting him to do that
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job. I'll explain later. Major, Oh, the dos opening, Well,
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what do you want? Get your hands up? Come on? Oh
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that's it, Well drop that gun before you the rest of your come out
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with your hands up. The building is surrounded. No, we're coming,
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don't shoot, we get up. Stop shooting. We're coming out, Nick,
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Nick, Patty's Patty here. See what you can do for Patty,
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Nick, I'll take care of these enemy spies, all right, Ma Joe?
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How bad is it? Patty? Greatnessn't it? Lest good? We
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shouldn't have let you do this, Patty? What I wanted to, Dix.
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I wanted to why Patty? Why? I think I can answer that,
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dexter Y Nick continue, he knows what's he talking about? Nick?
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What does you know? Patty? You killed Margot? Craven didn't do I
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do? Now I'm dying, just like I hope the good. You killed
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Margot? But why, Patty? Why? Because Patty was afraid that she'd
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wreck your business, in your life. She was a kind of a woman
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who had to rule everybody with whom she came in contact. And she could
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have ruled you in the end because you loved her. Unless I'm mistaken,
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Patty tried to argue her out of his sit down strike. There was a
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fight and she was killed accidentally, Brat, and then Patty jumped out the
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window, ran outside and came back in just as you went into the dressing
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room from backstage, right, Patty, Yeah, I didn't know happy to
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do it, but I felt you did. Thanks for letting me go first,
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m Patty, had you put me a nude debt forever? But Nick,
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how did you know that he killed a craven woman? I thought it
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would have been sure her husband or were maybe even texted O Scuby for one
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thing. And there were those footprints in the garden outside her window you found
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where a man had stood on tiptoes to look in, you know, but
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you didn't notice that there were also definite marks of where someone had jumped out
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the window. And Patty was the only one in the dressing room when we
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got there who had on his shoes the black dirt that was used in making
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those flower gardens. Oh, I see. Also I could see he just
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coming out of the rain and then chew scubby. You remember that Dexter said
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that the first thing Patty did when he followed Dexter into the dressing room was
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to rush over and close the window. Yeah. Well, Dexter hadn't even
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noticed it was open, but Patty was more interested in getting it closed and
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examining the body of the woman because he already knew she was dead. Yeah,
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I see, Well, it's simple when you explained it. And another
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thing, if we call those papers you gave me the ones in code?
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Yeah? Sure, Well, as soon as you gave them to me,
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I knew that I had seen them in Patty's pocket when we first entered the
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dressing room. Yeah, yes, I recognized the big blot of ink in
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the upper corner, but it didn't mean much to me until I heard Shaw
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say that the papers had been delivered to Margo, my mistake, that they
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should have gone to his sister, who was one of the spy ring operating
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through the camp show. I knew then that Patty had picked them up in
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Margo's room when he was there before she was shot. He probably picked him
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up without knowing what they were, and as soon as he found they were
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in code, wanted to get rid of them again, so he left them
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where U Scubby found them. But couldn't he have been a spy himself,
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No, because if he was, he'd never have left those valuable papers where
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they could fall into the wrong hands. And finally, when I heard him
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say that he'd do anything in the world or help Dexter, it all added
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up. He wasn't interested in hurting Margot. He just wanted to keep her
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from hurting his friend and his god, Dexter, and if that meant her
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death, that's what it had to be. He loved Dexter more than he
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loved his own life. Well, you sound almost as if you condle this
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murder, Nick, I never condone murder, Scubby, You know that,
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but I understand it, and sometimes I feel sorry for the murderer. And
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in this case, I'm happy that the murderer won't have to stand trial before
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an earthly judge. The courts above may treat him more leniently than our earthly
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courts would. In just a more Nick and Patsy will bring you a preview
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go for the knockout flow. Now, let's hear if Nick Carter himself,
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Well, Nick, would you care to give us a hint as to your
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next week's story? Yes, Ken, I'll give you just a hand or
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two, and that's all. A gangster dead on the beach of an exclusive
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Long Island estate, a dope peddler shot to keep him from talking, Hindu
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servant who knew too much and not enough, a movie star in the making,
29:47
and plenty of trouble for Nick on the way, on the way where
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to the solution. Naturally, Nick never goes anywhere else once he gets started
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on a case. Okay, I'll be waiting for that solution he digs up
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in this one. What do you call it? Nick? Murdered by a
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seeing the Mystery of the Death on the Beach, and no more on until
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next week. So long, So long, everybody, and so long to
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both of you. We'll be looking forward to seeing you again next week.
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Next week, at the same time, listen to another curious experience of Nick
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next week. This is mutual welcome back. I guess I should have to
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say at an end of an episode like that that if you enjoy World War
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two programs, I encourage you to check out The War, The War Dot,
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Great Detectives Dot. And actually very few of the Nick Carter episodes we've
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heard have directly involved the war in some way. This I think is the
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second one. There was another one from the forty three in which they were
32:05
dealing with somebody who was running a con game around the war, but this
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one the actual aspiring. So like a lot of shows, Nick Carter took
32:15
kind of a escapist approach rather than one where we were constantly confronting spies and
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Fifth Columnist. By the way, the two episodes that we that we didn't
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that were missing uh from the prior weeks was Unexplained Death and the Black Rose
32:37
Murders. I also will say that I like the way that they did the
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they did the keys for the next episode. In some cases they really gave
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away a lot of plot as to what was going to happen, and which
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I guess isn't much of a problem for me because I don't listen into the
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programs one after another, but I could imagine giving away quite a bit.
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That said, as interesting as that show was, that one is also lost.
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So we'll have another program next week, and well that will turn to
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some listener comments and feedback. Kevin emails in and says, I just finished
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this week's Nick Carter episode. With the exception of last week, I've been
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wondering what's making him so grumpy these days, especially to Patsy. Didn't start
33:30
out that way. I hope it doesn't turn into a Stanley Holmes chemistry.
33:37
I like to see detectives take good care of their sidekicks, although I guess
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everybody knows they're not going to walk out on them anyway. Still, well,
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I enjoy them anyway, Thanks as always for the excellent show. Well,
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I don't know if I would say Nick Carter is has been cranky.
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I think the one thing the relationship with Patsy, and it does kind of
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go back and forth, is there can be points where Nick Carter can be
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in a very paternalistic and protective or also very paternalistic in demanding and it can
34:20
be hard to find the line in that, but yeah, it's definitely not
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heading into the John Stanley Sherlock Holmes situation. And truth be told, that
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show makes it hard for me to call any detective while all that grumpy.
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All right, Well, that will do it for today. We will be
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back tomorrow with yours truly Johnny Doller, and we'll be back next Thursday with
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another episode of Nick Carter. Speaking of Nick Carter, I did want to
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Check out support dot Great Detectives dot net. But that's all for now
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