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Nick Carter: Eight Records of Death (EP1362) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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dot net. Well into this new series of Nick Carter that were sustained,
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the series revisited some old favorites, and we have one here, Eight Records
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of Death. This was originally aired back in nineteen forty four, but had
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a few elements rewritten and was rebroadcast here in nineteen forty six, and it's
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a good one. So here now this is the fifth episode of the new
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series, and I'll give you the titles of the other episodes we missed.
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But here now from April second of nineteen forty six is eight Records of Death.
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What's the matter? What is it? O case for Nick Carter?
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My pretty pect you. Yes, it's another case for that most famous of
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all men hunters, the detective who's ability of solving crime is unequaled in the
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history of detective fiction. Nick caught her master Detective. The fact of the
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matter is, mister contr that I've quite accidentally stumbled upon evidence that a horrible
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murder has been committed. Mister Field, why come to me that sort of
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an scould be reported to the police, But to what police? Where was
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his murder committed? I don't know. How can you be sure there was
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a murder if you don't even know where it was done. That's what makes
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this particular crime different from any other. Somewhere sometime a woman has been brutally
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murdered, yet I don't know when or where. As a matter of fact,
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I doubt if anyone in the world knows of it except those who did
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it and me. Really, Oh, how does it happen that you alone
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know all this? Because the victim has told me so in her own words.
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I heard the horrible story from her own lips. Ah, And you
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talked to her, No, no, never, But she has talked to
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me, Say, mister Field, here it has to call her. Here
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is the story about a month ago, at one of those sales of unplane
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packages at the Express company Holls twice a year, I bought a box about
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one third the size of a steam a chunk. When I took it home
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and opened it, I found it contained a blood stained dress, a photograph
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of a beautiful woman, and eight photograph records? What kind of record?
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Only were the small record blanks you buy when you want to make your own
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recordings at home. And it was from these records that I learned about the
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crime. Well, mister Field, if you wanted to arouse my curiosity,
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you have certainly succeeded. How soon can I hear these records? Immediately?
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They're in my rooms. If you care too, we can go there right
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now, excellent, Patsy, Yes, Nick, get your hat. We're
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leaving at once to listen to a murder. That was the start of one
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of the strangest cases that ever came into the office of Nick Coffer, Master
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Detective, a murder which came to light only because a man bought a box
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at an option sale, eight records which told the amazing story of the brutal
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killing of an innocent victim. Eight records of death. This is the box,
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mister Carter. How long ago did you say you bought it, mister
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Field? All about a month ago, and the express company Holst thanks for
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a year before selling, which means the murders at least a year old.
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But the wrappings on the box when you brought it. Yes, but I'm
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sorry to say they would destroyed before I knew they might give me a valuable
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clue to the mystery. Too bad. You recall the name to which the
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box was addressed, Oh, yes, yes, I do. It was
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addressed to Alex Deleanor, New York City. No street address. The rest
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of the label was obliterated. I have searched every city directory, every telephone
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book, every place where names are listed, but no such name anywhere.
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And when we got to get to the records, Nate right now, Patsy,
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I hope how about it, Misterfield right away. I'm very curious to
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get your reaction to them. Are they numbered? No? But I've played
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them so often I'm sure I have them in order. Here's the first one.
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I don't suppose anyone will ever hear this record, but it's the only
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way I can think of to tell my terrible story to the outside world.
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I'm being held a prisoner in my own house, held prisoner without any hope
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of rescue except that, and I know that will be the end for me.
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All I have to be, who are listening, is to avenge my
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death by putting my murderers. Would he belonged. My name sounds as if
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she really murder, doesn't you. I thought he was coming in then,
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but he didn't. My name is Nancy Dealing. You will undoubtedly recognize him,
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as you know. I'm very rich, but all my money is no
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booky Now. I've tried to escape, but he keeps too close a watch
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on me. I only hope they don't kill me. That's all on that.
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He apparently came back unexpectedly. You certainly had trouble getting a story on
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the record, didn't you. Yeah, she was interrupted many times, generally
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in the wrong places. What a terrible feeling. Expect to be killed any
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minute. Here's the next one. I don't know where I left off last
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time. I don't dare play it back. If they should ever hear what
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I'm trying to do, they take the machine away from me. From the
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way they talk, the end is very near to me. I'm sure Ralph
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was listening outside the door, so I switched on the radio till he went
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away. Ralph is the one who will kill me when the time comes bad
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as Olive is. I don't believe she could kill her own cousin, but
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her husband is different. When I refuse to sign the deed. Last night
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he hit me several times. But he can make me sign because I'm positive
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that to be the end of me. He can do anything. And that's
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all there is on that. I wish you'd plan which was going to say
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a little better, how to make or tail of it this way? I
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wish she manages to get most of the story on the records, one way
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or another. The only thing she missed out on was telling us who she
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was, where she lived. All we have is her name, and she
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said she thought we'd recognize the name. Maybe she lived a long way from
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here. Maybe here's a third one. She apparently knew Ralph was coming to
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see her, and she prepared for his visit in advance. This is what
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she got. Come in, Well, my beautiful cousin, have you decided
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to time that he? I told you I'd never to it. She never
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pol We want my cousin, is your money? As soon as you've made
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it over, it was, we'll set you're free, just as we pray.
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You don't call me for one minute. So minute I put my name
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on that paper, you'd kill me. Took me free. That's funny.
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I haven't had a free minute. Since that cousin of mine moved into this
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house. I thought she was going to be company for me as the Lenda
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died. But I'd have been better off living here alone. It is very
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sweet of you to invite her to come, and every d nanty. It
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is even nicer of you to let her bring me along. We had that's
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fun here. I wish i'd known then what I know now? A little
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lady? Where about that here, cousins? Well for the last time,
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No, no, very well, it won't be long before you wish you
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had. Oh I've read. I'd rather be dead than living like this.
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It's not a friendly face anyway. Since they got rid of my old service,
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nobody left with Alix. He's too busy with his rose bushes to know
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what's going on. I wish I would. And that's all there is on
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that one. A poor woman. But it's too bad you didn't use more
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of those records than she did. She only uses a small portion of each
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plank. It's probably hard enough to get as much as she did. And
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the way she was watched me. Who do you suppose she got the blanks
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in the first place? Probably had a radio phonograph of the room where she
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was shut up. You must have had the record blanks, and with the
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other records where they didn't notice that. I've never been able to make much
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of this next one. Maybe you'll have better luck. The whole first part
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is just scratch. Yeah, I'll stop it where the voice is begining?
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And what's the idea of both? Thank you? Didn't she? And here?
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Of course she is fancy come out here hiding? Is she? Well,
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we'll drag her round. I'll find school. Uh huh, look there,
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come out of the come on to ride or kill me with you and
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with my own guns. That for you didn't succeed often not very clear,
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is it? I think so? Nancy Dawn started the recorder for some reason,
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she waited before saying anything, and Ralph and Alea came to the door.
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I found it bolted and broke in. Nancy hid and they dragged her
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out. She grabbed Ralph's gown and took a fast shot at him. And
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it's too bad she missed. It's clear enough when you tell it. Well,
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here's the next one. I'm as hurried. I may be interrupted any
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meaning. They seldom leave me alone anymore. Maybe they're afraid I'll kill myself.
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But to get on with the story. When my husband was killed in
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Italy, I invited all over a distant cousin to come and live with me.
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She asked if she could bring her husband. I foolishly contented. Everything
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went well for about two months. In one alfter another my servants left.
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I know now that Alis and Ralph broke them out. Then Ralph suggested that
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I put him in charge of my estate. I refused, of course.
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The next day I was shut up in my rooms. He told me that
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when I made my fortune over to hear me let me go anywhere. I
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wished that I could tell he was lying on you. Someone is listening outside
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the door. Yesterday I wrote a letter to Alex. The only one of
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my servants left is thrown out the window. If he finds it, maybe
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he can. And that's that. We didn't get much out of that except
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a few background of tales, all pieces together, Patsy at little time.
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This next record is more interesting. You'll find good. Let's have it well,
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Nancy, I view today, you're not interested, so I asked him,
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I'm extremely interested in the state of your health. Always if you had
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your way I've been dead. Why don't you stop being no stupper? And
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Nancy, it's not getting you anywhere? Why don't you stop torturing me?
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But do you enjoy seeing me? Stopper? I don't particularly mind you ever
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heard anything of me? Again? I'll tie you handed berth to your cat.
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I don't should kill me and it's done with it. That's what you're
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gonna do anyway? Why Nat, what nonslessant thought is? That's a beautiful
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woman. You know I could go for you. It'd only say the words
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you pretty? Next time I will kill you. I'm almost tempted to do
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it now. Well you get me a lots of water, and see why
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I shouldn't. Oh? All right, but no traits her? I will
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gosh, I wish I could have heard more of that. I thought he
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was gonna make a pass at her. You will hear him? Or Nancy
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must have known no record was about hid and so she sent Ralph after the
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water so that she could change the record. He's clever that woman, or
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should I say if she was clever? I'm afraid it's past tense for sure,
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mister Cotton. What a terrible thing I've said? They please thank you.
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Well, I think I should tell you, Nancy, either alive and
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I have decided it will give you one more day to do just as we
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want. Just why do you think death frightens me? That the only will
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ever get away from you? To at least that way my fortune will go
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to my sister, not to you too, murderers? Are you sure?
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Of course? My will is everything to learn? But we have a new
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will, leaving everything to properly's time see th and WI. If you can't
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get away with it, oh yes we can, because we'd rather not have
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to use it. But if we must, we must, And I assure
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you it's a masterly supporter has to believe two such inhuman creatures as you and
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i'll have actually exist. We do, and we shall continue to exist long
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after you've gone. Look forward to tomorrow. Nancy, Yes you heard we
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seed. It was practically a full confession of everything. Oh, I thank
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you, whoever you are may these words? See that those two months to
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get their justicers. So what they've done to me I should feel Huh,
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I didn't know she wasn't deadly earner, you think she was putting on an
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egg. Truth is generally more effective than fiction. Bessie. There's one more,
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the eighth and last. How she managed to get it, I'll never
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know. But here it is, the first two thirds of blank. It
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starts about here. Keep away from me, both of you. Let you
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see I haven't gun, and you both know I can shoot. I'll kill
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the first one of your homes. My god, where did you get it?
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Okay? To me start to defriend myself? That's a lie, and
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you know it. Give me that, Give me that cone, then give
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it feeling it er it do? Come on, give it that takes care
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of you. You it's stopping to fool you are right, Oliver, it
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is, I guess total. The bullet just graved my head. Is she
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dead? And she's dead all right? Even Nancy Deering can't live with a
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bullet to her heart. Cause I'm glad it's over. Last you say you
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were ringed with a doctor to poor Nancy. What a tough break she got.
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I truly believe that's the most remarkably told murder story in the history of
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crime. Well, mister Carter, do you have any ideas? I think
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so, but I'm not ready to talk about them yet. What's your first
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step going to be Nick. First, I want to take these records back
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to the office and play them over and over until I know them by heart.
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Then I'll be ready to go to work. You got a sandwich in
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your pocket, Patsy. Oh, Nick, I thought you'd never finished listening
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to those records. I wanted to be sure I didn't miss anything that you
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possibly be helpful to me. Did you sign anything with wave? Yes,
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indeed, Passy. There are several clues plainly marked out for us, certainly
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enough for us to get started. Hunh how telling me, Nick, don't
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keep me waiting. Of course, the most obvious clue we have is the
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bloodstained dress that came in the box with the records. You mean the label
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in it. Yes, we know the girl's name was Nancy Dearing, that
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the dress was brought at Chipster's dress shop in Albany. Uh huh. And
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as the picture that was in the box had an Albany Photography name on,
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don't you must have lived in or near Albany, right, So we have
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started our search there. But Nick, if it was all done as secretly
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as the record would seemed to indicate, chances up and nobody up there knows
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anything about it. Yes, except for one thing, passy. It's obvious
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from the quality of the dress and from what she said in one of the
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records, that Nancy Dearing was a well to do woman. And I find
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it difficult to believe that any rich woman can disappear without the newspapers or the
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police or somebody knowing something about it, even if they don't know there was
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any foul play connected with it. I see. And when they give you
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the facts as they have them, you can give them the inside store you
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got from the record. That's what I hope will happen. So pack your
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bag in order a taxi. We're flying to wald and he immediately you were
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lucky to be able to get us on this plane. Well, this business
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demands a certain amount of priority. I'll pass you. Here's what I plan
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to do. As soon as we get there. You take the photograph to
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the address room, see if it really is a picture of Nancy Jeering and
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also how reason it is. Uh huh. I'm going to the newspaper office
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and see what they can tell me. Meet me there. Yep. You're
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not coming to the police first, not unless we can't find anything anywhere else.
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I want to keep this unofficial. As long as I can, I
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think I'll get further that way. We've got to be careful. We don't
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know what we may be stirring up, and we start asking questions. Uh
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it chan't solf this right over there? Thanks right ahead? Yes, what
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can I do for you, mister Brown? I'm Nick Carter. I hope
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you can give me some information. Oh sure, Carter, glad to help
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you if I can. What's on your mind? Was the editor of a
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big paper? You must run into things ivan on? And then would your
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files have any dope on a woman called Nancy Dearing? What sort of dope
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you're looking for? And why? I'd like particularly to know when and how
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she died? And I'd ratter not tell you why. I just get Carter,
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it's not a story here. If I give you the information you want,
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I want that story. I don't know that there is any story.
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But in return for your help, I'll promise to give you first crack at
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anything I may find it's worth your attention. Okay, that's the way you
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want it, I'll play along with you. Nancy Dearing, you say,
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yes, how and when she died? Well, Nancy Doing and her husband
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Leonard Deering. We're pretty proper people here in town. So I can answer
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your question. I've had Deering, colonel, and the engineers was killed in
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the big push through Italy. His wife died in pneumonia a little over a
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year ago. Pneumonia. You're sure of that, I am, but i'll
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take it for you. Give me the morgue. Oh Bill, when did
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Nancy Dearing die? And what was the matter with her? I'll wait,
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get the name of the attending physician too, William. Look here, Carter,
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you got any reason to think that? Yes, December fourteenth, nineteen
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forty four, right, pneumonia. Yeah, who was the doctor? Fred
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Windsor? Hey, wasn't he the guy whose license was taken away a while
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back from metal practice? Uh? Huh? I thought? So? Okay,
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thanks, So this bread Windsor was disqualified? Any idea where he is
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now? No? Wait a minute, now I have a look in the
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directory. That's see. Yep, he is Fred Windsor. Fifty seven tail
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per road that's up in the western section of the city. Is small suburb.
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Thanks very much, mister Brown. I won't brought you anymore. And
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if I get any red hot tips, I'll pass them on to you when
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I'm ready, and we should tell me what this is all about later,
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mister Brown, Well, so long, thanks again. So on, Oh
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then you are just coming to find you? Where'd you find out? The
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photographer takes the picture of Nancy doing all right, taken about a year and
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a half ago, just before her husband left for the war. That's your
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husband with her in the picture. They had a big house out on Lincoln
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Avenue in the West End. Good, I found what I wanted to We're
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going out to the dealing house now there not yet, Bessie. What she
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said on the record is true. The ones living there now her murderers may
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hardly be likely to tell us anything we'd want to know. No, we'll
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wait till we have more definite information before we tackle them. And what do
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we do now? We're going to call on the doctor, or rather an
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ex doctor. I hope he'll tell us something he never took anybody before.
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Well, now you're in, what do you want and make it brief,
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mister Menzu, I'll come directly to the point. A litle over a year
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ago, a woman named Nancy Dering died. You as attending physician, signed
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the death work. All right, Yes, I signed it. What about
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it? I have reason to believe she didn't die ofney mooning. You're crazy.
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Of course she did. If you think you can come here, I
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said I had reason to think she died of something else. I might have
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said I have proof that she did. Well, you have it to Wnzu.
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You'll saved yourself and me a lot of trouble if you ca get out
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of here, both of you a pair of metal. It won't help you
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want it to get wrong. I've got nothing to say to you. You
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might just as well get out. I'd like you to do just one thing
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for me before I go. I've got nothing to say. You won't have
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to talk. Just listen to a record, a record? Yes, you
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have a player here? Yes, right here? What's the record? But
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let may play it for you and you'll see. I can promise you you'll
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be greatly interested. I'll go ahead and play it, but be quick about
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it. Put you mean the last one of the series. Yes, okay,
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keep away from it, both of them. As you see. I
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haven't gun. You both know it, and shoot I'll trom the first one
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of you will come hear me. That's my gun? Where you get it?
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Okay? To defend myself. That's a liar. You know it.
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What it is can't be possibly you have. I don't want you anymore.
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I want you anymore. He did he did, he yes, right through
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the Temple tragedy. But he practically confessed before he died. We can't prove
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he did, Patsy, no matter how much we know ourselves, or right
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back where we started, as far as legal proof goes. Then we'll have
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to find some other way to prove what we know. We can't stop here.
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I have no intention of stopping for what now. I want to put
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a man in the paper, for Alex delanor the man who sent the box
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in New York. Originally he isn't listed in the city directory of the phone
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books, so we'll have to try it this way. Won't that be dangerousness?
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How do you mean dangerous? We suppose this Ralph should see it,
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mightn't be get suspicious. It's one new reason I'm using the ad pancy.
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I hope ralp does see it, and I hope he does something about it.
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I want to smug him right up until the open, and this may
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be one way to do it. Pardon me, do you have any answers
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in bucks four one five, par one five yeah one h results, what
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does it make? I can get it open and I'll tell you from Alex
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himself. We'll be looking for you at my resident at eighty four Green Corn
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about eight to nine. Alex Dunnah going, Nick, of course I'm going,
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but you're going to stay in your hotel. Everyone wait for me to
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call if I need your help. Oh, Nick, I want to go
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too. I've been doing Patsy. You yourself said this may be a trap
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and I'd rather deal with it myself. Who is it you, Alex eleanor?
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Yes? May I come in? I'd like some information if you don't
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give it to me, Oh, but of course come in. Thanks,
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Sit there please. Ella. You used to work for missus Nancy Dearing,
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didn't you? Who missus Dearing? Oh? Yes, I worked for her
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for many years. It was only after she died that mister Mugan fired me.
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Mister Morgan, yes, yes, tell me delean. After she died,
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did you pack up a box of records and send them to New Yorker?
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You have found the records? Oh, I have waited so long for
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that. Yes, we found them. And why did you send them in
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New York like that. Well, her letter ask me too to prove she
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was murdered. Hello. Yes, it says she's being kept prisoner and she
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is afraid she will be killed at any time. She say if she died
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quick, I must pack the records I find in her head your cabinet and
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take them to the police. It will prove what she says. I why
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didn't you go to the police with that letter? She had died the day
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before I find the letter. It is too late. She thought the letter
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out of the window to me a few days before. But I find it
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behind the horse bush. Too late to help. So I do what she
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said. You didn't take the records to the police. I'm afraid of police.
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So I put them in a box and send books to New York,
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and then I at least to get it and find out what had happened.
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You have a letter now, Oh yes, I keep it in my pocket
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or it is here. It is thank you eleanor with that letter and the
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record. So I think I'll take that letter. No, I have a
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gun here covering you. Put your hands up over your head at it.
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So what it was you who arranged this meeting? Yeah? I was curious
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to know what you wanted with Alex, and I find he knows much more
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than I thought he did. I should have got rid of him before this.
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And what do you intend to do now? This fores of you and
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Alex a record just still in existence. They'll prove you murdered, missus dering
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with this letter in my possession and the doctor dead. Oh yes, I
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know about that too. The records will prove nothing. Now come on,
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I have my car outside you and Alex and I will take a ride to
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my house, where you will stay until I decide how best to get rid
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of you. Nice tay kill him, Ralph, he's too dangerous to be
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allowed to live. If Carter where to disappear, recop from the section of
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the country be searching for him. But no, We'll clean out the safe
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deposit boxes, withdraw the money we have in the bank and go to Mexico,
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South America. We'll leave Carter and Alex tied up there. If they
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starved to death before they're found, well that's just too bad. I think
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you're a fool, Ralph to let him live. I'm running the olive and
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if you don't want me to go away, alone. Do as I say.
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I hate him. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have to
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run away like this. I could kill him myself. Oh you won't.
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I don't leave the house. If you like a back back, all your
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things be ready to leave. All right, Well, I'll get back as
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quick as I can. Let him live, I won't. I'll fixed him
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a knife and as hard as what he deserves. That's what he's going to
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get right now, This carving knife will do. Tied up as he as,
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he can't do anything to stop me from killing him. Are you in
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there, mister Nick Carter? I'm coming to kill you. Nick Carter,
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I hate you. I'm going to No, I can't reach that knife you'll
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dropped. I can only see on my back. What happened, misterruck out?
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I propped her as she came in and knocked her head on the floor
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and stunner. I get to that night? Oh where is it? Wanta
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beat? Now? Cut the ropes in my arms? Now have you prey
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in a minute? Two ales? Oh, look out, mistruck daughter,
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she's coming. It's all right. I'm free now, I'll take care of
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her. What what happened? Quiet? Don't make a sound you try to
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cry out out, so you can't. Ralph isn't here anyway, wouldn't do
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any good. Really, he's gone to town. That's he calling to come
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back for something. Why don't ring to me? Call him? I'm gonna
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come in here, And you don't think my ropes are tight enough, I
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won't do it. Ouch. That's the carving knife you feel between your ribs?
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Now calling him carefully, Ralph, Welf, I'm in here, Please
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come in. What are you doing in there? Why? What? Get
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him up? Pipe? I said? How can I get that gun?
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Did you you overlook this little pistol I always carry in my shoulder, Host
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Ralph, but it's deadly even if it is small. What do you got
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to do with us? Now? Round up whatever existence I can find in
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this house, including Alex's letter. I'll hand you both over to the police.
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What Alex and I can tell them, and the evidence I can turn
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over to them. You'll both if you'll pay for Nancy Doings life by puffeting
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your own. Well, Nick, how about a few hints about next week's
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show. And next week, Ken, I'm going to tell you about a
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suicide it turned out to be a murder and then disappeared entirely. Hold on
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a minute, now, that's too fast for me. Well, it's true.
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Can If it hadn't been that, my woman's intuition told me that what
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Scubby and I saw wasn't what we ought to have seen, the entire story
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might have been different. Yes, Patsy, that was one time when you
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really put the finger on the answer to a very tricky problem. This I
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got it here. What do you call it, Nick, I call it
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the Case of the Disappearing Corpse. Nick Cotter Master Detective, which is produced
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and directed by Jack McGregor, is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications, Incorporated.
31:51
Pictured stories of Nick Carter appear in every issue of the Shadow Comics magazine.
31:56
In the Adventures of Nick caughtr Master Detective, long Clock his starting as
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Nick, Charlotte Menson is featured as Patsy. Original music is played by George
32:05
Wright. Script is by Jock McGregor. Any resemblance in these programs to actual
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persons living or dead, or to actual places is purely coincidental. Nick Carter,
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Master Detective is presented over most of these stations each week. At this
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same time. This is Ken Paul saying so long until next week. This
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is the Mutual Broadcasting System. Welcome back. This is one of the very
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best plays we've ever played on this program, and every time I'll listen to
32:45
it, my appreciation of it increases. It's just such an inventive and a
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little scary idea of these records. I wonder if this could be updated the
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eight mp thres of Death. No, that doesn't quant sound right, but
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anyway, just a very good play and definitely a worthy one to repeat.
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Now we do talk about some of the missing episodes, the first four episodes
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of this new series which was sustained, the Case of the Dead Witness,
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the Case of the Dead Man's Giggle, the Case of the Circus Killer,
33:22
and the Case of the Remodeled Character, and of course the actually the next
33:28
couple of episodes which we don't have would be repeats, not repeats, but
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actually script reuse of previous episodes from early in Nick Carter's run. But the
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one we get to next time will be one we haven't played before, so
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we'll be looking forward to that. All right. Well, on to some
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listener comments and feedback and Brian comments. In addition to the great detectives,
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I also love the War. I'm only up to episode fifteen one because of
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my busy schedule, but I look forward to listening to the rest as time
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allows. Thanks again for your commitment to bringing these podcasts to your listeners.
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Well, thanks so much, Brian, and I do want to, I
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guess encourage you again. The War is completed, but you can listen to
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it, download it the War dot Great Detectives dot net, and if you
34:23
have any interest in the World War two period, or if you had any
34:29
family who served in the war, I hardly recommend the series to you.
34:32
A great mix of comedy, drama, news, music, and there's actually
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a link where if you don't want to have it come through iTunes, you
34:42
can actually just download the whole four gigabytes onto your computer as a ZIP file
34:47
and zip it in, distribute it as you like, share it as you
34:52
like. And then we have a comment from dentisis I thoroughly enjoy your podcast.
34:58
Thank you for your devotion to preserving the broadcast for all to enjoy.
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Well, thank you very much, Dennis, I do appreciate it. And
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then I have a comment from Steve. He writes in could you identify the
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original air date? If you know it and the titles of any missing episodes.
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I was a kid in the late fifties and late forties and early fifties
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and lived in Chicago and loved to listen to the strong AM stations on my
35:23
Crystal radio, so my parents know I had some late not involving radio that
35:32
was a CB in that case. But that's another story, he says,
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late at night. So the air dates are important to jogging my memory back.
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Sometimes you don't mention it at all. Sometimes you do so after the
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program, when dare I admit it, I may have gone to sleep.
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Well, thanks so much, Steve, I do appreciate you tell your re
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quest. Usually I will mention the date that a show was broadcast only when
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we've had some lost episodes come and take us off track. Otherwise, this
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week's program is the same date as next week's program. I have thought about
36:08
trying to include the date in the intro, but that's one other thing that
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I'll consider it. I will say that that information is shown in the show
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notes, so if you have the iPod, should come across. Listing all
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of the lost episode titles is a bit more problematic. Before the show,
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I try to really get into the action right to the show. Doesn't really
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happen during our listener support campaign, but we really do try to do that
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because I don't because I don't want to list all the titles because that can
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be quite a bit. You know. There are sometimes where we're fifteen episodes
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in between, and I think the one thing that with commentary, I've gotten
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less complaints. I don't think I've really cut link, but I'm made sure
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to try and keep the vast majority of it at the end. So I'll
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see and see if I can get into the habit of including the dates in
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my intros. But yeah, I will probably only wait till after the show
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to list all of the lost episode titles in between. But thanks so much
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for your email, Steve. I appreciate you listening out there, and we
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will be back tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny Dler. I do want to
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signing off.