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Richard Diamond: The Fifty Thousand Dollar Diamond Heist (EP1196s) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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we have a run into, and that is Richard Diamond, which was nominated
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by three listeners on Facebook, Kim and Charles and Renee. So we'll bring
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that to you. In some ways this show, this program really kind of
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combined the two aspects of Dick Powell's career. He started out as really a
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kind of a comedic singer in a lot of light romantic comedies, and then
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when he hit forty, he landed the role of Phil Marlow in Murder My
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Suite and went on to play actually some darker roles in Johnny o'clock and a
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Dark Corner. And what you kind of get here is a balancing out of
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those two as you get a lot of comedy but also of some pretty heavy
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violence, and it's an interesting combination, and it's one that's been a classic
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with so many radio fans. So we're pleased today to bring you Richard Diamond
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from November the twelfth of nineteen forty nine, and the title is the fifty
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thousand Dollars Diamond Host. Oh here's Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, Private Detective
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Diamond Detective Agency. A corpse to fit every pocket book. Rig. Oh,
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hello, Helen, baby, let me sit down. Oh Gig,
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what's the matter. You sounded like your arch is just bro. You got
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the right idea? Baby? What's your geography? Are you really hurt?
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Rick? I believe it or not, I was trampled by a herd of
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horses. Oh, Rig, you idiot? Now tell me what did happen?
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Okay, one horse? You ruin me for life? You one horse
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back by? Oh I don't believe it. I want to see my bull
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eggs. You actually did? Uh? Uh? It took a girl to
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get you to ride a horse. It was some slinky blonde. No,
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baby, it was a plamino. And look, let's get off horses.
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I've had enough to last me. What's for the early call? Early?
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Rick? Did you just get in? It's after eleven. I was dreaming
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of you, baby. You wouldn't have wanted me to stop just to get
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into the office. It's probably a whole harem. Helen. You got to
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stop that peaking. You read the morning papers. They come out in the
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morning, Now you stop that. Did you read them or didn't have a
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bed down? Why you in the society page? You got? Oh,
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it's more exciting than that. The police commissioner's house was robbed of fifty thousand
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dollars worth of diamonds last night, and his gardener was murdered. What I
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thought that would fetch? You gotta get a paper commissioner's statements written in blood.
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Yeah, things don't wind up fast. Tomorrow's statement will be in Walt
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Levinson's blood. It'll be his case. Now you stay out of it,
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Rick, This thief cuts throats. I'm scared, are you? Rick?
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Come over to night now, righten you at close range, say eight,
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I'll practice my knee knockings. I'll be in good form. That's stay in
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no nightclubs at the sound of the custer and that's Francis can open the door,
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or it'll be me and my knees see the night, baby bye.
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Is this the Diamond Detective Agency? Just like it says on the door,
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come in and close it gently. My Japanese beetle's still asleep. Sleep.
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He's got a better union. Sit on, mister Phineas Burton. What can
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I do for you? Mister Burton? Well, I want to hire you
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if it's agreeable, for one hundred a day in expenses. I'm pretty agreeable.
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Let's fine. I have a package I want you to deliver to a
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party in Philadelphia. You can get a messenger for five bucks, or if
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you're a hired up a carrier pigeon for a handful of popcorn. Why a
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detective. Well, I'm perfectly capable of judging for myself what I need,
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mister Diamond. Now here's three hundred dollars. There will be two hundred more
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for you after you make safe delivery of the package. Why why three letter
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word meaning why you want to pay me for five days when the trip to
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Phellion back can be done in a few hours. Well, mister Diamond,
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I simply want you to drop everything else and take this job immediately, and
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that is my reason for the added payment. Ah, all right, I'll
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take your money just as soon as you tell me what's in the package,
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who it goes to, and why it's so important that I take it Personally.
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I can't tell you that. Okay, it's your a problem. Now
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where did I leave my soap chips? Do you have to know? Of
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course I canna do what you're washing with that soap? I mean about this
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package. Oh no, no, I can recommend another agency who will do
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it for twenty five bucks and no questions. Oh very well, mister Elliott
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will meet you at the Philadelphia station information desk at two o'clock today. I
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will wire him your description and he will make the contact. As for the
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package, it contains some very valuable papers which mister Elliott is afraid his wife
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will try to intercept. I see, he commissioned me to find the best
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man I could bring the package to him. Oh, you must have read
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my head. But you'll have to leave immediately. Mister Elliott is very anxious
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to get the package. You called me at the aster. When you return,
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and I'll send over the rest of the money. A good day it
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may be at that what forget it? Burton left the package on my desk
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with the money. He was a thin guy, had a funny pot that
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made him look as if he'd swallow the basketball. He pushed it out the
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door and waddle after it. When a guy insists on throwing money in my
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lamp, I get suspicious. And when I remember the robbery of the night
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before, I got that lousy feeling again. Now, Paragraph four, Section
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B Rule A of the Detective's Code of Ethics says, quote, upon receiving
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money to deliver package, detective must never open the same It is unethical.
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Yeah, who's ethical? Well, surprise, no wonder basketball had been nervous.
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At the bottom of the box were five pretty little diamonds about ten grand
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worth of a guess. Of course, it may have been that Burton thought
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diamonds should belong the diamond. But my bet was on a frame up,
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a frame that cost the real heist is ten grand out of fifty. I
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was aimed to get him a nice picture to fit the frame. Me,
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is this mister diamond? Oh? Hello Burton? Something on your mind?
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Oh? I happened to be in the store across the street and I noticed
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you hadn't left yet. You will leave right away, won't you just as
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soon as I arrange things Phineas I remember it takes an hour and a half
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to get to Philadelphia. I don't want you to be late. I'll bet
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you don't. It was just to make sure you understand. Oh, yes,
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yes, yes, I understand. You can dribble your basketball home.
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Now I beg your pox skip it. Burton's call ended nearly all doubts.
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I was being framed, all right, and the trap required my leaving for
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Penn Station right away. I dropped the diamonds into what was left to the
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quart of milk I had for lunch the day before, put the bottle on
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the floor by the waist basket. Then I took the package, rewrapped it,
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and went out to hail a cab. I made one stop at a
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toy shop, then headed for Penn Station. As I entered, I saw
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a pair of familiar figures. Real, okay, what's the gag? I
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got the tip, But even you wouldn't joke about this case. Now,
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Wald, I'm my joke about mass murder, but never about the commissioner being
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robbed. Is he making speeches yet? Yeah? That's okay, Shamas.
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This is one time when you're one diamond too many? Why oh this,
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you're becoming a wit? Eh, why not? You're halfway there? Uh,
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Lieutenant, he's picking on me again. You deserve it. Oh this,
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now shut out. Rick. I know the tip was phony, but
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the commissioner was there when it came in. I had to act on it.
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Tip. Don't be smug. I've got one, two, a fifth
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highly ear Now, don't start that. It was a tip that you were
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taking the commissioner's diamonds out of town. Now walk and don't don't now walt
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me, I said, I knew the tip was phony, with the commissioner
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taking scouts all down the line. No, no, no, don't apologize.
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Wad I know? Gone sigeant show me a good frisk and I'll recommend
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you to all my criminal friends who he's clean. Lieutenant Eric, Let's see
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that package and then you can go this. Oh no, no, I
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can't seek me. Don't play games wreck please, all right, but it's
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gonna spoil my surprise. Well, okay, give me a word. It's
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got nothing to do with this case. I won't bother it. Open No,
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no, no, I'm hurt. I absolutely insist that you open the
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package right now. But Rick, you know I tried tennant Levinson. Do
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your duty. My purity must not be a suspicion O anything to get this
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over word you were what it's only a pair of dolls you're expecting maybe my
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gallstones? Soh dolls? The shama's placed with dolls Bury The tag otis before
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your ear is getting longer than drafted for mule team tag. Sure, but
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what to my beloved otis from his Ricky? Oh? Now, don't be
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a groune wal to the other ones for you? For me? Oh no,
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I'm sorry what I couldn't resist it anyhow? You spoiled my surprise to
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odors It was our anniversary? What our anniversary? We ain't even related?
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You don't remember our otis? Well? Can I go back to traffic?
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I can't stand much more? Oh, shut up O this Rick. If
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we weren't such good friends, I ought, Hey, now you're upset?
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Upset? Why should I be upset just because two hoods lift fifty grand an
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ice from the commissioner, or because it's dumped in my lap with the murder
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of the gardener, or that I'm given twenty four hours to break the case
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and then get a tip that leads me to a friend who decides to play
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games and wreck my side to be on repair. Now, why should I
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be upset? Oh? Here you're lieutenant, but take it easy as a
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second bottler by Cobb today while you ride an apology and I maker. I'll
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do better than that. I'll help you if you'll let me. Well,
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I can show you your help. Rick, I haven't got a single lead.
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Do you want to look at the corps first? They as well.
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Has he got a record? Now? The commissioner swears he was honest.
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Probably stumbled under the thieves and they had to put him away out of the
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rest of the servants. We were all out. Commissioner and his wife were
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at a party. They've given the entire staff the night off. But I
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guess perhaps the gardener returned a little early. Yeah, well, let's go
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on and take a look at him. I've got a personal interest that makes
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me want to crack this case. Client, call him an ex client.
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I'll explain me later. Come on here he is, Rick, m honesty
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cut. I was ad made. It could have been a sharp knife,
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but it's a safe I bet that it was a razor. Remind me not
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to go to his barber. What safe cracker's got enough nerve to pull his
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job well? And I got three guys that could fit the job. But
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one of them has ever been known to carry a weapon of any sort,
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much less razor. Correction one, there that guard who's playing a lousy joke
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on us. I suppose this could have been the first time one of them
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carried a razor. I don't buy that. Neither of you give me the
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names. I want to talk to them. I can get a lead of
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some sort. Sure, here they are, and please Rick call me if
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you get anything. If I can find a nickel, bye. As far
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as I could see, I had three things to match up. One the
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careless barer, two the safe cracker was nerve enough to rob the police commissioner,
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and three the reason why I was picked as the pigeon. I gave
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up the idea of hunting for Burton, the guy who came into my office.
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He was probably a flunky and not worth running down. So I checked
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the names I got from Walt, grabbed a cab, and headed to the
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Bronx. The first turned out to be an ex khan trying to go straight
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by working in the Bronx hash house. The second was likely, but he'd
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kissed his wife at a beer bottle and spent last night in jail. At
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the third address down Greenwich Village, I met a landlady with gin loaded tonsils
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and a cute mustache. She tipped me that my third prospect, Vincent Mayer,
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might be playing pinnuckle at Pietro's, which turned out to be a cafe
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with a thirty foot bar, three tables in the back room. Hey,
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uh hockep Yeah, why didn't be friend? No? No chaser milk?
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Who makes it? Oh? Give me leg from Cow's never carried this stuff?
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Why can I find Vince Mayor? Why didn't you ask me? Handsome?
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Wow? Hello? Baby? Now do I look like a baby?
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Uh No, my name's Jeane. What did they call you? Take your
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pick? Call me rick? Hey, you talk funny, but you're awful
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nice too nice to be hunting for Vince Mayor. He's a bad boy,
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Ricky. Yeah, Well, I'm going to be a hero. Where is
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he in the back room? There? The guy with the light hair,
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good character? Thanks, baby, I'll buy you a palace. They give
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me pdm Joe twenty Clubs twenty spades and forty p knuckles? What no diamonds?
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Hey? Well, well well look who's here? What do you want?
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Hummus? Vince the ice man, isn't it? Wow? Now let's
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see sing sing class of thirty eight? Where's your school? Tie ins?
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Her name is mister Mayer. You, diamond and privates are not welcome here.
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It's a closed game. Yeah, move on, give me a reason
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you want to play dead or come on, Vince. You're not going to
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get upset just because I think you robbed the commissioner. You did, didn't
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you. I told my story to the cop. I'll bet you didn't answer
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my question. Here's another. Who's your barber? You're asking for a diamond?
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I was brought up right, Let's get off this cat and mouse kick.
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I want some answers, Vince, do you that's right? Junior?
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I do? All right? Call him Joe? He all right? Joe,
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shove it, stab it. That's enough, Joe, all right?
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Not dragg him out in the alley, Vince can I Yeah, yeah,
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okay, maybe it'll teach you not to get so nosy. But keep that
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razor in your pocket. Oh well, honest, this is gonna be real
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fun. Come on Shamas. Here's where I do some roadwork on your liver.
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Here, Diamond, I only wish my brother could see you. When
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I came to, I was curled up around a round metal object I couldn't
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see, and I felt as if I was smothered in the mountain of cotton,
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and getting out of it was like trying to shovel sand with a pitchfork.
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I finally managed to move and wished I hadn't for a company of Bengal
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lancers began target practice in my side, so I quit trying and lay still
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for a long moment. Then a voice came fizzing through the cotton at me.
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Hey, if I'm not you're an angel and this is a harp.
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Oh, I'm sure no angel, that's the garbage can. So I guess
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you're not dead. Matter for debate, Genie. Oh help me up?
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Sure here? Can you stand practically anything after this? Ooh? Heard pretty
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bad? Come on, mean I My place isn't far. I'll take you
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there so you can lie down. Just off. I've had today lead on
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angel, Now, how do you feel I never used language like that in
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front of a lady. Oh, I'm no lady. I'm a waitress at
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Pietro's. I had the noise in the back room, and you didn't come
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out. I took a look, Oh gee, does your head hurt?
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Babies like all my relatives are inside digging for gold. With luck, I
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can open my eyes and they won't fall out. You know, you might
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have had a lot of fun together. You weren't all banged up like this.
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I'll take that remark up with you later, honey. I'm not usually
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the kind of guy who runs out on pretty girls, but I only wanted
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to get my hands on the gunet who tried to kick my brains out.
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So I took Jean's number, filed it under a later investigation, and stumbled
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out into the street. My head was clearing, but it was as slow
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about it as a dummy during a strip tease. Maybe that's why I didn't
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notice when I came out of the house that I had two guys for company.
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I about Diamond, uh huh, and Pietro told me Jane had run
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out. I thought I might find you here. She always goes for guys
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like you. Now she has taste. I'm glad you came around. I
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have a few things I want to discuss with you and Joel. Here,
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hold a chamas. I'll show you how easy it is to get rid of
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your troubles. That's a pretty little gun. Aren't you stepping out of character
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events? You're supposed to be a smart one. You're getting on my nerves.
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Yeah, I'll put the gun away and i'll quiet you down a little.
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You want me to mess him up again? Vince? And what's with
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you? I'm to do your job over again. I may at that.
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Yeah, well you got thirty two teeth, Sonny? You want to try
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for none? Why you I got some questions I'd still like to have answered.
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Why was I picked his pigeon? Why me getting a little too smart?
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Diamond? I'll listen. I know you got Why's to Burton? So
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it figures that you still got the package reasons to give you ten thousand dollars
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worth of diamonds. I want them back, Oh dandy, I've got big
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news for you. Buster, You're not going to get them. Don't make
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any mistakes, Stamon, I'll use this kind if I have to go eat
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a tombstone, Joe, Yeah, how's your stomach ache? Oh wait a
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minute, Joe, a diamond. Look, you can have a choice.
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You bring the rocks to me at Pietro's in an hour, and we'll forget
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the whole thing. I don't, I'll send Joe with a few friends to
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call on you. And for the last time. For a few sick minutes,
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I leaned against the wall, wondering if I wanted to live. One
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thing I was certain of was that Vin's mayor was never going to get those
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diamonds back, or was he. An idea began to percolate in my head
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to the tune of an old rhyme about a goose in the ganter, and
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I got inspired enough to sit up and forget my aching ribs. When it
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simmered into a full scale boil, I grabbed the care I went back to
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my office and got the diamonds out of the milk bottle where I'd hidden them.
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Then I headed for the village fast. I was soon banging on a
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door there like a drummer playing Bob. I owe you, buddy, well,
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it ain't my cripple. I got the bruises to prove it some one
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in. Are you really recovered, Hue, Oh no, not that much
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ageable? Then I need some benches. What do you know about Vince and
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Joel not too much not to dislike him plenty. Vince got me canned for
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leaving Pietro's to take care of you. That's why I'm back home. I
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know he's a smoothie and he I think he's a big time jewel face that
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much. I know. How about Joe the dog faced boy? Him,
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he's just a punk. I think his real name is Fancie, your Fanchetti,
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Franchetti or some such thing. Benchetti. Yeah, I don't know why,
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but they call him Joe the barber, Joe the barber. Yeah,
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and that's still because Harry doesn't LA eight to one. This guy works on
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throats. Thanks, Angel, you've tied up my three points. What are
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you talking about? Your friend? Vince Mayor lifted fifty grand in eyes for
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the police commissioner last night, and his accomplished Joe gave the gardener a shave
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mean murder on the button. The gardener's throat was sliced from life to death.
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And now, baby, look, I would you like to earn one
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hundred dollars? Sure? Is it legal? Well? No, I'll take
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it. Where is he? Will you tell me where's Rick? I know
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where I'd like him to be. I'm worried though this. Seriously, Rick
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is in this thing up to his ears. You mean he was in on
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the job. Don't be stupid, though, of course not. Rick's no
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crook, but he's mixed up in this case somewhere, and I'm worried.
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She would have called me by now. She hope he hasn't tangled with that
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razor guy. I thought you hated Rick. Oh you know, I was
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just talking. I know, I know what a mess. Rick in danger
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and I can't find him. The Commissioner's spouting love all over the city hall.
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The devil didn't have to be the Commissioner's house. You know. It's
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kind of funny at dead the commission himself. You k for two cents,
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maybe that's him son Levin's and homicide. Well, Rick, Rick, I
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was with the devil. You been taking care of some arrangements. Arrangements never
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mind, just listened. I was picked as a pigeon, and some of
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those diamonds were planted on me this morning. What I've traced your hoods events,
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Mayor and Joe the barber Franchette. You come to Pietro's in half an
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hour. You will catch him with a part of the diamonds on him.
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Rick, what is this Event's had it figured as a double barrel gag Wall
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first on the cops by rating the commissioner's house, second by dumping a few
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of the rocks in my lap and tipping your police. So I take the
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rap. Why you well, George's name Franchette. You remember I said his
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brother Tony the sing sing a few years back. I knew he had a
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brother, but until now Joe stayed out of Manhattan. I get it.
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Okay, what's the play. I'm going to take the package back to Vince,
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give it to him, and Pietro's a girlfriend will be raising so much
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fuss. No one will notice me. Then is Vince and joelieve you and
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nailhim with the diamonds and no alibi for having him? Right, he said,
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half an hour in front of PIETROZ take a bak angel through the window.
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There's my party at the back table. Now you know what to do?
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Yeah, I keep yelling til you get back to me right as rain.
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I'll make it a good one. I got good lungs. Let's go
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in. Okay, over to the bar. He is not Joe. I
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told you sure, hellout, Diamond, you got something for me? That's
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right, Vince. Okay, let's have it. Hey, what's going on
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over there? That's stupid, dame. Yeah, do you want the package
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or not? Oh yeah, give it to me. Come on, Joe,
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let's scram out of here before that dame brings the cops. Yeah,
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that's an easy way of getting back to ten. Grant. Ain't advance,
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shut out? Come on, take it easy now, okay, okay,
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well okay, now let's split up. Advance. Let's have a look at
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the package. The cops elevens and what are you doing that package? Hey?
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What are we gonna do? Shut out? You got a warrant?
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Of course, of course, otis take the package, yellowt. You can't
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arrest me. I don't even know what's in that package. It was given
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to me by a friend. Now, don't use the terms of loose events.
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Why Wald, what are you doing here? Hell Rick, I have
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captured a criminal, Yes, and he was carrying a package of his loote.
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Why, I bet it's part of that diamond robbery? What is this
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diamond? You just planted that package on me? Me, my stranger.
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You're telling a fib You just know that's done right and moral something. This
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is ridiculous, sou Tennedy gave me those diamonds, and Pietro's not five minutes
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ago. I didn't lift them from the commissioner, didn't you, Vince?
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Then I must have made a mistake. You can prove your story, of
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course, sure I can. Bartender saw diamond slipping in the package. On
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Now, Vince, you think that Bartender was going to be watching you when
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a lovely girl is practically tearing up the joint pass dam Yellen, she was
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a plant. Yeah, but this is a frame up diamond. You can't
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get away with this. Please don't talk to me. I never associate with
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common criminals. A frame you dirty double crossing conference. Look out, Rick,
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he's got a razor. Oh my art, Now don't cry, Joe,
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this is for you. Oh wow, what a punch you got,
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Shamas, Well that does it? Come on, Vince, Otis, load
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that killer into the car and pick up that razor. Gellatud want to lift
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brick? No, thanks, Wald, I'm going to go home freshen up.
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You look like you could use it. Yeah. I left Walt and
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had it for my apartment, where I grabbed a stomach full of vitamins and
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flattened myself under the hot shower. It felt so good. A fell asleep,
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and if Walt hadn't fallen, I'd have probably become the only man in
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history to drown in the shower. Walt shocked me wide awake with the news
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that he was holding a thousand dollars reward for me. I gave him my
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nicest thank you and made a mental note to drop by and give half of
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it the Jean to make up for her losing her job. Rob About eight
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o'clock, after I had taken care of dividing the reward, I steered for
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nine seventy five Park Avenue, made it with no trouble and rang the bell
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to Helen's apartment. Good evening, mister Diamond, as was expecting him.
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Sir, she's in the library. Thank you, Francis. How's your health.
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It's very good. Thank you. Nah. This may come as a
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shock, but franc Is about the money I owe you, don't fret about
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it, sir. It will get I'm going to pay you what I owe
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you. You're good, Oh, dear, perhaps I predic Oh my word,
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are they're they're Francis rick Ja that you and ain't Tom Swift baby.
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Okay, you know good, my dove. I'm a cripple, a battle
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torn veteran. I don't want your muscles, rick, I'm blue and I
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want you to sing to me. Oh Helen, baby, I don't want
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to sing. I want to make I'm blue. I need cheering up,
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not be nice and sing. Okay, honey, how's that sound? I
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can see no matter howney, you will be You'll never be long to me.
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But I can dream, can I can't I pretend that I'm locked in
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the bed of your embrace, for dreams are just like why and I am
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run with my am aware my heart is a sad affair. There's much dissoluteusion
29:44
there, but I can dream, cattle. Can I adore you? Although
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hoss apart, I can make you, but I can't dream. And all
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there still feeling blue? Baby? Oh cky here I am oh now,
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I'm contented you in my arms, my bills paid off, and and my
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bills for Peach's sake, I got Francis Francis, what are you talking about?
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Come with me. I'll show you now. There he is Francis Francis,
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all right, yes, sir, I think so, Sir, Will
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you tell me what's going on in my own home? Oh honey, I
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paid Francis off in the shock of having to give back my gun and dadge
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on Diddy. Oh well, are you feeling better? Friend? Not really
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much, Miss Shaad d License missing that much, Francis wells to be very
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honest. There's a waitress in the t shop down the street whom I've been
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in a five an expression having a fling. Francis you. Oh that's not
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the worst, Missasher. I'm afraid I've been a bit of a fraud with
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her as well. In fact, seven of the waitresses there. Now wait,
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wait where does my badge and license enter into it? Did you huck
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them for crumpet? Oh much worse, mister Diamond, you see to all
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the waitresses of Miss Tuppingham's T shop. I am Richard Diamond Private to take
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you have just heard Richard Diamond, Private Detective, starring Dick Powell. Helen
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was played by Virginmy Gregg, Gene Tatum, William Conrad Toll Avery and Bob
32:13
Carroll. Music was under the direction of Frank Worth. Tonight's story was written
32:17
by Herb Burdham. And edited and directed by Blake Edwards. See the Richard
32:22
Diamond picture story in the December issue of Wilvie Starr's Parade. Dick Powell soon
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will be seen in the screen version of the best selling novel Missus Mike.
32:30
Now, this is Edi King inviting you to be with us again at the
32:34
same time next week, when we will again bring you Dick Powell as Richard
32:37
Diamond, Private Detective. Listen tonight to NBC for a star lineup of entertainment.
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32:59
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