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today's episode of Nick Harter. The original air date for today's show is March
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the twenty third of nineteen forty seven, and the title is the Case of
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the Crystal Prophecy Old Dutch Cleanser, Famous Purchasing Dirt, presented Nick Kriner,
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Famous Purchasing Crime. Every week at this time. Two great names are John
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as Old Dutch Cleanser Brings are one of the most responseful and daring characters in
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all detective fiction. Nick Cutter Master, Detective good Nick, how do you
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know it couldn't have been suicide? The evidence shows it, Patsy, But
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the windows were locked on the inside, no one went through the door.
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If it was murder, how was it done? The same evidence, Betsy
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the Bottle tells how and why it was murderer. Now for the case of
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the Crystal prophecy. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by Old Dutch
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Glinter. Our story begins in Nick's office about ten o'clock one bright sunny spring
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morning. Well, I'll be darn what is it, Patsy Nake. I'm
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founding the latest records on suicides, and they show that during the past six
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weeks, four women have committed suicide. Well, what's so curious about that?
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Well, each of these women was in her middle thirties. Each was
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a widow with quite a bit of money, and in each case the police
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couldn't find a single clue to the reason for the suicides. Hmmm, when
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was the last one? Night before last? Uh? Missus Doris Manson,
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M don't you think there might be some connection between these suicides? Maybe?
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Certainly looks like a lot of coincidence. If there isn't That's what I thought.
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Are we going to do anything about it? We are. We're going
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to finish the report I'm working on, and then we're going down to talk
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to Maddy about this, this epidemic of suicides. Good afternoon, Hatian.
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I hope I'm not ladies do and memaib you I expect. I get more
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excited every time I come here Russian them to be seen. Mimsai will please
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to sit there, I go tell Master, thank you atonmous that well that
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you rive. Oh, I couldn't be late to see you. Master.
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I do someone hear more and what you have heard has pleased you. Oh
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yes, everything has happened just as you said it would. Just after under
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to the other day, I dropped my purse and a man picked it up
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for me. It was a name named Robert Winter, just as you said
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it would be this Robot Winter. He please Joe, Oh yes, this
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is a perfect gentlemen. Is so handsome. I think that he's remotely inclined,
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and I thought, I understand madam. Please to draw near and look
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into the crystals. Do not allow your attention to wonder for an instant,
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oh ball of ever knowing like bring to your surface the truth about Robert Winter
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and Master Langdon make the future clear that we may read it. The boy
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begins to clear her picture is for I see, I see. No,
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Oh, it cannot be. Oh, ball of crystal are your show.
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I'm sorry, madam. I cannot tell you what the crystal ball has shown
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to be the future for you. It is better that you remain in ignorance.
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No, there's anything there. I remember to tell me. The crystal
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ball shows, madam that you will shortly take your own life. But that's
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absurd. I have no reason to do away with myself. I am sorry.
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I am only the instrument through which the pictures are made clear. But
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now that I know about it, isn't there any way that future can be
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changed? It is difficult, madam, very difficult, not do anything anything.
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Can't you help me? It is possible, madam. It is a
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long and difficult process. It will mean that I must deny myself to all
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my other disciples. Much time will be lost, much mommy will be lost.
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I have money. I'll give you money. To take a great deal
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of money, madam. I shall have to devote all my time to watching
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over you until a danger is past. How much would that be? It
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would be one hundred thousand dollars. Oh, no, I can't pay that
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much. It is well known that Madame wears paroles worth that amount. Give
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up my par parows me nothing, Madame when the owner is dead. No,
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I've an up will power to keep from killing myself, and if necessarily
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I can hire somebody to watch me day and night for much less than one
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hundred thousand dollars, as you wish, madam, But it would not be
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well. I would pay that much to anybody for something I should be able
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to do myself. No, thank you as you please, madam. Good
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hey, and may I wish you everything that fortune will bring you. You
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know as well as I do. Nick, that suicides running waves. I
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know, I know that's true, Maddy. But it seems to me that
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there's too much coincidence in these four. Each of them is too much like
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the other. Oh that's crazy, Nick. The first one drove a car
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off a cliff, the next jumped off a building, the third fixed herself
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up in the closed garage with a car motor running. And this last one
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jumps in front of a subway train. But Maddy, did you notice that
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each of these suicides was a woman in the middle thirty's, a widow,
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and that each had a considerable amount of money. Sure, sure, I
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know all that, but what's approved now? Look? Nick, my squad
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investigated every one of these depths and we didn't find anything but suicide. Okay,
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Marie, okay, Ah, Nick, you're getting all hot and bothered
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about something. It's just a coincidence, and that's all. Robert, how
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nice? Come in? Hello, Martha, my dear. I hurried over
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as soon as I got your phone call. What's wrong? It rated?
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El Bay? He told me thet awful thing. Really, I've known him
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for a long time, never heard him saying anything that didn't come true.
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Does everything really come true? Indeed it does. I'll never forget good Dais
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Manson. He told her that she was going to take her own life and
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did she? Yes, poor thing. She was standing on a subway platform
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one day when the train came along. She'd jumped in front of it.
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Oh, Robert, everybody told me that I was going to kill myself.
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Oh that's terrible. Isn't there anything we can do? Elbay said that he
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could do something about it, but it would cost me one hundred thousand dollars.
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I told him I couldn't afford to pay that much, not when your
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life is in the balance. No, I can't believe I'm going to commit
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suicide. I have never known Elbay to be wrong. I think it would
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be a better way to pay him, Marpa, I'm not going to do
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it well, my dear. No, you can come to me for any
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help you need. Oh, thank you, Robert, I know I can.
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No, I'm about a glass of your fine party to do this.
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Bo's good. I think that's an excellent idea. I'll get it, I
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must say. I admire your courage, my dear. I'm not brave.
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I just won't part with all my money for something I don't think will happen.
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The whine will make you feel better. Why, I'm all with help
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and now, Martha, to your health and long life. Hello, Hello,
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Martha, this is Commander Huntington. I just called to see if you'd
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received my invitation. Yes, lying here in front of me, I just
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know you're going to enjoy Rashid Albey. He's such an interesting person. Yes,
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yes, but whatever is the matter my idea? Who sounds as though
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you don't like Albay? Oh, it isn't that Communio. Just as he
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told me something very unpleasant he did. Whatever was it, I'd rather not
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discuss it. Com here here, Oh love Martha. Why don't you try
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him again? Perhaps he's looked into his crystal again and has seen something for
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the better. You do you think there's a chance. I most certainly do
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think about a dear anyway, As for you tomorrow at my party, Goodbye,
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goodbye, Comunia, and thanks. Try him again, Yes, I'll
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do it. Why didn't I think of that? Oh? I'm sure he
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sees something else? Yes? Is this a thing? Yes, this is
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missus langdon I've got to speak obey one way, one moment. Good evening,
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Missus Lang. I just had to call. I wondered if you would
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look into your crystal ball again, since it said the same thing I have
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looked many times. Madam. The pictures have not chased. The span of
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your life is growing short. Oh no, I beg of you to reconsider
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before it is too late. I won't waiting to repay you one hundred thousand
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dollars. That that's what you mean? I last, then what is written
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will be so. I am sorry, madam. The stand of your life
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run out rapidly. Oh, I never should have called him the person here's
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me, So perhaps I feel better to drake a glass of wine. Maybe
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this will let me out of the terrible mood. I certainly hope. So
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what I've got h it was aten nice if you ever picked me up this
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morning, Sorry, panty, I just happen to be going by. What's
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what's on the radio? Will you police fans? Sure? Oh gosh,
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it's a beautiful morning. Garten go to him locking toy be boded, bertularly
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got forty three, go to fifty four nine. Damn Gravic. Right out
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of all that, I'm in radio personality two five six and two five seven,
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Get the fourteen eighty five Norden Avenue. It's just judgean medicine and homotide
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squad in suicide and primitive. That is all me. You don't suppose that
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could be honest, But I think we'll find out we can beat that unless
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than five minutes. Well, Maddie, but the reddic this time? Oh,
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I don't know, nick. I just got here myself, only had
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time to find out that this is the same kind of case as the ones
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we were talking about. Do you mean the one who committed suicide was a
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woman. Yeah, in her thirties. And well that's right, Patsy,
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As we're gonna take a look. Yeah, assure that she's right in here
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in the library, right Las. She is the late Martheling hum hm say
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the cause of death is cyanide adging by the smile, Yeah, I noticed
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the bitter even smell too. Did you leave a note, sergeant, Not
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that I've been able to find. She didn't leave a note, Patsy.
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And it looks as if she tried to leave us a message. Yeah,
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what do you mean? I don't see anything for Look, Maddie in her
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hand. Oh, I've already looked at that. It's nothing but an invitation
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of some swink tea party. Come off this afternoon, Camil Honey, then
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request the pleasure of your presence in an afternoon tea. And annas be not
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an analyst to the outcours on and so forth. Yeah, well, what
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makes you think that means anything? Nick? Oh, she happened to be
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holding it in her hand and she died. Well, she could have picked
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it up before she knocked herself. Hold no, no, no, I
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don't think so many It wouldn't be easy to open a bottle, pour out
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a drink, and hold onto a card like this at the same time.
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Boo, she must have put it down before she put herself to fatal drink.
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That's right, So she must have made a superhuman effort to pick it
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up again. Remember Cyanide acts almost instantaneously. Oh, I think missus Langdon
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picked this up with a hope that it would lead us to her murderer.
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What's that? That's right, Martha Langdon was murdered. But loud Nick,
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The windows are locked and the name says no one's been here all day.
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The dame drinks poison, and you say she was moody. I do I
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do Maddy smell this bottle of wine? Uh say yeah, yes, the
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bottle has Cyanide in it. Tool and no one is going to commit suicide
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by drinking Sian, I'd poisoned the whole bottle. He only put the poison
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in the glass, No, Maddy, Martha Langdon was murdered. How back
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to the case of the Crystal prophecy. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought you
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by old Dutch Glinter. As we pick up our story, Nick and Maddy
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are talking to Robert Winter, who says he hurried over at mount of Langton's
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home as soon as he heard of it. Yap, mister Winter, do
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you know anything about this team Missus Comlia Huntington is giving this afternoon? Why?
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Yes, I'm intending the party more as though, can you think of
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any reason why Missus Langton should have picked up this invitation in her dying moments?
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No? I can, It'll probably be a very dull affair. Uh
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huh, Oh, thank you very much, mister Winner. Quite all right.
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I hope you're able to catch man's murderom goodbye. Oh mister Winter.
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Did you happen to know a Missus Nora Church Why? And Missus Dorris Manson?
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Yes? I did, Thank you, mister Weather, Thank you very
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much. Do you suspect mister Winter? I don't know. Of course,
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those steps he wears were enough to make meet suspicious of him. That's sound
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evidence. But the fact that mister Winter knew at least two of the other
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dead women is interesting at least, and the fact that he's going to Missus
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Hunting's part of this afternoon also interests me. You think all those other women
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were murdered too? I'm positive Bessy proving if it's going to be something else.
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Well, come on, we're too Nick. I want you to go
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home and get pretty up. You and I are going to that tea this
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afternoon. Oh quite a party, isn't it. Nick. You haven't explained
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how you happen to know missus Huntington so well, though I've known her a
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long time. Apparently when we shared up at the door, she accidents.
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Now you were a long lost relative. Our confess. It's very simple.
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I recovered some jewels firs some years ago. Oh, let's if I'm not
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going to make good of my promise to marry told him I keep an eye
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on the winter. But he seems to disappear in the crowd. Well,
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nobody can get out of this room without passing us. That's right, Please
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Indy, Oh, something's going to happen. Yeah, it's Indy. It
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is the time for the appearance of my master, the Master rich Delby.
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Oh isn't it a beautiful figures? What a gorgeous costume. Yes, that
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is quite a costume. But that and all my friends, I am much
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pleased that you have gathered here to do me. Anna, I will say
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no more and tell you. What is impossible for me to read my crystal
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ball before all of you, But I shall be happy to conduct him.
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Vid. You are leading in a room which a charming hostess has made available.
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I want to retire now to that room. You're not going to have
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your fortune told? Are you going back to the office? Oh? For
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good? Even drop me off of the beauty parlor. Sorry, you don't
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have to cancel your appointment. Oh but Nick's beauty power is supposed to take
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years off a girl's face. Let's who We're going back to the office,
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and I'm going to add years to a girl's face and that girl is new
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heresy? Oh, I hope I don't look as funny as I feel.
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You don't you make ups? Fine? You know at least thirty five.
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That's the worst compliment I ever had. I that's to remember. Whatever happens,
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I want you to play along. And when you went to the Master's
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presence tonight, don't forget who am you supposed to be? I won't nick
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her. Here I go, and don't worry. I'll be around somewhere.
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Yes, I'd like to see rashid Al. They please, I'm missus Andrew
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Waller, Please to come in. Thank you, mins. I believe person
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head here and then she will wait in crystal room. Come please please to
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be seated here. I go now tell master thank you. You are missus
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Andro Walla, who has come to seek advice from the old seeing crystal.
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You are the holder of driver's license number seven four five ninety two, issued
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in the city eighteen days ago. Your original home was in Brightwood. But
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that's wonderful. It is wonderful only because through this power given to me,
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I am able to give help to those who come here to seek the answers
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to those things which they cannot know. So maybe you can help me.
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It's very important, very well, madam, plead to draw near look into
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the Christian Do not allow your attention to waiver for an instant, oh ball
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of ever knowing light, for into your surface the future of the one who's
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seeksty answers to questions as yet unknown. The war begins to clear picture,
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responding, I can see you, madame. You are wondering about a man.
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The man is nearly thirty five years of age. He's over six feeture,
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good looking. He's engaged in a very dangerous occupation. His name is
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Nick Well it looks as though next plan to have Patsy disguise herself as an
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older woman and gather evidence in russiad Aale Bay's apartment has backfired. In a
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moment, we'll hear the conclusion of this adventure. Now back to the conclusion
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of the case of the Crystal prophecy, the day's adventure with Nick Carter,
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brought to you by old Dutch Clinton. And as we returned to the story,
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Rassidale Bay says, if you'll move, I said, refers to you
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this gun. You were very foolish to come here, my dear young spy.
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How did you know who I was? A very regrettable mistake on your
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part. You were careful to place for his documents in your purse, but
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you also left the real one in it, your appointment at the beauty parlor
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in your real name. Yes, and now I find it necessary to dispose
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of you. She wouldn't Dare you know what Nick will get you for if
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it's a last thing he does. If Nick Kutter tries to get me,
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it will be the last thing he ever does. Much too skilled in the
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art of having people commit suicide, because by a mere detective even a detective
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of mister Katter's reputation, and did kill those women. Of course, my
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dear, why how they done to you? They were stubborn. They refused
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to pay to keep from committing suicide, so they did kill themselves as I
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rage, Oh, Hassan, Haddan, Yes, Master, I ketch up,
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I was in the real Master. Take this girl out of the car.
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I will join you. This boy and is going to commit suicide if
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you're making a mistake. Nick knows all about you and what you're doing.
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I doubt that, but even so it will do no good. You are
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on your way to your grain. Now, Hassan, take it away.
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You know what a door has. I am good. That's the first time
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you ever rang that gong with your head. It is O golly, I
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thought you were, Hassan. That's what you're supposed to think. Now,
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I'll just rip off the master's hoarse whiskers so that when Sergeant Madison gets here,
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it can book him for murder under his real name, Robert Winter.
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Oh, I tell you, sergeant, I was never so glad to hear
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a Nick's voice, but it was certainly queer to hear it coming from the
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man I thought was, Hassan, how'd you do with me? I told
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Patsy I had to stick close for Maddie. Was the only way I could
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manage it. When I got into the apartment, knocked out Hassan and that
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did a quick change so I could pass for him. But you certainly looked
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like the real thing to me. I thought you were going to take me
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out and boil me and oil You know I wouldn't do that to you.
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Oh me, tell me, how did you know that Elbay and Robert Winter
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were the same man you were a part of responsible for the huh? I
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was, yes, I don't you remember your set? His spats were enough
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to convict him as far as you were concerned. Yes, well, that
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is convict him. When the fake l Bay appeared at Missus Huntington's party,
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he made the mistake of wearing his spats under his robe. I caught a
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glimpse of well, I'll be darned. Of course, Missus Langdon gave us
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a lot of help by grabbing up that invitation once she knew she was dying.
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I was calling attention to the party where I could find Lbay and his
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pets, so Robert Water would advise these women to consult l Bay and then
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as Elbay, he would tell them they were going to commit suicide unless they
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paid him off. That's right, Huh, they paid, they were all
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right, but if they refused, who killed them? As a listen to
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the other Sonny, that's right, Maddie. Oh that truths that no one
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should ever believe the things that are I seen in the Crystal Ball. Will
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Nick, how about a few advanced hints about the adventure Old Dutch Clinger is
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going to bring us next week or Bob? Before I tell you about next
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week's adventure, I want to remind our listeners that the Red Cross is carrying
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on in peace, just as in war. In any disaster flood, tornado,
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hurricane, or epidemic, you'll find the Red Cross on hand with shelter,
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food, clothing, and medical care. But this is just part of
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the story of the activities of the Red Cross. So it's no wonder that
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the Red Cross needs funds. And I want to urge everyone to give and
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to give generously to the Red Cross, and I'm sure they will. Nick.
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It's all my but no Nick about next week's adventure. Okay, Bob,
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I'll give you a few highlights. A man telephoned me greatly excited about
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a discovery just made, and before Nick could get any details, the man
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had hung, which made me curious. And from then on we got mixed
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up with red pencil lines and a phone book, a list of perfume,
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shocks, a junkyard, a trip to sea in a crowded barge, and
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webs. Patsy say something for next week the story Nick, I call it
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the Case of the Smuggles Perfume. Nick carter Master Detective is presented each week
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at this time and over these same stations by the Cuddy Packing Company, makers
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of Old Dutch cleanser. Remember when you go shopping tomorrow, get the cleanser
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preferred by more women in America than any other Old Dutch cleanser. Nick Carter
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Master Detective, produced and directed by Jock McGregor, is copyrighted by Street and
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Smith Publications Incorporated. Lon Clark is starred as Nick, with Charlotte Manson featured
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as Patsy. Matt He is played by Ed Latimer. Today's script was written
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by Charles Stubblefield. Original music is played by George Wright. This program is
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fictional and ed of his semblance to actual persons living or dead. Is plenty
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of coincidental. This is Bob Mike was saying when minutes come, use old
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Dutch glen there. This is the neutral broadcasting system. Welcome back. It
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is so easy to be the master of disguise over radio. Nick Carter's a
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regular, mister chameleon. That's just a throwaway to those of you who've been
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listening to us for a long time. And remember a two episode story we
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did. You can check that out at archives dot Great Detectives dot net.
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Seriously, I did love the fliffhanger where he revealed the name of Nick Carter
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right before they went into the break. Of course, he suffered from a
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lot of the big problems of radio criminals and those that get caught is just
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this overall arrogance and desire to keep on pushing their luck. And of course
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it really wasn't necessary for him to kill Patsy since she hadn't actually discovered anything.
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In fact, if he had just pretended to be a true swamy prophet,
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then he could realize Nick Carter was on his case move on to another
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city because Patsy had literally uncovered nothing. Though, of course we knew who
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did it from very early. What I liked about this story is wasn't so
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much the who, but the how, as well as the how catch them
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that we would figure out. I thought that in solution there had a kind
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of a nice twist. I should misstion that there were some lost episodes since
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the last program. Some of the ones that were missing the case of the
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Significant Seed, the case of the Call Losso Cave, the case of the
28:55
Single Addition, the case of the hit and run hot Out, and the
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case of the Seagull Wig and the case of the self convicted Crook. So
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a lot of episode lost episodes in this nineteen forty seven series. All right,
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Well, now on to some listener comments and feedback, and we begin
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with Aaron, who says, I'm watching Old Perry Mason on DVD and detected
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the unmistakable voice of Virginia greg in an episode from season one. I wasn't
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looking at the screen at the time, but when I heard that voice,
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I knew who it was. I looked on IMDb and they listened her in
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four episodes between nineteen fifty eight and sixty five. It was interesting to put
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a face to the voice, and I will be on the lookout for her
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and other old TV shows. I know other listeners of your podcast will want
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to watch out for her. Thanks so much for that email from New York.
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And certainly if you want to watch Virginia Greg, You've got a wide
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variety of television programs to choose from. Can find her in. Programs include
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Policewoman, The Waltons, Emergency, Adam Twelve, Ironside. It's just an
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incredible number of programs and so many she played different characters, and now sometimes
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you really have to look for her because the roles are not always big,
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and it can't when you're playing a character actress. It can almost be like
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playing when you're doing a score, because there are certain productions where what makes
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the music so good is that you don't even think about it, but it
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creates that atmosphere, and it can be the same with a lot of these
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character roles. She took on its an incredible amount of credits, and really
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through the nineteen sixties and seventies very active, slowed down a little bit in
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the eighties, mostly did TV movies and she did some voice work. Out
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an incredible legacy and incredible resume, and thanks so much for sharing. Also
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had a comment on our Big List of detective old time radio shows in Christie
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ces, I'm interested in Blackstone the Magic Detective mostly out of curiosity. Well,
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Christie, thanks so much. That was a program I hadn't listed,
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one way or another on my list of the big list of radio detective shows
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for our list, shows that I intend to do, shows that I'm not
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going to do, and an ever dwindling number of programs that I haven't heard
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enough to make up my mind one way or another. But regarding Blackstone Magic
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Detective, I'll add that, and I'll be sure to add it under the
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no column. But I'll go ahead and give some information on the series.
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It was a nineteen forty nine to fifty syndicated series that was syndicated by a
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mutual among its various networks, and the way the series would work would be
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there an introductory portion we would hear about a mystery, and then Blackstone the
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Magician would explain a magic trick. Now, there were two big flaws with
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the seriy. Number one, and this is the biggest one, is that
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it was a quarter hour sering. The episodes in existence are twelve to thirteen
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minutes long to leave time for commercials. So you have a twelveteen thirteen minute
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story and it's self contained, and when you're doing an introduction and a magic
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trick and a conclusion, that leaves a very little time for an actual mystery.
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The second problem that keeps me from enjoying the series is the magic trick
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portion of the show itself. Now I like magic tricks, but I like
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to see them. Magic tricks over the radio just don't work for them,
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particularly when they're trying to build our excitement by having his friends go ooh,
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oh, that's an amazing trick, mister Blackstone. There are just some things
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that to me really don't work on the radio. The two things that occur
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to me are illusionists and answers. The visuals are just so important, and
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even with just a thirteen minute running time, it really lost my attention.
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But it's out there, and certainly you may have a different opinion on it.
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But it was a series I just couldn't get into. But thanks for
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bringing it up, Christy. It's certainly fun to at least talk about.
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All Right, we'll be back tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and
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then join us back here next Thursday for another episode of Nick Carter. In
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