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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Ricardo Amerigo Matter, Parts Three and Four (EP1001) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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dot Great Detectors dot net. Well, now it's time to get into today's
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episode of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. This one is the Ricardo Amerigo matter.
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Let's go ahead and take a lesson from Hollywood. It's time now for
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Johnny Dollar. Yeah, Pete Corbyn, Donald, I found your message when
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I got in, but I don't know why I'm returning your call after that
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las thing I took from you. Well, at least you haven't a run
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out on us. Why should I? How would you like to explain what
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you were doing in Port Morris, New Jersey, yesterday afternoon at the scene
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of the so called accidental death of your client, Riccardo Amarigo. Oh yeah,
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I thought that was you. I saw that. God on there,
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it sure was. Are you in your office? Yeah, that's right.
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I thought you wanted to stay there. I do want to know that and
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a lot of other things. I'll see you in about an hour after I've
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made another call. Okay, okay, I'll be here tonight and every weekday
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Night. Bob Bailey in the transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed
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Expenser, count America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Yaus Truley. Johnny Dollar expens account
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submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar, location in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the
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Philadelphia Mutual Liability and Casualty Company following his accounting of further expenses during my investigation
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of the Ricardo Amerigo matter. Expense account item six thirty three dollars seventy five
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cents dry cleaning and new shirts, socks, and so on, including one
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pair of shoes to replace the ones I lost in the South Jersey swamp while
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rescuing what I thought was a priceless Amadi violin and a muddy tide water in
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let's call Luckyhole Creek. But when I showed it to Harry Brand's in at
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Philadelphia Mutual, well, at least he promised to have an expert to look
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it over and pass final judgment. That's a reason forriteum seven eighty five cents
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taxi to Harry's office in the Security First Building. Oh, come in,
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John, Come in, Hi Harry. What have you found out? Nothing
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yet? But I should hear from the violin man? And he meant,
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John, I do hope I was wrong. It's done, Thanks Harry.
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I could have committed Mayham when you told me that fiddle I picked up on
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the swamp is in the Amadi. You think you're nearly drowned retrieving it?
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Oh, brother, that's putting it mildly. Butt. I'm sure Foresto will
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know for Reesto. Uh, Forresto's sir Negliario. However he pronounces it's the
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violin man. He really an expert. Well, he's the one who okayed
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the thirty thousand dollars policy on Amerigo's violin. Let's just hope this one's it.
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Did you learn anything in port marries? Only confirm what you'd already learned
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from Sergeant Peter's down there that someone had sawed through some steering connection on Amerigo's
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car before it crashed through the bridge. Yeah, still no sign of the
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body. No. Oh, a man named Adam Bowles call. Oh,
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he's an old friend, used to be a private detective and just can't get
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it out of his system. Oh well, he called me. You know,
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I know, and I must confess John that I'm inclined to agree with
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him that Peter Corbin, Aberrio's agent, didn't agent and beneficiary John and apparently
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the one person who knew amorgo Well, and I set it to add bulls
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until I was blue in the face area and I say it again, too
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easy? But who else? I don't know. That's what I came back
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here to find out. All the evice, circumstantial evidence. The kind of
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man would be a fool to let pile up against him if he really was
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gilly Even so, Harry, let me do it my own way. Huh.
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What if this Corbin tries to skip out, then will be the time
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to his getting Yes, mister Sharney Arrow, to see you, Sir Sharney
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Arrow, I knew that was it. Send him in a man is here
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John for Risto, Yes, sure, it's very Oh well come then,
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for rest all meet mister Dollar. How do you do, mister you brought
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the fiddle? Yeah, right here on the desk. Well, thank you,
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I'll open up the case. Well is it, mister Bronson, mister
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Dollar, I'm sure. Well, well, mister Shane raw Look, you've
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only got to look now that I have a cleaning ways. Some of the
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mud and the sword from the swamp point was a found We're lucky it did
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not do any real damage to change the appearance, but nobody could tell the
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way you gave it to me. Well, how about now that you've cleaned
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it up? Yes, ah, you see here the shape of the f
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holes, the curve to the bell. Yeah, the beautiful shape, the
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signs of age, and above all here you see the labor label through the
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f hole. You can see it there, Nicolo Amati, then it is
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Amarillo's. Gee, you're sure, mister Shaniero who the labeled, says and
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Foresto says, well, look, I talk with a fiddle player in the
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orchestra at my hotel last night. He told me there are literally thousands of
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imitations of every important violin ever made, shape, size, label and all.
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And I'll listen for Esto tell me the truth. Do you really consider
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yourself an expert? Poor Limelo? I'm gonna sell a wire Lin's into my
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storevio Lins, Harmonicus or Korna's Big Truth. How good are the violins?
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Yourself? A good one? Some as high as a sixty five of dollars?
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Harry, do you mean to tell me, with all due apologies for
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Usto, do you mean to tell me he was your authority for a thirty
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thousand dollars policy on Ricky Amerigo's violin? Well, of course, a representative
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from the will. It's a collection in Chicago, verified for Resto's opinion at
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the time. See your will. It shall know every good wire in the
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end the world. Harry, let me have it. I'll give you a
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receipt for it. I'll bring it back when I'm through with it. Whatever
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you say, John, I assume you want to check they're on the authenticity
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and you are right, John, Yeah, to put it bluntly, you've
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still not accomplished very much. And so far as Amerigo himself is concerned with
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this fiddle under my arm, I think maybe I will see you later.
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Maybe Harry had been right in the very beginning. Maybe I should have known
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a little more about music, or more specifically violins. Or maybe I should
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have left this aspect of the case to someone else and concentrated on the disappearance
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death of Riccardo Amerigo. Maybe I well expense account animate eighty cents taxi to
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booking agent Peter Corbyn's office. All right, Dolla, let's not waste either
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your time, Marina mine. You want to know what I was doing.
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That's right, Corbyn. Here, MARII I found it right where you planted
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it, and that swamped near Port Morris. You actually found a thank What
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do you mean where I planted it? What else were you doing there on
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the South Jersey swamps? Is that where you found you? Ought to know?
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But Frankly Covin, I think you overplayed it a bit when you tuk
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part of one of Amerigo's monogram shirts there with it. I don't know what
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you're talking about, actually, I mean it then what were you doing down
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there? And brother, you better make it good? The same thing you
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were trying to find out what happened to Ricky Americo. I tell you,
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Dalla, I was his best friend. It's a true fact. If his
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fiddle was down there too, I didn't see it. I wish I could
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believe you. By the way it looks from here, you were willing to
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have the Amadi island found lying out there in that salt marsh because you couldn't
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get rid of it without exposing yourself. It didn't put any money in your
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pocket. The way you figure Amerigo's death, well, the way it looks
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from here, Dala, that's where you're wrong. Yeah, yeah, actually
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wrong. If Amerigo's dead, I collected his insurance as is beneficial. That's
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what the policy says. But believe me, all right, But you think
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I wouldn't collect on the Amadi fiddle whether it was founder, if it wasn't
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found, That's where you're wrong. What are you talking about? Because I'm
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also a benefit visuary to his will. How do you know? Because I'm
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not only the soul and only air in his will, I'm also the executive,
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yeah, executive of his estate too. So if I was the heavy,
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what would I take a chance leaving the thirty thousand dollars fiddle laying around
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some swamp cover up thirty thousand dollars worth all right, what did you do
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with the hacks? Are you mean somebody saw it up the fiddle? Oh
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no, let me no, no, easy, Well you somebody saw it
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part way through a steering arm on Amerigo's car to make a crash. Bude,
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that's a pretty fair question. Oh no, oh no, Dola,
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no I oh no. Who would murder a nice, sweet guy like Ricky?
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Maybe he was a drunk, Maybe he hit the skids, but he
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had no enemies, he couldn't help. Okay. Maybe he was just a
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drunken bomb, worthless. He threw away a concert career, but he was
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still He was a gentleman, an actual gentleman, and he was a sweet
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guy. Nobody could have murdered him. Oh no, no, not rick
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Who was it? Tell me who was a lossy punk? I'll kill him?
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Okay, Pete, I believe you. I don't care whether you believe
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me or not. Would you tell me who done it? Hey? Would
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you listen to me? Look here, look here, and tell me is
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this Ricky's Amadi violin? Yeah? That's that's it, Ah, poor Ricky
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drunk? You're sure? I'm sure? All right, Pete, I'm gonna
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give it to you straight all I asked, is we don't know who killed
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Ricky Amrigo. We haven't even found his body. The Fort Morris police is
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still trying, of course, but it could have been carried by the tie
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through that inlet the Lucky Whole Creek right on out to the sea. Or
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of course it may appair somewhere along the creek. It'll take weeks to search
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that swamp thoroughly. Anyhow, if they do find him, I want to
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see he gets a decent burial. Will you promise me? Okay, I'll
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try, but listen with you. Because of the sword through steering arm,
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his death was made to look accidental, double indemnity, and you're the beneficiary.
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He not only wasn't making you any money because his drinking kept him off
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the concert stage, but he owed you money plenty. Now that's a motive.
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As for opportunity, who else had as much as you? Nobody,
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nobody, nobody, But I love the book guy. I try to keep
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him alive and get him back O me and I believe you. But the
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fact remains that the insurance company, the police, even a pretty smart private
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detective I know, all figure you for number one suspect, and I hope
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to accumulate enough evidence to moving on, and you're with them. No,
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no, yesterday right here you show you. I know I did, but
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I've had time to think it out. Depending it on you is just too
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easy, much too easy. I'll see it to your face. Pete.
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You're no metal giant. But only another fool would let circumstantial evidence like that
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pile up against him and then commit a murder like that. I may be
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wrong, Lord help you if I am and find out, but I think
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you're clean. I swear I am. I'm gonna play it that way unless
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I find solid reason to change my mind because Pete, Yeah, Johnny,
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you're the one person who can help me in this case. I'll do anything,
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actually anything. Just ask me, all right. First, tell me
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where you were last Friday evening when Amory goes car made that dive off that
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bridge Alabama. That's right, brother, and you can be sure. I'll
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check it at Willie's all right. Who's Willie? Willie? Willie Elliott.
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He's a saxophone plays one of my clients. He was a friend of Ricky's
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too. Where can I find him? What's his address? I'll write it
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down for you. We had a four handed poker game. Who else in
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the game, Jerry Goldsmith? You know Ricardo too? Oh yeah? Composer,
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conductor, violin player, fiddle player. Who is the fourth? Eric
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Snowden? Was he? It's a fiddle maker who lives at his shop.
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Write that fiddle maker? Did you say? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah?
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He was the sole and only man Ricky would ever let touches ABOUTI who repairs
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and fixing up the other stand? Who else? Were good friends of Ricardo's?
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Uh? Wiley was making it plenty lately. Nobody? You sure?
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Oh, nobuddy Johnny, I know, of course. He hung around a
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lot of bars. He was a regular. Give me a list. Well,
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let's see. There's a little place over on Pine Street called a yellow
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Lamp. Expense account item nine three seventy A quick sandwich for Pete Corobing and
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myself, and a flock of phone calls to Pete's poker pals, just to
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make sure they were in and available when I could get around to see them.
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I had to phony up an excuse for seeing each of them. Friend
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of Pete's just didn't from out of town, suggested I give you a call
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that sort of thing, and apparently it didn't arouse any suspicion. At least
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it was a start for the first time. Call it a hunt show,
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whatever you like. I felt I was going to get somewhere in this case.
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As it turns out, I was. Believe me, Johnny Dellar,
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your investigate Hello? What did you say? Who is this your investigating Ricardo?
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Yeah, that's right, I'm investigating the Ricardo Amerigo matter. Who are
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you hello? Listen? You have some information a tip on the case.
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Who are you hello? Hello? What is this a gag? Yeah?
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Or is it supposed to be some kind of a cock eye threat, a
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warning for me to get off the case? Believe me, this is no
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gag. Hello. Hello. Expense account submitted my special investigator, Johnny Dollar
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location in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the Philadelphia Mutual Liability and Casualty Company following
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us an accounting of further expenses incurred during my investigation of the Ricardo Amerigo matter.
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Expense of con item ten twenty one dollars even for drinks for me alone,
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and believe it or not, I'm cold, sober, but the least
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I could do was buy one at each of the bars on the list.
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Pete Corbyn gave me a list of all the places Ricardo Amerigo used to hang
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out before his disappearance in a South Jersey swamp. In spite of all the
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circumstantial evidence pointing his way, I still wasn't convinced Corbyn had engineered an accident
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to kill Amerigo. Pete did also give me a list of Amerigo's closest personal
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friends. Three of them. I told them I'd see them later. Meanwhile,
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I hope to learn something helpful from the places where he apparently spent most
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of his time during his last few months on this earth. But the result
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can pretty much be summed up at the last bar on the list, the
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Hangover club. Yeah, quest eighty cents here keep the change. Thanks,
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Yes, just like I can tell you, mister, come in here by
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a few drinks, sit and drink them. Leave. Well, uh,
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didn't he ever talk to anybody, not even me? Just hit there and
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get plastered to one of his friends and come in and drag him away.
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Oh did you know any of them? Oh? Sure, well he got
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your saxophone player at the Crystal Room. Who else, Jerry somebody f little
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player, Jerry Goldsmith. Yeah, they're on my list. Anybody else Uh,
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oh yeah, way you're sure this agent Pete Carpet. Yeah that's true.
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Hey if you knew that, why you ask me? I've heard the
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same thing exactly twenty times so far today. Well I'll say this for him.
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They must have loved Amerigo. They might have fought argered with him when
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they caught him in here, but it was on for one thing, to
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try and straighten them on. But mister he was too far. And yeah,
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yeah, shame for a talent like him, consciented violinist to hit the
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kids the way he'd done. But nobody couldn't seem that the story had been
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exactly the same in every bar in the list. Apparently the only friends,
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the only associates that Ricardo Amerigo had had, where those Pete Corbyn had named
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expense account out of eleven won ten cav fair to the apartment of William Elliot
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over on Callowell Street. Same story, No new names of friends or even
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acquaintances. He and Corbin and Goldsmith and the old English violin maker Eric Snowden
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had known Emrigo for years, good times and bad, had all tried to
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help him straighten him out, were deeply grieved over his death. It Am
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twelve, five seventy cave to a suburb Carl Lenark to see Jerry Goldsmith,
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where I'll admit I expected to get the same story, the same names,
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no more, no less. This time I took the Amadi violin with me.
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Hi, who are you? I'm Johnny Dower. Oh, yes,
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you come in, friend of Pete Corbin's. You said, done, mister
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Goldsmith. I'll get right to the point. I'm an insurance investigator, and
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I came in violent that it looks like Ricardo's and the Amati Yes, oh
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thank god. I found it down on a South Jersey swamp where Amerigo's car
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plunged off the bridge. They had been lying there, hidden by the marshes
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for several days. Is it all right? May I see it? One
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reason I brought it along was so you could substantiate identification. I make no
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bones about it, mister Dollar. I coveted this violin like nothing else in
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the world. I've played many fine instruments, strads when you're a even this
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my statement, I see, but Ricardo's a matti. There was something between
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that violin and myself that could exist for no one else, not even Ricardo
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and Marigo when he was at his greatest and when he started his it's terrible
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downfall. You wanted it even more, Yes, more than anything else in
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the world, enough to kill for him, mister Dollar. I should kill
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you for even thinking such a thing. I love Ricardo, Okay, Sorry,
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The fact remains somebody saw it through a steering arm on his car.
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I still can't believe that no one could have killed Ricardo. No one.
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Only three others beside myself, even New Ricardo these past few years, Corbyn
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Elliott and Eric Snowden pity him, feed him, clothe him, try to
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fight him away from the liquor that had ruined his brilliant career. Yes,
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even hate him at time to what he'd done to his life. But murder,
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I'm sorry. May I sure it is the AMAI? Yes, yes,
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I know it as well as I know my own. May I play
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it? Sure? What's the matter? I don't know, mister Dollar.
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It isn't here. The tone of the brigants, the response, it isn't
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here. Something's wrong. You're sure this is the AMODI, of course,
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I'm sure. But something's wrong. Something's happened to it. It isn't the
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same. Well, you think the dampness of the swamp. But I don't
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know. You can see it's it's all right, but but it isn't well.
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I don't know anything about violin and no cracks, no marks, no
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damage even the sound post. But you're sure it's Ricardo Amorgos somebody, Yes,
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yes, I told you so. I couldn't possibly be mistaken. But
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something is. I don't you know something I don't either. I'm afraid I
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left Jerry Goldsmith rather abruptly and in a rather distressed condition. But I had
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plans, and the sooner I could carry them out, the better I had
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him. Thirteen on expense account, four to twenty taxi fair back into town
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at the shop of Eric Snowden, violin maker, the only man who'd been
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allowed to touch Riccado Emerigo's Ammadi, except of course, for the music store
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owner who'd cleaned it up after I found it in the swamp. Yeah,
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it was possible he had done something to it. It would destroy its tone,
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but for some reason or other, call it a hunter gale like I
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hope not. Snowden shop was located on a colorful little side street, really
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not much more than an alley called Eisminger Street. Right in the middle one
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of the busiest sections of the city, surrounded by skyscraper's office stores and all
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the traffic that goes with them. This one little alley, except for Snowden's
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place. The tiny buildings packed side by side are all residences left over from
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years gone by when this was a residential section, and still unspoiled the bustling
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activity around. Thank you, mister Romandy, and I'll be sure to hear
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you at the Academy of Music Saturday night. Sir, sir, mister,
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Yes, I'm Eric Snowden, but that violin case, I'm Johnny Dollar,
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I thought so. Please come in, mister Dollar. That's right, it's
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Riccardo Myrio. It's been found. Please let me, mister Snowden. I'm
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an insurance investigator. Quite of my job has been recovery of this violin.
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It's possible lost. Was the most heartbreaking thing I ever contemplated. But you
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found it, I think so. You think I don't understand Here, take
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it, examine it, Yes, but not here. Come we'll go up
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to my workroom on the second floor where I can check it entirely. I
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locked this front door so we won't be disturbed. Now, come with me,
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please. I can't believe it. It's so wonderful you found it would
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have been a terrible loss to the world. Yeah, I guess so you're
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not a violinist yourself. No, I'm afraid. The only violent music I
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know is what I hear. And now here we are quite a shot.
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Most of the finest violins in the world have been here one time or another.
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The start of Arius of Yash was quite a shot. The walls were
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aligned with fiddles in the making and with tools, some for Maduran, some
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that were EXAs. A couple of them small and delegate boy, but one
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big one dirty Eric Snowdon turned away to open the violent case. I ran
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my fingers over the blades. There was grease on one Greece now here.
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Oh well, mister Snowdon, Yes, mister Dollar, this is Ricardo Marigo's
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violin. Is certain of that? Do you think that I, of all
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people, wouldn't know mister Dollar aside from Ricardo himself, I am the only
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person who has touched this magnificent instrument for years now. I must confess I
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resent your least question of my judgment. All right, I'll be honest with
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you. I don't pretend to know much about violin. So I had somebody
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playing a while ago. Secret might be that, as it may, it
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didn't sound to him, or even to me, like a thirty thousand dollar
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violin. And whom did you permit to lay hands on this priceless instrument?
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A friend should be horsewhipped. Only an artist, a great artist, should
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be permitted to handle a thing like this. But I suppose you understand that,
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mister dollar. I don't suppose you will go on, mister dollar.
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Someone has tampered with this. Oh, of course it doesn't sound right.
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Did this friend of yours presume to be a violin maker? To what do
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you mean? The sound post, the placement of the bridge? Of course
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it doesn't sound right. Now, why does somebody have to do you want
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to answer that? No, let them wait. This is more important.
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No wonder you or your friend or anyone else questioned the validity of this instrument.
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Hey, whoever that is down there, he really wants you. Look
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here, A simple adjustment here and here, Oh, bother, go ahead,
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I wait, all right, I shall be right back. It was
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a quick suspicion when I spotted the hacks on the wall, and I couldn't
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forget the warning over the phone. Snowden waited on his customer. I poked
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around the shop some more, looking for goodness knows what, and I found
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exactly nothing. No doubt Snowden was telling the truth until I started to sit
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down to wait for him, And as I pulled over a stool, I
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knocked open the door of a cabin next to his workbench. I started to
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close it again, and then I saw it hanging there on the hooker's a
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island. I grabbed it out of the cabinet and held it under the light
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beside the one in Amerigo's case. I held them up together. It was
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unbelievable. The shape, the color of the markings Nixon, the little pigs
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you tune them up, with a spot of stain on the scroll, even
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a tiny, almost indiscernible scratch on the back, an old pencil mark on
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the inside in the label. It was impossible, but it was true.
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These two violins were absolutely identical. Now here's our star to tell you about
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tomorrow's final intriguing episode of this week story Tomorrow. Well, let's a wind
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up, but believe me, and wind up with a real twist. Join
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us won't you Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob
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Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood. Written by Sam Dawson. It is produced
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and directed by Jack Johnstone. Be sure to join us tomorrow night, same
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time and station for the next exciting episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Roy
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Rowan speaking welcome back. Well, I'm I was curious whether anyone would seriously
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call their club the Hangover Club, and I found out there isn't indeed an
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establishment by the name by that name in London. And uh, it looks
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like Johnny's got some good instincts and sands to double his expense account, which
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is always substantial, as well as his commission on the case if he's able
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to prove someone did it other than the promoter. Well, there's something definitely
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fishy with this case, and we're going to find out what it is on
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Friday. Now we turn to listener comments and feedback, starting with Rebecca,
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who says, Adam, I've been listening on and off since you began podcasting.
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I love the app and often used it for bedtime stories. Well,
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thanks so much, appreciate your support. Have an email from a listener in
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Washington State, who mentions that he subscribes to several podcasts, including many of
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the old ones, and he says, I may load a chunk of Great
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Detectors or several Johnny dollars onto my iPhone I've had for offline listening. I
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also bought two apps for Dragging It and Great Detectors, and often listen that
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way using Wi Fi over and sell your liar data when in the car or
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walking. One thing I will mention for listeners if you do have the app,
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you can press the press the star option and you can download those on
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your app and be able to listen to them offline, so that it's not
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a cumbersome where you're not dependent on a Wi Fi connection, if that's a
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concern. But anyway, he continues, in the beginning, I listened to
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random episodes and didn't care about original order. Lately, I've been listening to
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in order of your original broadcast. As such, if you're discussing listener drive
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or some other special type today, I won't hear for years. I don't
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use Facebook or Twitter much, but do allow Great Detectors on both every few
30:29
days, but that can be cluttered looking for your items and the mass of
30:33
other tweets and Facebook stuff. Perhaps my confusion is how should a new follower
30:40
proceed through the episodes and still hear new or special offense things. Maybe there's
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already an answer somewhere that I am missing. Okay, and thanks so much
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for the question, Woddie, and I think this is a good general question.
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I send him a reply, because, like you said, might not
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get it if we just talk about it on the show. But what I
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would say, if you're new to the program and you want to go back
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through the archives, I'd recommend listening to our Tuesday program, whatever that is.
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Usually they're short. We did have Jeff Reagan go about thirty three weeks,
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but that was just because I found out there were more episodes after than
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I knew about originally, after I had already decided I was going to do
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the series. Most of them, particularly recently, have been fourteen weeks or
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last. So you listen on Tuesdays and you can catch what the current stuff
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is going on and any sort of campaigns, and then just go back through
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the old ones. To be honest, this is probably a good time to
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start listening, even to other shows. We're still about a couple of weeks
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away to get from getting our new Thursday show. So I think that either
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listen on Tuesdays or just listen to all the new shows and then work your
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way back through the old shows at your leisure. That would probably be my
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favorite approach, depending on how many episodes I had to download. I know
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that I did that with one of Andrews podcasts. I was listening to his
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podcast of Tales at the Texas Rangers, and I got behind and I started
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listening to the shows that he was then currently doing. I'd listen to one
32:34
of those and then I would listen to one or more of the previous shows
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to see if I'd get caught up, and that way keep in touch with
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what was currently going on with Tales of the Texas Rangers. So that would
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be my recommendation. And thanks so much for the email. We also received
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this from a Gainner who says, I love all your shows. You do
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a wonderful job. It reminds me when I was growing up. Dan and
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I would shut the TV off and he would play these old time shows for
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me, very fond memories. Well, we're glad to revive those memories for
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you. And help other listeners make new ones. Well, that'll do it
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for today. We will be back tomorrow with another one of Edgar Allen Poe's
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great mysteries, and then join us back here on Friday when we wrap up
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the Ricardo Amarigo matter. In the meantime, your comments are appreciated Box thirteen
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