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out store dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time for today's
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episode of The Saint. The original air date on this one is June the
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eighteenth of nineteen fifty and the title is a sonata for a slayer, The
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Adventures of the Saint, starring Vincent Price. The same based on character is
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created by Leslie Chatterers and non to millions from books, magazines, and motion
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pictures. A Robin Hood of Modern Prime now comes to radio starring Hollywood's brilliant
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and talented actor Vincent Price as The Saints, a proof that the language of
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music is the truly universal one. Mister Temple, isn't the people garvet here?
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Do you run the gamwood from sin to sing? Would you not agree?
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I would? Indeed, mister abdo, won't you join me? Accept
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with pleasure? Then you know me, mister Temper. And if you promise
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the key the deep dark secret out, confess that I have bought tickets to
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Karneggie Hall from Time to Tell piano concert mostly and those performed by Lauret Popdor
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primarily. Oh, that is a pleasing compliment, mister templar. It's understandable
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how I'd recognize the famous concert pianist like Laura Top had you, but the
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reverse is rather puzzling. And then, if you will keep the jeep duck
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Christmas, I shall confess you were pointed out to me by a newspaper reporter
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seated at my table. Explained half the compliment. But why did you come
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to my table? Why did you come here to this nightclub called the bird
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Kid? Mister well, I could say, because it reminds one of the
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black hole of Calcutta. But the real reason was to hear the piano music
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of Johnny Cross. Yes fastly, as did I Dixie Land hepcat receiving recognition
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from a Karnegie Hall myself. Johnny Crawford was one my pupil, mister Templar.
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He had a magnificent technical grasp of classical music, but no artistic soul.
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He was a great disappointment to me. Nevertheless, I do not wish
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to see Johnny Crawford's this. That is why I have come to you.
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So now that's a rather macarb attached to an otherwise lighthearted evening. Murder is
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always macab and mister Temple, so it's be death by violence it is,
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and I shall tell you a great deal more about it at my home tomorrow
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morning. Mister Templar, six thirty seven receder drums. I'm certain that you
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will be kind enough to be there. That's the kind of certainty that causes
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horse players to go broke. Mister Afton, And let us say, I'm
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playing a long shot, and I'm betting that among the saints and singers present
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years, you are numbered among the form one question, Yeah, could you
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give me any idea to why someone should desire to remove, therefore, said
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Johnny Crawfords, from the ranks of the living. Oh, I can do
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better than that's, mister Templar. I can give you the name of the
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person who will be responsible. And that person a musical composer who has been
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dead for over one hundred years. Lutherig Van BEETHO, Yes, well,
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should I say thank you or slap your face? What do you think the
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slaps have it? What could I do for you? You must be kidding.
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And if you're here to see mister Astall, you must be signing Templar
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guilty and you Nicki Clark, mister Opdall secretary Nicky Clark, Well will you
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lope in, mister Templar? Oh? Thanks, I could hardly refuse such
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an enthusiastic incertain Well, well, Rockmann and as prey ludon t shop,
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is that the mister play? It's not Jenny Durranty the music rooms at the
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far end of the foyer. This optor is expecting you. Thanks, I'll
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take a banty unification acknowledged. Come on, let's go. What just to
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stay behind me and let me find out hurt? Yeah, that was no
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prelude in these sharp being played in here, Nicky, it was the prelude
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to murder, to murder? Where do those French doors lead to to the
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terrace? Why see if it isn't too late to help miss dropt her while
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I well, it's nasty weather out anyway. Aren't you going after him?
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My halo wouldn't look too well on top of a shroud. Where's the nearest
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telephone? Telephone? I know this comes with a great surprise, Nicky,
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but the police are rather fussy about these things. Oh yes, of course
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the telephones. Right up. He's not dead. He's trying to play something.
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He's trying to aptor. It's Simon Templar? Who shot you? Do
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you know who shot you? Talk? But he's trying to play actor?
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Can you hear me? It's Temper? Who shot you? Man? Who's
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a temper? He is nicky this time, it's for sure. What was
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he trying to say? Is he did? One thing I've learned in this
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drab, weary life, my dear, is never the second guess a dead
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man. Hey, what's this cat under the music rack? It looks like
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a couple of tins. You thereby when you're ready for a cub and nicky
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Well, I recognize at top of miss templar personal notepaper used by mister Uptall,
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who is the Paul Paul, the Gage Outdoor's concert manager. Why the
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name Paul is the only written word left on the page. We might have
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a slightly better lead on his second bit of part. Well, it's part
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of a music manuscript yere, and an old one too, judging by the
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condition of the paper and the signature attached there too. Ludvig van Beethoven Beto
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mm hm, the popular tunesmith who left this mortal close one hundred years ago?
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Do you think it's possible that the old boy came back? Oh?
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You sure you want to come along with me on this little joint Mickey Laura's
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Updahl was a swell boss and a wonderful guy. There is anything I can
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do to help you get the man who killed him. I'm going to do
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it. All the time. I thought it was my personality that intrigues you.
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Well, let's hope I am not as disappointed by a mister Opto's concert
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manager Paul to Gauge. I still can't believe it, Mister Templar, lot
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it's Aptoor dead, murdered. Why would anyone want to murder? No,
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I thought that that was going to be my question, mister Gage. You
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don't suppose it was because he was going to tell me who wanted to murder
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Johnny Crawford, do you? Johnny Crawford? Yeah? Who is he?
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Now? You obviously don't suppose any other suggestions. I'm started. It's the
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templar. But I'm so stunned by this news that Lordyx was going to play
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for me this very evening. And I'm not aware that mister Adah had a
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concert date to this evening. Mister it wasn't a concert engagement, Miss Clark.
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If I stroke of good fortune, I come into possession of an original
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musical manuscript of Beethoven's Pianosanopa and Lodi, would you say Beethoven? Yes,
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it's it's an original that's never been published. It was known to exist,
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but with loss of lu they published in eighteen twenty four and it never turned
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up again until just recently. It must be worth a fortune to the gauge.
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Well, it is quite valuable, guests. I'm going to offer it
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for sale to a small group of collectors and call an out of the evening.
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A lot of agreed to play it for me. But you wouldn't happen
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to have this manuscript here, would you? But yes, yes, it's
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in my stage. Do you mind if we take a look at it?
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Well, of course I'll have it for you in dosinalday. The remarkable document
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seems to know question as to its authenticity, and that always helped. How
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did you happen to get hold of it? A refugee from Vienna got it
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for this country some years ago, discovered it among some more family pizations he
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brought along with him. I don't know how it got there. I'm selling
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it for him. There, you please handle it carefully. Mister Chandlers,
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quite old and fadulous, would probably care quite easily. That wouldn't be an
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apology for the fact that it's torn right now? With torn, why,
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I'm not certainly I understand the missing signature should supply the miss meaning missing signature?
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You mean it? Heaven? Well? You really had me worried for
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a moment, mister Templar. But as you can see, this manuscript is
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in perfect condition. There's the original signature, Lord Big Beethoven's right, What
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about that? Exactly? What I was going to say, Nikki, thanks
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for your trouble, mister the Gage. Sorry I bothered you. Not a
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question of bothering me, mister Templar, I'm I'm merely puzzled. I don't
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understand what a Bethos the manuscript might have to do with the murder of Lord
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it's up to, and that's the reason I'm sorry I bothered you, mister
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the Gauge. Now neither have I. Oh, thanks Heaven, the police
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are gone. I don't think I could have returned here. He dropped all
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this. I'm not too happy about homicidal surrounding myself. Making well, then,
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why I'm back at all. I find myself with an ungovernable impulse to
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indulge in musical composition, and I more of that later, Nikki, it
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would appear we haven't unexpected eavesdropper him expect Oh oh, don't stop, na
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if you don't mind. I just assume the farther away I am from lethal
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weapons, the better I like it. That is a gun in his hand,
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genius automatic pistol species caliber forty five. That's very scientific, chump,
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So you better hand over that paper. Don't play coy chum. The paper
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you took himp dolls music. Oh that I'm sorry, but I'm saving autographs.
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Never had one of Beethoven's before, but you never had. You tell
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me blasted by a forty five slug before? An I better take that on
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to um. You killed him? Shut up? He said, you killed
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him? You kim set his shut up? Did I stamp back? Well
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over that paper? It will be somewhorders Yeah, inside parking. Thanks Shirn
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Butt. He braved with a gun, aren't you. Yeah? They retired
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in the music business system. From where I sit, it don't look too
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healthy. Hello baby, please Ansony? Are you all right? Hana?
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As you please? I must speak to my barber about this. Somehow the
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patting and massage I get after a shave doesn't give me anything like the sensation
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i'm getting now. You're all right? Well, I will be when the
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boy's operating the trip hammers on my skull. Knock off at five o'clock.
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Why didn't you let me know? Why did you lie there playing cossam like
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that? I doubted a posthum would appreciate the lovely picture you made as you
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bent over me. But as for me, well, I was in no
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hurry to wake up. What happened to chum? He departed with your prize
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autographs after creasing your skull with a bullet and threatening me with the same lovable
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soul, isn't he? My only consolation is that his aim is far worse
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than even his intentions. Simon, for pizza, come across so far,
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I don't understand a thing which puts this boat in the same boat. And
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speaking of boats, come along, Nikki. We've got an appointment for him.
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How nice? Any particular kind? Oh yeah, very particular kind of
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fairy boat's going to take us across the Beta Coronada. Simon, This the
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fairry boat is like a ghost ship. Oh now, don't tell me that
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a little fog is getting you down, Nicky, yeh little fog. It's
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so thick we can't even see the rail from here. Why are you he
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was so insistent on getting over to Coronada to night called the gauge is selling
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a Beethoven manuscript to a bunch of collectors. They remember one of my more
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famous hunches tells me that among those peasants should be a guy for whom capital
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punishment was invented. I hope it's better than the two hunches you had on
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that torn manuscript. What is it to the lounge you here? Eh?
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Yes, rather it should be the pianist is a former pupil of Laura Talkdog
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now holding forward for the dingy dive called the bird Cage. Simon, you
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mean Johnny Crawford. And if it isn't, he should sue for plagiarism.
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That's his personal theme song. Johnny Crawford A board. This very bold?
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Now, why would he be going to Coronado? That's a good question,
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Nikki. Suppose we asked Johnny for the answer the order the lounge should be
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somewhere over here. Maybe it is, and it looks like you have to
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navigate by radar find it. Somebody is coming out on deck now I would
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have to do it. I'm done. Everything's going to be, old kid.
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I hope you're right, Jensen. I've got the creeps for fair never
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mind, I know you don't get excited. We've got the signature. I'm
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gonna know the difference now I know it, Jensen. Maybe someone else does
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too. Oh forget it, Johnny? What is I'll lead you the bird
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case? What's all a bird cage? Johnny Crawford at the bird cage.
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What are you kicking about? It's a living in it, for sure,
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but you so will all be in a heavy sugar. I'll just you're waiting,
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gone, sim hidden in the fog. Who were they? Didn't you
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recognize one of the voices? Hot It was the friendly one who tried to
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part my hair with a forty five? What was it all about? That's
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the second question I have to ask, crossor you wait here, Mickey Hobby
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right back, Simon, you can't go. Oh, don't worry about that.
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I'll keep my fingers crossing there. Simon. I can't stay here alone.
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I'm allergic to dog. Oh you crazy for I can't even see you,
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Simon? What was that? What happens? Simon? No, I
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haven't anything, Frankly, No, I'm my headaches. I've swallowed liberal quantities
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of sea water, which I found much too salty. And I have a
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terrific yend to play the piano, to play the Oh no, not care,
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Mickey, my dear, Any psychiatrist will warn you of the dangers of
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inhibiting a creative verde. I think I'd better get into that lounge and get
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this one out of my system children make a grave mistake, Nicky, by
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not paying attention to music lessons. Now, if i'd only listened to Professor
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Heinrich, wortsoor but you'd only listen to me, Jensen or Crawford, whoever
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it was, wouldn't have hit you on the head, and you'd be rational
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now rather than Noncompassmentagy Or you shouldn't speak so harshly of whoever it was,
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Nicky. When he talked me into the briny, for some reason, I
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thought of music, piano music, and I think I've got something I could
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only find the right I think you should try to find that psychiatrist you mentioned
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earlier. More attention to your noodle and less to noodley my results, Mickey,
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you jump to a big, fat and incorrect conclusion. Listen to this
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hardly what i'd call a musical. Two to four, Nicky, you're not
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listening. I'll give you one more chance. There sounds to you not from
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the least. But then I didn't take lessons with Professor Heinrich, which might
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account for that. Wait a minute, that phrase she isn't definitely lotasought to
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all played justify dime. You see, you should have studied under professor works,
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he would have given you a hundred in musical identifications. No, you're
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not trying to tell me that that little musical phrase means something, Simon.
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I've seen it being coronat at six. Yeah, man should give me about
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two hours to prove its meaning to you. Sounds like a rather complicated procedure.
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Or the procedure itself will be simple, but first I have to clutter
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it up with a call to Lieutenant's flannagain and a little visit to the public
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library. I can only say, Simon, that I trust the past hour
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and a half in that library was more entertaining to you than it was to
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me. Oh it was, NICKI it was. You'd be surprised at the
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amount of interesting information one can garner in a library. Maybe I wouldn't be
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so surprised if you'd share some of it with me. Well, I learned
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a very interesting tidbit that Ludwig van Beethoven lives from seventeen seventy to eighteen twenty
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seven, that he wrote nine symphonies amazing, that he had a sketch book
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containing a mass in C sharp, a piano sonata, a few gun bach
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and oh if that's all you can tell me about an hour and a half
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of wasted time? Will you not? Quite? I could mention the fact
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that one of the more incorrect books on Beethoven was written by a John Masefield
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Crawford. What difference is it make who wrote them? Oh, John mayfiel
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Cross? Could that see? Our Johnny Crawford, by any check, could
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be an authority, a poor one, but an authority. So what We're
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going to make a bid on a data an manuscript and don't be too surprised
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if we win it, and a murderer as well. To begin, you
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couldn't answer better. Timing from a metronome. Quietly, quiet, This was
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to be a very happy occasion, gentleman, as you all know. But
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we were to present here tonight in the original, authentic and hisitive unknown manuscript
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of a piano Snopa by faiths. In honor of the occasion, I prevailed
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it by my dear friend Laura up to to be the first to play the
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Unfortunately, as most of you now know, he has met with the tragic
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end. In deference to Law's memory, I have not sawt another pianist the
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substitute for him. I am certain you all share my feelings, and so
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I'd be very happy to play the sonata for you. Mister the Gauge,
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Are you crazy? I'm not certain I quite understand the meaning of this interruption
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with Temple. I wouldn't let that bottomy, mistery the Gauge. Now,
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as soon as I reached that piano. M well, really, mister templers
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White Temple, Mister de Gauge, I'm going to substitute for Laura to opdor
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you. Well, I didn't know that you were a pianist. Temper,
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sure one of the best. Listen to this, mister Temple. There can
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only be two explanations for this, this outrageous accent on your part. You're
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raither drunk or med. I shuld have to ask you to leave this all
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at once. Now, surely, mister the Gage, you wouldn't want me
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to leave so soon, not before I've told these gentlemen that Beethoven never wrote
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the music on that manuscript you have for sale. Beethoven never wrought. Manuscript
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is a fake. No such piano sonata was ever written by Beethoven or lost
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on its way to the publisher. This is the record of that snother is
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in Beethoven's own skitch. I'll admit that a piano sonatas noted in the sketchbook.
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Yes, but if the person who forged this manuscript had looked far enough,
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he'd have learned that the original was written for four hands as a duet,
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not for two. I can't believe this. This manuscript is a forgery
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written by a former so called expert named Johnny Crawford. What if this is
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so? Is it? Do you have any proof, mister temper Laurenzoptov's death
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is proof enough. He discovered the forgery, but then he made a grave
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mistake. He thought Crawford's life would be in danger to prevent the knowledge from
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coming out, But it was his own life that was taken. Then then
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it was Crawford killed him. Optu told me who killed him, mister d
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Gage Ottu. He couldn't talk, but he could play, and he played
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six notes. These notes. Those notes tell the name of the murderer,
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a name that will be verified by his accomplices when they're picked up by the
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police. For the edification of those who never studied under Professor Heinrich Wood.
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So the note you ever hanging it on the REPI Now what was that you
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were saying to the Gage to think of it? So he is, And
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look at the time, just eight o'clock. I told you you'd have your
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answer for two hours, but night. Then the whole idea was the gaugees
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from the start, and Johnny Crawford and Jensen who are working for him.
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Nikki, why don't you stop your intellect from taking over for your emotions,
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Simon. Then Crawford must forwards the manuscript. He was a good enough pianist
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and a semi authority on Beethoven to do it. But how did mister Opdolf
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come into it? You know they say that boat rides are wonderful therapy in
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cases of inhibited romance. Of course Crawford was his pupil. How Betty got
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gold seat and showed mister Opdall a copy of the manuscript, and mister de
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Gage got wind of it, killed mister Opdall and made off of the copy.
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The only part of it was torn off of a music rack. Oh,
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this blessed fog, it makes everything so warm and cold. It must
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have been the idea of a second manuscript that tipped you off, h particularly
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when Jensen was so anxious to get the darn signature. I wonder if you'd
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still feel like slapping my face. And of course I finally got what you
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meant about those six notes, mister played. They were the gauge selling the
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gauge. Nikki, when are you going to stand being logical? Oh?
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Right now, you have been listening to another adventure of the Saints, the
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robin Hood of modern crime, and now here is our star Vincent Price,
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Remember they still need Care. The Vincent Price inviting you to join us again
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next week at this same time for another titing adventure of the Saint. Good
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Night Tonight's script of The Saint was written by Sidney Marshall. Our cast included
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Alice Frost, Fritz Feld, Ted Osborne, Tony Barrett, and George Neis.
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The music was composed and conducted by Von Dexter. The Saint based on
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character is created by Leslie Chatteris as a James L. Safier production and is
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directed by Helen mac Vincent Price is soon to be seen in the Universal International
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Picture Curtain Call at Cactus Creek. All you Saint fans will be glad to
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know that the Saint comic books are on sale at All News Fans. You're
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an author. Doug Gourlay. Monday Night brings you two great adventure mystery programs
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side by side on most NBC stations. You will hear Night Be and then
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Top Secret. Lovely Alona Massy stars in Top Secret, the Story of espionas
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during the Last War. They showed a tune here Tomorrow Night per Night Bee
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and Top Secret next Sam Spade, then Summer Symphony on MVC. Welcome back.
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A great way, working in some musical trivia to the course of the
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episode and enjoyable. Little too thick, I think on the floor to the
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end, but and a little more than usual on the Saint's part. But
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at any rate, we'll get to some listener comments and feedback. Lisa says
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regarding episode fourteen o seven. I listened to the shows while I work and
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drive, so I might have missed something here. If the diamonds weren't in
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the cake because the other guy at double cross can't Peggy, why was he
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asking about the cake again? Was it just to have an excuse to get
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killed Peggy? Well, I think one thing that gets confusing in the and
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that's regarding the episode the Cake that killed, is that the cake was being
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used to double cross the two thugs. So the two thugs were going to
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want to get the cake, but Peggy really thought the diamonds were there and
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gave the cake to Diamond Templar. I I meant that the episode wasn't perhaps
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the most clear, but that's how I understood it, that the cake was
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going to be used as a decoy as the Big Boss knocked off a couple
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of his henchmen so he could keep all the money to himself. Well,
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that will do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with Crime and Peter
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Chambers, and then join us next Monday for another episode of The Saint.
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