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Ellery Queen: The Vanishing Magician (EP1600) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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to the show support dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time
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for today's episode of Ellery Queen, and we have a new Ellery Queen in
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Sidney Smith. Sidney Smith was born in nineteen oh eight and pretty much operated
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as a character actor and this was his big role on Ellery Queen. And
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you'll note that the name of the actor plane Ellery Queen isn't really mentioned because
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they're trying to carry on the illusion that it's actually Elleri Queen appearing on the
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radio. I'm a little weird, I know, but that's where they're going,
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all right. Well, today's episode comes from November the sixth of nineteen
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forty three, and this one is the vanishine magician Romo Seltzer presents the Adventures
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of Ellery Queen. Tonight, the makers of Bromo Seltzer bring you another thrilling
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adventure with Ellery Queen, the celebrated gentlemen detective in person. Ellery Queen invites
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you to match with with him as he relates another story of a crime heal
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On unravels before revealing the solution, he stops the play gives you a chance
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to solve the mystery. Our guest armchair detectives for this evening, I'm in
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Sonya BigMan, contributing editor of Time Magazine, and Edward Pauley, who plays
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Steve Wilson on a famous radio program, Big Town, and now Ellery Queen,
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Master Detective and your host for the next half hours. Thank you,
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Chapel, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. The night's case will really
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test your metal as an armchair detective, because I can assure you. It
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had us thinking hard. It's about a man who could disappear almost at will.
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I call it the adventure of a vanishing magician. Maybe maybe over much
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the matter. There you are, mister Fortescos. Oh dear, my dinner
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will be ruined that husband of mine doesn't get home soon. You think twenty
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years of married life a manage get to know this? Theories get dry.
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You were crying, mamie, and it wasn't about hair or the spare ribs.
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Now you go back in the plor for us. I can read your
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variety in billboard, but I see if I can't save my dinner. You
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were crying about the house, weren't you, mamie. Yes, well we
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haven't long lost the old Jack yet. Maybe I'll stop crying, think of
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the good old days, of the good old days. But for we'll never
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see him again. Oh don't you believe it? All of it was coming
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back, Yes, sir. Before you know it, you'll be right back
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in the old five a day again, Hell and baby dover songs and patter.
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Maybe Vaudeville's coming back fourth side, But helen me won't come back with
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it, no, you Nora Vandi the greater Vandy magician supreme still but four
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size quick change artists. So it's full Jeff past say, they'd laugh us
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off. Yeah, well, I'm as good as I ever was. I've
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kept in practice, Maame. I haven't let the hinges on my theatrical trunk
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upstairs get rusty. No, sir, Remember that quick change act I had
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Riley of the New York Finest where I played all seven parts. Why it
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laid him in the aisle? It was corny fourth side Helen me were Cornie
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Evandy and his magic was corny. We're true and you know it true,
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am I. I'll show you all, and especially that sarcastic booker who threw
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me out of his af That was yesterday. What's the use you knew we
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were through? And you and Vandi Hell and me pood are savings thirteen years
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ago to buy this house. You're right, maame. We thought we'd have
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at least a roof over our heads. Now there's the fun door. Hell,
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Hell, I thought you'd never get home. Oh, oh evening for
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Sie. Hell did you see that taking at the bank? I saw what
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do you say? Hell busted that gut rappings? Oh hell? Shall we
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lose the house? Is that next week unless the US Marine save us in
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the nick of time? Hell, what do we all do? Where we
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go? Search me? Mame stopped crying, No, no where? I
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told you we did wrong when we moreaged that house five years ago. And
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what were we supposed to eat forsythe here in nineteen twenty nine billboard clippings over
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I'll have you know well now next week is next week? Right now?
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We have a dinner to eat. No heaven knows hall do we have done
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your don is this spoilist? Not sit down, both of you. I
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ain't hungry, maam, you're gonna eat this year and we're not going to
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wait for the great eventage. I'll have the o legippu it ain't dry as
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does Yes, I'm jumpy for a second. That's my fault. Hell,
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it's losing the house and all the money we put into it. Going back
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to a furnished room. Any many? Oh for time? Where are you
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my friends and the dining room? A very ah? I am late,
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no m A long long face, No luck today. Hell, I don't
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eat your soup of any benjie. It's about time. Not hurry with your
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attention. A great Antie is about to give a performance. What we said
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that the clown and a vennie. I ain't no mood. No, then
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I shall put you in the mood. Now, ladies and gentlemen, if
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I may have your attention, please up there. There is nothing up my
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cleave, I said, hell's on it. Anny, who wouldn't be losing
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the house? And who says we are losing the house and the bank that's
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holding the mortgage? You punch it, dope, a Antie says it is
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not so what your face is? Light up? Then, my friends,
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I have a faulty. We won't lose our house, no, mammy.
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And what is more, we shall have enough go to last is a long
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long time. You're crazy with the cold and something crooked? Not it is
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not something crooked? Forty? You ain't serious? How can you say the
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house? Follow my instructions and have faith? What do we have to do
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with Annie nearly when the proper time comes to get out of the house for
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one evening, leaving it unoccupied, that is all? What are you gonna
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do? Burn it down? Even that wouldn't do any good fire insurance laf
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Now you two stop, yes you want us to leave the house for one
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evening and that'll save it, Yes, Mami, I suppose you'll do it
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by magic. Annie, Yes, mister Dova, by magic. And there,
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ladies and gentlemen, you have the beginning of our mystery. He'll be
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back in just a moment to tell you more. But first, Ernest Chappell,
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I heard tell the other day about a lady who paid her first visit
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to New York just recently. That was plenty exciting for all right, even
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though the bright lights aren't quite as bright as usual. That there was plenty
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to see and do, plenty, I'll say so. I never saw so
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many people are places at one time in my life. And the crowd,
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yes, indeed, the crowd. Well. After a few days of held
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her scalter running around, the lady woke up in her hotel room one morning
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feeling like this, Oh my head, Yes, a common tick headache,
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not unusual when you're on the move more than you're used to being. But
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was she going to let that stand in the way of seeing all there was
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left to see you in New York? Not on your life. I had
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headaches in my own hometown too, And if Bromo Seltzer could make me feel
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so much better back home. I guess it would work just as well in
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New York. So she up and went down to the drug store, had
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the clerk mixture of Bromo selster at the fountain, and pretty soon I stopped
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like my old self again. So I went on to see Grants tom and
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the Statue of Liberty, just as I planned. Good for you and good
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for Bromo selter. You'll find it tandy to have around, friends, So
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get a big blue bottle of Bromo Selz tomorrow. And now back to our
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story. It's two mornings later the scene Inspector Queen's office at police headquarters.
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There's the maestron, Miss quatter inspecer very called a headquarters, Dad means a
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case. Is it a case, Inspector? It's a case snikky. But
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best of I know what kind every shake hands with mister and mister Steelers,
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my son, secretarymus Fort. It really is no matter for the police,
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the inspector and me. Fano was a lot more on your line, my
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school ball. Stop. That's interesting factors, lest I had better explain some
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that mister steel here is a very wealthy business man with a the hobby I
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thought I recognized you, mister Steele. I have read an article about you
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in a magazine recently with your program. So that's famous porter. Your hobby
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is collecting magic tricks, isn't it. Yes? Indeedy, I'm an amateur
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expert in magic. Know more about magic from these fellows know themselves. Hey,
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you Andy, mister Steele, you are the boogeyman of my unfortunate profession.
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Mister Steele's a shower upper manstrong. These guys make up magic trick,
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he figures them out. I see, here's mister Steeles that are standing up
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for twenty five thousand dollars to twenty professional magician who can show him a magic
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trick he can't serve in twenty four hours. Wonderful your sort of magic,
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detective and missus Steele. Yes, the best of them have tried to collect
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that twenty five thousand dollars. No one's collected it yet. Mister Steele's seen
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through every magic illusion ever invented. Ellery. Mister Steele will not see through
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mine, you see. Eventy's taking up mister Steele's challenge. He claims he
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can pull a track that will pool even mister Steele. Oh well, what's
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your allusion, mister Andy, I shall disappear in feinaire. Oh but that's
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not new mister Evante, who didn't He made another and disappearance ful view with
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Peter Audience. Hey sairly old mass to do it myself. All disappearance solutions
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are done with mirrors and apparatus. You won't pull me with one of those
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with morphine and pickavandie. But mister Stee, I do not use mirrors or
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apparatus. Eh. Well, Mandy, I'll hold you to that. No
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apparatus, mister Vandy. Wow, I asked why you've come to the police.
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It's gonna be a case for the missing person's h I wish mister Steel
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to be completely satisfied about the conditions under which my illusion takes place. You
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see, Ellery Evani, it's all time border of friends of his jointly own
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a two story brownstone and Chelsea it's in danger for closure. It's one of
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them old babies my thrown a solid block of attached houses all alike, and
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mister Evandy wants to win mister Steele's money to save the house. Well,
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I'm sorry, mister Steele, but from now on I'm on mister Evaner's side,
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the more the merry missus porter disappearance of sin there without mirrors and apparatus.
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Mister Evan, just how do you intend using the house and this magic
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illusion of yours? Ah? First, mister Queen, I wish the house
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to be examined from basement to roof, inside and out to satisfy me to
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Steel that there are no sliding pannels, hidden passages, tunnels or secret hiding
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places anywhere inside where goes my solution. Secondly, Inspector Queen may station police
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as guards at each exit from the house to see that I do not escape
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as many men as you please, Inspector, on the roof, in the
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basement, the backyard, at the doors and windows. In fact, I
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shall be insulted if you do not put a veritable human torban around the house.
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If you're making it impossible for your server a vendor, ah, that
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is the essence of the illusion. Finally, I shall enter alone in full
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view of all of you, and you will not find me in the house.
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When you look, I shall have vanished. And then, mister Steel,
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you have twenty four hours to steve the problem of my disappearing or pay
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me twenty five thousand dollars. You're crazy aventy but by George Uran, when
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di you be ready? Night? Well you gentlemen left to get me.
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I can't touch it, no prime and vow inspector. Please make an exception
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excuse this moment, gentlemen. Dad cooperate with a know as diety son the
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thing so you can find the authority and spec it means so much, mister
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w Guans are not publisher. He's doing it for that little group of X
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five a days. They need that twenty five thousand dollars to save their house.
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So very true. Thought that play along with event is a save it
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to me? And what will the big chinks say? And he talks three
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languages? Please left it all right? Thanks that mister mister Steele. Okay,
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I have my head examined. But okay, gentlemen, oh good mine.
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They get ready to dissipate that out of yours the night at nine.
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Do you really think that he's going to be able to pull his off?
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How? I don't know, maame. I'm hoping that man's steel must be
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as crazy as a vandy without apparatus impossible. Why when I headed the bill
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of the new York hoalace back in twenty fours. Yes, we know for
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sight you laid them in the aisle that me Mami smile the house, she
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says, good as ours again, Please don't miss very good luck, Ernie.
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I'm not against you. I just as well people get the tron fitter.
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I understand it and I will not fail you the man. You people,
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you're not supposed to be here, mister Missus Dolan as far as now
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according to the agreement. You folks wait in that corner cafeteria. So this
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is over, and don't worry, missus. I have a hunch mister Vandy's
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really going to do it. Oh, I hope. So miss Porter come
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on here and I want he will bring the beat into the house. Now,
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are you gentlemen all satisfied? Yes, mister and the way is mister
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Steve here, I am. Are you ready of Eddy if you are to
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mister seely the minutes really? Yeah? Oh yeah? The Porter reporters get
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winded this everything's that dougean't answer my phone, mister Steel, Are you satisfied
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that there are no secret passageways or hiding places in the house. Well,
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it's true. I searched it myself. Okay, mister Steel, I had
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a department expert took the house over from top to bottom. There's no way
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out of the house except with the regular garden windows in the roof and teller.
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I'll testify to that, mister Steel. I look myself. Is the
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house completely empty? House? Argant? Well? No I met one concert
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in there. He kissed me. He was so glad to see somebody that
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was good for a labor Tony passes. Come on, Billy, how about
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please setail. Okay, inspector the whole prince of sound. I've even got
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eight cops on the roof watching the roof dark. Don't worry, inspectors,
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they won't get out, okay, ne do Andy, go to it.
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I shall inspect us. Now, you gentlemen, will please allow me exactly
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two hours inside the house at the stroke of eleven and and try to find
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you idiots. Good event up this tube and see that he enters the house
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after today's the magician right of your favorite. The best of luck, mister
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Evantage, and I hope will not be seeing you. You'll see hi,
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miss Porter. Don't worry and you go until later. Let's close me,
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missus Seves we don't want you, saying afterwards he didn't win. I'm satisfied
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he went in. Keep that back of yours against the front door of there,
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Sergeant, you have to hold out of a crack to get find me
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my stroke now for two hour away, mich sit down here beside me,
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pleasure, my dear. If evanity gets out of this house now he is
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a magician. Sure this would be exciting while I got out of it.
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So far it's a sad case of yawn. Yes, one minute to eleven
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two hours, you need two centuries. Don't laugh yetter ce Oh here,
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sergeant Billy back really shake a leg up this too. One of the men
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report, you've made the rounds of the police on guard Targeant. Yeah,
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mister Stale. They all say the same thing. Fanny didn't come out.
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How about the roof dead? Hu, men are there in the roof happening
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under control of there off there. It's exactly eleven o'clock. Let go in
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and see, yes, let's get it way well open the door beat okay,
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wait, target, I see it now, by George, it's the
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ticky devil, simple as a b C too? What simple as a b
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C? Missus look, Queen A vandy built up the psychology of his audience
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in this case by making us wait out here for two whole hours. Of
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course, he's still in there, but he's hiding in the hall somewhere,
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and he's waiting for us to come in so that we'll impatiently rush upstairs.
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Exactly then he will simply sleep on the sneak out of the house. With
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this front door we'll have left on guard. Of course that may be avantage
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planned to steal, but somehow it won't work. He mean, they are.
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I'm glad at this front door while we go in. Don't move a
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step from this door. It's not what I get after waiting two hours.
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Okay, sorry for goodness, take open that door. Here we go,
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thenny don't seem hitting the boy down here no place in life. It's it's
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awfully quiet, isn't it? The thank you inspect to write a dowry mister
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ste don't tell me they disappeared too, searching the downstairs room thinking here,
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I am there. He's not down here, mister Steele, any looks No,
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he must be upstairs. He's really appeared. It's the most marvels thing
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I ever heard. Of my bedroom, a queen. Try that room,
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right, Neil, that's empty. I try this one looks like a study,
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this one either, Dad. Did you look at the stairs leading the
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roofstap door, mister Stee, it looks as if no, it's one door
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we missed. Who he is? That's the door do of his own room?
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And this is where he is. Game's up, of Andy, we've
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caught you can't pout of They open this door and stop making a ridiculous full
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of yourself. You might try the door, mister Steele. It may not
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be locked, you know it isn't He isn't here. This is the last
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room, but it's not possible. Wait that post clost. He's hiding on
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this post clost. It's empty, like Andry did it. But he can't
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have mister Steel, you might be interested in this note I just found on
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the vent his bed. Let me put it a little whiz right then,
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gentlemen, you may search this house until doomsday, but you will not find
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me for a simple reason that I am not here. Mister Steele, you
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have twenty four hours to figure out how I vanished into thin air or failing,
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say me twenty five thousand dollars done a great event, Russ and mister
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Steele. How many times do I have to tell you a van didn't snake
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pat me at the front door, but he did it somewhay. You get
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out some way. You still have five minutes of your twenty four hours left,
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mister Steele. He didn't get out. He's still in the house where
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Mister Steele, you've practically picked the house to pieces in the past twenty three
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hours and fifty five minutes. Inspector, you're sure the police are still on
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guard outside. They must leave the post yet you hear me? I don't
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know why I take this, mister Steels. My men haven't left their persons.
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They came on Judy last night. Then where is he? I cannounderstand
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it? Not a single clone, not one. I disagree, mister Steele.
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You what, Queen, It's really a very simple problem. Faun tom
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My Strong, Yes, Sergeant, I know how a fanty did it?
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Queen, tell me how quick before my time's got Yell on me, Queen,
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don't you dare? He's supposed to pick it up and tell you heard
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the voice of the people. Mister Steele. I'll give you five thousand dollars
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if you'll tell me how a vanny performed the street, Queen chen Horn,
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make it ten, mister Queen, ten thousand. Here it's chill, mister
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Steel. Rogent, open the front door. We'll wait for a Vattie on
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the stoup where I'll make it fifteen. Queen. Hurry, mister Steele.
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I'm beginning to dislike you. You want the Chise people out of their home,
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and you've lost a bet. You yourself me. It's not that it's
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my web Helas, Yes, you lost, mister Steel. Four ex voteviille,
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Friends of one, I want to tell here comes a great EVANSI strolling
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up the street. And there, ladies and gentlemen, you have the mystery
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while you try to puzzle out just how Avanti disappeared. Suppose we see how
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our guests are making out. Nikki, will you introduce our guest armchaired textives
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for this evening, please all right, ellery. Our first guest tonight is
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Miss Sonya BigMan, contributing editor for a theater and radio on one of the
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nation's most important and widely read publications, Time Magazine. MS. BigMan is
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an avid mystery story fan, and as such we heartily welcome her as guest
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armchair Detective. Tonight, our second guest is a man who, like yourself,
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ellery is tough on criminals. He's Edward Pauley, who plays the part
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of Steve Wilson on the famous radio program Big Town. Big Town is the
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inside story of a big metapause newspaper, The Illustrated Press. Each Tuesday evening,
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Steve Wilson as managing editor, with the beautiful Laura le I and eight
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photographer Dustin Miller give radio one of its most exciting programs. Thank you,
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Nick, miss BigMan. How do you think a great advante disappears? Well,
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I can only think because I'm not I'm not guessing it at all.
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They only thought that that I can tie up this thing is when mister and
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missus forsythe for hell and mainly Dobo we're talking about. The great advantage is
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said he had once played all seven parts in something called Riley of the New
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York's Finals. I think he's probably got himself best up as a policeman and
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walk in and out all over the place without being seen. Well, he
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just joined the car or something like that. The only other thing is that
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no other clue might be that all the houses look alike. Thank you,
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Miss BigMan. And now, mister Polly, how do you think the Great
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Advantie disappeared? Well, Elliie managing editor, isn't a sex not much good
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without it? There? Now, if I gonna have Roal Eye and Vestie
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Miller to help me on, I sound like an expert. Well, I
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have to stake the fire and say that I'll spring along with Miss BigMan on
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the solutions. A matter of fact, I actually have some mental notes here
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in that direction. I followed pretty closely with uh huh and another of ours.
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My mind goes back to the fact that there was a quick change.
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I was involved, and I said, like a lot of the actual function
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of these history tricks is that it happens before we actually think you expect.
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Thank you, mister Folly and Miss BigMan. We're going to tell you the
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correct solution to the night's mystery. In a moment, the first Ernest Chappell
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has the most important word to say to you friends. Before you crupple a
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piece of paper to toss it into the fire, wait half a second to
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think about this waste paper is mighty valuable. America's paper mills need every strap
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in order to produce enough new paper and paperboard to make the containers and cottons
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that are so essential. Now, you'll be doing your country a real service
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if, instead of burning waste paper or otherwise disposing of it, you sell
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it to joke dealers, donate it to charitable organizations, or hold it for
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your local salvage committee. Can count your newspaper for dates of collection. We've
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got to get our meals back to fool production so they can make the cottons
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for food, the containers for shells, the bomb fins, camouflage papers,
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dozens of other vital products needed to win the war. All right, mister
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cover up a mandy hit my check for twenty five thousand, and I still
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can't believe you did it. My friends and I thank you, mister Steel,
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but you've got to tell me how you did it. I've just paid
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a lot of money for not knowing. I think we ought to tell it
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to steal as didvantage You selved my illusion, mister Green. Oh he always
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solved everything, mister Gallery. I tell you, if you don't, I
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won't fight something. Call right, really well. Our magician went into the
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house. Two hours later, we searched and he was gone, vanished,
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as he claimed, in thin air. Yet the reports from the policeman on
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God at every exit from the house were that mister Avante had not left,
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but he did live very that's the fact. Yes, that Consequently, when
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your policeman said he hadn't left, they only thought he hadn't he has.
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You mean, mister Ravanda got out of the house under the eyes of grown
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policemen without their knowing. It's the only possible explanation, Nikki, Well,
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what was the situation? A house surrounded by police men in uniform, A
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couple of dozen of them. Take the roof, eight uniform police on God.
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Let's consider those eight fleepmen. Each officer wherever returned, so another officer,
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another blue coat. The police uniform is a great level of personality.
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And besides, mister Ravante cleverly set the time of the illusion at night when
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visibility is poor, and I called the roof, held the largest congregation of
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police. I say, mister Avante got away by the roof disguised in a
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police uniform. Oh sure, what a fool, what a fool conformation.
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Yet mister Vante asked for two hours when obviously a few minutes would have sufficed.
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Why did he ask for two hours? Because he's disputing the human nature.
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Like all magicians, he knew that in two hours the watching police would
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be bored, that the vigilance would relax, that they'd start trudging around the
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roof to keep warm, smoking, chattering, milling about. So that Avante,
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watching from inside the roof flap door, nearly had to wait for a
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single instant when none of the eight pairs of eyes was on the roof door,
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and in that instance slipped noiselessly out on the roof in a policeman's uniform.
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And there he was on the roof at night, just another officer of
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the law. Ah will he might have done the same thing, not this
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guise, But he knew he'd never be able to get off the roof once
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he slipped out of the trap door without being spotted. Rest as a policeman,
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however, all he had to do from that moment on was saunter quietly
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about among the eight real policemen, minding his own business, until he saw
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a chance to slip on to an adjoining room. Remember this is an attached
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house, make his escape from somehow farther down the street if it does make
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the trick possible by insisting on a big police curt But where did mister Vandi
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get the policeman's uniform? Now there was even a clue to that. We've
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all been told that mister Forsythe, a quick change artist, lives in the
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house, and his old theatrical trunk is in his room. And what was
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the sketch Foresyth used to do in the glamor days of vaudeville. He used
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to play all seven parts in a skit called Riley of the New York Finance.
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When Foresythe's trunk there must have been a New York policeman's uniform. Mister
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Ravante, I should like to shake the hand of an art No, no,
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mister Queen, the honor is mind. Believe me, mister Queen,
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I am so happy it wasn't you WI challenge who starves my illusions of the
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vanishing magicians. There, ladies and gentlemen, you have the solution to the
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mystery. I want to thank miss Digman and mister Paully for appearing as guest
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a young lady offers me five thousand dollars to get back the stolen sumbs of
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Radio with Adam Graham and now let's get back into the show. Welcome back.
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Well, I would complain about the improper use of resources during wartime,
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but they're just radio policemen, so it's all good. I did like that
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the Armchair Detectives both managed to solve the case, and it was a pretty
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clever solution and a pretty clever trick. And to be fair, they definitely
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gave us the clues to solve it, though it was definitely bad sport of
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the guy who did it to sit there and beg Gallery Queen to give the
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solution. Then again, ellery Quinn could have waited until afterwards to reveal he
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had figured it out. So at any rate, definitely an interesting episode and
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a different type of story. I did want to, ever so briefly discuss
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our Armchair Detectives. I've gotten some good feedback from a couple of people regarding
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the segments and the suggestion that it could be done with other shows, and
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it's something I'll look at in the future, but it's got to be a
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program with just the right format, and I'm not certain which it would be.
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The Ellery Queen program really does play by a very strict set of fair
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play rules. With a lot of series such as Philip Marlowe, the key
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clue will be something that the detective sees, but the audience isn't quite aware
33:51
of what exactly it is that's providing the clue. The same can be seen
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true of The Saint and Johnny Dowler, and even Nick Harder doesn't reveal all
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this close. So I will keep my ears open for listener feedback on that
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particular point. But I'll have to be just the right type of show for
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us to consider expanding the Armchair Detectors. But we will definitely do it for
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those episodes of Ellery Queen that are missing it. We won't be doing it
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next week, but if you are interested in trying to see if you can
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match wits with Ellery Queen, then please, by all means email me at
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Box thirteen at Great Detectors. Now we'll add you a list of people we
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have for that list. One other thing I do want to mention it now.
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Coming up next Sunday, we will have a TV episode of the Adventures
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of Ellery Queen. But to be clear, it won't be the Adventures of
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the Ellery Queen from the nineteen seventies that's under copyright. It will be from
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the low budget kin Scope from the Dumont Network in nineteen fifteen. And it's
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the only episode of Ellery Queen that we have any existence, starring Richard Hart,
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and this aired just less than a couple of weeks before Heart passed away.
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So this will be interesting on hope, but don't expect Jim Hutton.
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But that is coming up this Sunday. Next Tuesday, of course, we'll
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be back with another episode of the Adventures of Ellery Queen and tomorrow the Adventures
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of Philip Marlow. In the meantime, send you comments to Box thirteen at
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