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Casebook of Gregory Hood: Death from The Red Capsule (EP1198) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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it support dot great Detectors dot net. Now it's time, though, for
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today's episode of the Casebook of gregory Hood, The Red Capsule that Tree Wine
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brings you a Casebook of Gregory Hood. Tonight's the Petrie Family, the family
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that took time to bring you a good wine, invite you to listen to
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the story of a Red Capsule, another exciting adventure from the Casebook of Gregory
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Hood. That's for me. I'd like to know this. You like chicken,
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Well, how do you like it? Bet Fried until it's golden brown
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and trispy on the outside and tender inside, roasted with a savory stuffing,
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or barbecued and heaped on a hot platter. Well, no matter how you
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like chicken, you like it better served with a glass of Petrie California So
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Turned. Ah, what a combination. Chicken and Petri So Turn. They're
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made for each other. Petri So Turn, you know, is an unusual
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white wine, beautifully golden in color, delicately fragrant. And what a flavor
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that Petri So Turn has. Subtle, intriguing, really delicious. Believe me,
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one sip of Petri So Turn and you'll say that's the wine for me.
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And remember you can serve Petri so Turn proudly because those letters P E
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t R I spell the proudest name in the long history of fine wine.
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Petrick. Well, it's Monday night in San Francisco, and we have a
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weekly date with Gregory Hood and his attorney and great friend, Sanderson Taylor.
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Tonight's rendezvous is at that happy born from which no fish returned, Bernstein's Grotto
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on Powell Street. Let's join it there, shall we? Hello Gregory Evening?
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There you are, Harry About evening? Harry, I hope you don't
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mind we jumped the gun on you. Well, hope I could never resist
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these cuckoo clams on the half show. As you see, he's on to
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his second Dunn. You will have someone to Harry. They're very special.
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Thanks Greg. I will, by the way, if you can take fish
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two nights running, you're invited up to my apartment tomorrow. Even swell,
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Greg, what's the occasional? A friend of mine just sent me a batch
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of brook crop from Sierra sounds wonderful. If you don't know how wonderful,
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I swear you've never trout until you've had Greg cook them. Well, they
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won't be at their best tomorrow. I'm afraid brook trout is one dish that's
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better cooked under rather rustic conditions. For my money, the only proper way
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to cook them is in sizzling hot bacon grease in the skillet over an open
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campfire under the pine tree. And that Harry, by one of those happy
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coincidences, use us directly into the night's adventure. Our story from the case
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book began just that way, on a certain star clustered evening glass fall.
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It sounds like a potent setting for adventures. Well, we found plenty of
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that, as usual. We'd blown out of San Francisco in my beachcraft,
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complete with rods and flyers and a week's camping equipment. We landed in the
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private field of a friend of mine in Usemite County and hiked from there on
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up into the mountains. The gods were very kind to us. At first
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we hit a heavenless stream teeming with hungry, vigorous fish. At the end
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of an exciting day's sport. We knelt buy our campfire bearing these potatoes,
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and the ashes are almost done. Greg, Yes, I'd better fan up
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the flames for the skillet. You just like the bacon, Yes, yes,
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and clean the trout. Ah. This is the live stand in,
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and we're going to have a meal we couldn't equal in San Francisco's finest restaurant.
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First the bacon. There we are. Did you hear that? Greg?
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I swear I heard someone calling. It's probably little Sir echo out for
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his evening rehearsal for the Bohemian Grove. I did hear someone? Greg?
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Here in the forest prime Evil, where we've come to escape from dazzling wenches
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and murderers and all those fascinating encumbrances, there is someone, Greg who's there.
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This rounded lead the day. It's a girl, and one that quotes
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Hamlet. Yet you'll make an interesting dinner, guess. Go and make her
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welcome. Sandy. I've got my hands full here. Okay, Gregory,
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good evening. Are you in trouble? Hello? Yes, I'll read to
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your tent tire. Oh come and join us, won't you? My name
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is Sanderson Taylor. Oh well, mine Houston. You really do a little
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and wise for a young lady to be hiking about in the mountains at night,
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don't you think? Tell I Gregory? This is miss Sylvia Eustace.
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Oh how do you do? Sorry? I can't get up, but I
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must watch this meal. Do I smell bacon? You do? You'll be
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a gain. I can't hug. I'm sousing. How would roast potatoes,
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coffee, bacon and brook trout? Ala? Nature? Appeal to you.
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I can't think of anything more perfect? Can I help? Oh? No,
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thanks, everything's under control. How come you're up in the mountains alone
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late at night, miss Eustace. Well, I've walked up earlier today and
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saying with friends to den Mallah. It's about ten hours. I'm afraid I
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whover did it? What's wrongness is here? Here? I have some brandy
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in the glass here, No, thank you, I have a touch of
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asthma. I'm taking a head on me. There would be better in a
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second. Don't worry about me. I do wish I could do something to
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help. It's all right, I'm sorry. And now how's about the trust
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going into the skillet at this very moment I listen to it. I don't
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know if I should eat till soon after an attack, but I'm sure I
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won't be able to resist it. I'll hope for the bed, and Shakespeare
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says that good diggestion wait on appetite and health on both. A wonderful meal,
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Gregory, you surpassed yourself. I must confess. It was mildly colossal,
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more coffee than usta. Yes, thank you. Your face keeps bothering
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me, mister hood. It does have that effect on some people. Yours
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has the reverse effect on me. Oh no, no, I mean,
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I'm certain I've seen it before, probably in the police cauzette. He's always
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getting mixed up with the underworld. Of course, how stupid of me,
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you're Gregory heard the detective. Well, detecting is a hobby of mine.
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I've seen your photographs in the San Francisco papers. I was afraid of who
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you want? Another asthma attacked. I knew I shouldn't have beaten that,
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I'll take another. Fascinating objects though tiny red capture. They really ease up
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these attacks of yours. They usually yeah, if they don't do the trigger,
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I can give myself a high post. Help me, help me look
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at her struggle way her body keeps watching Sandy. This is my asthma attack.
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This has been what have me. You may say about the evils of
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modern civilization, Gregory. At least if we had been in the city,
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we could have called a doctor and the police. I know, I know
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his hand. It was ghastly. Don This wretched card should be in a
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museum. The old farmer who readed it to us Warne does not to expect
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too much. In any case, after scrambling down a mountainside in the dark,
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it's a great improvement. Well, the dawn's breaking now. It would
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have been better to have waited up there and then carried her body down to
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the plane and flown it into San Francisco. I can still see that poor
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girl's face as she died. Yes, it was torture. If only we'd
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packed some other food, some mustard, egg whites, anything to make an
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emetic. To stand there helpless watch her die. You're sure it was murdered.
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Oh, obviously suicides don't seek company, and it was no accident.
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I know. The symptoms are strict and poisoning when I see them. We
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must be on the outskirts of some town. Now, there are a few
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lights sprinkling hole. I wonder where the courthouse is, or even if they
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have one. If I know these hick towns, it isn't far from the
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outskirts to the hub of things, Greg, Could you make out anything of
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what that girl was trying to say to you as she died? Almost nothing.
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The strickman spasms were racking her, and that, combined with erasthma,
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made it very hard, dreadful way to die. I just caught a few
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scattered words sounded like sport engineer tar. Does that make any possible sense to
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you? No, I can't say, Well, Gregton, here we are
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the county courthouse and the lights are on. Somebody's going to have quite a
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shock to start their day with. Yes, I imagine murder is something of
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a rarity in these parts. Oh, here's the sheriff's office. Come on,
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Sammy, good morning, you fellows are early. What's on your mind?
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Are you the sheriff cure. Sheriff Turner, what's on your mind,
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Shun. We've come in to report a murder. If you shed't murder,
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san, that's what I did. Say. The girl was murdered last night
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in the mountains. My friend and I saw it happened you short day,
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come in here now now give me the fact you too. My friend and
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I were camping in the mountains last night. A girl named Sylvia Eustace was
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lost and came to our kilv houstash and go on, well if she had
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dinner with us? And half an hour later she swallowed what she thought to
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be in a bedroom and died of strickland poison. Who cooked this dinner?
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I did, and the girl dying right afterwards, Jair Cake, So yeah,
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get your keys out. You got a couple of customers show us.
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Now look here, I warn you a sheriff, and I'm an a fighter
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sure, and I'm the Queen Andrea. Now come up, Jake, We've
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got us a couple of murderers. Oh this is a crazy situation. Standy.
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We come in to report a murder and then get booked for committing it.
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Done these small towns for judges off at the other end, of the
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county, and I can't even apply for our wrint. We've got to get
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out of here. There's only one way that girl could have been poisoned,
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but we must get to San Francisco. Would have proved it, Sandy,
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I tell you, we've got to get out of here. Well, there's
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Jake, the moronic jailor sitting guard up there. But I don't think we
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can do much with him. No, No, he looks more in Edgar
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Bergen's line. Yet did you notice he was reading detective magazines? He may
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be vulnerable harm in trying, Jake? Or what's the idea of greg take
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your cue from me? I'd as it goes? What is it? Fellows?
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My friend and I have been arguing, Jake? Or have you call
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yourself friends? Why they argue? I can see that you have a terrific
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sense of human Jake. Hasn't he stand the terrific? That was an extremely
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funny remark? Or some fellows just come toward a natural like I'm sure it
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does. You must have your friends in constant stitches on that. Oh,
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forget it, Jake. When I said my friend and I were arguing,
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what I meant was we were having a discussion about you. You see,
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Jake, I've always prided myself on my ability to read character. Is that
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a fan you read he leaves or something? No, not exactly, but
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I can tell if a man smart the moment I look at it. I
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sized you up as soon as you walk into the Sheriff's office there, I
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said to my friend, is a really smart guy who's going placers? Didn't
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I say that? Samdar certainly did. Well? What do you mean?
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UH? Say you fellas like some breakfast settle our argument for us first,
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Jake? Will you you've got a little more on the ball than we have
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I have? Well, you pretty nice guys to uh would argue about me.
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Well, here's the way it went, Jake. I noticed that you
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had a big stack of detective magazines over there, and you were reading them
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very serious. Oh, read them all the time, read them all.
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I said to my friend, here there's a really smart deputy sheriff who knows
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a lot about criminology and wants to go ahead? All right, Sennis,
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your exact words break. What'd you say next? Well, Jake, I
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knew you'd heard our story of the murder, and I figured that you were
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the smart kind of a guy who would say to himself, nobody's going to
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be such a dope as to walk in and report an undiscovered murder when he's
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the only suspect. So though these guys didn't do it, Yes, Jake,
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that's the clever kind of man my friends think you will. Uh.
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Uh what else did you figure out? Well? That you're smart enough after
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hearing our evidence to know don well how the murder had been committed by slipping
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a red capsule of Strickman in among her red capsules of the Federan And then
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you'd say to yourself, I'll bet that was done in San Francisco, and
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that's where the case starts, San Francisco home. Well, maybe you're right,
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fellow. Ah, you're a clever man, Jake. I'd never been
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able to figure that out without your help. Gregory. That's amazing, Jake.
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It's certainly quick on the drawinga. Oh the next fellaws? Uh did
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I figure anything else out? Yes? Yes, I said that you'd follow
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the thing through logically and see where it might leave. I said that,
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I'd bet you say to yourself, this gregoryhood is kind of a protective too,
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and he knows his way around in San Francisco, and if I let
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him go, he could solve the case and give me the credit. Maybe
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the credit. Yeah, then when the election comes around next spring, maybe
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i'd have a pack at Sheriff Finner's job me the sheriff. Yes, didn't
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I say that? Santus? Yes, you didn't would for wood? You
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guys my sure talk fairs? Uh was that the end of your argument?
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Nearly nearly? But you see, my friend here maintains that you're just a
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dull, obedient deputy who takes his orders and then follows them out. If
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he's right, you keep us here. But if I'm right, you let
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us go. Before Sheriff turning gets back to the girl's body, What do
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you say, mister, I don't know how good a defective they are,
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but you're sure one twelve George's character. He's handy. It's good to be
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back in San Francisco. Sure, But I hope you realize Greg that in
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the eyes of the law, were a fugitives from justice. Yes, but
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the law appeared at us with very sleepy eyes this morning. I'm afraid poor
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Jake won't be very popular. And I had to do it that over the
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sheriff would have tried to pin the wrap on us. By the time we've
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gotten clear, would have been too late to do any real work at this
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end. I agree with you there just the same. I hope we never
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have to fly back across the Sierras in a thunderstorm, as it was rather
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an exciting trip. In any case, it got us here in really fast
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time. Well, our first port of call is obvious at the dead girl
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house. Yeah lucky she had those letters in her bag. What was the
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address again? One sixteen modern speed? It must be this next house and
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she didn't mention her parents. Stanley, I'm afraid this is liable to be
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a pretty harrowing interview. I don't doubt it, but it's our logical starting
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point in a search for her killer. Who we are an imposing house.
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Yes, the Eustace family must be moneyed. I wouldn't be surprised if the
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news of her death has preceded us. Yes, it's the maids stay out
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and the butler's quick. We don't want anything unless you're applying as servants.
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Is this miss Sylvia Eustace's home? Yes? May we come in? Please
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know you? We blush my show you you're greg of your hood, don't
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you? Yes, I don't see a thing with me. You guy,
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says I'm Sylvia's Ankley. Come in, won't you? Thank you? Excuse?
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This is my friend Anderson table. How do you do? Eh?
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Now? Where you want to see Sylvia? You mean she's here? Yes?
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I think so, I'll go and see, don't you great? What
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in fund is he talking about the girl's dad? We know it. Either
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mister Eustace is definitely eccentric or he doesn't know his nieces left town. Yeah.
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Sure, he's just coming down the stage. She's doing water groups.
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Who started holding me? Boy? This she is Gregory Hood. How very
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nice to see you. It's the same girl we left in Yosemite County.
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You'll hear the rest of Gregoryhood's story in just a second. And right now
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is a swell time for me to tell you about a red wine. It's
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really marvelous with any kind of meat or meat dish. It's Petrie California Burgundy.
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Patrick Burgundy is a rich red wine, hearty and full flate, a
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wine that can transform an ordinary meal into a real occasion. Tomorrow night,
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say try serving a simple dish like hamburgers, or a succulent beef stew with
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a glass of Petrie Burgundy. Petri Burgundy is not only delicious itself, but
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it makes everything you eat taste better. So if you've been wondering just how
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much a good wine can do for a good dinner, you will find the
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answer and a bottle of Petri Burgundy. Just make sure it is Petri Burgundy,
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because all Petrie wines are good wines. Well, Greg, this is
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beginning to sound like a ghost story. You and Sandy s a girl die,
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You get thrown into the clink for a murder, You escape, and
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then get back to San Francisco and walk into the girl you're supposed to have
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murdered. Doesn't make sense to me. It didn't to us either, But
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of course the answer is obvious. The dead girl, whoever she was,
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had an exact double. It didn't take as long to find out who that
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double was. Gentlemen, Frankly, I'm staggered, so am I, Miss
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Eustace. Do you have a twin sister? No, but you mustn't let
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my cousin Hester. People are always astonished by I like it. Oh see
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what it is? Uncle? Will you please? Well? As soon as
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the seidence going never stop. Well you still puzzle, gentlemen, we are
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Miss Eustace. You did say that your name was Sylvia, Yes, I
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did. Well did you know that you? I mean your cousin Hester had
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gone to the Sierra. Yeah, he left three days ago. He's very
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fond of hiking. That's as I an another thing? May I ask if
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you're both victims of allergies as matters, we are. Nothing very mysterious,
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anything very popular today Silvia. Here's it, Lieutenant Silver's a homicides. Miss
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you afternoon, Miss Eustace, how do you do? Lieutenant? Do you
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know? Yes? I know them? Thanks, hello, Greg. Mister
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Taylor didn't expect to find you here. I heard that you'd been detained in
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Usemite County. Yes, then we were, but only for a short while.
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Fortunately now we'll talk about that in the min and mister Taylor. Right
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now, there's more vital talk. Miss Eustace. Do I understand that you
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were Miss Sylvia Eustace. That's the second have I been asked that question?
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Yes, Lieutenant, I'm Sylvia Eustace. Why well, because I've just received
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a notification from Yosemite County that the sheriff up there has found the dead body
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of Sylvia Eustace of this address. He'd been murdered, wasn't the name of
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thunder? You saying yes, I've got to leave it alone. You fellows
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have done enough. Giving chair, I'll take her through her room. Well,
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Greg, you are in trouble, aren't you. I certainly understand you've
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had a report from Sheriff Turner, I suppose, Lieutenant. Yes, mister
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Taylor, they tell me the two of you broke jail and that you wanted
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to murder. Well, we broke jail, all right, stand, But
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you can't believe the murder child, Well, of course not. I've known
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you both too long and too well for that. But officially it's my duty
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to send you back there to jail, you know. But if we're wanted
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on a murder charge, hum, are we supposed to have murdered Sylvia Eustace?
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And who is the lady who just fainted? Sylvia? Oh? I
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get exactly stand this is a pretty complex case. Before you go shipping us
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back to death row in your semity, I think we'd better have a nice
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long talk. So there you are standing. That's the two girls, both
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identical in appearance of both claiming to be Sylvia Eustace. But why Greg,
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it doesn't make sense. I think it might, Lieutenant, when you consider
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that the Eustace family is obviously wealthy, being the heiress might even be worth
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murder and impersonation. Correct Sandy, I'm pretty certain that's the motive at the
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back of this mess. Well, then you think this girl is a cousin
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posing is the dead girl Sylvia? Well that's the way it looks to me,
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Craig. Here she comes back. Now, definitely, I think I
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can talk to you now. May I introduce my young Sorry, doctor Dakin,
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how do you do? How do you do? I'll have to warn
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you that missus Eustace is in no condition to undergo any prolonged questioning. Well,
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we'll make it as short as we can, doctor Dagon, but you
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must realize that you're involved in a rotter case. I who has to kill
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He was poisoned by a stricken and contained in what appeared to be in a
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bedroom capture. Understand, Do you mind if I asked a few questions?
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Okay, Greg, you've got to play it in your way, but if
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it doesn't work, it's back to Yosemite. Remember we know that Lieutenant,
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missus Eustace, are you in the habit of taking a bedroom? What about
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it? Surely any person who suffers from allergies, as Miss Eustace does would
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use the dry doctor. Doctor, there's no need to get so heated,
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Miss Eustace. Are you on the Shakespeare? Not particularly? Certainly not the
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way poor. I fail to see what the devil Shakespeare had to do with
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it. You'll find out in due course, Doctor Dagon, tell me,
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Miss Eustace to what substances are you allergic? I absolutely refuse to tolerate any
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more of this badgery. Oh you call this badgering? Well? Doctor,
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perhaps is her physician? You'd care to speak for her? Well, I'm
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just a general practitioner, Doctor Sanger. For Miss Eustace, I'll have to
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just I see well, Miss Eustace, I'll make you an offer. I'll
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drop for questioning for the moment on one condition that you let me come here
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tonight and cook dinner for you. What rubbish are you talking now? What
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are you saying? Is Eustace? In any case, your uncle commented on
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the servant problem, and I'm really quite a cook. Well, nothing seems
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to make any sense. Mister good who else I must still be dizzy,
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but very well. You may cook dinner here tonight. Good name you are
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you planning brook trout and bacon? Missus Eustace? It should give us the
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answer to murder. Slice up the bacon's and there will you? Right?
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You are, Greg, Greg, we've been friends for a good many years.
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If we hadn't, I wouldn't take the risk of stringing along with you
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on this case. Will you tell me what go? Now? Don't look
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so Harris, We're on the last lap. Our question is which is the
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real Sylvia? Now? The old uncle might be fooled he's half blind,
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and young doctor Dacon might be in cahoot. True, so we seem to
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have established only two positive differences between the girls. The cousin Hester loved to
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quote Shakespeare, so did the girl in the Mountain. Now, according to
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doctor Sangerford, cousin Hester was allergic to trout, but somehow he never checked
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Sylvia. Now I begin to see why you're cooking a dinner brook trout.
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Yes, then if she eats the trout and nothing happens, she's in the
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clear. Well, I hope you're right, Greg. Maybe I'm a fool
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for even letting you try it. I've got a nasty feeling that this whole
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business is one occasion when you've outsmarted yourself. At last you're due to be
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hoist with your own or Gregory a skilletful of bacon gryes all over the floor,
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Blaze it with it. I've done myself in idiocy. Quickstand, you've
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got one that's used some warm water at once, and muster what's wrong?
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Doctor Dacon. It's Sylvia. She's just been poisoned. How are you feling
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now? Miss Houston's week, mister Taylor, But I'm all right. It
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was a miracle I was here and able to apply the remedy in time.
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She'd been poisoned with strict But this makes it worse than ever who want to
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poison them both? Well, stand, I can give you the answer now,
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Doctor Dakon. May I asked your fiancee a few more questions, as
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few as possible, please very well, Miss Eustace, you took some a
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federan m a while ago, didn't you, Yes, yes I did,
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And tell me in the past few days did you have occasion to give your
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cousin Hester any of your federoms? Now? Did you mention it. Yes,
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I did. Just before she left for this entity, we were at
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a party. I'd forgotten to bring my capsules. I had an attack and
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went to Hester's bag and took several hours. Later, when we were home,
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I refilled Hester's box for mine. But you didn't tell her about this,
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No, I didn't think about them. There's the answer. Poison The
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fedron had been placed in your box, the one you left at home.
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Later, quite unwittingly, you refilled your cousin's box from your own, which
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contained the poison capsules. Then Hester's poisoning was a mistake. The whole thing
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was really aimed at this young lady. Only the plot backfire. I see
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it now. But why did she pretend to impersonate Miss Sylvia Euston. That
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was all part of the pot. Sylvia's cousin Hester planned to kill this young
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lady, then returned with a perfect alibi for the murder, having deliberately been
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in Yosemite at the time, and claimed to be Miss Sylvia Eustace, saying
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that her cousin had been impersonating her in her absence. But mister Hud,
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I still find this hard to believe. Oh, it's logical, miss Ustas,
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it's a plausible pattern. What made you see it? So suddenly?
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Gregory? Stan gave me the clue. You remember the girl's dying word standards?
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Yes, the sport engineered par won't they mm? But I didn't spot
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it until Stan started to rid me just now, when he said I was
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due to be hoist with my own petard. I remembered that Hester loved to
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quote Shakespeare, and that that speech came from Hamlet. Or tis the sport
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to have the engineer hoist with his own petar? At the Shakespearean version of
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the biter bit, she was hoist with her own fatad and knew it.
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Mister Hood, you're every bit as wonderful as I heard you were. I
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can't thank you enough. You're very kindness, Ustace. Personally, I think
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I bungled the job badly, not a bit. Come on, Sylvia,
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I think you should rest for a while, all right, and perhaps after
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that you'll keep your promise, mister Hood and cook that meal. It's a
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day i'd like to find out if I do have analogy to book out right?
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Goodbye, Well, greg this is all very well, but I'm afraid
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tomorrow we will have some loose ends to tie off. You mean a little
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talk with the sheriff Turner, I certainly do. He's hopping mad Well.
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Sandy's my attorney. He'll take care of it. That'll be a pleasure.
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But I'm worried about his deputy, the gullible Jake. I'm afraid he'll be
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in very bad repute. Yes, yes, Sandy, he might even be
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out of a job. I hope your conscience will bother you if he is.
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It probably will, and I'll find him a job in Hood and Company
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importers. I'd hate to destroy his faith in human nature. Well, Greg,
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as usual, that story was a honey, you don't, come to
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think of it. I'm not so bad at quoting Shakespeare myself. Why,
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Harry, I didn't know you were a student of the immortal Bard. You
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just see me do a balcony scene, and personally, I'd rather sit in
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the orchest for myself, and I'll cut it out. Greg. Look,
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let's run through Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. I'll be Romeo. If you think
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i'll play Juliet, you're a Romeo. You're crazy. Besides, I know
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you too well. You mean well when Juliet says Romeo Romeo. Wherefore,
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Artou Romeo, your answer will be getting a bottle of Petrie wine. Can
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you think of a better answer? Look, if Shakespeare knew about Petri wine,
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he'd rave about it too. It's great, Greg, Well, it's
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got to be. The Petrick family has been making for generations. With the
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Petrie family, the growing of perfect sun ripened grapes and the art of turning
30:07
those grapes into fragrant, delicious wines is a heritage. It's a heritage handed
30:11
on down in the family from father to son, from father to son,
30:17
and the skill of those generations of wine makers is evident in every drop of
30:21
Petrie wine, till the name Petrie on a bottle of wine is more than
30:26
a trademark. It's the personal assurance of the Petrie family that Petree wine is
30:32
always good wine. Well, but you'll discover that for yourself. You'll learn
30:37
that no matter what type wine you prefer, you like it better when it's
30:41
a Petrie wine, because Petrie took time to bring you good wine. Well,
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Greg, what story from your casebook you're going to tell us next week?
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Next week, Harry, I'm going to tell you an adventure that I
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call the Forgetful Murderer. It concerns itself as one of the strangest theories of
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murders that I've ever encountered. Said you all about it next Monday, right.
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The Case Book of Gregory Hood is written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher.
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Casebook of Gregory Hood. This is the mutual broadcasting system. Welcome back.
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What I don't really understand is how the cousin would hope to pass with the
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doctor fiance. And I was a little sad by the ending because I liked
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that she was doing all that Shakespeare quoting and stuff, and that's disappointed when
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that type of person turns out to be a murderer. But justice was done,
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even though the deputies sounded like he should have been voiced by Red Skelton.
32:55
All right, Well on to some listener comments and feedback, and start
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with this from Jack, who says, Dear Adam, I think you have
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one of the best lineups at the moment of any detective podcast. Johnny Doller,
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Gregory Hood, Nick Harter, and the lineup are all top knock shows.
33:14
I particularly enjoyed Gregory Hood because Boucher and Green really create the San Francisco
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atmosphere, probably because Boucher was from the city as a Bay Area boy.
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I really enjoy it. Thanks so much for your comment, Jack, and
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it's definitely an interesting program, one of the rare San Francisco programs. And
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for a study in contrast, immediately after the case Book of Gregory Hood,
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we'll be bringing you Pat Novac for Hire, which I guess maybe it's still
33:46
San Francisco, but a different part of the city because Richard Breen, who
33:51
wrote Pat Novac for Hire, also spent many years in San Francisco. Does
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that bring me to a another point. When I was doing the last listener
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support kimpaign in August, I announced that there would be two different programs that
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would be between The Case Book of Gregory Hood and Pat Novak for Hire,
34:15
but do Man from Homicide and then Homicide okay, and then at the very
34:22
end of the season we would be starting the Crime and Peter Chambers. Well,
34:27
we had something very fortunate happen in that we discovered act three more Australian
34:34
episodes of the amazing Mister Malone that I was not aware of when I made
34:38
that announcement. Plus we discovered that having a Wonderful Crime really should be tied
34:45
in to the Mister Malone series, and we discovered a couple lost episodes at
34:52
the Case Book of Gregory Hood. Which is to say, because I'm trying
34:57
to time this so that we get at four weeks where we have Pat Novak
35:02
for Hire and Dragnet airing at the same time to recreate that experience for listeners
35:09
who heard Jack Web doing Pat Novak on one station and then heard him doing
35:15
Joe Friday on another, these two very different roles. We won't actually do
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those two. We won't do Man from Homicide after the Casebook of Gregory Hood,
35:27
and we won't get to Crime and Peter Chambers this season, but we'll
35:30
take both of those programs off. I think those will all announce now.
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Those two will be the first two programs, will do Crime and Peter Chambers
35:38
and then man from Homicide out of the shoot when we start adding new programs
35:45
in our sixth season, which we'll start in November, and Homicide Okaine will
35:51
actually be heard on Saturday after Police Blogger and before we get into police headquarters.
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To Jack's question tonight or comment, I appreciate it. I think this
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lineup is actually going to be stronger as things go on. Once we have
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the Saint, we'll have Vincent Price as the Saint on Mondays, Philip Marlow
36:16
on Wednesdays with Gerald Moore, Nick Carter with Lawn Clark, Johnny Dowler with
36:23
Bob Bailey, and Dragnet with Jack Webb. Of course we'll have something else
36:28
on Tuesday, though that will tend to rotate a little bit. But looking
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forward to I think there's still so many interesting shows to play, and I'm
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glad folks have enjoyed what we brought them up till here and then Brian says,
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love the podcast. You help many people to enjoy hours of relaxation every
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week, and I even manage to learn a thing or two about old time
36:47
radio. Thanks and keep it up. Well. You're welcome, Brian,
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