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Frank Race: The Adventure of the Six Week Cure (EP0855) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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our listeners. Thanks so much for all of your support, and today's adventure
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of Frank Race is called the Adventure of the Six Week Cure. The Adventures
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of Frank Race starring Paul Dubon. The War changed many things, the base
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of the Earth and the people on it. Before the war, Prank Race
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worked as an attorney, but he traded his law books for the cloak and
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tagger of the Oss and when it was over, his former life was over.
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Two adventure had become his business, the Adventures of Frank Race. Now
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we joined Frank Race for the Adventure of the Six Week Cure. Raino,
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Nevada, a simple city like any other American city, the one made notorious
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for its gambling clubs and per harboring the sickest people in the world. The
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temporary home of would be divorce is taking a six week cure from the yels
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of marriage. You could see there's strained white faces on the streets and in
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the restaurants, in the clubs, the faces of women not quite sure what
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had happened. I'm not quite sure why they were here. I'm not quite
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sure where they were going tomorrow. You know something, Rice, All my
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life I've been hearing about gay divorces. But the babes around here do not
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look so gay to me. There's nothing gay about a marriage that doesn't work
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mark for most of them. This is the bitter end of a screen that's
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never fun. May well leave us, not stay around. It'll be poor
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parents. You got your business, be insurance company, all fit up,
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Leave us, get back to the York. What's your rash. We can
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take a little vacation, some great fishing in the mountains here. Oh I
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no, you don't know. You don't not with me. I remember the
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last time I got more hookshin on myself and I get into the fish,
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besides which I wind up eating nothing but bread, because it is the only
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pool we have which don't have bones. All right, Marcus, you win.
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Besides, I'm not so sure that should go fishing. What do you
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mean? There is a dish sitting at that table open the corner, and
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she has been making parises with her eyeballs ever since we come in here,
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and she ain't no trout where. Oh it's it's Olga Petrov. You know
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I will certainly do know her, Olga, Olga baby. Oh Race,
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I wasn't sure it was you, Olga Petrov. If there's a better ballerine
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in the world, I've never seen her. She moved with infinite grace,
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and your heart left your body to walk beside her on stage. Rov.
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It's been so long, race Paris, just before the germs took over,
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left without saying goodbye. Boris was jealous, remembered, and with good reason.
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I was beginning to fall in love with you. That's a nice race,
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that's very sweet. Oh, oh, excuse me, Olga. This
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is Mark Donovan, my very good friend. Hello, mister Donovan, baby
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singing again. By the way, how is Boris? He's fine, He's
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here with you. He's here race, but not with me. Don't tell
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yes, I'm here for what. You're so quaintly cold? A six week
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cure divorced. I'm really very sorry to hear that. Where are you staying,
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Race, Well, we're really not staying. We came in on the
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plane this morning to settle a claim. We're going right back. Grace,
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please stay for a little while. I'm in trouble, desperate, torrible.
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I am staying at a dude wrench ten miles out on the highway. There
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are accommodations open. Mark will drive us out. We can talk it over
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on the way. What when wrong, Olga? I know you didn't take
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your marriage lightly. I guess I am a war casualty race. Even at
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this late date, the bell at is ruined temporarily in Europe. They can't
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support it, not on the scale Boris demands. They can barely find food.
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I know. So we came to America. You know Boris, You
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know how he likes to live like an emperor. He found somebody to financy
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tour patron of the arts. I would hardly say that he was financed by
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a man named Joe Rockland, big Rocky of the Hood, financing a ballet
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company. That's right, Race, Big Rocky, as you call him.
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He's in love with me and he's forcing you in Boris to split. I
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wish that Brosseau. If it were, we could run away, but it
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isn't. There's another woman, another woman. Boris must be blind. He
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isn't in love with her, at least I don't think so. But she's
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very wealthy. That's an attraction Boris cannot resist. I want to tell me
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who she is from Maitland Wilson, Maitland's wife. But she's still married.
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She's here too, race getting a divorce. We are all what you call
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one big, happy family. She started to cry and I put my arms
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around her. She wasn't meant for cheers, not this baby. Her perfect,
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almost taboo exotic like everything else about her. Even if fran Maitland had
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all the money in the world, Boris Petrov was a chump to give this
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up. I'm sorry. Yes, all I know about dancing her life I
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learned from Boris. He has been all things to me. I don't relish
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the thought of being alone, I know. And you're gonna find it difficult
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to be alone with Big Rocky after you, very difficult. The barbed triple
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X Dude Ranch was very much on the sedentary side so far as the guests
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were concerned. The most strenuous activity seemed to be the lifting of cocktail glasses,
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but there was nothing sedentary about the owner of the ranch, Male Westcott.
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She was pressing seventy by doing it the hard way. This gentle old
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lady, believe it or not, could sit on a Mustang like Roy Rogers.
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She could also pilot her own helicopter. Understand you're race. I've never
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been checked out in a helicopter. She's good for keeping the herging side most
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ranchers think of. Though it's something new and range riding. They'll come around,
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Missus Westcott. Maybe you'd like to come with me some day and see
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how big this ranch really is anytime. Get you away from these crazy females
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for a while. Women wanting to be without their men folks make them me.
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Oh, been looking all over? Boshan paused, what do you want
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that pool woman? Missus Bryan ain't back m ride yet. You must be
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lost. Someone ought to go find it. You were supposed to go with
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her. Well, I have other things to do. Sure, shining up
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to that cry and Maitland Now I told you to stay away from again.
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I don't go yelping at me, coming range, I'm coming. Excuse me,
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mister Race, I'm going to close down. Oh girl's great. A
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character. He spoke from just behind my left shoulder, but I didn't have
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to see his face to know him. Joe Rockland Big Rocky, hardly the
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type to be calling anybody else as character. I turned and looked into those
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small black eyes. He was wearing a boat tie, and if it had
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been the kind that'd lit up, it would have spelled murdered, done cheaply.
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You're getting a divorce, Race, I'm not married. Rocky ordering several
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kinds of divorces. Sometimes the guy gets his arm broke. That's a kind
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of a divorce from musing it anymore. Sometimes a guy gets tired of living
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and signs off. He could call it a divorce. What you're saying,
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what you mean aren't the same, I hear, smart, Race, I
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sort of feel there ain't no reason for you to be an arena. I'm
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a friend of Olga Petrovs. She's playing a tough hand. I want to
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stick around until the cards are counted. Boris and me can take care of
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that. I don't remember inviting you to my wedding. I'm coming anyhow,
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just to make sure there's no shotgun pointing at the bride. So you really
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did come for a divorce the tough kind. Well, from now on,
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I'm your lawyer, going to handle the whole thing for you, starting with
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a prop and arm. I'm afraid you're even going to supply the arm roun
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me To's all right, I'll get out of here and see you again till
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I'm sorry. Everybody. We're old friends. He gets playful. Yesh thak
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here, pretty good, don't ye es, guy? That's like my husband.
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Sorry to evoke unpleasant memories, missus, missus towner. This is Robert
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Sawner, but you can call me Solvia because you're just like him. That's
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like my big, tough husband. What's your name? Brace, Frank Brace
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serious? Thank you? It's like Robert. He's just a man. It's
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another hell. I'll be rid of him in another week. What do you
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think of that? Congratulations. I'm lonesome. I don't like to be alone.
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I'm almost thirty and I don't like I gave him ten years. No,
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I'm alone. You could go back to him, Sylvia. Ever think
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of that? I don't think of anything else. I can't you know why
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he doesn't want me back? Because I had him arrested for hitting me.
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I should I kill him? You better come outside? People are standing,
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No I care. I'll come out now. I'll get a grip on yourself
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yours. I never want to see another man like that as long as I
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live. Give me that hardy seem away with the ladies. Hello, Boris,
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I get told me you were here. Age told me a lot of
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things too. What are you setting a rough for? We are getting a
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divorce, that's all. It should not distib you. You're really fundable game.
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Of course you may have some rough competition this time. Don't be a
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full Boris. That girl never looked at anybody but you. You've been her
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whole life. She will find another life, just as I will find another
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one. But Fran Maitland, your new life might be more interesting than you
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think, more interesting and less peaceful. Is that so, mister Race.
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I hadn't seen her come around the end of the ranch house, but suddenly
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she was there, a striking woman of thirty five. Everything about it was
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reckless, her face, her figure, the way she wore her clothes.
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I had met her once before, investigating the loss of some jewelry, and
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once met Fran Maitland was not easily forgotten. Let's hear your theory about life
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with me, mister Race. It might driden my day. I've been bored.
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That's your trouble. Baby. You get bored too easily, and it
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takes a new man to snap you out of it. Are you volunteering,
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Race, or someone's like this? I never volunteer. I do not like
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your attitude, Race, I love it. I'm finding you more and more
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intriguing. Race. Don't try too hard. I don't fit into your collection
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of oddities. I'm not an artist like Boris, and I can't match Buzz
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Westcott's drawl. What do you mean by at the days? Yeah, I'll
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tell you what he means. He means I've been riding with Rescut while you've
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been chasing after Sylvia Toner. She's younger than I am bors darling, but
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she doesn't have any money. Her husband won't settle it down. Well.
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I can see you two lovebirds have a lot to discuss. Excuse me.
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Mark and I had only one interest, keeping an eye on Auga Petrov,
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and we avoided the rest of the guests until night came. It was Marl
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Westcott who broke up a dull evening for us by taking us for a ryde
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or helicopter. I do they share every once in a while at night check
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up on rush. Didn't you know? I don't see I can spot him
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from up here. We've got a powerful spot by all. Just have to
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shine it down when I see something suspicious going on. When she parted a
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herd up ahead there, you see him in the moonlight. Oh yeah,
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yeah, yeah. When we get over him, we'll lying off. Hey
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what a gimmick. Do you think a Texas Rangers would give up their ponies
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willing to fly things like days instead? I'll hang right over him. Now,
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turn on that night where race? Sure look at that. He didn't
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scare her anything. See the light way up here, Mark, They're used
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to a thing called the sun. It comes up every morning. Yeah,
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you're right. Wait a minute. Look there on the other side of the
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herd. It's one of our horses. Yes, and he saddled something.
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What is it? I don't know, but we better go down and find
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out, my Westcott said. The helicopter down, and we walked around the
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herts where the horse stood. The animal was nuzzling the thing we had seen
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on the ground. It was the body of a woman. I knelt over
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her A point at branding iron had been stabbed through her throat. It was
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Sylvia Tunner. When she was dead, we'll return to the adventures of Frank
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Race. And just about one minute and I'll back to the adventures of Frank
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Race. Sylvia Tarmer had had her last drink and her last heartache. Box
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stood guard over the body while Mark Westcott and I pulled back to the ranch
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house to call the authorities. There wasn't much to be done, so I
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went to the cottage to turn in. You don't go in Race. It's
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a nice night. It was Rocky again. This time he wasn't playing it
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on the physical side. It was using science. The science of a deadly
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automatic had produced the desired chemical reaction. It dispelled my inclination to ignore him.
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I figured we might take a little walk down the road het a curty
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We could take a spin night. Ear who knows might give you the money
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or lead poisoning. That's a possibility. You're essential to catch a fatal disease
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like Sylvia Tommer. I get a theory about her Race. I think you
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killed me. I think I can clear myself you and Sylvia had quite a
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beef today. You would trying to get room atic in broad daylight the day
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how to scratch you up a bit? Chors, don't you've spent quite a
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yard. It gets more interested. Go ahead, she rides off. He
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wasn't round all afternoon, So it figures you followed. I was in my
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cottage. Yeah, but the cops won't know that you followed the See he
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was mad about them scratches and your pretty person who you blow your top and
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killed. You ought to change your brand. Whatever you're smoking. You can't
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sell that to the police. Oh, I ain't finished. I'm coming to
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the best place you went for a plane ride? And who spotted the body?
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You? That is something guy always does to cover up. Only after
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the call for the bulls goes hop, you get nervous. Yes, so
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you hop into your rented car, which I have done by the road.
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You drive out to a lonely spot. Then you take this automatic, which
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also happens to be you. I just lifted it, and you blow your
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brings out. Neat, very neat. But there's one weak point. Yeah,
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what you kid? Give me that gun? So are here fistic and
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come on, let it go into the bush's Rocky place. What is somebody
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with a long range rifle trying to get into the Keep lowing the gun backs
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awaken blast who's back mine? Keep low and stay happy? Whoever it is
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to the product and wouldn't stay around. Lights are going on in the other
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cottages. You're right now, you can get lost rock again. Don't come
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back, You, my friend, are a real sweet pal. What strong
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Marcus? Leave me night? Cacus with it name? It was no condition
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to be company for me and I'm coyotes Harland's well, thanks for lovely It
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was fully as interesting here. Rocky had me set up for an obituary that
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would have blackened the family is Scutcheon English? Do you think Rocky qroked the
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dame? I don't know anybody could have done it. There are too many
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people and too many reasons. Even Robert Tonner is a possibility, Sylvia's husband.
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He might be around someplace, but he's very unlikely. Why because he'd
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have no reason to be taking rifle shots at me or Rocky. I gotta
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find out who was behind that rifle, who they were shooting at and why?
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And also we tossed this crown and will makes maskter. We could whip
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up a billy of a cake mark. Tomorrow we start a mingle with the
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guests. Sooner or later one of them will make a mistake. The next
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morning, a tennis match got underway and I found myself teamed in the doubles
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with fran Maitland. Our opponents were Olga and Boris Petrov. Nice recovery race,
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He's a top opponents. Watch it very good, guilt, great delicious,
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you are still very good race. Well, we have a win.
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I don't think I could leave that net as easily as you and Boris do
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it. For a little liquid refreshment, I'll go back to skate shooting in
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the future. It's it's less sprenuous. Who's a bit on the boards?
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He comes like the features of the pliniques, brace buzz Westcott looks like there's
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something wrong. You've been better, come help. We've got to get away.
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What's happened that mister rock found him out on the range. You've been
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shot. The bullet had gone through a big Rocky's back, and if he
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had known who fired it, it was knowledge. He never passed on.
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He was dead, but his demise filled in one bit of information he and
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not I had been a target of the long range rifle of the night before.
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How long you reckon? It's been dead right, I should say since
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early this morning, about five am. Anybody who was conscious of that deserves
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to be shot. How can you say such a thing? Have you no
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heart? We'll go all right, send Golly. This is no place to
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be choosing upsides. You slot with him yesterday? Did you not the race
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that I did? Boris? And I may fight with you today if you
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don't get out of the way and keep quiet. Look at this wound whistcut
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I want boy ended the back between the short blades and came up to the
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stomach. It follows a downward course. Does that have a significance, Grace?
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Yes, it means that the shot might have been fired by somebody mounted,
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might have come from the top of that hill. That too, that's
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possible. It comes small must at the range. All of you get off
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the range and get back to the ranch and stay there. Missus west Scott.
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There's no point in blaming anybody for this until we ain't blaming anybody but
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myself, mister Race. I never locked this gift business, and I'm closing
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it down today. Now, I want everybody off the place by sun.
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Now I wait a minute, I reckon. I got something to say about
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that. Wait, you just reckon again. This ranch is mine until I
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dine. I ain't close to that yet. You don't like it, you
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can tear off through the rest now long I'm on the wagon and follow me.
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I'll go with you, mister Westcott. I don't need an extra hand.
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Mister race you can go back with your brains. I don't want you
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to put them off the ranch just yet. If you do, the murderer
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may never be caught. That's none of my affair. I ain't the shearing.
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No, but you're a suspect. You mind explaining that the shot that
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killed Rockland was fired from a point above and behind him. It could have
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been fired by a rider, or from the top of a hill. Might
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also have been fired from a helicopter. I'd have to have a reason,
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wouldn't I. Your son might have been the reason you told him to stay
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away from the guests. Sylvia Tanner fluctuated between loneliness and hysteria. Maybe Buzz
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was getting involved with her. That wouldn't make me kill mister Rockland. It's
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always easy to tie up the second murder if you have a motive for the
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first. Sort of got your crowd, haven't you, mister Race. I
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don't like it, but that's the way it is. All right, I'll
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meet you halfway. Everybody can stay for twenty four hours. Listen, Race
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off your rocket. What do you want to go? Ride in the night.
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Set yourself up like a clay pigeon. It's the only way to play
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it. We have a much time. You go into the high and just
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drop a hint that I've discovered something. It may force a move. Yeah,
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like the mold big rocky guy. He rode out of here, Tony
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come back very unhealthy? Yes he did, but it's man rode out of
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here? Did he ride out? There was no horse near him, and
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it was too far from the walk. I don't get it. He was
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packed out. Mark, he was killed here and carried out there. Get
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your flashlight out open that crowd. He yeah, it's just a chance.
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I'll show you if I find it. One side boy, come here,
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all right, Mark, all the light close? Yeah, no, try
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that room there. Yeah. Sure, but if you'd only tell you what
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here? It is here? It is, look right, it's always got
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a strake of dirt on him. It isn't dirt, mark us, it's
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blood, dried blood on his hide. And now I know I'm mistaken.
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What's that? I was looking for one murderer and there were two, or
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rather there were two. You mean Rocky was one of him. Yes,
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he killed Sylvia to keep her away from Baris. He was sick. There
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were other suspects with good motives. Yeah, yeah, yeah, But hop
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Brock. Within an hour, you're still going to spread a little propaganda in
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the ranch house. All right? What do you wanted to say? Tell
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him that Rockman wasn't killing on the range. Tell them I'm checking the scene
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of the murder. But Race, you don't know why, Yes I do.
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Rocky was killed in his own cottage. That explains the course of the
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bullet. He was in bed, asleep in the murderer fired the rifle from
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the window above the head of the bed. Let's take myself out in his
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cottage. Go past the word Race. I'm here, Fran. Couldn't we
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have a little light. We don't need it, baby, It's more romantic
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this way. Besides, I found but I was seeking what did you find?
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Race? I dug a rifle slug out of Rocky's Memphis. It was
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clever of you to change the linens, but made you suspect me. Rocky
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was a rough customer. Your infatuation with Boris was wearing thin. You wanted
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to dump him. That didn't jail with rock He's planned, so he made
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threats, but you beat him to the gun. I'm determined woman. You
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should get to know me better. I don't think I'd get to know you
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for very long. Though my horse settlement is quite liberal razor, I might
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make you forget a lot of things. Money and me. That should be
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a tempting combination. Money and you are attempting, but I imagine there's a
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rather forbidden pistol in your hand, isn't there? Yes, I try to
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be more clever the last time. Her rifles seem to be a rather unlikely
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weapon for a woman to use, not for you, Fran, you made
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a mistake. You mentioned skey chewing is one of your favorite pastimes. Why
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don't you move out of the shadows race to give you a better shot.
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That might make it quick and pains. I have some bad news for your
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Fran. Mark Donovan steered you here deliberately right at this moment, he's outside
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the window drawing a bead on you through the screen. Take an easy pan,
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saw you did? She's painted. She'll lift the stand trial. Why
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are you sure get that? I'll get name out of a pickle. I
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wonder Mark, Boys has nobody to run through now, so he'll stick to
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her for a while. It'll give her a chance to be miserably happy for
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a little longer. Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. What
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Race, would you tell me something? I should be delighted, little boy?
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Why did a nice things always man? He feels that is one of
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the mysteries of life. Mark. One of the major mysteries of life,
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The Adventures of Frank Race, starring Paul Dubalg with Tony Barrett as Mark Donovan,
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comes to you from Hollywood. Others heard in tonight's cast were Lynn Allen,
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Charlotte Lawrence, Alice Drake, Michael Ann Barrett, and Tom Holland.
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This series is written under a did by Buckley Angel and Joel Murcon. The
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music is composed and played by Ivan det Barnes. Be sure to be with
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us again this time next week for another dramatic chapter in the Adventures of Frank
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race, Art Gilmore speaking, this is a Brussel's production. Welcome back.
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Well, this is someone interesting episode. I don't know this uh particular program
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would have been made if it had been a network shown having to go through
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the network process as it dealt with the topic of divorce and I think in
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a very sensitive way as they took a look at this, you know,
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these tragic situations that had occurred. This episode, of course, was set
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before the liberalization of so many divorce laws meet it easier to divorce in most
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states. But you'll hear a lot of Golden Age references to going to Reno
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or to Las Vegas, which was particularly noted for offering the quickie divorces.
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But as they say, episode illustrates quick was not always painless. Daniels shares
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a note over on Facebook notes that there that there's a new Father Brown TV
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series running in Britain on BBC one, Mark Williams playing Father Brown. Looks
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like they've updated some stories to the modern day with some new stories as well.
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Hopefully BBC America will pick this up. I would love to learn from
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our UK listeners what their thoughts on the show are. Right, I have
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to admit that I am always a bit leery of some of the more modern
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day adaptations. It's particularly noteworthy with Father Brown. He's definitely not the type
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of character end up in popular modern detective fiction, with a very distinct outlook
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and a personality that's us at times politically and correct. I'm hopeful that they
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did not obliterate that, but I would love to hear from listeners, and
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I will try and get definitely to try and take a look at the series.
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It becomes more available in the US, either on DVD or perhaps who
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knows, it may be on Mystery Masterpiece. And even though I don't get
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regular or television to the house, they have those the ones they play on
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Mystery on their website for a while. So all right, well that'll do
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it for today. We will be back tomorrow with an episode of A Life
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in Your Hands, and then join us back here next Monday for another adventure
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Frank Race. In the meanwhile, send your comments to Box thirteen A right
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