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Casebook of Gregory Hood: The Eloquent Corpse (EP1228) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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town, Gregory Hood. Tonight's story begins in a small and shoddy waterfront bar
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in San Francisco, a bar affectionately referred to by its regular customers as Bottleneck
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Bill. The barkeeper, a gentleman by the name of Bill stands talking to
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his only patron, a small, softly spoken man who sits on a bus
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to love. I'd been okay, Bill, Yeah, let's know. That's
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something I want to show you. Go ahead, the place is empty.
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Get a load of goose. Ever see trains like that? Hey? What
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kind of crazy more is that? Well? Schooly shapes with funny letters on
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them, That's what I want to find out. I took him to a
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hot shop on market. But the guy like the kind of funny someway scream.
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I get a hunch there, worth, big dough. Where'd you get
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him? Now? You know better than curious? Like that deal? Okay,
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so they're hot. You know I don't handle that kind of stuff.
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Take it easy. I'm not asking you to handle it. And why did
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you come to me? Because you know people I do, people that can
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be useful. They boil Bill, and I'll cut you in. What's the
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deal? You're that guy, Gregory Hood? Don't you sure? I don't
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here? Every once in a while, all this old fashioned, hearty,
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crafty stuff is his racket. He'd know what it's worth. Do they kill
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fence for you? You're crazy? He's strictly on the level. All I
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want from him is information. You want me to take this stuff to him?
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Uh, he's still a rat. He might call in the cops.
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This stuff's red hot, bill and it's live with the top like dynamite.
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I gotta address this up a little. They say this hood guy is a
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sucker for dames. I figured we might send my Sonoma. Wait a minute,
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Lardie Normos my girl. Sure, sure she is. But all I'm
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asking to do is, oh, see this hood guy and I got the
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whole thing doped out. Now here's what we're gonna do again. And I
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bet he falls for it. How do you do? Say? What?
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Sit down? Won't you do? You like a cigarette? No? Thank
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you, mister hood. I've come to you because I'm told you're the one
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person who can help them. Father, my best. What's the trouble?
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Well, I received the package super mail today. This Collin was inside it.
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I'm gonna look at him. Thank you. I could see it was
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old and probably valuable, so I brought it to you. I'll say it's
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valuable. This is a perfect specimen of sixteenth century Corean money. There's no
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mistaking it. Oh, if you want to sell us, miss hey,
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what I'd be very happy to buy. Well, that isn't exactly why I
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came here, miss the Hood. I want you to help me get hold
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of the rest of them. Rest do you mean you have a collection of
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these coins? Leave this note as the Hood. I think it will explain
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everything it can attackic this morning. If you want the rest of the collection,
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comes to bottlenecked Bill, And that's for Larry, mister Hood. I'm
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afraid to go there. It sounds like some sort of Let me get a
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couple of things straight. Had you ever heard of this collection of coins before?
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Never? And I don't know anyone named Larry's. Well, if it's
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a track whibited with a valuable coin like this, I don't get it that.
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I'm mighty curious. Then perhaps you'll keep that date for you, because
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hey, where I can hardly wait? Hi? Greg? Hello Bill?
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What have a glass of sherry? Please? Okay you haven't been arrived lately,
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Greg, No, that's new mighty little as Phil. Yeah, you
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know a guy named Larry Larry? Oh yeah, yeah, he sit on
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my booth over there, so I was expecting someone, Oh he was a
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dame or he would be disappointed. How well do you know to Guary.
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Bill, Well, you know we're around here during a couple of times.
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That's all I think. He's okay, I'd say so. Seems to probably
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a jack talks school. Not necessarily the hallmarks for good citizens, much obliged,
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Bill. Yeah, you're welcome, Greg. Larry. Yeah, I
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know I'm a poor substitute for normal, but I'm keeping her appointment. No,
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my hey, would what do you know about her? Recognize this coin?
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Why the name's Hood, Gregory Hood? Why did no go to you?
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Mainly because I'm in the importing business. I guess she wanted to know
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if the coin was valuable? Is this certainly is? I'm curious to see
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the rest of the collection? Okay, and she'd acting for Norma. I'll
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show it to you. How about come up to my hotel before I do
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that, Larry, I had like a little more dope on this steel.
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Norma said she'd never heard of you or the coin. What's the tie in?
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Well, you see your peal of mine at a crush on Norma.
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His name doesn't matter because he's dead now. So when he knew he was
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dying, he gave me the collection, picked it up and shining. He
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told me to track down Norma and give it to her. What was the
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idea of sending just one of the coins. Well, he wanted me to
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check up on her if she wasn't hitched up to some other guy. Then
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he wanted her to have the whole collection. And you figured that one of
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the coins would intrigue her, she'd keep the data and you'd be able to
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do your checking up. Huh here, that's it, and stood instead of
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what you scared her and she sent me. And I'm afraid I can't send
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you a thing about her private wife. I can wait. Why don't we
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go up to our hotel. You're an expert. I'd like to get your
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opinion on the set. Oh, Larry, this is one of the finest
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collections of ancient coins. I have a laid eyes on. Indeed, look
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here this copper coin with a square hole in the middle. That's the end
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thing period. This goul Tenny's English Henry the Third. Yes, my friend
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Norma would be a wealthy girl if she ever inherited these. That's the way
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my pal wanted it. Eh too, baby died. It's too bad he
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never lived. I don't get you, mister. I'm planning for a sucker
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any longer, Larry. I spotted this gag half an hour ago. I
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was stringing along with it because I was curious. I still don't get you.
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Listen, Larry, you read too many who'd done us. I noticed
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your very complete collection of mystery fiction when I first came in. They've over
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developed your imagination. I never heard such a corny plot as the one you
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dreamed up to get me here? What would my motive be for lying?
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Not desa. You've got stolen goods. You don't know what they're worth them
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Before you go to a fence, you want to get an ext it's appraisal,
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so you dream up the idea of a girl as decoy and going to
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the whole wacky routine. You're a smart man, thank you. You don't
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have to be smart to figure this one out, my friend. As a
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matter of fact, I'm insulted that you thought I'd fall for it. Are
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you also smart enough to keep your mouth shut? You know I could make
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it well with your wildhood. Next moves bribery. Huh. Then comes coercion.
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I'm sure no, Larry, no dice. I turned crook. I
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go into the big time, and you're not leaving here. Oh, you
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want to play rough? So I read too many big Pictus stories, do
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I? Mister Gregory Hood, we'll see about that. Hello, any room
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to twelve? Thanks missus, Larry Ah in my room? Don't you right
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away? Ah? Don't bring Louis Rigger and don't ask questions. They got
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work to do. Yeah, yeah, I got someone here I want to
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get rid of. What is he learny? I got the name of Gregory
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Hood? Why'd you let him have it? He spotted my gig? You
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know the coueens are hut he turns in. Why don't we finish him off?
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No? I don't need to get mixed up in a murder of that.
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Think what are you gonna do with him? Get him down the fire
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escape and into your car and drive him out onto the prestidio and let him
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sleep it off. And he wakes up and brings the cops straight here.
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That's ass and I'm the boss. Think what I say? Goes and Louis
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and me help you in a snatch or we stand and go on the spot
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with it. This guy slaps of cops on us. Do come straight here
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as soon as we got him out of here? On checking out and leaving
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town. Eh, how about Louis and me? Suppose we don't want to
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blow town. Maybe you're thinking are gone by yourself and taking the grab with
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you, You losy double cross. That was your plan? Crazy? Hey?
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What are you putting those gloves off? I'm gonna finish this guy off.
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I don't want to leave no fingerprints. I'll give him a couple of
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jads with his knife. You don't fail nothing. I don't be a dope.
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Give me that knife. Yeah, try and get his give Oh,
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say here it is you always like to give ors. Let's see how you
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can give him with a knife in your bulley. Give me two twelve.
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Yeah, hello, Louis, this is Hank. Well, come in Larry's
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room, come right up with you. I don't I don't think the boss
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is feeling so good there you Hank? Why did you slice him for it?
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Yeah? He's gonn Louise, he us to take a lap. You
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ain't dead, Yeah, help me put these gloves on mine. On the
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other stiff head though, No, no, no, I relate him out
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with a black jack. He's only unconsciousness. Why are you putting your gloves
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on him? Now? Look, you won't get it, Louis. But
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I figured out a very neat frame for Larry's mordenesy. I put my gloves
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on his hood guy. We scram I put in a call to the cops.
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When they come here, what did he find? I can get that.
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They find Larry dead with a knife in him, and they find this
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guy wearing your gloves. There are no prints on a knighte. So what
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did he say? You say, this Gregory hood guy has knocked him off
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arm in the clear? Yeah, eh, yeah, gee, Hank,
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that's sure you want me all blow down with them coins. Look alerd he's
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drawing someone on the floor and running ink. Must have stow on a table
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tipto. Hey, it's an arrow and it's pointing right at greg the hood.
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Well, thanks, Larry help And they put the finger on the wrong
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guy, the importers. This is Henderson Taylor, is greg Dan mister,
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and I'm worried about him. I was going to call you, what's wrong
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with man? We went out of the office just after lunch. He said,
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don't want to be going half an hour. He had very important appointments.
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Everybody hasn't been well. I've known him to switch plans, but it
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always keeps in touch. You say, where he was going bottle neck Bill
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bottle mcbill's, Oh yes, I know that that's a tough hangout. Thank
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you, miss Fairest right away. It looks like one case of Gregory hood
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case book of Gregory hood and the Adventure of the Eloquent Course. As we
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rejoin our story, Sanderson Taylor at Greg's Brandon Attorney, is cross questioning Bill,
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the owner of the bar known as Boss. That's all I can tell
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you, mister Taylor. Greg goes out with this guy about two thirty.
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Uh huh. You don't know anything about the man except that his name was
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Lara and Rag. He'sn't even then here a couple of times. You don't
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know where he lives. No, but come to think of it, I'll
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tell you who might be able to give it it though? For you?
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Who's that Dotty Bronson? Clary was in here with her the first time?
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He can win? See you know her a dress? Yes, we do.
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Let's see one seventeen DeMar that's right off market, uh denmar Doddy Bronson?
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Them? Well, thank you Bill? How much ablig miss Johnson?
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Yeah, I'm a friend of Larry's. I ain't nothing wrong with Larius.
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Sir, Well, I don't think so. I come in sure, sure,
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come in missus. You say you're a friend of Larry's. I ain't
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never seen you before, and you don't look like his type. Well,
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I'm not exactly his friend, Miss Johnson. Then why did you say you
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were? What are you a dick? No, no, Miss Bonson,
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I'm an attorney and I'm looking for a friend of mine who was last seeing
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to Larry about two thirty this afternoon. Yeah, how were they bode let
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Bill's bars? They left it together. My friend hasn't been heard from m
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since, and I'm worried about it. I'm worried about Larry's We had a
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date of four and he didn't show up. Tota his hotel room. Didn't
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get an answer for a while. Quarter of an hour ago. I got
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a man talking. So I'm like a dick to me, and I'm scared,
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So am I. If you give me Larry's address, I'll go over
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there. I know I can trust you. Oh my dear lady, I
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guess you're okay. Do be as I go over with you? So the
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cops know me. I want to watch out. Hi, Larry, But
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you call me since you get there, certainly, and don't you wear miss
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Boson, And I'm sure there's nothing worse. Yeah, you ain't worried anymore
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than I am. Both jittering because of the chill in the air this time
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of year. Okay, mister, I'll be waiting for that call. Ah,
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Mister Taylor, I was wondering when you've got Mo Sargeant Boughton's homicide squad
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doing you plenty and were lousy with clothes or even marked out on the floor
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for us at times? Coming mister Greg here. Yeah, but he's still
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lapping, mister Taylor, and the police surgeon's working them over. Surgeon,
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I thank you anything, mister Taylor. He's okay. Who's on the kid,
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Lieutenant Silvers, Yes, it's a good thing. I am. Greg's
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in a jam. But what's happened to him? He's out cold, slugged
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with a black jack, but he's gonna be okay. What happened? Lieutenant?
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I'm not sure yet until Greg can start to talk. But you can
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take a look for yourself. That dead body on the floor with a knife
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in his belly. He checked his identification, Larry Matterson, you lived here.
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Gregg's dying to seven? How is your doctor? He's coming to His
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lips are beginning to move. What he How do you feel, Gregg?
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As if I dived headfirst into an empty swimming pool. So I got a
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good heart skull right. Glad to see you out, Sandy, Old Blenham
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has your trailed me out, he Greg, let me give you a hand.
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Lieutenant Silvers and Sergeant Barton too. This all homework. Let's share your
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story, Hud. You mean who slugged me with a guy? Na Larry?
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And if you look behind you you'll see the body of the man in
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question, neatly stabbed through the belly, Hobby Smart. But you were unconscious,
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Greg. Somebody must have come in here and stabbed him. Faith would
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I get these gloves? I wasn't worrying them when I came in here.
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Somebody must have slipped them on you after you passed out. There's another puzzle,
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Greg, Huh one of these diagrams in ink on the floor. Had
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noticed the red ink on the dead man's finger? Yes, the s with
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the lines through it, But that's a dollar sign. Mary's made an arrow,
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an arrow that was pointing at exactly where you were lying, Greg.
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Yeah, but the arrow also points to this other drawing pretty cruder. It
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looked like a lighted pipe. Obviously, the dead man is trying to leave
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a message, the clue to his murderer's identity. Oh maybe so, Greg,
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I haven't much faith in those kinds of things. Well, Attendant,
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you can be sure that dying man didn't do that dudeling just to amuse himself.
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Dan, how did you hear the murder? Well, he got an
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anonymous phone call telling him to come up here and we'd find a body,
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and I think I see it. The killer thought he'd framed me by putting
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these gloves on me, knowing in a smart murder he was his gloves.
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They'd put him the call for you, figuring he'd walk in mad me.
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Well, it's possible, but I've got to look at facts. Greg.
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That arrow was pointing straight at you. Oh, Lieutenant, you can't suspect
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great. I can suspect anyone in my business. You never know what a
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man might do. And he's corner Dad. You have a nasty, suspicious
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mind, and I'm gonna pull it to you. The dead man was a
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who Done It? Fan? Yes, I noticed those mystery books on his
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table over there. Therefore he knew about dying message gags. He tried to
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leave one by drawing those ink stains on the floor. After he died,
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the killer spotted the message and put his gloves on me. The gloves he
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warned when he stabbed Larry, he planned to pin the rap on me.
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Prove it to me, Greg, that's aught, I asked, So you've
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got to prove it. Great to get yourself on the clean ooh go wait
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a minute, a dollar sign, an arrow and the pipe you know could
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be I've got it. Who is it? Greg? Get me a list
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of the dead man's friends, guys that were close to when I got that.
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I think I can point out the killer listener's friend. Yeah, okay,
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but that's going to take time. I think I can speak things up
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a little, Lieutenant. I attacked Greg here tonight by talking to Larry's girlfriend,
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Dotty Bronson. That's gonna call on her. I'll bet you'll be glad
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to help. Come on, come on, can't get easy, daddy,
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We got him. Thought they do it? Somebody slice it as sure as
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this Sure, I'm sure. Talk to the hotel manager and he talked to
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the doc. Let's just keep my hands on that cash and maybe I can.
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He'll stick with me. They get the wrapid white House, Larry.
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You can bet on Gal making gold places, Dotty or smart kid all lay
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off at Hank Larry ain't even in his catch. Go see who it is
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this? What do you guys? Want some information? Why Lieutenant Silver is
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with homicide? U come here to tell me that Larry's rubbed out? I
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guess Mics Bronson, obviously you know that fact. We come here so that
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you can help us find a killer. How are you? I know your
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friend he's the attorney at law who forgets to make phone calls. H Well,
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I'm tired. Yes, I asked her who you were the name of
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Hood? I think I was the next to last person to see Larry alive.
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Ain't that pathetic? Did you bring a copy of his Will? Take
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It Easy? Daddy? Here to help you? Yeah? Well it can
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help me. Now I'd like to find out who kill Larry? Wouldn't you
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sure? What can I do? Listen to mister Hood? Maybe you can
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help give us the clue to the murder. Sure, I'll poly shut the
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crystal ball shoot Mitch Hood. What's the sixty four dollars question? A simple
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one. Give me the names of Larry's closest friend, Phoebe. I only
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had three so close knee Louis Harden. Who's Louis Harton? Ah? We
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the dumb lug that wouldn't know which end of a knife was sharp. It
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is even to be sad on it. They worked with Larry And who's the
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third friend, miss Bronson? It was me Lieu Tennis and what's your name?
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Jackson? Her first name, mister Jackson and me. That wouldn't buy
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any chance called your Hank, would they? Henry? Sure? Everybody caused
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me, Hank. Why there's your man stand? He killed Larry Mastus?
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Oh yeah, crazy? So I think I'm quite on the beam considering the
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crack of my dome a little while ago. What's your alibi, Hank?
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If I needed one, Doddy here could give it. I was here with
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you and Marry was bumped off, wasn't that, David? Well? What
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time was that, Hank? About two fifteen, wasn't it, Dotty?
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That's an interesting alibi. The best the police surgeon could say it was the
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guy died somewhere between two and three. We didn't find the dead body until
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about five thirty, and we haven't released a word about time yet. Yeah.
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Yeah, who ready with your alibis? I listen, missed. I
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don't know nothing about it, no, nothing except that you killed him.
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Yeah, triumph pulled. Sure, I will the glove you planted on me
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had a slight flaw. There was a hole in the right thumb. There
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was a thumbprint on the knife, and it wasn't mine, it was yours.
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We checked it a minute. Fan, I was about that fingerprint,
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Hank. Which way was a print? Point? And missus schmartcat caught the
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blade? Sure, but if you have a guy that putted point the other
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way, only if it were downward blow. This woman was up from under
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the heart in the best professional stabbing manner, which means that your print was
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just where it should have been. But there wasn't no holes in those cross
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anyway. The hour was pointed you. That's enough, Hank. How did
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you know that? If you weren't there, well, I'd do jerky last.
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I was lying when I gave that alibi for you. I ain't see
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you all day, and I hope I never see you again. Oh what
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do you say, Hank? We've got you every way? Okay, okay,
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all right, I kill Larry. It's trying to double cross me.
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He had it coming to him. Take me away cover. I don't like
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the company. Who'll keep it well? Then well standing I can understand Joe
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wanting to drink, but really have to come back to bottom build. Well,
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it came back for two reasons. I wanted to get an asprint and
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this is where I came in, and I see you. I'd like to
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run out the cycle. You know, Greg, I still don't understand what
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that dollar signed. Well, it wasn't the dollar sign standing Well, Asaray,
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I learned at school you'll make any s and draw to lass. Very
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true, but it might also be a way to cross out the letter S.
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The arrow pointed at the shank of the lighted pipe, crossed out the
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letter S and shank, and you have Hank, the name of the murder.
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Oh yeah, of course. Another thing puzzled me though, Greg,
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and how did you have time to check the thumb print on the knife hand?
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Well, Sandy, there was no thumb print, no, and there
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was no hole in the glove. I just said those things to scare Hank
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into a confession. Oh, Greg, you scared the day. That's how
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to meet today me through Sandy. But don't act man. Well, I
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am man. You walked into a trap. The trap that was clumsily basy.
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That's not like you sure, But the faith was juicy anyway, there's
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no great harm. Oh but there might have been you done, he got
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killed and then we got framed from murk. All for the sake of the
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firm standing all, greg don't try and tell me you walk into this,
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you know the day because you were thinking of it. This is sure.
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I was who in company could have come out of this mess very nicely,
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which quite a valuable collection of coins. I'm proud to return them to their
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owners, very out trueous. We should stop playing cops and Robert. I'm
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sorry, Sammy, and I'm done. Grateful for your help. That's the
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same standing promised me one thing. Well, what is it game, don't
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let's quote this little adventure. After all, I spent half of the case
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as an unconscious suspect. No saanding, this will be an unpublished chapter from
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the casebook of Gregory Hood. Well, gleag you got through safely that time,
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but you're awful lucky masterress and left back clue. Well, yes,
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sorry, but of course there's always a clue somewhere if you can find it
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and figure it out. Yeah, they deliver me from figuring out clues and
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stuff? Is that dollars? Signing up high shank or you could do it
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and all kidneys. We're sure you could. For instance, suppose you're sitting
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at a table on the cloth someone has drawn with a pencil, not a
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dollar sign, but a cent sign. Yeah, and an arrow pointing at
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an empty wine glass. Ah, like guns, it's about Petrie wine.
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But what about it? We're easy. An empty wine glass calls for some
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good wines, isn't it? Yeah? But that sense sign? Look,
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Harry, if you want good wine, what is it that makes sense?
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Oh? Brother? Was I slow on that flowing? Not? It does
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make sense to order Petrie when you want good wines. Petree wine has just
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got to be good. You see, the Petrie family has been making wine
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for generations now. The art of making fine wine is a heritage in the
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Petrie family, passed on down from father to son, from father to son.
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So just think of all those years of skill and experience that go into
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making Petrie wine. It's no wonder Petrie wine is so good. And it's
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no wonder the Petrie business has grown and grown until today the Petrie family is
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America's largest independent wine maker. Yes, the making of Petrie wine is a
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family affair, and the Petrie family has every intention of keeping it just that.
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So you know, the name Petrie on a bottle of wine is more
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than a trademark. It's the personal assurance of the Petrie family that Petrie Wine
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is and always will be good wine. The Case Books of Gregory Hood is
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written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher. Original music composed and played by Dean
29:48
Fossler. Elliot Lewis plays the part of Gregory Hood and Sanderson Taylor is played
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by Howard mcneer. The Petryline Company of San Francisco, California invite you to
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tune in again next week, the same time, same station. The Casebook
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of Gregoryhood comes to you from our Hollywood studio. This is Harry Bartel saying
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good night for the Petrie family for a solid hour of exciting mystery dramas.
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Listen every Monday on most of these same stations at eight o'clock to Richard Davis
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Private Investigator, followed immediately by the Casebook of Gregory Hood. This is a
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mutual broadcasting system. Welcome back. This was a kind of confusing episode.
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For the first thing, I did not like the intro. It was a
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little confusing without Gregory Hood there, and then Gregory Hood was there at the
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end. Though Elliott Lewis probably of the people I've heard here, Gil Gordon
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and Nagel and Elliott Lewis, Elliott Lewis did the best job at feeding the
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commercials. And then there was that reference in the middle of the story to
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not recording the case and I was like, Okay, good thing, this
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isn't going to end up on the radio preserved for posterity and listen to several
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decades later. Of course, gives you the idea that well, maybe there
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was a Gregory Hood book and this was not included in the Gregory Hood Detective
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series. Well, the confusing thing here is that there was no actual series
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the Casebook of Gregory hud It was original to radio. It was a bit
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odd, and overall I prefer the more traditional structure. This one was a
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how catch him and not necessarily the best. But we'll see if we get
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a better store next week. All right, Well on to listener comments and
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feedback, and Justin from Jersey comments on the site. I have to say
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that I love the Case Book of Gregory Hood. It's a nice detective series,
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and I enjoy both Gregory and Sandy. Also, thank you for keeping
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the Petri Wine ads. While I understand they aren't everyone's cup of tea,
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I like that you kept the ads in as to me, it preserves the
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show was meant to be heard. Thanks for your inside and your hard work.
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Well, thanks so much, Justin. I don't always include the ads.
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There are a few cases where I'll edit something, but in this case,
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I actually think the ads are somewhat classy the way that they are done
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in this series. And I've always enjoyed the kind of back and forth and
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Harry Bartell is just fantastic at being just incredibly personable. But thank you for
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your comment, and w Vogel says, thank you for the programming. Well,
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you're welcome, and thank you so much listening. That will do it
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for today. We will return tomorrow with The Primrose Matter Orts three and four,
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and then join us back here next Tuesday for the last existing Elliott Lewis
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