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Well. Now it's time to get into today's episode of Sherlock Holmes, The
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Presenter Arthur Conan Doyle's immortal character, the world's most famous detective, Sherlock
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Holmes, starring John Stanley. This week's story the Adventure of the Red Debt
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from Watson went off to the doctor, but to our homes. Not a
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word to a soul about where we're going. That applies to you, Waltz,
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mister Edwards. They should be absolutely mum, mister Holmes. The silence
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is not so much in your interest as in that of good people of London.
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Well. It was a type of death criminally administered by a certain gentlemen in
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our storys to heads. The adventure began at a waterfront cafe by the London
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Docks, which extend from the Tower Bridge to beyond north Woolwige Mile, upon
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mild of keys, warehouses, great basins and a bursting the shipping from the
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farthest corners of the earth. At the west Inderdocks, there was a cafe
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called the Smiling Duchess. It was frequented by men of all the seven seats.
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In the back room, the owner, Peter Nichols, set by a
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huge oaken tib in the flickering candle light, talking to a very attractive young
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lady named Vicki, who was employed. There was a waitress, Yes,
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Peter waiting, DOESTI? Oh? We acted up now and then to be
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expected. It's come from a home for the criminally insane. You know,
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tell me, captain where I don't remember this place? Did I ever hear
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before? Are easy? Captain? Easy? Said? I don't remember you
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either or this girl. Why was I brought here? Because? Won't ask
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more questions? Will lay? Oh no, you're out of that place,
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you see, said, I'm Peter Nichols. You remember old Peter, the
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smiling duchess. Now don't you certainly remember me? Don't you? No man
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that comes here forgets Vickie. I think Captain who's just a few years ago.
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Every time you're shipped up to here in London, you'd stop by for
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a swinger. Rum Pecher Nichols. Oh yes, now I know you.
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You are out of the insane asylum, Christopher West, and you understand that.
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I'll listen to me. You're free. We got you out, me
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and Vicky again. We needed you, We needed your talent. So Vicky
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spoke with a guard at the asylum. I gave her money. She used
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her charms. The God let you out and turnd you over to Earth.
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Ah see, I was confused. It didn't him so quickly I'd fallen asleep
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in a cell. The God, whoop me up. You're going to enjoy
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yourself now, Christopher West, the way you liked her. Are you going
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to find whatever equipment you need and you're going to start fires for us?
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Yes, the fire. They wouldn't let me. Most people won't admit the
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satisfaction, you know, but I do. Did you ever see how a
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man's eyes light up when he sees a fire. I want to see things
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burn, the flames eating away the cuts of the building till it's a black
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hulk. Where when do we start the fire? Sooner enough? Why do
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you want me to start it? Do you like to see things burn?
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The youle love the flames that I do? Yes, Captain List. That's
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why that's a warehouse nearby on Cuba Street, by the Southwest India Dock Pier.
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I want to see it burn. That's why we took you out of
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that awful hospital. I'm grateful for that. You wouldn't let me start fires,
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and when I can't, it is pressure in me. I can't stand
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it. We need you. You can start fires so quickly, so easily,
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so surely, and no one will know. Wayne Tonight, Captain West
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Tonight, you have the equipment, Captain West, he's Peter. I'm ready.
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Go on, we'll meet you back at the inn. Good good,
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go on, Captain, start the fire. That's it. I find these
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bales, Vicky. I'll watch him. Wait shadows disappearing sea in the dark.
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There, I'll wait the flames. See, yes, that's spreading quickly.
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The fact a marvelous idea of mine, I VICKI West doesn't know what
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we'll do now while the fires blazing. If they suspect Arson, they'll chase
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him, not us. We could always deny how beginning to do with him
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if he talks. He's legally insane, irresponsible. Curiously, we're better leave
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part of the job to do now. Come on. Your name is at
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once George Edwards. Mister Holmes, I'm the director of the Hampton County Hospital
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for the criminally and see are you a physician, sir? No, doctor
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Watson. Mine is a political post, which is why I've come here to
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Baker Street. Mister Holmes, Just why have you come here? Impatient has
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escaped terribly dangerous men, Captain Christopher West paramaniac. He's been responsible for the
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destruction of millions of pounds worth of property, the hospitalization of hundreds of fire
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victims, in the death of a considerable number of others. I see,
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why haven't you adopted the ordinary procedure and alarmed the police. If I were
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to tell the police, mister Holmes that the investigation political opponents would charge me
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with incompetence and I'd lose my post. You must find this maniac, will
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you, mister Holmes, and you describe this Captain West. I brought our
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file card his portrait characteristics, Yes, intriguing the circumstances of his escape,
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mister Edward, you've looked into that. I presume I hear, mister Helmes.
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Bigger guard was careless. He left the cell door open. West must
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have stoolen down the hallway and then over the wall. Well is it a
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simple matter to climb over your protective wall? Were you? Gentlemen implying that
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I've been lax? But it's curious said that an escape from a home for
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the insane, which should be child's play, a glance in the wrong direction
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by the guard, and the entire city of London's menace. Curious juxtaposition of
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facts, mister Edwards. Your juxtaposition, mister Holmes. Cam Watson a camp
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were oft to the docks by because of his dossier I read about Captain West.
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He was a sea captain with a great passenger ship. He was ordered
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to retire by his ferm. He refused when the firm in Cisti. He
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became furious. He desired revenge. He set fire to their ships as they
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lay in the docks. He found there was an immense satisfaction in creating fires.
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Became a pyromaniac. Always in the area of the sea, always a
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fire that threatened to harbor, and the ships at anchor there were off to
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the docks. Watson and mister Edwards. Not a word to a soul.
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He should be absolutely mum, mister. The silence is not so much in
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Doctor Watson, You and mister Holmes were dashing to the docks of London
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to find Christopher West the escape Pyromania. If so we were mister Harris.
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That night our carriage raced across the cobblestones by the edge of the water,
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as the silhouettes of countless ships passed to our right. London's fabulous docks flew
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past the giant grenaries, the endless acres of bales and packing boxes, the
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crates of wool and aveny, the pungent odors of pile and cough spice wells.
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You know as well as I do that London's darks are forty five miles
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long. How shall we find what's Captain West? He's already announced his whereabouts?
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Watson, he has smoke, see it curling up towards the sky from
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that warehouse on twa Street. Well, Joe, he's been here and it
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worked too. Evidently the pie has been extinguished. We shall steal into this
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warehouse and see what we may see up here. Driver and step down,
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Watson, keep the change, Driver and wait here. Now. Let us
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hope that this smoldering ruin has been abandoned except for a watchman or two,
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and we may examine this warehouse without incompetent meddling from the police here, for
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Watson would be extremely dangerous running wood whose beams blasted smoke. Keep your hands
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over your mouth. You shall proceed very quietly into this wreckage, slowly,
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carefully. The maniac may be hiding here. Well, we've searched extensively.
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Hose an inclusion, I can confirm, Watson that this fire is of incendiary
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origin, most likely therefore the work of Christopher West. How can you confirm
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it? By those duck stains upon the floor, look and carrying his bottle
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of ink, West spilled a few drops accidentally as he ran. But why
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homes this ink? Watson is the type frequently employed for marking purposes at a
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laundry subvert im more mystified than ever. Certain laundry inks Watson contain a compound
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that may be made highly explosive, so much so that they ignite themselves.
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Of course, assisted by bits of cotton and sawdust or paper, they'll soon
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created considerable blaze. This is an empty warehouse. It's most unlikely that laundry
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ink would be found here unless it were brought in by a saboturna look hose
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to the window. Another fire run. Watson must reached that fire unless we
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make pace. We shall never find Christopher West. Oh, it goes the
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last of the Fimer homes. They've managed to extinguish the second blaze. They'll
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probably be a third shortlist. Yes, Watson, doesn't the geography of these
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two gutted warehouses strike you? Was fascinating? The geography host, Yes,
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think of their positions. Then the fact that both were deserted before the blaze
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began. Where does that lead you? Home? Close to the solution,
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Watson, And you know where Christopher West can be found? Not just yet.
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That may be determined quickly by my retiring to the King Neptune, which
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is a popular tavern nearby, for a glass of beer. Hundreds of persons
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may be trapped and burned alive in the next few hours, because as Pyromaniac
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is scurrying about finish with starting fires, you're retiring to a tavern glass of
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beer. Oh, I've no use for the stuff, I assure you.
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I'll offend my taste. My preference for wine and put a certain vintage cannot
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be satisfied, however, at the King Neptune. Therefore, I'm a street
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beer. Wait by my carriage, Watson, I shall rejoin you shortly with
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the exact site of Christopher West's next attempt. We are doing well, Captain
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West, very well tonight. I'm proud in my work. Peter. Did
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you see the last warehouse like a great kindel in the sky. I didn't
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start another far, Peter, Just one more? We need mad One's foolish
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becky fire so far appeared to be accidents, at least till we've taken care
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of our end of this business. We haven't enough, Peter, Oh what
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a bit more? Fired? Me? Too much? Greedy? Should be
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contempt greedy? Am I? After all these years it's like rubby waitress putting
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up with anything those drunken sailors did just to sell another glass at beer.
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Oh no, you've a fine idea. We're going to see it through.
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For all its work, it's been the ruin of more than one begree Would
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you let it start one more fire? But not for yourself? Then for
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me, Peter? We can go away together. You were do want to
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be with me? Don't you all right? Let me get out out of
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London and out of England. That's it. Do you know where the next
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fist would be? I don't come, Captain, he should be more fires,
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Peter, any more. No, I'm like an artist who hasn't finished
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an exquisite painting. Quietly and hurry here we are, captain, that were
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I see it? How will you stop this one? This kendle, this
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fucking alive, most willy, no trace there will be destroyed. I take
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the candle, soe, and with one delicate strokes, the magnificence of a
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great fire is born in the lime. In lever me ABEGI a scene leads
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an odor. He didn't make them suspicious in not line though, go on
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whist see you after, would you, Peter? Now now I do it
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again. Step into the warehouse, just lift this window and climbing and now
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Christopher, whist that wonderful moment again, that moment before you start the fire?
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Yet alone, free, no one to disturb you, match user,
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a watchman. Wait behind this post. I see us here, I at
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your job. Break when shut up good and make a sound of breaking,
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Nika, I can snap it like this. I'm going to start a fire
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and you won't stop them. You won't live to see that. They take
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me back. Now, I won't go. I won't start the fire away.
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I clean though, I'm a much better idea. I'll start it with
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you. I can hold you and put the candle to your clothes. The
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flames will reach stack fo your face, your eyes, your hair, away
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from that woman who your coat bots and take it off those flames. I'll
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keep an eye on Weston. The flames God, thank you, thank you.
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Tend to run off, Captain Weston. I just wanted to watch one,
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alright, Watson, Who are you? I am Sherlock Holmes. This
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is doctor John Watson, the gentleman before you was Christopher west and escaped pyromaniac
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gloribly. We shall return you to the Hampton Hospital. Captain will I'll never
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go back. You won't happen. There's Father in my hand. Make sure
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that vision. Nichols, don't wait for the revolving your coat, Doctor Wats,
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I'm just not where you are. You'll us you were just in time.
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Peter, we'll go all of us. He'll kill us an no,
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doctor Watson, I'm a mike. Two wives for that. You see my
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old favor. Catch up with me. I'll serve time. I won't hang
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for murder. You'll serve time, Peter Nichols for rubbing the warehouse is adjacent
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to those where you had west started the fires. Perhaps the robberies haven't been
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discovered yet. The silks, the perfume, the first you planned to take
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during this third fire. Let that catch make persons. Come on, Captain,
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who rather the key? I'll find a horse after them homes and by
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Watson team, I change is my atu Just wait wait now, Watson,
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your revolver take it. If they want to play hide and seek in and
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out of these countless crates and bales along these dots, we'll play their game.
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I'm exhausted, hurt my leg. See a new sign on them?
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I saw a glimps to Vicki's colored dress off the left, by the gangways
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of the wine boards. Very quietly, Watson, they may be concealing themselves
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behind a stack of wine barrels. I swear I saw Vickie. Think the
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three of them are there? Yes? Should we look? No? They
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might be waiting for us to do just that, and they pounce upon us.
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No, we'll take a chance fired in that direction that we wine discussion
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from the barrels where I shot and Peter the captain, the girl or son
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of them? Oh, yes, you got them? How can you be
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sure? Look? There spattered on the base of the barrels Watson, blood
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before you light your pipe and relaxed into one of your typical Baker Street reveries,
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from which I do not dare to disturb you. Tell me how did
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you know Christopher West would be at the particular warehouse? Are you fall?
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Will you recall? Watson? By mentioning the geography of the burnt warehouses,
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I observed that although each was empty, each was also directed beside another warehouse
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which contained priceless merchandise. It occurred to me that this was a maneuver whereby
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someone Peter Nichols, as it developed and deliberately freed Captain West and set him
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loose to start fires. Peter, whose an old hand at the Wards,
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must have known the West case and the merchandise. The fire, you see,
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districted the police. During the excitement, Peter and Vickie would sneak into
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the adjacent warehouse and help themselves. Ah see, But how did you know
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exactly which warehouse would be next? Will you recall? I left you to
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visit the King Neptune Tavern by drinking a beer with a seaman there. It
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was a simple matter to listen to their eternal gossip, and to determine which
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warehouse had recently received a shipment of highly priced goods that indicated the spot where
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West would most probably strike next. Pleasure knows. Why do these things seem
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so utterly obvious after you've explained, Because weak minds are like a microscope,
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magnifying trifling things, but unable to receive the larger ones. However, for
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your humble servant, Elementary, my dear Watson, Elementary, well, doctor
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Watson, the Red Death was a gripping adventure. What became of Edwards,
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the director of the asylum, Well, he was innocent enough, mister Harris.
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He discharged the guard bribe by Vicki Petere and Vicky of course received long
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prison sentences, and Christopher West was safely returned to the hospital. Well,
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doctor Watson, you know usually at this time I ask you what you've planned
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for next week, and we'll look forward eagerly to another exciting adventure with you
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and mister Holmes. But I am very sorry to say that we've reached the
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end of our current seater series. Doctor. Yes, that's right, mister
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Harris, someone is with us again. Time for all of us to go
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scooting off on our vacations. So I regret that we've shot me together for
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a while. Well, we'll be waiting for you, doctor Watson. These
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evenings with you and Holmes have been most enjoyable. Well, thank you,
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Welcome back. Yeah, you know, looking Nitpick Holmes and Solution too much.
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But I kind of wonder what would have happened if the if the warehouse
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he had named han uh you know, a bunch of warehouses around it.
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It might have complicated the conclusion of the case. But at any rate,
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that brings to a close. The John Stanley run uh as Sherlock Holmes and
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program would be back next season with ABC and a different sponsored but I believe
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one that will be familiar to some of our long time listeners. But that
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let's turn to listener comments and feedback. Received an email from Kevin says,
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Hi again, Adam, I hope just because it seems you are reading fewer
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listener comments these days, that doesn't mean you are getting less of them.
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But I know how one can get busy and not always take the time to
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write a note, So I'm trying to catch up a bit. Well,
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thanks a lot, Kevin, and I try to read everything we get.
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So there's been a decline a little bit, and I will say the Dragnet
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podcast tended to get more comments than the Detective podcast in terms of email as
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such, even though there was only one episode of that a week. He
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continues, as you know, I've been enjoying your podcast for quite a while.
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Thank you again for all the time and work you put into them.
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I very much enjoyed not only the shows, but your commentary as well.
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The last to a Life in your Hands episodes contained something I've never heard before.
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Any idea why the phrase this is a partially transcribed by Bell Production I
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would have been used. I suppose Bell would be the telephone company who provided
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network lines and transcription perhaps, But why the need to indicate partially transcribed in
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this case? As to that, I've never heard Bell referred to either,
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but I know they've provided services. Unless I'm completely off base about who Belle
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is referring to, well, I'm not sure myself, but I don't think
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it'd be the telephone company. Bell. I think is a common name and
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production company as opposed to a telephone company partially transcribed. It's kind of an
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interesting state of affairs. Are part of the show was prerecorded and part of
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it is handled live. I guess there could be some convenience for that,
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depending on the schedule of Carlton Gadell. I suppose it's possible they could have
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recorded the scenes involving the murdered man and that part would have been transcribed,
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but the part with Carlton Cadell may have been actually performed live. Or as
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Jimmy Durranty would say, vicey Versey, there was a similar label on early
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television shows. I've watched a lot of episodes of CBS's A Climax, and
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they had one episode where they said that part of it had been pre recorded,
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so part of it live, part of it recorded. I guess based
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in that case on the complexity of the scene. Kevin continues, although I'm
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having difficulty with the Stanley Spellman series of Sherlock Holmes, I'm still waste at
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how well Spellman I e. Wendell Holmes does it playing British. I became
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familiar with him through X minus one, among other things, and this is
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quite a different role for him. I still wonder, though, if I
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would have liked both of them much better with someone one else doing the writing.
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All the same, Thanks for plowing through and presenting them to the end.
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I sometimes get the feeling that everyone involved in the show, from announcer
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to actors, to audio engineers, writers, even Alfred Berman and his music,
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were really getting tired of clipper Craft and its dictates. Although Stanley was
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never my favorite, I seem to remember his early clipper Craft shows being better,
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but perhaps I've forgotten anyway, just my museums from what they're worth or
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not worth. Thank you again very much, you know, I think it
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does kind of vary, to be honest to me. The first few episodes
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of this season, really I think we're the weakest of the series. It
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did seem to get a little bit better toward the end, and of course
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this season did actually see improvement of ratings. The nineteen forty seven forty eight
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series with the earlier Sherlock Holmes stories pulled in a five point three Hooper rating.
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This Susan was up to six point six, nowhere close to the ten
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point nine and enjoyed the last season that Basil Rathbone was on the show,
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or even the eight point five when Nigel Bruce remained behind with Tom Conway,
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but certainly an improving number overall. And I guess a gentleman that emailed us
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about advertising on the show, and Sherlock Holmes actually is our most downloaded series
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spot all the issues with writing, etc. And there was also that award
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received from the Baker Street Regulars in the United States, but there was some
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popularity for it. But I couldn't help but think there might be something to
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it on some of these programs, because you know, you're in New York,
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you have Broadway, you have so much quality theater going on that it's
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really hard for actors not to know if they're not you know, if they're
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not performing in quality work. All right, well, we have one more
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question and then we will ramp up for today. Greg asked regarding my page
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the Big List of Detective Shows, I really want to know how you labeled
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this posting the big List of Detective Shows. Well, Greg, you take
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a look at the list of radio detective shows. It is both exhausting,
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you know, exhaustive and exhausting, and so many, so many on that
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list. I wanted to convey that this is, you know, a huge
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list. There are a lot of shows there, A lot of shows were
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considered. Arene doing a few shows we've decided it would rather not deal with,
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and so thus the Big List of detective shows is born. You can
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take a look at our current big list at big list dot Great Detectives dot
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net for a list of all the shows that we're doing, not doing,
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thinking about doing. I got to listen to more episodes, and really that
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got to listen to more episodes category. It's gone down to some shows that
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have relatively few, you know, two or three episodes out there, and
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I'm kind of savoring them because I almost hate the idea of Okay, I've
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listened to and I'm aware of every radio detective show in existence, because that
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means no more to discover, so that the list of I don't know shows
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as slowly dwindling as we add shows. Both ways, all right, well
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that'll do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with your schuli Johnny
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Dowler, and then join us back next Thursday. We will have a new
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