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The Saint: The Next of Kin (EP1581) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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It's available at store dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time
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for today's episode of the Saint Regional. Air date February eighteenth, nineteen fifty
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one, and the episode is the next of ken The Adventures of the Saint
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starring Vincent Price. The Saint, based on characters created by Leslie Charmers and
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known to millions from books, magazines, and motion pictures. The robin Hood
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of Modern Crime now comes transcribed to radio, starring Hollywood's brilliant and talented actor
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Vincent Price as the Saint. All right, all right, I'm coming.
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Wait until I put my hand, don can't you you well, this is
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an unexpected displeasure. I gotta talk to your saint quick me all right?
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Blank. Oh, but I'm surprised at you four o'clock in the morning.
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There's no time for a man in your profession to pay social calls Like I
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say. I gotta talk and you gotta listen. I'm listening. They've got
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a job going to be pulled tomorrow today. I mean it's a big deal.
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Sayt big deal. I'm glad. I'd hate to think you'd retired from
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crime. Blank. It would throw so many deserving policemen out of work.
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It's a dirty deal, Welsie. It sounds like something right up your alley.
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Not this kind of thing is saying. This is one line I draw,
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and it's a straight line. You hear before I know what the score
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is, before I know who they gonna use it on. I rig it
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the best job of it's kind I ever do. It's gonna work, and
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he ain't gonna leave. I should never have had that scimoni right after a
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lobster dinner, Blanco, do you think if I get up and take some
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buy cab, you and the rest of this dream will go Wait until I
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can't go to the cops. You're the only one. You gotta stop it
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saying you got it. I got it, Yeah, you got it,
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and you only got your loan, Blanco. At the rate you're painting this
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picture, it's going to be at least noon before I know what it's all
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about. It's about two mud. Oh, well, let's get down to
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personalities. Who is going to be murdered by whom? Why, and how?
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Let's have the name of the potential victim as an appetizer. Huh.
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We'll get down to the main course later. That calls are kind of complicated.
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That it was kind of a complicated question. But do your best neatness
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counts? You remember Frank Akin of the Chicago Kanes, of course, who
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could ever forget the inventor of the game of in case your friends in a
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barrel of cement and dump them in the river. You remember. I also
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remember that when the federal men were just about to catch up with him in
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Central America a few years ago, he was this courteous enough to die a
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natural death. Yeah, somebody died in South America three years ago, not
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Frank Kine. There are prices for a buck here and a buck there.
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Can get any monaca you want on a de certificate, and Ken had to
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plant their box. Getting the corpse to plant in that same monarchy is easy.
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So Frank Kine's still alive. Yeah, he's alive, But that ain't
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all here. Still wait, you hear something? What sort of something?
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Someonet to move in horror for yourself, some brandy and try and get your
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nerves back into walls time. Hey Branco, now look what about Frank Kine?
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You're sure you didn't hear something? Better the nuts turn up the down,
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get down, Franchael like for about the good letting feel a blank?
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She on way to party, m consink God, I don't think it's good
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to see you again, mister templar, and here I've been thinking you'd given
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up after I was drinking. I just a bad half. And it's a
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pity because I like this bar of yours, Morgan. Why did you make
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an honest saloon out of it and open up during legal hours? My customers
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would never stand for it. No, My customers all earned to drink during
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cohibition and speakeasies. The way they look at it, the drink just doesn't
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have any kick in it if it's legal. And this is the part of
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the lost generation that's still lost. Would you like the table? Just an
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information? Yes? About a year ago, when I was one of your
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regular patrons, a lady used to frequent this place. Old lady in this
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place, her name was Violent, and so it was the color of her
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hair. She used to sit at a table around the bend there and make
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tender speeches to a bottle of scotch. Do you remember Violent? Indeed?
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I do. Where can I find it? At a table around the bend
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there making tender speeches to a bottle of scotch? I should have known there
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was a love that was faded to last. Thanks Mark, You're welcome to
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mister Templin. Hello away, Oh, Now, that's no way to treat
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an old friend. Oh you're an old friend. Don't have friends a away?
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You mean you've forgotten me? What's your name? It's an old Scotch
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name, eight years old shown friend, Thank you, hey, waiter,
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they're usual for the lady. Doubled m coming right up? Stood around again,
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friend, thanks m. Now, speaking of friends, whatever became of
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Lewis Blanco? Blanco? You a friend of Blanco? A former friend?
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What are you warm for your cop? No? No, I have some
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money for him. Money you own money? Four? Well, he he
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did a job for me, job rubout. I'd like to pay him before
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he gets the wrong idea. Where did he hang out? You don't know
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what about the job he got? The garage? What garage? Central garage
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fifty this street? Oh oh yes, of course us mile friend, Violet,
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let me tell me something, you know. I like you? Yeah,
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I like you. But tell me why you just kind of like Blanco
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hang around the garage? You don't know. You're no friend of Blanco,
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you're a cop and you're pumping me for him from from the savage rink?
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How's frank these days? You know Blanco? You certainly must know Frank Blanco
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used to work for him in the old days. Frank, how do you
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talk to me like this? You know, Frank? Did you're sure sure?
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I don't know whether or not I'm a widow. Why do you think
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I drink like this? What do you think? Color? H Wake up?
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Hey, come on, wake up? Huh, I guess I fall
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asleep. Gets kind of lonesome here in his garage. All right, I'm
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sorry I woke you. That's okay, mister. You're bringing a car in.
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No take, go on out there. I just want to talk.
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He woke me up just to talk to me. You said you were lonesome.
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What do you know about a man named Blanco? Blanco customer? I
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thought perhaps he worked here. Uh, nobody by that name here, mister?
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You sure sure? I'm sure. There's four of us working here.
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Me Ed Williams. PULASKI on a new guy, Stevens. We take turns
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working nights. The night was my turn, the new man Stevens. What
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did he look like? Luck pal? Why don't you give a guy a
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break? Huh? So we did time once. Is that any reason for
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you cops to come checking up on him every time? He got nothing else?
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To do. What did he look like? Uh, you don't get
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any help from me. I'm a law abiding citizen. I believe in helping
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the law, but not when it starts hounding a guy. And I give
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it to you straight. Friends, there was a murder committee tonight a lot.
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The chances are the guy you were asking about had nothing to do with
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If Stevens and Blancer are the same man, he had a lot to do
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with it. What do you think he killed somebody? He's the courts,
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he's dead. What did he look like about? Medium height, doc hair,
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doc guy's sort of doc complexion. He's dead. That's Blanker? Gee,
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who didn't That's what you're going to help me find out? Me?
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What did Blanker do around here? Same as we all do sleep, we're
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mechanics, mister. Last night was the guy's night on. It was supposed
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to be my turn, but he asked me to swap with him. Yeah,
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so I swapped. It made no difference to me him. He made
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out like it was important. What did he work on while he was here
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last night? How should I know? Didn't you keep records? Well?
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Sure, then that's how you should know. All right, come on in
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the office. This is your record founder? Yeah, m hmmm, yeah,
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yeah. Here's a report yesterday's date me Kennick Stevens Louth's job Andrews.
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Oh yeah, that's a Hudson Hornet out there, bloungs a real classy chick.
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And here's another report. Engine two Maddox Maddix. Oh yeah, that's
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a foreign job, the chauffeur driven bus over there. But you know that's
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funny. Oh, I tuned the engine on that heap only three days ago,
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and I did a good job. Why should they want it done again?
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Let's go take a look. Maybe we can find out. Yeah,
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yes, Oh, my name is Templar. I'd like to miss Maddocks,
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please, Miss Maddicks, Miss Virginia Maddics. Next, Please forgive me for
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being inquisitive, sir, but it isn't quite eight o'clock yet, a little
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early for a social call. Are you acquainted with miss Maddicks? We went
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to school together, you did. Who is it, Carson? There's a
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gentleman calling on miss Maddicks. You wish to see Miss Maddox. Yes,
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I didn't realize i'd create this much of a sensation. I must remembered to
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include I'd like to see miss Maddis in my repert whire was startling things to
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say. Well, I'm missus Anders, I'm in charge of this household.
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Do you know miss Maddocks. The gentlemen went to school with miss Maddis.
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He went to school with her, That's what he said. You know,
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there's something about all this that reminds me of the time a friend of mine
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tried to negotiate a federal loan. Showed the gentleman into the library, Carson,
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I'll go call miss Maddicks, if you will just be seated, mister
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Templar, I don't think. No, I didn't catch his name, but
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it's someone who went to school with you. No, I'll bet it's that.
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So why you're not that? So? I suppose I should say thank
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you, But certainly you're not nismatics. Why of course I am. Now,
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don't tell me she's changed that much since your school dah. I'm afraid
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I'm the one who's changed. As a matter of fact, I feel myself
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changing slightly this very moment. Oh well, when you find the right Virginia
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Maddics, you can both have a laugh over there. Ye have a good
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wrong wrap. I think the time to laugh is right now, and you
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can all join in. You see, this is the Virginia Maddics I'm looking
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for. I beg your pardon. There's a foreign car and it's such a
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Fashini at the Central Garage registered to a Virginia Maddics at this age. Why
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of course it's mine. Oh, it's mine, all right, although naturally
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I don't drive it. You see, I'm on, if you lived in
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California, you'd have been driving it for years. I'm afraid I don't understand
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what you're trying to say. I'm not saying, missus Anders. I'm asking
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did you ever hear of a man named Blanco? Blanco? No, I
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hope believe I ever had. I haven't, have you, Carson, No,
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Miss Virginia, I don't wait a minute. When I took the Assata
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down to the garage the other day, that there's a new mechanic there.
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I think his name is Blanco. That's interesting. You're a detective. That's
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what you are, a detective, No, Virginia. Besides, if I
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were a detective, i'd know the answer to something Carson just said without having
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to ask. And what does that mean? I suppose you tell me what
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how you knew that the new mechanic's name was Blanco when even the man who
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worked with him thought it was Stephen. Maybe it was another man. I
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mean, I'll tell you what I mean, Carson, the first real link,
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the first total sign that I'm heading in the right direction. Look here,
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what is this all about? Uh, Virginia, didn't I just hear
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your doll cry? Oh, mister Temper, I haven't played with dolls since
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I was a child. Oh, yes, of course I should have known.
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You don't have to make an excuse, mister Templer. I know you
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want me to leave the room. You want to talk, grown up talk.
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Virginia. You're the most fascinating woman I've met in years, But there
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are a few questions I want, Carson dnswering. Mister whatever your name is.
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I'll give you just three seconds to put up your hands. Well if
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you insist. And now, sir, I should like to know what you
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mean by forcing your way into this house. But Uncle Roger, can't you
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see he's a detective, just like in the calling for exactly fire that gun,
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sir, and I'll bleed ink all over this handsome carpet. He forced
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his way in on the POTENTI of seeing Virginia, mister Pearce, But it
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appears that it was really Carson. He wanted to see you know this man
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Carson. No, mister Pearce, I never saw him before. His name
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is Templar, Templar, Simon Templar. And I'm certainly not fat so am
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I, Virginia? No, so you're the saint. I'm very glad to
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meet you. Then, may I put my hands down? Of course?
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Er, But what's the reason for this rather strange and unsaintly visit, mister
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Temple Virginia. Why don't you go try on your party dress? Huh?
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The one you're going to wear this afternoon? Oh, I've already tried it.
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But how did you know I was going to Janie Buller's party this afternoon?
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We comic book detectives know everything. Is Carson going to drive you in
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the car? Of course? The only way to get to Janie's house is
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by car, unless you feel like walking all the way up the mountain mountain.
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Yes, it would have to be a mass, wouldn't it, mountain
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road with a great many I er, I am still waiting for your explanation,
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Templar, The child leave the room, Virginia, No I wanted Virginia.
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Oh, very well. But you know I'll find out everything anyway.
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Carson will tell me. Oh, won't you, Carson, if I can
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do. Goodbye, mister Templar, Goodbye, Virginia. I've enjoyed meeting you.
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Er now, mister Templar, what did you want to see us about?
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About murder, mister Pearce, one that was committed a few hours back,
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in another one that I hoped to prevent. It's schedule to take place
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in a few hours from now. What, mister Templar, please explain.
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A few hours ago I was paid a call by a hoodlum named Blanco.
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This led to a brief but informative conversation with a lady barfly named Violet,
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which in turn led to an interesting half hour with a limousine named Theota Frasini.
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And so here I am. I'm afraid, I afraid I don't understand
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either. All it's clear to me is of now is that there's been a
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murder, and there's a good chance there's going to be another one murder.
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Who who was murdered, mister Templar, The aforementioned houdlum blancom but shed no
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tears. He'll be missed only by the manufacturers of small arms ammunition, who,
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I'm afraid are going to notice a rather remarkable drop in their sails.
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What it's the car that I am here about, mister Pierce, The Asada
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Forchine that spends its spare time at the center of garage. The registration slip
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says that it lives here. Yes, that's our car. It is the
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central garage we use Carson, is it not? Yes, sir, I
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understand the car is owned by that charming child, although she informs me she
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doesn't actually drive. Yes, the car is hers, mister Pierce. I
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hope you won't think I have an ulterior motive. I'm a little old for
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Virginia, but she's loaded. She's extremely wealthy, you see, mister Templar.
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Shortly before Virginia's father died in South America, he drew up a will
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giving the child his entire fortune. I was designated her guardian until she comes
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away, so then you're not really her uncle. I am an uncle in
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name only. I tell me something. Where in South America did the child's
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father die In the US, that's Central America or is it it? Why?
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I do believe it is? Why do you ask, mister Tumplin.
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I wasn't really asking. I was shooting in the dark. What when I
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return to this house in an hour or two, mister Pearce, we must
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all have another delightful talk. It will be a different kind of talk,
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perhaps, but nonetheless delightful. But what in Heaven's name later, mister pears
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Later? Right now, I have a date with a lady, a lady
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with violet hair, who thinks I'm a bottle of scotch? Yeah? Who
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is it? Package package? I didn't order any package from. What is
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this? Hello, vile? I'd like to have a talk with you,
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that's all say. Look here, I don't know who you are, but
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if you let me in? No, what do you mean by forcing your
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way in here? Argument? While I was stimulating takes time, and I
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don't have much time. What's it all about? Blanco's dead? What's that
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to me? I'm not the police. My name is Simon Templer, the
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Saint ger Violet Caine, Frank Caine's wife widow. That's another argument. We're
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not going to have time for. You're nuts, Frank, We're alive.
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I'd know it. Drink? That's better? All right, we can talk
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now. What's Blanco's murder got to do with me? You're next on the
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list and you've got your glass? What do you mean by that crack?
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There's nobody. I don't feel so good? What who'd want to kill me?
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Somebody who was related to you? I'm not sure related to me.
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I've only got one. I feel so good? What is it? Ooh?
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It burns by? No, p're on the table? Only relative?
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I love that Morgan? Oh by, mister templar? M what brings you
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out in the cream of the day. I'd imagine a man who runs in
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after hours saloon would naturally indulge in after hours. As a matter of fact,
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I was just about to go home, on my way to pick up
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my car, not by any chance, at the central garage. Oh yes,
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how'd you know? Production? That's incredible, not too incredible. It's
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easy enough to deduce that a man would keep his current a garage that it
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happens to be the owner of. So you know that too. There isn't
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very much you miss, is there. Mister templar. Murder has a way
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of sharpening one sense. His murder man named Blanco. Should we go into
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the garage right behind him? You uh said his name was Bunco. Yeah,
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and just now, uh, Violet came Violet dead. But howel some
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inevidently thought her whiskey would have a bigger kick with a pinch of poison in
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the bottle. Ghastly terrible? But who who did this thing? You did
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me? I realize it's rather early in the day for a man to be
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at his best, But don't you think that joke is in bad taste?
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To were a joke, it would be up a beautiful automobile that child owns,
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isn't it. Look at those lines, those sleek, so graceful.
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Get in, Morgan, get in. It's perfect morning for a drive.
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I don't think anyone would mind if we took her out. You see,
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I'm rather friendly with the owner. She likes me. To her, I'm
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a character straight out of her favorite comic book. Get n't know, no
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thanks? Why not? But take a climbing. I'd like to see what
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you'll do on a mountain road road with a couple of hairpin curves. Some
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other times say it won't be another time, or didn't you see the beautiful
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job Blanco? Did on the tie rod. No sob through until it's hanging
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together by the proverbial hair. One sharp turn, like the turns you'd find
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on a mountain road, the steering system collapses. There's an accident. Yeah,
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yeah, Blanco did an excellent job until he learned who the victim was
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to be. It was too much for even his stomach. Oh you're dreaming.
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Why would anybody want to wreck an expensive bus like this? A little
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girl who is going to a party on top of a mountain this afternoon has
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much money morning. If she should happen to fall off that mountain in this
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car, some happy next of kin, a very happy fortune. Well that
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lets me out, Saint I'm nobody's next to Kin. There was a picture
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Violet pointed out to me before she died, a snapshot taken at a wedding.
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And do you know who the bride and groom were? Okay, okay,
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we've talked long enough. Saint frank Kin left a lot of money when
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he died. I'm too close to it. Another mistake he made, Morgan,
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Huh, it was made Frank Cain. Cain say, what are you
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pulling your cars in the chauffeur Carson's only his nom toplastic surgery. It's Kine
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with a new name and a new face. Yeah, but with the same
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old trigger eye, kin Kine, are you yeah, but never mind me.
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Don't let him get away. You took care of that. You're the
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one who didn't let him get away, Kane. A man loses all inclination
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to run when there's a bullet in his knee cut. You'll keep until the
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police come. Yeah, go ahead, say Virginia, little girl, she
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don't try to talk. Gotta tell you see the chief, the che Don't
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worry again. Your daughter will be safe. I'm gonna make sure of that
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right now. It's beyond belief, mister Tempter. What sort of fiend could
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even dream of harming that child? There was a team of fiends, mister
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Pierce, and one of the fiends has just giving up his membership in the
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inhuman race. There were two of them, yes, miss and the's two
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of them, Morgan and someone else, someone who would be Virginia's only surviving
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relative once Violet came the child's mother in a race from the picture, the
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only surviving relative and inheritor of the child's we know of no relatives do we,
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Roger? There was only Frank Kane, her father, but legally at
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least he was dead. Now he's dead in fact as well. But there
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is another relative. I'm amazed that you don't know who. Violet pointed to
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a wedding picture she was dying. Was your wedding picture, missus Danders.
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You were the bride, Morgan was the groom. Kiss Ah, I was
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married to Morgan once. But surely that doesn't mean that I'm look here,
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templar. This is preposterous. Would be even more preposterous if Violet hadn't had
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a sentimental nature. What do you mean? Snapshot? She wrote the names
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of each member of the wedding party on the snapshot. The name she had
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your name written, Rose, isn't it? What makes the photograph really interesting?
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Is the man standing next to the groom was mister Pearson? Of course
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it was me. Isn't a crime to attend a wedding or have one's name
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written on a picture? No? But in this case itselves a crime because
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mister Pierce. Under your picture, Violet affectionately wrote, my dear brother,
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Roger, what you don't? You don't bother? I'm sure I've been called
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it before. Come on, brother, we're going visiting. There's a new
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district attorney downtown is dying to make himself a reputation. Virginia, I've brought
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your present. Oh, mister Temper, you shouldn't have, but I'm so
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glad you did. But go on open it. Oh it's a beautiful boy
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I ever saw. You did tell me once that she hadn't played with dolls
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since you were a child. But mister, I'll tell you a secret.
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What Virginia, I just said that to be sophisticated. Hmm. Something tells
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me that a certain young man named Fatsa is going to be trimmed right down
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to your size. You have been listening to another transcribed adventure of the Saint,
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the robin Hood of Modern Crime, and I'll here is our star,
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Vincent Price. Ladies and gentlemen, in tonight's cast, you heard Maggie Morley
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as Violet and Anne Whitfield as Little Virginia. Edmund McDonald played Blanco, Jack
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Moyles Carson, Ted von Els was Roger Irene tedro Missus Andes Morgan was played
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by Barney Phillips and the garage Man by Jerry Hausman. This is Vincent Price
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inviting you to join us again next week at this same time for another exciting
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adventure of the Saint. Good Night. This Adventure of the Saint was written
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by Michael Cramwell. The Saint, based on characters created by Leslie Choppers,
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is a James L. Safia production and is directed by Helen Mack. Vincent
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Price is soon to be seen co starring in RKO's production of His Kind Of
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Woman, and all you Saint fans will be glad to know that the Saint
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comic books are on sale at all newsstands. This is Don Stanley speaking Three
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Chimes mean good Times on NBC. Every Sunday on NBC, meet two delightful
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and often confusing families, The Blandings and the Harrises. Mister and Missus Blandings
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stars Carry Grant and Betsy Drake as the proud but bewildered owners of the famous
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Dreamhouse and the Phil Harris Alice Face Show features the hilarious Harrises and their friends
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in typical amazing Harris situations. Hear them later today, Fred Allen, Edwin
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and b Lily joined the Big Show today on NBC. Welcome Back, Well,
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a different sort of case Simon gets into a bit of a tougher mode
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than is usual lot performance because he suspects what's at hand and when it comes
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to the death of a child not something he will play with. That scene
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before them and died of the poisoning was very short, brief and absolutely to
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the point. The idea of her viewing the Saint as a comic character was
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interesting because of course the Saint actually was in his own comic book at the
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time, as had been mentioned on the show previously. A very interesting cast
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Edmund McDonald was actually played the police counterpart of Dan Holiday in the very first
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series we did Box thirteen. Anne Whitfield, who played Virginia, was actually
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thirteen or I should say twelve going on thirteen, and just at the start
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of her career she had made a movie appeared in The Gunfighter, and made
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a TV episode in the forgotten series The Big ol Theater. But she would
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have very successful career over television from the nineteen fifties till about the mid seventies,
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appearing in everything from Ironside, Gun Smoke, Perry Mason and Emergency,
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and then she made a film for Worldwide Pictures and a couple TV movies and
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then a film that was set in Mississippi, where she's from. She actually
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had a small part in that. So another one of these character actors who
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really made their living appearing in everything, and this was one of her very
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early appearances. Jacqueline asked a question on Facebook regarding the episode The Carnival Murder
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from a couple of weeks ago. She asked, where was Louie? A
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good question. I think Louis was not every episode and part of it was
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doubtless, you know, how much do you want to contrive to bring a
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cab driver into the plot. And part of it was that Laurence Dopkin really
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was an in demand actor, not only over radio but also in film.
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But don't worry, Louie will be back. Well that will do it for
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today. We'll be back tomorrow with the Adventures of Ellery Queen, and next
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Monday, join us once again for the Saint. In the meantime, send
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your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter
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dot com. Slash Radio Detactives from Boise, Idaho. This is your host,
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Adam Grahamson and off