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stores and also over at store dot Great Detectives dot Net. Well, now
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it's time for today's episode of the Adventures of Ellery Queen. The original airedate
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January thirteenth of nineteen forty four, and the title is the Adventure of the
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mischief Maker. Heretie Comes, Ladies and gentlemen. The promo self, They're
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special bringing your radios most drilling mystery drama The Adventures of Vellary Queen. Tonight,
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the makers of Bromo Seltzer bring you another thrilling adventure with Ellery Queen,
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the son of It a gentleman detective in person. Ellery Queen invites you to
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match wits with him as he relates another story of a crime heal On unravels
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before revealing the solution, he stops the play gives you a chance to solve
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the mystery. Our guest armchair detectives for this evening are Miss Genevieve's been a
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member of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps. And mister Peter Cusack, Executive
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Secretary of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. And now Ellery Queen, master
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detective, and your host for the next half hour. Thank you and his
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chapel, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Well, I think tonight's
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mystery will keep you guesting. It's about a strange chain of anonymous letters.
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I call it the Adventure of the mischief Maker Hubert Hubert. Yes, put
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that newspaper down and finish your breakfast. Oh yes, yes, there is
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johny Good this morning the American You really perform miracles with a blow deup for
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an American, Hubert lester, You've been in this country long enough to stop
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being so patronizing now now, because I wasn't being anything of the s I
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suppose I got to get down on my knees to you because you're danged to
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marry an American. I wouldn't put it that way. Married four months already,
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you're reading newspapers at my breakfast paper. But Darling, I was merely
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looking up the situation in tea when she used to set me here from London
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to take charge of the New York Vance to stop the Tea Limited. He
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said to me, mister old chap up the situation in tea? Were you?
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You were looking at that movie stars photo? That's what that hussey was?
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The light I just happened to dance. Seems to me if you just
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happened to play, said an awful lot of female Hubert, is was be
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marriage? Oh what a nonsense, my dear. And even if I wanted
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to, which is rot, of course, you know I couldn't miss the
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scandal, my dear. I'd be given a sack, you know. So
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you just won't brook the least breath of scandal. What about you and your
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secretary in my secretary, that's spindle shanks weather beaten antique, my dear really
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well, by the way, what does that letter that arrived in the morning
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post for you? Let missus Hubert Leicester two thirty had Avenue, New York
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City? Whoever said how to piss typewriter? Broken letters out of line?
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Some off a drum? Pete, Missus Leicester, your husband Hubert is I
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knew it. I knew it, Hubert proof you were you? Let me
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see that your husband is in love with his secretary. He's needing a double
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life. Signed a friend. But I mean they say the day weather,
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but my love, you don't. You don't even sign that name. I
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scarce to know what my secretary looks like. Now, darling, I give
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you my sacred word, your sacred word out of my way? You you,
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but where are you going to time a respectable American girl? Will you?
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For you were less rock out of the boss. You so fast that
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pressures so useless if your don't think of New York represented was Carton and mister
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Blankett to meet my son and secretary? Get how do you know mister Panckett
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came in dead? For yes, the morning. Erry, he's back this
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morning for a report, report on what I send the secrie cases. Mister
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Blanket, team, my old mister Queen, and sure Lou here read this
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letter that come yesterday morning. Read it, Nikki aloud, goodness, what
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a bad machine. This was typed on broken letters, dirty out of line,
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never mind the type, and miss Porter just read it. Addressed to
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the President of the West Side Bank, three fifteen Mahattan Avenue, New York.
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It says, dear sir, the rent collector for your bank, Ethan
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A. Plunkett is a seat. You're stealing rent money on properties the bank
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owns. Signed the friends, you're the ethern A Plunkett. This anonymous letter
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refers to that's mean, mister Queen. Well, I'm sure the president of
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the bank you work for it doesn't believe this charge. Mister Plunkett, he
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don't, miss Porter seeing he's me. Mister Plunkett's only been posing as the
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real of the representative to the West Side Bank. Nikki. Secretly, Miss
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Plunkett's the president owns the bank lockstack and bar and all its properties. Protective
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coloration. Mister Queen, I kinda slew a hungry relative if they knew I
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owned the bank, they'd make a pauper of me in no time. Theller
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is mister Plunkett owns the bank. How could he be stealing rent money from
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the bank. Obviously the writer of this letter didn't know mister Punktt owned the
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bank, just tried to get him into trouble. Some tank that is Darrison,
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Vinnie, Minnie. You see. One of the properties mister Punkett owns
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is a five family brownstone on the West Side. I lived there myself,
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mister queen, Oh, Vinnie, tell her you want to find out that
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Miss bunk says, oh that cock god casse. You see, Maestro,
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the inspector sent me over to two thirty half an Avenue yesterday. You see,
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if anybody else living there got one of these letters signed a France,
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someone else got one suchet yep. One of mister Plunkett's tenants and neighbors there
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is people named Leicester. Missus Leicester's hitched to this Hubert Lester pretty shoes and
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then in this country around six months the playboy jo I mean he liked me.
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I know a friend wrote Missus Vester that hobby is being untrue to hers
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and I know it's Nikki, the missus vest packed up and now she's heading
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Garna five family have, mister Punkett. Who are the other tenants at two
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thirty haton Avenue. Well, there's miss Bertha Lamb, an old may and
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a bachelor named Hodge Lois Hotte and a family named Drayton, husband, wife
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and fifteen year old daughter. Drayton's a psychiatrist. The Plunket mister and missus
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Hubert Lester. It's Bertha Lamb, Sinster, mister Lewis Hodge, bachelor and
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doctor Drayton and family. I've got all down by nicky mister Punkett. Does
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anyone in the house bear a grudge against you? And the Lester's mighty funny
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asked that mister Queen my janitor there. Joe's a big sore head, pretty
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tough egg. Joe born on Hester Street in New York. Here he'd have
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been a gangster. I guess if we'd had more brain. But still sorry
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about mister Bunkett. Well, scenes like Joe didn't get Christmas presents enough from
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most of the tenants, including me. I slipped my mind. So Joe
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sends anonymous letter. It's hardly lessing matter Nicky, one of these letters has
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already separated a husband and wife. Yes, anonymous letters have been a lot
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of mischief in this world, if even caused death sad I think we'll look
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into this. We'll begin by asking doctor Drayton, Missus Lamb, and mister
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Hodge if they've received letters from the mischief maker who signs himself a friend.
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And there, ladies and gentlemen, you have the beginning of our mystery.
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We'll be back in just a moment to tell you more. The first and
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a chapel all for the life of a fireman. Bells clanging, men sliding
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down poles, fire trucks raising through traffic, nothing but thrills and excitement.
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Oh but that's not the way mister Thomas Burne elm versus Long Island tells it
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here right. We're caught out on the average of twice every day. Some
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of the fires don't amount to much, but when we get in on a
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real blaze, then I've got to be quick on the trigger, ready for
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anything. Besides working under a nervous strain. There or are the discomforts of
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going through heavy smokes and fumes and getting drenched by water from the hoses.
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Sometimes after a session like that, I've got a ponding headache. My stomach
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feels upset and my nerves are on edge. But I can count on Bromo
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celsa to help me feel better. A great many of us down to the
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firehouse keep a bottle of Bromo seltzer in our lockers all the time. And
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that's a mighty good idea for everybody. So Frinch, tomorrow, get a
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bottle of Bromo seltzer for your medicine chest. Then the next time you're suffering
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from a common sake headache, you'll know where to go for quick, effective
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relief. And now back to our story. An hour later, the Queens
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Nikki and Sergeant Deeley are standing before an apartment door at two thirty Hatton Avenue,
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New York City. Inspector Queen has rung the bell marks D V.
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Drayton m D. Suddenly Yes, doctor Draken, Yes, may we see
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you a moment privately? Oh for of you, I'm pretty busy. Please,
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Oh we'll come in. Let's Oh what's the matter, Hector Drayton.
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We're invitiguineous case of anonymous letter writers anonymously two people eleven in this house got
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anonymous letters yesterday morning. Did you receive such a letter, doctor Drayton,
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Yes, I did. It's see doctor very well. Yeah, the name
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broken type the blind Monday. That on the same machine as the other tent
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at Drayton. The fifteen year old daughter Sissy is in serious danger. Take
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a tip from friends at the Dreyton wanting to report this to the police.
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Your own daughter in danger? Nonsense? My wife was writened too. But
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as a psychiatrist, I'm quite familiar with anonymous letter writing. Really, doctor,
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you mean it's a psychopathic manifestation. Very often we call it anonymous graphromania.
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It's a form of hysteria, not a crime or a prank, but
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an illness. The writer of this letter is probably a neurotic, maladjusted,
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emotionally unstable individual. It would be criminal to prosecute. Well, I've handled
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something very interesting, doctor Drayken. Haven't you found that anonymous letter writers are
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often of a certain type, age and sex. Well, yes, I'm
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sure, Doctor Draken's more competent to explained if it's a case of true anonymous
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grapplemania. Why the writer is often and adolescent? Which sex? I female?
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Eurotic adolescent? Why is it that every time something bad happens men blame
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women? Aw that just as many nasty boys. Doctor. We'll keep this
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letter if we may. I prefer yes, of course. Sorry, you
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know what, I'm not stark. So that's like a number three that Let's
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call miss Bertha Lamb sincester and see if she's got number four. Miss Lamb
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don't want any madam, keep that door open. We from police headquarters.
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I'd want to take it to the policeman's ball. I'm not selling anything,
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miss Line. Let it come into your apartment for a few minutes. I
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will not How do I know your policeman? What's the painted girl doing with
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you? Why not? Sor? I didn't show Miss Lamb your She is
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here if you want to see. The inspector says it's gold santus Ryan,
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welcome and what do you want? Have you received an anonymous letter, Miss
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Lambs? Anonymous letter? I should say not? They have your neighbors have
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received such? Let as Miss Lambers well considered the neighbors. I'm not surprised
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you take the lesters. That englishman and his vulgar American wife. She's a
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nasty woman, and as for her husband, you just let me catch mister
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Hubert Lester make an eyes at me at you, Miss Lake, Well he
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better not. I have the blood of American pioneers in my bass. What
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about mister Pumpkin, that awful gang rent Sellector. He lives in one of
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the apartments, so you think he's see you with my bathroom plumbing stick,
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but not even trunk it. What in the way he will spend their money?
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You think he owed the bang? Yeah? Unt you and doctor Drayson
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and his family, Oh horrible people. Missus Drayton's an absolute pill. Comes
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from the Midwest, somewhere always knock in New York. And doctor Drayson,
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they're both in the same hometown. Why he ought to be rolling tails back
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where he comes from and knows he I don't know how many times he's asked
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me about my dream. I'd tell him your blamy pie. Missus Lamb fifteen
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year old daughter of their city. If ever I saw wom in my life,
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that child is won absolutely weird, very homely. We're's thick glasses,
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stays home all the time, reading nasty books attended. That girl gives me
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the shivers. And miss Lammy, the only person in this entire house fit
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to eat in person's neighbor? Is that brand? Mister Hodge so nice?
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A bachelor you know, keeps to himself for a man. So shut well,
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thanks, miss Lamb. We've got to be going. Let me tell
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you about mister Hodge. He never throws wild hot. So I know that
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miss Bertham didn't get a letter. Hmm interesting, Let's see if her dear
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mister Hodge did bring again? Oh, sergeant feeling downstairs? The best Joe
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the janitor there raise anyway, I'm home. We'll have to come back later.
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That and I told you to give me that. Don't get top Joe
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a right? Falks? Look what I found city? What are you doing
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with that typewrit? Who is it? Where'd you find? The sergeant?
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And a trays been on the basement When I went down to get this top
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mug janitor, I almost passed it up as a piece of jumps. Certainly
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an old baby ellery that the type, no doubt about it, Nikki.
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This is the machine used to type those anonymous letters Joe out of line?
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How did type of outc count to be in your basement this house? Who
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are you? Grandpa? Wise guy? And hey, huh I don't know.
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I never seen it before. You're the juristive an anonymous letter? Yes,
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good morning. What's a letter with no name, just signed a friend.
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I don't get no letters. I'm just good janitor. He just mad
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enough to play dumb joll Yeah, how do you make up this Christmas?
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I'll bet you got us presents and people in the house. Ye present,
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No, they're all type wise a part of lamb Dame. She'd give me
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two bucks without another time from nobody else. Be a good janitor, worked
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like a horse comes Christmas time. Nothing. I got a good mine up
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to collect that garbage. Yes, yehk you with me, Joe, he
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ain't. Then they's type by the downtown to be fires. Let's go to
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some restaurant around here where we can have some lunch and talk this resky case
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over. Oh, I can see me that on headquarter, Sergeant. But
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we brought dad an't like gallery figure. The boys didn't take up a single
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other letter signed ay friend anywhere else in the night book, and only the
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tenants of two thirty happened. Aven I got anonymous letters. We's son with
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the type right of fane in the basement of the house where the writer has
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tried to dispose of it in the basement being accessible only to the tenant.
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Yes, Dad, it means the letter writer is one of the tenants of
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two thirty Hatton Avenue. I think did somebody go to all that trouble just
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maliciously to make mischief? Maybe he's only making a look like crime stuff.
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Hi to my motives, bev he as mister Punkett. Just walking in,
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mister Plunkett. Eh, oh, hi, folks, I am just come
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in for some lunch. My bank's just on the next block. You know,
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well find out who's writing those letters, inspector. They're still working at
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it. Mister Puckett. We haven't even been able to see all your tenants
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of two thirty Hadton Avenue, Lewis Hodge. It didn't answer a ring.
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Oh what do you know about Hodge, mister Punckett. Nice fellow, mister
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Queen quiet, minds his own business. I wish all my tenants was like
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that fellow Hard. I wonder if he got one of those letters Hodge.
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Of course he didn't, so I mentioned it thought it did must be getting
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No have you know Hard got one of the letters, mister Punkee, because
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I saw it in his leather box yesterday morning with my own eyes, inspector,
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good mistake that type rden SAME's on the envelope by God. Then of
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course you don't know what it said, mister Punkett. What flew his heart
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to do for a living? Nothing? Right now? The fact is he's
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behind in his rant. Only last week I said to him, mister Hodge,
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E ain't a man to kick a fellow when he's down. He's like
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you jump matter. Hodg out of words behind his rent facing aviction, received
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one of those mischief making letters yesterday morning. Come on, mister Punkeett,
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it's got to get into Hodges's apartment of plunt. God still isn't that don't
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not his do miss Buncket. But I didn't tell him nothing about e victim
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him and to dog him up, didn't I? Sonnet can't seen the sergeant
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unlocked the door. Take the keip of miss Plunker. Take you and miss
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Brunket better staff in the heart. Will we take a look? I are
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hitting room empty. But letter on the table looks like one of the same
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crops type on that old wreck of a machine to Lewis Hodge. This address
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to Hodge the cops are watching you. You can't get away. Signed a
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friend, some friend her is Hodge? Anyway, door over, there must
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be his bedrooms and I slacked. We better force it dead? Are one
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side? Gents again? Oh? Yes, on the bed dead for at
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least twenty four hours, I'd say, got through the weft, temper,
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Gunstone's hand and doos and doors locked on the inside. So it can't be
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anything but suicide. Have blasted leathered rope Hodge to suicide. Yes, last
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friend, the mischief maker, has caused a death. Hello, what's up?
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Then taking us two days? But we finally identified Lewis Hodge identified him
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an escaped convict serving a life sentence for murder born in Cincinnati, was doing
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his stretch in an Ohio pen when he managed to make a break he's been
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holding up in New York. Yea. His royal name was James Lewis Hodgkiss,
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escape convict. No wonder, mister Hodge was such a model tenant.
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Yes, he must have been at the end of his rope broke the trade
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might be recognized and sent back to prison. Hodgekiss undoubted. They lived in
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constant fear that anonymous letter saying the police were watching him, broke his nerve
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and he took the easy way out. How did the letter writer know who
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he was? Probably never know, NICKI. They recognized him and having seen
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his photo somewhere all right, might have been a complete chat in the dark.
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Anyway, we're back when we started from. Who sent the letter that
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drove Hodge to suicide? Who wrote to missus Leicester and broke up our marriage?
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Who wrote doctor Drayton and his fifteen year old daughter was in danger?
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Who wrote on man conquer trying to get him in trouble with the bank?
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A friend, I think it's hope. Dad. Have you got those letters
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on file? Here? Yeah? The envelope to Dad. Thanks. We're
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looking him over again for all before. Oh I ought to have my eyes
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examined here. It was all this time and I didn't see it. Shouldn't
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they? One mindstrong? Look at these four envelopes, don't you see?
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There's one thing all four addresses have in common. A clue. A clue
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in the addresses, the same clue in the addresses for the one mister Punts
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addressed to the bank, the one to Missus Wrestler, Doctor Drayton, and
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Lewis Hodge who addressed the apartment house the addresses walk correct out? Great,
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there's one erasure on each enditor right there and in the same place in each
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case. Sorry, that's right. Some typewriter character. One character is in
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a race just after the house number on each engine, between the house number
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and the name of the strait. I wonder what was erased. Can't make
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it out, can you know, Dad? But I know what was the
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race? Just the same? Yes, And that tells me the identity of
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the mischief maker who wrote these anonymous letters. And there, ladies and gentlemen,
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you have the mystery. Have you figured it out yet? Well?
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Suppose you compare solutions with our guest armchair detectives. Nikki, Will you please
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introduce our guests. Well, Allie, Our first guest tonight is Miss Jenney,
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being a nursing training at New York Saint Vincent's Hospital with the United States
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Cadet Nurse Corps. Our second guest is mister Peter Cussett, Executive Secretary of
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the National Foundation for Infant out Paralysis, Ms. Bean. After you've considered
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your cadet nurse training, you become a nurse in the enforces. Well,
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Niki, either there or a nurse in public service on the home front.
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We can select any branch of nursing, military or home front, as long
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as it's essential. The Cadet Nurse Corp has quite a plan, is yes,
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Llery. And I think it's a wonderful opportunity for me. I get
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a lifetime education. Three. All right, you are well, mister Cusack.
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How's so much of Dime's doing. Thinks you'll reach your goal this year?
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Well, frankly, Ellie, we don't set a goal to see.
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Our work in combating intantare paralysis is so vital to the welfare of American children
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that we can use every diamond dollar. It's a never ending fight, isn't
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it. Yes, But one of these days we're going to wipe out the
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dread disease, and that day can't come too soon. Now, let's solve
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our mystery. It's Bean who wrote the anonymous letters. I think doctor Drayton.
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And why do you think well, because he hesitated so much in answering
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the questions, and he didn't report his letters to the police forces the others
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did. Thank you, miss Bean. And I'm mister Cusack. Who do
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you think wrote the anonymous letters? I think it was doctor Drayken's daughter,
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mister Queen, who was described by missus Lamb as being very weird. Why
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do you think that? Well, Miss Lamb said that she stayed home all
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the time reading strange books, and I think she probably found access to her
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father's scientific books and that her imagination started to work. Thank you, mister
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Cusack and miss B. You'll find in just a moment whether you've solved our
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mystery correctly and now earnest chapter friends or United States Caretner's Core information right in
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care of box eighty eight, New York City. If you can qualify,
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you'll do your country a great service and build yourself a future through the United
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States cad Thattnur's Core. And don't forget the March of Dimes. Send your
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dimes and dollars now to help write infantile Paralysis right, get that away now.
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We know that the four anonymous letters all came the same morning. They
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must all have been typed at the same time. We also know that an
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addressing the four envelope, the writer type a single character of some sort between
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the house number and the name of the street. And in all four cases,
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if for mailing the letters he erased that character. Now, what were
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those typewriter characters he put in and then took out with the different characters in
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each case, I'd say it was the same character in each case because at
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least three or the four addresses were identical, and the eraser occurs in exactly
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the same spot on the four endrop right there. So it was the same
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character. So what characters it? Let's figure it out together. What other
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possibilities? Well, the erase character could have been a numeral like one or
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side yes, or it could have been a letter of the alphabet like the
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US right, or it could have been a special mark and danna signer percent
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or any of the other special keys on a typewriter. Or finally, it
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could have been a punctuation mark. Now, the erasure in each case occurred
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just after the house numbers. Could the character have been a numeral? That
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would mean that the writer originally typed the wrong house NUMBERRELLERI one the four numbers
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instead of three, like two three oh five instead of two three old exactly,
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Nickie. How could the writer have typed the wrong house number? You
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know, with someone in two thirty half an avenue? He certainly knew his
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own address, So the erase character was the numeral? Was it a letter
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of the alphabet? Might have been the between the house number and the name
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of the street. So they could have been a wrong letter to start the
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name of the street. Now we knew his house number, they knew the
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name of the street. Door better dad, right, Sargeant. So the
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erased character wasn't a letter of the alphabet either. Well, I certainly couldn't
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have been a dollar sign or remark like that. No, Nikki, a
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special mark in that particular spot and address would make no sense at all.
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Okay, So the character arrays must have been a punctuation map, the same
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punctuation mass. But which punctuation map? Well that do we use punctuation marks
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after the street number in an address? Who's we? The people? We?
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Americans? American? Certainly not? You mean those countries where they go,
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yes, Sargeants. In certain foreign countries, it's accepted practice to put
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a comma after the street numbers two thirty Hatton Avenue. Citizens of those countries
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would write two three old comma Patton Avenue. So I knew the erase characters
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must have been common. They'd been erased after typing them in the writer realized
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they portrayed his foreign origins. Question, who at two thirty Hatton Avenue is
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not an American? Mister Blunket a Yank the Drayton Midwesterners, Miss Broth the
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land of American Pioneers. Lewis hard or hot Kists born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Gere the Janitor born in Hester Street, New York City. Missus Lester
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an American Hubert Lester her husband and write nicky Hubert Lester in this country only
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six months, not long enough to have broken himself of his English punctuation habits.
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So I knew it was Hubert Lester who wrote that letter to his wife,
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accusing himself of being untrue to her. But why am I stack Well,
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sergeant? Obviously Lester decided he'd made a serious error in marrying Missus Lester.
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This was his devious way of getting her to divorce him, instead of
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giving her the actual grounds, which might have caused a scandal and the loss
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of his job. And why invest to send those letters to the other people
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in the house obviously dead a diverse suspicion to himself to make the writer seem
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to be some one of a disease or disturbed mind. That chronic and indiscriminate
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mischief mission. I imagine Lester had in mind putting the blame on doctor Drayton's
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unhappy and you'rerotic fifteen year old daughter type often responsible for anonymous letters. Yes,
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Lester is a mischief maker in this case, said, I'm sure you
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can dig up some charge to make him pay for it. And there,
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ladies and gentlemen, you have a solution to the mistress. I want to
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another Ellery Queen plot where a murder is not at the core of the mystery,
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