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Nick Carter, Master Detective - "The Case of the Nameless Blonde" (1948) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Nick Carter returns to his detective office and finds an
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: unidentified blonde woman dead. The medical evidence says she was
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: poisoned hours earlier, and establishing her identity soon puts others
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  Speaker 1: in peril. From May ninth, nineteen forty eight, This is
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  Speaker 1: episode three hundred and thirty nine of Mutual's Nick Carter
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  Speaker 1: Master Detective, starring Lahn Clark as Carter and Charlotte Manson
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  Speaker 1: as his assistant Patsy Bowen. The case begins at Carter's
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  Speaker 1: own door, with a victim who has no name and
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: a reason someone wants it kept that way. Now back
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  Speaker 1: to the golden age of radio War, Old.
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  Speaker 2: Dutch Plenzer, famous for chasing Dirk presents Nick Carter, famous
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  Speaker 2: for chasing crime.
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  Speaker 3: Every week.
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  Speaker 2: At this time, two great names are joined as new
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  Speaker 2: post war Old Dutch Plenzer brings you one of the
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  Speaker 2: most resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter,
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  Speaker 2: Master Detective.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Nick, had only he'd come, He's ten minutes late. Now.
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  Speaker 5: I want to see him just as much as you do, Patsy.
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  Speaker 5: I sure hope he can tell us what we want
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  Speaker 5: to know.
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  Speaker 4: Twelve hours on this case and we don't even know
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  Speaker 4: the victim's name.
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  Speaker 5: That's true, Patsy, great scratch, Nick, is he did they? Yes, Patsy,
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  Speaker 5: they did. He'll never tell us anything now he's dead.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The Case of the Nameless Blonde Today's Exciting Adventures starring
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  Speaker 2: Ln Clark as Nick Carter, brought to you by a
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  Speaker 2: new post war old Dunge cleanser. As our story opens,
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  Speaker 2: Nick has just returned to his office from lunch. Finding
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  Speaker 2: no one in the reception room, he makes his way
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  Speaker 2: back to the laboratory, where Patsy Bowen greets him.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Nick, you have a visitor in your office. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: she came right after you left. Up there are attractive blonde.
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  Speaker 3: That's nice. Who is she?
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  Speaker 4: She wouldn't give me her name.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, let's see what she wants. Well, Matte, Why she
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  Speaker 5: isn't here.
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  Speaker 4: Nick, Look behind your desk, grete scratch. She must have fainted.
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  Speaker 3: Have a look.
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  Speaker 5: This woman hasn't fainted, Patsy, she's dead. And that's the
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  Speaker 5: story on your mysterious blonde.
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  Speaker 3: Nick.
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  Speaker 5: Medical examiner finished his autopsy about ten minutes ago. So
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  Speaker 5: her death wasn't from natural causes, not with that much
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  Speaker 5: poison in it.
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  Speaker 3: Huh.
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  Speaker 5: I don't even know who she was. There was nothing
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  Speaker 5: on her to identify her. Well, I let the newspaper
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  Speaker 5: photographers take her picture. Edition should be on the streets
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  Speaker 5: by now. Have you seen them now, Patsy's out getting
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  Speaker 5: the papers now, uh huh, Well, somebody may be able
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  Speaker 5: to identify her.
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  Speaker 3: I'll let you know if anything develops. Okay, Maddie, thanks
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  Speaker 3: for calling. Man.
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  Speaker 4: Her pictures on the front page of all the papers. Nick,
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  Speaker 4: let me see what the sergeant have to say.
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  Speaker 5: Just that our nameless blonde was poisoned. Poison Yeah, she
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  Speaker 5: was fed arsenic three hours before she died.
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  Speaker 4: Nick, I thought arsenic resulted in violent death. She looked
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  Speaker 4: more as if she'd suffered a heart attack.
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  Speaker 3: Or sometimes it access way.
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  Speaker 4: Then she just came in here and toppled over without
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  Speaker 4: uttering a sound.
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  Speaker 3: That's why you didn't hear it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, I guess I better straighten up this office.
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  Speaker 4: The sogeant's men certainly made a mess of your desk,
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  Speaker 4: you'd think they.
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  Speaker 3: Nick, Oh, what is it?
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  Speaker 4: These aren't your keys? Are they?
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  Speaker 3: Let me see? I know I never saw them.
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  Speaker 4: Before, and they must belong to that woman she was
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  Speaker 4: sitting here before she died.
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  Speaker 5: And oh, look here, what is it? Has a name
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  Speaker 5: printed here on the case. The keys are in.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's almost worn off.
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  Speaker 4: Well, don't you make it out, Nick.
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  Speaker 3: Just shime and Grinlan Salmon Grnander.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's an odd name, is that all it says?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just to name had me the city directory? Was it? Yep? Thanks? Here, No,
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  Speaker 3: let's see what we can find.
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  Speaker 5: And we are gee grimly grim grim.
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  Speaker 3: Oh well there's no Brnander at all.
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  Speaker 4: Oh then we oh, I'll get it.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Nick Carter speaking Nick, This is Maddy again. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: we got to nibble on that picture in the paper.
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  Speaker 3: You mean somebody identified her?
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  Speaker 5: No, but a cab driver just came into my office,
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  Speaker 5: he says. He recognizes her as a fairy picked up
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  Speaker 5: downtown yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Good. He took her out on Lafayette Road.
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  Speaker 5: Lafayette Road, Yeah, that's a pretty swank neighborhood.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 3: The street number was seventeen twenty seventeen twenty.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'm on my way out there now, Patsy, and I'll
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  Speaker 3: meet you that twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 3: I am over here, okay, hello Argan, Oh hi.
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  Speaker 5: Pacy, Well this is the place neck I thought i'd
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  Speaker 5: wait for you two before I did any investigating.
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  Speaker 4: Oh see, the house is completely dark.
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  Speaker 5: Don't look like anyone's home at the friendliest place I've
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  Speaker 5: ever seen.
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  Speaker 3: Bring the belt on your money.
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  Speaker 6: Right, there is no use trying to get in where
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  Speaker 6: you are.
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  Speaker 7: Don't try anything because I have a gun.
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  Speaker 3: Hell look, who are you?
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  Speaker 7: Who are you? And what are you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Trespassing on private property? We happen to be the police,
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  Speaker 6: mister the police. Yeah, yeah, Now who are you?
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  Speaker 7: I'm the care taker. My name is Weba.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody home here?
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  Speaker 6: No, there's no one living in the house now, hasn't
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  Speaker 6: been since the funeral?
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  Speaker 3: Funeral? Whose funeral?
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  Speaker 6: Mister Stokes? He died just last week? He lived here alone?
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  Speaker 4: Do you mean Marvin Stokes? If Stokes in Winnick at
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  Speaker 4: the big real estate company.
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  Speaker 7: Let's try it.
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  Speaker 3: Are you here all day yet? Today?
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  Speaker 8: Web?
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  Speaker 7: Sure, I'm here all the time, day and nine.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you can tell us the name of the visitor
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  Speaker 3: you had yesterday?
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  Speaker 7: Visitor.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I did not have any visitors yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: We know a woman came to this house in a
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  Speaker 5: taxi cab late last evening.
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  Speaker 3: Now who was he?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah? Crazy? No woman came here.
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  Speaker 5: The cab driver says he let her out here as
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  Speaker 5: she walked up the steps before he drove off.
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  Speaker 7: That is not so.
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  Speaker 3: Who's Simon Carnander?
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  Speaker 6: Simon Cananda? I have never heard of anyone by that name.
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  Speaker 3: All right, you have the authority to let us in
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  Speaker 3: this house.
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  Speaker 7: No, I cannot do that.
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  Speaker 6: You would have to see mister stokes partner, mister Whittaker.
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  Speaker 7: He is the only one who could let you in.
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  Speaker 9: Why, mister Whittaker, because he.
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  Speaker 7: Is in charge of this property.
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  Speaker 5: Now, okay, yes, that means we dropped in on mister Whittaker.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you go ahead, Nick, I gotta get back to
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  Speaker 3: the headquarters. See you later than Maddie. Okay, come on passing.
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  Speaker 10: Of course, mister Carter, you can get into the Stokes
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  Speaker 10: how many time you want to.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks mister Whittaker. However, I doubt.
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  Speaker 10: That it will throw any light on this mysterious woman
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  Speaker 10: you've been telling me about.
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  Speaker 4: Well why do you say that, mister Whittaker.
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  Speaker 10: Because miss Boone, it's hard for me to believe that
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  Speaker 10: Marvin Stokes had any dealings.
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  Speaker 3: With a woman.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, he and I were partners for twenty years, mister Carter,
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  Speaker 10: and in all that time, he had no interest in
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  Speaker 10: women at all.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, he was woman shy was an obsession with him.
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  Speaker 4: But this gets screwier and screwyer.
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  Speaker 9: Nick.
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  Speaker 4: The only thing we're sure of about that woman is
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  Speaker 4: that she went to Stokes's house, and now we find
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  Speaker 4: that she had no reason to go there, and that
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  Speaker 4: nobody saw when she got there.
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  Speaker 5: Rather way, mister Whittaker, does the name of Grenander meant
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  Speaker 5: anything to you?
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  Speaker 3: Simon Grenander?
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  Speaker 10: No, No, I've never heard the name before the best
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  Speaker 10: of my writing.
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, there's a Sergeant Mathison the homicide s Nick Carter there, Yes,
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  Speaker 5: that's the moment with car.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks hello, Nick.
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  Speaker 5: Maddie, we got another bite on that newspaper picture. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: a guy named McIntire just called to say he thinks
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  Speaker 5: he can identify the dame. Say his named McIntire, Captain
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  Speaker 5: Ernest McIntyre meeting him at the Morgue in twenty minutes. Okay, Maddie,
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  Speaker 5: we'll get over there right away. Oh, what the devil's
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  Speaker 5: keeping that guy? He's fifteen minutes late.
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  Speaker 4: Already, Take it easy, sergeant, he'll be here, madam.
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  Speaker 5: You have any idea who this Captain McIntyre. Oh, he
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  Speaker 5: just said he was a retired sea captain. I asked
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  Speaker 5: him if shot what we spoke? Those were shots and
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  Speaker 5: they were right outside.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, come on right now, Look there's a man lined day.
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  Speaker 3: He's been shot.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Killer must be in the car that just pulled away. Nick.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the only way I could get out of
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  Speaker 5: here so fast. Well, we're we're blessed. This guy did
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  Speaker 5: a good job.
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  Speaker 3: He's dead.
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  Speaker 4: Nick, Do you think this is Captain McIntyre?
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  Speaker 5: Wait'll I see whether there's any identification on him? Yeap,
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  Speaker 5: what's that, Nick Baillford?
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  Speaker 4: Find anything in it?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, he's Captain mcintarre. All right, Well, how do you
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  Speaker 3: like that for a lousy break?
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  Speaker 5: Well, now we know somebody's determined to keep us from
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  Speaker 5: identifying that woman, so determined, in fact, they'll even commit
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  Speaker 5: murder to do it, and soul once again, Nick is
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  Speaker 5: frustrated and his desire to learn the identity of the
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  Speaker 5: nameless Blonde. We'll see what happens next in just a minute,
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  Speaker 5: and now back to the case of the Nameless Blonde.
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  Speaker 5: Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by new
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  Speaker 5: postwar old Dutch cleanser. As we pick up our story,
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  Speaker 5: two hours have passed since the death of Captain McIntyre,
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  Speaker 5: the man who promised to identify the mysterious woman Nick
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  Speaker 5: found murdered in his office. Now, in the bright moonlight, Nick,
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  Speaker 5: Patsy and Sergeant Madison approach a small waterfront shatty. The
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  Speaker 5: next shack down the beach would be the one where
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  Speaker 5: McIntyre lived.
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  Speaker 3: Ever, what do you expect to find in the captain
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  Speaker 3: shary Nick's.
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  Speaker 5: That's a chance many that McIntyre had something in his
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  Speaker 5: possession that'll tell us what he himself would have told
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  Speaker 5: us if he'd lived, Like what.
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  Speaker 4: The dead woman's name was and who poison her?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the key to a death must be your name.
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  Speaker 5: Otherwise, why would somebody be sadar and anxious to keep
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  Speaker 5: us from learning what it was? Well, that makes sense.
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  Speaker 5: But oh, that's my entire shack over there. There's somebody
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  Speaker 5: in it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, the lights are on. It looks as though somebody's
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  Speaker 4: moving around inside.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, we gotta hurry.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, hey, the lights went out.
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  Speaker 5: Better watch it. It make swell targets in this moonlight,
• 10:38
  Speaker 5: get down, Patsy put this in. Whoever's in that shack
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  Speaker 5: spotted us and doesn't want us to spot him. Eh,
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  Speaker 5: he's staying in the shadows. Nick must have gone around
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  Speaker 5: behind the shack.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going there. I'll hold him.
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  Speaker 5: Many, I have a feeling those shots were meant to
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  Speaker 5: cover a getaway.
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  Speaker 3: There's no use trying to catch him now. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I guess you're right Nick.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll be going to take a look in that.
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  Speaker 3: Check you bet we are watching death pants. I'm okay, okay, careful.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'm gonna open the door. Keep your gun ready, Many,
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  Speaker 3: don't worry. Nice helping.
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  Speaker 4: Oh g, it's dark in here. Can you find a light.
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  Speaker 3: Remember there's a sweach by the door. Yeah, here we are.
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  Speaker 4: Oh will I look at this place.
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: Looks like a cyclone hit us. I expected something like this. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: If we're right in thinking that McIntyre was killed to
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  Speaker 5: stop him from telling us who the woman was, then
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  Speaker 5: the murderer was pretty sure to have the same idea
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  Speaker 5: we have.
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  Speaker 4: Certainly he'd come here to look for evidence that might
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  Speaker 4: help us to identify her.
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  Speaker 3: And it was probably the murderer took that pot shot
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  Speaker 3: at us.
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  Speaker 4: Be there's someone on the porch.
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  Speaker 9: Oh kill you guys? What's going on here?
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  Speaker 5: Take it easy, brother, This thing in my hand ain't
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  Speaker 5: no water pistol.
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  Speaker 3: WHI the police?
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  Speaker 9: Police?
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  Speaker 3: Huh yeah?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, what's the idea of turning to join a part?
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  Speaker 3: Watch that to you?
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  Speaker 9: It so happens. I bunk here Copper.
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  Speaker 3: Thought this was Captain McIntire's shack.
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  Speaker 11: It is him and me. We live here together. I
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  Speaker 11: was Mac's first mate before he quit shipping out.
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  Speaker 3: What's your name, Gunther?
• 12:15
  Speaker 9: Al Gunther?
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  Speaker 5: Uh huh, well you better start looking for a new roommate, Gunther.
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  Speaker 5: Captain McIntire's did.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, you wouldn't know anything about that.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I wouldn't all about the woman he was going
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  Speaker 5: to identify when he was murdered.
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  Speaker 9: You mean somebody bumped back off?
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  Speaker 3: That's right, Well I'll be done.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, you don't see him exactly broken up about it?
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  Speaker 9: What do you want me to do?
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  Speaker 3: Sister?
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  Speaker 9: Bust out and cry? We all gotta die sometime.
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  Speaker 5: I gun there You ever hear of a man named
• 12:44
  Speaker 5: Simon Grenander?
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  Speaker 9: Simon?
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  Speaker 3: Well it looks like he has name.
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  Speaker 9: No, no, no, no, I don't mean nothing to me.
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  Speaker 3: What do you do for a living? Now, Gunther?
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  Speaker 6: Me?
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  Speaker 3: Who else?
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  Speaker 11: I'm working on a private yard. It's owned by a
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  Speaker 11: guy named it Winnaker. Yeah, what's wrong?
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  Speaker 3: With her. Not a thing good?
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  Speaker 9: Anybody got the objections? If I fill my pipe.
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  Speaker 3: Not at all? Go right ahead?
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  Speaker 9: Thank you?
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: Very expensive humid? Are you keeping tobacco in? It?
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  Speaker 9: Ain't mine? It's smacks?
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  Speaker 3: May I see it a minute?
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  Speaker 9: Gunter, I can't stop, you can? I?
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  Speaker 3: Well, no, what is it? Nick?
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  Speaker 5: It's a very interesting inscription on the lid of this
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  Speaker 5: human dog. Yeah, what's it saying?
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  Speaker 3: Nick?
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  Speaker 5: June nineteen thirty eight to Captain Ernest McIntyre with deepest
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  Speaker 5: gratitude from Marvin Stokes, And.
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  Speaker 3: You say we can get in the Stokes house this time?
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  Speaker 5: Nick, Yes, Maddy, I called Whinnaker's home his sister Elizabeth,
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  Speaker 5: since you'd meet us there, let us in.
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  Speaker 4: Well, why do you think that'll get you?
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  Speaker 5: Nick?
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  Speaker 3: I look, Pansy.
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  Speaker 5: Two people have been murdered and the only link between
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  Speaker 5: them is that somehow they were connected with Marvin Stoke.
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  Speaker 3: I know one thing.
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  Speaker 5: I hope I can find something in Stokes' personal papers
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  Speaker 5: to tell us what kind of paper Captain McIntyre did
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  Speaker 5: for him ten years ago. Yeah, and maybe we can
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  Speaker 5: find out why the woman who died in your office
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  Speaker 5: went to his house after he was dead. I hope
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  Speaker 5: So The answers to those questions should tell us who
• 14:17
  Speaker 5: the woman was and why she was murdered.
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  Speaker 4: Do you find anything as interesting as the Stokes correspondence?
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: No, not yet by Sweatership. But they're not even halfway
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: through yet.
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  Speaker 4: Where the sargeant donate?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I have to find Weber said.
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  Speaker 5: He was going to.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Okay, Webber get in there.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and it sounds as though he found him.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I finally got the truth out of this guy, Nick.
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  Speaker 3: He was lying, all right, he was.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, the dame who died in your office was here
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  Speaker 5: in this house.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, who was you where?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know her name. She did not tell me.
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  Speaker 3: Why did you lie about her being here?
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  Speaker 7: I had orders not to let anybody in. She gave
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  Speaker 7: me twenty dollars to forget them.
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  Speaker 3: And you take that bribe, and then we're afraid to
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  Speaker 3: admit it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I was afraid mister Whittaker would fire me.
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  Speaker 4: Snay, look what I found.
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  Speaker 5: Let's see. Well, well what is it, Dick? Recognize that
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: woman in this photograph, Matty do I?
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: Holy smoke, it's the blonde that died in your office.
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  Speaker 5: And listen to what's written on the bottom. Go Marvin
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: from Marjorie with all my love always. Oh no, no,
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: what's the matter?
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: You know this woman nor before?
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: She looks like she's say sit down here, Miss Whitaker, Hey,
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: what's eating hurt?
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: Really? You better tell us the truth, Miss whitor.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to talk about it.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: You say you never saw this woman before, and yet
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: a picture of her almost makes you faint?
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 15:52
  Speaker 12: Because Oh, I always suspect that there was another woman.
• 15:57
  Speaker 12: That's why Marvin wouldn't marry me. What Here's I love
• 16:00
  Speaker 12: Marvin Stokes. I loved him for years, but there was
• 16:03
  Speaker 12: something standing between No, I know.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: It was Morjorie.
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: And it also gives you a pretty good motive for poisoner,
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: miss Whittaker.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Poisoner.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I never laid eyes on her.
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: How could there be a woman in stokes life that
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: neither you nor your brother knew anything about.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: There's only one answer to that, mister Carter. He must
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: have met her the year he spent abroad.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Abroad? What year was that he went to Europe?
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: In the summer of nineteen thirty eight?
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Oh no, this is beginning to ridde up. Hey, Patsy,
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: give me the Stokes papers for nineteen thirty eight.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: Uh huh seven ye nineteen thirty weeks. Thanks here they are.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Well let's see anyway, may yun? Hey, what's this? What
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: did you find? Nick?
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: Cablegram center Stokes signed by Alphon de grass Man deserve
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: the Hotel Louis Cutt.
• 17:03
  Speaker 12: That's the hotel where love and Always take when he
• 17:05
  Speaker 12: was in Paris.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: What's it? Say me?
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Congratulations?
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: Reservations changed as requested, and it's addressed to Stokes on
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: the SS Simon Grenanderes Simon Grenander.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: Hey, Nick, that's the name that's on the dead woman's
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: key case.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Well I'll be done. It's not a man at all,
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: it's a ship.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Oh brother, No, this case is more balled up than ever.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Not at all, Maddy, not at all. I'd say it's
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: beginning to clear up quite nicely.
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: Nick.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: If you really know who the murderer is, why the
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: dickens don't we go get him? Instead of sitting around
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: the office waiting.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: We're waiting for Maddie to track down the proof.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Meaning the log of the SS Simon Grenander.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's going to call it from the harbormaster's office.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: But what do you expect to find in the logs?
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Oh? Look, Betsy.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: We know the ten years ago, in nineteen thirty eight,
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: a ship's captain named McIntyre performed some sort of service
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: for Martin Stokes, something that Stoke was grateful for. Right, yes,
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: But we also know that Stokes met a woman named
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: Marjorie in nineteen thirty eight, and that she was in
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: love with him. But go on, so what remember what
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: the cable Graham said?
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Of course congratulations, reservations changed.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Is requested right now?
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: Why would a hotel manager cable Stokes as congratulations and
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: why would Stokes wan his reservation chained?
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: She think. What's one of the functions of a captain
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: on the ship at sea, one of.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: The why he can marry people, And that's why the congratulations.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: And catching on.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: In other words, I believe captain McIntyre married Marvin Stokes
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: to this Marjorie, whoever she was.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: But can you prove it?
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: I hope I can, and I think the lug of
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: the Simon Grenandro will bear me out if we can
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: find it.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Marjorie and Stokes must have separated. We know she didn't
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: come back to America with him.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Apparently not.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: But now after Stokes is dead, this Marjorie suddenly bobs up. Now,
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: who's the one person who'd be most anxious to.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Get rid of her?
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: You tell me one of this Marjorie could have proved
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: that she was stokes legal wife. She'd have had a
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: claim to his estate. What kind of a will he left?
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Why I get it. Whoever inherited Stokes his property would
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: have had to get rid of her or lose his
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: inheritance right. And Thomas Whittaker was the sole heir to
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Stokes of the state.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: That's what the will says.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: Then, then Whitaker is the murderer.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: I believe he is.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Well, I'll be done.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Of course, it's still just a theory. There's no record
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: of the marriage and the log of the Ses Bernanda.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Then, oh, that must be the sergeant.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Now Nick Carter speaking, It's Marty Nick the Ses gernand
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: There was junk a couple of years ago.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: What don't tell me the logs lost? Maddy?
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, I just spoke to the manager of
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: the steamship company that owned him. He says, all the
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: ship's papers are stored in the warehouse on Pier thirty two.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: And he got the log for us. He says, you'll
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: give me the key to the warehouse, so I'll pick
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: it up and meet you there. Huh, Okay, Maddie. Here
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: thirty two fifteen minutes and the warehouse is down this way, Nick.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Boy, is this some fog that's rolling in? I can't
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: see a darn thing.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Hold on of my arms. Hey, you're pretty sure Wittakers
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: are a man?
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: Huh?
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: They all adds up that way, Maddie. Of course I
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: can't sweat to it, but I certain back against the
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: wall quick.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Didn't you see anyone? Nick? No, FOG's too heavy. He
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: got your gun? May I got it? All right? What
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: am I gonna do with it? When you can't see
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: what you're going to?
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Listen, someone's running toward the end of the dog.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: You can see your shadow.
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: Stop or I'll shoot. Okay, if that's what you want.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Mattie, I think you dropped.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, come on, dude, do you think it's Brittick and Nick?
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Right there? He's right it should be.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: He came down here after the log too, as the
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: last piece of evidence he had to dispose of.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: All right here he is, see Dad, Maddy? Oh blessed yes,
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: I didn't want to kill him. Oh, track, this fog Nick, Look,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: what is it, Patsy.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: This isn't Thomas Whittaker, but no is Captain McIntyre's first mate,
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Al Gunther.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Bewildered, Nick, Patsy and Matty stare down at the body
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: on the dock. Does this mean that Nick's deductions were wrong,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: that it was Gunther and not Thomas Whittaker who committed
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: the murders? Will bring you the conclusion of this adventure
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: in just a minute. Now for the conclusion of the
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: case of the Nameless Blonde. Today's adventure with Nick Carter
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: brought to you by new post war old Dutch cleanser.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Standing in the ghostly glow of a small electric lantern
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: on a fog shrouded dock, Nick, Patsy and Matty stare
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: down at the man who has just died, surprised to
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: learn that it is not as Nick had predicted, Thomas Whittaker.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Me this means Whittaker wadn't the killer. It must have
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: been this man, Gunther.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: Patsy's right, Nick, looks like your big theory kind of
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: flow in your face. Maybe Mary, and then again maybe not.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Take a look at Gunther's body. He'll be shot once
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: in the head, so.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: What I fired three times. Two of my shots missed.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: One, sorry Maddy, but all three of you as missed. Oh,
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: the killed Gunther wasn't fired from your gun, now, Dick.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: Your gun is a forty five police automatic. The wound
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: in his head was obviously made by a gun of
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: a much smaller caliber.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Holy smoked, Dick, you're right, which means that Gunter was
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: the goat for somebody else.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: He was down here with the murderer, and the murderer
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: killed him, hoping we'd think we'd caught our man.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: And that means the murderer is still somewhere on this dock,
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: not too far away from him.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: That's sweitker Nick. I know his voice. Yeah, whoever he is,
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I can't see him because of this darn for I can.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: See you, plainly, Carter, under that life put your hands up,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: all three of them.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: The way he says.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: So he's already killed three people to protect his interest
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: in Marvin Stokes's estate.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Are you figuring it all out? Did your? Carter?
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: I'm sure you agree that I had no choice once
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: I learned.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: That mark with Mary Martin Law, Yes, and once she
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: threatened to prove that fact by hiring me to find
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: either Captain McIntyre or the log of the Simon Brenander.
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: But he made the mistake of paying a call on
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: before she went to your office. I triggered her well,
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: In fact, I gave her.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: A cup of calls with Arson Nick in it.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Unfortunately, and then when you heard that McIntyre was going
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: to meet us at the Morgue, you ambushed him outside
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: and shot him before he could tell his story.
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: Right again, just as I'm going to shoot you.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: I don't think so, whitt You told us to raise
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: our hands, but you forgot to say anything about dropping
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: our guns.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Nice work, Nick, shooting out that light.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Now we can't see yus any better, though we can
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: see him. He's trying to get passed.
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: Sorry, course you can see a silhouette. Stop Whittager, stop
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: for us, Nick, What took you so long?
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: I had to stay at the hospital while Whittaker made
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: a statement, Oh what do he saying? Everything is pretty
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: much the way we figured it, Patsy, We well you
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: know what I mean. Marjorie Lawson Marjorie Stokes, I should say,
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: arrived from London last week.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: She've been living there ever since she left her husband.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Why did she leave him out.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: From what Whitaker said, they came from different social levels.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Stokes was wealthy and she was a shop girl. Oh
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: apparently after the honeymoon was over he was ashamed of her.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Well that's a fine thing.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: That's why they broke up only a few months after
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: they were married.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: And that must be why Stokes never mentioned the marriage.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I suppose so. And the only proof Marjorie had
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: of that marriage was in that ship's log.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: No marriage certificate.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Oh, Whittaker says she told him all her papers were
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: destroyed in the London blitz during the war.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, what a break, wasn't it.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: She was probably looking for some kind of proof and
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: Strokes papers the nights she bribed Weber to let her in,
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Uh huh.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: But she didn't find it, so she came to see me.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: It all makes sense, Nick, that is except for gun.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: So where did he fit the picture? Why you put
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: him in the picture? Betsy?
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: I did huh by your reaction when he said he
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: worked for Whittaker, But it made him curious.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: He went straight to Whittaker tonight to find out what
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: it was all about.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Uh huh, and Whittaker persuaded him to help him find the.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Log book, so it seems.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: But how about Whitticker? Nick? Was he badly hurt?
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Mattie's got him in the right leg.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: I think he'll be up and around in time to
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: go on the last walk he'll ever take?
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Well, Nick, what about the adventure new post war old Dutch?
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Clem's just going to bring us next.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Week, Mike.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: It's one of my most unusual cases. It's about a
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: man who prayed people to death.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Prayed them to death? Did they really die? I'll say
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: they did.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: And before it was all over, Mike, this man started
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: praying for Nick to die.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Well. I guess a lot of criminals to fell the
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: same way about Nick?
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: What do you call the story?
• 25:59
  Speaker 10: Nick?
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Carlic a case and the Salesman of Death.
• 26:14
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• 26:18
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• 26:21
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• 26:24
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• 26:28
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• 26:32
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