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The Saint: Greed Causes Murder (EP1383) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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it's time for us to take a listen to today's episode of The Saint.
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This one there was one lost episode between last week's show and this week's.
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The original air date August fourteenth of nineteen forty nine, and the title Greed
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Causes Murder. The Adventures of the Saint starring Vincent Price, the same based
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on characters created by Leslie Choker, wits unknown to millions from books, magazines,
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and motion pictures. The Robinhood of Modern crime has now transcribed for radio,
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starring Hollywood's brilliant and talented actor Vincent Price as the sin Hey, what's
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going on here? This is my car? No, no, no,
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hey, cut it out? What's the idea? And I let that man
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alone? Oh? You keep by this buddy album. Oh it ain't the
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same. It's your pronic but slightly ungrammatical Mac. Now what's the disturbance?
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They drew a prolong shot in my car, him and the other fellow.
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They should get out. They were taking your car. Bryan Mack wouldn't do
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a thing like that, now, would you? Man? No, of
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course not. No man's nuts. What Mac would do if he coveted his
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neighbor's JEALOPPI is plug him with a piece of lead pipe and drive off so
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the knife gets Wait, Max, you could satisfy my curiosity a little.
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Why should you want to steal this gentleman's old automobile when you've got nicer,
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newer ones to choose. Yes, mister Ashim, Yeah, ask me saying
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go ahead, and I'm gonna satisfy a little curiosity of my own. I
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didn't think you had any Mac. What shape did it take? I always
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wondered how you would look good good night, good night night, be seeing
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you too? You let him go? Yes, he convinced me that I
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should for now. There's nothing like a thirty two in the pocket of a
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known thug for winning an argument. Did you say there was another fellow in
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him? Yes? Run off when he heard you coming. It was a
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shame. Fellow tried to buy my car yesterday? Someone tried to buy this
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car. Oh sure, this fellow tried to buy it, and there was
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a woman made to offer too. You mean you actually refused? I ain't
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shelling until I find out why they want to buy it? Too bad?
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This fellow who tried to buy the car? Do you know his name?
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No? He he looked like a gentleman? And too? Did you found
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it concerting with felonous intent? With our just a parted friends? Eh?
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Tell me? Was he well dressed? An annoying little mustache place just over
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the sneer he wears for a mouth? She? How did you work?
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Our friend Mac does piecework for him? Fancy Dan Turner is his current alias?
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And that I think you don't keep up with such things. You're going
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to tell the police later, perade or something? To tell them right now?
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I've got a great thirst that needs quenching. First for knowledge, huh.
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Yeah, what's your name? And where do you live? Colline three,
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All two East eighth Street. Put your car and cold storage, old
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time and take care of yourself. Something tells me this is rats night out.
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Hello, mini back making book. I see you got the wrong joint,
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Saint, take a look around. I run a pool room. Interested
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in the horse. No, No, a man like I said, Saint,
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you got the wrong joint. His name is Mac. He hangs out
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here. Know where is he in the back room? I am the three
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monkeys, Saint, deef, dumb and blind. The only Mac I knows
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a truck. And if you don't mind, I'd like to look in your
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back room and see if he's parked there. I mind, but you won't
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even know. Smitty, you're a deef, dumb and blind. Oh have
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a hard Saint, I ain't got no back room. Besides, last time
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you dropped in my place, a lot of my customers started patronizing elsewhere,
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including you, Smitty. Remember I've only been back from the great Place a
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week and I ain't forgetting it. Oh, come on, Saint, be
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a good guy. Beat it. Huh say let him stay. Hello,
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Mac, I was hoping you were smart enough to go home and get some
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sleep. How could I sleep with you out roaming the streets? Mack?
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You know how I wor it? Yeah? Yeah, too much? What
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does he wants to you? Why I want to talk with Fancy Dan Turner?
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What about that? Let's not be coy, Mac, it doesn't become
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you. I want to ask Tanna why he's trying to steal a gelope from
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an old man. Well, what do you know? I got a surprise
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for you, Saint. I'll take it to him. The boys say you're
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looking for me, Saint. The boys are right, So you found me.
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So I understand you're interested in a certain old car. So what probably
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the smile and irishman is too? I've broken down nineteen twenty nine to Dan.
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Seems a little glow for a fast man like you, Fancy Dan.
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Well, maybe I'd like to go slow enough to read the billboards when I
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drive. What's it to you, Saint? That depends on what it is
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to you Turner? What's on the fire? You are the handle with Churis
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on this deal, and I don't want just anybody cutting in. You're a
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fouler upper. He've been stepping high in fancy free too long. Tenny,
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you're beginning to irritate me the feelings. Likewise, Saint, only I got
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more than fingers in my fist, and you haven't a nice gun. You're
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so bravely wearing turning. It must be a pretty big part to change a
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small time con artists like you into a fire breathing gunman. Big potatoes huh
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yeah, plenty, big saint, so big, I wouldn't hesitate to shoot
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at the slightest move, Am I clear? It couldn't be clear if you
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were a day ordered by the Chamber of Comings. Good. Oh, I
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ain't a palace, Saint, It's just a backroom of a pool porter.
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But please stay and be my guest, well for a little while. Anyway,
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where are the boys out? And they're wasting their time? Alan don't
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tell his old wreck some old men as stubborn. Colin seems like a hard
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man to intimidate. It all depends on who's doing the intimidating, Saint.
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Now, Max a chowderhead, and Smithy's even worse. But with the two
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boys together and you get a jab of work done, then I've adopted old
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man Collins as a friend. How big are you? You know how I
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feel about people who push other people around, Turner, especially when the guy
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getting the shoving is a friend. If I had a glass of beer,
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I'd cry into it. Sit back and relax, Saint. The boys will
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be back with what they want after soon enough, and maybe then I'll let
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you go home. You mean they're coming back with the car, Well,
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maybe not the whole car. Sit back and relax. Relax. Hey,
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hey, what are you doing sitting back with my chair to the wall?
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Turner? You want me to relax, don't you? Yeah? Hey,
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let go that your stay. As my old grandmother used to say, Turner,
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there's nothing as relaxing as a game of pool, particularly with a hoodlum's
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head as the cue ball. Colin's Colin's open up. You wouldn't be even
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the police knew, would you. No? No, I'm no more a
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policeman than you are. Old man Colin. Come in and be where it's
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come dead. Where's Colin? The old man? You see it? Where
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behind the sofa? If you have a mind to look at him, Nike
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is a quick look then very how every way beaten, stabbed and tortured,
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maybe even shop for all I know. Listen, for all I know,
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maybe you've got a gun with an empty chamber, for all I know.
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Bless me. No mean business doesn't allow it. That's what sort of business
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are you? In? Irish? A name so brilliant. When the job
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is pulled and the police go after the boy, so pull it, I
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make an end run and go after the swag, or at least part of
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it. I think, what's the swag? Here Colin's wallet and les there's
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four hundred grand in Now I'm afraid you'll find the old man a few cents
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short? Who killed him? Not I? How do I? Now?
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You don't hear? Right? I brought you here? Why I'm here about
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the old tar? Of course you want to buy it? Certainly, don't
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you say? Maybe you're not being cute? Maybe you really don't know about
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it? A bad one. Now, I'm greatly relieved. When I first
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saw you come through that door, I said to me, said, O'Brien,
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here comes some more competition. They see you're not I relieved, Laddy
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greatly relieved. Turner is competition and not eh. Yes, but Turner and
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his ugly ducklings are nothing compared to it. Who time I got here just
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a minute before you, Laddy, the old man was dead when I arrived.
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Beyond that, I know nothing. Get down for Brian Bray competition getting
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worse all the joy. I'll call a doctor. No, no, no
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thanks, lady. They they off this frolic. They can get you next.
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You're gonna jo you, mister. You're gonna friend the old man the
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car. But well, I guess I'll have to try another angle. This
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one pretty dead. I awakened mister Richards, you requested, mister Temple.
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You'll be right now, thank you. I hope the fire isn't too serious,
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serious enough to awaken mister Richard. Which plants is the fire? I
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think is the damage? Oh, the fire isn't in any plant, mister
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Richie. Aside of me, I'm burning up and I need your help out
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there. You sneak your way in here three o'clock in the morning by telling
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me there's a fire. Okay, who are you, Diamond Templar? Oh
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yeah, the saint. I've heard of you. If you have business with
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me, mister Templer, i'd suggest you form my secretary for an appointment.
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Meanwhile, there's no subject on earth can keep me from going back to bed,
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not even the subject of four hundred thousand dollars. Mister Richie, what
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do you know about it? Nothing other than there were stolen from you,
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mister Ritchie. That happened seven years ago. The criminal John Quayley was caught,
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tried and convicted. Now your pardon, I Claily worked for you.
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I believe he was my head accountant, and the money was never found.
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No, Quairley drew twenty years in the penitentiary. He never revealed where the
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money was hidden until the day he died. Died, Yes, two weeks
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ago in prison. And now, mister Templar, if you don't mind,
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I need my rest, I won't detain you much longer, mister Richie,
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just one or two more questions. Well, did Craily have a wife?
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Yes, he did, if he knew he were dying in prison. It's
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quite possible he made an ey had to give word to her to tell her
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whether money was hidden. He may have made the attempt, but he couldn't
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possibly have succeeded. He was too closely watched her. After all, four
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hundred thousand dollars there's a lot of money, A lot of money yes,
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she could almost buy a second hand car with it. If I hadn't been
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fully covered by insurance, my firm would have gone under in the face of
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a loss that large. And now, mister Temple, if I might ask
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a question, why this sudden urgency is three o'clock in the morning business?
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An old man was tortured to death. Then a fellow named O'Brien, who
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came calling on the old man, was shot to death, but the story
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was killed. O'Brien told me he was tracking down four hundred thousand dollars that
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had been stolen. Oh, I see, yeah, Irons, and checking
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back over how many people have ever had that amount stolen from you? To
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me? And I wonder what I've led you to, mister Temper. I
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wonder, mister Richard, I wonder, Yes, what is this, missus
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Quayling? What do you want? Several things, missus Quayley, like what
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a murderer, You've got the wrong apartment, mister, an old automobile,
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no sale anything else. Maybe you'll buy this, missus Quayling. Colin's was
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murdered a little while ago. Colin, Oh, the old man. Why
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someone wanted his car? Someone who evidently couldn't wait any longer for the newer
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miles. So I thought, Colin's car in your garage, missus quaynn,
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maybe you better come in as ross coming careful. I don't like you,
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mister kneling together a frame and you're trying to put my picture into its.
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Colin sold me that car when night. I could have bought a Cadillac for
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cheaper, mister, but I wasn't in any position to haggle. I know
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what do you know what I want to find out? I know that Colins
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cars. The car is worth about twenty dollars, but it's something else.
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It's worth in the neighborhood four hundred thousand dollars. And you know that's an
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awfully nice neighborhood. Nice and exclusive chiselers aren't invited to move in. I've
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been gathering that impression all evening. Well, yeah, I'm a settle in
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Torch. Well there's mask a few chisels, your hammer deal wires. Either
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you've gone to work for Henry Kaiser as a hand that customarily rocks the cradle
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is going in for rocking a space. I had to go into a hardware
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store to make a phone call, and I just couldn't leave without buying a
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few things. Fortunate you didn't make your call in an establishment to sell steam
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rollers. See you have a set of licenses, you see too much from
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Colin's giloppe, aren't they lie? So that's how queerly smuggled out is.
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You're getting off the close to a bullet in your head. Mister, give
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me those places. Better not take the license plates with you. Yes,
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this is quin, It's just he got to play them. Don't let him.
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Oh suh? Where where when Johnny work chap chop? Of course squee
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uh Colin O Brian And now now I have three reasons for wanting to meet
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a certain party back. See he don't stop sometimes when it's so early in
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the morning, saying because I run the way back to the garage. What
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brings you out early? Mac? Looking for a drunk to row? Just
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looking for you, saint, just looking for you. See here what I
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got in my head? Oh they're going to that coy steak and you again,
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Mac? All right, throw at the gun. Well what did you
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want me to do? Come go? Turned handsprings quote Shelley played the thin
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You have to speak for it, Mac, very funny look out. It
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shouldn't speak for itself. Saint. I in the gun one. You should
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get in that dear car. You have a most persuasive way of offering a
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fellow a lift. Mac. Yeah, yeah, a lyft right now to
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lift. Later on it may grow into a ride. Come on, where
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are we going? Mac? Back to our little gray home. In the
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rear of the pool room, Saint fancy Dan Turner wants he should thank you
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for showing him a new trick. Oh, it really is necessary. He
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feels like it is, sat He feels like it is. He's got a
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couple of tricks. He wants to show you Black farm in a curt him
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turns waiting. He's got very little patience. Nice to have you back with
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a Saint. I mischief from the looks of that bandage on your skull,
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Turner, I bet you wish I'd missed you. Not now, I don't,
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Saint. It's a nice feeling having you here, knowing that I owe
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you something. I pay my debt, Saint, I pay off that.
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I know O'Brien was paid off, though with missus Quayley paid off with lead
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checks. Oh when I say that innocent expression for the jewelry. Turner,
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you need everything you've got. Well, when were they killed, Saint?
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Okay, i'll do it for you. They were killed an hour or two
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after I so abruptly left you before. Oh well, I'll have to find
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another pigeon, Saint my alibi? Fat? How fat? Turner City Hospital,
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having remember the Saint embroidered where acoustic hit me, and Smitty and Mack
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were there too to see me through it. Hospitals have record, Saint,
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we're clean, We're clean. Then you've got a competitor you don't know about,
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Turner. Yeah, looks that way. For a job that was supposed
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to be as simple as this one, I got too many competitors. Wonder
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how come who fingered the job for you? Turner? Who told you Quayley
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got word out to his wife about where the money was? I got nothing
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for you, Saint Smitty, wasn't it? Smitty just finished a stretch up
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the creek. My guess is he ran into Quayley. Maybe he shared to
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sell with him. Now. But in the jail hospital they met, Smitty
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worked there. Willie was dying off his nut. Smitty made him talk.
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Yeah, and Smitty not being mentally suited for solo works. Throwed the pitch
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to you, Turner, for the price, of course, for money on
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the line. Yeah, hen geez to buy in on a four hundred thousand
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jobs. Well what are you driving at? What are your picking Smitty's bones
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for? I was just wondering, Turner, how much O'Brien tad Smitty for
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his life of this exclusive information and how much your other competitors shelled out the
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one who happily goes around killing people? What do you mean, you ask
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me? Tourney your palace, NITTI is the sort of rap that even rats
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On wraps. He saw Crailey's secret three times that we know. Thanks for
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a handicapping it for me, sat If you're really grateful, Turney, you
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can return the favorite by telling me what time. It's just five fifteen in
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the morning, Saint, But you ain't going nowhere. I have a date
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to keep afore six, Turney with your competitive Yeah, Saint, that's what
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you're saying. Maybe not Danny, What do you say we play a little
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pool while we're waiting for the board. Get away from that pool table.
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I ain't playing any games with you saying maybe pool was the wrong game.
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How about a game of pitch and cat what I pitch like it and you
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catch it like that? Hate to leave you all by yourself there in the
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side pocket, but like I said, I have a date to keep.
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Well, mister Ritchie, get enough sleep. Despite my interruption, I wasn't
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really asleep, and you're called on me, mister Templar. I know,
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mister Ritchie, your hair was a little too carefully combed for a man who's
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been suddenly awakened and told he's having a fire. You're very clever, mister
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TEMpl not clever enough to catch you before you committed three murders. Well,
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you're a Smitty's silent partner. See what low company's gotten you into, Richie.
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Yes, I see four hundred thousand dollars buried in the siding of this
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elevator shaft. And for the help of this a settlement torch, it'll be
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all mine. A very ingenious fellow, Quilly, and I think the money
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never left this building, the place where Johnny was. Yes, he was
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ingenious. He's very smart of him to use his prison job making automobile license
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plates as a means of smuggling out the information to his wife. How did
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he do it? Richie, very simple template. There's an extra piece of
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thin metal in this particular plate, forming a sort of pocket. An inside
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the pocket a note on se red paper telling poor missus Quayley how to get
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the money. Of course, once he managed to tell her the number of
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the license plate, well the rest was easy, wasn't it. Yeah,
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all poor missus Quayley had to do was ask the Motor Vehicle Bureau to whom
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the plate was a sign mister Collins in this instance, or old fellow,
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mister Temple, would you mind joining me here in the chaft Piez, Yes,
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right on top of the elevator. I'd like to keep an eye on
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you while I finished burning out this metal petition. You see, I've only
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until six o'clock when this elevator is switched on downstairs. Oh well, I
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come, come in the shaft Fez. Well really, I have a gun,
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mister Templer. Oh well, that makes it official. Here we are,
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Temple. Mister Templer, I wouldn't want anything to happen to you,
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anything accidental, that is. You know, it's funny. I've known you
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such a short time, and I have exactly the same sentiments towards you.
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I've never been astride the top of an elevator before, Richie, and we're
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right near the top of the chef. Yes, I don't mean to worry
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you, Templar, but when this elevator power turns on in a few minutes,
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it will rise to the top before it descends. How's your treasure hand
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coming, Ritchie? Almost finished? One last strip of metal to cut away
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and the partition will come off. Then we'll decide. You're a fate,
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mister Templar, You're future. Here it goes a last blow. It's there,
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it's there. I see it. Four hundred thousand dollars in currency,
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Templar, think of it. Think of it. You think of it,
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Richie, and also think of how much blood was filled on it. Preaching
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Templar. You I never thought the elevator Richie. Maybe it came to work
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a little early today. My money, my money, Come on, Richie,
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come on, get off. No, there's still some money left here.
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I want it, I want it all all. Come on, we've
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got to get off. Jump Ritchie, jump out all my money. I
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want to see you fool all right. I yes, Richy, you saved
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your money, and you saved the States and money too. I'm sure you
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didn't plan on saving the cost of your execution. You have been listening to
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another adventure of the Saints, the robin Hood of modern Crime. Now Here
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is our star of Vincent Price. These immortal words of Avid, translated from
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the Latin, expressed quite well. Indeed the justice of our mister Ritchie's fate.
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Nor is there any juster law than that the contrivers of death should perish
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by their own contrivances. This is Vincent Price inviting you to join us again
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next week at this same time for another exciting adventure of the Saint. Good
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Night. Tonight's script of the Saint was written by Michael Kranwoy. Our cast
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included Loreene Tuttle, Barney Phillips, Tony Barrett, Bred Howard and Daniel Hurlehey.
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The music was composed and conducted by Harry Zimmermann The Saint of the James
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L. Safier production, and was transcribed and directed by Thomas A. Mcavini.
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All your Saints fans will be glad to know that the Saint's comic books
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are on. Say that, all New fans, you're announcer Merril Rodd.
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This is a mutual broadcasting system welcome back. Well, uh, not truly
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enjoyed this episode, and just a very enjoyable performance by Price, playing the
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Saint with equal parts humor, cleverness, and also a genuine concern for others.
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And this is one thing that does scent the Saint apart from most of
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the detectives we hear about. For most of them, crime is their business.
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For the Saint, it's generally going to be a personal interest in justice
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or righting wrongs, and they do a good job of taking us into the
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world. Now, one thing I did want to mention here, Well,
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first I should mention the previous episode, the lost episode was rare painting smugglers,
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but they've referenced both in this episode and in the last one. The
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Saint comic book. Now that comic book has actually fallen into the public domain,
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and if you like to read comics, you can download that from Digital
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Comic Museum dot com or just read it on the website. And I never
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read through the comics they have available there. And The Saint is actually a
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pretty interesting crime slash detective comic. And I'll post a link to it in
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the over at Great Detective's Facebook page. But the website is digital Comic Singular
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Museum dot com. And the Saint Comics were published by Avon and they were
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not to be confused with the Cosmetic Company. And there were twelve issues published
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between nineteen forty seven and nineteen fifty two, and there were a few comic
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book titles like that that were not published with regularity. Also find similar irregularity
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in the Abbot and Costello comic from Saint John Publishing. Well, that will
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do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with easy money, and
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then be sure and listen again next Monday for another episode of the Saint.
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