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Nick Carter: Death Behind the Scenes (EP1266) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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net. All right, well, now it's time for today's episode of Nick
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Carter. The tititle is death Behind the Scenes Matter. What is It's another
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case for Nick Carter, Master Detective. Yes, it's another case for that
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now for Today's mysterious Adventure with Nick Cutter. As today's story begins, we're
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backstage at the Republic Theater, where Charles Forrest is directing a rehearsal of his
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new play Lord Byron. But it will not be possible for us to live
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our lives as we want to. We must slip for those nearest and dearest
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to us. You're right, my darling, I see it all now.
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Nothing that may happen to us going to never change the fact that I love
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you, Love you with every fiber of my being, love you with a
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depth I never thought possible. Nothing will ever change that. And I feel
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the same way Robert and I always. Well, well, go on,
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miss David. She can't go on, mister Forest. That Hyma's Q.
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The letter as usually isn't here. Oh oh, that's a cue. I
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don't see why. We also have to wait until Paul Wymar condescends to honor
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us with his presence. We spend more time waiting for him to pick up
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his cues. The way to want aharse it, Take it easy, Dick,
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you don't have to go grinving about Whimer all the time. Oh,
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on stage, please, we're waiting for you. Coming, mister Forest.
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Just a moment coming, mister Forest. Why can't he stay here the way
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the rest of us? Do you forget it? Mister Paul Wyma is a
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great foreign start. Oie you're coming, Paul. Sorry to give you waiting,
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mister. Oh, what's happened? It's happened again. It's happened again.
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I can't go on? What is it, Paul? Another accident again?
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Someone tried to kill me? This time is a sand bag that drops
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almost on my heads badly? What's going on up there? Oh, mister
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Forest? Why holy sandbag? Must come on tied, I'll take care of
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I'm through. I give up. Things break when I sit in them,
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things fall over on me. And no, no, this bag drops on
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my head. I'm sure it was an accident. Paul. Come on,
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let's get on with this scene. We open in three days or why do
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not open in three days? Or ever? I'm through? Look, Paul,
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you can't quit on men now, it's too late. We're almost ready
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to Oh. I will not stay here and get killed, Paul. Suppose
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I get Nick Carter to come down here and find out what's going on.
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He can stop all these accidents you've been having. Well, that's satisfy you.
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You will get the great Nick Carter to make an investigation. I will.
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If you'll stay with me, he'll see that nothing more happens to you.
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Yes, mister ymer, mister Carter will protect Oh shut up? To
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take this is serious? Will you get to work? If I get caught
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down here, Paul, very well, I will cry it once more.
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But if there are any more of these accidents that nearly kill me, I
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shall go home and stay there. Carter or no Carton, All right,
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Patty, take over the rehearsal. I'm going to get Nick Carter right now.
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You say you're having trouble with a new playfest, I certainly am Carter.
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It's supposed to be the life of Lord Byron the Poet. So to
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play the lead. I brought an act river from Paris, a man named
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Paul Weimer. Looks almost exactly like Byron, and he's a good actor.
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Doesn't sound like troubles so far? Wait, never, since we started rehearsals,
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one accident after another has happened to Wimer. So that by this time
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he's getting so generated that I'm afraid he won't be able to go on with
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a play. Well, what kind of accident has posed Well? One time
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a heavy door almost fell on him, just missed him. Another time a
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chair he was sitting and collapsed under him, and send him to the hospital
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for three days with arranged back and so on. Today the final straw,
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a heavy sand bag counterweight, fell in almost on top of him as he
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crossed the stage. I don't blame him for being jittery, any idea.
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What's behind all these things? Either one of two things. Either somebody is
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trying to kill Paul or they're trying to scare him out of the show.
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There's only one person, as far as I know, who'd profit by getting
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rid of Paul. And who's that Richard Rowland, my American star. He
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was so upset at not being given the part of Baron that he swore he'd
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never like for me again, and suddenly he agreed to play the second lead.
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Who'd surprised me, even though it is a pretty fat role. And
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if Paul Weimer had to give up the role for any reason, I suppose
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Rowland would automatically step into the park. Yes, of course, it certainly
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gets rolling. Will you take the case? Nick? If you don't,
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I'm afraid Whimo will walk out on me. Contract or no contract. Why
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do you have your next rehearsal tomorrow morning at eleven o'clock If the rest of
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the scenery is hung and ready, all right, I'll be there ten thirty
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to look over the ground. Will you say to it that everything? I'll
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take it, Nick, Nicholas Krodg office. Yes, he's here just a
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minute. It's for you, mister p for me. Oh thanks? Hello?
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What? No, don't let anybody get away. Keep everything just as
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it is when we get there. Yes, I'm bringing him with me.
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Yes, yes, yes, right away. Goodbye. That was Betty,
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my assistant stage manager. Roland is supposed to fire a shot at Paul in
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the second leg, but when he fired just now, it wasn't a blanket,
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was real. That's why am I hurt? No? Fortunately, did
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the bullet missed him? Another accident? Yes? Another one? Heaven only
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knows what Wymy will do. Now let's get down there immediately. I want
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to start working on this before it's too late. Who wrote this day?
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You're doing this as one of the best known writers. But Lava, oh,
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very rich Man, a successful playwright write for his own amusement, didn't
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I read somewhere that he doesn't smoke, good drink and that he never married.
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Let's ride. He's a peculiar duck. What no weaknesses? No,
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there's a reason for that, Carter. He had a younger brother who went
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to Parish for training in art. He met a wild crew there, got
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to drinking and carrying on, and ended up in an insane asylum, where
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he died a year or two later. Lavan has never touched liquor or tobacco
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from that day to this well, I've enjoyed life for many years without smoking
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or drinking. This is later, yes, and they've spread my dormond waiting
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for us. Read. This is mister Carter, he's in charge now.
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I've read. Has anybody left here since the shoot? No, mister carr
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By, I've been out or in and through this way, Miss Cutter.
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Quiet fire, please, everybody, ladies and gentlemen. This is mister Nick
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Carter. He's in charge here now, and whatever he says goes. And
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that's Paul Weymer over there, mister Carter and Richard Rowland next to him.
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How are you doing? At first? I forget the facts, Roland.
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Suppose you tell me what happened? Well? In the second scene in the
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second act, Lord Byron is threatened by the husband of the lady to whom
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Byron's making love. I play the husband, and I'm supposed to shoot him.
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Instead of the old fashioned pistol we'll actually use in the play, we've
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been using a small automatic with blanks. When I fired it just now,
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it wasn't a blank, but a real bullet, fortunately, Miss Weimar.
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But I'm sorry to say. It's like a stage hand who just happened to
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be in the line of fire. Why is it badly hurt? No,
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it just scratched his cheek. Why's the gun you used right here on the
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table? H only one shell on it, and that's been fired. Rolling
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to his charge of this gun before it's given to you, Rogers the property
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man, get him, please, Rogers Rodgers on stage. Well, everybody,
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please take the same positions now that you were in when the shot was
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fired. This is about the way we were, mister Cartter. Good everybody
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here now with Betty, Betty, Betty righty here I saw stage making a
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full call and rolling fires. I'm staying outside now, okay, stay there
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for now? Where's the property man? Rodgers? Where are you here?
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I am Rogers? Where were you when the gun was fired in my property
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room? What can you tell us about this? Nothing? I loaded the
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gun same as usual with the plank. Anybody say you do it? Sure?
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Bradley the stage ham was with me. Then I left the gun on
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the table and went out to talk to Fred the doorman. And while you
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were gone, someone took out the blank and put in a real bullet.
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Could be I wouldn't know anybody see anyone near the property room while Rogers was
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not there? Oh, come on, speak up? Did you see anyone
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near the gun after it was loaded? Now listen, if you know something,
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speak up. This isn't acting. It's murder, mister Carter. Did
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you see anyone near the property room after the gun was loaded? Well,
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yes I did. My girlfriend and I were having a smoke behind one of
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the wings and we saw we saw well gone. Who went in there?
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I want in that to find a match. But I didn't touch the gun.
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Oh you did it on purpose, you jealous cattle whim. I don't
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stop calling me, You followed me on purpose. You want to play the
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leading roles? Do you think Roland could have done it? Me? No,
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it's too right Now, I'd like to have a look at the bullet
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that was fired from the gun. How could you find it? It could
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be anywhere in here? Oh no, it couldn't we care. It started
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from where Roland is standing, went across the stage to where the stage are
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understanding, must have gone through those two flats behind him and into the wall.
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Come on, now, we line up Roland and the holes in these
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plants. We should find sure, Nick, there it is in that big
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wooden. Yes, let me get my tweezers. I'll have that bullet out
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of there before you can see. That was easy, wasn't it, Patty?
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Look here, this bullet is a thirty eight. The stage gun is
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a thirty two. I mean that bullet didn't come from Rowland's gun. No,
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Petsy, whoever fired this bullet stood off stage and used the sound of
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Rowland's the gun to cover his own shot. That would be me, yes,
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Patsy, cold blooded, deliberate murder. How much longer you want these
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people, Miss Conna, Oh, let can go. I'm through with them
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for now. It's over to day Everyonemorrow morning at eleven shop. Mister Carter.
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Do you think I'll be safe now? Yes, you're safe enough for
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now, however, and I suggest you go to your hotel. I'll see
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you there later. I shall do it, thank you very much, mister
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cart Before you go, Carter, i'd like to have you meet our author
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all right, first, it was either one in the stage box on the
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other side. Yes, come on over, you'll like him. Mister Levan.
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I'd like you to meet mister Nick Carter gotter live on. How do
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you do? I don't oil. Have you learned anything, mister Carner?
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Yes, the gun Roland Huws was not the gun that fired the bullet that
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I know definitely. That means the shooting wasn't an accident. It means as
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the one who did the shooting had been a better marksman, wim, I
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would be dead right now. What's your next step, mister Carder. I
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think I'll go back to the office for a while and do a little thinking,
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and I'll drop in on Paul Weimar and see what his side of the
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story is. Shall we have dinner first? An excellent idea, Carter.
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I'll pick up my coat and be right with you. I'll let my things
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in the box I was sitting, and I'll get them. Enjoying you.
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I see outside, all right, Patsy, just have a look around while
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I wait? What is it? What's the shover corner? Pull over?
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Something? No, something fell over me. I started across stage and something
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knocked me over, almost knocked me out. What's going on in here?
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Mister Carter's had an accident? Another than accidents. That flop? What was
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on top of that pedestal? For some reason? The whole thing fell over
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on you? You all right? Color? Yes, yes, So let's
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get out of here before the roof falls in on us. Are you see,
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Patsy? It has to be that way? You say, every member
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of the cast is on stage when the shot was fired. Yes, they're
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all in plain sight of each other. And leave's only four persons as far
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as we know, who were backstage and who could have fired the off stage
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gun. Rogers, the property man, Fred the dorman, Bury, the
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stage manager, and the stage hand Bradley and Francis. Rogers was talking to
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him near the entrance, which gives both of them an alibi. Badly and
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Barry says he was telephoning, and we've found that a call was made from
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that phone at that time. It seems to let him out. And Bradley
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was shot by the bullet, so he couldn't have fired it. No,
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which accounts are all four of them? Which means there's something somewhere we don't
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know yet. That's one reason I want to talk to Wymar. He may
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be able to throw some light on the subject. Oh here you are,
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driver, Oh clerk Paul Reymers in two seven nine, isn't he? Yes?
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Shall I say? It's called? Well, never mind announcing this,
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we're expected. What the name is? You must be announced? The name
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is Nick Carter, and don't denounce it. But it's a road we can
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walk, Patty, it's only the second floor. Why didn't you want to
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be announced? Just second nature? They don't know why I'm coming to see
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them. They can't get ready to receive me. I like the element of
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surprise when I go calling officially room two seven nine. That must be right
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here? Well, Paul Weymer seems to attract trouble as honey attracts will be
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What has happened? Now? Are his unfortunate accidents not confined to the theater.
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And now back to our story. We left Nick and Patsy racing toward
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Paul Wymer's hotel room, from which are coming cries for help. We're going
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to get in there. He's in trouble. If I can open this door,
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hurry. You told me I wouldn't be safe here. What's happened?
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Man broke in through the window, try to strangle resin. Now he he
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heard you at the door. He ran into the bedroom, went out by
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the fire skate and here a fine thing. Even my tell I'm not safe.
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You never seen before? And he describe me, No, no,
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it was all too sudden. How long is this going on? I can
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stand it no more. Every days is something you will say you never saw
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the man? Who? What's that? That's only the telephone, mister Wymer.
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I want answer it? I want, I want it might be trouble.
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You better answer. Take the message Hello, mister Wymer's room is mister
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Wimer? There yes, but he can't answer the phone. Just now,
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May I take a message? Yes, telling mister Forrest called and wants mister
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Wimer to meet him and mister Wymer's dressing room at the theater at eight thirty
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tonight tonight. Are you sure of that? Yes? He was very specific,
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said something about some revisions in the play that had to be made tonight
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to be ready for rehearsal tomorrow. All right, I'll tell him, thank
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you? Or was it that news quick? Oh not at all, mister
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Wimer. That was the cliff downstairs. He said, mister Forrest wants to
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see you in your dressing room tonight at eight thirty, something to do with
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revisions in the play, and it must be tonight. Oh that does you
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relief? I must prepare myself to leave. You will excuse me. That's
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quite all right, mister Weimer. That's I must be running along anyway,
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see you tomorrow at rehearsal. Good night, good night, and thank you
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good night. Oh splendid, splendid. I could never range it better myself,
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Like, are you feeling all right? I'll never better, Patsy,
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never better. But why all the unconcealed jaw I'd expected this case would come
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to a head faster now that I was in it. But I hadn't hoped
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it would come quite so fast. The end is no one site passy.
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You go back to the office and wait for me. Where are you going
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to the theater? And I must get there before Wymar does if his life
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is to be safeguarded. Ay right, Rather keep the chaining, mister Carnor,
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Why Fred? What are you doing here this time of night? You
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have to guard the door twenty four hours a day, No, sir.
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Mister fire said he was expecting some crops about supper time, but they ain't
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come yet. Told me to wait for him, and I'm waiting. I
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say, go ahead. Oh has anybody been here recently? I know Brad
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was here about a half hour ago, but he only stayed a couple of
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minutes long enough to get something he forgot, that's all. Mister Forrest hasn't
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come down yet. No, he hasn't. Was he coming back tonight?
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I understood so, but I may be wrong. Oh is it okay to
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go in? I want to have a look at something, sure thing.
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I want some lights? No, thanks, I have my flash. Okay,
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watch yourself. Though this ought to be why I was dressing room A
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Caney was carrying a rehearsal this afternoon. Seems to be no concealed bombs of
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booby trips. I'm okay for now. Nothing to do now, but wait
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until he arrives. Mister cor What are you doing here? I'm here protecting
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your life, mister Wammer, whether you know it or not. But mister
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Forest, mister first knows nothing about this. The call you got came from
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the would be murderer. I wanted to get you down here so we could
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finish his job tonight. Finish his job. How what do you mean?
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That's what I want you to tell me. Or before you touch anything or
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sit down, look around this dressing room. What do you see that doesn't
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look natural? In here? Not look natural? What do you mean?
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Or anything out of place? Something here that shouldn't be here? Something missing?
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Oh? I see no? Yes, yes, someone who's been smoking
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my cigarettes. I left nearly a fresh peck here I remember. Now,
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Look there are only two cigarettes left. Yes, I might have expected that.
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Will you have one? No? Neither wi you unless you want to
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die fast? I don't understand. Wait, yes, these cigarettes have been
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treated with a deadly drug. One's so rare that he could only get enough
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for two cigarettes. That's why the rest of the pack is missing, so
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he'd be sure to be killed almost at once. That, mister Wimer,
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was why you received the message to beat mister Forrest in your dressing room.
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You'd smoke at least one cigarette while you waited, and that one would be
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your finish. But who wants to do this to me? And why?
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I know the answer now, but I'd rather not say until I can produce
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the killer himself. As soon as I can. You win a hearing metal,
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you'll never leave. Sorry, I had to shoot out the lights,
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but I didn't want him to hit you here. Mister Carter, are you
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there? What is it that this happens to here? Wimmer? You're safe
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for the moment. I want to stop that man or just ran off.
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Your life's in danger as long as he's Where are you going, mister cart
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Sit tight, I'll be right back pret prett. Yes, mister Carter,
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did I hear some shoes? Did it? Who was it? Just ran
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out here? Nobody? But he went out some way. I heard him
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slam the door. He must have gone out that little back door up behind
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the dressing room. Mean, this isn't the only way out of this theater
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backstage? Oh no, there's that other little door, but that's supposed to
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be get locked all the time, and that leads out to the other street.
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Oh I see, Well, where's your telephone right there in the office,
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mister Carr. Good, Let me make one phone call and I'll show
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you a what be killer? But I tell you you can't do this to
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me. Maybe we can't, but we are, so just hype down.
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Why won't you tell me what I'm accused of? Because I don't know.
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I'm acting under orders from that is I'm doing what Nick Carter is a kissed
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and Nick's a pretty clever guy, if I do say so. So you
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get those kind words, Raley, Well, where the juice have you been?
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We've been waiting here in my office. Yes, I know, I
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know, I know. I came as soon as I could. I got
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in a little traffic jam. Well there he is. He picked him up
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just as he came in his hotel. Love me just like you said.
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Now, what do we do with him? He's the man who's been trying
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to kill Paul Weimer and almost excited tonight that's a lie, isn't What did
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they have in his pockets? Rally? Oh will you hear it? You
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sneak use the usual stuff, Yes, the usual stuff, but not with
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the usual implications. Yeah, never mind those two dollars words here? What
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do you see there that's so interested? These lose cigarettes? For instance,
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there must be about ten or twelve there, about half a pack, and
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that Paul Weimer's brand We're too hot, and this little box. Rally,
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if you'll have your chemist examine these two cigarettes that were left in Wymer's dressing
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room, I believe you'll find them full of the same drug that was in
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this box. Londartly find traces of it there, now, sure we'll know
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you begin to make send. This is all a pack of lies, a
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frame up. It isn't either, and you know it. I am willing
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to bet that your fingerprints around the door knob with the little back door where
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you made your hasty exit from the theater tonight listen, together with a few
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prints belonging to your assistant, Bradley the stage hand. And I imagine that
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Bradley will be very willing to talk when he finds he's up on an attempted
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murder charge. All right, color you win? I did it. I
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hate that man Weimar, But why should you hate him? Sold missus Levan
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because he was the leader of the gang in Paris who helped my brother drink
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himself into the insane asylum in the grave. He was more to blame than
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my poor brother, who knew no better. I wrote this play, Lord
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Byron, just to get him over here where I could work on him.
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I suggested him to Forrest as the man for the part, and Forrest fell
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for us. Why didn't you kill him and be done with it? I
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wanted him to suffer as my brother suffered. But when you got into the
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case, Carter, I knew I had to finish it up quicker because Bradley
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let you into the theater night to the little back door, didn't he?
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Yes, it was Bradley who phoned the message to Wyman to get him to
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come down to the theater. And it wasn't yes. And it was Bradley
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who worked the backstage accidents after you had planned them, wasn't he Yes?
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Yes, yes, he thought it was all part of a practical joke.
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He didn't know I intended to kill it all right, all right, what's
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your language? Now? Who's the needy prisoned you? I thought everybody forgotten
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about me being over here in the corner. I was just sitting here listening.
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You fired that shot during the rehearsal, didn't you, Levan? Yes?
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And I wished I had aimed straighter. How come you hit the stage
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hand pure accident. I didn't even see him until after i'd fired, and
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in away it saved us from suspecting he had a hand on these things,
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because it didn't make sense that he should get shot if he was in it.
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But after a while, when I we got to see things where they
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were going, I saw it could be nobody but you working with his help.
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Nick. Yes, Betsy, I ask a question, Oh, yes,
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Patsy one, little one. Did you see who shot at Wymer in
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the theater tonight? No, it was all too fast. And how did
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you know it was mister Levane? Well, even before I got to Wymar'
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dressing room tonight, I felt quite sure that Levan was guilty. And then
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when I entered the room and found that it smelled very strongly of that highly
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scented odor cologne that Levan uses, I was positive. Ah, they gunning
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you right here, Ni sui. He smells like a perfume counter with the
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fa and Dame decidedly that was the first thing I noticed about him when I
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met him earlier today. That was his only weakness, wasn't it his excessive
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use of that scented out of cologne. Well maybe so, Patsy, But
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as far as I'm concerned, attempted murder is also a weakness, one that
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has to be punished. In just a moment, Nick and Patsy will bring
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from Nick Carter himself. Well, Nick, what's your story about next week?
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Next time, Ken, I'm going to tell you about an experience that
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Patsy and I had in one of the great movie studios. Set it out
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very simply, when the studio lost a reference book containing information about all kinds
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of poisons. You could look in that book and find out just what poisons
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to use for anything you wanted. It was much too dangerous a book to
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be at large. The unfortunate part of it was that I was called in
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too late to save the man, whose body we found a few minutes later.
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But we did save the old man, Nick. That hadn't been for
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you, he'd save me been killed. That's true enough, Betsy. What
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do you call a story, Nick, I call it Death at the Studio
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or the Mystery of the Murder Book. That's all for now. So long,
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So long everybody, and so long to both of you until next week.
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We'll look forward to seeing you then, same as usual next week.
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back. I could have sworn that I'd heard Nick mentioned smoking somehow in this
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episode. That may reflect a change in writers and also of you that with
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kids in the audience, you may not want to be seen as promoting smoking,
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which is an interesting thing because a lot of people had that idea even
31:12
prior to Surgeon General warnings. George Reeves, who played Superman, famously gave
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up smoking because he didn't want to set a bad example for kids. Now
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on to some listener comments and feedback, and we'll go ahead, and we'll
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start with Jill who writes in thank you for the wonderful entertainment. Thanks so
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much, Jill. And also Joan emailed in with a question said, I
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cannot remember what the name of the series with the man who played the man
31:44
who looked like Shakespeare. Well, the series as the Adventures of le Auditus
31:49
Witherall and the actor was mister Walter Hamden, a very great New York actor.
31:56
Also had justin say the Thinmoves who asked the thin Man series movie series
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started from radio. I've seen all the Thinman movies and I love miRNA Lloy
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and William Powell duo. Well, thanks to the question, Justin, and
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answer to your question. Thinman actually began from a book by Dashel Hammett and
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then subsequently became a movie and then went on to radio. And we have
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all the radio episodes of The Thinman. We did those at the start of
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season two, so you can check those out in our archives at the archives
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dot Great Detectives dot net, the same place you can find the Adventures of
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Leatitis Witherall. All right, well, that will do it for today.
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We will be back tomorrow with yours truly, Johnny Doller, and then join
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us back here next Thursday for Nick Carter. In the meantime, send your
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