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Ellery Queen: One Diamond (EP1672) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: for today's episode of the Adventures of Ellery Queen. The
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  Speaker 1: original air date is May sixth of nineteen forty eight
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  Speaker 1: and the title is One Diamond Ellery Queen.
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  Speaker 2: In the interests of a safe for American homes, a
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  Speaker 2: happier American community, a more United States, the American Broadcasting
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  Speaker 2: Company and it's affiliated stations bring you Ellery Queen, celebrated
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  Speaker 2: fighter of crime. As usual, Ellery invites you to match
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  Speaker 2: wits with him as he relates the mystery, and before
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  Speaker 2: revealing the solution, he gives you.
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  Speaker 3: A chance to solve it. Tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Ellery's guest Armchair Detective who will represent you home Armchair
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  Speaker 2: Detectives is the popular vocalist Miss Peggy Lee and now
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  Speaker 2: here's Ellery Queen, your host for the next half hour.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Paul Masterson, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight we meet mister Mark Gallows who played a very
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  Speaker 4: dangerous game. I call it one Diamond. And this is
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  Speaker 4: Miss Eve Angel.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Queen.
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  Speaker 6: How do you do?
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  Speaker 5: How do you do? Mister Queen?
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  Speaker 6: Won't you sit down, Miss Angel?
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  Speaker 5: I'd love it?
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  Speaker 6: The note sneaky Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Is this your secretary? Yes?
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  Speaker 4: I'm his secretary, the miss Angel, Miss Portery. And what
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  Speaker 4: can I do for you? Miss Angel?
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  Speaker 7: Mister Queen, I've come to invite you for the weekend
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  Speaker 7: the home of my employer.
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  Speaker 4: I'm tempted to say this is so sudden. Isn't there
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  Speaker 4: some mistake?
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  Speaker 7: Oh no, I'm sure, mister Queen. You've heard of Mark Gallows.
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  Speaker 6: Mark Gallows, you work for Gallows.
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  Speaker 5: I'm mister Gallows secretary. The Gallows Diamond what NICKI? The
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  Speaker 5: Gallows diamond, Mallery, It's not been publicly displayed for how
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  Speaker 5: long is it, Miss Angel?
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  Speaker 7: Forty or fifty years? That's the Gallows. You are an
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  Speaker 7: efficient secretary in Miss Porter, aren't you. I do my
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  Speaker 7: little best, Miss Angel.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't get this, miss Angel. I've never met
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  Speaker 4: mister Gallows. Why should he invite me for a.
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  Speaker 5: Weekend because I asked him to?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm to be your guest.
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  Speaker 5: In a way?
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  Speaker 4: What NICKI and nothing?
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  Speaker 5: Just what will you come?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Could he go to your weekend off?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: No, Nikki, you're coming with me for notes? Yes, for notes?
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  Speaker 5: Do come to miss Porter for notes Froaday afternoon, mister
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  Speaker 5: queen at the Riverdalo.
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  Speaker 4: Miss Angel, why did you ask mister Gallows to invite me.
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  Speaker 3: See you Friday?
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  Speaker 4: Interesting?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, isn't she?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 4: No, I mean the invitation, Nikki. Of course this is
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  Speaker 4: Gallows doing not her idea at all.
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  Speaker 5: Want to bet.
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  Speaker 4: Don't be silly, Nikki. There's skulduggery involved. Is Gallows the
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  Speaker 4: type Mark Gallows?
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  Speaker 6: Don't you know anything about.
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  Speaker 5: Him, Nikky, Just that he's one of the richest men
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  Speaker 5: in America.
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  Speaker 4: He's a misophobe hosophog afflicted with mysophobia, Nikki, morbid fear
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  Speaker 4: of dirt.
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  Speaker 5: Dirt.
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  Speaker 4: Gallows is supposed to have a gold plated washstand in
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  Speaker 4: every room he commonly uses so that he can wash
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  Speaker 4: his hands on a second notice. You're kidding, Well, that's
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  Speaker 4: the story. Buys germicides by the gallon, picked strange objects
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  Speaker 4: up with a specially sterilized tissue.
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  Speaker 5: Must be rough on his wife.
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  Speaker 6: No, fortunately he's not married.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder what's behind this invitation?
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  Speaker 5: A two legged word spelled.
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  Speaker 6: Oh no, no, Niki, she's just date.
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  Speaker 5: I'll answer.
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  Speaker 6: Never mind, Nikki, I'll go. Yes, nobody here.
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  Speaker 4: Who is.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, hllerie, what was that? That sounded just like a
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  Speaker 5: ship ry? No?
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  Speaker 3: But thinking outside?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's a fool, inspector.
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  Speaker 3: You're not getting out of this bed, elly, and that's that.
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  Speaker 6: But I'm all right, all right.
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  Speaker 3: With a bullet wound in your eyes.
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  Speaker 6: It's nothing, just a flesh wound. You heard the doctor.
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  Speaker 5: It's that woman, that's what it is.
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  Speaker 6: It's not that woman at all, Niki.
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  Speaker 4: It's the whole thing.
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  Speaker 8: You think the attempt on your life is connected with
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  Speaker 8: the invitations.
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  Speaker 4: When I'm shot at within two minutes, Dad, of course
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  Speaker 4: somebody followed Eve Angel, guessed her purpose and tried to
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  Speaker 4: rub me out. Why to keep me from going to
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  Speaker 4: the gallows place this weekend, Nikki? Which is why I'll
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  Speaker 4: be there. If I have to go in an.
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  Speaker 5: Ambulance and come back in ahearse ellery be censor still shakecase.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going you're not.
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  Speaker 8: I won't let you ellery why gosh, I'm still your father,
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  Speaker 8: and you'll do it, I say.
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  Speaker 4: And this is the gold room, mister Queen, really royal,
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  Speaker 4: Miss Angel.
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  Speaker 5: That is a wash. Yes, Miss Porter.
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  Speaker 7: By the way, when you meet Mark, I suggest you
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  Speaker 7: don't offer to shake hands germs.
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  Speaker 5: You know germs.
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  Speaker 6: I suppose we all have them.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go out under the terrace. I want you to meet.
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  Speaker 7: Mark's other house guests.
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  Speaker 4: Be delightful.
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  Speaker 7: We have a sort of international house here this weekend,
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  Speaker 7: mister Queen. Oh really, Mirk and I Americans, Sidney daf Brown,
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  Speaker 7: the Englishman, Cornelius van Cleek of Holland, and Reginald Doss
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  Speaker 7: who's an Anglo Indian queen.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing this Angel, you bought my sore arm.
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  Speaker 7: I am sorry, shot shot. Oh dear, no, I'll have
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  Speaker 7: to be so careful not to let you get romantic.
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  Speaker 5: Mister.
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  Speaker 7: By the way, before we go out there, when you
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  Speaker 7: meet mister Brown, mister Vanlake and mister daw could you
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  Speaker 7: act just a little mysterious just to impress them, No, great.
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  Speaker 4: Detective, would it make you happy? Miss Angel?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Very then I'll do my best.
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  Speaker 5: This is going to be such an exciting week. Shall
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  Speaker 5: we go out?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I think that would be a good idea this way.
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  Speaker 5: Oh there they are, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 8: Ah, George, I didn't know we were going to have
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  Speaker 8: any competition.
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  Speaker 7: Miss Porter and mister Queen. Mister Reginald does.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Cornelia's.
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  Speaker 7: And mister Sydney Brown.
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  Speaker 5: I'll tax something for miss that's right, mister vanre Mackey for.
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  Speaker 3: Watch van Fleet. Miss Porter, he's a lady killer or
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  Speaker 3: she thinks he don't mind.
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  Speaker 4: What do you do, Miss Quarter? Except the beautiful I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I work for mister Queen here.
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  Speaker 3: In trade, hy George, incredible?
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  Speaker 4: Is an amazing country, not half so amazing as NICKI.
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  Speaker 4: Mister d I really don't know what I'd do without
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  Speaker 4: her working.
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  Speaker 5: For mister Queen.
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  Speaker 9: Isn't really being in trade, mister Brown, No, definitely not.
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  Speaker 9: See he is ellery Queen, the famous detective detective. Really
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  Speaker 9: your drink, mister Queen, Oh thank you very much.
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  Speaker 7: Oh I'm sorry, Miss Quarter, I forgot yours. What can
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  Speaker 7: I get you?
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  Speaker 5: Not a thing? Thank you the detective, mister Queen.
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  Speaker 3: This is exciting. I quite agree with mister Da Are
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  Speaker 3: you here socially mister Queen, or are you after one
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  Speaker 3: of us?
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  Speaker 4: Why, mister van Cleek, do you gentlemen have guilty consciences?
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  Speaker 5: Oh dear, yes, Mark, is that that.
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  Speaker 4: Fellow queen out there? Bring him in?
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  Speaker 5: Here is mister Gallows in the habit of referring to
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  Speaker 5: all his guests as best fellow.
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  Speaker 4: Mind Nick, If you, gentlemen will excuse us back through
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  Speaker 4: this terras door, miss Angel.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, miss Angel. There's something very strange going on
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  Speaker 5: where you come this way, got in here.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to do something about Reeves. He put my
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  Speaker 4: newspaper on my desk without spraying at first.
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  Speaker 5: I'll discharge him right away. Mark here, I'll get you
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  Speaker 5: a don't touch it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, so this is the famous salary Queen and my secretary,
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  Speaker 4: miss Porter.
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  Speaker 5: How do you do?
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid Queen, We've rather put the one over on you,
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  Speaker 4: have you.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Gallows?
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  Speaker 5: It does seem such a waste.
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  Speaker 4: Mark, He's so then you were baited, all right, mister Gallows.
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  Speaker 4: Now that you've got me here, what next, my queen?
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  Speaker 4: Now you leave what that's right? He served his purpose,
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  Speaker 4: my girl. You'll please leave now, Queen.
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  Speaker 5: So this way out, you're going to stand here?
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  Speaker 4: Elect mister Gallows.
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  Speaker 5: Oh dear, he's going to be difficult.
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  Speaker 4: There's no difficulty Eve that can't leave smoothed out the
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  Speaker 4: little money then me and Bill Queen, whatever your fee is,
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  Speaker 4: I don't charge fees. No, what do you live on? Nuts?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know exactly what double dealing intrigue you've whipped
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  Speaker 4: up here, mister Gallows.
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  Speaker 6: But certain things are fairly obvious.
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  Speaker 4: Are eh? It's interesting, Queen. What's obvious? You're the owner
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  Speaker 4: of one of the most famous diamonds in the world.
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  Speaker 4: You have three house guests, mister Duff Brown of England,
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  Speaker 4: mister Das of India and mister Van Cleek of Holland.
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  Speaker 6: England is the.
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  Speaker 4: Spearhead of the world's diamond trade. India's Maharajas are the
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  Speaker 4: world's greatest collectors of precious stones. Holland is the capital
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  Speaker 4: of the world's lapidaries. I'd say Duff Brown, Das and
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  Speaker 4: Van Cleek are here to buy your diamond mister Gallows. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: mister Queen.
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  Speaker 5: Why were suddenly all polite?
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  Speaker 6: Why you scheme to have me put in an appearance here?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, But would it interest you, mister Gallows,
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  Speaker 4: to learn that within minutes of Miss Angel's visit to
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  Speaker 4: my home, I was shot at with intent to kill
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  Speaker 4: your arm marks. I can't have anything to do with me.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody didn't want me to show up here. Mister Gallows.
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  Speaker 4: You're a writer, aren't you? Yes, this is real life.
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  Speaker 4: Get out, mister Gallows, you're an idiot. Come on, Nikki, excellent, excellent, Brandy,
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad you like it. General, go out there and
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  Speaker 4: close the door and stand in front of it. Keep
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  Speaker 4: those along, those flunkies of mine away. Do you understand
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  Speaker 4: you're going to Oh but I wanted to see it,
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  Speaker 4: e I said, get out of me.
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  Speaker 5: All right, man, gentlemen, will you excuse me? No, don't
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  Speaker 5: bother to get up? Please have fun.
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  Speaker 4: Well, gentlemen, I kept a very odd feeding make on
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  Speaker 4: flare that this is a great moment. Hadn't you better
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  Speaker 4: have someone locked that doors high estate as well, patrolled
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  Speaker 4: that brown that you don't look very interested, which is
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  Speaker 4: an old story with me, mister Gallas. W is it then?
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  Speaker 4: Look at this as one hundred and sixty two and
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  Speaker 4: three quarters, mister ven larger than the porter road from
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  Speaker 4: Kimberly and of justice final water, that brown nay I
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  Speaker 4: examine this, mister Gallows certainly does, certainly does.
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  Speaker 5: Let me see that.
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  Speaker 4: Have one moment, mister Brown Gallows clos hey, my father's
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  Speaker 4: wedding gift to my mother. Very sentimental man. My father
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  Speaker 4: is well provided that the stone mustn't be touched for
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  Speaker 4: twenty five years after my mother's death. They've been a
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  Speaker 4: great trialph tony gentleman, very unpredicted. Money gathers money at diamonds,
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  Speaker 4: gather dust as you like it, mister Gallows.
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  Speaker 7: It is quite the most supper of the imitation I
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  Speaker 7: have ever seen imitation.
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  Speaker 8: Say click, stop pushing, Why George, it's not genuine.
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  Speaker 3: This is a justice, Gallows. I have come all the
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  Speaker 3: way from on.
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  Speaker 4: This is an exact copy, worthless, of course, but sufficient
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  Speaker 4: for you, gentlemen to base your bid.
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  Speaker 3: Done when maybe see the genuine stone.
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  Speaker 4: It won't be exhibited. Then click until I get what
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  Speaker 4: I consider a selling bid confirmed by the principle for
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  Speaker 4: whom you're acting as agents.
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  Speaker 8: I can't say, mister Gallows, I feel entirely comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: I've never had my integrity question before.
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  Speaker 4: No, right, I'm sorry, I have to be careful, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: You forced me to show my hand what do you mean, sir,
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  Speaker 4: that fellow queen, the detective whom I head, Miss Angel
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  Speaker 4: invite a few days ago for the weekend. Actually, she
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  Speaker 4: engaged him in my behalf to check up.
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  Speaker 10: On you, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: Will what does your mean? Queen came here today to
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  Speaker 4: tell me the result of his investigations. He tells me
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  Speaker 4: that one of you was a frog dam and pasta yes,
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  Speaker 4: and in international jewel thief? Who's here with forged credentials?
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  Speaker 10: Can you blame me for being careful? You should have
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  Speaker 10: seen their faces.
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  Speaker 4: You're so clever you think I'm not. I get a
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  Speaker 4: kick out of this sort of thing, eat out smiling them.
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  Speaker 4: You don't know these fellows the way I do. They're
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  Speaker 4: canny trader if they think that.
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  Speaker 5: But they won't this case, why.
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  Speaker 4: They'll fall all over themselves proving.
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  Speaker 6: They're not fakes.
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  Speaker 4: Each one a rush to make his bidden present me
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  Speaker 4: with confirming authority from his principle. Things are going to
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  Speaker 4: hum around here, darling. And I'll bet you I get
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  Speaker 4: twenty percent more for the diamonds.
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  Speaker 11: Mark.
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  Speaker 4: But look at this, eh, it's that child's grip of favor.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, what is it?
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  Speaker 5: Take it?
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  Speaker 4: Readly? What's the matter? With you, wait till I spray it.
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  Speaker 5: So you invented the story that one of them is
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  Speaker 5: a crook? Did you one? Of course all the time
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  Speaker 5: they're all honest.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, where'd you
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  Speaker 4: find this? Eve?
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  Speaker 5: Living room?
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  Speaker 9: Fireplace?
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  Speaker 5: It just missed getting burned?
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  Speaker 7: Of course it doesn't say much Wit a minute.
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  Speaker 4: This is the beginning of a letter to me. I
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  Speaker 4: didn't see this, neither did I, mister gall We regret
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  Speaker 4: that I represented. It has been delayed, will not be
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  Speaker 4: able to arrive in the United States until May fifteenth
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  Speaker 4: to inspect the Gallows.
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  Speaker 12: Die Eve, Eve, My life was true. One of them
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  Speaker 12: is an impostor. Where's the rest of this Eve?
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  Speaker 5: Talk?
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  Speaker 4: Talk with you? The envelope? The rest of the letter
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  Speaker 4: I had? Who is this from? Which one does this from?
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  Speaker 5: You have another attack?
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  Speaker 12: One of them intercepted the man this morning. He must
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  Speaker 12: have been watching for this the letter. Maybe the rest
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  Speaker 12: of the letters in the fireplace.
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  Speaker 5: Wait a minute, I searched the ashes. This is always left.
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  Speaker 4: Keep Queen on the phone.
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  Speaker 5: Ellery, Queen, but Mark, he will come now after the Queen.
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  Speaker 3: Mark Gallows that.
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  Speaker 6: He kept calling me all night Nikki before he.
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  Speaker 5: Wouldn't tell me that he had to see you one
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  Speaker 5: right away?
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  Speaker 4: Did you tell the great mister Gallows that Dad and
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  Speaker 4: I were out all night on another case? Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Do you want me to call him?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 6: No, Nikki, anything interesting in the mail this morning?
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  Speaker 5: I haven't finished.
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  Speaker 6: We see bill find letter special delivery.
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  Speaker 5: Special delivery.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't notice that allri from Mark Gallows.
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  Speaker 5: Some Gallows.
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  Speaker 4: Apparently mister Gallows is in a tizzy. Let's see here,
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  Speaker 4: mister queen, You've got to help me. One of my
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  Speaker 4: guests is an impostor. What huh? He used me, Nikki
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  Speaker 4: to scare Das, Duff Brown and Van Clique into thinking
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  Speaker 4: one of them was an impostor to force a quick sale,
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  Speaker 4: and then, by gosh, you found out one of.
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  Speaker 3: Them really is.
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  Speaker 4: Exposed. The impostor. Protect the diamond till the sale goes through.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: And mister Queen, I'll pay you ten percent of the
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: sales price as a fee.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: Don't you dare turn him down? I need to raise
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: that way.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: The diamond has been buried on my Riverdale estate for years.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: I enclose a copy of my original map showing the
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: hiding place. If anything should happen to.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Me garnet and I'll take it. Hello, Oh, inspector, let
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: me Oh yes ellery, Yes.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Dad, your friend Gallows?
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Gallows, Yes, what's happened?
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Committed suicide?
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: Suicide, mark bad, Keep everything the way you found it.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: I'm coming right up there. Committed bad sight unseen. He
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: was murdered, Nicky, come on, you're man down murder. I'm sorry, Dad,
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: it's murdered.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: I don't know how you can say that, Eller, neither.
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: Do I man found hanging from a rafter and not
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: a clue to a second past.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: Look at this rope he was hanged with.
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: What about it? Rope comes from this barley. It's filthy,
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: it's what he's phobia.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: That's it, Nikki.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: That Gallows suffered from a morbid fear of dirt. Now
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: there were two ropes in this barn, this dirty one
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: here and that clean one hanging over there. Even approaching death,
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Gallows would have used the clean one if he was
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: going to hang himself. All right, Gallows was strung up, Daddy,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: and almost certainly by one of those three diamond buyers.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: The impost impastor what impostor?
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: No doubt about it, Nikki, No doubt about what I'm
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: afraid we're a little ahead of you on this one. Dad.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Are Van Cleek, Das and Duff Brown still here? Yeah?
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: I better hold them here for a while and keep
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: them out of my way.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Why what are you going to go? Dad? You wouldn't
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: believe me if I told you I came?
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Are you man? One of you watched the body the
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: rest of your current Ellari?
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: What are you going to do?
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Mister Gallows?
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Over? Uh?
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: Turn around?
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: Nikki?
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: Oh what are you looking for?
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Gallows sent me a copy of the map? Where would
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: he keep the original? I'd say it's even Betty carried
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: it on him, Nikki?
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: In a secret pocket?
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Yes? Or here?
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: What leather pouch around his waist next to the skin?
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: He is it in there?
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: No, it's empty.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: His killer took the map?
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Yes, but how would the killer know about the map? Nikki?
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: Do you think you can stand a look at Gallow's face?
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Awfully dead looking and dirty?
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: See here, Nikki, dirt around his mouth?
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: I think our diamond hunter tortured Gallows into telling his secret.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: By putting dirt in his mouth.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: His phobia really nasty, Nicky?
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: Why are you looking at the copy of the map?
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: Or killer has the original must have dug up the diamond.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Let's take a look anyway, shall we?
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: Maps very pleasure? Why didn't he puts the blasted ball
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: in a bank.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Or where it? For long?
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: I think this is exciting, There.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Is something gold buggish about it, NICKI. Well let's see.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Uh huh, I think this is it?
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: Where this tree?
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Dad? It's our starting place here. Look at Gallow's map.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Yes, so this tree go go south and then due west,
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: and X marks the spot wonderful due south due west?
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: How far?
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: I says, ten on the first leg and ten on
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: the second? Ten mile?
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: I don't be sarcastic instructor, not miles or feet or
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: inches either, because then it wouldn't be far enough to
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: cross that brook. And the south leg on the map
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: does cross the brook.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Right, NICKI? Therefore it must mean yards, Dad. Let me
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: have that compass and yardstick with you. Yeah, yo, sigh?
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: Which is this way?
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: One yard? Who? Hey?
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: Look at this, Nikki, I sort of trail in the grass.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Al ray, See this trail I saw, Dad? I'm right
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: on it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Hell has been here before us, didn't I tell you?
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Ellery try it?
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Come on, Nick?
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: Here?
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Watch it? Brother?
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: Oh gosh, I'm getting all wet ary razor.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: It's a again, and this is the end of the
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: ten yards dad, But.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: The trail keeps going allery in the same direction.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Uh huh.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: Another yard?
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Keller went eleven yards do south? Yeah, and then he
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: turned west two three or in parallel with.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Your rule a yard away. I don't understand how far
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: is the map that you've got to go west?
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Another ten yards? Nine? Ten?
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: But the killer's trail keeps going so here go catch
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: I know that, yeah, exactly again he went eleven yards
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: instead of ten. Honey, Wait what is it, dad?
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Lray come here on this spot, the end of the
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: ten yards west, so we don't lose it.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: X marks the spot. Oh does it?
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: What that look here? Somebody dug here then filled up
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: the hole.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: He found it. So that map we've been following must
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: be wrong.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: John, We sure it must be wrong. After all, he
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: had the.
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: Original Gallas must have deliberately falsified the figures on the
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: map he sand too well.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: I doubt it. Maybe the killer didn't find the diamond.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: Maybe he was wrong, and we're right.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Only one way to find out, son.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Uh huh. Mickey had me that shovel.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: When you strike water ellery let me know.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: No sign of anything yet, not yet?
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Do wait.
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: Here it is the diamond.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, the metal box pretty well chewed up too, Dad,
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: give me your hand up.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Just a rusty old box.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: I think it's so eating away it'll give without much trouble.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Dame Oh smokes, is that real?
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: It's real, nicky.
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: They killer knocked off old gallows for nothing, dugg in
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: the wrong place.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah well, now let's go back to the house and
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: finish this off. And there you have our mystery for
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: the night. Nikki, would you please introduce our very lovely
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: and charming guest armchair detective for our listeners.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, meet Miss Peggy Lee, the popular vocalist
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: who has made Maniana and her Capitol Records album Rendezvous
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: with Peggy Lee, both of which have set the public
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: humming and dancing.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Welcome Peggy to the armchair. Say you know, it's too
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: bad that we don't have a little more time. Then
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: we could hear you sing one of the songs from
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: that Rendezvous with Peggy Lee album, which you.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Did in cooperation with your husband, Dave barber.
• 25:25
  Speaker 11: Well ellery Right now, I'm too nervous to sing anything.
• 25:29
  Speaker 11: I've never been a detective before in this case tonight
• 25:31
  Speaker 11: as missing the dominadd you know what I mean.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid you're just jesting Peggy. Anyway, what about our case?
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Tell me? Have you figured out who hanged Mark Gallows? Well?
• 25:43
  Speaker 11: I couldn't say exactly. I couldn't exactly name one person.
• 25:47
  Speaker 11: But I think that Eve Angel had something to do
• 25:50
  Speaker 11: with it because she knew all about his sphere of dirt,
• 25:53
  Speaker 11: and I think that she probably was the only one
• 25:56
  Speaker 11: who could intercept the letter that was partly burned, and
• 25:59
  Speaker 11: also that she was the only one who would know
• 26:01
  Speaker 11: about the map, and he may have told her the
• 26:04
  Speaker 11: wrong directions.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: That's a very interesting refection. And thank you very much,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Peggy Lee. We'll find out in just a moment if
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: your solution is correct. Now here's Paul Masterson.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: What's the picture for your pocketbook in five, ten, fifteen years.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: It depends in large part upon the use to which
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: you put your money today. Buying United States Security bonds
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: today serves two important purposes. It takes out of circulation
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: money which would compete with somebody else's for scarce commodities.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: The second important reason for buying bonds is to make
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: sound investments your plans for the future, whether you want
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: something set aside to make leisure time enjoyable, whether you
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: want to establish a business of your own or send
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: your children to college, there is no better way to
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: ensure those plans than to buy United States Security bonds today.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: I will not be held indefinitely. I'm a subject of
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: his magazine.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: You give me a headache that he was the kind
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: to me, Miss Angel, Please, and.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: What's this nonsense about murder? Inspector Queen? Yes, the man
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: hanked him. Tell you said so yourself, sir, Yes, I did,
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: didn't I? Mister Darres, you people all throw.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: All right, go ahead. Unfortunately, Gallows murderer made a mistake.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Mister Gallows sent me a copy of that map, and
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: by following its directions exactly, I located the spot where
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: he buried the Gallows diamond. How did the killer miss it? Well?
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: What were the directions to go ten something due south
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: and then ten something due west. We assumed that the
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: figure ten referred to yards, as they did, since by
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: going ten yards south and then ten yards west we
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: did find the diamond. Then the killer did not take
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: the figure ten to mean yards or he'd have found
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: the right spot. Two, he took it to mean a
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: different unit of measurement. Nikki, Exactly how far did the
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: killer measure.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: Eleven yards instead of ten?
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Each way he reads the figure ten and measures off
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: eleven yards. Now, how can that be only if in
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: the kind of measure he was using ten units equal
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: eleven yards? And which unit of measurement is that the meter?
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: That's right, meters exceed yards in exactly the proportion of
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: eleven to ten.
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: But that gives us our criminal?
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, I do not see that creek. You're not alone.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: How does that give you your criminal?
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: Mister Creem.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: It tells me, mister Dust that the killer of Gallows
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: thinks in terms not of yards, but of meters. Could
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: that be Miss Angel, No, it couldn't. Miss Angel is
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: an American and we use yards not meters.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: So do we in Britain's the queens.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: That's quite true, mister Duff Brown, And so do the Hindus,
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: especially one as anglicized as mister Reginald does. Fortunately for me,
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: but almost all of continental Europe uses the metric system, including.
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: Of course the Dutch.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Hillary.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Stop it. You have the advantage of me in head inspect.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: And there, ladies and gentlemen, you have the solution to
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: our mystery. Thank you Peggy Lee for serving as our
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: guest armchair detective this evening. As momentos of the occasion,
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: I have for you a copy of my latest mystery anthology,
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: The Queen's Awards nineteen forty seven, and a subscription to
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: And here's mister.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Masterson panting, mister Q about next week.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: I mean suppose that I give you a good reason
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: to pant, Pau, I want to meet a movie star.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Are you kidding? Where where is she? Ellery?
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Nicky mind? Stepping over here? Missus Porter Paul, And ladies
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: and gentlemen, I want you to meet Mickey Porter starlet.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: This is Ellery Queen saying good night till next week,
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: and enlisting all Americans every night and every day in
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: the fight against bad citizenship, bigotry, and discrimination, the crimes
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: which are weakening America.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: All names used on this program are fictitious and do
• 30:56
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• 30:59
  Speaker 2: members of the cast were Howard Culver, her Butterfield, K. Brinker,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: John Banks, Bill Bouchett, Wilms, Herbert Eric Snowden and Sidney Miller.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Music was by Rex Corey, direction by dwighthauser entire production
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: under the supervision of Ellery Queen. It has been estimated
• 31:25
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• 31:28
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• 32:02
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• 32:05
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• 32:10
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