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If sending a check, be sure to have it made out to Adam Graham.
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But now it's time for today's episode of Crime and Peter Chambers. The
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original aired eight August twenty fourth of nineteen fifty four, and the title The
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Stockbroker's Daughter, Right, I'm Peter Chamber created by Henry Kine, transcribed and
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starring as Peter Chambers Dane Pluck. You're a private eye. That's your business.
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Anything else, that's the lapse. It's been raining cats and dogs and
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assorted animals for three long, wet, miserable days. Happens and today it
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clears. So you're heading for the polar grounds and a view of your beloved
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giants. But first you call the office and there's a message, and mister
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Winston Carr wants to see you at his Park Avenue apartment. So business is
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business, Winston Car. He's got enough loot to run his own little private
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Marshall Plan Winston Car stockbroker Thelus. You kiss off the giants, you wish
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him luck, and you're a special young man, Willie Mays. And then
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you've got your finger on the door buzzer of mister Carr's Cloud High Penthouse apartment.
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Chambers, Pewter Chambers. That's right, sir, answered the door myself.
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Servants stay off, you'll pardon my attire. He's a massive man and
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a handsome one, maybe sixty, with white hair and a white mustache,
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but he's got a youthful twinkle in his eye. He's dressed in an ancient
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bathrobe, and he leads you through to a room that's half bedroom, half
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den, and then he plumps out in a soft bed, red Hurt Chambers
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bed kicker. It's been aching up. I've been catering to it. Haven't
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been out of the apartment all day, been laying about pampering myself. Haven't
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even changed my suit. See hanging there, that's the suit I was wearing
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yesterday. That's nice, that's nice. What's that got to do with me?
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There's an envelope there in that suit. I want you to deliver it,
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and for that you need a private Richard, Private Richard. That's a
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cute dam never heard it before. Private Richard, private eye, confidential agent.
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All adds up for the same thing, usually a patsy. You're rather
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acidical one, don't you, sir? No, But maybe I'm in a
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bad humor. I was looking forward to seeing the Giants this afternoon. Giant's
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my favorite ball club. I'm quite a fan. Curtain to resist business,
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could you, mister Jaiors? Matter of fact, I couldn't. Can you
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miss the car? A business, young man, is business, and let's
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get to it right now. Since you've made a sacrifice and coming here,
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your fee is hereby doubled And how much was it single? One hundred dollars?
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Now two hundred for what mister car for delivering an envelope? Delivery and
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envelope sort of glorified message. Boy, wouldn't you say? Well, it's
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important and valuable and your reputation is such that I know I can trust you
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with it. And whom do I deliver it? To? Henry Martel?
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It is a part of ten to twenty Central Park West. You should be
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waiting for it. I promised it for this afternoon. Am I to get
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a receipt? Oh? No, no, no receipt necessary. You see,
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mister Martel is about to be engaged to my daughter daughter, my daughter
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Loretta, only child, very dear to me, only real thing dear to
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me since my good wife died. Anyway, mister Martell is going into business,
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and I'm sort of helping him with the contents of that envelope. I'm
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not quite up to delivering it myself today. So how came at the car?
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I'm to deliver an envelope in the inside jacket pocket, mister Chambers.
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Yep, right there, that's it. That's it, and from my wallet.
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Please help yourself to two hundred dollars, so out of a clean,
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white, unwrinkled palm beach suit, you take the envelope your fee, and
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you wave bye bye to Winston Car And then you're out in the sunshine and
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up to Central Park West, and once more you're poking your finger at a
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doorbell, this one over an engraved card, mister Henry Martell. Well,
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well, well it just wouldn't be legitimate if you didn't show up with it.
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Had you've never seen Henry Martell. But you know it isn't he who's
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answered the door, because the guy in the doorway is an old friend and
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a good one. Detective Lieutenant Louis Parker, Homicide, New York City Police.
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Like I said, without you, my case wouldn't be complete. What
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kind of a case, Louis murder? My friend? Who's murdered my friend?
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Henry Martel? Mar tell you're not kidding me, are you? Louis
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with murder? You don't kid Come on in, sir, cops working over
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a cadaver. There's hardly any blood on him. He must have been a
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good looking lad, tall with dark wavy hair and high cheek bones. Cops
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are cops, and a cadaver is a cadaver. But there's one incongruous note
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in the room. A sobbing blonde standing near the window, teetering like a
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drunk on a tight rope. Pete Yellowie, you happen to know the dame?
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No I wish says she's a Larta Car says she's the daughter of that
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mogul Winston came retta car. Did she kill him? She says she didn't.
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Haven't questioned her closely yet. You can see she's standing there like she's
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gonna faint. I'm giving her a little time to settle down. How did
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he get it? Bullets in this gun right here, no prints on it.
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We got the call from the girl this Loretta claim she dropped in on
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him for cocktails something. The door was opened, found him like that gun
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on the floor. Is it possible that a whist suicide? No? No,
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gun was twenty feet away from it. Guy doesn't shoot himself and then
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die, then throw the gun away and it looks like my boys are finished.
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Let me get them out of here. Okay, fellas, I'll see
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you downtown and the body goes to I'll talk to you after the autopsy.
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Doctor Now miss Carr, just a few short questions. Yes, yes,
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lieutenant, Oh Loretta Carr, this is uh, it's Peter Chambers. How
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do you do, miss Carl? How do you do? Miss Carr?
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We know all the details of your finding him calling the thing into us.
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Now what were you doing here? I mean, how well did you know
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him? I knew Henry mister Martell for the for the past sixt month.
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We were going to be engaged to be marriage. I can verify that,
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Louis. I just wait your turn, and I'm saving you for later.
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Okay, mis Kan How old are you twenty? How old was mister Martell?
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Thirty five? Did you win? You have your parents consent to this
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prospective engagement? Just one parent, sir, my my father? Did you
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have his consent? At first? At first he objected, but then he
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came around my way of thinking, And what were his objections? At first?
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Mister Martel was too old for me, that he wasn't exactly the type
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of person that he'd imagined I'd fall in love with. Oh, you know
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how fathers are. Yeah, but slowly, slowly, I want him over.
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And then we had his consent. I see, how'd you meet mister
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Martell I was introduced to him in a cocktail party. Okay, mis car,
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that about says it for now. You you can go home, but
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please be available. Huh, thank you, lieutenant. And now, Peter
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Pan, what the heck are you doing here? Anyway? You'll bring him
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up to date fast. He gives you full concentration, nodding his head up
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and down like a small boy watching a bouncing act on the trampoline. And
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then uh huh mm hmm. Okay, let's have it. Uh have what,
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lieutenant? You know what? The envelope? Envelope? Lieutenant, Come
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on, come on, there's a murder case. I'm working. I've seen
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a game of badminton yet these modern cops. All right, Lieutenant, the
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envelope naughty, naughty, you're opening other people's mail. Pete, you know
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what's in this loves sona by William Shakespeare Wonder one hundred thousand bananas, one
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hundred thousand dollars bills, cash money. He certainly did approve of his perspective,
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son in law, didn't he? Louis, all right, you've done
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your bit, You've delivered your envelope. At least he'll take possessions for the
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time being. I'll go up to the old man personally explain the situation.
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What do I do? I mean, do you go to a ball game
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or something too late for the ball game? Oh? That will he may?
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Well? Then go to your office and sit and pray. Maybe business
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will fall in. Business didn't fall in. It wafted across the wires of
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Alexander Bell's invention. Oh is that Dona Michi? Hello, I want you
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to come down here right away. He wants me to come where? And
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why me? Oh that? Hey? I'd be more, don't you know?
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My boys, you're supposed to be a private eye. I am a
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private eye. I'm not a private ear. What's on your leged mind?
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I want you to come down here? Where's here my offer? What's the
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matter, Herbie prob What else I call on you? It an'tthing you should
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teach me to mumble. I'll come on, get on your horse. You
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get on your horse, and you're traveling again. Herbie Moss big shot,
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book makers, bookmaker, commission brokers. They call him Herbie Moss, angle
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guy from way back. Slippery is a lemon pitt and olive oil. His
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office is a fancy spread on Lower Broadway, Well the old Shamas Hansom has
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ever come in? Come in? You're gonna in yourself, uncle change Herbie
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Moss about forty and not bad looking and dressed, of course, in the
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latest of an tailoring. Okay, I come right to the point. And
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what's the point? Where is your fee? Five hundred clams, which I
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hand over like so well, thank you, Herbie, You've made your first
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point. Now what ever hear of Mattel? Henry Mattel? What about him?
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He got cooled this afternoon, That's what about him? What I got
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to do with you? Nothing, not a thing except it's my gun.
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He happens to get cooled with nobody else's pell my gun, I be Moss.
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Cops know about this. They trace it to me quick and they yank
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me in. So what are you doing out? My lawyer gets me out.
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One of them rids abeas maybe is what do I know? I'm out?
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But I ain't the clear. That's your job to put me in the
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clear. Your No, I did not kill him, you know him this,
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Henry Mattel. No, I never hired a bomb in my life,
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herb me, my boy. Just for the record, if I find that
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you are mixed up in this, I turn you in any way, and
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you're stuck with the five hundred dollar things. I am mixed up with nothing.
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I tell you, all right, I leant that heated to a day
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when about six months ago. Who's it all? Doll is right? Don't
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trip over that. That's dynamite joy Sto a model, tall, dark and
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with a shape. Oh brother, all right, what's the address. It's
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in the phone book. And let me tell you I've seen them all big
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and small, but this is Joyce Store. Next up, Joyce Dorene.
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It's a terrace apartment on Madison Avenue. And the good miss Doreen must have
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been taking the sun on the terrace because she opens the door for you wearing
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high heeled white shoes, white swimming briefs, a white bandana, and that's
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all. That is all. I'm glad you've called me first in to chase
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me. I was going to go out, but instead I reserve this time
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for you when you said it was urgent. Oh the Joyce Dorene. You
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take black eyes, black hair, red lips, and then you dream up
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a lush f and you put it on the longest shapelest legs you've ever seen.
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And there you have it. Joyce Doyne, Will you tell me what
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this is all about, mister Chambers. You tell her you're doing a lot
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of stirring, a lot of gasping, But in between gasps, you tell
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her, I want to thank you, mister Chambers, for coming to me
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so quickly. Oh what else could I do? Miss Doreen? Her Red
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Morse claims that gun was here. Please don't know about that yet, but
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sooner or later they will. And then then, lady, you'll be all
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jammed up. Oh but I'm sure there's some mistake. Why because that gun's
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been an at bureau drawer since her blended to me. I never even touched
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it. Let me show you. Oh it's gone, mister Chambers. Mister
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Chambers, you must help me now. I would like to retain you.
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I'll pay you a fee if you're just help. Pees have just been pouring
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down. I mean like hailstones for you, honey for you. It's for
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free. But you've got to answer a couple of questions, and you got
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to answer them truthfully. Oh yes, yes, whatever you say. First,
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how well do you know this Herbie Moss? Oh as well as I
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know any other man. He was attentive to me period? And were you
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attentive to him? Period? Not more so than to anyone else. I
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have many male friends, but there's never been anyone special. Not yet?
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H No, not yet? Uh? Do you know Henry Mattel? Ah?
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Yes? Was he attentive to very? Did Herbie Mass know Henry Mattel?
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Yes? He did? He did? Huh? Why is there something
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wrong with that? No? No, nothing else. Was Herbie Moss fond
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of Henry Mattel? He hated him? You know why? Well? I?
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Uh? Well, in all modesty, I come on, mister Ring,
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you can tell me well, Herbie was jealous of Henry. In fact,
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Herbin I terminated our friendship because of this crazy jealousy of Henry Marte.
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Did you happen to know that Martell? Well, that he had a girlfriend
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who he was going to be engaged? I heard that he'd been running around
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with some little girl. And were you jealous? Mister Ring? Me me
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jealous? I look, mister Jambers, as I've told you, I have
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many male friends, young and old, flip and distinguished, and as far
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as I'm concerned, you can lump them alltogether. Faithfully, you promised to
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keep her abreast of events, and then you make tracks for Parker's office to
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sort of catch up on events yourself. Beat my boy. That's the sumon
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total of it. Herbie Morris is our number one suspect, but we just
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don't have enough to hold. What about this Henry Martel? But what about
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it? What kind of a guy? He's a fringe guy, man about
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town, strictly a phony. I lived by the wits guy, never rested,
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never convicted. He had a few brushes with the Lord the last time
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when he bolted a private eye outed a private eye who Barry Miller a couple
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of months ago when you were on the West coast, claimed the eye was
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tailing him, annoying him. Anything else, No, Larie, you ever
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hear Joyce doren Am I supposed to? I don't know yet. Well find
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out for me sometime, Lieutenant. I intend to do just that. Ah.
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It starts already. It begins to make with the Dame. You beat
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around town, digging up dirt on Henry Martel, and then you start hiking
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for Joyce Doreen's place. You'd like to give her apartment a quick look see,
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and you wonder how you can make it so it gets made for you.
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You're outside her door and you can hear the finish of an argument inside,
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and I say, you use my gun to knock him off, and
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like that you put me in the spot. I'd like to put your right
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square on at your well, I would not. Herbie comes tearing out and
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goes past you without even a friendly How do you do? New? Mosey
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in and there's miss Doreen, laid out, neat and comfortable. She'll come
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to in time, but this isn't the time. You give the apartment a
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quick frisk, and you come up with guess what a little older dress book?
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Gal wouldn't be a gallop without a little older dress book. You look
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through it and bang, your case opens up and unpols for you. You
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get out of there and you call Parker and you're told that Parker is at
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the cars place. So that's your next stup. Winston cars in bed and
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park is near talking to him. Loretti let you in and then went away,
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and Parker is a little pee you again? What are you doing here?
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I'm wrapping up your case for you. Louis like, how like giving
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you the murderer? And who wouldn't be mister chumbers. You, mister Winston
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Car, easy, pet boy, you know what you're doing. I know
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what I'm doing all right now. How do you want louis right side up
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or wrong side under? Anyway it alls? Does it make sense? I'll
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do it straight first, and then I'll take the evidence onto it any way
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you like to take it. Winston Carr with an only daughter apple of his
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eye. She latches onto a phony. Carr tries to talk her out.
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She won't be talking. Carr puts a private eye on him and gets convinced
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that Martella is a phony private eye. Huh, Barry Miller, how could
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you people know whyet? Mister Carr? Let him talk now. Car pretends
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he okays the engagement of his daughter, but he sounds out Martella. Martella
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wants a hundred gees as an outflight, but Car is a businessman, so
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he goes there and he shoots him. How am I doing as a car?
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Very well? Young man? Too well? I I can't fight this.
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I'm too old and sick, but I won't knuckle on the river.
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It's evidence that convict. All you want evidence? All right? Listen,
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here's a business man, Laurie that says he's going to help his perspective son
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in law in business. Now, how would he do it? Not by
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one hundred thousand dollars in cash, of course, not it will be a
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check or nothing. Well, and why it's that cover up? After he
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knocked him off? He used me to deliver one hundred geees to Martell,
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supposed to show that he had affection to the guy. You know, I
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used me as a delivery boy, strictly as a cover up. Bed all
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day, he says, he didn't even change out of yesterday's suit. We'll
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take a look about tenant. There's a suit hanging there. Okay, I'm
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looking palm beat suit, clean white, unwrinkled. It's been worn, but
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it wasn't worn yesterday. It was worn today. How do you know?
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Because there was born cats and dogs yesterday, and if he wore it in
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that reign, it wouldn't be clean, white and unwrinkled. All right?
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Enough? What about the gun? Look, if Herbie Moss he was that
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gun, you think it'd be crazy enough to leave it there? Where did
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this guy get? Stole it? Out of a bureau drawing a bureau drawer
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doll by name Joyce Dorine Herbie gave her the gun, and Car here lifted
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it from her, and Vincent well, he has a little old addressed book.
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Louis belongs to Joyce Dorine and under the initial see guess whose name is
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their biggest life? Al Right, enough enough, So after car gets put
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on ice, surrounded by high priced lawyers, and after you have made your
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report to Herbie Moss, you wend your way to Miss Doreen's apartment and you
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tell her she's out of a mess. You're about to give her details when
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oh no, no, mister Chambers, not so fast. Let's do it
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nice to me. You just sit down while I build a hyball too highballs,
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too nice, long legendy. H Now just sit and wait. Oh
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Joyce, I didn't say a thing, Honey. I'm just sitting and waiting.
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And there you've had. Crime and Peter Chambers. Dane Clark was starred
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as Peter Chambers. Crime and Peter Chambers Transcribed was created and written by Henry
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Kane. Others in the cast were Bill Zuckert Heard as Lieutenant Parker, Leslie
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Wood as Joyce, and Roger de Covin as Winston Carr. It was directed
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by Fred Wade. This Is Fred Collins inviting you to tune in next week,
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same time, same station for Dane Clark in Crime and Peter Chambers.
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This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Services except when so super
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except s s welcome back. Well, I have to admit having read the
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books, or at least one of them. It's hard to believe Pete Chambers
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taking a two hundred dollars job or responding to it with anything other than a
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laugh. Now that's not business, that's for laughs, just with the high
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sort of fees that he commands at any rate. We turn to some listener
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comments and feedback. Stewart emails in and he says, thank you your efforts
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have enhanced my old time radio listening experience. When I catch up to where
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you are and listen to other apps, I miss your insigns. Well,
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thanks so much, definitely to appreciate your comments and glad we're be able to
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provide some value. And then we also have this comment from Merrily, I
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keep up the good work, love the show, well, thanks so much.
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And then we have a comment from Laurie on Crime and Peter Chambers,
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who says I find in myself enjoying Peter Chambers more and more each week.
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Thanks for bringing him to my notice. Do you happen to know what piece
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of music it is that the af RTS put in replacement of the in commercials
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each week? I find myself humming it all day. I listen every single
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week. Well, thanks so much, Laurie. Regarding the music, I
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honestly don't know any a stupe music lovers in the audience might be able to
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answer better than I on that. And I've enjoyed Peter Chambers as well.
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I actually did not listen to the whole series for playing it, and I've
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been pleased at the quality. I have to admit that this was a series
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that I thought was okay, But I've had about two different series where I
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listened to a few shows, thought they were okay, but over the long
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haul really weren't all that good. I'm very pleased that Crime and Peter Chambers
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definitely I didn't have that problem. It's been nice to listen to and it
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is a shame that we're coming to an end. We have two more episodes
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to go after this week, and I'll definitely miss it. Dane Clark definitely
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turning a good performance in Bill Zuckert, the Greatest, Louis Parker, and
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the Music's great Seriously, if anyone knows, I'd love to hear what it
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was. All right, Well, that will do it for today. We
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will be back tomorrow with the adventures of Philip Marlowe, and then join us
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back here again next Tuesday for another episode of Crime and Peter Chambers. In
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