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a slew of compliance related podcasts for our purposes. The most relevant one is
Adventures and Compliance, which examines compliance and ethics lessons that can be drawn from
the Sherlock home stores. Tom, Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time
Radio. Adam, thank you so much for inviting men honored to be on
your show. Thank you, Tom, And I was actually a guest on
Tom's podcast Adventures in Compliance, and I will include a link to that in
the show notes. All right, well, for this special, we will
be bringing you a Sherlock Holmes adventure, The Elusive Agent. This was released
in nineteen forty nine as a three episode story. It's actually the only multi
part Sherlock Holmes story from the Golden Age of radio to survive, although there
were many others in the nineteen thirties and from the forties when Basil Rathbone and
Nojel Bruce adapted the Sherlock Holmes novels to radio, but alas they're all lost.
However, towards the end of the nineteen forty eight to forty nine season,
Mutual decided to experiment with bringing back long form stories for the first time.
We're bringing you all three parts in a single podcast. We've cut out
the exposition and redundant openings, closings and recaps, but left most of the
commercials for your listening. Plus and then after the podcast, we're going to
talk a little bit to Tom, not only about the episode, but about
adventures and compliance. So here from March twenty first, twenty eighth and April
fourth of nineteen forty nine is the Elusive Agent from New York City. The
makers of Clippercraft Clothes for Men and more than twelve hundred leading retail stores from
coast to coast present that immortal character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the
world's most famous detective Sherlock Holmes, starring John Stanley. This week story the
adventure of the Elusive Agent, who was the quarry we followed from the ducks
went into that room off the scut White Watson, What are we waiting here
for? But do we just go in? Patients? Watson? Patience.
We cannot precipitate ourselves into a trap. On sheer impulse Watson into that run.
The track has spung. We must get to the victim. We're at
the door of doctor John Watson's study and we're about to hear another of his
Adventures with the Fabulous Sherlock Holmes. Well, good evening, mister Harris.
Good evening, doctor Watson. You have a memoir for us tonight. I
hope I have, indeed, mister Harris. In fact, I had just
finished editing it when you came it. I might say that this particular adventure
is a first rank importance, not only in the life of my friend Holmes,
but on the course of history itself. The stakes were the highest,
and on the outcome hinged the issue of empire itself. In no other adventure
that I can recall, were our protagonists more ruthless, more shrewd, and
more cruel. Sounds like you've got a treat for us tonight. What do
you call it, doctor Watson? Will Holmes and I always refert to it
as the adventure of the elusive Agent. And after you have enlightened our audience
to the merits of Clippercraft Clothes, mister Hanners, I shall proceed with this
highly unusual story. Today it's official. It's spring time for you, mister
man, to get a new spring suit and a new spring topcoat. Make
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your clipper craft spring outfit tomorrow. And now, doctor Watson, what about
the Adventure of the Elusive Agent? Well, mister Harris. It began in
nineteen thirteen. This was a year when Holmes's brother, how Sir Mycroft Homes,
had publicly achieved the post Administer at Large ad Whital, but secretly conducted
the affairs of British intelligence. Nineteen thirteen, I might add, was a
year of international tension, notably between Britain and Germany, which a year later
culminated in the First World War. It was behind the shadowy scenes of espinage
that this adventure first began, and specifically it began one dark night on the
Berlin Express, plunging northward from Budapest turned the German capital. There was a
knock on a compartment door. Yeah, who is it? Who's there?
A great inspector herm alone. What is it? What do you want?
I have a telegram for your her in mine hair. Oh one moment I
got fun better you're not. Don't make a time alone. Get back in
that compartment of yours. Get back, I said, I'll blow your head
off. That's better my frame, much better. So you're an Englishman?
What do you want? The plans? Might hair? Plans? I do
not know what you're talking of, don't Heurmeler and listen. Last night in
would bess who nine englishman in the back locause waterproof packet of paper from it.
You're on your way to deliver them to the Villa m Strauss and Berlin
now and above her quick about it. You will never get those plans,
you'll swine Hermeler. But I must have them now. No, yes,
I must have Yestermler. Congratulations, my dear Norton, you've done an excellent
job in Interscaibling a German agent and returning these paths to our embassy here in
Berlin. Thank you for micro. Unfortunately, our problem was only begun,
my dear boy. These plans are of the highest importance and we must get
them out of Germany and back to Whitehall at once. How you understand.
These are the originals, the only copies of the plans in existence. They
were stolen by this German agent. You went to acept it from the inventor
himself before he was able to get them to the War Office, and we
could have copies made. But I understand your returning to London tonight, are
you not, Sir maclott. I am, but I cannot take the plans
with me. No, why not, sir? Ostensibly I am, Sir
microft Holmes, British Minister without portfolio, here on official business. Actually,
I am here to see that these plans get back to London, and the
Willem Straser knows it. I see. I have been watched every step of
the way. The Germans have revoked our form of privilege and will examine all
diplomats of the customs, and we can't risk relaying the data to Whitehall by
code on the chance that Germans may already have broken it. It will be
a dangerous and delicate mission to smuggle about of Germany in one moment, one
moment, my boy, I joke, I believe I have it. Yes,
sir, I recall reading in the newspapers that you are to marry a
British subject here in Berlin by the name of miss Pamela Rivers. That's right,
sir maclott. And if I remember, you are to be married this
Saturday, and we'll return to England for your honeymoon. Yes, sir,
those are our intention. Yes, I'm sure it will work. Philip Norton,
British Hatachete takes bride honeymoon's in England. Excellent, excellent, very romantic,
innocuous in purpose, not calculated to arouse suspicion, said, I don't
understand, notton, my boy. Marry your girl, take your bright to
England with you, and take something else in addition. Yes, O,
my god, what the plans Norton? The plans, darling, Darling,
Philip. Oh, it all seems like a wonderful dream, does it,
fam Yes, Philip. Yes, I'm glad we didn't dark that last dance.
I'm glad we came up on deck here together, just the two of
us alone. I think I'll always remember this moment, Philip, this moment
of our honeymoon. I'll always remember what the new it was playing and had,
how the moon shone up there on the sky, and the lights of
England of home shining over there on the shore. Will I pill i Philip?
Yes, put your arms around me, Homie. Close closer, Darling,
closer. That's it, oh, darling, Darling, Philip, kiss
me now, tell me that you love me. I love your Pam.
I love you, I love you. Do you really, Darling? Pay
what surprise? Darling? Damn, you've got a knife. You just yes,
your English swine, and you're going to feel the blade again. No,
my dear departed bridegroom, the plans yes here in your cold pocket,
as I thought. No, if I can roll you over bots or the
opening in this reel, over you go, goodbye, my romantic darling,
and thanks for the wedding present. Whole Goose thought should be below in a
small boat. There's the arrangement, Kustaf Kostaff Are you there? Line?
You have the plan? Yes? Hold them down to me through the porthole
you are, thank you for line. That's why not? So he thought
he could smuggle the plan one moment. Only half the plans are there.
I have the other half. What is the meaning of this? It means
that the half I have is for sale. I see, but they help
director has paid you well, tell you your master. If he wants the
rest of these plans, he would have to be more generous, you understand,
Gustaf any Well, I shall tell him, And when you come ashore,
we shall be waiting for you at the handy pool of so young Norton
disappeared while the Oceania lay at quarantine in Southampton. Ah Microft. Yes,
Sherlock, I'm sorry to rouse you and doctor Watson here in the dead of
night on a mission you never anticipated. But we have impounded the passages and
crew of the vessel at Southampton the questioning, and we need your talents desperately
now. Indeed, if the plans are not recovered, the life of England
and that the Empire itself are in Jepanye sounds like a formidable affair I must
sa fight. But my dear Micraft, since we are to become involved with
these plans, it might be helpful to know something of their NHR. These
papers ten in all, were the designs of a new weapon, Sherlock,
A kind of land monster built to revolutionize modern warfare. In short, an
armor plated mobile vehicle we call a tank. It this sounds like something out
of Jules Verse. Yes, it does indeed wants some miss Sherlock. I
beg of you to bed every effort of the recovery of those plans, to
use every passage of your genius to track them down. Now, be a
good chair, my craft. It's my opinion that the plans have already been
spirited from the Oceania, that it may not yet be too late. I
get aboard. I shall have some pertinent questions to ask. Whom will you
begin with, Hope, Since it's the bridegroom who's missing, my dear Watson,
I shall obviously begin with the bride. Now, missus Norton, exactly
what happened after you and your husband had gone to the upper deck of the
vessel here? Hi? It was a little chili. Hi asked Philip to
wait for a moment. I left him alone, went down to my cabin
to get a wrap. When I returned, he was gone. And after
you searched the boat and couldn't find him, you notified the captain me.
Yeah, yes, doctor Watson, Yes, mister Homeside. Please, I
can't answer any more questions now, Philip gone. Love. I'm sorry this
is nought, and I realize what has strain you've benanda and there's no need
to detain you any longer. You are at liberty and retired your cabin.
Now, thank you, mister m the Jew's hope. I must confess I
found it in a heartbreaking experience. Watch this poor girl, did you,
Watson? Eh? What do you mean? I mean that the woman lied?
What come come, Watson? It's painfully obvious. She distinctly said that
she went down to get her rep did she not? Yes, yes she
did. But what is consider? My dear fellow, if you were a
bridegroom on your honeymoon and in a chivalrous mood, would you allow your bride
to go to the trouble of getting her own wrap? Well? No,
oh dash, precisely you would not. No man would. Watson. Does
hor notify the authorities to allow all passengers to sumbark as but homes. You
haven't questioned any of the others. I don't think it necessary, Watson.
Time is too short, and we must gamble at long odds. From now
on we shall concentrate all our energies on following the bereave ride. Now,
with your permission, we're going to transport Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson from England
to America for a few moments. They are in a typical American city.
I say, homes. That's a very successful looking chap standing there isn't it,
eh Baker, would you say not at all, my dea Watson.
He is not a man of wealth, opposition, but a man of extremely
good taste. He looks successful because he succeeded in finding an excellent tailor.
Well, then he's an athlete at first glance, yes, but I'm quite
sure that his broad shoulders and tapering waists are rarely the results of excellent clothing
design. Well, it must be wealthy to afforcer a splendid tailor, to
see what beautiful fabric? Because in his suit, my dea Watson, you're
obviously unfamiliar with the American way of life. That man to whom you refer
is wearing a clipper craft suit, which, if I'm not mistaken, sells
for only forty five dollars. But you see, wants in some twelve hundred
retail merchants all over America have cooled their tremendous buying power to make these really
extraordinary clippercraft vanues possible. Watson as a symbol of the honest Newingdon quality and
value of Clippercraft clothing. They have adopted the name Clippercraft in emulation of the
famous Newingdon clipper ships and the modern aircraft of the same name. These are
synonymous with Newington quality. Oh I see, but tell me, Holmes,
how did you recognize that chap as the weather of the Clippercraft suit elementary?
My dear Watson, he's the best dressed man in sight. All right,
you are, Sherlock Holmes, the best dressed man in sight. The successful
looking man is the man who wears a clipper Craft suit. Yet Clippercraft new
spring suits cost only forty five dollars and Clippercraft gabardine and covered topcoats only forty
to forty seven fifty See the new clipper Craft spring styles tomorrow. Clipper Craft
clothes are sold by your local store, whose business it is to give you
honest value. That's why men who know insist on clipper Craft clothes bearing the
Clippercraft label. So be sure to visit the clipper Craft store in your city.
These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to add their names to
Clippercraft in your Suits and top Coats. In Manhattan, John Wannamaker's Men's Stores
Broadway at eighth and sixty seven Liberty Street, Sachs thirty fourth Broadway at thirty
fourth in Brooklyn, Abraham Strauss in Newark, New Jersey, Boulevard Men's Shop
Cresby, Nowark. And in Jamaica, the B and B Clothes Shop one
six four oh eight, Jamaica Avenue, DoD Doctor Watson. Doctor Watson,
you were relating to us the adventure of the elusive agent. So I was,
mister Hatch, So I was. Our task, as Homes had explained,
was to keep the bereaved bride, Missus Philip Norton, under our watchful
servants, and this in the theory that she might lead us to the stolen
plans for the new British armored monster named the Tank. We saw it take
the train to London and we follow. Then at London she took the underground
and we follow, keeping out of sight in the next car, and finally
she emerged at the suburban station of Goldish Greed. She went into this house.
I believe I saw some in the middle of that door there, and
the colonel is quite You shall wait here for her to emerge. Watson,
why don't we just go in patients, my dear man, patience. Our
belief is that missus Norton did not see a shadowing her, but we cannot
be sure. Shrewd, my dear fellow, are con summit actress and no
fool. For all we know this may be a trap. Have your service
for Varno, Willy Watson, I'm right here that I have it ready,
my dear fellow, very short time you may have occasion to use it.
Ah, so you have already come to see us war. I do not
wish to be caught proud any longer. Good cab. The rockery is over,
and that Foolknoton is dead, as you wish by. Where's your master?
As you know, we have a business appointment. The heavy actor has
delegated me to represent him in these negotiations. Very well, I have half
the plans, your master has the other half without one portion. The other
portion is useless. How much might be Gustav? The handy director's inclined to
be generous? You have already been well paid, But do you realize estv
are certain expenses He's willing to pay you ten thousand pounds on receipt of your
health ten thousand pounds. It is a handsome sum idea to pay a blackmail
It's a pittance. The art is no The price is fifty thousand pounds.
You must be mad with mere fifty thousand pounds, My dear Gusta, I
know what Otitigans are worth. Price is low and of no consequence to the
organization you represent. Consider what the British would pay for those papers. Well,
Gusta, I remember power to go as high as twenty thousand pounds.
That is my final offer. Fifty thousand and that is my final offer.
You have the papers with you? I have, Oh, I don't think
you can take them from me by violence, bullstop and remove me for good.
It really wouldn't be worth it. You know, I have a trusted
friend in London and he has a sealed letter. Ind this letter is all
the information I possess concerning the German espionnal spring, not only on the continent,
but in England too. You understand, your Felen, I understand.
And finally, the letter contains the identity of the ringleader himself. Gustav,
you are master and mine. In the event of my disappearance, my friend
is to mail this letter to the Chief of British Intelligence. At quite all,
the price is still fifty thousand pounds. Bust up. Perhaps you had
better talk to the headrector personally. My dear Felen is in the next room,
and I will summon him. Line is here. You of her literally,
and I'm sure it will come distance good evening her line. So consider
it of you to visit our little hideaway far out here in Golden Street.
I understand who've named the price for those plans fifty it's a little high.
May I make a cover offer? What is it? This simple? The
ideal way to make a bargain quick, efficient, gruthless. And so we
beat a farewell to the the letter. The letter you take me for a
fool, But the friend and the letter would destroy long before she arrived in
England. I haven't my agent's honeycombing as powel and miserable island for nothing.
Quick now search up for the planet, open the door. It's quick.
About the back way, it's not fine now by well we can at the
part be seen. Quick over half of your pistol. Watson yes, the
beggar's got away with the garden walls. Well, who's you got the plans?
Yes, Watson, they were on missus Norton's body here. Unfortunately,
however, we have only half the packet half fight. Only five designs are
here, and you'll recall Micraft as there were ten in all this. With
the other five, where can they be? No doubt in the hands of
the roofless agents who just shocked Missus Norton here might very well have been that
she came here with the idea of selling them. And Watson is who you
detect a faint odor of tobacco in this room? Tobacco? Yes, yes,
hir, come to think of it, I do interesting scent, Watson,
very what do you mean? This smells like ordinary tobacco to me.
On the contrary, this one's a rare and very unusual blender. It's a
cross mixture, Watson. The face is a strong and heavy pierrique, tempered
with a bit of Burleigh and more than just a touch of euphrates yellow leaf
grown in the river valleys of eastern Turkey. Only one expert in London or
in all of England would create a mixture like this Grimsby, Crimson Grimsby,
the tobacconist. He specializes in these rare and exotic blends. He owns a
little hole in the wall in soho we serve those that we can go there
and ascertain who ordered this blend precisely. But one thing is sure, my
dear fellow, One thing is certain now that we possessed half the plans,
our constant companion is danger and we are marked men. So you did mix
that blend I described Grimsby. Yes, yes, mister Holmes, I did.
I most certainly did a very unusual formula, very unique. I made
it at the purchase's own crest cough. And who was this purchaser, Grimsworth?
Right now? It was a foreign gentleman named Marcos Amy, Marcos marco
Eh would you described him to us? So, yes, mister Holmes.
He had the most unusual face, one that wouldn't you wouldn't soon forget her.
A tall man, he was her very fastidiously dressed to the face somewhat
like a hacket. But it was his mouth you'd notice anywhere? Yes,
what about his mouth? And now dofter wardsing it? It had a sort
of unfortunate twitch. The corner every man of a very annoying habit, to
be sure, yes, quite. Would you know where this Emil Marco lived
Grimsby, Yes, mister, I would. I had a message to deliberate
in it his tobacco mixture to him. He's staying at the back lettle chair,
I said, I say, the rule park. Yes, gentlemen,
what could I do for you? We're looking for a gentleman named Marco.
Emil Marco. What room did he occupy? Why? He did occupy a
suite on the third floss? Did did you mean? Yes? Sir?
He left only this morning. Would you know his destination from here? Let's
see Marco Emil markt man thinks of the utmost importance that you'll remember well one
moment. I do remember this? What did the girl? I recall?
His luggage was routed for the Hotel Metropol in Paris? I remember it from
the label in Paris. Come on, and there's no time for news.
A breader you'd be city ninety three? Yes, are you there? This
is Bradley, the Barkley. The gentlemen were here. They found out about
Marco and they're trading into Paris. Yes, sir, I told them where
they could find him myself. Who is that handsome looking man? Who is
that handsome looking man? That's you, mister listener. You in a new
spring clipper Craft suit with a beautiful Clippercraft gabardine top coat over your arm,
So athletic looking, broad shoulders, tapering waist, that's clipper Craft designing.
Clippercraft design does make you look your best every time. So prosperous looking,
Such a rich looking suit, such beautiful tailoring. Sh Your new clipper Craft
spring suit in one hundred percent all wool worsted costs only forty five dollars.
That's right, only forty five dollars. And your new spring clipper Craft topcote
in genuine gabardine or all wool covert is only forty to forty seven fifty.
What an impressive executive type may be an executive and certainly a man of excellent
judgment who understands that when more than twelve hundred independent merch pull their tremendous buying
power as those Clippercraft merchants have done, they can offer you really fabulous values
as they do in clipper Craft clothes. What a well dressed man, What
a handsome looking man. What a successful looking man. He's for me?
That's you. You you in a new spring clipper craft suit. Better choose
yours tomorrow, your compartments only. Yes, we have a visitor once and
look there's a hen extinguished the lights in your compartment. Homes will do nothing
of the sort. I will not end until you have extinguished the lights.
Do as he says Watson, he couldn't possibly miss you from there. Uh
well, well, complete dogs. I'm sorry. It is necessary for us
me under these strange circumstances, homes, but it may in the future be
necessary that you do not recognize me. Therefore my request for that. But
oh, I can see your silhouettes. If either of you attempts to move
or calls for help, I will blow out your brains. What is the
purpose of this visitor? You are journeying to Paris to find mister Amiel Marco,
for I can save a great deal of time and trouble for you,
can you? Yes, I represent mister Marco. As you know, he
already has half of a set of plans in his possession, but his portion
is worthless because you have the other half of Indeed, and I do not
intend to surrender it. Mister Marko is fully prepared to make an intriguing offer.
What is it? Give me your half of the plant. We will
pay you twenty thousand pounds rubbish say thirty thousand claims, do not for sale
fifty thousand. If you finish stating the nature of your offer, sir,
you may leave. I have never found myself in a situation where enough money
would not provide a happy solution. You have a price, Homes, I'm
sure I must certainly have not. It may well be persons of differing political
views who would betray the British Empire. I'm not one of the concam Homes.
Very touchy, would you name your practication Homes. You are forcing us
to take the plans from you if you can find my half, and you
are forcing us to kill you. If that can be a ring, might
type point out that in our organization we never kill our opponents in an ordinary
manner, that we prefer to torture them to death. I'd accept the money
if I were you. My answer is a definite and final no. You
might inform Abiel Marco that I intend to secure his heart of the plans and
return them to Whitehall. Very ambitious, but you underestimate the power of Marco's
organization, which will now be devoted to securing your half of the plans and
the conceiving new and exciting torture the advices for you and doctor Watson. Good
night, gentlemen. I planned this as a short and pleasant visit. Trust
that it was well. It's after the Rascal Holmes sutil Watson. He's armed.
We're not even in these few seconds. Doubtless. He disappeared into another
compartment, signs we have no idea what he looks like. Mister wake Watson,
Paris, the Hotel Metropol. I will over the door. Ah,
what'shy, mademoiselle. I am Sherlock Holmes, my colleague, doctor Watson.
The clock downstairs told us this was Emil Marco. Sweet it is come in,
Yes, of course, I am Mademoiselle mattel Pierget. Emily is not
here. Make yourselves comfortable, gentlemen, Thank you, nay I help you.
When when mister Marco returned, Mademoiselle, Emil said you would return to
night at nine. You are a friend of his. I presume I met
Emil at the bar. This hotel just a short time ago that we are
already very close friends. You know much about him. I never ask questions.
What my gentleman acquaintances do is their business? I see this smucko.
Is he a tall, thin yes, with green eyes? Fascinating, exciting?
Does he have a curious habit of twitching his mouth? He does?
Oh? What do you want with him? I thought you were more interested
in details about your gentleman acquaintances. Very well, samity girl, I do
not care. Emil has an exquisite suite here. He has invited me to
enjoy it until his return. Would you care to wait, have a drink?
Perhaps we may become friends too. Thank you. Now, with more
urgent max at hand, and what's into ourbum, Mademoiselle, we shall return
at nine Shop to meet Emil Marco. The lovely rooms they've given us here
the hotel, yes, but obviously and intruder has chosen to upset the day
cards, Jose, some one has been here to our rooms, made a
gostly mess of them. Look, they've opened every drawer on the chest,
yes, forced open, and the contents strewn on the floor. I should
say. The alluring Demoiselle was also a member of this fantastic ring of spies
that's closing in honest two anything so quite clearly the objective was to lure us
to Marco's sweet occupy us temporarily while others went through our luggage here in our
rooms, but the plant rooms. They will hear your lease. Then they've
stolen your half of the press. Decisely, why I'm rummaging through the luggage.
Well are they gone? Yes, Watson, the pans are gone.
Well, then you've buckled at hose for the first time in your entire career?
Was you you bungled for such high stakes? Have I to here to
hear a strange sound? Yes, I do. Coming from that closet to
your left, opening Bots and Kevin, see anything in there one of my
traveling beds, that's all. Absolutely, bring the bag here to me quickly.
Yes, the chiggings coming from inside the bed. Open it man instantly.
Maybe a time bomb placed there by Marco's time bomb. Yes, this
one second. I just opened this cat clothing to take it out. Butts
and we want to see, Yes, see the shoes and shoes, Yes,
I see it, hoses a small black objective. Give it to me.
What's open? The window? Through it. Man, hurry, go
on, homes we would killed. Yeah, yeah, we are. We
will split second away from being blown to bits. It's quite the stairway wats
in front of me downstairs? I shall speak to the clock at the main
desk. I don't believe a word that French girl said. I do not
believe Maca has gone until nine. I do believe that if we challenge this
spiring that has us trapped here in the hotel, it'll be death immediately them
more for us. That is just the way I want it. Mister Harris,
tell me again about that handsome looking man. He's for me. The
best dressed man in any crowd is the man who wears clipper Craft clothes.
For spring. You all wool worsted clipper Craft suits only forty five dollars.
Clipper Craft top coats in all warl gabardine or covert only forty to forty seven
fifty Handsomely styled, tailored to the finest standards of traditional New England craftsmanship.
Clipper Craft clothes take their name from the famous New England Clippers ships and the
speedy airliners of the same name sold by more than twelve hundred independent local merchants
from coast to coast, the leading hometown merchants everywhere. That's why the ladies
say, when they see you in your new clipper Craft spring suit, who's
that handsome, successful looking man to me? And that's why men who know
insist on clipper Craft clothes pairing the clipper Craft label. So be sure to
visit the clipper Craft store in your city. These leading stores in the metropolitan
area are proud to add their names to Clippercraft in your suits and top coats.
In Manhattan Sacks thirty fourth Broadway of thirty fourth John Wannamaker's Men's Stores Broadway
at eighth and sixty seven Liberty Street. In Brooklyn, Abreamen Strausse in Newark,
New Jersey Boulevard Men's Shop, Presgy, Newark. And in Jamaica,
the B and D Clothes Shop one six four O eight Jamaica Avenue, Doctor
Watson, I can't recall you and mister Holmes being in a more baffling and
dangerous situation than at the Hotel metropolit in Paris, a few steps behind Amiel
Marco, the elusive enemy agent. It was extremely dangerous, mister Harris.
Marco's Germanspiring, which seemed to be everywhere returned, had found Holmes's half are
the infinitely valuable British war plans, and had vanished with it. Holmes and
I heard it to the front desk of the hotel to question the Clark.
I understand class that mister Emil Marco will return here at nine this evening,
Monsieur Malcolm. Yes, did you go to his sweet earlier this evening?
Monsieur yes, yes, yes I did. It was the young lady there.
I am sorry that you went directed to Monsieur Marcos. If you had
stopped to inquire here, I might have saved time. Will you you see
Monsieur Marco left this afternoon ferminently well, and the young lady in his sweet
matthil Giaget the mad left just a few moments ago, do you know versus
gone? I believed he said something about the train to Belly. She was
in great hurry to be Daniel Mark, what time does the train depart for
Berlin? It departs in approximately four minute as you're not enough times to reach
the station, perhaps not Watson, but there's nothing to prevent our boarding the
train after it and rushing to Berlin. The train after the departed in it's
your you should be aboard that train, Watson makes clark Au disaease. So
you man the very center of the German government. If we've almost been murdered
outside of Germany, what on earth might happen to us were we found in
Berlin. Our personal safety does not matter in this case, Watson. We
are on a counter espionage assignment for the British Governor. By all the rules
of international intelligence, you and I are expendable. A brother Minecraft made it
clear that possession of these pans may mean triumph for defeat in a war with
Germany. So you and I, my dear Watson, are petty and marionettes
luggage and write to Berlin was awfully kur this Berlin station home, y s
Watson, and I dare say this crowd is neatly spiced with Marco's men awaiting
an opportunity to strike them. Very fool heard at homes to have entered the
trap this way, How the dickens will you ever find that French girl or
Marcus elementary, my dear Watson, elementary this but in all of Berlin,
with the secret agents of a return scheming about our deb I insist, as
always, I have a method latest newspapers, spy on newspapers. I guess
partam Watson movie to meet the station alive. It's quiet. Anyone on this
crowd may be an agent with a knife for the girl. Might keep your
eyes of the newspaper, gentlemen, no hecker or the news gentlemen just to
finish, or than you who told you we don't want a newspaper. Now
we offer you this way, Watson, there's the expert crude newsvendor, Recula
shot the newspaper on our CRUs I said, it's very dark outside the station,
he hoped, is it advisable for us to step out this way?
We cannot remain here at the railway terminal. Let's find our Coquette and Marco
right as they when moment? Hos what is it the newsvender? He seems
to be following us, Just your imagination. No, I don't think,
sir. He was at the center of the station we stepped off the train.
He's been right behind us ever since. All right, walk through the
exit. That's it, watching you still behind us? Knock into this doorways
as black as pitch, will lose his right now wait if he comes to
the exit we helpless herds, I'm sure he has a josh, wait there
is who's looking about? I see you two gentlemen in the doorway. You'll
remain there, please, you'll not move, Do not speak. I have
a gun and coming over to chat with you with deeplings the horns. Doctor
Watson, if you intend to kill us, go on shoot, be over
with it. I should like to introduce use myself. My name is Colin,
British Intelligence, British Intelligence. Then you received my wire. We did
while what While the moment I knew the French girl had left for Berlin,
Watson, while you were packing our luggage, I sent a wire here to
British Intelligence in code. Micraft had given me the information as to the technique
if required. My wire described my tild in detail. I told British Intelligence
to pick her up here at the station and keep after her. Then to
communicate with us at the moment we left the trail. We started her leaving
the train, we followed excellent. I'm sorry if I gave you a bit
of a scare following you this way. I had no choice in the matter.
I had to force you to stand here might have believed I was a
German agent and played where is Matilde? She's gone to a building on the
outskirts of Berlin, oh ramshackle building, awful place twenty seven Ludleistars. Thank
you Collins, you've done a superb job. Are you going to twenty seven
Ludleistars? Announce the home this very minute? Just you and doctor Watson,
just the two of us. The third party might alarm the Germans so much
that they'd simply fired at us as we approached the building. Be more beguiling,
mister Pears, that Watson and I are merely dupes falling into their hand
holes? How can the two of us possibly hope to overcome whatever crew of
blustered devils is at twenty seven Ludwick structure? Don't seem rash, mister Hole.
Nevertheless, it must be done. Watson and I must enter that building.
If we're to find Marco and the plans. We must enter it alone,
alive and well, although we may not leave that way does hell twenty
seven Ludwick strat augl of building front door, Watson, the month, the
stairs and ring suicidal. I say not if it's our own new Chancellor.
Come along man, miss your homes, doctor Woods, and I am so
happy to see you again, mysell Maybe come in, certainly, I'm delighted.
Won't you make yourselves comfortably? Thank you? You've been expecting us.
Of course, of course we were sorry that time Boone did not kill you
at the Tel Metal Cal. We realized you would continue your efforts to find
the Amil Marco and the fans our name took from your luty purse. Mark.
I am afraid you will not be meeting doctor Watson. And why would
we meet this marker? Oh, because we are going to kill you,
miss your homes. Oh, I have been rude. I have forgot.
If you think we're going to remain seated here doing nothing, just accepting this,
there isn't anything you can do about it. Ah. I recognized the
voice our visitor in the train compartment. Yes, I introduce myself now.
My name is Bluster, like Matilda, I'm an employee of Emil Marco is
personal represented them, and I still had that same gun. You see,
you've played another deplorable recognizement. Stones have I Gustan, we wanted to half
of the plans. You let them in your luggage we examined them carefully.
Yes, they're faults. They're not really your half of the plans at all.
An excellent counterfeit, but with its real that's wonderful homes, then they
haven't the real half they wanted it. I'd hardly been stupid enough to have
gallivanted about the continent carrying the real half. I resent that, gud star,
you underestimated me. I beg your pard. Now, as for the
business at hand, I'd like you to meet a friendly parts. Yeah,
bak this this mister Holmes and doctor wattson I see, I will take care
of them. Boy you Peter was a wrestler. Unfortunately he was dropped.
His tactics were illegal, too cruel. You may leave, Yes, good
night, mister Holmes. Doctor Peter's made quite a study of the human body.
Homes is a specialist in various methods of creating unbearable pains. Yeah,
I have my own way, Holms. You want to know exactly where the
real half of the plants is? Yah, I haven't the slightest intention of
repealing that musta doctor Watson. Could Holmes have told you he has it in
those papers? He did not. If he did, I would have failed
to learn the whereb praise This would be your answer, You're reckless, gentleman.
Homes, you forced me to take all sorts of steps that I am
most reluctant to take. I'm a mild man and soul. I believe the
problems of man versus man can be settled on a cordial level. I just
like animal tactics. But since you insist that, yeah, Gusta already,
I will make him talk very quickly by taking hold of they are you may
recall homes in the train compartment. I said. We never kill our opponents
in an ordinary manner. We taught show them today. I want to know
where the papers are homes. Perhaps it will require a bit of persuasion.
Go on, Peter, Ah, Gustave, I will make homes and sir,
Yeah, that's it, Peter, go on, persueden, Yeah,
surely, Gustav. You must know I wouldn't be carrying our heart of the
genuine plans. They are, of course somewhere in England, safely in the
custody the Admiralty, for you will never lay hands on we thought of that
Homes. It's possible you're telling the truth, But there is another possibility too.
Are you as patriotic as you've seen? Mister Holmes, you are not
an official employee of the British government. I believe you may not be cooperating
with England either. But playing this game alone, trying to collect both halves
of the real plan yourself fantastic nonsense. It would be so profitable for you
to have both halves and sell them to the highest bidder. Isn't that what
you're attempting? Homes, I repeat the ideas of sir, answer me help
a grant me, Peter. If you have deceived the British I will be
glad to work with your homes, but you must tell me the truth.
Tell me exactly what you're doing. I must say. The weather here in
Berlin's rather chilly for this time of year. Who won't keep this up for
long? Harms again, Peters, come Watson and looks so agitated. I
I have no doubt I shall survive the efforts of this butcher. It has
only to make the brain the master of the body, to concentrate, to
divorce it from its physical functions. A quick I learned to be east Watson
speak. You science speaking done a better good stuff? Just man Holmes,
this iron he will not speak all right, Lasen Peter, so you still
won't disclose the truth their arms. I was remarking to Watson here that your
climate in Berlin is usually much warmer. At this time I had enough of
your stupid English human mister Holmes. I have a bad idea really soon and
I are going on a little trip together to my private retreat. You Peter
will stay here and guard mister Holmes. Sounds like some new devil to hos.
Just what is this proposition? The start? Very simple, very simple.
Indeed, I shall be in touch with Peter You're by telephone. If
mister Holmes, you do not disclose the truth about the plans in twenty four
hours, my hostage and your friend doctor Watson will die. Newspaper FI line
afternoon newspaper, now go away. I do not want any newspaper, but
you will find it interesting age for your lunch. Hower. The Kaiser has
told the bed go away. Stop following me, and if you persist,
I shall call the police. Here. What do you want Collins? After
the two British intelligence the Pete rides high Scapa flow quick identify and give me
the counterpars Greater Brunner Telephone employee Berlin Central Exchange G nineteen counterpass. The Dahlias
grow high in Devon't she good? Move back further into the alleys here you
can't be seen. Yes, now listen, friend of ours has been spirited
from a house at twenty seven Le Disclassa. Another friend is being held there
also under custoday. Telephone has been installed at the house. Yes, go
on. It's possible that a call will come to the house from the German
agent who is lefted. Can you tap that call and find out where it
came from? Yes, yes, I think so. Another girl who works
to switch but on that line, but she becomes ill and has to go
home, you know how. Yes, the call comes through. Get in
touch with me at once. I'll be waiting at this number. Your number
please rizzo eight eight three four, Yeah, who is that? This is
stuff as homes We can yet, No, the fine will not talk.
See tell him that I am cutting the time to twelve hours. I will
continue to hold his friend he at the floss until then. After that it
will be all over. Well, mister Holmes, before long, Gusta will
kill Doc the Watson if you do not talk I'm quite aware of my dilemma.
I'm also aware that if I gave your superior the information which are open
up, open the door? Who is done? Oh do you think you
poor? I couldn't wait. I'm gone away with Watson. Now we'll give
the same statement the hor open the door. Yeah, Gustave. One moment,
I was just trying again to get almost to talk. And oh,
thank you Collins. I must compliment you on your faculty for appearing in the
right place at the right moment. Thank you, sir. I think I've
located doctor Watson with the cooperation of one of our agents of the Berlin Telephone
Exchange Capital Man Capital Where is he? He's being held in a deserted castle
at Spandau, Sir. It belongs to the man Gustav's ancestral family. Excellent
Collins, Yes, sir, you're not a bump taking a dangerous risk dangers
my vocations. Good fellow. First, you're a dress in dead Peter's clothes.
He are his cap, overcoat, everything. They'll fit you a trifle
loosely, perhaps, but well enough. In short, you will impersonate Gustav's
dead henchman. Understand Collins, Yes, mister Holmes, then I take it
we're going to spand out with all possible haste. Time is already running short
in the life of my good friend, doctor Watson hangs in the balance.
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mister Holmes and Collins, the British agent, were off to rescue you
at the castle in Spandau where Gustav held you as his prisoner. Yes,
mister Harris. The castle in Spandau was a huge, deserted spot the dead
of night. Holmes stood with Collins before the entrance. Mister Holmes, vultures
flying over the castle. Instinct Collins may expect a human death. Could Gustave
have killed Watson? Are we too late? Perhaps? Now you will walk
to the main gate. Yes, in your disguise as Peter, you'll ring.
You'll keep Gustav occupied at the front door. I understand if Gustar becomes
at all suspicious, shoot to kill I shall. I will dash to the
rear of the castle. I'll prowl about till I find the room where Watson
being held captive and freedom. Then we shall attack Gusta while he's talking to
you. Excellent, good luck. Oh you come back, Gustav, handsome
man, Watson, it's homes by jove, how did you get in here?
A bit time later to explain. Come on, Collins of Intelligence is
downstairs and this castle chatting with Gusta. I see right down. Take this
revolver. We shall steal downstairs. Surprise Gustan this way stairs as cautiously as
you can. Right, what on earth is Something's gone wrong with Collins,
terribly wrong. Hurry, Watson, run down these stairs. Wait, look
staggering up these stairs to us. It's Gustav. His face is covered with
blood covered. Collins was disguised. They exchange. Gusta has been hit two
or three times. You see he's holding his side. Blood from his chest
too. He's grasp the real coos, doctor Watson. Where one German falls,
many more will rise. We will yet have the plans. You seem
successful now, But any victory over us is an Illus calling down the stairs
and let him fall to the death he so eminently deserves. Watson, But
where is our own agent? Where's Collins? This way to the front of
the building, where he and Gustave shut it down. There is lying on
the floor. Is he dead? Yes, Watson, devil hump through the
head. Thank Heaven, the first bullet from Gustave's father ended it for him.
He didn't suffer. I shall inform my brother Microft quite all that Agent
Collins died valiantly in the performance of is assigned duty. Well, two nows,
we still not found Germany's half of the plans for the new tank.
We still not found the master spy new Markert. The answer to those crucial
questions, Watson, lies in London. We left London days and days ago.
We fought our way here to Berlin to find Marco and retrieve the papers
Wherevertheless, the answer is in London. We must get out of Germany.
How we're surrounded. We shall board the very next train from Berlin to the
French border and meet whatever awaits us. Well, so far we're doing well,
homes, We've caught the trend. We're on our way to the French
border, if we can remain alive to reach it. Watson, are we
returning to London House with the conductor tickets? Please? Here you are,
sir, and you man? Are I presume there an order? I'm an
heir one more item, I do ten, and I don't think you will
sup use the fy on avolve o a box and strike him down yet,
Oh oh good work. Why did you see him home? He's hardly reached
through his ticket punts. When you pounced upon him the bulge in his coat
pocket, I realized it might be a revolver as indeed it is. No,
he's another of Marco's endless supply of killers. He was assigned a murderer's
here. We can't leave him here. There'll be a nim quire. Oh
yes, we can leave him. See we're leaving this train at no immediately,
and maybe other German agents aboard. But are just two of us.
Can't take the risk. My intention, you see, Watson, was to
do just this even before the conductor arrived. We bought it the train ostentatiously,
so they'd make plans for us all along the route. Now we shall
spring the trap, come the cartridor, open that doorwards homes. We can't
leave off the train at the speed. Not only chance. We shall wait
for a run of what is a penant is soft earth? Our lexis you
go? Watson, arms and legs loose to try to roll over easily as
striking out you ready, yes, ready after me? What's in? It's
wonderful to be back on the streets of London. Aheard, yes, right,
But why have we run here to serve? We haven't even reported the
white Hole? Because Watson, we must visit the shop where this gigantic and
gruesome trip began, Shop of Grimsby, the Tobacconist, Grimsby Shop. Because
we've journeyed to foreign cities, haluted death, and fought the greatest spiring of
our day, all because of a few sentences spoken by the shy, friendly
tobacconist here in the shop. Shall we speak to him just once more,
back in London, mister Holmes and doctor Watson. Yes, Grimsby. Wasn't
mister Emil Marco in his hotel here in London? I described him to you,
a tall, thin and nervous habbit of pitching his mouth. Yes,
you did describe in Grimsby. But he was not at the hotel in London,
nor was he in Paris, nor was he in any of the dark
and bloody corners of the continent where we sought him. You know why,
sir, I can't imagine, because there isn't an Emil Marco. There never
was an Emil Marco. This master of the German Spinett that Watson and I
and all of British Intelligence have been pursuing is an illusion created by you,
Grimsby. I can't believe. When Watson and I first visited your shop,
Grimsby, I asked about your client because I detected the odor of a rare
tobacco in the room where we found a dead agent. I wanted the man
who smoked that tobacco. He was the chief, he had the missing half
of Britain's plans. You are that man, Grimsby. You didn't expect,
did you. You're smoking at brand of tobacco. This is very moment.
Yes, I had hoped it's creating Marco to attract you to Germany. I
could learn the truth from you there. Then I could dispense with you.
Then the advisable you could operate with ease in Germany rather than here in Britain.
I simply inform my associate to pass the lie law drawing you to bill
in with the phantom mark of with American. I cannot wait to bargain with
you for your half of the plan. I shall just destroy my half,
reducing both my opponents to an equal status. Again, your half being without
mine. I shall burn my half. It's here in my pocket. Britain
will never have the weapon. It seats here. Set a match to these
papers I hold in my hand. Go on, doctor Watson, or I
shall blow your head off with this revolver. I can't do it, as
he says, Watson, you'll kill you. We will and go. I
must leave. Lock a star from the outside. Do not attempt to shout
or leave until I disappear down the street, or I will shoot Ah,
there's a gentleman. He's gone homes vanished into the crowd and the plans the
burned door. Chris quickly wants and pick up that chair and blues time tried
to force the lock on that door, smash the glass with that chairs are
now cab Watson Grimsy will try to leave London instantly, the cab to Waterloo
station. Why should Grimsby be here at Waterloo stations? Because he realizes Whitehall
would turn London topsy turvy to find him. He must return to Germany.
All aeroplanes in this area are in British hands. In his travel by boat
train of the channel, and this is where he bought the next trainin him.
There he is by that data. Stop stall where you are. I'm
afraid we have the upper hand now, sir, Now before we turn you
over to the authoratives, where are your half of the plans? Save?
It is tired Burton before your own eyes, O Grimsby, you've played card
after card by which we have been deluded. I say you still have the
missing half of the plans of Britain's new weapon on your person. This last
ruse of yours is quite transparent, and you've burnt an ordinary piece of paper?
Did I? I'll search hands buns way. Oh, he wouldn't carry
the papers openly in his pockets, Watson, nor in his wallet. He
would conceal them in a spot where no one might think to look, except,
of course, your humble servant. I'll find them. The search isn't
necessary, Watson. One must always analyze a personality in its own medium,
Within itself, it contains the answer to its mysteries. Now where would a
tobacconist be likely to conceal a few small papers? Why beneath the tobacco and
his tin. Let's have a look at that tip still the tobacco and beneath
the very same rare tobacco which first launched us on this great adventure, Watson,
the plans, the plans, Well, Doctor Watson, the adventure of
the Elusive Agent was really one of the most exciting adventures you and mister Holmes
have ever had, and a crucial point in the history of World War One.
May I add is indeed, mister Harris, as you know, the
British didn't succeed in keeping their plans for the tank of secret. It proved
to be a very decisive weapon. Well where was mister Holmes? Half of
the plans in a vault at quite Holmes to Harris under special guard of the
Royal Livy. Well, doctor Watson, these past three weeks have been very
exciting and memorable ones. Yes, but do you think, mister Harris,
our audience is in favor of these longer stories. You see er, some
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Welcome back. Well, this comes pretty late in the career of Sherlock Holmes.
This would be after the retirement to bee keeping, and it took place
sometime before his last bow Tom. This is a good old Elizabe or Edwardian
melodrama with bombs and mustache twirling villains and mixing in a bit of selling clippercraft
clothes in that it was that it was and pre World War One, so
we know a wars on the horizon and this of course involves an important state
secret for Britain. Oh yeah, yeah, it's it's it's good high stake
stuff. It was interesting because like if you listen to a modern story that's
set then they'll always be sure to bring up the beekeeping but here they didn't
seem to care. They're just like, Okay, it's nineteen thirteen. He's
alive and available, let's just go ahead and get him into the story.
Well, And I liked the Microft Holmes who had been elevated to the peerage
and was had an important ministry, and it was ended up being Microft who
brought him in. And I don't think Sherlock ever said no to Microft.
Yeah, that does seem to be something that they avoided in the In the
Cannon, I did find out the writer on this was Max Erlik, which
I hadn't noticed when I first played this, But he wrote for a lot
of radio programs, The Shadow Mister and Missus North and episodes of Star Trek
and The Defenders. Uh. And he was also known for the novel and
later the film which is like a horror mystery, the Reincarnation of Peter Proud,
nothing I've ever seen, but that is where his career would go.
It was a movie that came out in the seventies and I vaguely recall that.
So yep. But if you can write for Sherlock Holmes and you can
write for Star Trek, you're okay. In my book. Yeah, yeah,
definitely put some skills into this. Now, I wanted to talk a
little bit about your your podcast, and you know I've started. I think
we started both like in the Stone Age of podcasting, you know where you
know, like the Fred Flintstone School of podcasting. When did you get started
in podcasting? And with the the Compliance Podcast Network. So I started podcasting
in twenty twelve. I started for two reasons. One it was an outgrowth
of marketing for my consultancy. But the other reason was the following. My
daughter was I think fifteen at the time and dad was decidedly uncool. The
one day I went to her and I said, honey, if I had
a podcast on iTunes and you could tell your friends about it, would that
be cool? And she goes, yeah, that'd be cool dad. So
I started a podcast and for about thirty days I was cool in my daughter's
eyes, and that of course ended. But it has a lot of uses
in a lot of varieties. I founded the Compliance Podcast Network at twenty seventeen
and now it's pretty much my full time job. Wow. And I think
the thirty days of being cool has got to be the big benefit I know
of dads who went bodysurfing in a mosh pit and didn't get that much cool.
So that's an achievement. So let's talk about Adventures in Compliance. The
mix of Sherlock Holmes and compliance. What inspired that? So I have my
network is in legal and regulatory compliance. I'm a lawyer by professional training and
that was the area of my specialty. So that's the genesis of the compliance
podcast network. Adventures in Compliance serves two functions. One, I get to
reread all of the Sherlock Holmes stories in order. Two I get to talk
about them. And that's sort of how I think of how I create podcasts.
You mentioned Star Trek. I've done the full of the original series seventy
nine episodes Trekking through Compliance. Compliance listens from Star Trek, but Sherlock Holmes,
for me, it's a never ending fascination. I reread the stories,
I read commentary war you know, I go down different rabbit trails just because
I absolutely love Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, and it was really just another
excuse to sit down and reread the stories and look at them from the ethics
and compliance perspective. But then I decided it. There were so many other
lessons that my audience needs and wants to hear, like leadership lessons from Sherlock
Holmes, investigative lessons, pattern recognition, of all things I found in Sherlock
Holmes stories. So I'm really using it to help compliance professionals trying to tell
stories so that compliance professionals can use the strategies that Conan Doyle wrote into the
Sherlock Holmes stories in their modern day compliance programs. Okay, and sorry if
you're hearing any construction going on, just had a little background noise here the
podcasters' nemesis. Now you don't have as much of experience with this particular story,
the Elusive Agent, as you do the entire canon of original stories,
But could you talk about what are the compliance lessons that you could draw from
the Elusive Agent? Sure? So the Elusive Agent, I found it was
just a fascinating story. It had a lot more violence, I would say
than I've typically found in a Conan Doyle story. We had one murder very
quickly. We had two murders very very quickly of a young not spouse but
fiance, and two people engaged who turned out to be on opposite sides of
the spy fence, and we had several other shootings throughout the stories. I
have to say that tobacco ist was probably my favorite part because Holmes is a
purveyor and expert in tobacco ashes and the conan doall stories, it's cigars.
Here it was cigarettes, and he could identify a cigarette from the odor and
then he could identify the tobaccoist who put it together because of his knowledge of
tobaccoists in the city of London, and I really love that part. We
got to do a little travel log. We went from England to Paris,
to Germany and back to England, so we had travel that's always fun.
But in terms of the compliance lessons Number one a thorough investigation. I mentioned
the tobaccoist and that was for me the primary investigation as Homes worked through that
and that of course led to the final ending of the story. But as
a compliance professional, you have to have a thorough investigation of any issue if
an issue arises. Number two attention to detail. Every compliance professional must be
attentive to detail, whether it's a number in a spreadsheet or whether it's an
interview with a witness. And I can think of no better character in fiction
who has more attention to detail than Sherlock Holmes. Here it was cigarette smoke
and then the ingredients of tobacco. It was hiding plans, figuring out where
they were hidden. It was bringing false plans to throw the enemy off.
It was just an incredible amount of attention to detail. Ethical conduct is a
part of every compliance program. It's a part of hopefully every corporation. But
here I'd like to focus on compliance officers. And it's not that you have
to be above and beyond reproach, much like Caesar's wife, but you do.
You have to engage in ethical conduct. You cannot be seen doing unethical
conduct. And I thought homes in this store Wor very much engaged in ethical
conduct, even when he was not threatened with torture, but under torture and
was threatened with the death or murder of his partner, John Watson, doctor
Watson. So ethical conduct is incredibly important critical thinking. As a lawyer by
training, sometimes you get kind of stuck in the law and you don't really
use the critical thinking that you need to. As a compliance officer, I
say, in compliance you're only limited by your imagination. So critical thinking is
a key component collaboration and communication. There is no greater example of collaboration and
communication than the Sherlock Holmes stories, Holmes and Watson, Holmes and Watson,
Holmes and Watson, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. It's always a collaboration.
Sometimes it's spector Lestrade, sometimes not, but there's collaboration and communication. And
then probably the lesson I enjoy talking the most about, and frankly, it
applies to you as well as anyone I've ever met, Adam, and that's
continuous learning. Just in times I visited with you, You're infinitely curious and
you're always studying. And that's what I love about compliance. It's what I
love about Sherlock Holmes is if he doesn't know it, he's going to learn
it. He'll go off and study it, maybe a rabbit trail, he
may be on cocaine, it doesn't matter. He is a continuous learner.
And I tell people that's probably the single biggest or most important skill in compliance
is you have to be open to new ideas and new things and always learning.
So those are just some of the lessons I saw from The Elusive Agent.
It was a great story. Yeah, it really was, and I
appreciate the way you brought out those lessons and points. Now, if listeners
want to find Fight Adventures and Compliance, or they want to find any of
your other podcast You've got so many different websites when you look online, could
you tell us where the best places are to find you? Sure? The
Compliance Podcast Network is found at Compliance Podcastnetwork dot net. All the shows are
listed there. There's a catalog of all of my shows at the top of
the website. I have featured podcasts. I have, as you said,
a ton of podcasts, but they're all there in one place, so you
can go there and link out to any of the shows, specifically Adventures and
Compliance. Well, thank you so much. I appreciate you joining us today,
Tom for this really really, really different Sherlock Holmes story, and I
hope people check you out. You're currently on the return of Sherlock Holmes,
the third Sherlock Holmes Short story collection, and you've got all of the stories
from the first two books that people can listen to as well. Now we'll
go ahead and wrap up here. Before we do, I want to thank
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We'll be back tomorrow with an episode of The Falcon where Cop don't tell me
it's lipstick com I get wires yourself forward. You throw your only chances to
play ball with a snow. I'm telling you, yes, Marv Draper put
you after this, Come on for it. Don't be a patsy. Why
should Draper get away while you burn? Praper had nothing to do with that?
Who hired you? I don't know now? No help me, Sue.
It's the truth. When I got home last night, there was an
envelopement on my door with five bills in up in the note I kind of
Anne said. If I knocked off her, Carol'll be another five hundred to
night. Why is there no where's the original note? Tour it up?
You lie? I should have part. I want the truth? Who hired
you to kill Jimmy or Carol? Tell you don't know? Well until I
find out, I'm gonna make it so hot for you that when you sit
in that seat that sings sing, you'll think you're squatting on an icebox.
Let's go. I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime,
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