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maneuver A transcribed a vector of George Valentine

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L H. E. K.
Pound check. Ye, I have the

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name as sweetest man. They have
him in jade. That's all I know.

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Yeah, well I'm having miss Brooks
checking on the other form. So

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just calmed down. The nicest porter
I have and he wouldn't do anything right.

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His life depended on it. He's
gender and he never takes a chick.

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Yeah. Yeah, Hold on a
minute, will you, missus Fenton?

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What did you find out? Brookson? Do you have a Simon powercheck

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and jail are right? Uh?
Huh? What's the charge with him killing

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a young woman? He ran it
down with his car. He was very

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drunk, why, missus Fenton?
Yes, yes, what is it,

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mister d I'll get down there and
look into it. I'll get back to

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you later. Yeah, Simon powcheck
Age forty eight. He is still in

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the cell, sleeping. The door
open and shut. Case I sagin As

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far as I can tell, it
smelled like a brewery when he was brought

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in. The car is pretty badly
smashed. The poor girl was hitting.

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Where did the accident take place?
In pretty deserted section of the time this

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books, You know the toy factor
where his powcheck works. Farnton Toys boys

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picked him up just sitting there sling
booth. The whoop. I see there's

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anything wrong, mister Belton. Wow, just a slight discrepancy on a man's

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character. Probably just shows the gentle
sweet ladies like missus Fentler bad judges of

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character, don't get it. But
I'm other man. Maybe this is worth

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drinking Johnson away from supper. Yeah, it might be worthwhile. Well,

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I don't know anything looking at Johnson
and my head Hurst Valentine, I don't

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know how you manage to get in
the middle of things like that. The

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lunch, his report is clear and
to the point, this man hasn't been

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drinking. He was slunk, I
don't remember slug and then liquor was poured

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over so that he would be thrown
in jail, and no questions asked,

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Questions would be asked, and do
time as Brooks enough so that we'd find

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out everything we have to know.
There's no reason why we shouldn't take a

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look at Palcheck's car, is it? Come on? No question? Now?

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Isn't no dense in front of that
car we put there by? Someone

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probably smashed in with a heavy monkey
rancher. They weren't a result of hitting

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that poor girl at all. No, she was probably killed by someone first,

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then thrown on the pearl Chick's car. Pretty clumsy frame up by somebody

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who was desperate and needed time for
a getaway. Yeah, well, I

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guess one job was over, such
as it was. What's in well,

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mister Pearls shaking? Go back to
missus funtons. She'll make him some nice

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chicken soup, and you're staying here? You don't come in and get things

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started and then waltz out. Girl's
handbag was nowhere around, no means of

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identification. What do you need me? There were some laundrymarks on our clothes.

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We're checking those. You're sticking around, Laura Gillespino. I never heard

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of her, lieutenant, and you
don't remember seeing her before? No,

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No, I came off of the
plant. That's Thornton's toy, and I

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was going to start driving my car, and I guess somebody hit me.

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That must have been hiding them back
of the car. And that's all I

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remember. He'll probably just happen to
be the handiest guy around, mister Pelcheck.

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Pretty lucky to get out of a
thing might have killed you. They

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could, couldn't they. Missus Fenton
is still pacing outside like a nervous mother

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hand Lieutenant. Yes, I guess
you can go a pelcheck. We'll be

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wind to ask some more questions another
time. Anything I can do anything.

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Let the gentleman outsige Jesse. Well, might as well see what we can

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find out at the address you have
for Laura ga Westbie. Laura dead dead.

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I can't get it through my head. Why why? I'm afraid that's

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something we don't know yet, mister
glaslie were trying to find out. You

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can give us some ideas to why
your wife was down on Manson Street.

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Mister Gillespie, I don't know.
I don't know. It's a little out

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of the way. With missus Gillespie
out shopping this afternoon visiting some friends.

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She was out, working, working, because I was never a good enough

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man to provide her with the things
she deserves. Writer would ever get the

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idea that I could ever write anything
in my life? All I could do

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was to write this trash drink water
than I should. So I don't know

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what I can do to help you. Lit me what different doesn't make anyway?

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It won't bring Laura back. Can
you understand how you feeling? Mister

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Glassie would believe me these questions are
necessary? Where did missus Gillespie work?

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Sorry, Lesoftski Import and Export company
that down on Fifth Street. Laura's was

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very smart, got to be a
lieutenant in the waves during the war.

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She was mister Lesoftski's good right arm. Anything about the job that might have

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led to into what happens? No, no, mister Valentine. As far

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as I know, it was a
pretty humdrum, orderly job. But maybe

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just a little wolf from mister Lesovski. Go on. You see Laura's hand

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bank was god. Then this must
have been a robbery. Yeah, that's

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the most logical explanation, isn't it
isn't this is? I suppose so about

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this afternoon? I suppose you were
here, Oh, that's right, an

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alibi. I should account for my
whereabouts. That's another one of the things

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you must ask me. Oh,
I have a beauty of an alibi.

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I was in my usual hangout Mike's
barn grill all afternoon. Well, I

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should have been trying to work.
At least a dozen people saw me.

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Please please leave me. If you
work with a girl for over two years,

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mister Lesovski, you should get to
know her pretty well. Oh I

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did. I did. She was
a lovely lady, smart, brilliant,

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terrible crudge did missus Gillespie had the
afternoon off or it wasn't anything. This

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formal has that and this office she
came and went without having to account to

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anyone because no matter of fact,
mister or Subsky, we were curious as

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to whether you might know of any
enemies Missus Gillespie might have had eni.

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Mister no, I was kind of
a reluctant. No. Is it supposed

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to mean anything? No? No, I'm sure you'll understand that if you

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have anything that might possibly help us. The husband, mister Callespie is a

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very jealous man and a very weak
one. Of course, I don't mean

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to imply, and I see I
say thank you very much. I presume

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you were here all afternoon, mister
Lesovski Oh yes, yes, been three

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customers, very fine people Aliborina.
But two. This export and import business,

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mister Losovskiy, is of a general
nature. Oh yes, mostly to

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Europe, the mostly Eastern Europe.
Of course, the business isn't as good

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as it was once. Since we
import some fine lace, Bohemian glass,

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we send them some machinely even toys
toys, Yes, you know the Turton

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toy firm down on Manson. They
are very fine clients of us. What's

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the matter? Did I say something? Porton toys for good girls and boys.

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That's been the slogan of our firms
since my grandfather started in eighteen eighty

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four. Yeah, it's very interesting, mister Thornton. But we were very

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interested in whether missus Gallaspie came down
to Sigure this afternoon here at your planning.

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Well, no, that was a
matter of fact. You didn't.

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Oh what's the why are y'all looking
at? Knew that way? Wells she

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did come down here, you'd see
you, wouldn't she? Miss Here's of

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course she placed the order with me, and she didn't see you today.

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I'm not in the habit of lying
this book. I sho say. We

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probably established a good reason for missus
Gillespie to be down here. We thought

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you might give us some further help
in tracking down the man who killed her.

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I see the Leasowski firm buys only
a moderate amount of toys. Oh

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hereunds like this, some dolls that
seen their own lulibis, some handmade toy

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soldiers. Mister Palcheck has been making
toy soldiers for us what almost point a

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year? Oh yeah, some some
cowboy dogs. So your relationship with missus

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Gillespie was rather casual and purely business
exactly. Oh but wait, wait,

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I couldn't have seen missus Gillespie it
all this afternoon, even if she did.

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What do you mean, slip my
mind? I was uptown in our

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designers office most of the afternoon going
through the new line of stuffed animals.

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It's Perkins, that's the designer.
Come back me up, no doubt.

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A perfect score in Alibi would really
never mind day, Oh Valentine, let's

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be phone down here while we were
all good. Phone him back so I

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can pick up Brooks he and take
her off at dinner. He wants to

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get in touch with you right away. Me. Must have liked your plant,

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baby blue eyes. Exactly what did
he say? Want you to call

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him at this number? Go and
use this phone. I wonder what's on

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his mother? It's me. This
is Valentine Glee. Yeah, yeah,

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what did you want me to call
you about it? Come on over right

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away. There's something I have to
tell you. I was afraid of shame,

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but I'm not anymore. I'm not. I'm sure it. Can't you

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lear some things that even are no
good faithing like me can't take things like

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this on. I was in the
Pacific three years. Did you know that?

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Did you? I'll be over as
soon as I can. Come on

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it skips off, doors open,
wide open, Honey, he isn't here.

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Maybe his curry's left him again.
What was the name of that barn?

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Lan? But that sound in the
bedroom sounds like the window shadeer of

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blind banging against the world. Onne, Holy Macrol. Poor guy couldn't wait.

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Hello, Hennessey, this is Johnson. Send a crew down to four

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eighteen Harrow Street. Glaspie just hung
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we take better care of your car. You help clear a meek little toymaker,

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Simon Palchek from a framed hit and
run murder of young woman. The

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three men who could be suspects for
her death are near Towell husband, her

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employer, and the head of Thornton
Toys, near whose plant the murder took

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place. All have perfect alibies,
So you seem to be at a dead

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end when suddenly the husband calls you
up and tells you that there's something he

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must get off his chest. But
even if your name is George Valentine,

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you'll never find out what that is, because by the time you get there,

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the husband is dead, a suicide
note still in the timper enter just

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as he left it. Yeah to
whom and may concerned. I thought I

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could stand up to it, but
I know now that I can't. Laura

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was no good, or I should
say, she was no better than I

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deserved. She was faithless, and
I could not accept that I killed her,

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and I framed the funny little man
who works in the toy plant.

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Sorry, but this is the only
fitting way to end a life which has

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been nothing but a comedy of errors. Boys will be here pretty soon.

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Go through the four memonies. Yeah, yeah, I guess it was just

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what's the matter. I can't quite
make the two things fit. The words

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going us be used when he called
me, and it seems so important for

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him to tell me he was a
soldier, or a good soldier who served

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in the Pacific. Man likes to
hold onto whatever he thinks has been worthwhile

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in his day. Well, the
words he used in the fear of facing

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us. I'm seeing too many suicides
to try and figure out why they would

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Dewinning Johnson, what are you doing? Look the fibers on the rope.

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What are you talking about? They're
pointing up towards the ceiling. Hey,

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it's right. Yeah, he was
killed and then his body was hauled up.

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That's the only explanation murder, another
as vicious as the first, which

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leads us exactly nowhere. Especially since
we know that all the three alibis are

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poo. We don't have to go
back and talk to Lesovsky and Thornton.

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There are only possibilities. I guess, so, but why killed Gillespie?

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What did he know? You'll try
and guess? Oh, come on,

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okay, but may I make a
suggestion here. Let's keep up the myth

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that this was suicide. It's always
easier to make a slip if you feel

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you're safe. Poor man, poor
poor man. Yeah, I guess that

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washes up the case line, Greg, I wonder who the man was that

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Missus Gillespie was saying. Well,
I wouldn't know, Honestly, I wouldn't.

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Okay, mister SASKI you realize how'd
you find anything? Brooks? But

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there is nothing in missus Gillespie's desk
that can help anyone in that respect,

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I'm sure, mister Valenteck, we
were just looking around. I hope you

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don't mind mine, No, no, no, by shouldn't all the usual

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things, George, pencils and tissues? Do you let us to be files?

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So I see Brooks Sky just as
a matter of curiosity, I'd like

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to check up on your whereabouts since
I spoke to your answer that there's something

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I am becoming used to. But
I'm perfectly willing to cooperate, of course.

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What is it? Angel, that's
cool to those files for there's playing

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cover. Let me see, that's
funny. What is I can use?

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Oh? Laugh? This book is
written in some foreign language. It belongs

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to you, mister Lisowski. Me, no, that is strange. Pictures

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of soldiers, battles. What does
it say? It isn't Polish, Shulish.

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Laura wasn't American? Why isn't she? Yes, yes, that is

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where they cannot understand. Published in
Europe. Pretty good pictures, diagrams to

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show just how troops should be set
up in different military maneuvers. What connection

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is there between the two murders and
the books she couldn't even read. That's

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a big question, Johnson. I'll
see you later. Yeah, where you're

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going war maneuvers. That's why mister
Valentine or I'll put on the life pol

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Check books over that part of the
planet. Of course, during the day

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there there'll be fifty or sixty people
working here, huh. And on the

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fall and we get ready for the
Christmas rush, we have more than one

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hundred. But Paul check is the
one who's responsible for the making of toy

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soldiers. That's right, that's right. Oh, he's a craftsman, has

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the most beautiful toy soldiers gassed them, paints their bright uniforms excellent. There

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sure enough of them, yeah,
yes, all ranks all times, foreign

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soldiers, grenadiers, Ebuloman, the
soldiers that are exported. How are they

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usually packed, mister Carnton. Oh, say a gross to the box and

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then on a stone. So here
here's a box already, thank yeah,

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oh yeah yeah, all pretty well
mixed up soldiers pointing up in it.

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There's one raising his arm to call
charge. Are the one reaching for sword?

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Just a big man jumble? But
oh well, of course they're not

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works of arts, you know,
just toy soldiers, no offense, mister

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Sarting, Oh one, little toys, little lead soldiers. I remember I

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used to play with them. Children
don't play with them as much as they

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used to. Wonder why there's one
raising a trumpet to his lips. Of

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course most of them are playing ordinary
foot soldiers all alike. I was very

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glad when these orders came a couple
of years ago, pretty steady orders.

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Oh that's fine. Well, I
guess you'll be wanting to close up and

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go home now, mister Thornton,
Yes, yes indeed, But anything else

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I can do to cooperate. No, no, no, thanks, that's

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somebody else I have to see now. Oh yes, I feel much better,

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mister Valentine. And thank you,
thank your soul for everything I did,

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very little, mister project. That
young woman, that unfortunate young woman.

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Police found out your two chiltern.
They're working on it. They usually

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do a good job. Shame,
terrible shame, mister Polcheck. When did

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you notice that the book was stolen? But the book, the one in

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Polish, the one about soldiers and
Battlement Ofver's true formations. When I sold

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that, yes, of course,
how did you know? I didn't sure.

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I had it for a long time. You can't buy it in this

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country, you know. And I
kept it out of the plant or I

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copied many uniforms from it for Farlen's
soldier. When was it stolen, mister

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Polcheck, Well, a few months
ago I found out it was gone.

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Why do you say stolen? I
thought just someone threw it out cleaning woman.

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Maybe. No, No, I
think it was stolen, and for

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a very good reason. But stolen
by whom? Why? I have an

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idea? I'm not sure, mister
Parncheck. Do you feel strong enough to

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come down to the plant with me. But no, it's closed. You

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have a key, haven't you.
I understand you've often worked late and you're

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one of the oldest employee. Yes, I believe me. It's important.

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It's sort of setting a trap for
someone. What are you saying, Well,

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of course, mister Valentine, I
will just get dressed and these mamma

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dolls. Sure cude. How much
longer are we going to wait, mister

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Velentine Phy, not much. Who
are we waiting for? Then? I

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don't really know? But no,
you know how I make the little bit

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soldiers? Yeah, yeah, molton
d hubble, bubble toilent No, no,

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no, no, I wouldn't come
too near, mister Velona and little

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forms to cast the soldiers from.
Yes, that's right. I thought this

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box of soldiers was already for export. You what, what on any reason

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why you melted down some of the
soldiers from it? Oh, you must

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be mistaken. All of them players
and he seems. But the the ones

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with the drawing the ban and the
trumpet and the arms raised the sick signal

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charge the day, Oh yeah,
they were not quite like perfect. However,

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And while I was helping from some
lead only way I can make the

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matter. You know, I was
wondering all along, how come that lead

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soldiers are shipped to you? You're
from here, you know, usually they

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sho should be imported here from what
the country is, to say Japan or

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Checkos, Slovakia. The way they
were is cheaper. I would not know

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about this, this development, and
mister Thornton makes me the deals with mister

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lusostitude, I just make the soldiers. Yeah, I know, I think

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we awake or nothing. Ter scheme
is, that's an They all had perfect

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alibi guys for the time that missus
Gillespie was kid. How about you,

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mister polcheck me but was in the
car. No one would suspect the framing

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man La. You're a very smart
man, mister pot Check. You kill

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Laura Gallespie and then frame you yourself
on a hit and run sage you said

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you knew very well was to stand. You're really smart, fust to completely

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equipment with a gun. Rich,
I can you know I suspect I to

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kids you policheck like ever since I
found that book. But I know you

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were somewhat lat enough so that you'd
have to tip your hand yourself. That's

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why I got you down here.
That's why I watched your meltdown, those

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particular souljects. I will take you
out in my car. I'll kill you,

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mister Lellonton, and then I shall
disappear. I have friends, many

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friends. They will see I get
out of this cut, I know,

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and you get lost somewhere behind the
iron curtain. Don't move. Of course

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I killed the Gillespie's, first the
woman, and then him. He began

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to think of of all missus Gillespie
when he was blackmailing you, wasn't she

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She was smart too. She realized
that the little lead soldiers were semaphoring the

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position of the arm standing for letters
of the alphabet, signaling, just like

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say, different ship to ship.
Should not have meddled at one. Then

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she found the book and saw how
the gimmick really was. The people you

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send the jumble box of soldiers just
to have the book. Also, they

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know the diagram you mean sort the
soldiers out, so they correspond to the

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diagram and then read the message clears
about stop moving the match, you sharp

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moving buster, lad shower. Look
cow you a little warman over. I

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learned in the army playing with real
soldiers. What's it like behind the wheel

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of your car. Do you feel
the surge of power under your foot?

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You stay along smoothly and effortlessly,
or has a one feature gasoline got your

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car coughing and sputtering and hugging the
side of the road. Remember the field

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behind the wheel depends a lot on
what's in the tank. So if your

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driving pleasure isn't all it should be, shift over now to Chevern Supreme,

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the gasoline that gives you all eight
high performance qualities full power, quick starting,

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anti knock, vaporlock prevention, fast
warm up, smooth acceleration, area

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blending, and economy mileage. Put
spring in your driving with a full tank

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of Chevern Supreme gasoline at standard stations
or independent Chevron gas stations where they say

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and mean we take better care of
your car. How many messages would the

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FBI been able to decipher George?
None without polchecks cooperation. He cooperated all

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right, once he started to singing
sound a full grown choir. Deadliest sabotage

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of bone. That's what Polcheck's friends
were planning. Deadliest sabotage. You were

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sending out the name the people in
different fields whose death would hurt the United

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States most, And I guess there'd
be other pal Chicks to see that the

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sabotage was carried out, no matter
what would happen to them. A war

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maneuver, yeah, and a war
where no holes are bard. Mister Thornton

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and mister the sous gear outside,
who's still shaking over the way they've been

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used as dupes by pal Chick.
I'm gonna go around and talk to him.

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They wasn't her mama don present from
mister Thornton. You know Thornton toy

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for good girls and boys. He
think you have an idea we might find

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some sports someday. Okay, okay, You see, darling, you're a

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war maneuver and war manouvers all stare
in love and war. The Knight's Transcribed

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Lieutenant Johnson. Larry Dobkin as Palcheck,

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Welcome back, Well. I had
a sense of who the killer was kind

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of around the midpoint of the show
because because they revealed that all of the

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main suspects seemed to have alibis.
Now that kind of indicated that there was

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a problem with one of the alibis. But on, let George do it.

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Usually in decades that the person we
thought was innocent really isn't. I'm

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not certain the case was all that
predictable in the generic sense. However,

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after listening to one hundred and sixty
two episodes on this podcast, plus close

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to a couple dozen that I won't
be able to play here, I kind

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of have a sense for how the
writer's minds work. I did like the

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twist about the messages. I caught
that when they found the book. I

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imagine there was some arrangement of the
toy soldiers. This does seem to be

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one of the few detective shows which
didn't originally deal with by material, but

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as definitely got into Cold War style, and I think it's interesting some people

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have a reaction to the Cold War. Anything with the Cold War in it

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is dated, not necessarily anything more
than any story where, say Sherlock Holmes

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dealing with opion dens is dated.
You were certainly quite a villain on the

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American scene, and it's always interesting
to hear these sort of stories. While

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we turned down a listener comments,
Bet says, your podcast are what get

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me through my work days. Love
them, especially the Sherlock Holmes episodes,

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since I'm a huge fan of all
things Sherlock. Well, thanks so much,

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Beth, and we will we will
actually be back with another episode of

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Sherlock Holmes tomorrow, and then join
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