1 00:00:28,199 --> 00:00:35,359 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:39,960 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:45,520 to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. Follow us on Twitter at 4 00:00:45,679 --> 00:00:51,200 Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, 5 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:56,479 slash Great Detectives. If you're enjoying this podcast, please follow us using your 6 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:02,000 favorite podcast software. Today's program is brought you in part by the financial support 7 00:01:02,119 --> 00:01:06,000 of our listeners. You can support the show on a one time basis by 8 00:01:06,079 --> 00:01:11,840 mailand a donation to Adam Graham peel box one five nine one three. That's 9 00:01:11,879 --> 00:01:17,879 peel Box one five nine thirteen, Boise, Idaho eight three seven one five. 10 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:23,599 I want to go ahead and think Carolyn and Sherry and Mike for supporting 11 00:01:23,599 --> 00:01:26,359 the program that way. Again, thank you so much for your support. 12 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:33,239 Well, now it is time for this week's Dangerous Assignment. The original airn 13 00:01:33,239 --> 00:01:49,439 eight December third, nineteen fifty two, and the title is Italian Actress. 14 00:01:53,799 --> 00:02:19,080 Dangerous Assignment transcribes starring Rayan, Don Lavez, Steve Mitchell. Yeah, danger 15 00:02:19,159 --> 00:02:21,479 is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't even 16 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:23,599 pronounce they all spell the same thing, though, trouble. But when I 17 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:27,919 walk into the Commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment's going to prove 18 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:39,520 that you can sometimes hang a killer sky high with a little piece of string. 19 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,599 Commissioner, you sent for me, Steve. You ever hear of the 20 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,719 Italian movie actress named Yolanda? Sure, she's made so many rice Field pictures. 21 00:02:46,719 --> 00:02:49,759 I understand she's got water logged kneecaps. How'd you like to meet her? 22 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:52,000 I'll just hand me a pair of hip boots them on the way. 23 00:02:52,039 --> 00:02:54,039 You'll find her on the French Riviera. Her yacht is anchored at Nice. 24 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:58,960 Were particularly interested in the guests she has a board our sole, Commissioner, 25 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,400 Steve. One of the most Vish pre war rackets is in operation again, 26 00:03:01,439 --> 00:03:06,680 a racket that cost American citizens thousands and thousands of dollars in payoff money for 27 00:03:06,719 --> 00:03:09,840 the protection of relatives living in Eastern Germany, Hungary and Romania. Yeah, 28 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,599 I built up quite a fun trade offs rise to power, didn't It? 29 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:15,680 This time? Was certainly as being run as a private enterprise. It started 30 00:03:15,759 --> 00:03:20,159 up some six months ago under the direction of the same man who handled it 31 00:03:20,159 --> 00:03:23,240 for the Nazi. That would be Hertzog, colonel of Gestapo, right, 32 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:27,039 only someone else seems to have taken over the racket and the colonel's little black 33 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,360 book. Etzug died suddenly in Lisbon two months ago. So how does all 34 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,759 this tie in with the Italian movie Queen? An American named Ernest Hall, 35 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:37,719 vacationing in Nice, had the bite put on him for twenty five thousand dollars 36 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:39,759 last week. The pay up, yes he was a freight harm would come 37 00:03:39,759 --> 00:03:44,319 to some of his family still living in eastern Germany. Now Hall is certain 38 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:46,599 the head of this racket is aboard that yacht. Get over there, Steve, 39 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:50,159 check with him, find out who's behind all this, and smash it. 40 00:03:51,039 --> 00:04:09,240 Oh, I said, you've got your assignment. Good luck. The 41 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:14,199 National Broadcasting Company is presenting Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian don Levy in the role 42 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,920 of Steve Mitchell, colorful two fisted government agent. At all those places of 43 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:21,480 the world where danger and intrigue walk hand in hand, there you will find 44 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:28,720 Steve Mitchell on another dangerous assignment. Thursday evening is an entertainment fill listening night 45 00:04:28,759 --> 00:04:31,879 on NBC Radio. Set your dial to this station for such fun pack programs 46 00:04:31,879 --> 00:04:36,399 as Truther or Consequences, with Ralph Edwards playing host on America's favorite party game. 47 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,680 There's fun, surprises, and always the unexpected when you listen to Truther 48 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:46,279 Consequences each Thursday, and for Western songs and adventure, hit the Trail to 49 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:48,720 Paradise Valley and the Double R Bar Ranch. For there you will find the 50 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:55,040 Roy Rogers Show and thirty minutes of top flight entertainment. Robert Young is another 51 00:04:55,079 --> 00:04:59,199 Thursday night visitor when he stars in Father Knows Best. We know you'll all 52 00:04:59,319 --> 00:05:03,040 enjoy these program so be sure to set your dial right here to this NBC 53 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:16,959 station for top flight radio entertainment each Thursday night. Sure I've got my assignment. 54 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,720 Get over to the French Riviera. Check with an American who's had to 55 00:05:19,759 --> 00:05:24,639 pay off protection money for members of his family living in Germany. Find out 56 00:05:24,639 --> 00:05:28,079 who's running the racket and break it up. It's late Thursday afternoon in my 57 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:33,759 plane lands. The American Ernest Paul is waiting for me into relatives. So 58 00:05:34,199 --> 00:05:38,519 that's why I didn't call the authorities. And so now I wanted nothing to 59 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:42,600 go wrong. I decided it would be best to investigate quietly. After the 60 00:05:42,639 --> 00:05:45,279 payment had been made. All right, Well, let's start from the beginning. 61 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:47,199 When did you get the pitch? A Sunday evening, a letter had 62 00:05:47,199 --> 00:05:50,839 been slipped under my door. The note contained a demand for payment of twenty 63 00:05:50,879 --> 00:05:56,480 five thousand dollars, a threat against the lives of an aunt, Analia Halderstatt, 64 00:05:56,639 --> 00:06:00,959 and two cousins, Jan and Joseph Alderstatt, would by any chance, 65 00:06:00,079 --> 00:06:03,399 yes, my father's name. I changed it to Hall when I arrived in 66 00:06:03,399 --> 00:06:08,399 America many years ago. I see, how long have you been vacationing here 67 00:06:08,399 --> 00:06:12,000 in Nice? A month? Run into any old acquaintances. Someone who knows 68 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,639 your real name is Holder Stuck. Yes, as a matter of fact, 69 00:06:14,639 --> 00:06:16,879 a week ago, aboard the yacht, Eric Vogel is an old, old 70 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,079 friend. We came from the same village, and naturally we talked to people 71 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:24,480 we've known, our families and so on. And when you got that note 72 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:27,319 Sunday evening, Oh no, no, I couldn't bring myself to suspect that 73 00:06:27,519 --> 00:06:30,959 Eric was behind all this. There were others at the party aboard the yacht. 74 00:06:30,399 --> 00:06:33,920 Any one of them could have overheard your conversation, learned that your real 75 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:39,360 name was Holder Stuck. M okay who were the others. Well, the 76 00:06:39,439 --> 00:06:43,439 actress you learned, of course, was there. It's her yacht. And 77 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:48,160 also a French newspaper man named Albert Beauvall, an Englishman named Chipping, and 78 00:06:48,399 --> 00:06:54,879 Lal Hubli, a Hindu that of number two others Felix de Luca he is 79 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:59,800 Yolanda's director. And George something I didn't get his last name. Okay, 80 00:07:00,079 --> 00:07:02,160 Now about the payoff, Well, last night a box containing the money was 81 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:05,560 placed under a bridge on the road to Untie. You see anyone, No, 82 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:10,000 I didn't go Albert by, did the newspaper man, Yes? You 83 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,240 see, he was with me Sunday evening when the letter came, so naturally 84 00:07:13,279 --> 00:07:15,879 we talked about it. The note instructed me to remain in my hotel room 85 00:07:15,959 --> 00:07:20,399 here and send someone with the money Bovey volunteers. I see. Look, 86 00:07:20,439 --> 00:07:24,720 I'd like to meet these people, Bevey, Chipping, George what's his name? 87 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,639 I can arrange it. I am expected to board the art Naa the 88 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,600 cocktails. They'll all be there fine. Now I should warn you, mister 89 00:07:30,639 --> 00:07:35,920 Mitchell, these friends of Orlando. They're artistic temperament. Their actions are somewhat 90 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:42,680 Drew Strange, you might call him eccentric or just playing screwball. Huh, 91 00:07:42,759 --> 00:07:54,480 All right, let's go well. I've met some characters in my time, 92 00:07:54,519 --> 00:07:58,959 but nothing like the wacked group assembled aboard Yolanda's yacht. The queen herself was 93 00:07:58,959 --> 00:08:01,759 attired in a leopard skin bathing suit, dark glasses, a floffe som barrel 94 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:07,160 with a four foot rim. She's tossing grapes across the room to a gentler 95 00:08:07,279 --> 00:08:09,959 standing on his head in the corner with his mouth open the window draped in 96 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:15,120 his sheet is sitting crossleg it on the bar and he's cracking walnuts little's teeth. 97 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:18,680 Paul introduces me to Yolanda and a split second lighter. The door burst 98 00:08:18,759 --> 00:08:20,759 open. Two gents raced into the room, each of them's arms with a 99 00:08:20,839 --> 00:08:28,800 saber that was Chicky and the one called Jewel. I didn't even get to 100 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,879 say hello. They will be back. Come on, a Joe, you 101 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:35,559 sit down here next to ORLANDA sit down, Joel. The name is Steve. 102 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:37,360 I don't like it, but I like you and everybody I like. 103 00:08:37,399 --> 00:08:41,039 I call it Joe. Come on a Joe, sit donald, relaxed light 104 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,840 cigarette. You're a Martini ste Yeah, but easy on the alives. I 105 00:08:43,879 --> 00:08:48,200 may have to drive tonight. You didn't meet everybody Joe there as well. 106 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,440 Hello, h and that one is the Lupui Beloka, get out of your 107 00:08:52,480 --> 00:09:01,679 head. Hello to Joe Rock. Here's your cigarette orlanda. You know I 108 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,679 like you. You've got a class. I owe it all to the Continental 109 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:11,879 Television. So you from a USA some of the Yes, I'm gonna make 110 00:09:11,919 --> 00:09:15,639 a picture there. The looker, he's a riding it now. A beautiful 111 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,879 story, Joe. It is just beautiful. If you like it, Joe, 112 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,200 he's about your telling it. The looker. Now this young girl, 113 00:09:22,279 --> 00:09:26,759 Joe, she picks orange, great oranges? Great? No, I'm a 114 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,480 right picked grape, says I'm jumping on grapes in my bad feet. You 115 00:09:30,639 --> 00:09:35,759 kind to drop on orange? Just the who what to jump on? Looking 116 00:09:35,919 --> 00:09:45,600 out of this? Come on, god, I'm god. You are a 117 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,039 new chap here, aren't you. Yeah. The name is Mitchell, Steve 118 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,720 Mitchell. Oh, I'm chipping. I have no jokes. And this is 119 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:52,759 Georgie. I can't remember his last name. I asked Steve, just call 120 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,039 his yarns. Why is this business about her rights? I was trying to 121 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:01,159 tell Joe the story of my next pictures about a girl who kick purb but 122 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,320 on his hard working and all that sort of stuff. Eh, A proud 123 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,159 stout heart beating me with her tattered sweatshirt, falls in love with a gentleman 124 00:10:07,279 --> 00:10:11,399 farmer named Rodney. He's a cat, of course. What's old? Are 125 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:13,879 you? I say? Really, that's a bit of old hat. You 126 00:10:13,919 --> 00:10:16,159 know what's all I had forgot to do with it. You don't know this 127 00:10:16,279 --> 00:10:18,039 story at all. No have to hear about it by all means, by 128 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:22,399 day. I please your feet? Okay, while are you down there? 129 00:10:22,399 --> 00:10:26,080 You aren't done? My stand. My feet are killing me. It's jumping 130 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:37,360 on those loudly grayes. Well Yolanda launches into a dramatic account of the plot, 131 00:10:37,399 --> 00:10:39,679 a tender, heart warming story of love, reread and hate among the 132 00:10:39,759 --> 00:10:43,960 smite spikes. Suddenly the Cilandor swings open. A short, heavy set Chance 133 00:10:45,039 --> 00:10:48,440 stands there with a mask over his face for forty five and one hand a 134 00:10:48,519 --> 00:10:52,879 small satchel in the other. Hi, what are you doing? What's shut 135 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,039 up? Sister? This is a heist? What is said he's doing? 136 00:10:56,159 --> 00:11:00,279 I stick up yorlander. Hold up, there's the big gents. Let's have 137 00:11:00,399 --> 00:11:03,960 your wallets watch his rings. Anything that will bring a book them in there 138 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:05,720 now, josh them in his sports. Let's get with it. I ain't 139 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:09,799 got all night you first, Mac, sure, only call me George. 140 00:11:09,919 --> 00:11:18,840 Huh, that's me sports George. Okay, George, get up, don't 141 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,200 try that again. See next one of your gents gets funny ones up with 142 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:33,240 a slug in him. Now come on, shut out a little gen picks 143 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:35,360 up the bag, backs out of the room, and then he's gone. 144 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:39,799 I take three quick steps to the door, stick my head outside the log 145 00:11:39,919 --> 00:11:43,200 chips a hunk of mahogany just over my head. Then I hear footsteps going 146 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,320 down the gangplank. I take off on the double Perdie Hall is right behind 147 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:50,039 me. Do you see him? Mitchell? I think it duffed around the 148 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:56,080 warehouse. Come on, we'll cut to here. Hold it? What is 149 00:11:56,159 --> 00:12:07,919 it? Coming up alongside the building and he's in a hurry. A good 150 00:12:07,039 --> 00:12:11,879 work, Mitchell. Let's have a look at you. I got a lighthoule. 151 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,279 Yes, yes, here we are, Michell. What's the matter you 152 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:22,320 recognize this? Gent? Albert Bob the newspaper man. Oh Bobby, you 153 00:12:22,399 --> 00:12:28,039 are right, Oh, oh, monsieur hole it's you. Huh? Where 154 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,320 is he? He must all get away now, let let me go. 155 00:12:31,039 --> 00:12:33,759 Who are you talking about? The man who hoped those about the yet I 156 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,000 hired the you hired him? What does always mean? Bob? It was 157 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:41,320 a plan that the manner you gave me to place under the bridge last night, 158 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:43,960 monsieur, I had marked. Don't you see you staged this hold up 159 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,960 and hope you trace the mark money We well, you are trying to bring 160 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:52,840 the wallets to me all the screwball. Look, Bobby, where does he 161 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:56,000 hang out? Oh? A small hotel not far from you, the man. 162 00:12:56,039 --> 00:13:07,519 We better get over there fast. We hustle over to a broken down 163 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:09,279 hotel in the water front cove and the hall. Hurry into the lobby and 164 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:13,440 while Bve conducts an arm waving conversation with the man behind the desk, I 165 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,200 duck down the alley and back of the hotel. I don't have long to 166 00:13:16,279 --> 00:13:22,679 wait our hold up friend scoots out the back door and I grabbed my Sure 167 00:13:22,879 --> 00:13:26,679 he's a small gentle. His left has a shock of a pile driver. 168 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:28,559 I'm setting him up for a right cross when I put slips on the wet 169 00:13:28,639 --> 00:13:31,360 coddlestone and as I go downy plumps me out the side of the head with 170 00:13:35,399 --> 00:13:39,240 I'm sitting on the curb rubbing my ear when Hall and Bovey come pounding up. 171 00:13:41,039 --> 00:13:45,120 Mitchell, are you all right? Yes, but our friend got away. 172 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:48,519 He left this though. Ah, let me a beat. You would 173 00:13:48,519 --> 00:13:52,320 see my plan was not such a bad one. Off the hole. Ah, 174 00:13:52,279 --> 00:13:54,919 look, get money, Yes, yes, here has a bee I 175 00:13:56,080 --> 00:14:03,919 marked another and another. Oh suck. Yeah. Your plan called for us 176 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:07,399 to find that marked money in somebody's wallet, and we'd have our culprit. 177 00:14:07,759 --> 00:14:09,960 The money is here, all right, But where are the wallet? He 178 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:13,759 must have honed them away. Now we are right back where we stopped home. 179 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:33,320 Steve Mitchobo continue his dangerous assignment in just a moment. Have you started 180 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:35,399 your Christmas wishing yet? Well? This is the season for it, the 181 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:39,240 season when we wish we could do the most for our families, our friends, 182 00:14:39,279 --> 00:14:41,720 and our loved ones. All of us express that wish when we say 183 00:14:41,759 --> 00:14:46,039 those joyous words A Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you. But 184 00:14:46,159 --> 00:14:50,799 as the old song says, wishing won't make it so how much better it 185 00:14:50,799 --> 00:14:52,399 would be if you could really do something to make that wish come true. 186 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,720 Well, the point is you can do something. You can buy Christmas seals. 187 00:14:58,399 --> 00:15:01,559 Yes, Christmas Seal money helps pay for chest x ray campaigns which search 188 00:15:01,639 --> 00:15:05,039 out those who have TB and don't know it so they can be treated to 189 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:11,240 save their lives and to protect yours. The Christmas Seals you buy today may 190 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,919 help to find through chest X rays some of the one hundred and fifty thousand 191 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:20,399 persons in our country who have TV without knowing it. Finding their TV early 192 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:24,960 when it's easiest to cure may mean many happy New Years to come for them. 193 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:28,879 Wishing won't help that. Buying Christmas Seals will buy Christmas seals, and 194 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:41,679 you turn wishes into good health. Now back to dangerous assignment and Brian don 195 00:15:41,799 --> 00:15:54,519 Levy as Steve Mitchell whan backfired. Bobe, you're a hired stick up man 196 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:58,120 dumped all the money out of the wallet. Now we don't know whose wallet 197 00:15:58,159 --> 00:16:00,679 the mark money came out of. Let's see, five hundred bucks of the 198 00:16:00,759 --> 00:16:03,320 money in this statue is Mark. Well, the rest of it must be 199 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:08,039 hidden above the yacht somewhere could be Okay, suppose you start on Operation Ashcan. 200 00:16:08,159 --> 00:16:11,559 Bobet Paul and I'll see what we can pick up. Back at the 201 00:16:11,639 --> 00:16:15,519 yacht, Operation ash Can what does these check all the ash cans between the 202 00:16:15,559 --> 00:16:18,799 dock and the hotel where you're a stickup boy was hiding out. See if 203 00:16:18,799 --> 00:16:22,720 you can find those wallets, could be some of that marked money stuck to 204 00:16:22,799 --> 00:16:33,240 one of them. Paul and I head back to the yacht Yolanda Chipping and 205 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:36,200 George or in the lounge. I put the satchel on the table and tell 206 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:38,200 them we tracked down the stick up man. That he got away, but 207 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:42,360 we recovered the money. How much money was there? About two thousand dollars, 208 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,879 George, Most of it was in this satchel, but there was five 209 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:48,000 hundred in his coat pocket. Just what I lost, Sport, Thank you 210 00:16:48,159 --> 00:16:52,360 very much. Oh you're sure about the amount of sure, I'm sure. 211 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,919 Well there it is. Help yourselves. You wonder how much did you lose? 212 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:57,919 You remember a couple of hundred? Joe Chipping, Well, it's a 213 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:02,159 bit hard to say. I've stumbled across some rare fines in niece, and 214 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,359 I'm not sure how much they've cost me. Rare fines. He's a book 215 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,960 collector, Joe Dull. Then you don't know how much you had in your 216 00:17:08,079 --> 00:17:11,519 wallet? Well, not more than three hundred, I should say, see, 217 00:17:11,759 --> 00:17:15,279 I don't carry a great deal of cash on these trips. Let us 218 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,759 credit that sort of thing. Oh, I should have so much credit. 219 00:17:18,799 --> 00:17:22,440 He's a dirty rich joke, you know, a filthy rich darling, dirty 220 00:17:22,519 --> 00:17:25,960 filthy. He'll never be cleaned. Huh oh fine, where's the looker? 221 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:27,680 Oh he's a tender, he was. No feelings are hot? No, 222 00:17:27,839 --> 00:17:30,799 nothing like losing some money to make the Luca nor feel so hot. Well, 223 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,480 look for a few of these bills in his oxygen tent. It may 224 00:17:33,519 --> 00:17:37,240 snap him out of it. You got a good sense of humor too. 225 00:17:37,519 --> 00:17:40,960 Oh, I'm a riot, Josephine, I got a good idea. Why 226 00:17:41,039 --> 00:17:42,960 you don't come with that? Will you sure? On the cruise, we're 227 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:45,720 shoving over about an hour. Oh are you heading? Oh? I thought 228 00:17:45,759 --> 00:17:49,680 we stop at Corsica and the Naples and what then we split up? I 229 00:17:49,759 --> 00:17:53,680 gotta go back at works. Okay, thanks for the invitation. In Landa, 230 00:17:53,720 --> 00:18:04,359 you've got yourself another passenger. We shove off and along about dark, 231 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:08,400 everybody gathers in the lounge for cocktails, everybody but me. I figured this 232 00:18:08,519 --> 00:18:12,039 is my chance to start searching the stake rings. And George what's his name 233 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:15,920 is currently at the top of my suspect list because of the way he tried 234 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,640 to stop the hold up, and later a prompt claim he put in for 235 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:22,000 the five hundred bucks. So I give his cabin a frisk, but I 236 00:18:22,039 --> 00:18:26,640 can't find anything. I step out in the passageway and turn to close the 237 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:30,319 door behind me. Suddenly something hard connects the back of my ear. It 238 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:33,680 talks me to my knees. I can hear somebody taking off down the passageway. 239 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:36,720 I stagger to my feet and brush the cobwebs out of my brain, 240 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:42,279 and then found along the passageway around the corner rough Mitchell. I came below 241 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:45,680 to warn you warned me. Yes, I saw De Luca leave the lounge 242 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,359 a few minutes ago. I thought he might have come down here. I 243 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:52,000 see what happened. They got hit on their head. Must have been to 244 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:55,960 Lucah. Maybe he could go off in a hurry. Did you find anything 245 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,960 in Georgia's state room. I'll try Bovats next. Wait a minute, sounds 246 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,960 like they're all coming below to change for dinner. Right, Okay, it 247 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:14,759 looks like I'll have to wait for another chance. But I don't get another 248 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:18,359 chance. That night, after dinner Orlando wants to play charade, so we 249 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:22,640 all have to choose upsides Lale. Hopefully the Hindos sits in one corner, 250 00:19:22,759 --> 00:19:26,359 cracking walnuts and keeping score. When the game finally breaks up, everybody turns 251 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,720 in, so I'm out of luck. The next morning, when I come 252 00:19:29,759 --> 00:19:33,519 out on deck, Corsica is in sight. Orlando and the Luca are standing 253 00:19:33,559 --> 00:19:37,319 at the rail. This is my home, aland the Corsica. All night 254 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:40,680 I dream about it. A great island to be che home up, great 255 00:19:40,799 --> 00:19:47,319 people. You and Napoleon. Preez put a Napoleon first Napoleon enemy, Poor 256 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:49,440 de Luca. He thought he was gonna be one and one Napoleon during the 257 00:19:49,519 --> 00:19:53,279 war. Not Oh, he's a sore right to Joe. Instead of the 258 00:19:53,319 --> 00:19:56,480 battle, see, he got a desk job and with the liaison officer in 259 00:19:56,599 --> 00:20:07,799 Berlin. The word Berlin hits me like a hammer. That little black book 260 00:20:07,799 --> 00:20:10,960 which started this whole deal used to be in the custody of a Nazi named 261 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,440 Hertzog in Berlin. The Luca could have hooked up with him there. At 262 00:20:14,519 --> 00:20:17,319 this point, he seems to be edding George out of the top spot on 263 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,359 my list. An hour later, we dug in. The happy little group 264 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:23,079 streams off the yacht for a gay day ashore. But the trouble is they 265 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:26,839 insist that I have screamed along with them. In the middle of the afternoon, 266 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,839 we split up. I get back to the yacht first with Yolanda and 267 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,240 George. I'm just starting up along the deck when I spot Chipping coming up 268 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:37,000 the gangplank with a couple of books under his arm and waving his cane frantically 269 00:20:37,079 --> 00:20:41,200 as made Mitchell A fine, a fine, the positive fine of what I 270 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:45,279 was browsing in the bookshop, and I just happened to stumble across these. 271 00:20:45,319 --> 00:20:48,200 Can you imagine? What are they? Ancient textbooks of the gladiator school that's 272 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:52,759 where fencing really started. You know, Look look here, man, You 273 00:20:52,799 --> 00:20:56,400 see these inner stations. See that it's been the prevalent theory that the glide 274 00:20:56,559 --> 00:21:00,359 or sliding thrust. It is a comparatively recently but because it's the same thing. 275 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,039 Look, I'll show you what my cane. You go like this, 276 00:21:03,599 --> 00:21:08,079 Hey, look take that cane and I'm terrible. I trust when I should 277 00:21:08,079 --> 00:21:11,519 have blied. As long as I know, that makes everything all right. 278 00:21:11,799 --> 00:21:14,680 Now try your thrust on somebody else. Will you, Yes, yes I 279 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:21,759 will. I'm a fine show. Yeah you do that, Oh de Luca, 280 00:21:22,079 --> 00:21:23,480 I didn't see you standing there. Hey, come with to look for 281 00:21:23,559 --> 00:21:26,319 you, j Lena says, Tell everybody cocktail. Okay, tell her. 282 00:21:26,319 --> 00:21:33,680 I'll be along in a couple of minutes. I stay up on deck until 283 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,680 I see all of them come up to the lounge, and I head below. 284 00:21:42,559 --> 00:21:45,079 The Lucas State Room is first on my list. I go over it 285 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,319 carefully, but there's no sign of the money. I moved to Chipping's room 286 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:52,440 next to it and search it nothing. I know. I've got to work 287 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,079 fast before they miss me. Alanda's room is next. I give it a 288 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,359 thorough friss, but I'm getting nowhere of them. I spot something in her 289 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:03,119 waist basket, a piece of green string. Suddenly I remember Chippings books had 290 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,519 been tied with green string. I remember something else too. There was no 291 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:10,319 sign of those books in Chippings stateroom. I look around your Landa's room. 292 00:22:10,559 --> 00:22:12,920 There's a bookcase built in the one wall. I go over to it. 293 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:17,599 Those lower shelves are crammed with novels. But then on the top shelf I 294 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,480 spot what I'm looking for. At Chipping's rare books on fencing. I climb 295 00:22:21,559 --> 00:22:25,240 up on a chair, pull one of them out. Yeah, the pages 296 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,079 have been cut away and the book is full of money. Nice work, 297 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:32,680 my true. Hell hello Chipping, Yes, as a plaid, I might 298 00:22:32,759 --> 00:22:36,200 find you here. Please stay right where you are off at the moment. 299 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,400 So you're the boy who's been running the racket. I told you I was 300 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:42,279 a book collector. Hertzogs that a black book has a prominent place in my 301 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:47,240 collection. Amazing how the people whose names are listed and it were paid to 302 00:22:47,319 --> 00:22:51,000 keep anything from happening to friends in Eastern Europe, like Hall for instance. 303 00:22:51,319 --> 00:22:53,759 This money is what you got from him, isn't it. Yes, I 304 00:22:53,839 --> 00:22:56,720 suspected you were searching everyone's room, so I thought the books would be a 305 00:22:56,759 --> 00:23:00,119 good hiding place. At the last place you look would be in your Landa's 306 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,119 room. If I hadn't spotted the string, I probably wouldn't have thought of 307 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:07,839 it. Oh he was crying of a spilled string. No harm done. 308 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,119 Since you're the only one who knows. How do you have any of those 309 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:18,319 books? Okay? Here have some more. Sorry. Oh I'll take that 310 00:23:18,519 --> 00:23:21,680 gun. Hard to shoot with a face full of books, isn't it chipping 311 00:23:22,839 --> 00:23:26,799 books, Mitchell. Yeah, kind of a dirty trick sweeping a shelf pull 312 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,559 down on you. But after all, you made such a point to being 313 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,680 a book collector, I thought I'd just add a few more to your collection. 314 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:48,440 The Hard Way, our star Brian Don Lavaue will return in just a 315 00:23:48,519 --> 00:23:52,319 moment. Fresh new comedy material to keep you laughing all evening long is what 316 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:56,680 you'll hear every Tuesday Night on this NBC station. Yes, Tuesday brings such 317 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,599 stellar programs as Fiber McGee and Molly red Skelton Show, The Dean Martin and 318 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,119 Jerry Lewis Show, and Two for the Money. You'll enjoy them all on 319 00:24:04,279 --> 00:24:08,519 NBC. Fiber and Molly have been entertaining you from seventy nine Wistful Vista for 320 00:24:08,599 --> 00:24:12,839 more than fifteen years, and they still bring you chuckling good comedy each Tuesday 321 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:17,960 Night. That clown of Clown's Red Skelton brings you a three ring circus of 322 00:24:18,039 --> 00:24:22,319 laughs with Junior, the Mean Little Kid, Califlower, mcpug and Willie Lumplump. 323 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:26,119 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are the mad cap comedians and our Tuesday night 324 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,319 lineup and you never know what to expect next from they team to bring you 325 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:33,440 a half hour of top comedy listening. Then, of course, Herb Shriner 326 00:24:33,799 --> 00:24:37,359 is the power behind two for the Money, and his power is to make 327 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,079 you feel at home with his down to earth humor. So keep your date 328 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:45,279 with our terrific Tuesday Night lineup and set your dial to NBC next Tuesday and 329 00:24:45,599 --> 00:25:03,839 every Tuesday for Tops in Comedy Entertainment. Next week Austria A boarder Incident with 330 00:25:03,079 --> 00:25:07,359 Me in the Middle. That will be Steve Mitchell's dangerous assignment next week. 331 00:25:18,079 --> 00:25:22,039 Included in tonight's cast were Howard McNair, Buddy lou Gerson, Nester Parver, 332 00:25:22,319 --> 00:25:40,519 Ben Wright, and Paul Duball. This is John Storm Speaking Dangerous Assignments, 333 00:25:40,519 --> 00:25:44,720 starring Brian don Levy as Steve Mitchell with Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, is 334 00:25:44,759 --> 00:25:49,079 written by Bob Ryp and Adrian John Doe and is directed by Bill carn Be 335 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,839 with us again next week at the same time, when Brian don Levy is 336 00:25:52,839 --> 00:26:11,920 starring in the role of Steve Mitchell will embark on another transcribed dangerous assignment Tomorrow. 337 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:30,759 You're both Judy Canova and Truth or Consequences on NBC Welcome back. It's 338 00:26:30,839 --> 00:26:33,640 a good rule of thumb that a secret agent can make anything a weapon, 339 00:26:33,799 --> 00:26:38,640 and that does certainly include a room full of books. Now, one of 340 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:45,160 the weirdest naming choices I've heard in Old time radio is the choice in this 341 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:51,559 episode to name a character Chippies. The last name would have been associated in 342 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:56,319 the minds of most listeners with the hero of the famous James Hilton novel Goodbye 343 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:03,319 Mister Champs, about a beloved British school teacher. There had been a well 344 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:08,480 received film adaptation that had won Robert donnot a Best Actor Oscar, and of 345 00:27:08,599 --> 00:27:14,599 course there have been adaptations since. Using the last name for a character and 346 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,079 a spy drama, and as the villain knows less is certainly a choice. 347 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,880 But I guess we now know what would have happened had mister Chips chosen a 348 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:29,039 life of crime and villainy. Now we turn to listener comments and feedback, 349 00:27:29,079 --> 00:27:33,920 and we received a couple of notes along with the donations. Sherry riots love 350 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:38,000 the podcast, so thankful for you and the podcast God bless well. Thank 351 00:27:38,079 --> 00:27:41,640 you, Sherry, and Mike says I love your shows. I listened to 352 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:47,960 them every night. Thank you for doing this, and then received an email 353 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,720 from Rob Rob Ritts. Some time ago. I was listening to one of 354 00:27:52,839 --> 00:27:59,680 your shows and heard a very sarcastic and salty detective who once said you couldn't 355 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,720 find a grizzly bear in a phone booth to a cop. It wasn't a 356 00:28:03,839 --> 00:28:08,160 common name like Detective Friday, and I don't think it was Barry Craig or 357 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:12,119 Sam Spade. Do you have any idea who it was? Well, thanks 358 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:17,920 for the question, Rob, And it sounded like Patnovak for Hire, although 359 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,559 the quotes sounded like it might have been said more recently, but I couldn't 360 00:28:22,599 --> 00:28:26,559 think of anyone who might have said it. And I did find it. 361 00:28:26,799 --> 00:28:33,359 It is Patnovak for hire. It's you couldn't track down a live mayor in 362 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,599 a telephone booth. And I was able to verify that on the Patnovak for 363 00:28:37,799 --> 00:28:44,400 Hire quotes page, and you can find that just doing a search for Patnovac 364 00:28:44,559 --> 00:28:49,119 quotes. And there's a really good website, Patnovak dot fifty webs dot com. 365 00:28:49,559 --> 00:28:55,480 And I started this podcast in two thousand and nine and that website was 366 00:28:55,599 --> 00:28:59,279 still around. It has not, as far as I can tell, hasn't 367 00:28:59,319 --> 00:29:03,000 been updated, but it has still been there for all these years, maintaining 368 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:08,200 the wit and wisdom of Pat Novak for generations to come. Finally, we 369 00:29:08,359 --> 00:29:12,960 have a comment from our listeners, Survey bill Wright's great show with a nice 370 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:18,440 amount of variety. Thanks so much, Bell. And now it's time to 371 00:29:18,519 --> 00:29:22,160 thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead and 372 00:29:22,279 --> 00:29:26,559 thank Susie. Susie's been one of our Patreon supporters since September, currently supporting 373 00:29:26,599 --> 00:29:32,279 the podcast at the shamous level of four dollars or more per month. Thank 374 00:29:32,359 --> 00:29:34,880 you so much for your support, Susie, and that will do it for 375 00:29:36,039 --> 00:29:41,039 today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast 376 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:45,720 software. And if you're enjoying the podcast on YouTube, be sure to like 377 00:29:45,839 --> 00:29:48,200 the video, subscribe to the channel, and if you like, leave a 378 00:29:48,319 --> 00:29:53,200 comment. We'll be back next Wednesday with another episode of Dangerous Assignment. But 379 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:59,200 join us back here tomorrow for mister Chameleon, where if you think you're being 380 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,480 an office of the law or gives you license to persecu'd be mister Wentworth. 381 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,920 I am here to ask questions and get answers, So I repeat, do 382 00:30:06,039 --> 00:30:10,200 you believe your daughter killed her husband? Certainly not. She couldn't have. 383 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:11,839 She was here alone with him when he was killed. Who else could have 384 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,720 done it? I have no idea. All I know is that my daughter, 385 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:22,440 Tina didn't all right, tell me exactly what happened. I heard shots, 386 00:30:22,119 --> 00:30:26,559 heard my daughter scream. I opened the door and saw Pierre lying there 387 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,000 dead. Where's the gun that killed him? The gun? I didn't see 388 00:30:30,039 --> 00:30:34,000 any who besides your daughter and yourself was in this room after the murder. 389 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,680 And did anyone come into the room and leave it? We were the only 390 00:30:37,759 --> 00:30:41,079 ones in the room, and nobody left it. Mister chameleon. Where's your 391 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:45,279 daughter now? Mister? I took her into another room, the one adjoining 392 00:30:45,359 --> 00:30:48,039 this, so both of you left the room together, and neither Tina nor 393 00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:51,480 I took the gun. I tell you I never even saw a gun. 394 00:30:51,599 --> 00:30:53,519 So if you think the gun was used to kill this man and somebody took 395 00:30:53,599 --> 00:30:56,680 it, I must say the situation is very strange. I hope you'll be 396 00:30:56,839 --> 00:31:02,079 with us then in the meantime, do you say your comments to Box thirteen 397 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:07,440 at Greatdetectives dot net, Follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check 398 00:31:07,519 --> 00:31:12,319 us out on Instagram. Instagram, dot com, slash great detectives from Boise, 399 00:31:12,519 --> 00:31:17,000 Adaho. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.