1 00:00:28,359 --> 00:00:35,520 Welcome to this week's Sunday Encore. This week we'll be featuring a classic story 2 00:00:36,079 --> 00:00:43,920 starring Edgar Allen Poe's famous detective August Dupon, as well as a bonus story. 3 00:00:44,079 --> 00:00:47,159 If you want to hear the rest of our Dupon stories, they are 4 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:53,719 on our Old Time Radio Mystery Specials feed and also included as part of our 5 00:00:53,840 --> 00:01:00,320 Volume two feed from season four at Volume two dot Great Actives dot net. 6 00:01:00,799 --> 00:01:06,920 And as a reminder, any offers and websites mentioned in the podcast may not 7 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:11,719 be valid, please refer to our current website. And now we bring you 8 00:01:11,799 --> 00:01:18,159 today's Encore. Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, 9 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:21,640 Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. 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We're going to take a look 17 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:07,439 at the earliest fictional detective stories written by Edgar Allan Poe from eighteen forty one 18 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:15,159 to eighteen forty four and featuring August Dupon. Hour before we get started, 19 00:02:15,199 --> 00:02:20,520 I came across a radio program kind of interesting. It's an episode of can 20 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:27,520 You Imagine That? Can You Imagine That? Was a nineteen forty radio program 21 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:36,000 syndicated and this was from its thirty fifth episode, and host Lindsey McCarey included 22 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:42,599 a segment on what he considered the earliest detective story. So let's go ahead 23 00:02:42,599 --> 00:02:47,080 and we will take a listen to can You Imagine That's adaptation of Bell and 24 00:02:47,120 --> 00:04:19,040 the Dragon. Then think, what would be your guest as to the oldest 25 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,720 detective story in the world. Well, I think I've found it. At 26 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:26,439 least I'll challenge anyone to find an older detective story. One of the books 27 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,240 of the Apocryphae in the original King James version of the Bible is entitled The 28 00:04:30,319 --> 00:04:32,319 History of the Destruction of Bell and the Dragon. And in this book, 29 00:04:32,319 --> 00:04:35,399 I believe you'll find the oldest detective story in the world. We're going to 30 00:04:35,439 --> 00:04:44,680 dramatize it for you, and here it is now. The Babylonians had an 31 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:48,560 idol called Bell. They were spent upon him every day twelve great measures of 32 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:54,079 fine flour, and forty sheep, and six vessels of wine. The king 33 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,720 worshiped it, but Daniel worshiped his own God, and said, unto the 34 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,759 King, O King, be not, for this is but play within and 35 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:06,040 brass without, and did never eat or drink anything. What sayest thou, 36 00:05:06,959 --> 00:05:15,800 o, my priest, Come, hilly priests of Babilon. If ye tell 37 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,800 me not who this is that devoureth these expenses, ye shall die. But 38 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:24,920 if ye can certify me that bel devoureth them, then Daniel shall die, 39 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:30,639 for he hath spoken blasphemy against Bell. What sayest thou Daniel, can it 40 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:39,680 be according to thy word? Come then to the temple of Bell, Then 41 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:44,000 said the high priest of Bell. We go out, But thou King, 42 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,519 set on the meat, and make ready the wine, and shut the dwarf 43 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:51,120 fest and seal it with thine own signet. And tomorrow when thou comest him, 44 00:05:51,439 --> 00:05:56,079 if thou findest not that Bell has eaten a fall, we will suffer 45 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:02,000 death or else, Daniel, that speaketh palsely against us. So when they 46 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,360 were gone forth the King set meats before bell. Now Daniel had commanded his 47 00:06:06,439 --> 00:06:11,160 servants to bring ashes, and those they strewed throughout all the temple in the 48 00:06:11,199 --> 00:06:14,720 presence of the king alone. Then they went out and shut the door and 49 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,000 sealed it with the king's signet, and so departed in the morning. Betime, 50 00:06:18,399 --> 00:06:24,920 oh seest thou Daniel, the meets in the wine are gone. Great 51 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:29,040 art thou, o Bell, and with THEE is no dee seat at all. 52 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,319 Ha ha, Hold, o King, and turn up the temple. 53 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:36,000 Hearest thou up on the floor where my servants have strewed the ashes. Behold 54 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:40,839 now the pavement, and mark well whose footsteps are these? I see the 55 00:06:40,879 --> 00:06:46,600 footsteps of men, women and children? E priests? What mean these footsteps? 56 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,720 O? King? Forgive us, for we have sinned against thee. 57 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:55,639 What meanest thou priests see we have made under the table a secret staw through 58 00:06:55,680 --> 00:07:00,639 this store we have made in three by night we our wives and children. 59 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,879 We have eaten of the meats and drunk of the wine. Now has set 60 00:07:02,959 --> 00:07:18,399 before bed. Then you post she'll die. Thus, by spreading ashes on 61 00:07:18,439 --> 00:07:21,839 the floor of the temple, Daniel proved the hoax perpetrated by the priests of 62 00:07:21,879 --> 00:07:26,079 Bell and saved his own life. And ladies and gentlemen, I maintained this 63 00:07:26,199 --> 00:07:29,920 is the oldest detective story in the world, for it happened sixth centuries before 64 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:35,399 the birth of Christ. Welcome back. Well, definitely quite a few elements 65 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:43,120 present there and a pretty interesting program. Our main event today is the episode 66 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:56,600 of The Weird Circle. This was a wartime NBC transsyndicated series with mostly focused 67 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:07,040 on stories with an element of wour, but this one plays mostly strongly in 68 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:16,519 the original detective genre, in which in which basically Edgar Allen Poe created, 69 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:24,680 and we'll see here a lot of things are quite familiar in this adaptation of 70 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:30,439 the first of the Dupon stories. We don't have cancel lists, unfortunately, 71 00:08:31,079 --> 00:08:35,600 but we do know that according to the Digital Deli, this episode aired November 72 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:43,559 twentieth of nineteen forty three, and the title is the Murders in the Room 73 00:08:43,639 --> 00:09:09,480 Morgue The Weird Circle in this case with the Restless Sea, we are meant 74 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:16,600 to call from out of the pastest stories, strange and weird baller. Keeper 75 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:22,440 toll the bell so that all may know we are gathered again in the weird 76 00:09:22,919 --> 00:10:05,360 circle. W boy, we go again, the immortial tail, the more 77 00:10:13,159 --> 00:10:18,120 gentlemen, gentlemen, Please, may I have your attention to anyway? I 78 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,799 didn't ask you to come to my humble apartment tonight to endeavor to stun you 79 00:10:20,879 --> 00:10:24,879 with my superior knowledge of crime and criminals. I've asked your here only to 80 00:10:24,919 --> 00:10:30,279 prove to you that the murders in the room all present no great insoluble mystery. 81 00:10:30,399 --> 00:10:33,759 Monsieur du Pare you think the case is so obvious? Tell me who 82 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,600 is the murderer? He will be here shortly, Monsieur the Prefect the police. 83 00:10:37,799 --> 00:10:41,919 Who is it murderer here? Gentlemen, I give you my word, 84 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:43,559 as a man of honor, that he will be here in my apartment at 85 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:48,200 precisely ten o'clock this evening. How can you be so sure I have asked 86 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,879 him to come? It is exactly nine o'clock now, gentlemen, and in 87 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,879 the hour remaining to us before we meet the murderer, I shall explain to 88 00:10:56,919 --> 00:11:00,600 you as simply as I can how I managed to arrive at my conclusion. 89 00:11:00,799 --> 00:11:05,480 Yes, do Monsieur Dupins, I'm always interested in guess work. Guess work, 90 00:11:05,519 --> 00:11:09,200 my dear fellow, this is not guesswork. No, now, gentlemen, 91 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:13,200 let us retrace the case. The story begins if I'm not mistaken with 92 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:18,200 Madame less Bone and her daughter Camille on the afternoon of December sixteenth, eighteen 93 00:11:18,279 --> 00:11:22,000 forty one. Well, of course you're correct so far. Anyway, Dupin, 94 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:28,039 I vow monsieurle Prefect. Madame us Pone and her daughter Camille entered the 95 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:33,200 Bank of France at precisely two forty five in the afternoon to transact important business. 96 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,159 Oh, Madame Lessbonnet, I've been waiting for you, so good of 97 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,320 you, Monsieur Lebon. Have you met my daughter Camille? I don't think 98 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,440 I've had the pleasure. How do you do, mademoiselle, How do you 99 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:45,480 do, Monsieur Lebon. Are you quite sure, Madame Lesprenet, that you 100 00:11:45,519 --> 00:11:48,799 wish to withdraw all this money at this time? Quite positive? But four 101 00:11:48,799 --> 00:11:52,320 thousand francs is a great deal to keep about one's household, Madame. I'm 102 00:11:52,399 --> 00:11:56,200 quite aware of the danger involved, Monsieur Lebon. But if the bank keeps 103 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:00,519 this withdrawal, quiet, nobody else need know that I have a sum of 104 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:01,720 money in the house. Well, thanks, do get about, Madame. 105 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:07,080 There's no use inviting unnecessary danger. The danger is my problems you, lebon. 106 00:12:07,879 --> 00:12:11,960 I think we'd better let the matter drop with that. Have you any 107 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:16,879 protection against possible thievery at home? Madame, no, monsieur, but my 108 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:22,240 man I have protection enough. We both knock our doors. It's absolutely impossible 109 00:12:22,279 --> 00:12:24,759 for anybody to enter the house unless he should break the door down. W 110 00:12:24,879 --> 00:12:30,320 does any male protector live in the house. My husband died many years ago. 111 00:12:30,519 --> 00:12:33,720 No doubt misunderstands me. I'm only asking these questions for your own good. 112 00:12:33,279 --> 00:12:37,840 Two unprotected women living alone in a large house can invite troubled That is 113 00:12:39,039 --> 00:12:43,120 our problem. If Madame insists, and I do insist very well, Madame, 114 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,519 I have the money here. I myself will see you both home to 115 00:12:48,639 --> 00:12:52,440 ensure safe delivery. But let me warn you now, the minute you arrive 116 00:12:52,519 --> 00:12:58,600 in your home on the room Morgue, the Bank of France resigns all future 117 00:12:58,639 --> 00:13:09,639 responsibility. We understand, monsieur Lebon. We understand perfectly. So, gentlemen, 118 00:13:09,159 --> 00:13:15,200 the first step in this little tragedy was completed. Madamespanny and her daughter 119 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:20,039 insisted on taking the money home from the bank. Monsieur Lebon drove them in 120 00:13:20,039 --> 00:13:26,279 his carriage to their house, the large, bleak house number twelve Rumor. 121 00:13:26,519 --> 00:13:30,720 When they arrived there, Monsieur Lebon looked about to the gendarmes who was in 122 00:13:30,799 --> 00:13:43,080 charge of that particular block. May I help you out, mademoiselle commune, 123 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,960 Oh, thank you, Monsieur Leban, Madame, thank you, thank you? 124 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:50,399 Is that the gendarme on the corner of the gendarme usually on this block? 125 00:13:50,639 --> 00:13:54,039 Not having had any reason to talk to the gendarme Monsieur Lebon, I 126 00:13:54,039 --> 00:13:58,080 wouldn't know. Yes, I think it is, Monsieur Jona. Y're not 127 00:13:58,519 --> 00:14:03,559 all the fuss over a little money. Really, you'd think we were incapable 128 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:05,440 of taking care of ourselves. Well, I think mosie lea Ball is very 129 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:11,080 thoughtful. Mammo GenAm, Monsieur coming, Do you live on the first floor, 130 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:15,159 Madame less on the fourth floor? In the back of the house. 131 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:18,480 I own this house and I've shut up all the other rooms. You mean 132 00:14:18,519 --> 00:14:22,679 this entire house is unoccupied? It call me micheur, yes, I did. 133 00:14:22,759 --> 00:14:24,279 I want you to keep a special watch on this house for the next 134 00:14:24,279 --> 00:14:28,000 week. Or so, Madame less Pinet and her daughter will have a considerable 135 00:14:28,039 --> 00:14:31,759 amount of money in the house. I will watch the house like a watchdog. 136 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,000 You would be better off if you did it like a man. Then 137 00:14:35,039 --> 00:14:37,320 you'd use your head instead of your feet. Monsieur, what is your name? 138 00:14:37,399 --> 00:14:43,159 Jeaname Gendarmes a door, muse? Very well, Giendarme, is it 139 00:14:43,279 --> 00:14:48,200 or muse? I leave these ladies in your care. You needn't worry about 140 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:54,159 a thing, Mademoiselle, and Madam I'm sure we won't. That is, 141 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,960 as long as you don't spread the news around the neighborhood that we've got four 142 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,879 thousand francs hidden here in the house. Oh me, Madame, I am 143 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:07,440 the law, and your secret is safe with me. Come along, Mamma 144 00:15:07,639 --> 00:15:11,360 getting hungry, yest, thank you so much for all you've done, Monsieur 145 00:15:11,399 --> 00:15:16,759 lebon. It is nothing, mademoiselle, nothing at all, just a courtesy 146 00:15:16,879 --> 00:15:20,639 extended by the Bank of France. I'll keep good watch. Be assured of 147 00:15:20,679 --> 00:15:30,200 that. I'll keep very good watch. Well, gentlemen, gentlemen, let 148 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,519 us proceed to the next event. Young d Arme isidore, muse kept a 149 00:15:33,639 --> 00:15:39,519 very good watch and number twelve um at eleven o'clock, the evening of the 150 00:15:39,559 --> 00:15:43,679 tragedy, he strolled into the shop two doors away from Number twelve to buy 151 00:15:43,679 --> 00:15:46,399 a pouch of tobacco and to chat with his very good friend Pierre Moreau, 152 00:15:46,879 --> 00:15:52,120 a tiny man known as the neighborhood goussin. Good evening, a good evening, 153 00:15:52,159 --> 00:15:54,600 good evening, friend, is it? Or good evening? Day evening. 154 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,559 I've been waiting for you. Yes, I've been waiting for you. 155 00:15:56,879 --> 00:16:00,240 You usually dropped in at nine o'clock. And I said to myself, as 156 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:03,159 I sat here waiting for you, I said, deck, where's my good 157 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:07,000 friend? Is a door? It's been a busy evening this evening, That's 158 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,600 what I said to myself. If is a door doesn't drop in to buy 159 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,000 his usual box of tobacco, he's busy. There must be big news abroad. 160 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:18,960 But then how could there be big news abroad on this blot. That's 161 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:23,200 what I said. You were wrong here, very wrong, wrong, Eh, 162 00:16:23,759 --> 00:16:32,200 there is big news? Severing? Nod No, Well, then I 163 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:37,840 give up. It's a secret secret. What could be a secret. Somebody 164 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:41,679 got married, that's no secret. Somebody died, that's no secret. Either. 165 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:45,559 A child is ill, a contagious disease, an epidemic, or Paris 166 00:16:45,559 --> 00:16:51,919 will be infected. No, but I can't guess if you promise not to 167 00:16:52,039 --> 00:16:59,440 tell a soul, not a soul. Well, Madame Lesbiger and her daughter 168 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:06,279 Camille have withdrawn four thousand francs from the bank today and have it hidden in 169 00:17:06,319 --> 00:17:12,200 the house somewhere. No, and I must stand on God naturally, naturally, 170 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:17,319 but don't tell a soul. No, not a soul on honor, 171 00:17:17,519 --> 00:17:19,400 not a single soul. Is it my word, honor? I swear it 172 00:17:19,519 --> 00:17:26,200 now. And so by midnight, gentlemen, the entire neighborhood in the room 173 00:17:26,319 --> 00:17:30,920 Orgue was buzzing four thousand francs in the lesban A household. I hear it 174 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:34,599 with ten thousand two women, all of all. Imagine twenty thousand francs. 175 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:40,240 I wonder where all that jewelry must be, a velitable fortune hidden away? 176 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:44,039 Do you know what they say? She's got money hidden in every corner of 177 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:48,279 the house. Imagine almost a million francs in that house. I always knew 178 00:17:48,319 --> 00:17:52,759 there was something strange about those two women living all alone in a house like 179 00:17:52,839 --> 00:17:59,960 that, and in the rear fourth floor, Yes, sitting in the bedroom 180 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:04,440 to the fourth floor rear. But while the neighborhood was busy gossiping and chattering, 181 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:08,880 Mademoiselle Camille and her mother were completely unaware of the commotion they had caused. 182 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:15,559 It was almost three in the morning, Camille had just finished undressing, 183 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,000 and her mother was sitting in front of the mirror, brushing her hair so 184 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:26,480 that they didn't notice the window opening in back of them. Oh, I'm 185 00:18:26,519 --> 00:18:30,559 so tired, mamma, Poor Camille. It's been a very busy day. 186 00:18:32,839 --> 00:18:36,759 You know, I thought that Monsieur lebar was very nice. He seems fairly 187 00:18:36,799 --> 00:18:41,480 affable. Oh, mamma, fairly affable. I thought he was perfectly charming. 188 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:45,200 No concerned over us. No man ever gets that concerned over me. 189 00:18:45,839 --> 00:18:53,640 Must have been you, darling. All men sick? Look in the mirror, 190 00:18:53,759 --> 00:18:56,359 may calm, camell do't the night got a raise in his feet? 191 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:00,640 Oh, move, came that's hid. He's coming closer. Way, Kennan, 192 00:19:00,759 --> 00:19:04,640 Where should we go into the closet? Memo, mind to the cot 193 00:19:06,599 --> 00:19:48,759 close the door? How terrible, terrible, how awful? Quite right, 194 00:19:48,799 --> 00:19:52,440 gentlemen, simply ghastly. We fully realized that this is a horrible atrocity. 195 00:19:52,839 --> 00:19:57,319 But we must remain factual. While all this was going on on the fourth 196 00:19:57,319 --> 00:20:02,200 floor of number twelve, Loo morg the gendarme as a dorm you say, 197 00:20:02,519 --> 00:20:07,240 a little Tobacconi pire morole you c Lebon, who strangely enough, was in 198 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:12,160 the neighborhood at that very moment, and the passer by a sailor. All 199 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:17,079 four were attracted by the screams of the two women and immediately trying to break 200 00:20:17,079 --> 00:20:19,759 into number twelve. I'll stand back, everybody while I break the door down. 201 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,559 Stand back. This is a gendarme's job to break it down, his 202 00:20:23,599 --> 00:20:29,359 door, break it down. Follow me, everybody, I'll these stairs with 203 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:37,720 the ball floor right behind you, start right behind you. Coun this keep 204 00:20:37,799 --> 00:20:45,880 gone. Yeah, wait, wait, wait, listen, listen. He's 205 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,240 leaking Italian. No, it's less than this. No Italian, Pierre. 206 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:53,839 I think it's Polish. You know, police Lebon. You have heard Polish 207 00:20:53,880 --> 00:21:06,400 woman. No, No, but I think it's Italian, Russian and a 208 00:21:06,519 --> 00:21:11,119 lot of you know what you're talking about. It he stopped speaking, hasn't 209 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,400 he? Yes? Probably escaped hares Probably. I wonder try the door. 210 00:21:18,319 --> 00:21:22,680 Can you open this door? No, it's locked. I think we're too 211 00:21:22,759 --> 00:21:25,240 late. I'm sure of it. Say that I warned you about the gendarme. 212 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:36,200 Oh, let's let's break the door down one two. Look look what 213 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,839 all the entire romans wrecked, just exactly as if a maniac had torn up 214 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:44,559 the place. The bed's torn a podcast, I say, ol the seven 215 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,519 seas. But I've never seen a face look like this in my entire life. 216 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:52,880 Levon were Mademoiselle Camille and her mother? I don't know. They're not 217 00:21:52,960 --> 00:22:03,960 in here. Look where they're in the fireplace. This Mademoisellechemille, Yeah, 218 00:22:03,039 --> 00:22:15,240 yes, dead dead poor girl. Here help me, somebody help me lift 219 00:22:15,279 --> 00:22:21,000 her up. Look look how this window. The old woman is lying in 220 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:25,839 the courtyard below the same is right, absolutely right, She's lying in the 221 00:22:25,839 --> 00:22:29,400 courtyard below. Dead is a dead fish, oh, probably twice as dead. 222 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:33,519 Somebody is guilly of this somebody, and as a member of the Paris 223 00:22:33,599 --> 00:22:41,440 Police, I mean to find out who that guilty person is. Yes, 224 00:22:41,519 --> 00:22:48,759 gentlemen, is a dorm usage and swore up and down that he would find 225 00:22:48,799 --> 00:22:52,960 the murderer. Well, at four o'clock that morning, I was awakened from 226 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:56,880 a sound sleep and called to number twelve the More to examine the evidence. 227 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:03,039 Monsieur Gendarme was running around the room destroying the evidence, or at least what 228 00:23:03,079 --> 00:23:07,440 the little evidence there was, as fast as he unearthed it. The three 229 00:23:07,519 --> 00:23:11,240 gentlemen who had been there with him were still waiting around out of a combined 230 00:23:11,319 --> 00:23:18,319 feeling of horror and curiosity. The sailor whose name escaped me was sitting on 231 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:23,000 what was left of a bed, staring blankly around the room. Monsieur Pierre 232 00:23:23,039 --> 00:23:29,880 Morou, the tobacconist, was watching Isadorem museae the gendarmes play detective. He 233 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,400 played it badly, and Monsieur Lebon was a picture of dejection. I entered 234 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,880 the room and gazed about while Isadore supplied me with all the facts in the 235 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:42,880 case, at least from his point of view. And that is exactly what 236 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:48,480 happened, Monsieur Dublant. Very interesting, Monadore. Music. And now, 237 00:23:48,559 --> 00:23:53,119 gentlemen, I wish to ask just a few questions. Now, all of 238 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,759 you seem to think you heard the voice of the murder. Yes, yes, 239 00:23:56,799 --> 00:24:00,680 indeed, well we did definitely not about it. And you, monsieur, 240 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:06,359 you are positive that the murderer is an Italian? Positive, Monsieur Dupan, 241 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:12,480 absolutely positive. I could tell by his intonation. Do you speak Italian? 242 00:24:12,799 --> 00:24:17,440 Oh? No, definitely not. Have you ever heard Italian spoken? 243 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:25,759 No, Monsieur never, But I imagine you imagine what I imagine it would 244 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:30,559 sound like that. I see. And you, Missie Lebon, you said 245 00:24:30,599 --> 00:24:33,599 it was Polish. Definitely Polish, without a doubt, I judge you have 246 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,039 lived in Poland a long time at all all but I heard Polish spoken once 247 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:42,440 once. Yes, that makes you an excellent judge of the Polish language. 248 00:24:44,599 --> 00:24:48,119 How about you, Monsieur Pierremore. What language did you say? It was 249 00:24:48,559 --> 00:24:51,960 Russian? I thought that, but that's only a guess, since I admit, 250 00:24:52,079 --> 00:24:56,480 and I admitted very freely, I'm not a man to hedge. I've 251 00:24:56,519 --> 00:25:00,960 never heard a word of Russian in my light. I thought so. And 252 00:25:00,039 --> 00:25:03,680 how about you, Sir? I thought it was Dutch. I don't speak 253 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,880 the Dutch language, but I have heard a considerable amount of Dutch spoken when 254 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:14,920 I was in Holland eight years ago, eight years ago. I don't mean 255 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:19,720 to make a suggestion, Monsieur de Pant, but Monsieur Levon was the only 256 00:25:19,799 --> 00:25:25,000 man besides myself who knew about the money being kept in this house. What 257 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:30,680 are you insinuating Monsieur Muse, insinuating, I'm an officer of the law, 258 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:34,559 and I think it was very peculiar that you should just happen to be in 259 00:25:34,599 --> 00:25:40,480 this neighborhood at three o'clock in the morning. Don't you live in this neighborhood, 260 00:25:40,519 --> 00:25:41,839 Monsieur Levon, No, but I have good reason to be here. 261 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:47,920 Oh, so suppose you tell us, Well, I was worried about Mademoiselle 262 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:52,519 Camille. I was rather attracted to the young lady. And well, I 263 00:25:52,519 --> 00:25:55,680 had a feeling that there would be trouble over the money. Well, I 264 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,200 was in the corner cafe having some tea until about ten minutes before the murder 265 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:03,839 occurred, strolled by the house on your way home. Correct, quite correct, 266 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:07,720 My tobacco store is open all night. All tobacco stores are open all 267 00:26:07,799 --> 00:26:10,680 night, Monsieur Pierre Moro. I was just walking by. I didn't steal 268 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,880 the money. It was naturally nobody stole the money. It's in the safe 269 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,799 behind this wall. Are you positive, Monsieur Devan, perfectly obvious that the 270 00:26:18,839 --> 00:26:23,400 money hasn't been touched. These murders were far too cruel to be instigated by 271 00:26:23,519 --> 00:26:29,160 man's greedy desire for financial reward. Here, let me open the safe and 272 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:34,160 show you. I happen to know an interesting combination that will open any safe. 273 00:26:34,319 --> 00:26:40,160 I should have been a thief. So there, I don't open it. 274 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:47,759 Oh it did naturally. Now look there's the four thousand francs safe and 275 00:26:47,839 --> 00:26:51,119 snug is a four thousand franc group of notes? Should be well, Perhaps 276 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:55,720 Monsieur Lebaugh was interrupted in the midst of his severery. Perhaps he didn't have 277 00:26:55,799 --> 00:26:59,200 time to finish well runs in Monsieur Levaon was with you when you walked up 278 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,759 the stairs? Well? Oh, an accomplice perhaps? No? No, 279 00:27:02,759 --> 00:27:07,359 no, it's a door. Muse. Let me show you something. Look 280 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,480 at the fingerprints on this girl's neck. Very strong, heavy prints and very 281 00:27:11,559 --> 00:27:15,799 large too. Why. Yes, the murderer must have been a giant. 282 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:18,640 His head must have been twice as large as mine, and I have a 283 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,519 large hand his hands. Yes, yes, the murderer was a giant, 284 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:30,319 a giant with extraordinary strength. Gentlemen, I think now I have sufficient clues. 285 00:27:30,319 --> 00:27:33,720 Look at this window. It's just just a window, yes, just 286 00:27:33,759 --> 00:27:37,680 a window with a cord on it, A broken piece of cord. Clue 287 00:27:37,759 --> 00:27:44,920 number one. Clue number two. Look, look at the dead girl's hand. 288 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:51,640 Ah, she has some hair clutched in her hand. Quite correct. 289 00:27:51,799 --> 00:27:56,880 And with this cord and this hair, I can find the murderer. Gentlemen, 290 00:27:56,279 --> 00:28:00,960 go home, get a good night's sleep, and I'll hand the murderer 291 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:07,400 over to the prefect of police very soon. Monsieur, don't forget to mention 292 00:28:07,559 --> 00:28:18,559 that I helped you. I'm due for promotion soon. And so, monsieur, 293 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,720 that is the story. And you have the fact a piece of cord 294 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:26,960 and some hair. The condition of the room, the strength of the murderer, 295 00:28:27,079 --> 00:28:30,640 the passion of the deed, the lack of motivation, should all suggest 296 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,839 to you the very same thing it suggested to me. Monsieur dupin. You 297 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:41,200 are talking in circles. Circles You mean to say you still don't know who 298 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,519 the murderer is. No, of course I don't know, and frankly, 299 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:49,119 Monsieur duper, I don't think you know either. Really, gentlemen, really, 300 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:55,519 gentlemen, you amaze me. Here here, monsieur prefected, examine this 301 00:28:55,559 --> 00:28:57,960 piece of cord if you will. What do you make out of it? 302 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:06,559 Lord? Yes, well let me see, well appreciate well, nothing except 303 00:29:06,599 --> 00:29:11,519 that well, it's it's been tour it's been torn. Yes, try to 304 00:29:11,559 --> 00:29:15,680 tear it yourself? Well, try to? Well, I couldn't. It's 305 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:21,839 a very very strong cord. Ah notice anything else? Yes, now that 306 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:26,519 I look at it's got a very unusual knot in it. But what does 307 00:29:26,559 --> 00:29:30,240 an unusual not prove? You will see what I mean. Presently it's the 308 00:29:30,279 --> 00:29:34,240 first stroke of ten o'clock. Any minute now, gentlemen, the murderer will 309 00:29:34,359 --> 00:29:38,680 enter this room. Uh, may I please ask you to extinguish all the 310 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:45,839 candles in the room, all except one. Why if Monsieur dupar will all 311 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,640 be murdered, which would be no great tragedy. But I wouldn't worry if 312 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:55,400 I were cool, as you say, Monsieur dupint h. Extinguish the candles, 313 00:29:55,440 --> 00:30:07,640 gentlemen. Yes, now we are in some darkness. That is fine. 314 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:14,440 Listen, gentlemen. Downstairs, door to my ponce has opened and closed. 315 00:30:15,359 --> 00:30:22,279 The murderer is now downstairs. He is walking up the stairs. Now 316 00:30:22,319 --> 00:30:29,839 listen, listen to the head. Quiet, quiet, he's coming closer. 317 00:30:30,799 --> 00:30:34,000 Gentlemen, are you ready to grab him when he enters? Yes? That 318 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:41,119 is good. Good. He is standing outside my door now, mister Leo 319 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:49,319 perfected ready, gentlemen, Yes, I mean seven, Let me go, 320 00:30:49,839 --> 00:30:55,799 Let me go. So it is you, sailor. Help the sailor just 321 00:30:55,799 --> 00:31:03,240 sit down. But this sailor doesn't strong enough to commit these murders. Let 322 00:31:03,319 --> 00:31:07,319 me call. Please, please, please, don't study you see, sailor, 323 00:31:07,519 --> 00:31:11,079 Monsieur the Prefect cannot arrest you for the murder, because although you are 324 00:31:11,119 --> 00:31:15,079 responsible for the crimes, you are not guilty. I'm not guilty. I'm 325 00:31:15,119 --> 00:31:21,720 not I couldn't help. Of course you couldn't. Gentlemen, it must be 326 00:31:21,759 --> 00:31:26,119 obvious to you now that no man murdered these two women. The only creature 327 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:30,720 able to do it would be a borniese orangutangitan. I matched these hairs I 328 00:31:30,759 --> 00:31:34,480 found in the dead woman's hand, and of course they belonged to just such 329 00:31:34,519 --> 00:31:41,039 a creature. Yeah, yes, Monsieur Dupin is right. But tell me 330 00:31:41,799 --> 00:31:48,319 how is this sailor involved. I own the animal. You can put an 331 00:31:48,359 --> 00:31:52,960 ad on the paper saying my orangutang was captured. Oh that's why I'm here 332 00:31:52,079 --> 00:31:56,519 to claim it. What didn't you realize that, Monsieur Dupin knew that the 333 00:31:56,599 --> 00:32:01,960 murder was an orangutang. No, no, I didn't think anyone could solve 334 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:06,799 the murders. But I did know that whoever put the ad in the paper 335 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,240 knew that I was the owner of the animal, and that he was keeping 336 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:15,079 what he thought was a perfectly innocent animal. You see, I addressed my 337 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:19,440 ad personally to this sailor. This piece of cord told me a sailor wounded. 338 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,960 There was a sailor's not in the cord, and the knot was peculiar 339 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,559 to those tied down Maltese vessels. Therefore, when I put the ad in 340 00:32:25,599 --> 00:32:30,160 the paper, I asked the sailor from the Maltese vessel I checked in the 341 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,359 name of the vessel from the sailing data in the paper to come and get 342 00:32:32,359 --> 00:32:37,440 the beast or. Naturally I came to pick him up. Ah, Now 343 00:32:37,519 --> 00:32:40,960 I see one question I must ask sailor. How did the orangutan get hold 344 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,519 of a razor? And how did he manage to escape? I had the 345 00:32:45,559 --> 00:32:52,079 animal locked in my quarters. I captured him in Morton, brought him to 346 00:32:52,119 --> 00:32:55,359 this country to sell to the zoo. They're very smart, you know. 347 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,000 Well last night when I entered my room, he was trying to shave with 348 00:33:00,119 --> 00:33:05,440 my razor. When I tried to chain him up, he escaped. He 349 00:33:05,599 --> 00:33:08,400 ran out into the streets, saw the light in number twelve, re Log 350 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:15,799 climbed up the lightning rod to the ladies apartments. Well, you know the 351 00:33:15,839 --> 00:33:21,720 rest. Indeed we do well, gentlemen, If you have any other problems 352 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,519 you wish settled, call on me. Just call on Monsieur August Dupin. 353 00:33:27,559 --> 00:33:31,240 Incidentally, if you'd like to see the oranguent thing, you'll find it safely 354 00:33:31,359 --> 00:33:45,920 locked up in the zoom. From the time warns of the par we have 355 00:33:45,039 --> 00:34:27,039 brought him in the marble. Tell oh, from the time worn pages of 356 00:34:27,119 --> 00:34:31,800 the past. We have heard another immortal tale in the Weird Circle. Bout 357 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:42,960 keeper Toll the bell be here in this lonely cave by the restless sea once 358 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:54,239 again next time. Or another immortal tale in the Weird Circle, welcome back. 359 00:34:55,079 --> 00:35:05,199 You can definitely see the The program's Weird Circle's general format was in that 360 00:35:05,559 --> 00:35:10,519 horror genre, but just by the opening of the show, and I will 361 00:35:10,639 --> 00:35:17,719 say that it can be kind of hard to wrap your mind around how pioneering 362 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:24,639 this story was because we've heard and read and seen it copied so many times 363 00:35:25,039 --> 00:35:31,599 similar plots, But for eighteen forty one, this was groundbreaking stuff that would 364 00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:39,400 really set the mode for a lot of characters to come, even Sherlock Holmes, 365 00:35:40,639 --> 00:35:49,239 there were some elements. Even though Doyle had homes in a couple of 366 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:59,760 stories criticizing Toupon, there was still some elements there. And also Agatha Christie 367 00:36:00,119 --> 00:36:12,480 had Poirot actually writing a book on Edgar Allan Poe, So there's some definite 368 00:36:12,599 --> 00:36:16,559 influence here. And there's a reason why the Mystery Writers of America hand out 369 00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:23,599 the Edgar Award. So that's something to keep in mind here with all we've 370 00:36:23,679 --> 00:36:30,920 heard of Holmes and all we've heard of these other detectives, so much of 371 00:36:31,039 --> 00:36:37,199 it really started right here in eighteen forty one, and it was a pleasure 372 00:36:37,199 --> 00:36:42,760 to bring it to you. And we'll be back with another upon a mystery 373 00:36:43,039 --> 00:36:51,280 entirely different actors, entirely different series. But he only had three cases chronicled 374 00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,840 by Poe, and all were adapted at one time or another during the golden 375 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,599 age of radio. So it'll be a pleasure to bring them to you. 376 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,199 All right, Listener comments and the back, and we have this from Jason 377 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:06,679 and Arn Hi Adam, how are you or Aren and Jason, and we 378 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,360 just send you a little token of our appreciation for all the awesome work you 379 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:16,239 do at Great Detectors. My boyfriend Jason and I listen to your show a 380 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:21,039 lot. We used to listen to randomly the shows on archive dot org, 381 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,840 but it's much more fun to listen in a to a curated selection than it 382 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:29,800 is to try and find our own. Your affection and respect for old time 383 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:31,840 radio means that we can depend on you to find some real gems. Keep 384 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:37,119 up the great work well, thanks so much, and I hope to found 385 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:43,039 today's PROGRAMAGAM and appreciate your sport. We also have a comment from Steve, 386 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,039 who says, Hi, Adam, I've recently discovered your show here in the 387 00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:52,639 UK. I would love to know how you find old episodes, what format 388 00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:54,440 they're in, and the process you have to follow to get them to a 389 00:37:54,599 --> 00:38:01,400 new electronic format. Well, Steve, I have to meant that my overall 390 00:38:01,639 --> 00:38:15,159 process is some of boring because they're usually in electronic condition, actually always, 391 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:23,760 because I don't have any way to adapt them into from media like real to 392 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:28,719 reel tapes or transcription desks. There are people who do that, and if 393 00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:37,480 you come across any transcription tapes or real to reels of old time radio, 394 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:45,599 get in touch with a qualified archivest or, you know, since these things 395 00:38:45,639 --> 00:38:51,880 are kind of rare, email me and I'll find somebody, because these things 396 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,719 that need preserved. But most of this is things that have been turned into 397 00:38:59,599 --> 00:39:06,119 have been and already taken by people who love old time radio and taken off 398 00:39:06,199 --> 00:39:10,039 of the real triols or off of the transcription disc and put an m P 399 00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:17,719 three format. And the vast majority of material we use, we use can 400 00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:23,239 be found at archive dot org. Uh though it's a it's a bit overwhelming 401 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:30,000 to go through. There are a couple other sites I use for downloading the 402 00:39:30,079 --> 00:39:36,840 shows and a few other sources, but nothing that we do here in terms 403 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:44,599 of playing the programs and the episodes is anything that couldn't be done with a 404 00:39:44,679 --> 00:39:52,760 little bit of research in internet effort, you know, And so mostly off 405 00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:59,880 archive dot org. A couple other science won't go into them all just mentioning 406 00:40:00,599 --> 00:40:05,920 things on the air because bandwidth restrictions, some sides just can't afford to have, 407 00:40:06,519 --> 00:40:09,719 you know, thousands of people just start downloading from them. Archive dot 408 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:15,079 or can for nearly every series you want to hear. You can just go 409 00:40:15,199 --> 00:40:20,239 to Google put the name of the series Comma Old Time Radio MP three and 410 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:24,880 if they're out there, you can usually find some results. And I'll always 411 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:30,400 have intense respect for those people who have the machines and are able to take 412 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:38,840 them and digitize them. And that's definitely important because so much of the technology 413 00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:46,559 that's out there for preserving these in hard copy really can deteriorate pretty rapidly. 414 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:51,480 So as much of this stuff as we can get digitized, the better, 415 00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:58,320 and so I hope that people continue to do that work because it really is 416 00:40:58,519 --> 00:41:00,599 vital. All Right, Well, that will do it for today. We 417 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:07,119 will be back tomorrow where we will wrap up Johnny Dollar Cereal and start out 418 00:41:07,199 --> 00:41:13,360 with another Carter Brown mystery. In the meantime, send your comments to Box 419 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,920 thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter, Radio Detectives, 420 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:21,639 and become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com. Slash Radio 421 00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,880 Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Grahamson and Off