WEBVTT 1 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:34.439 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:38.280 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:43.280 to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. Give us a call two 4 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:49.320 to eight nine four seven eight three and fill out our listeners surveys survey dot 5 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:54.159 Great Detectives dot net. Well, today's episode is brought to you by the 6 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:59.600 financial support of our listeners. Thank you so much for all of your support. 7 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:06.000 Here here, now is today's episode of The Fat Man. Murder is 8 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:23.319 the medium when your stomachs upset. Don't at the upset hey doving pipsto ism 9 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:34.799 and theo again. There he goes. You know that drug star. He's 10 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:42.359 stepping on the scale. Wait two hundred and thirty nine pounds fortune danger? 11 00:01:46.319 --> 00:02:06.319 Oh is it the fat Man? To most people, a zoo is a 12 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:10.560 collection of four footed animals because one menagerie I know of where the inmates walk 13 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:15.479 on two feet. In the first cage, for instance, you'll find the 14 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:21.520 giant Forger, whose specialty is writing other people's names. And in another iron 15 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:25.159 cell you can inspect the genus Pickhocket, known also as a little Dipper, 16 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:30.280 who can sometimes prove that the hand is quicker than the eye. But the 17 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:35.639 prize exhibit is a hopped up character with a nervous twitch and his four finger. 18 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:40.199 He powles along when he looks for prey, and he's known for his 19 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:52.400 taste for murder. That's the fat Man, a fast moving criminologist who tips 20 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:54.960 for scales of two hundred and thirty nine dolls. Fuck to you by the 21 00:02:55.039 --> 00:03:00.120 Norse Pharmacal Company Limited, makers of Pepto, bed mall On, Quantine and 22 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:13.680 other fine drug products. When you overeat or eat too fast, you're looking 23 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:16.520 for trouble with your digestion. That's no time to add to the upset. 24 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:23.400 Instead, try a better way, a gentle way. Take toothing peptal desmol. 25 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:27.719 Yes, when you're boied by heartburn, nervous indigestion, or other common 26 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:31.840 adjestive disturbances. Pepto besmol promptly helps to calm and fly at the upset. 27 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:38.080 It settles and sweetens it. You feel good again. Next time you eat 28 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:42.840 too much or too fast, you can do something for that uneasy, uncomfortable 29 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:47.599 feeling. Try soothing peto besmal. That's right. When your stomach's upset, 30 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:53.719 don't add to the Upset, Take Soothing, Pepto besmol and Feel Good Again, 31 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:04.520 and Now from New York The First Man, starring Jay Scott smartin Murder 32 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:24.720 is the Medium. The Raynards, Oscar and Harriet were a typical suburban bear 33 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:29.759 except an. Oscar was six or eight years younger than he's over upholstered Bob. 34 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:33.279 He was a neat little guy in a fair super suit, while Missus 35 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:39.920 Raynard looked like the vice president and charge of production for the Hillsdale Sewing Circles. 36 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:44.360 I'm missus Harriet Raynard, mister Runyon, and this is my husband, 37 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:47.240 Oscar, my second husband. That is my first husband. Nervin was the 38 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:53.439 post who have died two years ago. Isn't it official yet? Of course, 39 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:57.000 mister Runyon, But Harriet has been Mashna. You promised to let me 40 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.399 fill it to mister Rnyon in my own way. I'm sorry, my dear. 41 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:04.439 What's the story about? Four weeks ago? Asked? When I happened 42 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:08.959 to wander into a rub shop on the Lower West Time. After we looked 43 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:11.839 at the owner's wares, he invited us into a bath room to meet his 44 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:15.680 wife, an attractive woman. Mister Ryan was an interesting thing. We were 45 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:19.920 told that she had a cut power and could bring the dead best life. 46 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:25.839 Then he asked us if we wanted to attend to manifestation. You mean he 47 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:28.839 didn't call her to stay on, but I thought that's what it was. 48 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:32.439 At any rate, We returned that evening just out of curiosity, and I 49 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:38.160 spoke my dear departed husband. No, Harriet, it's too after you were 50 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:41.920 there. It was Melvin's voice, and I saw his face light up in 51 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:46.160 the dog right in front I ad Nitchie's right. Mister Rayon thought it was 52 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:48.279 some kind of a trick and asked me not to go there again. But 53 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:54.120 I couldn't resist, and I went by myself without his knowledge. I saw 54 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:58.680 Melvin again. He seemed to be sitting in an office dictating a letter towards 55 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:03.319 phenographer business. Go on, missus, but I'm the second visit. I 56 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:08.439 received a message from Melvine asking for a little money to tide him over. 57 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:12.839 I couldn't refuse, mister Runnyon and live with my conscience after all of it, 58 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:15.480 Melvin's money I inherited and decide how much did he ask you? For? 59 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:19.079 Five hundred dollars? Can you imagine that? And Harriet was full enough 60 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:24.240 to give it to them. It wasn't much, mister Runny, and neither 61 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:28.839 was a sixteen hundred years for a later. But now I'm beginning to think 62 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:31.160 I may have made a mistake. The last time I went there, on 63 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:38.040 Wednesday night, I was told that Melvine was bankrupt and he needed twenty thousand 64 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:41.639 dollars in a hole. That is when I decided I ought to have some 65 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:46.399 outside decides. You still think you spoke to your versions. I wouldn't have 66 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:51.279 accepted Melbourne's voice alone a final proof, but I saw him write in front 67 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:55.319 of me, and I wouldn't restretched the face of a man I'd been married 68 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:59.279 to for fifteen years. When's your next rendevo with Melbourne? Missus Renner? 69 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:03.480 Is that when you're supposed to show out for the twenty grand I was told 70 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:08.639 to bring it all in cash. Have you made the withdrawn it? But 71 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:13.920 I had five hundred dollars in my dad nuts have that in advance. Isn't 72 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:16.120 that unusual, mister Runyon. Keep your shirt on. I'm not in that 73 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:21.839 much of a hurapor of thing here. You are five one hundred dollars good? 74 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:30.680 Just a minute, what are you doing mister union working these bills all 75 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:34.240 right, missus Raymond, put them back in your bag and hand them to 76 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:38.759 the medium when you say, then leave the rest to me. Just what 77 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:42.680 do you intend to do? Communicate with the spirit world, obscar, and 78 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:53.959 get a receipt from Melvine or missus Raynard. The rug shop was a murky 79 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:58.959 little joint that reminded me of an Asiatic bazaar. The walls were covered with 80 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:03.160 orient a rug and I could smell a pungent odor of a strong aromatic coffee 81 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:09.360 someone was growing in the ram. The proprieta was a thin little man whose 82 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:11.920 actual and I couldn't quite place, but I knew it wasn't far from the 83 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:18.759 Persian Gulf. His manners were impeccable, and his smile was full of teeth 84 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:24.160 while he clasped his skinny hands in a gesture of reading. It is my 85 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:28.639 wish to serve your sir. Oh, are you the owner? With that 86 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:33.120 possen at your command? I'm chomping from ruge Ah. We make a specialty 87 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:39.639 here of rugs. You are perhaps familiar with oriental rugster sketchy way, then 88 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:45.440 permit me to make a few suggestions in my humble mother. The primus rugs, 89 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:48.879 as you might know, come from pleasure, and this is a perfect 90 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:58.120 example. It feeling texture stuff. It is a cashon a notable leave observed. 91 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:03.720 The spiking red foundation, with his floral designs and exquisite line reminds me 92 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:09.759 a little of ahimh i Mistan. Then you do know something about leading me 93 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:13.720 I Behan is a rare treasure. Indeed, creations of genius from the sixteen 94 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:18.320 seny with only a few choice specimens and now in existence, and they're worth 95 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:24.279 a king's ransom. He's got quine a display here. Presume must take point 96 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:28.240 a bit of letters to make a collection like this. Looks to me like 97 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:31.320 it's well alanna though, yeah here on consignment only, my friend, and 98 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:37.120 all I received is a commission for the sale. That's a not to feel 99 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:39.960 very interested. Oh why don't you let me browse around for an hour or 100 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:43.480 so? I like to take my time. I would be most happy to 101 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:48.240 commit it, sir, but unfortunately I must close the shopper sting. My 102 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:52.320 wife is conducting a manifestation at that time. Oh, your wife is a 103 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:56.799 medium, and she does not call herself a medium, but she communicates with 104 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:01.759 the students. Well, it sounds interesting. Any chance of getting in. 105 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:05.759 Is there some dear departed love one you wish to contact? Oh dozens of 106 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:15.000 them. We've done, Angela idea as my assistance. Your wife wants to 107 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:18.399 see you. Oh, thank you, Angela. Excuse me for one moment, 108 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:22.960 sir, how are you her name is running? How are you doing 109 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:28.519 here shopping? You're not looking for rugs, you're looking for trouble. Well 110 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:33.639 by that too. It's necessary. Is this a raid? Not exactly. 111 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:37.879 There's no law against conducting a meeting and mistake, but there's a law against 112 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:41.360 fraud. Sweet Ireland. It's still in a book. Yeah, my wife 113 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:46.440 has requested if you join us in times showed the chances in in Angela, 114 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:50.120 you'd better get out of here while the going's good. And mister, chance 115 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:56.399 of communicating with a dead do yourself, but look out you don't end up 116 00:10:56.519 --> 00:11:07.039 on that side. She led me to a room in the back that was 117 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:13.159 windowless and smell as stuff is a tomb. There were a number of polling 118 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.080 chairs lined up against the walls, the kind they used in funeral parlors, 119 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:22.080 and behind a bare desk, her face as rigid as a mask, sat 120 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:26.480 an oriental looking woman. We were joined by Oscar Reynard and his wife about 121 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:31.279 five minutes later, but we gave no sign of recognition, and as Puissan 122 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:35.120 shuffle at the center of the room, I could feel the tension mounting, 123 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:41.600 like the approach of an electrical storm. The night Angel it out. Please 124 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:48.799 now we are ready to begin. We are waiting sala. We are gathered 125 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:56.399 here together this night at camp to make contact with our friends in other world. 126 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:03.600 Is there anyone here who wishes to talk to one of the deposits? 127 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:11.399 I and deacified their Please, Harry did not, And who do you wish 128 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:16.919 to see now? Then, Bishop, my late husband? No win? 129 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:28.840 No win, Bishop, Do you hear me? Return to Earth and make 130 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:43.080 your present known? No, m The contact is Difficultella, very difficult. 131 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:46.960 But you promised me he comes. I am sorry, missus, try not, 132 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:56.720 but it's quite impossible. No, he is, mister Ryan above her 133 00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:09.399 head. It happened so fast I didn't have a chance to make a move. 134 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:13.960 The face of a man of sixty appeared behind the median hazily. At 135 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:18.679 first, they're much clearer, like solidifying smoke. The next thing I knew, 136 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:22.360 someone brushed past me quickly, and I heard the door open and closed, 137 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:26.279 and I romp to the light, but Roster beefy to it. And 138 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:31.559 when the light went on, I saw him standing near the switch while his 139 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:37.080 wife had passed out some streetly in her chair. Us she thinks it, 140 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:41.080 Jimmy, all right, looks as though the Russian party they're trying to follow 141 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:46.480 the day. So you know that if I'll show you what, she's sam 142 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:50.039 as I and I'm Morbard of this wall? What did this, mister Ruggan? 143 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:58.240 Look, there's a whole wall covered door who was transparent paper and there's 144 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:03.960 a camera and hid the whole work by remote control. A role of movie 145 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:07.159 film and I'm looking to genuity goes a long way as far as suckers are 146 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:13.440 concerned. And as for his voice, m it looks as though something new 147 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:20.480 has been added. A voice at death concert? What's the new look? 148 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:58.279 Behind with a penny stiletto stuck in her bank? Now let's check up with 149 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:07.799 up batsman. The police sent out a city wide alarm. We sign and 150 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:13.279 his girlfriend. But three days when n was practically no result, then I 151 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:18.320 got myself a bright eyed dad. I put an ad in all the papers. 152 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:20.679 It must have read like a winning lottery number or a Rugby and Lands 153 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:26.759 because I offered to sell a genuine insign for exactly one hundred bucks. I 154 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:31.360 listed my phone addressed in my apartment number, but I didn't include my name, 155 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:37.320 and for a day or so I was flooded with fancy offerers. I 156 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:39.960 get about figured that Puisign was wise to the gag. When I got another 157 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:46.480 call, and as I put on my best international accent, I recognized quissign 158 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:52.919 dot of tone at the other end of the wire. Yes, I am 159 00:15:54.200 --> 00:16:04.000 calling the rug Oh, the genuine article and why do you wish? I 160 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:07.879 am selling a rob for my friend, but not a history of how I 161 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:15.360 abstaind it? Do you wish to inspect it? My address was included? 162 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:19.360 Didn't he advertise me? We'll be home within the house. I should be 163 00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:37.879 most delighted and I should be most seized to visit your house. Mister Hello, 164 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:45.960 boys, come yourself at home. But the name down don't tell anybody. 165 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:51.679 But he's the guy who sells in my towel, and a pretty obvious 166 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:55.519 one. I didn't think you were dumbin at the ball. I'll just raise 167 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:59.159 your hands above your shoulder, sweetheart, like a good little man. Oh, 168 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:03.440 I have know what that's what you were looking for. No extras to 169 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:07.799 let us to spare. Do you think I killed fellow? Oh? No, 170 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:11.920 court, shoot, didn't He died of a heavy colt. Didn't you 171 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:15.720 even know what it happens in that room? In the papers? And we're 172 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:18.720 gonna I swear it? And what was your hurry to scram on? And 173 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:22.880 don't tell me you had a date for the attendant. I was folder by 174 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:30.880 one of Salah's ghosts, by Angela. I don't starve with time. I'm 175 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:33.200 way ahead at the end. I don't know where she has come. That 176 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:38.279 sounds very okay trying this. How did you get ahold of the film of 177 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:45.119 Melvin Bishop? What? Brother? Now we're really getting caging. Do nothing 178 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:48.559 about the film or a camera? And how about those old dictaphone record you 179 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:52.480 use? Don't tell me Melvin made them? After even buriable? You are 180 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:57.880 trying to confuse me. I'm too what you mean mister? Okay, I'll 181 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:00.599 explain it to you in a different way. Up to now, all you 182 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:03.839 faced was a fraud brand. You might have got me a year or two 183 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:07.599 in the clink, or even a suspended sentence for a first offense. But 184 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:14.519 homicide, there's a different story. I didn't murder homister running? What should 185 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:18.599 I do? Tell me how to sing myself? I'm an innocent man. 186 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:22.519 Where's Angela put him? If I tell you where to find her, will 187 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:26.960 I go? Sweet on? Depend? But if you don't give me a 188 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:30.160 lead, you haven't got a chance very well in running, I would think 189 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:41.079 it's what Angela. We got into my car and drove downtown to a section 190 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:45.319 near greenwich Ville and Hard near one of those gypsy hangouts converted from an empty 191 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:49.799 storm. The phrenologious call was pictured in the window, along with a giant 192 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:55.799 human hand, and inside at a small table a bottle of poofs. In 193 00:18:55.920 --> 00:19:03.559 front of her was Angela with on I see you double in brass baby as 194 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:06.480 the pom reading business. What do you want? I'd like to have my 195 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:11.240 fortune's old, Angela. So this is what I gets to being loyal to 196 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:15.079 you. You double crossing those two pigs. But he shouldn't murder Angela? 197 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:18.640 And he told me did you need electric chest? And I hope they do. 198 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:22.440 I don't get to sit up with time from maybe you'll be sitting on 199 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:26.000 his lap, Sweeter't you've got nothing on me? I didn't kill Salah why 200 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:32.480 should I because you hated her? Are you tempered? Temper? How many 201 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:33.960 times did you make a place for me behind her back? This is not 202 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:37.279 true, mister ro not much. It isn't your hypocritical little fake. No. 203 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:41.119 I tweeted Angela as a daughter, and as far as my wife would 204 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:45.279 concerns, I never knew him tail the other night that she was a prop 205 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:48.839 You mean you attended those phony sessions and played it straight. I believe my 206 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:55.160 wife had awk of powers because I am a superstitious man. Whatever was done 207 00:19:55.279 --> 00:20:00.240 was done without my knowledge. It's directly so damn his own life and him, 208 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:03.720 and I felt sorry for him. I got dope. I try to 209 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:07.640 say this rock and hide. But from Nani's on his own. You can 210 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:10.319 worm his way out of this one all by himself. You've got a little 211 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:14.799 worming of your own with any sweet on't threaten me. You've got nothing on 212 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:17.720 me but a misdemeanor. You don't say, all right. So I did 213 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:22.920 figure out the moving pictures gone so much was Salo collected the dolls, And 214 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.799 it was Stalo who also held out of me from my shoe. But I 215 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:30.519 fixed her wagon with a ten inch nine. I didn't touch all I did 216 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:33.359 was worked the movie camera when she didn't expect it. I knew you were 217 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:37.720 a private picking, so did she. We were supposed to let this accle 218 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:41.960 flat that night, though you couldn't get any evidence. Oh God, that 219 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:45.640 room was dark. I would have loved to see her face when I flashed 220 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:49.119 that picture on the wall. Where'd you get a hold of him? Whouldn't 221 00:20:49.160 --> 00:20:53.279 you like to know? Believe me, sweetheart, I'm gonna know. You 222 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:57.519 can take me into custody and you can question me from Narn to the cows 223 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:00.920 come home. You won't be able to hold me from murdering. You know 224 00:21:02.039 --> 00:21:06.160 it. How much you're getting paid to keep your mouth shut, plenty a 225 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:10.039 lot more than you can afford to pay to open it up. And there's 226 00:21:10.119 --> 00:21:14.240 no question about my getting the moon of this time, Handsome, because this 227 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:22.519 time I'm on the receiving end alone. There's lots the overstide flat food, 228 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:36.319 all good for me, and all of that. I wonder what it opened 229 00:21:36.319 --> 00:21:44.519 for. That funal of booze must be loaded with poisoned dynamite. She said 230 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:52.279 she was on the receiving end, and she wasn't kidding. I put in 231 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:56.480 a corner head for this and left. We stide with the bunny. Then 232 00:21:56.599 --> 00:22:00.880 I hopped into my car and started Permissus Rayne suburban. I didn't bother with 233 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:04.839 the doorbell, but entered through the service entence in the basement and on my 234 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:10.880 way upstairs to the first floor. The house was dark, which suited be 235 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:15.240 fine, and I used a pocket flash to browse around. But ten minutes 236 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:18.519 later, as I was going through a study desk, I suddenly found out 237 00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:23.279 the place wasn't as empty as I thought. It was. Oh good evening. 238 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:26.759 What are you doing in my house, mister Runyan? Didn't the butler 239 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:30.119 anounce me? Ask her? I can't leave. It cannot be possible that 240 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:34.480 you're nothing but a common sea soft Stop. Where's your wife? She's ill 241 00:22:34.519 --> 00:22:37.960 in bed. I was turning in myself when I heard a noise down here, 242 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:42.240 so I found my gun and decided to investigate. Relax oscar and put 243 00:22:42.279 --> 00:22:45.279 the gun away. You know, I didn't come here to see us overwhere? 244 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:49.200 Oh why did you come? I was looking for some film film movie 245 00:22:49.319 --> 00:22:55.200 film with a late Melbourne bishop and amateur motion picture fan. That's something I 246 00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:59.000 couldn't tell you. Then maybe Missus Raynard came. I told you she was 247 00:22:59.079 --> 00:23:03.279 ill. None were there. The shock of the medium's murder was a little 248 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:06.160 too much. Well, she can spare me a couple of minutes and we'll 249 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:08.920 be long. You will insist done seeing her, if it's all right with 250 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:15.480 you? Very well, mister Runyon asc yes, don't you think we'd both 251 00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:19.200 be a little more comfortable without that gun in your hand. I'm perfectly relaxed, 252 00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:25.200 and so I noticed my wife is on the floor above. We'll use 253 00:23:25.279 --> 00:23:29.480 those stairs. You can proceed to her room, mister Runyon, and I 254 00:23:29.640 --> 00:23:38.319 will follow right behind. We slowly climbed the staircase to the upper floor, 255 00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:42.000 and Oscar nugged me into the room with a barrel of his gun. His 256 00:23:42.200 --> 00:23:45.559 wife was in bed, popped up on a couple of pillows, and I 257 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:49.279 noticed a glance of milk on the table right next to her. She looked 258 00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:53.519 a little startled when her husband and I walked in, particularly when she saw 259 00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:59.880 the gun and ask her hand, and the unusual expression on his ordinarily timid 260 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:03.440 face. Sorry to disturb you, missus, Raynardon, I found mister Unyan 261 00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:08.440 in the study downstairs, prowling through the house. You will in just a 262 00:24:08.519 --> 00:24:11.680 minute, mister Runyan would like to ask you a question, Harriet, and 263 00:24:11.799 --> 00:24:17.000 it's already answered. That moving picture film, the medium used belonged to Melvin 264 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:19.839 Bishop, and it came from here. I found more just like it in 265 00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:22.599 the study desks. How did they get hold of it? And that's when 266 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:26.680 I was trying to figure out it could have been stolen by Angela, for 267 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:33.759 instance, But that theory was eliminated when Angela was The girl was dead, 268 00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:37.680 missus Raynardon. She had a visitor a few minutes before I spoke to her. 269 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:41.440 He brought a bottle of poisons whiskey in a proposition to keep her mouth 270 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:45.680 shuts. She accepted both and crossed herself off my list. That's incredible. 271 00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:49.680 Your husband made a bargain with stal of a medium to place you a little 272 00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:53.960 dull. He gave her the film and a couple of Melvine's old dictaphone discs. 273 00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:57.279 When Melvine asked you for the money, the voice was dubbed in, 274 00:24:59.160 --> 00:25:00.680 but it wasn't a hard to do with a perfect model on a record. 275 00:25:02.039 --> 00:25:04.279 The man as man. Harriet absolutely mad. On the night I went to 276 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:07.759 piss arms, Oscar got in touch with Salow. He told her a private 277 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:11.359 detective was on his way and had to play it down. She was going 278 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:15.519 to do just what he asked her to. When Angela decided to throw a 279 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:18.799 monkey wrench in the works, Oscar thought Salo was crossing it, so he 280 00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:22.720 knocked her on. Don't you think you might find it's as good as in 281 00:25:22.759 --> 00:25:26.319 the bag. You're the only logical nominee who happens to be left. Oscar. 282 00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:30.119 You settled that when you settled with Angela. Yes, I settled with 283 00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:33.480 her the way I intend to settle with you, mister Runyan Holly. I'm 284 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:37.319 not blackmailing you, Oscar. I'm putting you in the chat you want to 285 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:42.680 stick to point. The only thing that would kill this guy would be a 286 00:25:42.759 --> 00:25:48.720 dose of DDT You mind if I borrow that pressive milk, Missus Raynar, 287 00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:52.680 I imagine Oscar prepared it for you with his own little hand. Come on, 288 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:56.759 come out of a tweetheart, I got a little drink. Yeah, 289 00:25:57.000 --> 00:26:00.799 would you like to watch your fist on? No? Take it away, 290 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:03.640 by Heaven, take foot that cost there my mouth. It's funny. I 291 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:08.200 had a hunt you about that one's dose of poison, Missus Rainer, probably 292 00:26:08.359 --> 00:26:11.960 enough to kill a horse. Someone must have given your husband a chemistry, 293 00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:17.240 said Christmas. All right, oscared up on your feet, all right. 294 00:26:17.319 --> 00:26:19.240 All The next time you attend to See once you will be sitting in the 295 00:26:19.319 --> 00:26:26.000 important chair, and when they pull that switchmith there you'll contact Melvin Bishop in 296 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:38.599 person. Before you go to bed tonight, look in your medicine cabinet, 297 00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:44.000 see if you have a bottle of Pepto bethmall. If you haven't, make 298 00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:47.799 a note to stop in ato your drugget tomorrow morning. With Pepto besmual on 299 00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:51.839 hand, you're ready to help relieve the distress of acid indigestion, heartburn, 300 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:56.119 or that uneasy upset feeling that follows over eating. Anybody can take Pepto beth 301 00:26:56.200 --> 00:27:02.599 mal anytime. Pepto beth maall continue no sugar. If you hadn't yet tried 302 00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:07.640 papter besmul, ask your bruckets, so remember when your stomach's upset, don't 303 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:38.319 add to the upset. Take through the bepter besmaul and feel good again next 304 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:42.359 week. An Norwich Parma for Company presents that fascinating and exciting character, the 305 00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:51.039 Fatman, in the adventure called Murder Rides the Breakers. A short while ago, 306 00:27:51.400 --> 00:27:53.559 a traveling salesman threw his cigarette butt out of the car windows. He 307 00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:57.559 sailed along, listening to his car radio. It was a bride day. 308 00:27:57.960 --> 00:28:03.160 There was a breeze, well you know the rest the cigarettes that fire to 309 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:07.359 the dried grass, caught some twigs, then spread along the roadside. Told 310 00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:11.559 some low branches burst into plane. Then another breeze sprang up and the big 311 00:28:11.640 --> 00:28:15.039 fire stuff. But the traveling salesman had gone from there. He never realized 312 00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:19.759 that his carelessness had caused a forest fire. You're not like that salesman. 313 00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:23.359 You never throw a light and butts out of the car windows, do you. 314 00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:38.400 A batman has brought to Canadian listeners by the Norris Pharmacle Company Limited, 315 00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:42.960 Toronto, Canada. Herb May speaking. This is the Dominion network of the 316 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:52.519 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Welcome back. Well we want to again here's something a 317 00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:57.920 little bit different here. I should know that this episode was originally broadcast July 318 00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:03.680 twenty second, nineteen forty nine, and it's the last of the nineteen forties 319 00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:08.599 episodes of The Fat Man we have available to us. And of course this 320 00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:17.799 was actually this particular recording was originally broadcast in Canada. Now you may wonder 321 00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:26.079 what the Dominion Network was The Dominion Network was a second network of the Canadian 322 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:37.079 Broadcasting Company. There were a bunch of independent stations that private affiliates. They 323 00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:41.880 wanted to start their own radio network so they could carry some American programming, 324 00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:48.519 and they were turned down by the government, but there really was a demand 325 00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:52.960 and a need for that sort of network, and so the CBC kind of 326 00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:57.839 afraid that eventually they might get their way. The Dominion Network was established and 327 00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:07.200 during the evening the Minion Network they tended to run that. They tended to 328 00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:15.279 run lighter programs and American programs in particular during the daytime, there wasn't any 329 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:21.680 particular programs so they could purchase, so affiliate owners could go ahead and purchase, 330 00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:29.319 purchase programs and syndicate things, do local shows. A whole lot of 331 00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:34.480 choice there, and then it eventually did break up. The network did in 332 00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:41.599 nineteen sixty two. But thanks to them we have an episode of The Fat 333 00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:47.359 Man. It's somewhat unique because there were actually only thirty four privately owned networks, 334 00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:52.839 so last opportunity for transcription disk to exist. But I think it does 335 00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:59.440 say something about The Fat Man that it did end up being picked up in 336 00:30:59.640 --> 00:31:06.759 cann it's us popularity and quality. We're enough to make it in demand up 337 00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:10.480 there. All right, Well, that will do it. We'll see you 338 00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:14.480 next week with another episode of The Fat Man. Join us tomorrow for Let 339 00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:18.839 George Do It. In the meanwhile, Rate us on iTunes, follow us 340 00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:22.319 on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and call us to E eight nine nine one 341 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:26.279 four seven eight three From Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam 342 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:26.240 Grahamson and off