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Just go over to Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, 11 00:01:19,879 --> 00:01:26,280 now it is time for this week's episode of Dangerous Assignment. The original aired 12 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:30,879 eight November the twenty sixth, nineteen fifty two, and the title is a 13 00:01:32,079 --> 00:02:08,360 nursery rhyme, Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian don Leveez Steve Mitchell. Yeah, 14 00:02:08,439 --> 00:02:10,879 danger is my assignment. I get sent to a lot of places I can't 15 00:02:10,879 --> 00:02:14,479 even pronounce. They all spell the same thing, though, trouble. But 16 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:16,800 when I walk into the Commissioner's office, I don't realize that this assignment's going 17 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,800 to have me trying to trap a killer with a new kind of a weapon. 18 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:31,080 A nursery rhyme, warning, Commissioner, you sent from made Steve. 19 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,800 Are you fond of Swedish cooking? Yeah? Sure. So there's a man 20 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:38,960 named Fred Gainesley. He's with the project we're participating in to evaluate Scandinavian defense 21 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,319 potential, with headquarters in Stockholm. Several times a week, Gainsley has a 22 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,759 lunch trace and up to his office from the nearby cafe. So someone in 23 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,400 the project is apparently using that tray as a means of getting secret information to 24 00:02:50,439 --> 00:02:53,560 the outside. Gainsley No, he's the one who told us about it, 25 00:02:53,879 --> 00:02:58,280 quite by accident. Yesterday afternoon he discovered a message in cold tucked under a 26 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,599 napkin. Discovered it just before the tray was to be picked up, and 27 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:04,759 the waiter who came to pick up the tray he didn't show up and hasn't 28 00:03:04,759 --> 00:03:07,159 been seen since. Someone in the project must have tipped them off that the 29 00:03:07,159 --> 00:03:12,120 message had been intercepted. Steve get over to Stockholm check with Gainsley, find 30 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,240 out who's peddling this secret information and put a stop to it. Well, 31 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:34,479 I said, you've got your assignment. Good luck. The National Broadcasting Company 32 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,960 is presenting Dangerous Assignment, starring Brian don Levy and the role of Steve Mitchell, 33 00:03:38,439 --> 00:03:43,560 colorful two fisted government agent. At all those places of the world where 34 00:03:43,639 --> 00:03:46,479 danger and intrigue walk hand in hand. There you will find Steve Mitchell on 35 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:53,919 another dangerous assignment. Here's a word about some of NBC's great Sunday programs. 36 00:03:53,159 --> 00:03:58,120 We're justifiably proud of such stellar productions as Theater Guild on the Air, the 37 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,360 Phil Harris Alas Face Show, and drag Net. In our Sunday schedule, 38 00:04:01,159 --> 00:04:05,879 Theatre Gil brings you top stars of Broadway and Hollywood in the best available dramatic 39 00:04:05,919 --> 00:04:11,639 works. This combination of top stars and great writing makes Theater Gild one of 40 00:04:11,639 --> 00:04:15,039 the high spots of the week. And you will find that Phil Harris and 41 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,959 Alice Faye team together to present one of radio's best comedy shows on Sunday night, 42 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:24,879 the same night that Dragnet presents true stories of your police force in action. 43 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:30,399 So this Sunday and every Sunday, set your dial to the NBC Radio 44 00:04:30,439 --> 00:04:42,240 Network for the best radio programming here. I've got my assignment. Fly over 45 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:46,480 to Stockholm and find out who's copying top secret government information from a project we're 46 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,399 participating in. Its early Wednesday evening. When my plane lands and I hustle 47 00:04:49,399 --> 00:04:53,839 over to the building where the project is quoted. Several lights are burning in 48 00:04:53,879 --> 00:04:56,680 the east wing, and it looks like some of the office staff is putting 49 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,839 in overtime inside. I flashed my credentials and then follow a young clerk down 50 00:05:00,879 --> 00:05:03,319 the corriday. Now, mister Gamesley should be in his office sera, at 51 00:05:03,399 --> 00:05:10,160 least he was there a few minutes ago. Here we are, mister Gaines, 52 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:15,800 will you have a bit? Mister Gainsley doesn't seem to be around well. 53 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:16,959 I was sitting over there at the typewriter when I looked in a couple 54 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,079 of minutes ago. The French windows over there they're open. Oh sure. 55 00:05:20,079 --> 00:05:23,920 They lead out to the back garden, and mister Gainesley probably stepped out for 56 00:05:23,959 --> 00:05:30,199 a breather that came from the garden. Come on, Gainsley, Gainsley, 57 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:36,839 you out here? It's pretty dark? Yeah? See anything hard to all 58 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:41,519 this shrubbery? Where does this path lead to? Back gate. Let's try 59 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:47,560 it, Gainsley. There it is hop ahead should be locked though, yeah 60 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,480 it is. Does this wall go all the way around the garden? That's 61 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:55,519 right? Okay, you take this side and out? What is it, 62 00:05:55,639 --> 00:06:02,879 Gainsley? Yes? You see? Yeh. Look his his coat's been ripped 63 00:06:02,879 --> 00:06:10,319 open, inside pocket torn. No wallet here here, anywhere else? That 64 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,480 back gate the only way out of this garden. Yes, unless you climbed 65 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:15,639 over the wall ten feet high at least. No. I think our killers 66 00:06:15,639 --> 00:06:23,600 sneaked around us and ducked back into Gainsley's office. Come on, Johnny, 67 00:06:23,639 --> 00:06:27,959 is that you? Yes, miss Boorland, there is something wrong. Uh, 68 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:30,120 this is mister Mitchell. Miss Borland, is mister Gainsley secretary. How 69 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:32,639 do you do? Mister Mitchell? I thought I heard a shot you did, 70 00:06:32,639 --> 00:06:38,399 Miss Borland. I'm afraid someone's just shot your boss, mister Gaines shot. 71 00:06:39,319 --> 00:06:43,240 Where is the eyes hold? It won't do any good, he means 72 00:06:43,959 --> 00:06:46,839 horrible. Anyone come through here the last minute or so? No? No 73 00:06:46,879 --> 00:06:50,839 one? Why there are other offices facing the patio the garden, mister Mitchell, 74 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:55,439 that's mister Horbson's mister Walker's okay, we'll check him in a minute, 75 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:57,879 something else I want to look at first. Come on, let's go back 76 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:03,040 inside. You've been going out of the office long, miss Borland, ten 77 00:07:03,079 --> 00:07:06,040 minutes or so. Mister Gainsley sent me down to the fireroom. I see, 78 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:09,759 and when you looked in, Johnny, he was alone, right, 79 00:07:09,839 --> 00:07:13,279 he was pecking away at a typewriter, mister Gainsley. Was it my typewriter? 80 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:15,959 Yeah? Look, there's a piece of paper still in it. That's 81 00:07:15,959 --> 00:07:20,120 what I'm interested in. Let's see what what is it, mister Mitchell? 82 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:26,360 Oh brother, here's what mister Gainsley typed out one sentence. What did he 83 00:07:26,399 --> 00:07:38,600 write? It reads? Mary had a little lamb. Yeah, that's it. 84 00:07:38,759 --> 00:07:41,360 Mary had a little lamb. It's typed at the top of the page, 85 00:07:41,439 --> 00:07:44,399 nice and neat nothing else. So Mary had a little lamb. And 86 00:07:44,439 --> 00:07:46,000 it looks like I'm gonna have a little headache trying to figure this one out. 87 00:07:46,519 --> 00:07:49,399 Seconds later, the other employers come pouring into the office, all of 88 00:07:49,439 --> 00:07:53,639 them generating a lot of excitement. I finally get them to clear out and 89 00:07:53,639 --> 00:07:57,800 return to their desks. I'm left alone with Miss Borland. I don't understand 90 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,519 it, mister Mitchell. Why would anyone want to kill free mister Gainsley. 91 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:03,600 Well, there happens to be a very good reason. We'll skip it though 92 00:08:03,639 --> 00:08:07,480 for now. Do you mind answering a few questions? No, of course 93 00:08:07,519 --> 00:08:11,399 not. I'm particularly interested in the lunch trade delivered to this office yesterday, 94 00:08:11,519 --> 00:08:15,319 the lunch tray. What can I tell you about? Wait a minute, 95 00:08:15,319 --> 00:08:18,199 mister Mitchell. Does all this have anything to do with a piece of paper 96 00:08:18,199 --> 00:08:20,399 mister Gainsley found on that tray yesterday? You know about that? Of course 97 00:08:20,439 --> 00:08:24,639 I was with him when he found it. He seemed puzzled. I asked 98 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:26,480 him about it, and he said it was nothing, folded the paper and 99 00:08:26,519 --> 00:08:31,560 put it in his wallet. There's wallet. Tell me where is this tray 100 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,279 picked up? Miss Borland. There's a table outside in the hall. I 101 00:08:33,399 --> 00:08:37,639 usually placed the tray there when mister Gainsley has finished lunch. What time did 102 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,159 you place it there yesterday? Do you remember? Two minutes after one? 103 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,399 I'd say? And what time is it usually picked up? Half an hour 104 00:08:43,519 --> 00:08:48,080 so later? How did Gainsley happen to find the piece of paper? Well, 105 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,039 he'd been working during his lunch, and some time after I'd taken the 106 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:54,720 tray into the hall, he missed his fountain pen thought he might have left 107 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:56,320 it on the tray. Huh. Yes, the two of us went out 108 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:00,600 to look. Is the tray usually picked up by the same way. Yes, 109 00:09:00,919 --> 00:09:03,279 his name's Carl. He works at a cafe down the street. That's 110 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:07,720 all I know. What does he look like? Short? Very short? 111 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:11,440 Have you set? He wears rather thick glasses. Okay, miss Bowling, 112 00:09:11,519 --> 00:09:28,360 I guess that'll be all for now. Oh, mister Mitchell, come in 113 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,720 you Dave Walker right, and this is Gil Halverson. How are you? 114 00:09:33,759 --> 00:09:37,360 Halverson? Still a bit shaken? I'm afraid, mister Mitchell, Gainsley was 115 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,240 a good friend of ours. You two have the other two offices in this 116 00:09:39,279 --> 00:09:43,200 wing. Both of you heard the shot I did. I was here in 117 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,200 my office at the time. First I thought it was a car backfiring. 118 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,879 Then I heard people running down the hall, so I went out to investigate. 119 00:09:48,039 --> 00:09:52,399 Your French windows were open, no locked. I was getting ready to 120 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,799 go on home. Why it's possible a killer slipped out of the garden by 121 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,879 way of one of these offices that could have been mine. My windows were 122 00:09:58,919 --> 00:10:01,639 open. I'm afraid. Where were you downstairs? The fireroom? That's why 123 00:10:01,639 --> 00:10:05,440 I didn't hear the shot. Fireroom uh, you see miss Borland there. 124 00:10:07,039 --> 00:10:11,000 I no, I didn't. Look what's this all about? Anyway? Why 125 00:10:11,039 --> 00:10:13,159 would anyone want to kill Gainsley? Yeah? And what's this business about Mary's 126 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,759 little lamb? How do you know about that? Walker? Well, Johnny 127 00:10:16,759 --> 00:10:18,720 the clerk told us what's it mean? I wouldn't know what it was meant 128 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,200 for? You, wasn't it? Was it? Well, look you're a 129 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,399 government agent. You come here looking for Gainsley. He gets himself murdered, 130 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:28,360 but before that he leaves a message in his typewriter, and you don't know 131 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,559 what it means? I don't. Yeah, maybe you have some ideas well? 132 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,159 Maybe all right, Halrison, let's have it. Well, Walk and 133 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:39,080 I were talking about it before he came in. It has to be a 134 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:43,919 message of some kind. But what so we finally arrived at something. Sure 135 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,320 it might sound crazy, but I come on, what is it? Well, 136 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:50,480 look there's a cafe here in town called the Golden Fleece. Oh what's 137 00:10:50,519 --> 00:10:54,120 that got to do with? Oh? Yeah, yeah, Mary had a 138 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,879 little lamb. It's fleece was white as snow. Oh I don't know, 139 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:58,879 Halvers. And it sounds pretty far fetched? Well sure it does, But 140 00:11:00,039 --> 00:11:03,679 still is that the cafe where Gainesley got his tray. No, well, 141 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:05,399 the Fleece is run by an American named Daniels. It's on the other side 142 00:11:05,399 --> 00:11:09,360 of town. Well, as I say, it sounds a little wild, 143 00:11:09,399 --> 00:11:11,360 but there's everything else about the deal. Thanks for the lead, I'll follow 144 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:22,440 it up. I go back to Gainsley's office. The police are there now. 145 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:24,480 I huddle with Inspector yours, and then I grab a cab and head 146 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,919 out across town. Twenty minutes later, I pull up at a small cafe 147 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:33,960 and bar known as the Golden Fleece. Sure it's a wild lead, one 148 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:35,279 thousand to one shot, but at this stage of the game, I can't 149 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:39,639 pass up anything, no matter how silly it sounds. Is a chance I 150 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,840 might run into something or someone, maybe a waiter named Carl. I'm sorry, 151 00:11:43,879 --> 00:11:46,200 Pilgrim, I don't think I can help you. Just see, I 152 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,240 don't employ waiters, just dolls. Yes, sir, give me a good 153 00:11:48,279 --> 00:11:52,279 waitress anytime. You wouldn't have one named Mary by any chance, Mary thought 154 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,799 you were looking for a guy named Carl. Look, do you have a 155 00:11:54,840 --> 00:12:01,919 waitress named Mary? Nope? Ilga Ilda Sam Samantha. We call her Sam 156 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:07,360 for short, and that's her over there, rocking up the meatballs. Yeah. 157 00:12:07,399 --> 00:12:11,360 Look, maybe you have a regular customer named Carl. It could be 158 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:15,000 this is sweeten. Carl isn't a very unusual name. As a matter of 159 00:12:15,039 --> 00:12:18,000 fact, there's a regular custom mine over there at the bar. His name's 160 00:12:18,039 --> 00:12:20,480 Carl. Where into the bar. See the little guy standing at the far 161 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:24,679 end. Yeah, short and fat, he fits the bill. Now, 162 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:26,919 well wait till he moves out of the way. The tall, skinny character 163 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:31,039 sitting back up, that's Carl. Oh all right, Daniels, Just make 164 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:33,360 believe like I didn't come in. I'm sorry, Pilgrim wasn't able to help 165 00:12:33,399 --> 00:12:46,480 you. You haven't, but thanks just the same. I go back outside. 166 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:48,799 Wait a few minutes in front of the Golden poleee for inspector yours squad 167 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:52,759 car to show. And when it doesn't, I start walking along the street 168 00:12:52,799 --> 00:12:54,679 toward the corner. But I don't make it. Halfway up the block. 169 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:58,039 Someone steps out of a doorway behind me. A cord drops around my foot, 170 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:01,159 tugs back. All right, I ahead hits the side of the building. 171 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:20,240 I go out like a light. Steve Mitchell will continue his dangerous assignment 172 00:13:20,279 --> 00:13:24,600 in just a moment. Next time your car needs a grease job, or 173 00:13:24,639 --> 00:13:28,480 you're having your shoes repaired, or a suitor dress dry cleaned. Look around 174 00:13:28,519 --> 00:13:31,799 in the place that performs the service for you. You'll see something new. 175 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:39,120 A poster carrying the words OPS ceiling prices for retail services and listing the principal 176 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:43,799 services which the place performs and the OPS sealing prices. Now, the new 177 00:13:43,799 --> 00:13:48,600 OPS rule requires that these official posters must also be displayed in shops that do 178 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:52,559 repair work on radios, TV sets, household electrical equipment, on watches and 179 00:13:52,639 --> 00:13:56,799 clucks, furnaces, heaters, automobiles and trucks. Yes, the prices you 180 00:13:56,919 --> 00:14:01,799 see may be the highest prices which can lawfully be charged. You may pay 181 00:14:01,919 --> 00:14:05,320 less, but you need pay no more. Get the habit of checking the 182 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:11,159 new OPS price charts in service establishments where you trade and when you shop for 183 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:16,759 goods or services. Shop carefully, Use restraint in your buying and spending, 184 00:14:18,039 --> 00:14:22,519 and save when you can. All you can remember cooperation can whip inflation. 185 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:41,320 And now back to Dangerous assignment and Brian don Leveille as Steve Mitchell Mitchen, 186 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:48,440 Yeah Mitchen, Oh, inspector yourson? What happened? I guess somebody didn't 187 00:14:48,519 --> 00:14:50,519 like the way I breathed and tried to put a stop to it. The 188 00:14:50,799 --> 00:14:54,879 corder on your neck, Yeah, you must have gotten it off just in 189 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,720 time. Perhaps whoever it was saw my card approaching had to run. Did 190 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,840 you get look at him now? He came up behind me. What did 191 00:15:01,879 --> 00:15:07,360 you find out inside the cafe the golden fleece? Not much. This attempt 192 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,720 on your life seems to indicate that the cafe is somehow involved. However, 193 00:15:09,679 --> 00:15:13,919 it looks that way could be this waiter I'm looking for Carl spotted me nosing 194 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:18,039 around and tried to put me out of his way. If so, he's 195 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:20,480 probably some distance from here by now. Ah well, let's go back to 196 00:15:20,519 --> 00:15:33,840 the project headquarters and go to work on that nursery rhyme again. We might 197 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:39,679 as well use Gainsley's office all night. Michael oh Elverson. You boys work 198 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:43,759 pretty late. Yeah, they've been piling it on lately, just knocking off 199 00:15:43,799 --> 00:15:46,960 now. Walker worked this late too, No, No, I guess he 200 00:15:48,039 --> 00:15:50,039 cleaned up his desk early than usual to I. Yes, left the building. 201 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:52,759 Yeah, matter of fact, he left shortly after you did. All 202 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:56,840 uh, and he lucky to Golden Place. Yeah. All bad, but 203 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,639 at least it looks like a solid see you in the morning. Oh sure, 204 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:07,759 so Walker left here shortly after you did. It's very interesting. Yeah, 205 00:16:07,799 --> 00:16:15,399 well here we are. Do you still have the piece of paper right 206 00:16:15,399 --> 00:16:22,240 here? Mary had a little lamb. Do you suppose that mister Gainsley intended 207 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:26,399 this is some sort of message for you? Mitchell, I doubted, inspector. 208 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,399 He had no way of knowing I'd be arriving just then. The way 209 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:33,960 it looks to me, he was sitting here at the typewriter, probably heard 210 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:40,200 a sound outside when to investigate, and was killed quite possibly. But then 211 00:16:40,799 --> 00:16:44,440 what does it mean this fragment of a nursery rhyme? Answer that one and 212 00:16:44,559 --> 00:16:48,399 will be halfway home. You know it's possible Ganesley was working on that message 213 00:16:48,399 --> 00:16:52,919 he intercepted on his lunch track. Yes, the message might have been in 214 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,759 cold. Mary had a little lamb, could be part of it. Seems 215 00:16:56,759 --> 00:17:00,039 to tie in with a golden fleece cafe. All right, I could he? 216 00:17:00,279 --> 00:17:04,119 But but what I don't know. There's something wrong, something that doesn't 217 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:08,279 quite add up. If Gamesley was trying to decipher the message, why do 218 00:17:08,319 --> 00:17:15,000 it on a typewriter? A good point. Let's see Gamesley was sitting here 219 00:17:15,039 --> 00:17:22,640 at the typewriter. He heard he pasjammed, he heard a noise outside. 220 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,640 Wait a minute, what is it? I just had an idea. Maybe 221 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,079 we've been on the wrong track with Mary and her little lamb. What do 222 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:34,279 you mean just a second, I want to put a piece of paper in 223 00:17:34,319 --> 00:17:47,480 there now, M A R Y H acre typing the same phrase. Yeah, 224 00:17:48,079 --> 00:17:52,880 now let's take a look. I see nothing on us, sue. 225 00:17:53,039 --> 00:17:57,319 Maybe that's the point. Gainsley could have typed that line to check the typewriter. 226 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,240 He might have been looking for some in perfection, a letter out of 227 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:04,279 line or something like that. Yes, quite possibly, he wanted to compare 228 00:18:04,319 --> 00:18:07,759 it with the message he had intercepted here. This was a logical typewriter for 229 00:18:07,839 --> 00:18:11,720 him to start with. It belongs to his secretary MS. Borland. But 230 00:18:11,759 --> 00:18:15,480 there are no irregularities on this machines, so he drew a blank here. 231 00:18:15,519 --> 00:18:18,559 But how about the others in the building. Yes, let's see. He 232 00:18:18,599 --> 00:18:22,440 could have been looking for something to do with the letter A. There are 233 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,799 four of them, and the sentence, if we can find a typewriter like 234 00:18:25,839 --> 00:18:40,000 that, we may have our killer. We split up inspector yours and takes 235 00:18:40,039 --> 00:18:41,279 one wing of the building, I take the other. I work my way 236 00:18:41,279 --> 00:18:45,720 from room to room, checking the typewriters. I draw a blank until I 237 00:18:45,799 --> 00:19:00,079 get to Walker's office. M A l Yeah, letter A raised slightly all 238 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:04,240 four times. This could be the one. Oh, mister Mitchell, Hello, 239 00:19:04,279 --> 00:19:07,960 Miss Borland. I heard someone moving around in mister Walker's office and couldn't 240 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,200 imagine who it could be. You're here pretty late tonight, aren't you. 241 00:19:11,319 --> 00:19:15,039 I forgot something in my desk and came back to get it. Mister Mitchell, 242 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:18,799 were you in my office earlier? Yeah? I found the same sentence 243 00:19:18,799 --> 00:19:22,440 from the nursery rhyme typed out on my desk. You were testing my typewriter 244 00:19:22,519 --> 00:19:26,880 the same as mister Gainsley was doing. You figured it out too, huh? 245 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:30,720 Okay, so I was. But I'm not interested in your typewriter anymore, 246 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,480 Miss Borland. This is the one, mister Walkers. Yeah, the 247 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,640 A is raised slightly. But mister Walker couldn't have typed the message mister Gainsley 248 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,960 in her sectory? Why not? He was out of town for a week. 249 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:44,559 Walker was, yes, on business. He got back only yesterday. 250 00:19:44,759 --> 00:19:48,160 Oh great, anybody could have used this typewriter then, yes, I suppose 251 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:53,559 so Wait a minute. Hmmm, this basket of correspondence on Walker's desk. 252 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,960 Oh, that's probably correspondence he hasn't signed yet. What's wrong with it? 253 00:19:59,279 --> 00:20:03,680 Nothing? That's the point. The a's and these letters aren't raised, mister 254 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:07,279 Mitchell. That means somebody switched typewriters and put this one here in mister Walker's 255 00:20:07,319 --> 00:20:11,359 office. It sure does. Any way of checking on these machines to find 256 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:15,279 out which office they were originally assigned to. Yes, all typewriters are listed 257 00:20:15,279 --> 00:20:17,640 by serial numbers. The list is in the stock room. Let's take a 258 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:29,079 look. You think the answer is here, mister Mitchell. Could be there's 259 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:32,759 a copy in this fileroom of every confidential report sent out of this project, 260 00:20:32,799 --> 00:20:36,119 isn't it. Of Course, whoever switched the typewriters and stole the list couldn't 261 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,240 possibly have removed all the reports typed on that machine. That's the point. 262 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:44,599 You take one of those other file folders and start, well, never mind 263 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:48,240 the other folder you found it sure did. Take a look at this report, 264 00:20:48,319 --> 00:20:51,880 dated three weeks ago. The letter A is raised slightly all through it. 265 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:59,960 Yeah, see this signature at the bottom. Steve, Hello Halverson, 266 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,039 when I saw you heading down here to the basement. I figured you were 267 00:21:03,039 --> 00:21:06,240 getting too warm. Mitchell. You're the boy who was smuggling information out on 268 00:21:06,279 --> 00:21:10,160 Gainsley's lunch tray. You spotted him checking Karen's typewriter and figured he was on 269 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:11,880 the right track. That's why you killed him. Yeah, that's right. 270 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,599 And you dreamed up that wild goose chase about the Golden Fleece cafe. I 271 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,319 had to keep you thinking the nursery rhyme with some sort of code. So 272 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:22,880 what happens now? You shoot both of us? Oh hardly security guards in 273 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,359 the building, so as your friend inspector yourson, you shot at two would 274 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:30,039 bring them running, Donna, I got a much better idea. Step back 275 00:21:30,079 --> 00:21:36,200 into the vault, both of you. You've heard me. Okay, it's 276 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,480 good enough. It's gonna lock us in. Huh. You catch on pretty 277 00:21:38,559 --> 00:21:42,359 quick. Look, there's no down up on the inside. The vault is 278 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:47,400 sound proof. Also, there's no ventilation, so go ahead, yell if 279 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,039 you want to, you use up the oxygen faster. You catch on quick 280 00:21:51,079 --> 00:22:03,559 too. Karen salong kids, but oh oh, I inspected yours. I'm 281 00:22:03,599 --> 00:22:07,240 looking for mister Mitchell. Mitchell, have you seen him? Oh? Yes, 282 00:22:07,559 --> 00:22:11,720 it's about ten minutes ago. We hurried out of the building. Oh 283 00:22:11,839 --> 00:22:15,440 yeah, I seemed very excited, said something about going back to the Golden 284 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:19,400 Fleece cafe. Well, that's very interesting, mister Hollerson. It is, 285 00:22:19,759 --> 00:22:25,200 yes, if he went to the Golden Fleece. Who is the man who 286 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,240 you're stepping on the corner behind you? No, jump, don't try it, 287 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:33,960 Just old still while I get that, Gunny your Alderson, his r 288 00:22:33,079 --> 00:22:37,759 man. He sure is inspector. How'd you get out of there? Mitchell? 289 00:22:37,079 --> 00:22:40,680 Oh, Treck Holverson. I was holding a folded sheet of paper in 290 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:44,319 my hand. Remember the report made out on your typewriter. When you closed 291 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:45,799 the door, I slid the paper between the door and the jam over the 292 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:49,480 latch that kept the door from locking. A sheet of paper. Yeah, 293 00:22:49,559 --> 00:23:06,359 at sheet of paper sort of wrapped you up, didn't it. Our star 294 00:23:06,519 --> 00:23:11,759 Brian don Levy will return in just a moment. Daytime programming on the NBC 295 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,200 Radio Network is tops in listening pleasure and while you're at home during the day, 296 00:23:15,279 --> 00:23:19,240 set your dial to this NBC station for entertainment by Bob Hope, Dave 297 00:23:19,319 --> 00:23:22,880 Garaway, Walter O'Keefe, Warren Hull, Bob and Ray and Tommy Bartlett. 298 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:30,759 Welcome Travelers from Chicago features Tommy Bartlett with interesting interviews. 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Is written by Bob Bright Been Adrian John Doe 313 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:18,519 and is directed by Bill carn Be with us again next week at this time 314 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,960 when Brian don Levy, starring in the role of Steve Mitchell, will embark 315 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:41,720 on another transcribed dangerous assignment. Always listen for the familiar three NBC chimes. 316 00:25:41,759 --> 00:25:48,720 They're your invitation to fine radio entertainment tomorrow. Here both Judy Canova and Truther 317 00:25:48,880 --> 00:26:06,440 Consequences on NBC Welcome back. I'm a little dubious that a piece of paper 318 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,440 would be enough to hold the vault open. However, I'm sure there's an 319 00:26:10,519 --> 00:26:15,359 expert on vault somewhere, so all about of their opinion. Other than that, 320 00:26:15,519 --> 00:26:21,240 I thought this was a good little mystery with some solid misdirection that Dave 321 00:26:21,319 --> 00:26:26,000 Mitchell was able to cut through by realizing he was at a dead end. 322 00:26:26,319 --> 00:26:30,839 Well, we turned down to listener comments and feedback over on YouTube. Barney 323 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:37,480 Wrights reguarding the butterfly chaser corny as corn soup but charming as well well. 324 00:26:37,559 --> 00:26:41,319 Thanks so much for the comment, I think, and now it's time to 325 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:45,200 thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to thank Adrian, 326 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:52,599 Patreon supporter since January twenty twenty, currently supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant 327 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:56,680 level of seven dollars and fourteen cents or more per month. Thank you so 328 00:26:56,799 --> 00:27:00,200 much for your support, Adrian, and that will do it for today. 329 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,680 If you are enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. 330 00:27:04,799 --> 00:27:08,279 If you're listening on YouTube, be sure to lock the video, subscribe 331 00:27:08,279 --> 00:27:11,480 to the channel, and feel free to leave a comment. We'll be back 332 00:27:11,599 --> 00:27:18,319 next Wednesday with another episode of Dangerous Assignment, but join us back here tomorrow 333 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:23,200 for mister Chameleon, where was threatened by Jones and Dale? Mister Chameleon, 334 00:27:23,519 --> 00:27:29,680 are you implying that I might have killed those men? How quaint? As 335 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,279 a matter of fact, I'm not even sure that the blackmailing notes came from 336 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:37,680 Jones and Dale. They were anonymous, but Jones and Dale had access to 337 00:27:37,759 --> 00:27:40,839 all the facts. Besides, yes, so you have a low opinion of 338 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:47,400 detectives. Missus contrad where were you between midnight and twelve thirty? Are you 339 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:52,160 asking me for an alibi? I am missus contright. I was in bed, 340 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:56,839 young man. My maid will verify that. Besides, I thought that 341 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,440 this Danny mulcahy you spoke of was suspense instead of having killed those men. 342 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,519 He is a suspect. The evidence against him is very strong, and why 343 00:28:04,559 --> 00:28:07,799 aren't you willing to let it go? At that? Does this Danny mokay? 344 00:28:08,519 --> 00:28:12,160 Does he have an alibi? I hope you'll be with us then. 345 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:18,480 In the meantime, do send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot 346 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,160 net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us out on 347 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:29,559 Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This 348 00:28:29,759 --> 00:28:32,359 is your host, Adam Graham signing off.