Speaker 1: The Avenger.
Speaker 2: The road to crime ends in a trap that, just
as sets, crime, does not pay. The Avenger, sworn enemy
of evil, is actually Jim Brandon, a famous biochemist. Through
his numerous scientific experiments, Brandon has perfected two inventions to
aid him and his crusade against crime as the Avenger,
the telepathic indicator by which he is able to pick
up thought flashes, and the secret diffusion capsule, which quoats
him in the black light of invisibility. Brandon's assistance, the
beautiful Fern Collier, is the only one who shares his
secrets and knows that he is the man the underworld
fears as the Avenger. And now the Avenger and the
melody of murder.
Speaker 3: Hawkins, Hawkins, Yes, miss carl go into the music room
and see how much longer that piano tunor is going
to take?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: That infernal noise.
Speaker 3: Is getting on my nerves, Yes, madam, Oh what Hawkins?
Speaker 5: Has mister Carlton come in yet?
Speaker 6: Not yet, missus Carleton.
Speaker 3: Well, the moment he comes in, tell him that I
wish to see him. I should be waiting here in
the library. Now, see if you can get rid of
that piano tuner.
Speaker 6: Yes, missus. Carlon har has told me you wanted to
see me, Rena.
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, George, I'd like.
Speaker 4: To talk to you. Oh say, who's at that piano.
Speaker 5: The piano tuner? He should be finished any moment.
Speaker 7: Well, I'll close that mute room door that rackets off.
Speaker 5: No, leave it open, George.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of valuables in there, and the
servants are busy in the back of the house.
Speaker 4: Well, all right, Well.
Speaker 5: To get down to business, George.
Speaker 3: Yes, were you able to persuade those partners of yours
to lend you enough money to see you through?
Speaker 6: No, Rena, Berlin, Game and Redford both refuse to help me.
Speaker 5: They're trying to squeeze you out. George.
Speaker 3: I always knew they would. I told you from the
beginning that they were just using you. Well, what are
you going to do?
Speaker 6: And I won't let them get away with this? Rina.
You know, I've put everything we had into that firm.
Speaker 3: But where in the world are you going to get
the money to cover up your end of the losses.
Speaker 7: There's only one way. I hate to ask you to
do it, Rena, but well you'll just have to sell
your jewels. I you no only chance to sell me.
Speaker 5: George, I will not let you have those.
Speaker 3: Jewels, Hi, the role I have left, I.
Speaker 5: Won't allow you to think them in a bad investment.
Speaker 4: I don't think you understand just how desperate this situation is.
Speaker 3: I understand, all right. I warned you from the beginning
about Red Burd and Berlin Game. Hi, They're no better
than common swindlers. I'm tired of their shady deals. Million
dollars scheen.
Speaker 7: Really, you seem to like them well enough when the
men of money was rolling in, and now suddenly, just
because they happened to guess wrong on a few investments.
Speaker 5: Like few investments that were big enough to ruin us.
Speaker 6: We can still pull through if if you'll just be sensible.
Speaker 7: Rena, let me raise alone on your jewels.
Speaker 3: And I told you that I won't let you touch
those jewels.
Speaker 7: I've got to have them if you won't lend them
to me then, and I'm afraid I'll just have to
take them.
Speaker 5: George, guge you can't mean.
Speaker 6: That there's no other way.
Speaker 5: There has to be a way.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to let you make paupers if your
wife and children, I tell you, I won't stand by.
Speaker 4: Rina.
Speaker 2: Oh you you shouldn't Rina.
Speaker 5: George, George, what happened?
Speaker 6: Hawkins?
Speaker 8: Honkins, help George.
Speaker 5: It's my husband. He's been shot. Get a doctor, Hawkins quickly, let.
Speaker 9: Me see oh snow used to get a doctor, Madama,
I think i'd better call the piece the police. Yes,
from the look of the revolver on the floor, this
was either suicide or murder.
Speaker 3: Oh fern Callier, Dear, it was good of you to come.
Speaker 10: Missus Carlton. I brought a friend of mine to help you.
This is Jim Brandon, Missus Carlton.
Speaker 3: Mister Brandon, Mister Brandon, I am innocent, but we can
never prove it.
Speaker 5: The gun everything gott him.
Speaker 2: Friend has known you and your family for a long time,
and she believes you're innocent. If you are, we'll find
a way to prove it.
Speaker 3: But how why the evidence is all against me, mister Brandon.
Why Sometimes I sit here and miss Sell and wonder
if if I could have fired that gun without knowing
or or remembering anything about it.
Speaker 10: Of course you didn't. Suppose you tell Jim exactly what
happened and let him handle everything for you.
Speaker 2: Yes, this's gotten. Tell me the truth. That is one
weapon that is stronger than any kind of evidence.
Speaker 5: Yes, well, where shall I begin, mister Brandon.
Speaker 2: First of all, Hawkins, your butler, testify that you and
your husband were quarreling just prior to the shooting.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's true, mister Brandon. We were quarreling violently
over money. My husband's firm had made a bad investment.
His uh, his two partners, Martin Burlingame and Paul Redford,
They've been able to cover their losses, but my husband
hadn't been.
Speaker 2: In other words, your husband would be forced out of
the firm unless he could put up his share of
the losses.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, that's right, mister Brandon.
Speaker 2: Now about the shooting and the gun, give me the
details on that.
Speaker 3: Well, the you see, the truth sounds impossible and stupid.
I can't expect you to believe me.
Speaker 10: We want to believe you. Missus Calton, tell us what happened?
Speaker 3: Well, do you see all of a sudden a shot
rang out of me. George sang to the floor. I
ran to him and called for Hawkins, but nothing could
be done.
Speaker 4: Why then Hawkins noticed the gun on the floor.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 3: I can't understand where the gun came from or how
All I know is that suddenly.
Speaker 5: It was there.
Speaker 4: A set of your fingerprints were on that gun, Missus Calton.
Speaker 3: Yes, I know, you see, I did a very foolish thing.
I picked it up to examine it. I guess I
couldn't believe my eyes.
Speaker 4: Where was Hawkins when you picked up the gun? He says,
he didn't see.
Speaker 5: You do it. Hawkins was telephoning the police. I think.
I oh, mister Brandon, I don't know. Everything became so
confessus Carton.
Speaker 2: We might as well face the fact that your finger
prints on that gun are conclusive evidence as far as
the police are concerned.
Speaker 5: I know, mister Brandon.
Speaker 2: Naturally they believe that single set of prints was made
when you fired the gun, not when you picked up
the gun to examine it.
Speaker 3: If only Hawkins had seen me pick up the gun
after the shoot.
Speaker 4: But he didn't, so we only have your word for it.
Speaker 3: I know, I know I can't expect them to believe me,
but I'm telling you the truth, mister Brandon.
Speaker 5: I swear.
Speaker 10: Oh, Missus Carton, please, you've got to be strong so
you can help us prove you're innocent.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, of course, bran Missus Carton, think carefully now,
could anyone have been hidden in that room.
Speaker 3: No, no, mister Brandon, I'm certain of beat. There was
no one there but George and me. The piano tuner
was in the next room.
Speaker 4: The piano tuner, yes, I.
Speaker 3: Remember hearing him drumming on the piano just as the
shot was fired, So he couldn't have done it.
Speaker 4: What happened to that piano tuner why?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I suppose he was frightened by the
shot and just left.
Speaker 4: Or who was he? I'd like to question him.
Speaker 5: I don't know that either, mister Brandon.
Speaker 3: He he said that when he arrived that my husband
had hired him, and George was quite a good musician.
Speaker 4: You, Missus Carton, that will be awful.
Speaker 3: Now tell me, frankly, mister Brandon, do you believe the
story I've just told you.
Speaker 4: Yes, I believe you, Missus Caldon.
Speaker 2: I've learned that crime is often quite fantastic in its
effort to outrun the law.
Speaker 5: But can you help me, mister Brandon.
Speaker 4: I'll do everything I can.
Speaker 10: Don't worry, Missus Calton. You're in good hands now. Jim
doesn't believe the perfect cry the exis, Yes.
Speaker 2: Mister Brandon, Carlton's death was a great shock that mister
Redword me upset our business plans completely. Mister Berlin, game,
let's stick to the facts. You and Redford knew Carlton
was broke and you were trying to squeeze him out.
His murder made that easy for you. Now look here, Brandon,
what are you trying to do. I'm trying to get
up the truth of Carton's murder. Well, the police are
convinced that missus Carlton shot her husband.
Speaker 4: Not so fast, Burling Game. The state still has to
approve that.
Speaker 10: Mister Brandon, and I think Missus Carlton is well.
Speaker 4: Miss Collier, I'm only repeating what the newspapers say.
Speaker 6: Excuse me say?
Speaker 4: Can't you install that newsticker without making so much noise?
Speaker 2: Okay, what did you say that man's installing to the
newsticker machine?
Speaker 4: Redford must avoided it.
Speaker 2: I didn't know anything about it until this workman came
barging in here with it.
Speaker 10: Mister Redford was like his news hot off the.
Speaker 4: Fliers, just another of his crazy ideas. Miss Collier.
Speaker 6: Okay, that's good. The machine's ready for you.
Speaker 4: Now, how do you turn it on?
Speaker 10: All?
Speaker 4: You just turn that control knob on the right. Thank you.
Speaker 11: When you hear the gone, that means that the big
news fliers is coming. I'll leave you here to try
it out.
Speaker 2: Well, excuse me, and then a Brandon, I'll turn on
this machine and get the news. Since Redford's gone to
all us expensively, you.
Speaker 10: Might as well you were doing, Jim, this interview's are failure.
We haven't learned a thing from Berlin Games.
Speaker 4: We haven't finished with him yet, Burne, an.
Speaker 8: Important use flash is coming over Burley Game, get back.
There's a bomb in there. Burn Not at the desk, quite, friend.
Speaker 4: We didn't get here at Redford's apart the time he's gone.
Speaker 10: From the condition of this apartment. He certainly left in
a hurry. Jim, I'm certain Redford is on man. He
must have killed Cotton and Berlin Game, and now he's
hiding out somewhere.
Speaker 2: Well, since we're here, we might as well have a
look around and let's see. I'll take the closet, you
take the.
Speaker 4: Desk, Fern.
Speaker 10: Okay, but you don't sound as if you expect to
find anything here, Jim.
Speaker 4: Well, I was hoping to find Redford.
Speaker 10: Gosh, it was a lucky thing. For missus Carton. She
was in jail when Berlingang was killed.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's got the inspector of baffled, because even he
has to admit there must be some connection between the
two deaths.
Speaker 4: Find anything for him?
Speaker 10: Not a thing here, Jim.
Speaker 2: We might as well go to headquarters and report Redford's disappearance.
Speaker 10: Jim, how did you know that explosion was going to
happen in Berlin Gang's office?
Speaker 2: Just after that third gong sounded, I heard a very
light click. I wasn't certain it was a bomb, but
it was no time to take a chance.
Speaker 10: It's a lucky thing for us. We were on the
other side of the room and had time to duck
under the desk. Jim, do you think we should answer
Redford's phone?
Speaker 4: By all means here, I'll take it.
Speaker 11: Hello Redford, if you don't wanna hang for murder, meet
me in front of the checked room at the Central
Best Termino at four o'clock.
Speaker 6: Oh is this? Meet me at four o'clock? That's all?
Speaker 4: Hello? Hello?
Speaker 10: Hello?
Speaker 4: Uh? He hung up?
Speaker 5: Who was it?
Speaker 10: Jims?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I'm beginning to smell a rat fern.
What do you mean if Redford is guilty, he has
an accomplice. If he isn't guilty, someone is trying to
frame him. Or of course, that call could have been
meant for the very man who received it.
Speaker 10: Do you think it might have been meant to you?
Jim could be well, what's on next step?
Speaker 2: I'm going to the central bus terminal to keep a
very interesting appointment for mister Redford.
Speaker 1: Cha and now back to the avenger and the melody
of murder.
Speaker 10: This bus terminal was practically deserted. Business can't be very good.
Speaker 2: No lent appearances, food your Fern. I had Inspector White
order the place cleared. The men around here are all
plain clothesmen. Anything may happen here in the next five minutes,
and I'm not taking any chances on innocent bystoun As
getting involved. Now, Fern, I want you to wait in
that music shop over there in the arcade. You'll be
safe there and still able to keep a sharp lookout
on the checkroom.
Speaker 10: I'm afraid for you. Don't go, it's too dangs.
Speaker 4: I must keep this appointment. Bern. It's our only chance
of cracking this case and stopping these murders.
Speaker 2: Jim, I'll run along. It's almost time. A man of
mystery may appear at any moment.
Speaker 10: Okay, Jim, good luck, now I will Jim.
Speaker 6: Oh, good afternoon, miss. What can I do for you?
Speaker 10: Why? I'd like to look at one of your record catalogs.
Speaker 6: Please, certainly we have all the latest records. I'll be
glad to play any of them you like.
Speaker 10: Thank you. I'll look through the list first.
Speaker 5: Huh oh, yes, sir, did you find what you wanted?
Speaker 11: Yes, I'd like to listen to this record, this Concerto
pencer Rosso.
Speaker 6: Of course, I'll play it for you. Make it a
little louder, please, Yes, sir.
Speaker 10: Why that's the workman who was in Berlin games for this.
I'd better call Jim. Jim, Jim, come here quick, Jim,
are you all right?
Speaker 6: Okay, hurry?
Speaker 10: Then there goes on man. He's getting away through the arcade, Jim.
Speaker 4: That way you wouldn't happen. Where was that explosure here.
Speaker 10: In the check room.
Speaker 5: The whole place is a shamble, I should say. So
I better go and see if anyone over spurt.
Speaker 4: He got away, Fern. Not a sign of him anywhere.
Speaker 10: It was the workman that installed a ticker in Berlin
Gain's office.
Speaker 2: Jim, Fern, get that record off the machine, Jim, and
bring it along.
Speaker 10: Why do you need the record, Jim?
Speaker 2: That concerto is a melody of murder.
Speaker 4: There that proves it, Fern.
Speaker 10: Nobody touched that gun. What caused it to go off?
Speaker 2: The vibrations of that cord I struck upon the piano.
They released the hair trigger of that gun.
Speaker 10: That was the strangest thing I ever saw, Jim. You
just placed that gun on the shelf between two rows
of books, and all of a sudden it went off
and fell.
Speaker 6: To the bloor.
Speaker 2: Our killer posed as a piano tuner and used that
ingenious method to kill Calvin.
Speaker 10: Put that bomb in the news chicken machine, Jim. Was
it set up by vibrations?
Speaker 5: True?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: For him, the slight movement caused by the vibrations of
the gung released the delicate hair spring pin of the
grenade planted inside the machine. That's how the explosion occurred.
And the same thing happened at the bus terminal. The
criminal left a bag containing the grenade in the check room.
Speaker 10: Then went into that music shop in the arcade, and
four o'clock had a certain record blade exactly.
Speaker 2: Now, let's add up the facts. We know that man
in the music shop could be working for Redford. Now
if he isn't, then Redford is his next logical victim.
Speaker 4: Also, he's very anxious to get me off the case.
Speaker 10: I'm anxious to get you off this case too, Jim.
It's fantastic and horrible. Every time I hear music, I'll
be afraid for our lines.
Speaker 2: Oh, we can't give up now, Vern. We know what
the criminal looks like and how the murders were committed.
Those facts are bound to lead us somewhere.
Speaker 10: Well before we start chasing down any more clues, I'll
have to change my shoes. When a criminal ran out
of the music shop, he stepped on my foot. Look
at this big buck on the toe of my shoe.
Speaker 2: Fern, give me that shoe. That dirt mark is evidence evidence. Yes,
a laboratory test of that dirt may tell us exactly
where to find the murderer. Well, here it is, Fern,
this is what I'm looking for.
Speaker 10: What is it, Jim.
Speaker 2: Look in these books, missus Coffin turned over to me.
There's a record of a farm the firm of Carlton,
Burlingame and Redford bought about.
Speaker 4: Five years ago.
Speaker 10: Is that important, Jim.
Speaker 2: Because that farm proved to be a very good investment.
Shortly after was purchased, it was found to be rich
in bauxite. I still don't get it that dirt I
analyzed from your shoe contained bauxite.
Speaker 10: Who owned the farm, Chester Moreland.
Speaker 4: But it seems to me, Oh Morland died about a
year ago.
Speaker 10: Doesn't this put Redfood on the spot, Jim. It shows
how much he had to gain by the death of
his two partners.
Speaker 2: Yes, but it could mean something else entirely. Fern, get
your things. We're going for a drive, Jim.
Speaker 10: I think we should have brought the inspector and some
of his men along. I have a feeling we're going
to run into trouble out here.
Speaker 2: Well, the inspector wasn't at headquarters, Fern. I left word
for him to join us in half an hour. Anyway,
there's always a chance they turn out to be a.
Speaker 4: Wild goose chase.
Speaker 10: I hope not.
Speaker 4: Oh, here's the road where we turn in. There. Uh,
that's the old man and house.
Speaker 6: Up there ahead.
Speaker 10: It looks deserted, Jim.
Speaker 2: Probably hasn't been lived in since Carfin's firm took over
the farm.
Speaker 10: Why are you parking so far away.
Speaker 5: From the house.
Speaker 4: Jim, Fern, I want you to wait here in the car.
Speaker 10: Oh, Jim, I said, Vern.
Speaker 4: Somebody's playing the piano in there.
Speaker 10: Yes, I guess this is the place you're looking for, alright, Jim, Yes, Vern.
Let's arrange some sort of signal in case anything goes
wrong in there.
Speaker 4: Okay, if I want you, I'll p a small flower Rondolis.
Speaker 10: On the piano and I'll come running.
Speaker 2: Jim, don't be frightened for him. I think everything will
be all right. I'm going in there as the Avenger.
Speaker 11: Well, uncle, your day of vengeance is at hand. I
Curtis Morland, have kept my promise to you, even though
you were dead. Uncle, your last enemy dies today and
we'll have our farm back.
Speaker 6: Carleton, Burlingame and Redford they were no match for me. Uncle.
Speaker 11: I've murdered two of them, and Redford dies within the hour,
all with.
Speaker 4: My music, Uncle, the music that you taught me.
Speaker 6: Heard us? Morland. Who's there? Who call my name?
Speaker 11: It's the Avenger, Morland, the Avenger where I can't see you.
Speaker 2: Get away from that piano, Morland. The Avenger knows your secret.
There's a discord of death in the music you have.
Speaker 11: Yes, there's death in it, death and vengeance, and the
music won't stop until all three.
Speaker 6: Of them are dead.
Speaker 4: Where is Redford?
Speaker 6: In a few minutes, Redford will die. Nothing can save him,
not even you. Where is he?
Speaker 11: I have but to strike a certain chord, and he
will be blown into a thousand pieces.
Speaker 4: Morland, nothing can be gained by murder.
Speaker 11: Spare Redford, no, Avenger, He's doomed just like the others.
Speaker 6: But I would torture him a little first.
Speaker 11: I'll have him listen to the dirge of doom before
I strike the final chord. What are you doing, Avenger,
get away from this piano. No hand but mine must
touch these keys.
Speaker 4: Stop me, I say, stop it, simple, Rendelais can break
the spell of your vibrations.
Speaker 10: Moland, how can I help young lady?
Speaker 4: Redfoot is in this house? Find him and get him out?
Speaker 8: Hurry.
Speaker 11: I've made a promise to a dead man, and I
must keep it.
Speaker 6: You're a fool, Avenger.
Speaker 4: I can still out with you.
Speaker 11: There is another piano in this house, and even if
it means that I must die, I'll strike the proper
chord on it. Then, Avenger, you will see a whole
wing of this house explode and collapse into a deserted
mine shaft.
Speaker 8: Morland, come back, Morland, I can hear you, Barn.
Speaker 4: I'm coming in a moment. Ye.
Speaker 10: When I saw the whole wing of that house collapse,
I never thought i'd see you alive again.
Speaker 2: Moreland locked the door after him, Fern, Otherwise I would
have tried to save him.
Speaker 10: Well, it's nice to be back here safely in the laboratory, Jim.
I hope we never have another case like this. My
nerves won't stand a little.
Speaker 2: We'll do some routine work on the telepathic indicator for
a few days and give you a chance to get
back to normal for him.
Speaker 10: Well, now, to bring your notes up to date on
this case, Jim, what shall I list for the motive
of Curtis Morland's crimes revenge?
Speaker 4: Fern?
Speaker 2: That farm had belonged to Curtis's uncle and would have
fallen to Curtis at the old man's death, But Kaufman's
partner's discovered a very rich deposit of box sit there.
I'm persuaded Old Morland to sell the farm. It drove
young Curtis mad to watch those partners get rich at
his uncle's expense, and when this man died, Curtis vowed
to get even and reclaim his heritage.
Speaker 10: Well, we save Redford anyway. He's promised to face the
music and see that missus Carfin gets her husband's share
of the.
Speaker 4: Business, which is just about where we came in on this.
Speaker 10: He is, what's that?
Speaker 4: Take it easy, friend, it's only the piano tuner.
Speaker 2: We ruined the tone of my piano with those vibration experiments,
so I decided to.
Speaker 4: Have a tune.
Speaker 10: Oh jim, I don't think I'll ever be able to
enjoy piano music again.
Speaker 2: All characters, names, places, and plots used in the Avenger
program are fictitious. Any similarity to person's living dead is
purely coincidental.
Speaker 8: This is a thought, a thought, a thought.
Speaker 4: Remember listen for another adventure of the Avenger