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Speaker 1: time for today's episode of Richard Diamond. The original air
Speaker 1: date is February sixteenth, nineteen fifty one, and this one
Speaker 1: is The Gray Man.
Speaker 2: And the Makers of Camel Cigarettes present Dick Powell as
Speaker 2: Richard Diamond Private Detective. Here transcribed is Richard Diamond Private Detective,
Speaker 2: starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3: It was a cold afternoon in New York. There was
Speaker 3: six inches of snow in the streets and twice that
Speaker 3: much on the fire escape outside my window. I looked
Speaker 3: down at Broadway and watched the miserable pedestrians edging their
Speaker 3: way over the slippery ice covered sidewalks and thought about
Speaker 3: burning some of my furniture. It was just to day
Speaker 3: for anything unpleasant, and when the door to my office opened,
Speaker 3: I turned around to look at one of the most
Speaker 3: unpleasant sights I'd ever been faced with. Standing in the
Speaker 3: door was something that looked human, and I used the
Speaker 3: term human only because I stuck around long enough to
Speaker 3: find out for sure. He was about six feet and
Speaker 3: well dressed in a dark gray overcoat, but his face
Speaker 3: raised goosebumps from my argiles to my haircut. It was
Speaker 3: as dark gray as his overcoat, his whole face, his eyes,
Speaker 3: his lips, and when he spoke, even his tongue.
Speaker 4: Mister diamond.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I want you to find the man, and I want
Speaker 5: you to find him in the next five hours.
Speaker 3: He didn't sit on He just stood there facing me
Speaker 3: like a bad dream. I pushed the chair back and
Speaker 3: got up, as though I had to be standing to
Speaker 3: protect myself from what was coming.
Speaker 6: The man.
Speaker 4: I want you to find.
Speaker 3: His name Carnes.
Speaker 4: He's a science teacher at State College.
Speaker 3: Is he missing?
Speaker 4: Would I want him located?
Speaker 3: If he wasn't would I have asked you if I'd
Speaker 3: known the answer to that?
Speaker 4: How much is your fee, mister diamond?
Speaker 3: When I know what I'm getting into one hundred a
Speaker 3: day in expenses.
Speaker 5: Five hundred, find Lewis Kahans in five hours, and you
Speaker 5: get another five hundred.
Speaker 4: Does it matter if you know what you're getting into.
Speaker 3: I never go waiting if there's quicksand around, not even
Speaker 3: for a thousand dollars. I never like to count money
Speaker 3: when I'm suffocating.
Speaker 5: You only have to find Lewis Khans. I guarantee you
Speaker 5: live through.
Speaker 3: It, and after I find him, you.
Speaker 4: Can spend your thousand and forget about it.
Speaker 3: Why do you want him found?
Speaker 4: I owe him a debt, I want to pay him.
Speaker 3: And why do I have to find him in the
Speaker 3: next five hours?
Speaker 4: Because that's how long I've got to live.
Speaker 3: Interesting situation, you bet, And that thousand made it about
Speaker 3: as interesting as situations I'd ever gotten into. I couldn't
Speaker 3: take my eyes off of him standing there grays an
Speaker 3: early morning ghost. I wanted to ask him about his color.
Speaker 3: But in a business like mine, if a client comes
Speaker 3: in writing a purple lama, you greet him like everybody
Speaker 3: rides purple lamas and keep your mouth shut. He handed
Speaker 3: me the five hundred dollars in a card with his
Speaker 3: business address on it, Roger Vegas, sixty four West one
Speaker 3: and tenth Studio of Modern Photography. He backed up two steps,
Speaker 3: smiled a slow, dead smile, turned and walked out of
Speaker 3: the office like he was going to look at his
Speaker 3: own gray. I sat back down and thought about it
Speaker 3: for a while, and the little voice in the back
Speaker 3: of my head kept whispering.
Speaker 7: Don't do it, Diamond, don't do it, Diamond, don't do it, Diamond.
Speaker 3: Oh, shut up, you'll be sorry. What about the thousand dollars?
Speaker 7: It'll buy a nice sure wall peasant.
Speaker 5: Whoa, if the ain't Richard Diamond, the over stuffed flat foot.
Speaker 3: Well, if it ain't Sergeant Odors, the over stuffed flathead.
Speaker 5: Oh someday you'll be sorry.
Speaker 3: Well everybody is sooner or later. Think about your poor
Speaker 3: mother must have gone through that ain't funny. I bet
Speaker 3: your father didn't think so either.
Speaker 8: Oh.
Speaker 6: Oh, Rick still picking on him?
Speaker 3: Uh, he'll be picked on until somebody plucks off that
Speaker 3: other head.
Speaker 6: What's up?
Speaker 3: Walda wants some information? If I can history on a
Speaker 3: fellow named Roger Vegas. Here's his kind, also, mister Lewis
Speaker 3: Kahn's science professor at State College.
Speaker 6: I'll try. What's it all about?
Speaker 3: Roger Vegas wants me to fine this Lewis Cohnes wants
Speaker 3: to pay back a debt.
Speaker 6: What's unusual about that?
Speaker 3: I don't know. Oh, but you should see Roger Vegas.
Speaker 3: He'd scare you right into a dozen more ulcers.
Speaker 6: I doubt it, no room for anymore.
Speaker 3: The ones you've got would hide. You should see this
Speaker 3: guy wall his face, His hands are duc gray.
Speaker 6: What about the rest of them?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 3: Wouldn't you know enough? I got to ask him to
Speaker 3: take his clothes off.
Speaker 6: Very funny.
Speaker 8: What do you mean?
Speaker 6: He's gray?
Speaker 3: That's just what he is. Even his eyes, not just
Speaker 3: the pupil, but the whole eye, the whole eye up.
Speaker 3: If he raised his collar, he could stick out his tongue,
Speaker 3: put a tie pin on it, and wear it with
Speaker 3: a dark blue suit. His tongue too, give it, his fingernails,
Speaker 3: his gums.
Speaker 6: I suppose his hair is plaid.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, but if you ever run into this guy
Speaker 3: in a die alley gets set the faint.
Speaker 6: Well, see what I can find out about him.
Speaker 3: I've got to have the information pretty fast. I only
Speaker 3: got four and a half hours to find those comes.
Speaker 3: I'll come because Roger Vegas has only got that long
Speaker 3: to live. Rick, That's what he told me.
Speaker 7: A guy with a gray face comes into your office,
Speaker 7: wants you to find another guy and tells you you
Speaker 7: gotta find him in the next four and a half
Speaker 7: hours because.
Speaker 6: He's gonna die.
Speaker 3: Who's gonna die?
Speaker 6: The guy with the gray face.
Speaker 3: You didn't say that. You said, got to find the
Speaker 3: guy in the next four and a half hours because
Speaker 3: he's going to die.
Speaker 6: Oh you know what I meant.
Speaker 3: No, No, they just gave me five hours.
Speaker 6: You said four and a half.
Speaker 3: That was a half an hour ago. Oh well, I'm
Speaker 3: wasting my time.
Speaker 6: I've got to find him, the man with the gray face.
Speaker 3: No, the science professor. While you're getting pretty confused, I'll
Speaker 3: see you later, huh. I left the fifth Precinct, grabbed
Speaker 3: a cab, and twenty minutes later I was walking across
Speaker 3: the campus of State College. Being Saturday, the big school
Speaker 3: was quiet and impressive as it stretched out over a
Speaker 3: dozen acres of snow covered grounds. I located the administration
Speaker 3: building and found one lonely student working in the main office.
Speaker 3: I am mm hmmm, yes, oh, good afternoon.
Speaker 1: That might be.
Speaker 3: Can I do something for you? Well, yes, I'm looking
Speaker 3: for professors.
Speaker 1: M hm.
Speaker 3: He's in the science department, isn't he.
Speaker 9: Professor hasn't been on campus since last Thursday. Faculty's been
Speaker 9: rather worried.
Speaker 3: You don't know where I could find him?
Speaker 9: No, but I'm through here in half an hour. I
Speaker 9: could help you.
Speaker 3: Look, I bet you could. You know where the professor
Speaker 3: lives sun file. Well, why don't you be a good
Speaker 3: little freshman a junior and get me his address from
Speaker 3: that file?
Speaker 9: Because it's more fun not being a good little junior,
Speaker 9: and the college has certain rules.
Speaker 3: We'll then be a bad little junior and break the rules.
Speaker 9: I'm off in half an hour, might.
Speaker 3: Be able to Then I've got to find a science
Speaker 3: professor there. Until I do, I'm afraid I'll have to
Speaker 3: pass the extension course in biology. And if you find
Speaker 3: the professor, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 4: I'm in here every afternoon.
Speaker 3: College hasn't changed a bit since my days. Just jumped
Speaker 3: into second gear. The cute little junior walked her sweater
Speaker 3: and saddle shoes over to a long and came back
Speaker 3: with Professor Kahn's home addess. I thanked her, promised she
Speaker 3: could wear my gold badge if she passed lunch hour,
Speaker 3: and took my cab back to town. At the professor's house,
Speaker 3: I met his sister, an elderly lady named Drusilla, who
Speaker 3: reminded me of my math teacher at p s fourteen.
Speaker 9: I haven't seen my brother since Friday morning, mister Diamond.
Speaker 3: And you have no idea where I can find him.
Speaker 9: No, why do you want to find him?
Speaker 3: Well, I I'm a private detective, miss Cannes. I was
Speaker 3: hired by a man named Vegas. Oh you know him, I.
Speaker 9: Most certainly do. Did he hire you to find my brother?
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 9: He's not a good man, mister Diamond. I believe he's
Speaker 9: the reason my brother disappeared.
Speaker 3: Maybe you better tell me about him.
Speaker 9: My brother married a girl many years younger than himself,
Speaker 9: and unfortunately it was not a good marriage. Did this
Speaker 9: Vegas person mention my brother's wife.
Speaker 3: No, he just told me he wanted to find the
Speaker 3: professor in order to pay him a debt. A debt,
Speaker 3: that's what he said.
Speaker 9: Watch out for that man, mister Dammond. He broke up
Speaker 9: my brother's marriage.
Speaker 3: Well, maybe i'd better talk to your brother's wife.
Speaker 9: That would be impossible. My brother's wife killed herself.
Speaker 3: Oh well, that's too bad.
Speaker 9: My brother and I believe she killed herself because of
Speaker 9: that man bagers. My brother found out they were seeing
Speaker 9: each other. When he begged to stop, she said that
Speaker 9: it was impossible and refused to give a reason. A
Speaker 9: week later, she killed herself.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen mister veggas?
Speaker 10: No wife?
Speaker 9: Not why?
Speaker 3: I was just wondering why any woman would go for
Speaker 3: a man like him, unless she like ghosts. I left
Speaker 3: Drusilla cons and looked at my watch. It was three
Speaker 3: o'clock and I had only two hours left to find
Speaker 3: the professor earned my thousand dollars. On the way to
Speaker 3: the nearest phone booth. I thought about the case and
Speaker 3: wondered if the thousand dollars would be worth in the
Speaker 3: long run. I watched part of my last five bucks
Speaker 3: dropping the phone and decided.
Speaker 8: It was Levinson homicide.
Speaker 3: Diamond wal I want to know about suicide.
Speaker 8: Otis won't do it?
Speaker 3: Uh, Professor Kahn's wife.
Speaker 8: I thought, so.
Speaker 7: I checked for you on Vegas and the professor. The
Speaker 7: Professor's wife jumped off a building five days ago.
Speaker 3: What did you find out about Vegas and the professor?
Speaker 8: Not much?
Speaker 7: At the inquest, the professor accused Vegas of breaking up
Speaker 7: his home and driving his wife to suicide. He the
Speaker 7: man's got a record. Vegas is a professional photographer, and
Speaker 7: the professor has been teaching at state College for the
Speaker 7: past eleven years. I talked with some of the men
Speaker 7: at the inquest, and they remembered Vegas. They all say
Speaker 7: his skin looked pretty healthy.
Speaker 8: At the time.
Speaker 3: Do me a favor, Walt, check with the coroner and
Speaker 3: find out what would turn a man's skin that color?
Speaker 8: Sure can he leads on the professor.
Speaker 3: Yet, no nobody got a hunt. I just left his
Speaker 3: sisters and she doesn't seem at all worried about her
Speaker 3: brother's disappearance. So so if she isn't worried, there's a
Speaker 3: good chance she knows he's all right.
Speaker 8: And if she knows he's all right, she might know
Speaker 8: where he is.
Speaker 3: Oh, no, wonder they made you a lieutenant Walls. You
Speaker 3: keep thinking like that and someday you might even take
Speaker 3: over for size and notice by I left the phone
Speaker 3: booth and walked back toward Rusilla Kahin's house. I staked
Speaker 3: myself out across the street in the corner gas station
Speaker 3: and warned my blue little ears inside while I waited
Speaker 3: for the good Drusilla to contact her brother. I was
Speaker 3: just guessing, but it worked. Ten minutes later, Drusilla, dressed
Speaker 3: in a heavy fur coat that looked like it should
Speaker 3: be out on the river building a dam, walked out
Speaker 3: of her house and hailed a cab. I hailed one too,
Speaker 3: and followed. Fifteen minutes later, I was back on the
Speaker 3: campus of State College. I watched her get out, walk
Speaker 3: around back of one of the buildings, knock on a door.
Speaker 3: She waited until someone opened it, and then she disappeared inside.
Speaker 3: I tried the door, but it was locked again, so
Speaker 3: I toured the building. The front door was locked too.
Speaker 3: I set to work trying to pick the lock. I
Speaker 3: broke a boy scout knife, half a dozen fingernails, and
Speaker 3: several bobby pins that, for some strange reason, had found
Speaker 3: their way into my coat pocket. So I did the
Speaker 3: next best thing. I went back to the door that
Speaker 3: Drusilla had entered earlier and waited. Five frozen minutes later,
Speaker 3: the door opened and I stood there facing Drusilla, while
Speaker 3: her look melted every icicle within ten feet. Standing directly
Speaker 3: behind her was a small man, his breath showing clearly
Speaker 3: against the cold air coming in short gaps.
Speaker 9: Drusilla, it's all right, Louis.
Speaker 6: What do you want?
Speaker 9: Mister Hammond?
Speaker 3: Nothing now, Miss Cohnes, I've found it is that the
Speaker 3: man Drusilla.
Speaker 9: Yes, is a detective. Vegas hired him.
Speaker 11: It's all right, Drisilla. If Vegas wants to find me,
Speaker 11: I'm tired of hiding. Tell Vegas that I'll be waiting here.
Speaker 9: Young man Lewis you know what he'll do.
Speaker 11: It's all right. Vegas knows he's only got a few
Speaker 11: hours left.
Speaker 3: Has that strange color of his skin got something to
Speaker 3: do with him? Yes? Have you seen him since the inquest? Professor? No,
Speaker 3: that's funny. How did you know about his skin and
Speaker 3: that he only has a few hours left to live?
Speaker 2: And now back to Richard Diamond Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3: Well, I'd found the professor and the thousand dollars was
Speaker 3: close to being mine. All I had to do was
Speaker 3: notify Vegas and collect. Even the professor guaranteed to help
Speaker 3: by staying and waiting for Vegas, but something was wrong.
Speaker 3: Standing there in the snow, looking at the timid professor,
Speaker 3: something began to smell the high heaven. I turned and
Speaker 3: walked away. Even if the professor was going to run,
Speaker 3: what was I supposed to do? Carry him piggyback until
Speaker 3: I located my dying client. The thousand was important, but
Speaker 3: there was a lot more that had to be solved.
Speaker 3: In a hurry, I went back to town and over
Speaker 3: to the photography shop run by Roger Vegas. Just something,
Speaker 3: what's the matter?
Speaker 10: Huh? Oh?
Speaker 3: Nothing?
Speaker 10: Nothing? Can I do something for him?
Speaker 3: I'm looking for Roger Vegas.
Speaker 10: Oh, he ain't in, and I see you simplas.
Speaker 3: You might have. I move around. Where can I find Vegas?
Speaker 3: He ain't here, I know he ain't. Where can I
Speaker 3: find him?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 3: I guess that would be somewhere in New York.
Speaker 10: Huh Hi, I supposed to give out the dress? Who
Speaker 10: wants him?
Speaker 3: I do? And I ain't supposed to give out the name?
Speaker 10: You're pretty shop jop guy.
Speaker 3: Dound to call Richard Diamond. Rich Richard Diamond. My family
Speaker 3: thought it up. Okay, you know me now?
Speaker 10: No, No, I was mistaken.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm surprised. I sent you to sing sing ten
Speaker 3: years ago.
Speaker 6: The professor's hiding in the school.
Speaker 3: That's right, Walt, in the basement of the science building.
Speaker 3: I just left Roger Vegas's photography shop. And guess who
Speaker 3: was working there?
Speaker 6: Who?
Speaker 3: George Young?
Speaker 6: Well Young, Well, the guy you sent up on that
Speaker 6: blackmail wrap.
Speaker 3: Ten years ago.
Speaker 6: Well, I knew he was out, but I haven't heard
Speaker 6: anything about him in a couple of years.
Speaker 3: Well, he's working for Vegas.
Speaker 6: Must be keeping his nose clean.
Speaker 3: Oh, I've seen cleaner noses on pigs.
Speaker 6: Somebody want me, no, what is it? Your melon head?
Speaker 4: She don't yell at me like that. I got something
Speaker 4: maron Roger Vegas.
Speaker 6: Well you want to hand it to me? Or would
Speaker 6: you just like to stand there and throw it?
Speaker 4: Oh? She always should stay away from Diamond. Every time
Speaker 4: you see him, you get manor and maner.
Speaker 6: Come on, come on, what do you got here?
Speaker 3: Ain't nothing much robbery detail? Come up with it.
Speaker 6: That photography shop was broken into this morning.
Speaker 4: Rick Burglary got some prince on the windows.
Speaker 3: Belong to some guy named Cahns. Carns.
Speaker 7: Yeah, says here, checked prince with State License Bureau. Prince
Speaker 7: belonged to one Lewis Khnes, Professor of science at State College.
Speaker 3: I'll see you later, Rick, Yeah, I nearly forgot.
Speaker 7: I checked with the corner. Told him about the color
Speaker 7: of Vegas's skin. He said that it could only be
Speaker 7: caused by a strong dose of silver salts silver sauce
Speaker 7: poisoning known as perinea p y r I n ni.
Speaker 3: A silver sauce. They used that in the photography shop.
Speaker 7: Carna said, a man that'd have to drink about thirty
Speaker 7: grains for a fatal dosage.
Speaker 6: That's quite a bit m M.
Speaker 3: Can you tell you how long he'd live?
Speaker 7: Yeah, anywhere from six to eight hours, according to the dosage.
Speaker 6: First the victim turns gray, then green.
Speaker 3: About what time was that photography shop broken into a wall?
Speaker 6: Oh, sometime before nine this morning, before they opened up. Thanks,
Speaker 6: where are you going?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna talk to George Young well and then find
Speaker 3: out if my gray client has turned green yet.
Speaker 12: Hello George, I told him Diamond. I told him you
Speaker 12: wanted to see him. He said he was going over
Speaker 12: to your office.
Speaker 3: Oh, facts, Look, what.
Speaker 10: Are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 8: For?
Speaker 12: I'm going straight now. I got a good job, see legit.
Speaker 12: I don't want no trouble.
Speaker 3: I don't blame you.
Speaker 10: Okay, mister Vegas has gone over your place. Why don't
Speaker 10: you go meet him?
Speaker 3: Huh, plenty of time.
Speaker 10: Look, he's in a hurry.
Speaker 12: He's got a big trouble and he's got to take
Speaker 12: care of it in the hurry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, he's got about an hour.
Speaker 10: Well, go on, go on. He paid it in me.
Speaker 3: What do you do around here, George?
Speaker 10: I listen, listen, you wh know my rights. I'm clean.
Speaker 12: I don't know what you're trying to approve, but I
Speaker 12: don't buy none of it. Now, get out of here.
Speaker 12: I'll call a straight cop.
Speaker 3: You know why Vegas is going to die in an hour? George?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 12: No, no I don't. If I did, I don't have
Speaker 12: to tell you nothing nothing.
Speaker 10: See.
Speaker 3: Maybe you know why he wants to find the professor. No,
Speaker 3: maybe you knew the professor's wife. No, maybe you know
Speaker 3: why she got killed?
Speaker 12: No, no, no, get out of here, time and get out.
Speaker 10: I'm clean. I'm legit now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like a tub of mud.
Speaker 10: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: I want you to tell me about Vegas?
Speaker 10: What about him?
Speaker 6: What about him?
Speaker 10: He owns the shop, that's all. He makes pictures?
Speaker 3: What else does he do nothing, nothing that I know of.
Speaker 12: What else he does? I don't know about What are
Speaker 12: you doing? Get away from me?
Speaker 3: I want to know all about it, George. I think
Speaker 3: I know most of it. I want to know the rest.
Speaker 10: No, I don't know. No, get away.
Speaker 3: I'm not a cop anymore. Remember, I don't have to
Speaker 3: play the rules.
Speaker 4: You can't skim me.
Speaker 10: You won't get rough. You ain't a compass right to
Speaker 10: lock you up if you get rough.
Speaker 3: Get away. I want to know why the professor's wife
Speaker 3: got killed.
Speaker 10: I don't know. I swear I don't know. She jumped.
Speaker 10: She jumped off the building.
Speaker 3: I thought you said you didn't know.
Speaker 6: Get away.
Speaker 3: No, please, please, I could figure everything but the wife.
Speaker 3: If she jumps, you had to have a reason. When
Speaker 3: I saw you, George, I got the idea. He's please blackmail. Maybe, George,
Speaker 3: I'm le shit. I told you I'm working black man
Speaker 3: with pictures. Maybe. Oh No, the dirtiest racket in the business.
Speaker 3: You're gonna tell me, George, I wish you were dead.
Speaker 4: I'm not telling you anything.
Speaker 3: Black Mail is the dirtiest racket I can think of.
Speaker 12: No, please, please.
Speaker 3: If Vegas finds a professor, you'll kill him. I've got
Speaker 3: an hour to stop a murder.
Speaker 12: Okay, okay, okay, okay, we were blackmailing the wife phony pictures.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how many others? How many others?
Speaker 4: Hell lots?
Speaker 3: Okay, George, let's get out of the station. I hate
Speaker 3: to get the rough, but I'm gonna see that you'll
Speaker 3: get another ten years. I hauled George Youngwell down at
Speaker 3: the precinct and went back to see the professor. He
Speaker 3: gave me some very interesting information, interesting enough to make
Speaker 3: me call Walt and set up a plan. Then I
Speaker 3: went back to my office. When I walked in, I
Speaker 3: found Roger Vegas facing me. He turned an ugly shade
Speaker 3: of green, all but the gun in his hand.
Speaker 4: Where is he, diamond, I've got less than an hour.
Speaker 3: I just left George Youngwell at the fifth Precinct. He's
Speaker 3: singing like a quartet.
Speaker 4: I thought that would happen, but I'm not worried.
Speaker 3: You've got plenty of poisoning. Huh. That's right. You've had
Speaker 3: it for about seven and a half hours, ever since
Speaker 3: the professor broke into your store and made you drink
Speaker 3: the silver sauce. Yes, he was getting even for his wife.
Speaker 4: I've got about forty minutes to live. Where is he?
Speaker 3: What if you're shot on time, maybe you'd better start looking.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think so. You're going to show me.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 5: I can't argue. I guess you won't live through it
Speaker 5: after all.
Speaker 3: Oh no, wait about it. Let's not lose our heads.
Speaker 3: He's at the college.
Speaker 4: Don't lie to me.
Speaker 3: He's in the science building in the basement.
Speaker 5: You're coming along, it'll like thirty minutes to get there.
Speaker 5: If you're lying, I've got five minutes left to kill you.
Speaker 5: I think that's plenty of time.
Speaker 3: The professor's in this building.
Speaker 4: Is it open?
Speaker 3: It should be?
Speaker 4: Go ahead stop. I can't see anything.
Speaker 3: The lights are out.
Speaker 4: If you're lying to me, Diamond. If he's not here, he's.
Speaker 3: Here, call him, okay, a professor, Professor kahns he's in
Speaker 3: the background.
Speaker 4: Tell him to come in.
Speaker 3: Will you come here, professor, it's Diamond. Get him in here, yes, professor, Yes,
Speaker 3: what is it, mister Diamond? Hello, Professor Vegas?
Speaker 4: Yes, surprise.
Speaker 3: No, No, I knew you'd hire this detective. I knew
Speaker 3: you'd come not too later.
Speaker 5: All right, Professor, I've got but five minutes, So you're
Speaker 5: going to die before me.
Speaker 3: You're a pretty terrible man.
Speaker 4: Look who's talking. Break into my store, pull a gun
Speaker 4: on me, make me drink that stuff. You're a killer,
Speaker 4: and you're going to pay for it.
Speaker 3: I'm not a killer yet.
Speaker 4: I haven't got the time to talk about it.
Speaker 3: You will get away with it.
Speaker 4: You think you pull it off, just great, don't you.
Speaker 5: Well I'm not only going to kill you, but I'm
Speaker 5: going to tell you something. I'm going to see how
Speaker 5: you take it. I got a little additional revenge, Professor.
Speaker 5: Your wife didn't jump. I pushed her.
Speaker 3: I don't believe it.
Speaker 5: She was going to start paying me, going to tell
Speaker 5: you about the pictures I was blackmailing with. Well, I
Speaker 5: couldn't have that, so I pushed her off the roof.
Speaker 3: That's all I wanted to know. Vegas, do you mean what?
Speaker 3: Very nice? Liutennant Levinson. Here's his gun.
Speaker 6: Thank you, mister Diamond. Get up, Vegas.
Speaker 4: You cheated me, but you've got to take him.
Speaker 7: He made me drink this stuff, or relax, You're gonna
Speaker 7: be all right crazy.
Speaker 4: I'm going to die, but he'll be the murderer. It's
Speaker 4: a little satisfaction anyway.
Speaker 11: You'll Hank, Professor, tell him, Professor, you lose all the
Speaker 11: way around Vegas. What do you mean it takes thirty
Speaker 11: grades of silver salts to be fatal. I only gave
Speaker 11: you fifty. In another few hours, you return to your
Speaker 11: natural color.
Speaker 3: No oh, no, oh no, don't be so unhappy Vegas.
Speaker 3: You try so hard to die. I think the state
Speaker 3: will do everything they can to see did you make it?
Speaker 2: Dick Powell will return in just a minute. Dick Powell
Speaker 2: will soon be seen in the RKO picture cry Danger.
Speaker 2: Tonight's adventure of Richard Diamond was written by Blake Edwards,
Speaker 2: with music by Frank Worth. Our director is Helen Mack.
Speaker 2: Featured in tonight's cast were Virginia, Greg Wilms, Herbert and
Speaker 2: Arthur Q.
Speaker 3: Bryant.
Speaker 2: Listen next week for another exciting transcribed adventure of Richard
Speaker 2: Diamond starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 4: This is your FBI.
Speaker 2: The official broadcast from the files of the FBI follows immediately.
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Speaker 1: This is Andrew J.
Speaker 12: Graham, author of the web surface series Oh and a
Speaker 12: Man and his Wife. You're listening to the great Detectives
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back. Another intriguing set up and a good mystery
Speaker 1: in the way that it paid off. Though I think
Speaker 1: it's fair to say the series on ABC has definitely
Speaker 1: seen a big tonal shift, though I think that had
Speaker 1: been going on even in NBC, as the show really
Speaker 1: shifts away from the heavier duty comedy, particularly of the
Speaker 1: early NBC era. I have to adjust my thinking because
Speaker 1: when Diamond was starting to talk about how hideous the
Speaker 1: person standing before him was, I almost could swear that
Speaker 1: he had been talking about otis. But that's something that
Speaker 1: they would have done earlier in the series. So this
Speaker 1: one did have a little comedy, of course, with Levinson
Speaker 1: and even before that the voice of Diamond's conscience also
Speaker 1: voiced by Arthur q Bran and having much more of
Speaker 1: an Elmer fudfeel to it. Flaud itself kind of feels
Speaker 1: like a bit of a twist Onda the great nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty film starring Edmund O'Brien, which featured a man who
Speaker 1: had been poisoned and could not be saved using his
Speaker 1: last remaining hours, who find the man who murdered him
Speaker 1: to solve his murdering to get avenge on his killer here.
Speaker 1: Of course, there are several wrinkles in the formula, and
Speaker 1: I think it works well for this episode. All right, well,
Speaker 1: that will do it for today. Bring us back here
Speaker 1: tomorrow for Boston Blackie, and next Wednesday it's another episode
Speaker 1: of Richard Diamond. In the meantime, send your comments to
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