Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is the Falcon speaking O Peggy. I'm glad
you called. I'll have to ask for a rain check. Angel,
I'm all tied up. Mm hmm. An active friend of
mine just brought himself a gun, and the way it
looks now, he figures to make a big hit.
Speaker 3: The Adventures of the Falcon, starring Less Damon. You met
the Falcon first in his best selling novels, then you
saw him in his thrilling motion picture series.
Speaker 4: Now join him on the air when the Falcon salves.
Speaker 3: The Case of the Disappearing Doll, and now the Case
of the Disappearing Doll.
Speaker 5: It's Wednesday evening in New York, and in a small
furnished room on Manhattan's East Side, a gentleman named Carl
Hoffman glares at an old clock as if commanding it
to stop, and when it continues to ignore mister Hoffman's wishes,
he holds.
Speaker 1: Off and makes known his displeasure. Hey take it easy, Carl,
I'll tell me to take it easy. Shee you went
and busted the clock. That's not all I'm going to
bust either. West Janet ever her a chance, Carl, She'll
show when she was due here an hour ago. Maybe
she got hired up with a jerk Harry Jensen. That's
still no excuse. I told her. I doesn't get that.
Just a second, Hello, Sheppie, we were just in time.
Speaker 6: Janet's matter.
Speaker 1: Carl's blowing his top.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about it, Janet, Yeah, were a devil you
would do here at eight?
Speaker 6: They were what they call extenuating circumstances.
Speaker 1: You're out with Harry Jensen. How'd you make out?
Speaker 6: Well, he's loosening up a little, but he still wouldn't
kick through with the information.
Speaker 1: That's a nice How do you do.
Speaker 6: If you think you can do better?
Speaker 1: I can't take it easy? Call you too, Janet?
Speaker 6: Does he get off balling me out? How long have
I had to work on Harry?
Speaker 1: But we know it's only been a week. The time
is getting short. Vince Dario will be here tomorrow. Who
Vince Dario? Carl is bringing him in from Toledo for this? Why?
Speaker 2: Because he's the best man in the business, That's why.
And Vince isn't the kind of a guy will hang
around if we can't promise some action.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm doing everything I can.
Speaker 1: I'm sure she is. Carl. Now, why don't you two
just kiss and make up? All right? I'm sorry, Jennet
to get it, hannay, I don't mind me. Folks, grab
yourself a watch.
Speaker 2: Come on, fell let's break it up and now we
get work to do. He's right, sweetheart. What do you
think have something to report from that? Harry Jensen characters?
Speaker 6: They wanted to simulate at night?
Speaker 1: Maybe to night summer?
Speaker 6: Maybe?
Speaker 1: How about it? Janet? And I think if you got
him good in class that he might start talking.
Speaker 6: It's never been a problem with Harry. The tough thing
is to make him quit.
Speaker 1: We'll get him started in the right direction. Baby.
Speaker 7: How when he stops will be on easy stream?
Speaker 1: Okay, do for me, Janet?
Speaker 6: That'd be such a sissy you are?
Speaker 8: Yeah, let me show it some that now, Harry, do
you think you should watch?
Speaker 1: Yep? Well? Well, well.
Speaker 6: How that you're terrific?
Speaker 9: Hey, Janet, Hey, you're pretty tripy too. I'm crazy about.
Speaker 6: Your baby, crazy enough to marry me.
Speaker 1: Say the word and we'll do it like bath.
Speaker 8: Don't tempt men? What did we live on? What will
we live on? What's the matter with me? I make
good dough? Eighty bucks a week? Is anything sneeze out.
Speaker 6: Oh no, that's wonderful.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm top man with the outfit. Who do you
think makes all the important deliveries?
Speaker 2: Me?
Speaker 1: That's go on. Don't believe me? Huh every here? The
mcguild company.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well they got a payroll out of eighty thousand
bucks a week and I'm the guy who brings.
Speaker 1: It to him.
Speaker 6: When when do you bring it to them?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 9: I'm sorry, Honyway, we're not supposed to tell Can.
Speaker 6: You claim you love me? Tell me? Tell me when
you're going to deliver the McGill pay roll?
Speaker 1: Now, what difference does that make?
Speaker 6: I could marry a man who didn't ask me, say.
Speaker 9: Dammy, I mean and it's kind of stuffer in here, okay,
I feel off of warm, you know. I I bet
I could just go to sleep.
Speaker 6: Don't you pass out on me? I am that said
Harry Harry Mick gil Perrol when you.
Speaker 1: Delivered Friday five? Oh yeah, what do you want looking for?
Karl Hoffman? Who are you all right? Let him in? Hi?
Speaker 2: Evince, Hello Awfman, Jeffie, Vince Dario, glad to know you
once you get Invines. About twenty minutes ago, you couldn't
The Times it better got something hot s Have you
hear of the McGill company and the people who make
all those plumbing fixtures? That's right now tell me you're
figuring on knocking them off. That's what I'm figuring. And
I wish you would have told me that and you
let it. Why because I wouldn't have wasted my time
coming to New York. Let him go, Carl, shut up, Sheppy.
Now before you make up your mind, Vince, maybe you
out to hear the deal.
Speaker 1: It's no deal.
Speaker 2: You have to walk into a plant like McGill's. They
don't have to walk in. We grab on the outside.
Speaker 1: Come again.
Speaker 2: The messenger who delivers the payroll is the character named
Harry Jensen. We know of the minute what time he'll
get to the factory. Now you're interested. I'm still here.
They're tearing up the street in front of the place.
If we have to park his bus a block away.
Now hook him down Remsen Street. That's where you and
I take over. Sheppy'll be covering the street with the
Thompson from a vacant room across the way. It sounds
all right, It.
Speaker 1: Gets better as it goes along. Now we give the
dough to Janets. Wait a second, who's Janet? Girlfriend of mine?
I don't like it? Offfman, what's the matter now? I
don't like any capable of baby is involved. You don't
know this, babe. How do you think we find out
when they're going to deliver the payroll? Oh? Yeah, she's
a real stylish kid. What's the last name? I'll see?
Where do you meet her? I like her very much?
All up to you? Then what do you say? We
got the time, the place, and a girl. What more
can a fella ask? How did you handle Janet?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 1: I guess you guess well?
Speaker 6: I never did like driving this kind of weather.
Speaker 2: Don't be silly, baby, It's going to make things a
lot easier all around, right, Vince?
Speaker 1: Sure, rain ll keep them off the streets. Woe sweet?
I wait a minute, right, here will be five?
Speaker 6: Did I shut her off?
Speaker 1: I keep her running?
Speaker 2: And remember when you start off again, go right in
the second and don't see the too much gas?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I got it? Is it?
Speaker 1: Vince? Make it a couple of minutes or two you
see Chepy across the street? I think so well? That
does it? Are you sure you know what to do? Janet?
Speaker 6: As soon as I get the bag. I head straight
from my apartment.
Speaker 1: That's right, don't hang around no matter what. We'll all
be over to your place by nine to divvy uposing
your arm.
Speaker 2: Don't give it a thought, sweetheart, it'll take what set
o frienda Harry Well on the corner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all right, Vince says.
Speaker 7: We go to work.
Speaker 6: Lots of luck.
Speaker 1: Honey, thanks baby, Let me cigree? Yeah? Where is that
lighter you're so proud of? What do you know it works? Here?
He comes? Hey, buddy me? Yeah, can you tell us
what Tremont Avenue is? Oh? In the outside of town.
I tell you what you better do. I'll tell you
what you better do. Don't make a move, but not
even a teeny one? What is just what it looks like?
Past that gript to my friend? Go on?
Speaker 2: You know how it is?
Speaker 1: No hard feelings at home. That's all right, mister. I
got a good memory for faces. I won't forget you
in that case. Let me give you something else to
remember me.
Speaker 9: What is it that you have enough?
Speaker 1: Carl Fnce like clockwork, didn't I?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: It was Jenny came here. Huh well no, no, no,
I was the first one in It's lucky had a
key to her place. Huh, and you're lucky. I don't
have a suspicious mind. Well I have. Did you phone
in it? Told her to come straight yead in Chicago? Yeah?
But you don't think she had an accident do Yeah? No, No,
we would have heard about it.
Speaker 2: I had the radio and the car tune to the
police calls with the cops snapped you kidding?
Speaker 1: There was nobody would in miles of her. After you
checked the bag into a car, she took off to
show up. Then she better, she's got a the door.
Just what are you getting at?
Speaker 2: You told me yourself. She's a very smart girl. Women
who are beautiful shouldn't be brainy.
Speaker 1: Meaning I think we got a double cross your nuts.
I'll leave it as ship. No, no, no, Janna wouldn't
do that thing. Why not? Well because she never did
it before? You ever have eighty grand before? Hook?
Speaker 2: What are you worried about? It isn't even nine o'clocks opposed.
She has a show by now, and I'll start.
Speaker 1: Looking for her. And if she isn't dead when I
find her, she'll wish to heaven. She was.
Speaker 2: Hey, you guys got to Buttom fresh out as a
pack of my coat pocket shipping.
Speaker 1: Thanks Charnel.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't have anything else in that pocket, like what
Vince like? Eighty grand Pardon me for point, but it's
twenty half to nine. Your girlfriend hasn't shown up yet,
so so I think we ought to start looking for her.
Speaker 1: Suppose he comes back in the meantime. You can always
leave an old No. I think one of us got
to hang around here, for instance, what do you want
to Maybe? I better? Okay, you wait here, Cheppy, you
covered the east Side. You know the places Janet likes?
Got you? What are you gonna do? Hoffman? I got
an angle? I want to try, like what? Never mind?
Speaker 2: But if Janet's tossing as the curb, I think I
know the one guy who can throw her out at home.
I'll let you know how I make out. Yeah, i'd
like to see Mike wearing the falcon.
Speaker 1: Please you are now? Oh?
Speaker 2: Well, my name is Karl Huffman. Yeah, uh I come in?
Oh sorry, thanks, Sitar, that's blige.
Speaker 1: What's on your mind?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: I'm looking for a girl, aren't we all?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 1: I mean this is a special one. Her name is
Janet Halsey.
Speaker 2: Janet Halsey Yeah, she's my girlfriend, So maybe we better
take this from the beginning. Well, Janet and I were
supposed to be married next Sunday. So I opened up
a joint account for us at the bank. How big,
two thousand dollars and she skipped this morning. She lived
at the Brighton Towers. I didn't know she didn't meet
with an accident.
Speaker 1: Well, she's done the same thing before. Oh she has.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she served three years and the women's penitentiary under
the name of blowis Hot. She got out in forty eight.
How come you trusted her with your money? You know
how it is wearing You always hope that this time
it's going to be different.
Speaker 1: Well, I see what I can do.
Speaker 2: Happen as you say, the first problem is to locate
the girl. Yeah, and the moment you do, will you
give me a call. I'll be waiting at the Brighton Brighton.
Didn't you say that's where your girlfriend lived? Yeah, I'm
using her apartment to operate from you. See, I wouldn't
want to miss her she came back.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess that, does it, Falkin. I'll be waiting
for your coom.
Speaker 4: Now back to the adventures of a falcon.
Speaker 5: An hour has passed since Carl Hoffmann recruited Mike Wearing
in his search for Janet Halsey, And now, as we
find Mike.
Speaker 1: He is making a tour of some of the shadier
spots on New York's Third Avenue.
Speaker 4: Look at the someone, mister.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I am fulkin hello Joey
a long time. I see what can I do for you?
Speaker 8: Mike?
Speaker 2: Well, you are a man who knows all the wrong people.
Ever heard of a girl named Janet Halsey?
Speaker 1: Huh? We seem to have an audience? Yeah, and I
like your act, mister. I missed the last line. Would
you mind repeating it now? Kind of that? Shepey, this
is my let'll give a rap who he is? What
do you want with Jannet Hosey? I don't think that's
any of your business? All right, I suppose we take
a little walk outside Noose.
Speaker 9: Thanks.
Speaker 1: It's too hot, that's all right. I got stepping in
my pocket to chill you off. I take it easy, ches,
keep out of this, Joe What do you say, Wearing?
I don't gonna have much choice in the matter now,
so start walking. I'm sorry, Mike. All right, Joey all
the day's work with Gavin. Come on, I haven't got
all day. Look, if you'd like to put this office,
I'll be your wise guy. Okay, where do we go
from here? Let's dry that alley. Look you've heard me?
All right, hold it? This is fine. Now let's pick
up where we left off. What do you want with Channey?
It's a long story. It's okay. You're not going anywhere.
I might surprise you.
Speaker 4: Hand out of your door?
Speaker 1: All right, punk on your feet? I me, I said,
on your feet? Why are you so interested in Janet Halsey?
Maybe I'm looking for it too? Maybe? And then again?
Maybe you know where she is? No? Where can I find?
I got no idea? Well jet one? Let mean, come on, Shep?
You can keep this up all night. Have you been
of the Brighton Tower? No? But someone else hasn't. She
wasn't there. You might you might try the Riverdale. Thanks
a lot, it's been a great help. Let's do it
again sometimes? Oh is it where shep? We been out looking?
Dephone in. I guess you had nothing to report. How
did you make out? Not so hot? And think you said?
Leaves me up?
Speaker 2: The well known Greek you grapping about we're all in
the same boat. Yeah, but I didn't bring Janet into
the act. You did offman, Okay, and I'll find it.
I don't see him making any progress. Maybe not, but
I hired somebody who will who fella named Mike wearing
the private dick?
Speaker 1: That's right? What's the idea? You going off your trolley?
Relaxed with you? Vince?
Speaker 2: I gave him a song in advance about wanting to
find Janet. This guy wearing his plenty of contact, Well,
I don't like it.
Speaker 1: You the boy was belly aching that. I wasn't doing anything.
You didn't have to go that far. How far would
you go for eighty grand I guess you're right. Thanks,
that must be sheppy. I'll take it. Yeah, what do
you want?
Speaker 6: I thank your pardoner. I must have the wrong number.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, is that you Janet? Hello? Hello? What's trouble?
I think that was Janet? You don't imagine it. Don't
tell me. I'd recognize her voice anywhere. What made her calling?
And hang up? You know something? Thence that's just what
I was wondering. I'll be back in an hour. Hello, Hello,
is it Jonathan Halsey's apartment? Yeah, how Hawfman there? Who's
calling Mike Wearing? We just stepped out for a while.
I want to leave a message. Who's this It's okay.
I'm a friend of his. My name is Vince Dario.
Speaker 2: I'll tell Hawfman I'm going to lead on his girlfriend.
Speaker 1: He's supposed to be at Riverdale Arm.
Speaker 2: If you'll meet me at the eighty six o'clock we'll.
Speaker 4: Go over together.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, mister Worry. I know Kyle will be
glad to hear that Wearing Wearing over here. It's about time, Hoffman, Larry,
I'm late, but I just got your message, which gets
your dough from a punk named Sheppy Oliver?
Speaker 2: What Hey pulled a gun on me.
Speaker 1: That's the funniest thing I've heard yet, is it? Yeah?
Sheffie's a friend of mine. That's so when he heard
asking for Janet, he must have gotten suspicious. Why he's
not very bright? What was that address he gave you again?
Riverdale Arms? That's what I thought. It's a bump step.
How do you know that's where Sheppie lives himself? Why
would he give me his own address? Probably rattle him
so badly. He was the only thing you could think
of that's one possiblity you think of any other? Yeah,
maybe Janet had a partner.
Speaker 4: You mean Sheppie.
Speaker 1: Why not? He's my best friend.
Speaker 2: Janet wears your best girl. Let's go see who's playing
on whose team? For a being the last one down
the hall wearing you know, there's one thing that throws me.
Only one after I left your office, I went back
to Janet's apartment. I was talking with Vince Dario when
the phone range so the girl got on. I would
have sworn it was Janet, but she claimed it was
a wrong number.
Speaker 1: Maybe she's trying to get and talk with Sheppier and
she got frightened when she heard your voice. Could be
but I never thought Sheppy was the type. This is
the place. I just can't believe it. M hm, what's
the matter? Un luck? Yeah, yeah, just as I figured.
And I guess I better call the police. Eh, take
a good look, ohly smoke, it's Sheppy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and with that slug in his head, I don't
think he's in any position.
Speaker 1: To call the cops himself. Where's the phone? Come on,
Vince hoping up? What take you so long? I was
busy with your friend. No, it's right. You boys haven't
met Mike. This is Vince Darien. How do you do? Hi?
How did that lead pan out? Not too bad? You
find Janet?
Speaker 10: There?
Speaker 1: No, we found Sheppy. I don't get it. He was
murdered by who Janet. That's one way to look at it.
They're running at it. I suppose Janet was working with
a man. You mean Sheppy? I don't see it. That's
just what I said. Look, I suppose we forget the
whole thing. What do you mean we gambled and lost? Ah?
Speaker 2: You surprised me, Vince. A couple hours ago you were
botting me up and not doing anything. Now you're wanting
to write the whole thing off. There's no use crying
over spilt milk. Sure, with Ady Grant in your pocket,
you can always buy yourself another quart. Oh you say
something wearing just though.
Speaker 6: Look you've been hitting it something all along.
Speaker 1: What is I think you know where Janet is? I
was a sucker not to see it before. We are fool, Carl.
Can't you see what Janet's doing? Jane might have Sheppie.
Now she's turning us against each other. Somebody put her
up to it, and I got a feeling it shot.
Speaker 10: Cut it out this Mike, where is Come on, Hoffman,
break it up, Mike, let me go, I said, break
it up, Oh, Dario, that was the idea, Hoffman.
Speaker 1: I don't like double crusses. Get the keys out of
his pucket. What for?
Speaker 2: I got to hunch Janets hold up in his apartment,
and I'm gonna play it to the hilt.
Speaker 4: Now back to the Adventures of the Falcon.
Speaker 5: Only a few minutes have passed since Carl Hoffman decided
that Janet might be hiding in Vince Dario's apartment. Now
he and Mike are at Darrios, but so far there's
been no sign of Janet.
Speaker 1: Looks like your huntress worth of Hoffman, and he's rather
the kitchen. I've been all over the place. There's no
one here. I still believe that Janet was working. Wait
a minute, open that draw again. I thought I saw
an envelope in there.
Speaker 2: Are you right, mister Vince Dario twenty seven, nineteen, Bolton Avenue, Detroit.
Look at the postmark, Bedford Hills, March sixteenth, nineteen forty eight.
Speaker 1: Now look at the return address on the other side.
Speaker 2: Janet Halsey State Penitentiary for Women, Uh huh, you get it,
And I was right.
Speaker 1: Vince knew Janet all along. Well, he could build up
a convincing case on the face of it. But where
is she now? Can't you think of somewhere she might go?
We've covered every possible hide out. Oh we haven't. There's
one place you're forgetting, Huffman, who's yours?
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? You are the man who
put Janet up to this. You plant a double crossier
mar from the beginning. Yeah, yeah, and I thought you
did pretty well. You murdered Sheppey and framed Vince Dario,
and I only.
Speaker 1: Left Janet to be taken care of. What about you?
Speaker 2: I don't think you're man enough that just goes. That's
the matter, huff When you lose something, that's what you're
looking for.
Speaker 1: Where'd you get that gun?
Speaker 2: I lifted it off you when you were shoving Dario around.
Just say the word friend and I'll give it back
to you a slug at a time.
Speaker 6: Well, what happened after that, Mike?
Speaker 1: You know the rest, Jennifer. As soon as the police
picked up Carl, I went to his apartment and picked
me up.
Speaker 2: And not a bad day's work at then, Oh no,
I'm talking about the little bag you had with you
containing eighty grand belonging to the McGill company.
Speaker 1: Oh what gets me is how you people knew exactly
what time the payroll was to be delivered.
Speaker 6: Oh, I had inside information from the.
Speaker 1: Boy who delivered it. How did you get it figured?
And what did you do? Use your feminine wilds?
Speaker 6: He didn't take much. He wanted to prove what a
great big man he was.
Speaker 1: Well, you have that effect on the up of it takes. Yeah,
it's just too bad you had all your work for nothing. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I guess when you come down to what I was
pretty lucky at that.
Speaker 1: You sure worry whom. There's no doubt that with Sheppy
and Vince Dario disposed of, you were next. Don Karl's
this dirty double crossing, Hannah. No, there's no reason to
be angry.
Speaker 2: After all, you were in on ninety nine percent of
the flot. He just neglected to tell you the big
finish he planned for you. Oh, Wincidently, when you called
your apartment and got Hoffman on the phone, why did
you pretend it was the wrong number?
Speaker 6: We had it arranged. When Karl picked up the phone
and said yes, what do you want? I knew he
wasn't alone, and that was my cue to hang up.
Speaker 1: Pretty cute, Hu.
Speaker 2: That was the second way he convinced Dario he was
acting above board. What was the first mike hiring me?
Speaker 1: He had to go through with the motions of trying
to find you, and what would make him look more
innocent than hiring a private detective.
Speaker 6: I still don't see what proved you he was guilty
of the return address on.
Speaker 1: The envelope I found in Dario's room gave your.
Speaker 2: Name as Janet Hawsey, and Carl told me when you
were up at the women's pen. He served time under
the name of Lois's Heart, though obviously the letter was
a frame.
Speaker 6: And Karl was the only one who could have pled.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 6: You know you're pretty wonderful, honey, I mean, mister wearing.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't mind your getting affectionate. After all, we're
going to be seeing lots of each other, Janet, are
we almost past our destination?
Speaker 6: Is this where you live?
Speaker 1: That's the matter with you? Janet? Don't you recognize the building?
Speaker 6: It's police headquarters.
Speaker 1: That's right, you know?
Speaker 4: Good double cut?
Speaker 1: Now, Now, what are you complaining about? Angel I promise
you we'd be.
Speaker 2: Seeing a lot of each other.
Speaker 1: Can I help with it? For the next ten years,
it'll have to be through bars,