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Great Detectives dot net. And yes, you did notice a
slight difference in the opening, as I am in Orlando
today and I am here for the twelfth annual podcast.
Uh maybe a little more on that later, but here
from nineteen fifty six or nineteen fifty seven, here is
the seafarer Mystery.
Speaker 2: Danger where Ranger.
Speaker 3: Come in. Interesting. Yes, I am I'm not your candle.
Speaker 4: I want you to do something for me, sure.
Speaker 3: But she's better sit down a candle, things go run here,
sit right here? Well, then, what it's all about the l.
Speaker 4: I had your confidence to I minded the letters, but
they weren't quite as bad as the telephone calls at six.
Speaker 2: In the morning.
Speaker 3: You've been receiving threatening calls and letters? Is that it?
What are they say? The same thing?
Speaker 4: The letters, the voice on the telephone. I recognize his voice,
his handwriting.
Speaker 3: You know this man he's blackmailing? Certainly I know him.
Speaker 4: He's my husband.
Speaker 3: You mean your own husband? Are sending a threatening notes? Yes?
That certainly should be easy to stop. I didn't think,
mister Granger. Why not?
Speaker 4: Because my husband died three months ago.
Speaker 3: And Steve Granger, private detective, the story about a woman
a series of threatening notes and telephone calls along with
a very feather skating and murder. And that's the moment
I'll take you back to one of my most interesting pies.
This This Granger came as quite a shock when a
woman who was my client announced she was getting notes
on telephone calls from a dead husband. That seemed like
it was more of a shock to her than to me,
because as soon as she'd got that much out, she
keeled over and a dead faint. And just to make
matters worse, that was the moment my newspaper Pale cal
Hendrix take the fair call.
Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa, whoa?
Speaker 3: What's this?
Speaker 2: The Steve Granger method for captivating beautiful women?
Speaker 3: Oh? What you do? Steedee boy, knock them cold to
make sure they fall for you, go pet of your
wise cracks of television. She fainted? Yeah, how one good
look at your holy port snow down. You'd faint two
if your dead husband had been writing you letters and
calling you on the phone. Her dead husband. Whoa, that's
a little twist was coming out of it.
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 3: Just plain it here? Let me help you up. Well,
this is a friend of mine, Karl Hendrick. This is
Martha Kingle. How are you doing? Missus Kenny? And maybe
I better go home and have a wretch like me
to call the doctor.
Speaker 5: I'm Can you remember a man named Claus Kendy?
Speaker 3: The name sounds vaguely familiar, Tore Stevie, I remember this story.
He was John, Yes, mister Penwick, and I'm miss weird.
Of of course he thought overboard off his boat. You
try to help him. The police had you in custody
for several days, that is correct, finally agreed that it
was an action. Let you go, and now your dead
husband is riding It was telephony. What's it all about?
Speaker 4: I married Claude two years ago.
Speaker 2: We were very happy.
Speaker 3: An obstacle. What do you mean by obstacle.
Speaker 4: Some Clark's prelatives didn't like me at all.
Speaker 3: Claude and I love boating.
Speaker 2: We spent most of our time.
Speaker 3: A boat to peak after just how did your husband die?
It was about three months ago.
Speaker 2: We were blow in the cabin. The storm was coming
up and SA was springing him.
Speaker 3: Worry, it's quite a blow coming up. I think I'll
go top side to check the line.
Speaker 4: You've been on deck twice, surely you must be taken
care of everything.
Speaker 3: I just want to make sure that you act like
you're afraid of a little wind, Darling. I am, I am.
I wonder what that was? Something about the house.
Speaker 4: I do hope another bird has flipp it's mooring.
Speaker 2: Do you want me to go along?
Speaker 3: I'll qualify.
Speaker 2: I'll be right back.
Speaker 4: The wind has come up the careful or I got
to close that hat. It's beginning to rain.
Speaker 3: Lark, You are right.
Speaker 2: La Lork.
Speaker 3: Where are you? Oh? Did that boat come loose?
Speaker 6: Glood?
Speaker 2: What are you doing in that boat?
Speaker 3: Answer me? Clad Clack?
Speaker 4: Where are you in the water?
Speaker 2: The life was over.
Speaker 4: Glow here yet.
Speaker 6: Glad I got it.
Speaker 4: I got the boat hook.
Speaker 5: Claus. I can't say you where are you?
Speaker 4: I never saw Clark again, mister Granger.
Speaker 3: I got in touch with the coast guard on the
boat radio.
Speaker 4: It came up the entire area, but it was too late.
Speaker 3: But his body was fine. Wasn't a week later you
identified him? Look, Missus Kendall, don't you think you better
go home and get some race. You're obviously unwell.
Speaker 2: Why go home?
Speaker 7: I can't sleep.
Speaker 4: I gotta find out about letters and telephone calls, and
I need mister Granger's help.
Speaker 3: Very well, Missus Kendall, I'd like to have a look
at those letters. You have them with you at the apartment.
I'll pick them up later. And i'd like to have
a look at you both, if you still own it
I do. You can pick up the keys of the
yacht club office. Which club is the island Club to
the island. I'll go out there today.
Speaker 2: Here's my card.
Speaker 4: When shall I hear from you?
Speaker 3: Probably later in the day, Missus Kendall. Thank you, and you,
mister Henry, I didn't know anything.
Speaker 4: Goodbye.
Speaker 3: Well, Steve. You got yourself quite a.
Speaker 2: Deal, haven't you.
Speaker 3: Yeah? I wonder I wonder what how much Missus Kendall
didn't tell us An interesting conjecture. Steee, you know, I
think I'll go out to that anchorage with you. I'll
continue with this interesting story in a minute. Cal Hendrix
and I got under his car and we drove out
of the city island or the island yacht Club, got
the keys of the yacht sea Fair and stood for
a moment waiting for tender to take us out to
the boat. I always loved the wood, Steve. I want
to buy myself a little sail boat. Yeah, it's an
interesting sight. Everybody working on the craft, painting, standing, varnishing. Oh,
he comes at tender. You wait, gentlemen, Yeah, Timer, take
us out of the sea Fair.
Speaker 2: I reckon he can ain't nobody board the way.
Speaker 3: You got a key right here?
Speaker 2: Okay, have you got there? In two shakes for ramseel
y shit down this chair and him hold right right youure,
it's say and the rising you want to go aboard
the heap?
Speaker 3: Aaron?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Why they dark around the yacht club. She might be haunted.
Speaker 3: Can and I looked at each other, and the balance
of the ride was made in silence until we near
the slim, sleek looking yacht like curiosity. He got the
better of me. Say, pop, Yeah, he said there was
talking about the seafair being haunted. Where'd you get that recutation?
Speaker 2: Yeah, slim mousse yere missus candle yes could have pushed
the sleeper.
Speaker 3: Overboard you're in that star and maybe hit him over
the head with a boat to while he was struggling
in the water.
Speaker 6: Had me?
Speaker 3: I thought the candles got along pretty well.
Speaker 2: They didn't like whom that seems. And this man runs
the gender and he's got ket this is a sea fair,
missif he have a hold of that railayer, hold us
fast when the friend claims.
Speaker 7: The board, Okay, I got it, go ahead, cal Hey
now then now you hang on to this boat, right,
Say how do I get you back here?
Speaker 3: Papa?
Speaker 2: They got a kind of electric horn on the sea
fairy's deck. When you want to be picked up, just
sounded I'll come out and picked up.
Speaker 3: Thanks Pop?
Speaker 2: Right, how I intend to see your barn?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Not too long?
Speaker 2: Well, you just sound that horn, I told charactery.
Speaker 3: See I'm thinking about that horn and stuff. Somebody's been
shooting off their mounds around here. Huh. Now let's goublo
on the ground. Ye pretty musty Domino, send me a
long cow Yes, certainly, oh nicely, a raised little crab. Say,
look at the navigation they shipped the show radio telephone one, Steve,
man that bunk over there. Somebody has been aboard this
boat very recently too, God and I got curious when
we went over to seafare from stem to stern, but
no only got his stove was warm, so it was
the coffee pot. It was piped tobacco on the ash tray.
But that was all.
Speaker 2: Well, Steve, Yeah, that's that.
Speaker 3: Nobody aboard unless they're cleaning the bottom of the hull
they got from that cow. Find that boat on, gadget,
get a quick blast. We'll get back to the shore.
Right you find it? How'll that good? What are you
doing down below, Steeve? I just opened a couple of
portholes and ventilations. Was here last at them? All closed
down quick? Cally, you were right, Cow. I cawled over
to call Hendricks, looking around and trying to discover the
sauce of the mysterious shot. I saw no one. Those
men lay on his side, curled up like an unmatual kitten.
There was no wound. There was a bullet hole for
the brim of his hat. Col cols come out of it. Oh, sorry, Steeve,
I didn't need to pack out. So when he pointed
in my head with a bullet, I do the same act. Okay. Otherwise, yeah,
he comes to pop. I was here the shot. You know,
that's where it came from. No, it sounds traveling second
way on the water. Imagine it came from the shore.
Do wet Hey, look, man, don't even send a boat
that doesn't pop in order. I'll probably a relief man. Yeah,
maybe your fellows want to go at sure, yeah, by
my bird, then right with furs cowny ah, hang on
what you getting see right? That all said?
Speaker 7: Bok, okay, here we go.
Speaker 3: Don't mind if I asked you questions? Or right ahead?
What's the old timer brought.
Speaker 7: Us out here?
Speaker 2: Do you mean pop?
Speaker 7: He gave me just five dollars to come out here
and get shut He got it was worth it not
to come back out here.
Speaker 3: I asked the new boatman if they heard of me shooting.
It's got a magative shake of the head at the doc.
We asked to Pop, but no one seemed to know
where has gone from there? We aliveal it back to Manhattan,
got out to finish off the story, and I headed
back to my office. When I reached the door and
stopped with a proctor tween of glass. I couldn't make
how a figure bend over its cold be going through
my desk, got out my gun. It's a great I
thought you were going home to rest, Missus Kendall. I tried.
I became terrified.
Speaker 4: I thought the place would mean I couldn't stand it anymore.
Speaker 3: Oh, you came down to my office. You make yourself
at home?
Speaker 2: The door was a lock.
Speaker 3: What's wrong? Why are you looking like that? Yes, Missus Kendall,
how long has it's being come to? You been aboard
the Sweet not the police made the investigation. What do
you ask you've made anybody aboard your boat? Of course
I should have Hendricks, and I would have to. The
Adam subs were a border seat fair. It's not a
warm stove, but the warm copy flat. Also some tobacco
and one of the ash trays. Anything to say, No.
Speaker 4: I know nothing of this. I would go aboard the
seat fair without permission.
Speaker 3: But the laws?
Speaker 4: Did you think the trust? The sister Anne in New York?
Speaker 7: That's I heard Amazon Canada.
Speaker 3: Called the Mexico the cool slogan all round the commercial
fishing for you, it's.
Speaker 6: Called the Pandle company.
Speaker 3: Ken, Why don't back home?
Speaker 4: I can't, mister stranger.
Speaker 3: Closet of the telephone, the rest telephona hotel near buying
it to your room. By the way, Missus Kendall, as
an old boatman down at the island got they call
him Pop? What about? What reason would he have for
saying the seafar was fonted? What do you know about that? Nothing?
Need to bring absolutely nothing. He stood there straight and dignified,
and a voice never gave a quiver. But I noticed
to look at dismay in her eyes when I mentioned Pops.
That's which went as quickly as it sings at the moment,
I'll bring you the climax of the table I conducted
Mancia Kendalls whenever my hotel and fixed to a room.
The letters and telephone calls for the dead husband were
bothering us so much. I think it she ought to
be safe from him for a while. But look in
her eyes at the reference to Pop, who taken the
call on knee out of the Kendle's yacht sent me
in search of the old boatman. I was told he
might be found on a this so called across anchor.
This was quite a hangout that evidently was not frequented
by the upper classes. I had an owner which reminded
me of bruise water, which was bad, and he got
used to it. The old timer was seated at a
back table. There was another man with it, a sailor
complete with dungarees and of deer. When he left, I
moved over. I have pot where you weren't He took
me out of the sea fairy. A couple of outs
bags might want you to do it again.
Speaker 2: Now it's my relief man.
Speaker 3: Relief man doesn't know anything about a shot that was
fired of us? Would you?
Speaker 2: I ain't got nothing more to say about the seat pair,
and they you don't know nothing.
Speaker 3: About no shooting, even over a drink.
Speaker 2: Even over the whole Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 3: Clark Kendell was drowned off to see Pharaoh all the time.
Then I'd like to ask some questions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those who say that missus Kendall can answer a
lot of questions if she wants to ask her, ask
her what like did she hit Kendle over the head
with a boat hook instead of fishing him out of
the water.
Speaker 3: You said they didn't get along.
Speaker 2: Here are those who say he married him for his money?
Speaker 3: Who is those who say Bob I could mention your
remarks to the police. Then what you are placeman?
Speaker 2: Nope, cat, Hey, Charlie, come here a minute.
Speaker 3: Oh you are having a drink on me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm having one on you right now. What your pop?
It's fairly here. You've been short of trumpling me, he says,
you might tell the police. I was talking about the
chief here.
Speaker 3: Get up, mister, why never mind? Why get up and
get out. Okay, I'll go along with you and make
sure you don't have to guide me. Bartender, I can
find my way to the dog. Yeah, I know you can.
I don't find your way back in here again. I
might have argued with that bartender, but he was out
of my weight class. He took the scales at about
two hundred and ten. I went back to my office
and put in a long distance call. As I waited
for the connection, I made a quick call to cal
Hendricks gallas Is Granger. Oh yeah, Dade, want you know
the handed lady in the honored boat. I want you
to do me a favorite cow park Kendall was buried
in Long Tier Cemetery. Check for me, save this is
actually interred with it? Why I think he was never buried?
Speaker 5: Just check.
Speaker 3: I'll take it from there. But when you've done it,
to come around here and pick me up. I hung
up and waited for reply to my long distance seventh.
When it came through, I knew a lot more, but
still not enough. I sat thinking until cal Hendrix showed up,
and then we beat it around the corner to the
hotel where Marsha Kendall was registered. Took me a little
longer than I think. See what you find. Not cal
card is jury listed. Crop Kendle's death is accidental. Marsha
Kendall was exonerated of any suspicion. I know that he
was in lawn s. Was he definitely identified as Clock Kendle.
When a cop spends a little time on the water,
they change appearance. His dentis identified him definitely. He'd had
some special bridge work done and it really fixes me.
I don't tell me you believe the cop Kendle is
still alive right now I'm believing nothing. He's a room
five o four little. She hasn't taken a powder.
Speaker 4: Happened so frightened?
Speaker 3: Come in please, thanks, missus Kendall. I don't know what
you're scared. Nobody't know what you're staying at this hotel
out side of mister Hendrix's me unless you told.
Speaker 4: Someone else, Why should I tell anyone else?
Speaker 3: I'm very brunk with you, lady. Is it or is
it not true that you could have pushed your husband
overboard that night and when he tried to climb back
about a seat Berry hit him over the head with
a boat him. How can you say such things?
Speaker 4: Why would I employ you to find out who's been
making the telephone call, who's writing levels?
Speaker 3: That's why I'm here, missus Kendall. I want to look
at those letters you mentioned.
Speaker 4: Well, I have him ride here.
Speaker 3: I take it easy, grangeus. She's in no condition to
stand too much of this time. I'm a no condition
to stand this kind of Malarchey here.
Speaker 4: Mister Grainger.
Speaker 2: These are the letters I received.
Speaker 4: Had any number of people with identified them as Clark's handwriting.
Speaker 3: You can prove the actually wrote things I can't, Missus Kendall.
It's impossible for a man buried in a cemetery to
write letters.
Speaker 4: That's what's so fantastic, mister Granger. That's why I came.
Speaker 3: Do you why you got to believe me? I did
not kill my husband. Another thing, Missus Kendall, you said
these letters were at your apartment.
Speaker 4: I picked him up when I went home before I
registered at the hotel.
Speaker 3: Mister Granger, you're thinking horrible thing? Oh easy? See? Shall
I answer Missus Kendall? I think she'd better do that.
Cow Hello, Marsha, that's my husband called the receiver away
from year SoCon with them.
Speaker 6: I want you to meet me tonight or the Seafair
at ten o'clark, and if you're not there, I'll come
after you.
Speaker 3: What's your husband? Are you sure, mister Grange? What shall
I don't want to be about to Seafair at ten
o'clock like he told you, because cal Hendricks and I
will be there too, and we'll prove whether your husband
is really dead or not. Cal Hendrick stayed with Marsha
Kendall to make sure that she would be aboard the
yacht Seafair at ten that night. A few eyes in
my hands, I ran an errand one which you took
back out to the Island Yacht Club and the old gent.
We knew his pop.
Speaker 2: You back again?
Speaker 3: What do you want now from you? I want nothing
but the truth.
Speaker 2: I ain't talking to it.
Speaker 3: But you are old timer. And right now. This was
ten o'clock Marsha Kendall had come aboard the seafair by herself,
Cal Hendricks, and I had wrote out from an inconspicuous spot,
who huddled in the fard cabin waiting for a dead
husband to come alive? Grainger, did you hear that? Yeah?
Small boats Tina along the side, ain't got to man.
It must be well, my dear, And how are you.
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 5: Cloud?
Speaker 4: But Paul?
Speaker 3: That's right? And Paul, but you were.
Speaker 4: Supposed to be down in Mexico fishing off the coast.
It was you, you who sent those letters and made
those calls. You copy God's handwriting, you imitated his voice.
Speaker 3: This girl, my dear. I also trailed you to the
hotel where you were hiding.
Speaker 4: But why what have I ever done to you?
Speaker 2: What do you want?
Speaker 3: I wanted you on board this boat. We're going to
sail out of this harbor together.
Speaker 2: You're insane, I don't think so. You were around the
night Clark was drowned. You must have been hiding on deck.
Speaker 4: You pushed him over the side, did I?
Speaker 3: And would you?
Speaker 4: I so huddled in a small boat that night. I
had dismissed it as imagination.
Speaker 2: Very shrewd.
Speaker 3: Dear sister in law?
Speaker 4: Why did you do it?
Speaker 3: I hated him?
Speaker 2: And you're going to notify the police.
Speaker 3: On the ship to shore radio. It's disable dying Start me?
Oh no, first, I was gonna take you with me.
I still am, but I don't think you'll complete the
entire time.
Speaker 2: You're hurting.
Speaker 3: I'm going in there and get that character. Oy. Hell,
you're always sting your breath. My sweet, there's no one
in the hell that's where you're around. Kendall, What the detective?
Get away from a Kendle and give up my shield?
Oh no, Granger, you won't shoot so long as I
hold her in front of me.
Speaker 2: Be careful, Mister Grangery's out of his mind.
Speaker 3: Why am am? I I'll show you all of you
got a gun. Well, friends, that's the story. I'll be
back to wrap up the case in just a minute.
All Kendall started backing towards the hatch, but exposed one
shoulder just enough for me to punch it. That made
it easy for call on me to overpower him and
deliver him to police headquarters. A whole story came out
a few days later.
Speaker 4: I didn't know that Paul was up here. He was
supposed to be down in Vera, Cruz.
Speaker 3: They had a run of bad luck. Came up here
and tried to get money from your husband. How'd you
find out about that steel telephone? The officers of his
company in Vera Cruz. They couldn't produce Paul Kendall on
the phone. And I remember the man i'd seen at
the cross anchors talking to Pop.
Speaker 4: It was Paul.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what was he doing with Pop? Pop confessed that
he'd been around the night of the killing. He saw
your brother in law push your husband off the boat.
I didn't see anything all. Kendall promised him a job
in the Mexico if you'd help him out. It was
also Pop tried to scare count on me too by
firing at us when we were brought the seafair. Your
brother in law will probably go to an institution for
the criminally in saying just crossed out again. I got
a good take care of me.
Speaker 2: Hey, where are you going?
Speaker 3: Oh my boy? This is one time where you are
left holding the baby. Steve Grainger, again, you've just heard
one of the most interesting cases in my files. I'll
have another one for you, so be around next time.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. This one had me puzzled throughout and I
thought that was a great hawk, just that first scene.
Nothing quite like that to set up the fact that
you're going in for a really good mystery. Of course,
are criminals. Overall play of trying to commit blackmail as
this lady's actually did husband was a bit nuts, but
be that as it may, it was still a really
fun episode.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Well, as I mentioned at the start of the episode,
I am pod fast in Orlando at the time that
I'm recording this, had a good flight in and as
i'm recording this, I'm doing a short presentation tomorrow, which
will have been about a week and a half ago
for you. But Orlando in January has always been a
nice time to visit, so hoping to have a productive
and useful conference.
Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 3: All the shoveling, it doesn't any idea who she is,
no identifying monks, labels, torn off the.
Speaker 5: Clothes safe and calling it murder. Say doctor, can you
add anything? Can you give me anything more on the
cause of death beyond the beating that is?
Speaker 3: Yes? What's that say?
Speaker 6: This woman has dirted her mouth and in her throat. Yes,
Ruby Proby, she was alive when she was put here.
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