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the Larry Simon's.
Speaker 2: Case Danger with Granger.
Speaker 3: Yes, please bring you. That's what it says down the
door of this office and also says, please not Range.
I got a little jump for you. All you have
to do is sit behind that desk for a little while.
Speaker 2: It sounds like piking out a few dollars. Easy way.
Speaker 3: A woman is coming to say, iss, you'll hand you
some dough. Then I'll come back and you'll hand the
dough to me. Okay.
Speaker 2: See, First of all, I like to know who my
clients are.
Speaker 3: Give out with a name. Friend, I'm Larry Simon's. Yeah,
I've heard of you.
Speaker 2: One of those boys of Haut the cocktail joined sometime.
Pick up some dollars.
Speaker 3: Romance minded only when you're finished with her, she's out
money and.
Speaker 2: In the set of hurt feelings. I never mind that.
Do you want this jump or nothing? Larry? I want
you to get out of here fast.
Speaker 3: Look there's a fast fifty iness for your gum shoe.
You know something, one of my little quirks is that
I hate to repeat myself.
Speaker 2: Now beat it, worm before I throw you out.
Speaker 3: Nobody ever threw Larry Simons out of any place.
Speaker 2: I'm going to break the record. Now blow.
Speaker 3: While you're you're spoiling my day, I'm going to spoil
something else for you to remember that.
Speaker 2: So long, snoop.
Speaker 3: This is Steve Granger, private detective, with a story about
a bland but a black mail and a brown hit
baby who was right in the middle of it, and
just a moment, I'll take you back to one of
my most interesting cases.
Speaker 2: This is Granger.
Speaker 3: I was sitting in my office after having shown mister
Larry Simon's the door not too politely.
Speaker 2: I wasn't feeling any heart burning over that, because that
was one young hoodlum who left the kind of taste
in my mouth at Klarophille couldn't cure.
Speaker 3: Then I had another visitor, mister Grainger. I've come here
for some advice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, most people do. What can I do for you?
Speaker 4: I suppose you knew that a certain person was going
to kill someone else. Would it be against the law
not to report what.
Speaker 2: You're not dead? Mister gregiouth, listen, mister, how long have
you been out of the booby hatch?
Speaker 4: I am asking for your professional opinion on a serious matter.
Speaker 3: Mister Greed.
Speaker 2: Take it to the police pile. They love to interfere
in incomplete killing. I have thought of that too, but.
Speaker 4: You see, I don't particularly like the victim to be
I'd appreciate your opinion.
Speaker 3: Well, if you know a murder is to be committed,
this no longer in the world that can make you
tell about it, Because you're.
Speaker 2: The only one who knows that you know. Am I
being too confusing? I'm not at all. Thank you, mister greener,
and good day. It wasn't starting out to be one of.
Speaker 3: My best days. First a cheap hoodlum, then an elderly nut.
I decided I needed a drink to put things ripe.
There was a spot just down the street.
Speaker 2: I walked in, gave the bartend of the nod, and
sat down at the table to await my usual. It
arrived simultaneously with something else.
Speaker 3: A girl said, around here, swing and sway, walk and
close the spell.
Speaker 2: What are you doing later, baby?
Speaker 5: Mister Grangers?
Speaker 3: Why aren't join your office? Because little lady I wanted
to come in here, so I did an if heard
the question.
Speaker 6: Larry told me you'd be upstairs. I tell you come
out and come in here. Larry didn't tell me you
were going to do that.
Speaker 2: Larry is not my master. I go where I please.
Speaker 5: I don't understand all this. Wow, it was very.
Speaker 3: Explicit Larry should crawl into a hole let someone full
up with water.
Speaker 6: Well, I didn't think you felt that way. Oh we
might as well get home and a business.
Speaker 3: Here's the money that green stuff makes it seem like
Saint Patrick's day.
Speaker 2: But you're a few months later.
Speaker 5: Did Larry give you the paper?
Speaker 2: Baby?
Speaker 3: Take this money and put it back in your handbag?
Speaker 2: Makes me nervous.
Speaker 5: What are you talking about? Larry told me you'd have
a paper for me.
Speaker 2: I've got nothing, but he promised to sign a release.
Speaker 5: You're going to hand.
Speaker 2: It to me on the right track, but you got
the wrong train.
Speaker 3: Your pal Larry came to me with such a proposition
that I threw both him and proposition out the door.
Speaker 2: Go no paper.
Speaker 5: You threw Larry out of your office. But he said everything,
he'd be all right. He even promised.
Speaker 2: All Larry Simon's promises end to end. It would end
all promises.
Speaker 5: I think you're a lie.
Speaker 2: You're not lying.
Speaker 3: Also, I'm not in business with any cheap little blackmailer.
I let the a greasy little friend friend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me tell you something else.
Speaker 3: A young woman as attractive as you and have hundreds
of boyfriends, none of them even remotely resembling Larry Simon's.
Speaker 2: I make myself clear.
Speaker 5: You think Larry is my boyfriend?
Speaker 6: Sure is not your cousin Usden Granger. I hate Larry
Simon's allow.
Speaker 2: Has another name to a growing list, so do I.
Speaker 6: I'm glad to hear that, mister Grainger. Sorry I bothered you. Goodbye.
Speaker 2: Wait, watch you hurry? And who are you?
Speaker 6: I am the person who's going to give Larry Simon
adom time.
Speaker 2: The girl moved out the door of the cocktail lounge,
wearing an expression in her eyes that.
Speaker 3: Spelled trouble with a large chief for one Larry Simon's,
and I wented a split second and moved after.
Speaker 2: Range. You're wait definitely said, wait, Larry, take your hand
off my arm.
Speaker 3: I'll go tough on me. Grange.
Speaker 2: I want that dough. I've got no dough. I'll let go.
I'm in a hurry.
Speaker 3: I'm not letting going with your hand over that money.
I saw that the didn't go over to your title
in that joint. I watched to give you the money,
and you also saw the refuse it I got away
from me.
Speaker 2: People might think we're friends.
Speaker 3: Oh look, look, gra you don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 2: I gotta have that money.
Speaker 3: If I don't get it means my.
Speaker 2: Skin and that's my wish for to day.
Speaker 3: See you, Larry, don't grab me again.
Speaker 2: You're here.
Speaker 3: Hand over that dough Grainger moving up in your profession
turning into a gunboy? Are you the middle of the
street too? I'm not kidding, Granger, this is serious with me.
Speaker 2: I'll say it's serious. I'll take that gun. Thanks. Here here,
what's going on? And give me that gun? Who do
you think you are waving a.
Speaker 3: Revolve around in public?
Speaker 2: Come on, come on, hand it over.
Speaker 7: You are opposite now, then march both of your guns
in the middle of the day on Broadway. I just
a minute, officer, here's my license, see you, Granger, So
you're the private eye.
Speaker 2: What's all is about? The gun belongs to this man,
Larry Simon's officer, So.
Speaker 8: You'll have a permit to kuire this thing, mister, I
sure have, Officer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here it.
Speaker 8: Is Simon's two three six five sixty nine Street, New York. Okay,
take your gun and put it away, Officer. I want
to say, Ranger, you keep quiet. Now get up the
street Simons, and don't let me catch you waving a
gun around again.
Speaker 3: Thank Officer. Hey, which way are you going, Granger?
Speaker 2: In any direction you're not taking Larry. Just stay away
from me.
Speaker 3: I was going to meet for a second because the
next time, I have to take a gun away from here.
Speaker 2: I've got a slug right between your eyes.
Speaker 8: That'll be enough of that kind of dog, Granger Simon's
get out of here, gone run.
Speaker 2: Grangie, who stay with me?
Speaker 3: The police officer helped me by the arm until Larry
Simons disappeared in the crowd.
Speaker 2: Then he had to be.
Speaker 3: One more admonition to behave myself and turn me loose.
I went home hoping to spend a quiet evening. I've
known what was in store for me. I would have
left town instead.
Speaker 2: Now what, oh are you? And what do you would?
Speaker 3: My name is Alam Gilbert. I want to have a
little talk with you. Oh k chum my arms at
ten to five. You can catch me any day at
my office downtown.
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you right now.
Speaker 3: That's what I was afraid of. My girlfriend came to
see you today. She's in trouble. Most interesting.
Speaker 2: She wanted to give you some money. You refused it.
More people to have seen that transaction.
Speaker 3: Also, she's been seen around New York with Larry Simon's
He's a crook. This is as interesting as the latest
novel Little Man, but still none of my business. I
think she's in trouble, Grater, and I came here to
tell you that if you're the cause of.
Speaker 2: I've heard enough for this.
Speaker 3: Take your foot out of my door, Palala, I'll partch
your toes for you don't remember if you play tricks
with Alice Belfer, you white up on a balk. I'll
continue this interesting story in a minute.
Speaker 2: Oh, this was nuisance number three. This white faced young
man will threaten me about his girlfriend, and then moved
the way down the hall. I closed the door.
Speaker 3: And slipped the lock, hoping for a little peace unspoiled
by Chief Grifter and young heroes.
Speaker 2: But this was obviously the day they should have gone
to the country. Hello, mister Grainger, this is Golan, who
came to see you earlier today. Pardon my being so
abstract at which one of you I spoke to you
about a possible murder? Not you again, I have an errand.
Speaker 4: For you, mister Ginger.
Speaker 2: I'll pay fifty dollars. I've never murder of mind at
after six o'clock. Sorry, mister, this has nothing to do
with murder. I want you to come to my face
as bookish possible.
Speaker 9: What for a very important but highly confidential matter.
Speaker 2: My home is a thirty four fifty six with thirty
seven feet.
Speaker 3: I jotted down the address and got on my way,
wondering just what this was all about.
Speaker 2: But I decided to stop off at Cal Hendrick's place.
Speaker 3: This whole business had an odor about it, and I
think in my newspaper friend might be useful. Hi, Steve Hoess,
crazy man crazy. I had a visitor this morning, Larry Simon.
That creep, Yeah, I told him to creep right out
of my door.
Speaker 2: I had another caller, Oh.
Speaker 3: Here, hang on to this, Yeah, that's his address. Concerns
My second caller, an elderly gent with questions about what
the law would say about people who know a murder
is going to be committed and won't say anything about it.
Speaker 2: Your choice of clients leaves a lot to be desired, chump.
Speaker 3: I know, thought I lost him, and he just phoned
asked me to come up and see him.
Speaker 2: This is his address.
Speaker 9: You want me to keep it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks so much. You don't mention it. I won't
unless I don't happen to come back.
Speaker 3: I left cow flag down a hack, and a few
minutes later we pulled up at thirty four fifty sixth
West thirty seventh Street. I was admitted by the elderly
gent himself and taken into a large library. This room
should do, chair, mister Grainger.
Speaker 2: I suppose we started at the beginning. What's your name?
Speaker 4: I am Edgar Bowed for I have a niece named Alice.
Speaker 2: She's being black mail. I think I've heard this before.
Speaker 4: I am in a very unfortunate position, mister Grigdo. Her
father's will made me the trustee of her estate, and
there are conditions.
Speaker 2: And what kind of conditions, mister Belfer.
Speaker 4: First, Alice is a very strong minded person. However, her
judgment is not always good. Her father was aware of
this when he made out his will. For instance, the
estate goes to charity. Should she be a judge guilty
of even a misdemeanor.
Speaker 2: Mister meanor that includes minor things, traffic tags and.
Speaker 4: Whatnot, Miss Greens. I am not a man with a
whip in his hand. I could overlook something as slight
as that. However, something more serious has taking place the
blackmail this morning. Yes, she got one thousand dollars from me.
It's the second time in two weeks I've granted her wish.
Speaker 2: Well out some of money. Second time, Yes, she's paying off.
Mister Belfer. Don't ask me how I know that I
do that. Shall also know the man's name? Then, huh?
And I could guess. Would Larry's Simons be close?
Speaker 4: Too close for comfort?
Speaker 2: What do you want me to do, mister Gringia.
Speaker 4: I want to protect Alice. She's a remarkably nice girl.
I want her to be released from whatever hole this
man has over her.
Speaker 9: I see you.
Speaker 2: You know this Simon's person, don't you? Yeah? Just what
else do you know? One thing? I know your niece.
I spoke with it just an or two ago. What else?
Speaker 3: This is a guess, But I wonder how close I am.
Speaker 2: Isn't it true that.
Speaker 3: The man you would like to see dead there's this
same Larry's Simons with.
Speaker 5: A great deal of pleasure.
Speaker 3: But what you wouldn't like to see is your niece
and a police lineup accused of killing him.
Speaker 4: Mister Gregeo, we are seeing eye to eye, thanks, mister Belfer.
Speaker 3: I suppose I drift over and talk to Simons. Perhaps
I could convince him that he's not doing the right thing.
Speaker 4: And if I were you, I should use all my
powers of conviction.
Speaker 2: The long as those powers aren't lethal, I did.
Speaker 4: On the contrary, the more lethal the becker, I'd like it.
Speaker 3: Edgarbalfer's eyes tossed a glance at me, cold enough to
deep phrase of Sirline's steak.
Speaker 2: They also blink goodbye.
Speaker 3: So I got out of there, and as I left
the house, I was thinking with envy of those guys,
all of the nice quiet life and nice quiet offices,
wearing white collars and adding figures for me in this setup,
everything I figured kept adding up to murder, and just
a moment, I'll bring you the climax of the case.
After my interview with Edgar Balfer, I Larry Simon's I
was going to enjoy tangling with him again.
Speaker 2: I made one phone call first, callous is Granger. Here's
something for me, will him?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sure, what's on your mind?
Speaker 3: Make a phone call it to and get me a
lead on a man named Edgar Balfer. He's got a
niece named Alice. It's management of an estate involved.
Speaker 9: And Larry Simon is right, okay, get.
Speaker 2: On with prono.
Speaker 3: This was the block where Larry Simon Singer is over good,
So I moved towards the building where he lived. I
saw something interesting, miss Palfer. Why it's are you doing
in this neighborhood, Alice? And I'm talking to Larry Simon.
Speaker 5: No, this a girlfriend's mine who lives here. I dropped
in to see her.
Speaker 9: Uh huh.
Speaker 5: Don't you believe me?
Speaker 2: What's wrong? You're self conscious?
Speaker 9: Alice?
Speaker 3: Your uncle hadn't get you out of trouble with Larry Simon's.
Speaker 5: Uncle, Edgar.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Grainger, there's really nothing you can do. Why don't
you just forget the whole thing. I'll explain to Runkle
because it I spoke to.
Speaker 2: Huh huh.
Speaker 3: I've got a better idea. Let's go up and have
a little chat with Larry Simon's first.
Speaker 2: No, I won't go come on with me.
Speaker 3: Edgar Balfer was right about his niece being high spurted.
She gave one muscular tug and freed her arm and
flounced off down the street like a righteously and solid dowager.
I watched her for a minute, then went on my way,
Alice or no, Alice, I went on a piece of
Larry Simon.
Speaker 2: A red faced doorman with a.
Speaker 3: Ponchant for stray buck gave me his apartment number, the
elevator boy deposited me at the right floor and moved
towards Simon's apartment with a feeding that all was not good.
His door swung open to my touch, and I stood
there face to face with the sleek little blackmailer.
Speaker 2: He was sitting in an easy chair, all set for
his last long rest.
Speaker 3: I went through him and came up with a Grand
Prize ten one hundred dollars bills.
Speaker 2: Then I reached for the phone, calling somebody Granger. But oh,
Sergeant Ray, I was just calling you. You were, mister Granger.
What does it look like I was going to do?
Speaker 4: You might have been calling Grand Central for transportation out
of town. Oh, I stopped that, you see, I was
told to wait for you to come back. We figured
that you'd forgotten something, sir.
Speaker 2: Me, Oh what did I forget?
Speaker 4: The ten one hundred dollar bills near hand? Perhaps we
should continue this.
Speaker 2: Downtown, downtown what for?
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, sir, but it's suspicion of murder. That's your story,
mister Granger. Can you substantiate it?
Speaker 2: Of course I can. Edgar Balfer hired me to have
a little.
Speaker 4: Talk with Larry Simon's and that's why you knew what
he had in his coat pockets?
Speaker 2: Well, sure, yes, Sergeant Eddy, do you know this man?
He's Steve Granger. Wait to see him last uptown? Earre
you today? Under what circumstances?
Speaker 8: While he was having an argument with another fellow named
Larry Simon's, he says to this other guy, the next
time I see you out, put a slug right between
your eyes.
Speaker 2: Did you make that statement? Granger? Now, Sergeant I can
tell you. I'll tell me if you.
Speaker 10: Said it or not.
Speaker 3: Sergeant Ray, usually one of my friends, just leaned back
and waited for me to admit making the statement I did,
feeling certain that my next bedroom would have vertical Venetian blinds.
The sergeant could, in view of the patrolmen's evidence, hold
me in a suspicion. But after fifteen minutes of explanation,
released on my own recognisance at the police headquarters, checked
an address from telephone directory went uptown. The little fragments
of thought were beginning to gel into certainty. This was
the apartment house where Alice Bunker's boyfriend Alan Gilbert lived.
Speaker 2: Granger, what inside, friend?
Speaker 3: How dare you lit? But I haven't got time to
waste right now you telephoned the police and told him
that Larry.
Speaker 2: Simons is dead? Bingjer well, who are you covering up for?
Speaker 3: I'm covering from nowhere, that's for laughs, Mistern'd you hit
me again earlier? You were up in my office making
like Rocky Marciana. I'll put up those hands of yours
and we'll find out how much you were on the
level he was.
Speaker 2: You sly away from me, getting a little nervous.
Speaker 3: All eh, why'd you tip the cops that I was
in Simon's apartment? You were working for Simon's. I wouldn't
walk down on the same street with that creep.
Speaker 2: Tell me what I want to hear? Who is behind
this move?
Speaker 3: When you called the law, you implied that I could
have killed him, didn't you. You also mentioned a ten
bills the money you stuffed in his breast pocket.
Speaker 2: I didn't great joke. It was Alice. I saw her
come out of Simon's place.
Speaker 3: I went up after she left. I saw him sitting
in that chair. This becomes really interesting. What else nothing?
You're lying? And I think we'll prove that at alice
belvers house. Suppose I refuse to go, you can go
with me now with a police officer. Later, who's your
telephone there, craty, you don't know what you're doing?
Speaker 2: Quiet callous to Steve. What about that information? I asked
you again?
Speaker 9: Got it right here?
Speaker 2: Edgar Bell, third Minister's in the state for his niece Alice.
His administration has.
Speaker 9: Been strictly on the level.
Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with the estate, but the romor boys have
drifted around.
Speaker 5: Remarked that Belfer.
Speaker 9: Has been under the influence of a blackmailer.
Speaker 3: That makes two of them. Thanks Cal, I'll mention it
so long, it's long, Come on you. I shoved out
and gilded along ahead of me like a case of
soft drink bottles. I got a hack and headed for
the bal for Residents. A few minutes later, Alice ansored
the door.
Speaker 5: Alan and mister Greenew, what's.
Speaker 2: Wrong, miss Balfer?
Speaker 3: Do you know that Larry Simons is dead? Somebody shot
and killed him?
Speaker 9: What.
Speaker 5: I can't believe it?
Speaker 2: Why can't you?
Speaker 3: Because he was still alive when you left this apartment
earlier today.
Speaker 5: I wasn't in his apartment. I was visiting a dressmaker.
Speaker 3: You'll but tell your girlfriend what you saw.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry Alan, you didn't he did.
Speaker 5: What are you looking for?
Speaker 9: In that. Just this.
Speaker 3: Nice little revolve in Miss Balfer. That's been fired too.
Two shells gone out of the magazine. Police will enjoy
a gander at this play thing. Queen. You don't understand,
but I do, Miss Balfer. You kill Larry, didn't you?
Speaker 5: I didn't.
Speaker 3: I think Simons was afraid to face your baby. You
know you are gunning for him. That's why he came
to me. I was to be the collector.
Speaker 2: One of the stubborn streak in my nature prompted me
to turn him down. So you shut him. That's not true, baby,
don't bother lying anymore.
Speaker 11: I am not a liar.
Speaker 3: Lied twice Sallas on the street when you told me
you were visiting a girl friend of the same building
where Larry Simons lived. Now it's a dressmaker you went
to see. Well, you're not even a clever liar. I
think I'll have a little chat with your uncle. I
don't think you like what I've got to say.
Speaker 5: My uncle isn't home.
Speaker 3: Two, we'll get you fired. That's a third lie. Baby,
Where is he? I don't know, darling. Please tell grain
to the truth.
Speaker 5: Very well. Uncle Edrey is here. But I wish you
wouldn't excite him.
Speaker 6: He has a very bad heart. Any little shop might
prove fatal.
Speaker 2: That's the same. I've got to talk to him.
Speaker 3: I've heard something that throws an entirely different light on
this little picture. Different light as spou for. Your uncle
was being blackmailed too. What Yeah, I just got this information.
I'm going to talk to your uncle about it. Now,
there's his room.
Speaker 5: Come with me, I'll show you. This is his room.
Speaker 2: Here, rock on the door. I don't tell him i'm here.
Speaker 5: Uncle, Edgar, it's me, Alice. Uncle, it's me. Open the door. Uncle.
Speaker 10: That something like a ghost out of the way.
Speaker 2: He's dead. Alice shut himself.
Speaker 5: In that case, I can tell you.
Speaker 6: I didn't shoot Larry Simon's uncle Edgar killed him.
Speaker 2: Well, friends, that's the story.
Speaker 3: I'll be back to wrap up the case in just
a minute. When Alice Valper made a statement that her
uncle had killed Larry Simon's, Alan Gilbert's face took on
that look of disbelief that crosses an expectant farther his
face when he realizes it's two instead of one.
Speaker 2: I looked at the girl too.
Speaker 6: I realized that my uncle murdered Larry.
Speaker 5: But I had to protect him.
Speaker 2: You were protecting him before, weren't you. That's why you
were paying off to Larry Simons.
Speaker 6: Yes, Larry kept promising her release. When I ran into you,
I knew he'd never keep his promise.
Speaker 2: How long have you known your uncle? Was the letter?
Speaker 6: Just after Larry was killed, I went to his apartment,
I saw his body.
Speaker 5: I knew then.
Speaker 6: When I got back here, I started at till Uncle Laker.
He evaded me nature he had to need this letter,
he agreeing.
Speaker 5: Should you read it?
Speaker 3: And Dear Alice, I killed Larry Simons. You'd been blackmailing
me for years from minor offense. I paid because I
wanted to remain a custodian of your estate, which you
will find in perfect order. When I found out he
was taking money from you too, I decided to do
away with him. It was the only thing I could do.
You're affectionate, Uncle Edgar.
Speaker 5: He was kind to help me.
Speaker 3: He missed badly. I found you in the neighborhood. Be
it done away with the murder gun? Instead of taking
it on that desk, you would have been in a jam. Yes,
I know, murder never pays, does it? Steve Granger again
I've got Harry 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. An interesting case, and I like that it
kind of did a thing where the mystery is on
the level of what is even going on here? Because
of Granger's refusal to come in to the case. On
Simon's behalf, he knows four last about what's going on
than anybody else he talks to. For about the first
half of the episode. I was kind of curious about
the uncle going to Granger with that question about knowing
about a murder in advance. It's weird because Grangers on
an attorney. I would never just go into a privatized
office to ask a question like that about Granger, I
guess has no problem with the unauthorized practice of law,
so he answers it as best he can. The weirder thing, though,
is that it doesn't really seem to connect to anything,
because his niece was never planning to commit murder, at
least not as far as he knew. And it does
make me a bit curious about the writing process for
this series, because there are some little gaps that when
you just take a quick close look seemed kind of
like a little bit of sloppy error without any particular explanation.
Another example in this episode is the police sergeant who
broke up the fight between Granger and Simon's now Granger
said that if I have to take a another gun
from you, I'm gonna blow your head off. The police
sergeant said, uh, yeah, I heard him, and Granger said
that next time he saw that guy, he would blow
his head off. Like that materially changes things, you know,
in a dramatic way. I mean, we got exposited Granger's
explaining things, and I hope part of his explanation was
I don't know what he was listening to, but that
ain't what I said. And it makes me wonder whether
the scripts written like under a time deadline, so writers
you know, wrote things but didn't finish them, or were
there say multiple writers, like somebody wrote a rough draft
and somebody else came through again on a deadline, and
there were just some things that didn't get picked up.
But still, despite its little flaws, I thought this was
a good episode, and I'd say that for the series
as a whole, well by no means in the same
class as the Greatest detective programs to error during the
golden age of radio, this was still solid. You generally
had some really fun and pace the episodes with good premises,
good hooks, and I even enjoyed the music for how
evocative it was of the era. And let's just say
this Granger has a great similes game.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 1: I think that the use of similes on American detective
radio programs at the level of say Pat Novak for
Hire or even in the Frank Graham Jeff Reagan had
gone out of style. But there are just some hilarious
ones in this series and I've enjoyed listening to them.
All Right, well, now let's go ahead and talk a
little bit about our listener support and appreciation campaign. First
of all, I want to go ahead and thank everyone
who has supported the podcast in one way or another,
as well as all of our current Patreon supporters. It
makes such a big difference when we started on Patreon
back in twenty fifteen and started to really build that up,
it was really the start of us having any sort
of reliable income for the show and also being able
to invest more in the show and deal with the
rise and expenses that happen and It's still a very
critical part of this program, both from a financial standpoint,
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where before I actually bring them forward, I'll bring them
to our Patreon community and say what do you think
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this will be the last somewhat lengthy conversation we'll have,
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Over on YouTube double Tappin' Hillbilly Riots, thank you, and
then over on the site called x Mantes Falcon wrote
Danger with Granger is really growing on me. Well, thanks
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So we come to an end at that point. I
would love for us to revisit it. I don't know
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with this particular series because there were issues where some
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join us back here tomorrow for the big story where.
Speaker 11: What more can I tell you?
Speaker 9: Mister Your husband's identified his cup with the license plase,
but the way it exploded, please can't figure it out.
Speaker 11: Doctor Wagner was a k I know he's done his
way to Philadelphia to demonstrate a new process for purifying water.
There are chemicals in his car in some way that
they must have caught.
Speaker 2: Fire and bump on the road, broken bottle, and his luggage.
Speaker 4: Any one of a.
Speaker 9: Dozen takes for the time it was time.
Speaker 11: I love him so much, it says, if he still
really he's always promising the children that we all go
away on a long basis. He had so little time
to spend.
Speaker 9: I shouldn't mind my own business. But why don't you
go away with the children. There's the insurance, No there
isn't you mean the doctor didn't carry a policy.
Speaker 11: He carried fifty thousand dollars. But you just said this
lames and the insurance company claims he has no food?
Speaker 9: Is good?
Speaker 11: Our broken mister Murray has been arguing with them.
Speaker 9: But it's I don't get it. Say they found the car, but.
Speaker 11: They didn't find my husband.
Speaker 9: An under company rule? Who have to wait seven years
before being paid?
Speaker 11: My husband just.
Speaker 9: A locking to you. A man works to make sure
that his wife and kids will be taken care of.
It's not not right to let it all go for nothing.
Excuse me, of course, forget about people. Remember the rules.
Hello is Mike mc please just an it's for you guys,
right Hello? You oh grab.
Speaker 12: A just pick something off the ap layer. Seems a
guy went into a Philadelphia bank and cash five brand
worth of travers check. So tell that dam you're interviewing
that she may not be a widow. After the guy
who cashed the checks identified himself as doctor David wicker.
Speaker 1: Oh, you'll be with us then. In the meantime, send
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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.