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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.

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This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, I'm

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going to bring you the last circulating episode of Danger

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with Granger. But first I do want to encourage you,

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more about that after the podcast. But now here is

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the Larry Simon's.

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Speaker 2: Case Danger with Granger.

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Speaker 3: Yes, please bring you. That's what it says down the

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door of this office and also says, please not Range.

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I got a little jump for you. All you have

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to do is sit behind that desk for a little while.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like piking out a few dollars. Easy way.

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Speaker 3: A woman is coming to say, iss, you'll hand you

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some dough. Then I'll come back and you'll hand the

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dough to me. Okay.

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Speaker 2: See, First of all, I like to know who my

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clients are.

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Speaker 3: Give out with a name. Friend, I'm Larry Simon's. Yeah,

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I've heard of you.

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Speaker 2: One of those boys of Haut the cocktail joined sometime.

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Pick up some dollars.

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Speaker 3: Romance minded only when you're finished with her, she's out

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money and.

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Speaker 2: In the set of hurt feelings. I never mind that.

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Do you want this jump or nothing? Larry? I want

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you to get out of here fast.

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Speaker 3: Look there's a fast fifty iness for your gum shoe.

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You know something, one of my little quirks is that

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I hate to repeat myself.

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Speaker 2: Now beat it, worm before I throw you out.

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Speaker 3: Nobody ever threw Larry Simons out of any place.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to break the record. Now blow.

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Speaker 3: While you're you're spoiling my day, I'm going to spoil

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something else for you to remember that.

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Speaker 2: So long, snoop.

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Speaker 3: This is Steve Granger, private detective, with a story about

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a bland but a black mail and a brown hit

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baby who was right in the middle of it, and

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just a moment, I'll take you back to one of

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my most interesting cases.

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Speaker 2: This is Granger.

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Speaker 3: I was sitting in my office after having shown mister

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Larry Simon's the door not too politely.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't feeling any heart burning over that, because that

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was one young hoodlum who left the kind of taste

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in my mouth at Klarophille couldn't cure.

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Speaker 3: Then I had another visitor, mister Grainger. I've come here

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for some advice.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, most people do. What can I do for you?

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Speaker 4: I suppose you knew that a certain person was going

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to kill someone else. Would it be against the law

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not to report what.

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Speaker 2: You're not dead? Mister gregiouth, listen, mister, how long have

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you been out of the booby hatch?

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Speaker 4: I am asking for your professional opinion on a serious matter.

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Speaker 3: Mister Greed.

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Speaker 2: Take it to the police pile. They love to interfere

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in incomplete killing. I have thought of that too, but.

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Speaker 4: You see, I don't particularly like the victim to be

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I'd appreciate your opinion.

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Speaker 3: Well, if you know a murder is to be committed,

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this no longer in the world that can make you

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tell about it, Because you're.

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Speaker 2: The only one who knows that you know. Am I

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being too confusing? I'm not at all. Thank you, mister greener,

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and good day. It wasn't starting out to be one of.

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Speaker 3: My best days. First a cheap hoodlum, then an elderly nut.

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I decided I needed a drink to put things ripe.

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There was a spot just down the street.

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Speaker 2: I walked in, gave the bartend of the nod, and

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sat down at the table to await my usual. It

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arrived simultaneously with something else.

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Speaker 3: A girl said, around here, swing and sway, walk and

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close the spell.

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Speaker 2: What are you doing later, baby?

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Speaker 5: Mister Grangers?

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Speaker 3: Why aren't join your office? Because little lady I wanted

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to come in here, so I did an if heard

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the question.

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Speaker 6: Larry told me you'd be upstairs. I tell you come

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out and come in here. Larry didn't tell me you

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were going to do that.

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Speaker 2: Larry is not my master. I go where I please.

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Speaker 5: I don't understand all this. Wow, it was very.

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Speaker 3: Explicit Larry should crawl into a hole let someone full

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up with water.

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Speaker 6: Well, I didn't think you felt that way. Oh we

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might as well get home and a business.

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Speaker 3: Here's the money that green stuff makes it seem like

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Saint Patrick's day.

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Speaker 2: But you're a few months later.

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Speaker 5: Did Larry give you the paper?

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Speaker 2: Baby?

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Speaker 3: Take this money and put it back in your handbag?

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Speaker 2: Makes me nervous.

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Speaker 5: What are you talking about? Larry told me you'd have

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a paper for me.

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Speaker 2: I've got nothing, but he promised to sign a release.

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Speaker 5: You're going to hand.

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Speaker 2: It to me on the right track, but you got

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the wrong train.

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Speaker 3: Your pal Larry came to me with such a proposition

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that I threw both him and proposition out the door.

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Speaker 2: Go no paper.

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Speaker 5: You threw Larry out of your office. But he said everything,

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he'd be all right. He even promised.

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Speaker 2: All Larry Simon's promises end to end. It would end

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all promises.

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Speaker 5: I think you're a lie.

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Speaker 2: You're not lying.

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Speaker 3: Also, I'm not in business with any cheap little blackmailer.

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I let the a greasy little friend friend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let me tell you something else.

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Speaker 3: A young woman as attractive as you and have hundreds

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of boyfriends, none of them even remotely resembling Larry Simon's.

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Speaker 2: I make myself clear.

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Speaker 5: You think Larry is my boyfriend?

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Speaker 6: Sure is not your cousin Usden Granger. I hate Larry

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Simon's allow.

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Speaker 2: Has another name to a growing list, so do I.

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Speaker 6: I'm glad to hear that, mister Grainger. Sorry I bothered you. Goodbye.

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Speaker 2: Wait, watch you hurry? And who are you?

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Speaker 6: I am the person who's going to give Larry Simon

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adom time.

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Speaker 2: The girl moved out the door of the cocktail lounge,

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wearing an expression in her eyes that.

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Speaker 3: Spelled trouble with a large chief for one Larry Simon's,

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and I wented a split second and moved after.

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Speaker 2: Range. You're wait definitely said, wait, Larry, take your hand

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off my arm.

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Speaker 3: I'll go tough on me. Grange.

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Speaker 2: I want that dough. I've got no dough. I'll let go.

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I'm in a hurry.

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Speaker 3: I'm not letting going with your hand over that money.

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I saw that the didn't go over to your title

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in that joint. I watched to give you the money,

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and you also saw the refuse it I got away

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from me.

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Speaker 2: People might think we're friends.

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Speaker 3: Oh look, look, gra you don't know what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: I gotta have that money.

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Speaker 3: If I don't get it means my.

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Speaker 2: Skin and that's my wish for to day.

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Speaker 3: See you, Larry, don't grab me again.

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Speaker 2: You're here.

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Speaker 3: Hand over that dough Grainger moving up in your profession

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turning into a gunboy? Are you the middle of the

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street too? I'm not kidding, Granger, this is serious with me.

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Speaker 2: I'll say it's serious. I'll take that gun. Thanks. Here here,

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what's going on? And give me that gun? Who do

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you think you are waving a.

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Speaker 3: Revolve around in public?

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Speaker 2: Come on, come on, hand it over.

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Speaker 7: You are opposite now, then march both of your guns

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in the middle of the day on Broadway. I just

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a minute, officer, here's my license, see you, Granger, So

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you're the private eye.

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Speaker 2: What's all is about? The gun belongs to this man,

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Larry Simon's officer, So.

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Speaker 8: You'll have a permit to kuire this thing, mister, I

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sure have, Officer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, here it.

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Speaker 8: Is Simon's two three six five sixty nine Street, New York. Okay,

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take your gun and put it away, Officer. I want

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to say, Ranger, you keep quiet. Now get up the

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street Simons, and don't let me catch you waving a

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gun around again.

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Speaker 3: Thank Officer. Hey, which way are you going, Granger?

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Speaker 2: In any direction you're not taking Larry. Just stay away

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from me.

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Speaker 3: I was going to meet for a second because the

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next time, I have to take a gun away from here.

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Speaker 2: I've got a slug right between your eyes.

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Speaker 8: That'll be enough of that kind of dog, Granger Simon's

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get out of here, gone run.

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Speaker 2: Grangie, who stay with me?

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Speaker 3: The police officer helped me by the arm until Larry

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Simons disappeared in the crowd.

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Speaker 2: Then he had to be.

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Speaker 3: One more admonition to behave myself and turn me loose.

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I went home hoping to spend a quiet evening. I've

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known what was in store for me. I would have

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left town instead.

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Speaker 2: Now what, oh are you? And what do you would?

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Speaker 3: My name is Alam Gilbert. I want to have a

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little talk with you. Oh k chum my arms at

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ten to five. You can catch me any day at

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my office downtown.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you right now.

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Speaker 3: That's what I was afraid of. My girlfriend came to

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see you today. She's in trouble. Most interesting.

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Speaker 2: She wanted to give you some money. You refused it.

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More people to have seen that transaction.

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Speaker 3: Also, she's been seen around New York with Larry Simon's

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He's a crook. This is as interesting as the latest

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novel Little Man, but still none of my business. I

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think she's in trouble, Grater, and I came here to

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tell you that if you're the cause of.

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Speaker 2: I've heard enough for this.

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Speaker 3: Take your foot out of my door, Palala, I'll partch

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your toes for you don't remember if you play tricks

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with Alice Belfer, you white up on a balk. I'll

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continue this interesting story in a minute.

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Speaker 2: Oh, this was nuisance number three. This white faced young

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man will threaten me about his girlfriend, and then moved

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the way down the hall. I closed the door.

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Speaker 3: And slipped the lock, hoping for a little peace unspoiled

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by Chief Grifter and young heroes.

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Speaker 2: But this was obviously the day they should have gone

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to the country. Hello, mister Grainger, this is Golan, who

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came to see you earlier today. Pardon my being so

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abstract at which one of you I spoke to you

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about a possible murder? Not you again, I have an errand.

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Speaker 4: For you, mister Ginger.

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Speaker 2: I'll pay fifty dollars. I've never murder of mind at

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after six o'clock. Sorry, mister, this has nothing to do

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with murder. I want you to come to my face

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as bookish possible.

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Speaker 9: What for a very important but highly confidential matter.

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Speaker 2: My home is a thirty four fifty six with thirty

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seven feet.

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Speaker 3: I jotted down the address and got on my way,

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wondering just what this was all about.

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Speaker 2: But I decided to stop off at Cal Hendrick's place.

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Speaker 3: This whole business had an odor about it, and I

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think in my newspaper friend might be useful. Hi, Steve Hoess,

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crazy man crazy. I had a visitor this morning, Larry Simon.

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That creep, Yeah, I told him to creep right out

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of my door.

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Speaker 2: I had another caller, Oh.

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Speaker 3: Here, hang on to this, Yeah, that's his address. Concerns

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My second caller, an elderly gent with questions about what

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the law would say about people who know a murder

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is going to be committed and won't say anything about it.

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Speaker 2: Your choice of clients leaves a lot to be desired, chump.

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Speaker 3: I know, thought I lost him, and he just phoned

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asked me to come up and see him.

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Speaker 2: This is his address.

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Speaker 9: You want me to keep it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks so much. You don't mention it. I won't

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unless I don't happen to come back.

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Speaker 3: I left cow flag down a hack, and a few

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minutes later we pulled up at thirty four fifty sixth

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West thirty seventh Street. I was admitted by the elderly

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gent himself and taken into a large library. This room

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should do, chair, mister Grainger.

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Speaker 2: I suppose we started at the beginning. What's your name?

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Speaker 4: I am Edgar Bowed for I have a niece named Alice.

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Speaker 2: She's being black mail. I think I've heard this before.

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Speaker 4: I am in a very unfortunate position, mister Grigdo. Her

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father's will made me the trustee of her estate, and

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there are conditions.

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Speaker 2: And what kind of conditions, mister Belfer.

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Speaker 4: First, Alice is a very strong minded person. However, her

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judgment is not always good. Her father was aware of

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this when he made out his will. For instance, the

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estate goes to charity. Should she be a judge guilty

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of even a misdemeanor.

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Speaker 2: Mister meanor that includes minor things, traffic tags and.

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Speaker 4: Whatnot, Miss Greens. I am not a man with a

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whip in his hand. I could overlook something as slight

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as that. However, something more serious has taking place the

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blackmail this morning. Yes, she got one thousand dollars from me.

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It's the second time in two weeks I've granted her wish.

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Speaker 2: Well out some of money. Second time, Yes, she's paying off.

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Mister Belfer. Don't ask me how I know that I

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do that. Shall also know the man's name? Then, huh?

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And I could guess. Would Larry's Simons be close?

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Speaker 4: Too close for comfort?

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Speaker 2: What do you want me to do, mister Gringia.

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Speaker 4: I want to protect Alice. She's a remarkably nice girl.

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I want her to be released from whatever hole this

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man has over her.

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Speaker 9: I see you.

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Speaker 2: You know this Simon's person, don't you? Yeah? Just what

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else do you know? One thing? I know your niece.

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I spoke with it just an or two ago. What else?

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Speaker 3: This is a guess, But I wonder how close I am.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it true that.

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Speaker 3: The man you would like to see dead there's this

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same Larry's Simons with.

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Speaker 5: A great deal of pleasure.

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Speaker 3: But what you wouldn't like to see is your niece

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and a police lineup accused of killing him.

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Speaker 4: Mister Gregeo, we are seeing eye to eye, thanks, mister Belfer.

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Speaker 3: I suppose I drift over and talk to Simons. Perhaps

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I could convince him that he's not doing the right thing.

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Speaker 4: And if I were you, I should use all my

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powers of conviction.

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Speaker 2: The long as those powers aren't lethal, I did.

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Speaker 4: On the contrary, the more lethal the becker, I'd like it.

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Speaker 3: Edgarbalfer's eyes tossed a glance at me, cold enough to

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deep phrase of Sirline's steak.

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Speaker 2: They also blink goodbye.

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Speaker 3: So I got out of there, and as I left

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the house, I was thinking with envy of those guys,

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all of the nice quiet life and nice quiet offices,

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wearing white collars and adding figures for me in this setup,

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everything I figured kept adding up to murder, and just

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a moment, I'll bring you the climax of the case.

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After my interview with Edgar Balfer, I Larry Simon's I

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was going to enjoy tangling with him again.

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Speaker 2: I made one phone call first, callous is Granger. Here's

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something for me, will him?

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Speaker 10: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Sure, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 3: Make a phone call it to and get me a

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lead on a man named Edgar Balfer. He's got a

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niece named Alice. It's management of an estate involved.

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Speaker 9: And Larry Simon is right, okay, get.

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Speaker 2: On with prono.

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Speaker 3: This was the block where Larry Simon Singer is over good,

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So I moved towards the building where he lived. I

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saw something interesting, miss Palfer. Why it's are you doing

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in this neighborhood, Alice? And I'm talking to Larry Simon.

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Speaker 5: No, this a girlfriend's mine who lives here. I dropped

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in to see her.

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Speaker 9: Uh huh.

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Speaker 5: Don't you believe me?

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Speaker 2: What's wrong? You're self conscious?

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Speaker 9: Alice?

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Speaker 3: Your uncle hadn't get you out of trouble with Larry Simon's.

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Speaker 5: Uncle, Edgar.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Grainger, there's really nothing you can do. Why don't

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you just forget the whole thing. I'll explain to Runkle

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because it I spoke to.

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Speaker 2: Huh huh.

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Speaker 3: I've got a better idea. Let's go up and have

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a little chat with Larry Simon's first.

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Speaker 2: No, I won't go come on with me.

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Speaker 3: Edgar Balfer was right about his niece being high spurted.

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She gave one muscular tug and freed her arm and

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flounced off down the street like a righteously and solid dowager.

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I watched her for a minute, then went on my way,

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Alice or no, Alice, I went on a piece of

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Larry Simon.

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Speaker 2: A red faced doorman with a.

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Speaker 3: Ponchant for stray buck gave me his apartment number, the

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elevator boy deposited me at the right floor and moved

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towards Simon's apartment with a feeding that all was not good.

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His door swung open to my touch, and I stood

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there face to face with the sleek little blackmailer.

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Speaker 2: He was sitting in an easy chair, all set for

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his last long rest.

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Speaker 3: I went through him and came up with a Grand

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Prize ten one hundred dollars bills.

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Speaker 2: Then I reached for the phone, calling somebody Granger. But oh,

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Sergeant Ray, I was just calling you. You were, mister Granger.

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What does it look like I was going to do?

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Speaker 4: You might have been calling Grand Central for transportation out

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of town. Oh, I stopped that, you see, I was

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told to wait for you to come back. We figured

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that you'd forgotten something, sir.

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Speaker 2: Me, Oh what did I forget?

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Speaker 4: The ten one hundred dollar bills near hand? Perhaps we

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should continue this.

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Speaker 2: Downtown, downtown what for?

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, sir, but it's suspicion of murder. That's your story,

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mister Granger. Can you substantiate it?

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Speaker 2: Of course I can. Edgar Balfer hired me to have

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a little.

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Speaker 4: Talk with Larry Simon's and that's why you knew what

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he had in his coat pockets?

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Speaker 2: Well, sure, yes, Sergeant Eddy, do you know this man?

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He's Steve Granger. Wait to see him last uptown? Earre

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you today? Under what circumstances?

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Speaker 8: While he was having an argument with another fellow named

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Larry Simon's, he says to this other guy, the next

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time I see you out, put a slug right between

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your eyes.

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Speaker 2: Did you make that statement? Granger? Now, Sergeant I can

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tell you. I'll tell me if you.

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Speaker 10: Said it or not.

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Speaker 3: Sergeant Ray, usually one of my friends, just leaned back

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and waited for me to admit making the statement I did,

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feeling certain that my next bedroom would have vertical Venetian blinds.

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The sergeant could, in view of the patrolmen's evidence, hold

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me in a suspicion. But after fifteen minutes of explanation,

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released on my own recognisance at the police headquarters, checked

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an address from telephone directory went uptown. The little fragments

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of thought were beginning to gel into certainty. This was

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the apartment house where Alice Bunker's boyfriend Alan Gilbert lived.

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Speaker 2: Granger, what inside, friend?

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Speaker 3: How dare you lit? But I haven't got time to

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waste right now you telephoned the police and told him

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that Larry.

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Speaker 2: Simons is dead? Bingjer well, who are you covering up for?

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Speaker 3: I'm covering from nowhere, that's for laughs, Mistern'd you hit

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me again earlier? You were up in my office making

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like Rocky Marciana. I'll put up those hands of yours

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and we'll find out how much you were on the

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level he was.

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Speaker 2: You sly away from me, getting a little nervous.

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Speaker 3: All eh, why'd you tip the cops that I was

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in Simon's apartment? You were working for Simon's. I wouldn't

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walk down on the same street with that creep.

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Speaker 2: Tell me what I want to hear? Who is behind

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this move?

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Speaker 3: When you called the law, you implied that I could

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have killed him, didn't you. You also mentioned a ten

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bills the money you stuffed in his breast pocket.

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Speaker 2: I didn't great joke. It was Alice. I saw her

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come out of Simon's place.

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Speaker 3: I went up after she left. I saw him sitting

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in that chair. This becomes really interesting. What else nothing?

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You're lying? And I think we'll prove that at alice

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belvers house. Suppose I refuse to go, you can go

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with me now with a police officer. Later, who's your

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telephone there, craty, you don't know what you're doing?

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Speaker 2: Quiet callous to Steve. What about that information? I asked

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you again?

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Speaker 9: Got it right here?

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Speaker 2: Edgar Bell, third Minister's in the state for his niece Alice.

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His administration has.

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Speaker 9: Been strictly on the level.

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Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with the estate, but the romor boys have

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drifted around.

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Speaker 5: Remarked that Belfer.

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Speaker 9: Has been under the influence of a blackmailer.

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Speaker 3: That makes two of them. Thanks Cal, I'll mention it

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so long, it's long, Come on you. I shoved out

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and gilded along ahead of me like a case of

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soft drink bottles. I got a hack and headed for

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the bal for Residents. A few minutes later, Alice ansored

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the door.

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Speaker 5: Alan and mister Greenew, what's.

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Speaker 2: Wrong, miss Balfer?

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Speaker 3: Do you know that Larry Simons is dead? Somebody shot

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and killed him?

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Speaker 9: What.

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Speaker 5: I can't believe it?

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Speaker 2: Why can't you?

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Speaker 3: Because he was still alive when you left this apartment

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earlier today.

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Speaker 5: I wasn't in his apartment. I was visiting a dressmaker.

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Speaker 3: You'll but tell your girlfriend what you saw.

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry Alan, you didn't he did.

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Speaker 5: What are you looking for?

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Speaker 9: In that. Just this.

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Speaker 3: Nice little revolve in Miss Balfer. That's been fired too.

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Two shells gone out of the magazine. Police will enjoy

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a gander at this play thing. Queen. You don't understand,

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but I do, Miss Balfer. You kill Larry, didn't you?

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Speaker 5: I didn't.

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Speaker 3: I think Simons was afraid to face your baby. You

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know you are gunning for him. That's why he came

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to me. I was to be the collector.

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Speaker 2: One of the stubborn streak in my nature prompted me

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to turn him down. So you shut him. That's not true, baby,

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don't bother lying anymore.

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Speaker 11: I am not a liar.

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Speaker 3: Lied twice Sallas on the street when you told me

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you were visiting a girl friend of the same building

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where Larry Simons lived. Now it's a dressmaker you went

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to see. Well, you're not even a clever liar. I

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think I'll have a little chat with your uncle. I

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don't think you like what I've got to say.

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Speaker 5: My uncle isn't home.

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Speaker 3: Two, we'll get you fired. That's a third lie. Baby,

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Where is he? I don't know, darling. Please tell grain

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to the truth.

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Speaker 5: Very well. Uncle Edrey is here. But I wish you

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wouldn't excite him.

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Speaker 6: He has a very bad heart. Any little shop might

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prove fatal.

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Speaker 2: That's the same. I've got to talk to him.

477
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Speaker 3: I've heard something that throws an entirely different light on

478
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this little picture. Different light as spou for. Your uncle

479
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was being blackmailed too. What Yeah, I just got this information.

480
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I'm going to talk to your uncle about it. Now,

481
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there's his room.

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Speaker 5: Come with me, I'll show you. This is his room.

483
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Speaker 2: Here, rock on the door. I don't tell him i'm here.

484
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Speaker 5: Uncle, Edgar, it's me, Alice. Uncle, it's me. Open the door. Uncle.

485
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Speaker 10: That something like a ghost out of the way.

486
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Speaker 2: He's dead. Alice shut himself.

487
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Speaker 5: In that case, I can tell you.

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Speaker 6: I didn't shoot Larry Simon's uncle Edgar killed him.

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Speaker 2: Well, friends, that's the story.

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Speaker 3: I'll be back to wrap up the case in just

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a minute. When Alice Valper made a statement that her

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uncle had killed Larry Simon's, Alan Gilbert's face took on

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that look of disbelief that crosses an expectant farther his

494
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face when he realizes it's two instead of one.

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Speaker 2: I looked at the girl too.

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Speaker 6: I realized that my uncle murdered Larry.

497
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Speaker 5: But I had to protect him.

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Speaker 2: You were protecting him before, weren't you. That's why you

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were paying off to Larry Simons.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Larry kept promising her release. When I ran into you,

501
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I knew he'd never keep his promise.

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Speaker 2: How long have you known your uncle? Was the letter?

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Speaker 6: Just after Larry was killed, I went to his apartment,

504
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I saw his body.

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Speaker 5: I knew then.

506
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Speaker 6: When I got back here, I started at till Uncle Laker.

507
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He evaded me nature he had to need this letter,

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he agreeing.

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Speaker 5: Should you read it?

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Speaker 3: And Dear Alice, I killed Larry Simons. You'd been blackmailing

511
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me for years from minor offense. I paid because I

512
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wanted to remain a custodian of your estate, which you

513
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will find in perfect order. When I found out he

514
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was taking money from you too, I decided to do

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away with him. It was the only thing I could do.

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You're affectionate, Uncle Edgar.

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Speaker 5: He was kind to help me.

518
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Speaker 3: He missed badly. I found you in the neighborhood. Be

519
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,160
it done away with the murder gun? Instead of taking

520
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:16,400
it on that desk, you would have been in a jam. Yes,

521
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I know, murder never pays, does it? Steve Granger again

522
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I've got Harry one of the most interesting cases in

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my files. I'll have another one for you, so be

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around next time.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. An interesting case, and I like that it

526
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kind of did a thing where the mystery is on

527
00:27:47,599 --> 00:27:51,319
the level of what is even going on here? Because

528
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of Granger's refusal to come in to the case. On

529
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Simon's behalf, he knows four last about what's going on

530
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,839
than anybody else he talks to. For about the first

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half of the episode. I was kind of curious about

532
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:16,279
the uncle going to Granger with that question about knowing

533
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:22,000
about a murder in advance. It's weird because Grangers on

534
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:27,279
an attorney. I would never just go into a privatized

535
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:32,799
office to ask a question like that about Granger, I

536
00:28:32,839 --> 00:28:37,200
guess has no problem with the unauthorized practice of law,

537
00:28:38,119 --> 00:28:43,279
so he answers it as best he can. The weirder thing, though,

538
00:28:43,599 --> 00:28:47,000
is that it doesn't really seem to connect to anything,

539
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because his niece was never planning to commit murder, at

540
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least not as far as he knew. And it does

541
00:28:55,519 --> 00:28:59,799
make me a bit curious about the writing process for

542
00:29:00,079 --> 00:29:04,759
this series, because there are some little gaps that when

543
00:29:04,799 --> 00:29:08,920
you just take a quick close look seemed kind of

544
00:29:09,039 --> 00:29:14,799
like a little bit of sloppy error without any particular explanation.

545
00:29:16,319 --> 00:29:20,480
Another example in this episode is the police sergeant who

546
00:29:20,519 --> 00:29:26,559
broke up the fight between Granger and Simon's now Granger

547
00:29:26,759 --> 00:29:31,480
said that if I have to take a another gun

548
00:29:31,519 --> 00:29:35,640
from you, I'm gonna blow your head off. The police

549
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:40,079
sergeant said, uh, yeah, I heard him, and Granger said

550
00:29:40,279 --> 00:29:43,480
that next time he saw that guy, he would blow

551
00:29:43,519 --> 00:29:48,680
his head off. Like that materially changes things, you know,

552
00:29:48,839 --> 00:29:53,839
in a dramatic way. I mean, we got exposited Granger's

553
00:29:54,319 --> 00:29:57,839
explaining things, and I hope part of his explanation was

554
00:29:58,039 --> 00:30:00,480
I don't know what he was listening to, but that

555
00:30:00,519 --> 00:30:04,839
ain't what I said. And it makes me wonder whether

556
00:30:05,079 --> 00:30:11,400
the scripts written like under a time deadline, so writers

557
00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:14,599
you know, wrote things but didn't finish them, or were

558
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,880
there say multiple writers, like somebody wrote a rough draft

559
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,759
and somebody else came through again on a deadline, and

560
00:30:22,799 --> 00:30:26,200
there were just some things that didn't get picked up.

561
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But still, despite its little flaws, I thought this was

562
00:30:30,799 --> 00:30:34,559
a good episode, and I'd say that for the series

563
00:30:34,599 --> 00:30:38,240
as a whole, well by no means in the same

564
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class as the Greatest detective programs to error during the

565
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,480
golden age of radio, this was still solid. You generally

566
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had some really fun and pace the episodes with good premises,

567
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:57,920
good hooks, and I even enjoyed the music for how

568
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:03,000
evocative it was of the era. And let's just say

569
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this Granger has a great similes game.

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Speaker 9: You know.

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Speaker 1: I think that the use of similes on American detective

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radio programs at the level of say Pat Novak for

573
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Hire or even in the Frank Graham Jeff Reagan had

574
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,480
gone out of style. But there are just some hilarious

575
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ones in this series and I've enjoyed listening to them.

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All Right, well, now let's go ahead and talk a

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little bit about our listener support and appreciation campaign. First

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of all, I want to go ahead and thank everyone

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this will be the last somewhat lengthy conversation we'll have,

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and I think I've actually done a better job at

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getting it down from the early Patreon conversations we've had

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in past years. But we will be announcing Patreon supporters

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Over on YouTube double Tappin' Hillbilly Riots, thank you, and

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then over on the site called x Mantes Falcon wrote

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Danger with Granger is really growing on me. Well, thanks

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so much, and this was regarding Paula Crane as threatened.

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So we come to an end at that point. I

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would love for us to revisit it. I don't know

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how many episodes, for sure were released. It gets confusing

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through the Saint, which tying into our listener support appreciation

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join us back here tomorrow for the big story where.

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Speaker 11: What more can I tell you?

658
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 9: Mister Your husband's identified his cup with the license plase,

659
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,119
but the way it exploded, please can't figure it out.

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Speaker 11: Doctor Wagner was a k I know he's done his

661
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way to Philadelphia to demonstrate a new process for purifying water.

662
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There are chemicals in his car in some way that

663
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they must have caught.

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Speaker 2: Fire and bump on the road, broken bottle, and his luggage.

665
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Speaker 4: Any one of a.

666
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Speaker 9: Dozen takes for the time it was time.

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Speaker 11: I love him so much, it says, if he still

668
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really he's always promising the children that we all go

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away on a long basis. He had so little time

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to spend.

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Speaker 9: I shouldn't mind my own business. But why don't you

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go away with the children. There's the insurance, No there

673
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isn't you mean the doctor didn't carry a policy.

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Speaker 11: He carried fifty thousand dollars. But you just said this

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lames and the insurance company claims he has no food?

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Speaker 9: Is good?

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Speaker 11: Our broken mister Murray has been arguing with them.

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Speaker 9: But it's I don't get it. Say they found the car, but.

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Speaker 11: They didn't find my husband.

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Speaker 9: An under company rule? Who have to wait seven years

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before being paid?

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Speaker 11: My husband just.

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Speaker 9: A locking to you. A man works to make sure

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that his wife and kids will be taken care of.

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It's not not right to let it all go for nothing.

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Excuse me, of course, forget about people. Remember the rules.

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Hello is Mike mc please just an it's for you guys,

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right Hello? You oh grab.

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Speaker 12: A just pick something off the ap layer. Seems a

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guy went into a Philadelphia bank and cash five brand

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worth of travers check. So tell that dam you're interviewing

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that she may not be a widow. After the guy

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who cashed the checks identified himself as doctor David wicker.

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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.