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Now it's time though, for today's at episode of the
Case Book of Gregory Hood.
Speaker 3: The Red Capsule.
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history of fine wine. Petrick. Well, it's Monday night in
San Francisco, and we have a weekly date with Gregory
Hood and his attorney and great friend, Sanderson Taylor. Tonight's
rendezvous is at that happy born from which no fish returns,
Bernstein's Grotto on Powell Street. Let's join me there, shall we?
Speaker 5: Hello?
Speaker 4: Gregory? Eh, there you are, Harry about evening? Harry, I
hope you don't mind we jumped the gun on you
all A hope. I could never resist these cuckoo clams
on the halfshell. As you see, he's on to his
second doun.
Speaker 5: You will have someone to Harry. They're very special.
Speaker 4: Thanks Greg, I will, By the way, if you can
take fish two nights running, you're invited up to my
apartment tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Even Swell, Greg, what's the occasion?
Speaker 4: A friend of mine just sent me a batch of
brook trout from the Sierra sounds wonderful. If you don't
know how wonderful, I swear you've never tasted trout until
you've had Greg cook them. Well, they won't be at
their best tomorrow. I'm afraid brook trout is one dish
that's better cooked under rather rustic conditions. For my money,
the only proper way to cook them is in sizzling
hot bacon grease in the skillet over an open campfire
under the pine tree, and that Harry, by one of
those happy coincidences, he was us directly into the night's adventure.
Our story from the case book began just that way
on a certain star clustered evening last fall. Sounds like
a potent setting for adventure.
Speaker 5: Well, we found plenty of that as usual.
Speaker 4: We'd blown out of San Francisco in my beachcraft, complete
with rods and flyers and a weeks camping equipment. We
landed in the private field of a friend of mine
in the Semite County and hiked from there on up
into the mountains.
Speaker 5: The gods were very kind to us. At first.
Speaker 4: We hit a heavenless stream teeming with hungry, vigorous fish.
At the end of an exciting day's sport. We knelt
by our campfire preparing these potatoes, and the ashes are
almost done. Greg, Yes, I'd better fan up the flames
for the skillet. He just likes the bacon, Yes, yes,
and clean the trout.
Speaker 5: Ah, this is the live sand in and they're going
to have a meal.
Speaker 4: We couldn't equal in San Francisco's finest restaurant.
Speaker 5: First the bacon.
Speaker 4: There we are? Did you hear that? Greg I swear
I heard someone calling. It's probably little Sir echo out
for his evening rehearsal for the Bohemian Grove. I did
hear someone greg here? In the forest prime Evil, where
we've come to a ski from dazzling winches and murderers
and all those fascinating encumbrances. There is someone, Gregor, who's
there this rounded the day. It's a girl, and one
that quotes Hamlet. Yet you make an interesting dinner guest.
Go and make her welcome, Sandy. I've got my hands
full here. Okay, Gregory? Good you think? Are you in trouble? Hello?
Speaker 6: Da, I'll read to your tent tire.
Speaker 4: Oh come and join us, won't you? My name is
Sanderson Taylor.
Speaker 6: Oh well, mine Houston.
Speaker 5: You really a little.
Speaker 4: One wise for a young lady to be hiking about
in the mountains at night, don't you think? Tell I, Gregory,
this is miss Sylvia Eustace.
Speaker 5: Oh how do you do?
Speaker 4: Sorry?
Speaker 5: I can't get up, but I must watch this meal.
Speaker 6: Do I smell bacon?
Speaker 4: You do?
Speaker 5: You'll be our dinner guests.
Speaker 4: I can't use and Susan, how would roast potatoes, coffee, bacon,
and brooke proud ala nature appeal to you.
Speaker 7: I can't think of anything more to her? Can I help?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: No, thanks, everything's under control. How come you're up in
the mountains alone late at night? That usa?
Speaker 7: Well, I've walked up earlier today and saying my friends
are then, ma la, it's about ten hols.
Speaker 6: I'm afraid I over did it.
Speaker 4: What's one?
Speaker 5: Miss?
Speaker 4: Is here?
Speaker 5: Here? I have some brandy in the class here, Thank you.
Speaker 7: I have a touch of asthma. I'm taking my head
in there would be better in a second. Don't worry
about me.
Speaker 5: I do wish I could do something to help.
Speaker 7: It's all right, I'm sorry. And now, how's about the trout.
Speaker 5: Going into the skillet at this very moment? Listen to it.
Speaker 7: I don't know if I should eat till soon after
an attack, but I'm sure I won't be.
Speaker 6: Able to resist it. I'll hope for the bed.
Speaker 7: And Shakespeare says that good digestion wait on appetite and
health on both.
Speaker 4: A wonderful meal, Gregory, you su passed yourself. I must
confess it was mildly colossal. More coffee, than's usta.
Speaker 6: Yes, thank you. Your face keeps bothering me, mister hood.
Speaker 4: It does have that effect on some people. Yours has
the reverse effect on me.
Speaker 6: No, No, I mean, I'm certain I've seen.
Speaker 4: It before, probably in the police Causeette, he's always getting
mixed up with the.
Speaker 6: Underworld of Churus. How stupid of me, you, Gregory, heard
the detective.
Speaker 5: Well, detecting is a hobby of mine.
Speaker 7: I've seen your photographs in the San Francisco papers.
Speaker 6: I was afraid of.
Speaker 5: Who you want miss another asthma attacked.
Speaker 6: I knew I shouldn't have been that. I'll take another.
Speaker 4: Fascinating objects though, tiny red capturing. They really ease up
these attacks of yours.
Speaker 6: You usually.
Speaker 7: Yeah, if they don't do the trigger, I can give
myself a high boss, help.
Speaker 6: Me, help me.
Speaker 4: I never saw look at a struggle way her body
keep crouching, Sandy, this is my attack. This girl has
been poison. Whatever you may say about the evils of
modern civilization, Gregory, at least if we had been in
the city, we could have called a doctor and the police.
Speaker 5: I know, I know his hand. It was ghastly, Don.
This wretched card should be in a museum.
Speaker 4: The old farmer who redded it to us. One does
not to expect too much. In any case, after scrambling
down the mountainside on the dark, it's a great improvement.
Speaker 5: Well, the don's breaking now.
Speaker 4: Would have been better to have waited up there and
then carried her body down to the plane and flown
it into San Francisco. I can still see that poor
girl's face as she died.
Speaker 5: Yes, it was torture. If only we'd packed some other food,
some mustard, egg whites, anything to make an emetic to
stand there helpless and watch her die.
Speaker 4: You're sure it was murdered.
Speaker 5: Oh, obviously suicides don't seek company, and it was no accident.
I know the symptoms of strickland poisoning when I see them.
Speaker 4: We must be on the outskirts of some town. Now.
There are a few lights pointing here. I wonder where
the courthouse is, or even if they have one.
Speaker 5: If I know these hick towns, it isn't far from
the outskirts to the hub of things.
Speaker 4: Greg, Could you make out anything of what that girl
was trying to say to you as she died?
Speaker 5: Almost nothing.
Speaker 4: The strickland spasms were racking her, and that combined with
erasthma made it very hard, dreadful way to die. I
just caught a few scattered words sounded like sport engineer tar.
Does that make any possible sense to you? No, I
can't say, poor Gregton. Here we are the county courthouse
and the lights are on. Somebody's going to have quite
a shock to start their day with. I imagine murder
is something of a rarity in these pots.
Speaker 5: Oh, here's the Sheriff's office.
Speaker 4: Come on, Sandy, good morning, you fellows are early. What's
on your mind?
Speaker 5: Are you the sheriff.
Speaker 4: Cure, Sheriff Turner? What's on your mind? Shun, We've come
in to report a murder. If you shed murder some
that's what I did say. The girl was murdered last
night in the mountains.
Speaker 5: My friend and I saw it happened.
Speaker 8: You short jake, come in here now now give me
the fact you too.
Speaker 4: My friend and I were camping in the mountains last night.
A girl named Sylvia Eustace was lost and came to
our fire Kilva houst on, well if.
Speaker 5: She had dinner with us?
Speaker 4: And half an hour later she swallowed what she thought
to be in a bedroom and died.
Speaker 5: Of Strickland poison.
Speaker 4: Who cooked this dinner?
Speaker 5: I did, and the girls dined right afterwards.
Speaker 4: Cake me. So yeah, get your keys out. You got
a couple of customers show us. Now look here, I
warn your sheriff, and I'm an.
Speaker 8: A tre sure and I'm the queen andya now come up, Jake.
We've got us a couple of murderers.
Speaker 4: Oh, this is a crazy situation, Sandy. We come into
report a murder and then get booked for committing it
done these small towns for judges off at the other
end of the county, and I can't even apply for
our wrint.
Speaker 5: We've got to get out of here.
Speaker 4: There's only one way that girl could have been poisoned,
but we must get to San Francisco. Would have proved it, Sandy.
I tell you, we've got to get out of here. Well,
there's Jake, the moronic jailer, sitting guard up there. I
don't think we can do much with him.
Speaker 5: No, No, he looks more in Edgar Bergen's line. Yet
did you notice he was reading detective magazines.
Speaker 4: He's may be vulnerable harm in trying, Jake, or what's
the idea of Greg?
Speaker 5: Thank your que from me out there as it goes?
Speaker 4: What is it? Fellas? My friend and I have been arguing, Jake?
Or have you call yourself friends? Why they argue? I
can see that you have a terrific sense of human Jake,
hasn't he standy terrific? That was an extremely funny remark.
Some fellaws just come toward a natural like I'm sure
it does. You must have your friends in constant stitches
on that. Oh, forget it, Jake. When I said my
friend and I were arguing, what I meant was we
were having a discussion about you. You see, Jake, I've
always prided myself on my ability to read character. Is
that a f you read? He leaves or something? No,
not exactly, but I can tell if a man smart
the moment.
Speaker 5: I look at it.
Speaker 4: I sized you up as soon as you walked into
the Sheriff's office there, I said to my friend, is
a really smart guy who's going placer?
Speaker 5: Didn't I say that? Standard?
Speaker 4: You certainly did. Well? What do you mean, uh? Say
you fellas like some breakfast settle our argument for us first, Jake?
Will you you've got a little more on the ball
than we have I have? Well, you pretty nice guys,
who uh would argue about me.
Speaker 5: Well, here's the way it went, Jake.
Speaker 4: I noticed that you had a big stack of detective
magazines over there, and you were reading them very serious. Oh,
read them all the time, read them all. I said
to my friend, here, there's a really smart deputy sheriff
who knows a lot about criminology and wants to go ahead.
All right, Sennis, your exact words, Gregg, what'd you say next? Well, Jake,
I knew you'd heard our story of the murder, and
I figured that you were the smart kind of a
guy who would say to himself, nobody's going to be
such a dope as to walk in and report an
undiscovered murder when he's the only suspect.
Speaker 5: So that though these guys didn't do.
Speaker 4: It, Yes, Jake, that's the clever kind of man my
friends thinks you will. Uh Uh what else did you
figure out? Well, that you're smart enough after hearing our
evidence to know don well, how the murder has been
committed by slipping a red capsule of Strickman in among
her red capsules of the Federals. And then you'd say
to yourself, I'll bet that was done in San Francisco.
And that's where the case starts San Francisco. Well maybe
you're right, fellow. Ah, you're a clever man, Jake. I'd
never been able to figure that out without your help, Gregory.
That's amazing. Jake is certainly quick on the drawing. Oh
the next fellas, Uh, did I figure anything else out?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: Yes, I said that you follows the thing through logically
and see where it might lead. I said that I'd
make you say to yourself, this gregoryhood is kind of
a protective too, and he knows his way around in
San Francisco, and if I let him go, he could
solve the case and give me the credit. Maybe the credit. Yeah,
then when the election comes around next spring, maybe i'd
have a pack at Sheriff Turner's job me the sheriff. Yes,
didn't I say that, Santus, Yes, you did? Would for?
Would you? Guys? My sure? Talk fast?
Speaker 5: Was that the end of your argument? Nearly nearly?
Speaker 4: But you see, my friend here maintains that you're just
a dull, obedient deputy who takes his orders and then
follows them out. If he's right, you'll keep us here.
But if I'm right, you let us go before Sheriff
Turner gets back at the girl's body. What'd he say?
I say, mister, I don't know how good of the
pectives they are, but you're sure once well, charge's character.
Speaker 5: He's handy.
Speaker 4: It's good to be back in San Francisco. Sure, But
I hope you realize Greg, that in the eyes of
the law were fugitives from justice. Yes, but the law
appeared at us with very sleepy eyes this morning. I'm
afraid poor Jake won't be very popular. And I had
to do it that over the sheriff would have tried
to pin the wrap on us. By the time we'd
gotten clear, would have been too late to do any
real work at this end. I agree with you there
just the same. I hope we never have to fly
back across the Sierras.
Speaker 5: In a thunderstorm, as it was rather an exciting trip.
In any case, it got us.
Speaker 4: Here in really fast time.
Speaker 5: Well, our first part of core is obvious that at
the dead girl house.
Speaker 4: Yeah lucky, she had those letters in her bag. What
was the address against one sixteen Modern Street. It must
be this next house and she didn't mention her appearance. Stanley,
I'm afraid this is liable to be a pretty harrowing interview.
I don't doubt it, but it's our logical starting point
in a search for her killer. Here we are an
imposing house. Yes, the Eustass family must be moneyed prior
to the news of her death has preceded us. Yes,
it's the maid stay out and the butler's quick. We
don't want anything unless you're applying as servants. Is this
miss Sylvia Eustace's home? Yes?
Speaker 5: Me, we come in? Please know you well?
Speaker 4: Bless my? Should you you Gregor your hood?
Speaker 5: Don't you?
Speaker 4: Yes? I am don't see a thing within your grass.
Speaker 5: I'm Sulga's ankle. Come in, won't you? Thank you?
Speaker 4: Missus?
Speaker 5: This is my friend Anderson table.
Speaker 4: How do you do that?
Speaker 2: You do?
Speaker 4: Now? Where you want to see Sylvia?
Speaker 5: You mean she's here?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: I think so, I'll go and see Greig. What on
fun is he talking about the girl's dad? We know it.
Speaker 5: Either mister Eustace is definitely eccentric or he doesn't know
his nieces left town.
Speaker 4: Yes, Sylvia's just coming down the stairs.
Speaker 5: She's doing what don't group so started holding me?
Speaker 4: Boy?
Speaker 6: This she is Gregory Hood. How very nice to see you.
Speaker 5: It's the same girl we left in Yosemite County.
Speaker 4: You'll hear the rest of Gregoryhood's story in just a second.
And right now is a swell time for me to
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is Petri Burgundy, because all Petrie wines are good wine. Well,
greg this is beginning to sound like a ghost story.
You and Sandy see a girl die, You get thrown
into the clink for her murder. You escape, and then
get back to San Francisco and walk into the girl
you're supposed to have murdered. Doesn't make sense to me. Well,
it didn't to us either, But of course the answer
was obvious. The dead girl, whoever she was, had an
exact double. It didn't take us long to find out
who that double was.
Speaker 6: Very start gentlemen.
Speaker 5: Frankly, I'm staggered, so am i, Miss Eustace.
Speaker 4: Do you have a twin sister?
Speaker 6: No, but you mustn't let my cousin Hester. People are
always astonished by our likings. Oh see what it is? Uncle?
Speaker 4: Will you please Richard Bell as soon as the seen?
Speaker 6: Well, you still the puzzle.
Speaker 4: Gentlemen, we are Excustace. You did say that your name
was so Dea, didn't you? Yes?
Speaker 6: I did.
Speaker 5: Well did you know that you? I mean, your cousin
Hester had gone to the Sierra.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he left three days ago. He's very fond of hiking.
That's as iron Another.
Speaker 5: Thing, may I ask if you're both victims of allergies.
Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, we are not versious the very.
Speaker 4: Popular today, Silvia?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 4: Lieutenant Silver's a homicides to your afternoon, Miss Eustace.
Speaker 6: How do you do, Lieutenant?
Speaker 5: You know? Yes, I know them? Thanks?
Speaker 4: Hello, Greg, Mister Taylor didn't expect to find you here.
I heard that you'd been detained in Usemite County.
Speaker 5: Yes, then we were, but only for a short while.
Speaker 4: Fortunately, now we'll talk about that in the min of
mister Taylor. Right now, there's more vital talk. Now, miss Eustace.
Do I understand that you were Miss Sylvia Eustace.
Speaker 7: That's the second time I've been asked that question. Yes, Lieutenant,
I'm Sylvia Eustace.
Speaker 4: Why, well, because I've just received a notification from Yosemite
County that the sheriff up there has found the dead
body of Sylvia Eustace of this address. He'd been murdered,
wasn't the name of founder? You saying, yes, I've got
to leave it alone.
Speaker 6: You fellows have done enough.
Speaker 4: Diamond Chair, I'll take her through her room.
Speaker 5: Well, Greg, you are in trouble, aren't you. I certainly
understand you've.
Speaker 4: Had a report from Sheriff Turner, I suppose, Lieutenant. Yes,
mister Taylor, they tell me the two of you broke
jail and that you.
Speaker 5: Wanted to murder.
Speaker 4: Well, we broke jail, all right, stand, but you can't
believe the murder child, Well, of course not.
Speaker 5: I've known you both too long and too well for that.
Speaker 4: But officially it's my dude to send you back there
to jail.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: But if we're wanted on a murder charge, hum, are
we supposed to have murdered Sylvia Eustace? And who is
the lady who just fainted? Sylvie?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: I get exactly stand this is a pretty complex case.
Before you go shipping us back to death row in
your semity, I think we'd better have a nice long talk.
Speaker 5: So there you are, stand that's the deal.
Speaker 4: Two girls, both identical in appearance of both claiming to
be Sylvia Houston. Why, Greg, it doesn't make sense? I
think it might, Lieutenant, when you consider that the Eustace
family is obviously wealthy, being the heiress might even be
worth murder and impersonation, correct, sanity, I'm pretty certain that's
the motive at the back of this mess. Well, then
you think this girl is a cousin posing is the
dead girl Sylvia?
Speaker 5: Well, that's the way it looks to me, Craig. Here
she comes back.
Speaker 7: Now, I think I can talk to you. Now, May
I introduce my young say, doctor Jenkins, how do you do?
Speaker 9: I'll have to warn you that missus Eustace is in
no condition to undergo any prolonged questioning.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll make it as short as we can, doctor Dagon,
but you must realize that you're involved.
Speaker 5: In a rotter case.
Speaker 6: I who has to kill.
Speaker 4: He was poisoned by a strickman, contained in what appeared
to be in a bedroom.
Speaker 5: Capital Understand, do you mind if I asked a few questions?
Speaker 4: Okay, Greg, you've got to play it in your way,
But if it doesn't work, it's back to Yosemite. Remember
we know that Lieutenant missus Eustace, are you in the
habit of taking a bedroom? What about it?
Speaker 9: Any person who suffers from alities as Miss Eustace does
would use the try.
Speaker 4: Doctor, Doctor, there's no need to get so heated, Miss Eustace.
Are you on the Shakespeare?
Speaker 6: Not particularly, certainly not the way poor Heath.
Speaker 4: I fail to see what the devil Shakespeare has to
do with it. You'll find out in due course. Doctor
Day going to tell me, Miss Eustace, to what substances
are you allergic?
Speaker 9: I absolutely refuse to tolerate any more of this badgery.
Speaker 5: Oh you call this badgering?
Speaker 4: Well? Doctor, perhaps is her physician? You'd care to speak
for her?
Speaker 9: Well, I'm just a general practitioner, Doctor Sanger for it
is Miss Eustace.
Speaker 5: I'll have to just I see you well, Miss Eustace.
I'll make you an offer.
Speaker 4: I'll drop all questioning for the moment on one condition
that you let me come here tonight and cook dinner
for you.
Speaker 5: What rubbis are you talking now? What do you say,
Miss Eustace?
Speaker 4: In any case, your uncle commented on the servant problem,
and I'm really quite a cook.
Speaker 7: Well, nothing who says needs to make any sense, mister
Good or else I must still be dizzy.
Speaker 6: That's very well. You may cook dinner here tonight. What
name you are you planning?
Speaker 4: Brook, trout and bacon, Miss Eustace? It should give us
the answer to murder? Slice up the bacon's handy? Will
you right? You are Greg?
Speaker 3: Greg?
Speaker 4: We've been friends for a good many years. If we hadn't,
I wouldn't take the risk of stringing along with you
on this case. Will yet tell me.
Speaker 5: What go now? Don't look so, Harris, We're on the
last lap. Our question is which is the real Sylvia? Now?
Speaker 4: The old uncle might be fooled he's half blind, and
young doctor Dacon might be in cahoot.
Speaker 5: True, So we seem to have.
Speaker 4: Established only two positive differences between the girls. The cousin
Hester loved to quote Shakespeare, so did the girl in
the Mountain. Now, according to doctor Sangerfort cousin Hester was
allergic to trout, but somehow he never checked Sylvia. Now
I begin to see why you're cooking a dinner brook trout. Yes,
then if she eats the trout and nothing happens, she's
in the clear.
Speaker 5: Well, I hope you're right.
Speaker 4: Rig Maybe I'm a fool for even letting you try it.
I've got a nasty feeling that this whole business is
one occasion when you've outsmarted yourself. At last, you're due
to be hoist with your own or Gregory a skillet
full of bacon gryes all over the floor. It blaze
it with it. I've done myself in idiocy. Quick stand,
you've got one, missus.
Speaker 9: Hit some warm water at once and muster what's wrong?
Speaker 5: Doctor Dacon. It's Sylvia.
Speaker 4: She's just been poisoned. How are you feeling now.
Speaker 9: Miss Eustace Week, mister Taylor. But I'm all who was
a miracle. I was here and able to apply the
remedy in time. She's been poisoned with strict enme.
Speaker 4: But this makes it worse than ever who want to
poison them both? Well stand, I can give you the
answer now, Doctor Dakon, May I ask your fiancee a
few more questions, as few as possible, please very well,
Miss Eustace, you took some a pedron of a while ago.
Speaker 5: Didn't you, Yes, yes I do, and tell me in
the past.
Speaker 4: Few days did you have occasion to give your cousin
Hester any of your repridrooms now?
Speaker 6: Did you mention it? Yes?
Speaker 7: I did just before she left the lusmity. We were
at a party. I'd forgotten to bring my capsules. I
had an attack and went to Hester's bag and took
several hours. Later, when we were home, I refilled Hester's
box for mine.
Speaker 5: But you didn't tell her about this?
Speaker 6: No, I didn't think about him.
Speaker 5: There's the answer.
Speaker 4: Poisoner fedron had been placed in your box, the one
you left at home. Later, quite unwittingly, you refilled your
cousin's box on your own, which contained the poison capsules.
When Hester's poisoning was a mistake. The whole thing was
really aimed at this young lady. Only the plot backfire.
I see it now, But why did she pretend to
impersonate Miss Sylvia Euston.
Speaker 5: That was all part of the pot. Sylvia's cousin Hester
planned to kill this young lady.
Speaker 4: Then returned with a perfect alibi for the murder, having
deliberately been in Yosemite at the time, and claimed to
be Miss Sylvia Eustace, saying that her cousin had been
impersonating her.
Speaker 5: In her absence.
Speaker 6: But mister Hood, I still find this hard to believe.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's logical, miss Ustas, It's a plausible pattern. What
made you see it so suddenly? Gregorate? Stan gave me
the clue. You remember the girl's dying word standards? Yes, uh,
sports engineered car, won't they? But I didn't spot it
until Stan started to rid me just now when he
said I was due to be hoist with my own petard.
I remembered that Hester loved to quote Shakespeare and that
that speech came from Hamlet. Ortis the sport to have
the engineer hoist with his own petard. That's the Shakespearean
version of the biter bit. She was hoist with her
own patad and knew it.
Speaker 7: Mister hood, you're every that as wonderful as I heard
you were, I can't thank you enough.
Speaker 4: You're very kind, Miss Eustace. Personally, I think I bungled
the job. Badling not a bit. Come on, Sylvia, I
think you should rest for a while.
Speaker 7: All right, and perhaps after that you'll keep your promise
mister Hood and cook that meal.
Speaker 6: It's a day i'd like to find out if.
Speaker 7: I do have analogy to book out n Gorebye.
Speaker 4: Well, Greg, this is all very well, but I'm afraid
tomorrow we will have some loose ends to tie off.
Speaker 5: You mean, a little talk with Sheriff Turner.
Speaker 4: I certainly do. He's hopping mad Well.
Speaker 5: Sandy's my attorney. He'll take care of it.
Speaker 4: That'll be a pleasure. But I'm worried about his deputy,
the gullible Jake. I'm afraid he'll be in very bad repute. Yes, yes, Sandy,
he might even be out.
Speaker 5: Of a job.
Speaker 4: I hope your conscience will bother you if he is.
It probably will, and I'll find him a job in
Hood and Company importers. I'd hate to destroy his faith
in human nature. Well, Greg, as usual, that story was
a honey, you don't come to think of it. I'm
not so bad at quoting Shakespeare myself. Why, Harry, I
didn't know you were a student of the immortal Bard.
You just see me do a balcony scene, and.
Speaker 5: Personally, I'd rather sit in the orchest for myself, and.
Speaker 4: I'll cut it out. Greg. Look, let's run through Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet. I'll be Romeo. If you think i'll
play Juliet, You're a Romeo. You're crazy. Besides, I know
you too well. You mean well when Juliet says Romeo, Romeo,
wherefore art thou Romeo? Your ants will be getting a
bottle of Petrie wine. Can you think of a better answer? Look,
if Shakespeare knew about Petri wine, he'd rave about it too.
It's great, Greg, Well, it's got to be. The Petrick
family has been making wine for generations. With the Petrie family.
The growing of perfect sun ripened grapes and the art
of turning those grapes into fragrant, delicious wines is a heritage.
It's a heritage hand it on down in the family
from father to son, from father to son, and the
skill of those generations of wine makers is evident in
every drop of Petrie wine. To the name Petrio on
a bottle of wine is more than a trademark. It's
the personal assurance of the Petrie family that Petree wine
is always good wine. Well, but you'll discover that for yourself.
You'll learn that no matter what type wine you prefer,
you like it better when it's a Petrie wine, because
Petrie took time to bring you good wine. Well, Greg,
what story from your casebook you're going to tell us
next week? Next week, Harry, I'm going to tell you
an adventure that I call the Forgetful Murderer. It concerns
itself as one of the strangest theories of murders that
I've ever encountered. I'll tell you all about it next Monday, Harry.
The Case Book of Gregory Hood has reatten by Dennis
Green and Anthony Boucher. Original music composed and played by
Dean posterpher Gail Gordon plays the part of Gregory Hood,
and Sanderson Sailor is played by William Baker. The Petri
Wine Company of San Francisco, California invites you to tune
in again next week, same time, same station. The Case
Book of Gregory Hood comes to you from our Hollywood Studio.
This is Harry Bartel saying good night to the Petrie
family for a solid hour of exciting mystery dramas. Listen
every Monday on most of these same stations at eight
o'clock to Michael Shane, followed immediately by the case books
of Gregory Hood.
Speaker 5: This is the mutual broadcasting system.
Speaker 3: Welcome back.
Speaker 2: What I don't really understand is how the cousin would
hope to pass with the doctor fiance.
Speaker 3: And I was a little sad.
Speaker 2: By the ending because I liked that she was doing
all that Shakespeare quoting and stuff, and that's disappointed when
that type of person turns out to be a murderer.
But justice was done, even though the deputies sounded like
he should have been voiced by Red Skelton. All right,
Well on to some listener comments and feedback, and we
start with this from Jack, who says, Dear Adam, I
think you have one of the best lineups at the
moment of any detective podcast. Johnny Doller, Gregory Hood, Nick Harter,
and the lineup are all top knock shows. I particularly
enjoyed Gregory Hood because Boucher and Green really create the
San Francisco atmosphere, probably because Boucher was from the city
as a Bay Area boy, I really enjoy it. Thanks
so much for your comment, Jack, And it's definitely an
interesting program, one of the rare San Francisco programs, and
for a study in contrast, immediately after the Case Book
of Gregory Hood, we'll be bringing you Pat Novac for Hire,
which I guess maybe it's still San Francisco, but a
different part of the city because Richard Breen, who wrote
Pat Novak for Hire also spent many years in San Francisco.
Does bring me to another point. When I was doing
the last listener support Kim Hayne in August, I announced
that there would be two different programs that would be
between The Case Book of Gregory Hood and Pat Novak
for Hire, but do man from Homicide and then Homicide okay,
and then at the very end of the season we
would be starting the Crime and Peter Chambers, Well, we
had something very fortunate happen in that we discovered act
three more Australian episodes of the Amazing Mister Malone that
I was not aware of when I made that announcement.
Plus we discovered that having a wonderful crime really should
be tied in to the Mister Malone series, and we
discovered a couple lost episodes at the Casebook of Gregory Hood,
which is to say.
Speaker 3: Because I'm trying to time.
Speaker 2: This so that we get four weeks where we have
Pat Novak for hire and Dragnet airing at the same time,
to recreate that experience for listeners who heard Jack Webb
doing Pat Novak on one station and then heard him
doing Joe Friday on another, these two very different roles.
Speaker 3: We won't actually do those two.
Speaker 2: We won't do Man from Homicide after the Casebook of
Gregory Hood, and we won't get to Crime and Peter
Chambers this season, but we'll take both of those programs off.
I think those will all announce now. Those two will
be the first two programs, will do Crime and Peter
Chambers and then Man from Homicide out of the shoot
when we start adding new programs in our sixth the season,
which we'll start in November, and Homicide Okaine will actually
be heard on Saturday after Police Bloughter and before we
get into police headquarters. To Jack's question or comment, I
appreciate it. I think this lineup is actually going to
be stronger as things go on. Once we have the Saint,
we'll have Vincent Price as the Saint on Mondays, Philip
Marlow on Wednesdays with Gerald Moore, Nick Carter with Lawn Clark,
Johnny Dowler with Bob Bailey, and Dragnet with Jack Webb.
Of course we'll have something else on Tuesday, though that
will tend to rotate a little bit. But looking forward
to I think there's still so many interesting shows to
play and I'm glad folks have enjoyed what we brought them.
Speaker 3: Up to here. And then Brian says, love the podcast.
Speaker 2: You help many people to enjoy hours of relaxation every week,
and I even manage to learn a thing or two
about old time radio.
Speaker 3: Thanks and keep it up.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: You're welcome, Brian, And before we go, I do want
to encourage you to support our listeners out there. Not
donated to support our listener support Cammagine support dot Great
Detectives dot net and since were since a Gregory Hood
collects antiques. These books aren't quite antiques, but they're pretty interesting.
They are Michael Shane books written in the nineteen fifties
and sixties and printed in the fifties and sixties, nice
little Dell paperback books. I pick them up and we
have four of them left, and if you're in the
US or Canada, we will send you two of them
for a donation of fifty dollars or more. And these
are some out of print books and the pocketbooks are nice.
You can put them in the front, in your front
pocket if you've got a good sized pocket, or also
in a purse.
Speaker 3: They're hard boiled action.
Speaker 2: So if you'd like to pick a couple up, you
just send a fifty dollars donation and can do that
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have or use PayPal, just email me and I'll be
happy to provide you my mailing address for that purpose.
All right, well, we'll see you back here tomorrow as
we continue on with the Curse of Chemisheck Matter, and
then we'll be back next Tuesday with another episode of
the Casebook of Gregory Hood. In the meantime, send your
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