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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, we're

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going to bring you this week's episode of Charlie Chant.

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But first I do want to encourage you to check

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adventure stories from the golden age of radio. Well, now

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we are going to get into our final episode of

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the Landini murder Case. Now, there are a total of

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thirty three episodes of this serial in circulation, so we

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are going to play the last three. So this episode

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is going to be a bit longer. In addition to that,

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between the time that I recorded the last episode and

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the time I listened to the final three parts, I've

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read the rest of The Keeper of the Keys, which

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was the earld Or Biggers novel on which this particular

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serial was based. So I will be able to talk

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after the podcast how this measures up and where the

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novel might have been different, and offer my thoughts on

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both the novel and the serial. And of course, as

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I mentioned last week, I recorded my prediction for who

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did it, my solution to the case, and I will

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say that I recorded that prior to reading the rest

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of Keeper of the Keys, and the first half of

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that book did not really have a whole lot of

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information that wasn't included in the radio program, So it

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was mostly based on my observation of what we heard

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on the radio, as opposed to anything I read in

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the novel. But now let's go ahead and take a lesson,

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and when we come back after the mystery, you'll hear

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my solution and we can talk about how close I

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actually got.

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Speaker 2: The most delightfully fascinating character in the realms of mystery,

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Charlie Chan. The solution of the murder of Ellen Lamdini

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at pine View draws near. Charlie Chan has promised that

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before night everyone shall know who committed the double murder.

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Leslie Beaton has just confessed to Sheriff Don Holt that

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she saw a sing leave the study by the balcony

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immediately after hearing the shot, and Inspector Chan, knowing that

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the confession would be forthcoming, had left the two lovers alone.

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And now the Honolula detective accompanied by Cecil, returns to

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the study to find Louis Romano standing before the fire.

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Speaker 3: Be pleased. If you will, Cecil, step into study. Ah,

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mister ro I did not know that you were here.

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Speaker 4: I know as I come to study, I need to

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sure you if I, mister Beeton, going down to the

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living room, if I'm in the way, what do you

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call the true.

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Speaker 3: Cecil? Yes, mister Cha on top of desk two Scotts.

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Do you recognize them?

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Speaker 5: But one is the pink one belonged to Miss Beaton.

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Speaker 3: And the other Cecil the other the other.

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Speaker 5: Mister Cham is the green one. The green one belonged

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to Landini, the one belonged to the green costume she

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wear the night.

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Speaker 3: She is skilly, correct, Cecil, He's so kind if you

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will to examine the green sca for he carefully tell me, Cecil,

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what do you see?

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Speaker 5: Not one single thing? If monsieur will tell me what

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he wants, I try to see what it is messieurs,

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I detect nothing, Cecil, That is all.

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Speaker 3: I do. Not what you say, compen no cecil. If

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you do not tell mister Cio, is your husband, mister

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Ireland in the house.

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Speaker 5: Is in the garage, monsieur monsieur ward.

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Speaker 3: Tell him. I wish to see him later. Thank you

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so much.

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Speaker 5: I shall tell him.

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Speaker 6: Ch well, senor Chena. How is the mystery murder.

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Speaker 3: Progress rapidly, mister Romano, quite rapidly. Ah, perhaps, yes, of

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course you can help me. I had discussion mister Romano

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about the opera Scar of Mercado, also Princess Pilsen.

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Speaker 4: Ah, yes, yes, I know them both. A Delight of

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Food my favorite song, or from the Mikado. It always

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make me. What is the word, Oh joyous, yes, joyous

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on a tree by a river, A little tomtit sang willow,

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willow t willo.

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Speaker 3: Yes quite, mister Romano. But it was not of the

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music that I had said discussion. It was on the

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subject of buying a musical scar the mccado, for instance,

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it is bound in brown paper with red lettering.

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Speaker 4: Oh, but no signor not the soul you are mistaken? Yes, indeed, yes, Senora,

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the Mikado all the opera by Gilbert and Slivana. She

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is bound in the light of blue paper with a

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heavy blue printing. I know, Senora, I have them all

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in my library. Signor is good detective? What he is

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wrong on that?

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Speaker 6: A statement?

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Speaker 3: Or is it a yes, mister Romana?

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Speaker 4: Or is it that Senor chen Is try a little

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game on me, like a test to see whether or not?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 6: So it is it?

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Speaker 4: Yes, Cecilia, you asked her to pick up a scarf.

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Why to see whether or not.

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Speaker 6: Signor. You are clever.

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Speaker 4: You make the test to see to see whether or

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not the Lula Romano is a color.

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Speaker 3: Bland not one word. Yes, I admit you have discovered

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reason for my questioning. Happy to say that you are

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no longer suspect. Please not a word to anyone.

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Speaker 4: Well you can trust to Louis Romano. I know nothing.

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I am very disagreet. Ah, so it is there the

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secret lies.

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Speaker 3: Please, mister Romano. Someone may come to study. In fact, yes,

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I hear voices come in, please ah, mister Ward, Mister Ireland,

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Miss Beaton and Sheriff come in.

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Speaker 7: Please, Inspector. I require a few things from Reno. Will

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it be possible for Ireland to take the seal over

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there to get them for me.

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Speaker 3: Certainly, mister Ward makes me feel very officious that you

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should ask.

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Speaker 7: Me, not at all, mister Chand naturally I do not

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expect to be treated differently than the others. And they

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will be back here before dinner. Sure, we will be

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back here before three o'clock. Before you go, mister Ireland,

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does this look like scarf?

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Speaker 3: Madame Landini was waving from balcony that faithful night.

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Speaker 8: I couldn't tell, mister Chan. At that distance, I couldn't

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tell the difference between that green scarf and that pink one. Besides,

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I had my goggles, you know, and they give everything

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a sort of brownish tinge when it's as dark as

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it was at that time.

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Speaker 3: Quite so, mister Island. It's really foolish me to ask.

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Speaker 8: Well, if there isn't anything else, I'll get along and

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get these things for mister Ward.

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Speaker 3: Certainly, mister Island, nothing else to talk.

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Speaker 7: If you don't need me, mister Chan, I'll see them

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off and give my final instructions.

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Speaker 3: Quite so, mister Ward. Nothing that I desire of you

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at this moment.

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Speaker 7: Oh, hello, John coming into the study. Just bringing old

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Sam up to see.

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Speaker 3: Chan, honored, mister Holt, come into study your sun and

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miss beaten on window Alco oblivious to everything at each

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other is rider. Can you spare a moment? Please suppose so, Chen,

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provided it's important.

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Speaker 9: Well, did someone say someth to me?

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Speaker 3: Not exactly?

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Speaker 10: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Hello Dad?

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Speaker 11: Okay, Shannon? Bring you over?

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Speaker 10: Yes, dam yeah, sit beside me, mister Horler, Thank you, Leslie.

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Speaker 3: Mister Ryder, you are engineer, mining engineer, are you not?

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Speaker 11: Yes? Cham you know that without asking.

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Speaker 3: What I was going to ask, was have you ever

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mined gold? I thought, being in California, perhaps I.

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Speaker 11: Mind gold rather successfully here in California.

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Speaker 3: Tell me, mister Ryder, how does one recognize gold? Subject

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fascinates me? What uh shall we say? Physical characteristics of gold?

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Speaker 12: Well, it's characteristic color yellow. That yellow is, however, affected

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by other metals. A high percentage of silver tends to

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lessen the yellow color, whereas copper tends to heighten it.

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When the goal's finally divided, as in purple of Cashier.

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So one say it's precipitated from solution. The color's red

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ruby red, and then in thin sheets it has a

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greenish sort of greenish light.

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Speaker 3: Then much of your success depends upon recognition a very

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fine dividing line between colors. To a certain extent. Of course,

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these are only rough suggestions. Chemical analysis is the final word. Yes,

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quite so much, Ryder, thank you very much for information.

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My knowledge of chemistry and metallurgy is very very limited,

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not nearly as expensive as my knowledge of tree.

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Speaker 11: Anything else you wanted.

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Speaker 3: Not a thing, mister Rider, thank you so much. The

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rider is certainly not color blind, nor is romano or

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I have just tested him. The seal has no difficulty

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in picking out green from pink.

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Speaker 13: Scar I didn't want to say anything when we first

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came in. You do not have to tell us that, Sheriff,

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you were quite busy. Tell me miss beaton his date

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for wedding arranged four as yet?

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Speaker 3: Why well, how did you know?

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Speaker 11: That?

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Speaker 14: Is what Donna and I were discussing? We you see,

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we wondered, Yes, Miss s Beeton, I suppose Don should

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be the one to speak of it, but we wondered

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if you, if we held the wedding early enough, would

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you be the honored guest, My.

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Speaker 3: Dear miss Beeton, lessen it. It is honor which overwhelms

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me to feel that I have made such friends in

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murder mystery that they should desire my presence at their marriage.

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I shall be.

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Speaker 15: Delighted to God, Inspector.

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Speaker 9: I'm sure glad to hear that. I feel that I

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owe you such a lot for well for solving this case.

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Speaker 3: Alas the case is not as yet soft.

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Speaker 9: But Leslie we as I said. I didn't want to

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say anything in front of the rest, but Leslie just gone,

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that's not a dad.

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Speaker 13: I just forgot cash. Shannon is standing downstairs and waiting

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on you. He wants to ask something. I told him

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I'd tell you. I wonder what he wants. Come on, Leslie,

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we'll go down and see.

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Speaker 10: All right, Don.

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Speaker 16: Another minute, mister chan it had been too late.

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Speaker 3: What what is that, mister Holt?

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Speaker 13: Leslie has been told about seeing our sing come out

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of the study onto the balcony after the shot.

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Speaker 3: I thought you would when I absented myself from study.

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Speaker 13: And Don hasn't had time to tell you. No, mister Holt,

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And until someone does tell you, you don't have to

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know that our sing was seen leaven by the balcony window.

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Speaker 3: Technically, you are correct, mister Hope. I have only my

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guess work upon which to base an opinion.

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Speaker 13: Mister Chan, I'm I'm seventy eight years old, an honorable age,

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a happy one too, because I'm here among my own folks,

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in the country I've always known. But now, just supposing

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I was in some foreign country, what would I want

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more than anything?

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Speaker 3: You would wish to see again your native village, to

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tread the self same soil wherein you will be laid

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to rest.

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Speaker 13: You're a smart man, mister Chan. You got me right away.

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Inspector darn ain't never made you a deputy. You ain't

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got no real authority here.

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Speaker 3: Quite so, mister Hope, I am but regent in authority.

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Speaker 13: You ain't got no authority, you ain't under oath, And

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mister Chan, I am.

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Speaker 16: I am lying.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, mister Hope. I speak in broken voice for

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my entire race. When I say I thank you, you

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will pardon me. Now. I know I have little errand

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to perform.

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Speaker 13: Of course you have, and if it should happen and

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I don't never meet a certain old friend of mine again,

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shake his hand, give him my love, and tell him

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I am proud to have knowed him.

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Speaker 3: Aye. I cannot speak, mister Hoape, but thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: A quick handshake, a few emotional words of thanks, and

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Charlie Chan slips down the back passageway, finds his way

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to Warsing's room, and in Cantonese, with many gestures, signifies

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to our Sing that he is to accompany him quietly

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and as invisibly as possible for the garage. In a

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few minutes, Pine viewers behind them as the car speed

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down the roadway, Charlie Chan gripping the steering wheel, while

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last thing sits silently by his side.

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Speaker 15: The poison.

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Speaker 16: Now, maybe I can say, very.

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Speaker 3: Wicked man, China, your head would have been struck from

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your aged body in this foreign land. You would have

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been placed like wild animal in cage and steel bar.

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Jail is what you richly deserve.

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Speaker 15: So I catch up, saying to.

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Speaker 3: The contrary, you are to catch boat for China, all like.

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It was all right that the extent of your remarks

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are doing you great favor. It's tremendous kindness. And you reply,

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all right, courteous man. Arsing would not stop at that,

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or me very much applied.

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Speaker 15: That is better.

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Speaker 3: Still appears inadequate, but it is slightly better. Two warring

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emotions are seeing stir within him gladness for you, ancient one,

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that you are to return to the land of your birth.

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But I seeing torments of indecision tear at my breast

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after all these many years on police force in Honolula,

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years I seen is set by temptations, promises from wealthy

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merchants whose wares are frowned upon by island police, Promises

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from others that I too.

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Speaker 15: Should be wealthy.

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Speaker 3: Would I but close my eyes to certain facts these years?

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I sing, I said it not. It's I am assisting

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you in your escape?

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Speaker 13: Are me really salib? I sing in number one of

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very old managers? Are not for much you live?

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Speaker 10: Now?

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Speaker 13: Suppose American policeman, I hang, I say, all right, no

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can help, no care very much.

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Speaker 16: We call back upine view.

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Speaker 3: Apart from your erroneous impressions and duty of American police,

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and seeing there are other things. Please, I am not

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the greatest driver in work. Now I require attention to

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be concentrated upon operation of this not too youthful vehicle.

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We have only sufficiency of time to arrive coincidence with

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the rival of train at San Francisco. There you have money,

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I see, and you will purchase your own ticket. I'm sorry,

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but we do not also furnish fair. We have three

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or four minutes, I see. I desire to impress upon

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you certain facts. Government has fallen upon evil time. We

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cannot even afford to squander a small piece of rope

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upon man like you, old man who is to die

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soon in any king. So it says, return to China,

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to China and nowhere else, or I will call I

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end you honorable sitting. You will again sit before the

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children of your village. You will supervise the selection of

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your own burial place. I myself will see that your

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trunk is prepared and sent to you. Where shall I

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send it.

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Speaker 13: For the establishment of my brother thinkau in the Jackson Street,

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the fish shop of Delicious, or that it.

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Speaker 3: Shall be done for you. The past dies this afternoon,

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the future is born here. Now you understand me. Understand

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I am honored bearer of affectionate message for you, ancient

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well mister sam Holt to send it. He is proud to.

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Speaker 16: Have known Ah, and my.

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Speaker 13: Noble man maybe fawn nails of his coppeny of purest.

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Speaker 3: Gold to match his heart.

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Speaker 15: Yes, Ah, we are live here.

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Speaker 13: Oh God, I didn't do what was it?

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Speaker 3: You still limp. Your knee still troubles you on a benepad.

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Speaker 16: Knee here, Andy, saw need all lightly on it?

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Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, yes, the wound you acquired when you bumped

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into dressing table bench in Landini's old sitting room.

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Speaker 16: Sure sure, after me?

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Speaker 3: Should enough enough thing? Do not poke your finger through

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your own paper lantern. Luck is running high for you today.

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I seen be cautious. That's the heart of the law

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yet hardened against you. It is the train. Make purchase

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a ticket on way. It will avoid sight of two

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Chinese gentlemen at ticket. What your say, boy, goodbye? May

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your entire journey be on the sunny side of the goodbye?

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Speaker 13: Oh oh me for black You'll take it east long

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a bussy, you tell him, bussy so much of work

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in his house, saying away, I shall tell him I.

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Speaker 3: Could find you. Charlie.

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Speaker 2: Chan's disappearance passes unnoticed until Dudley Ward and John Ryder

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going to the wine cellar find it luck and start

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looking for our things range.

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Speaker 7: John our sing doesn't generally hide himself away like this.

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Speaker 11: Come to think of it, I haven't seen him since lunchtime.

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He may be with Cham. You you mean, Chan may

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have arrested him. No, that is I hardly think so, John.

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I don't believe Chang would arrest it with talking to me,

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Shanna do anything he felt like doing. Well, we look

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for him in the living room. He may be there.

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Speaker 15: I don't understand that, Leslie.

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Speaker 9: I'll searched the whole house and I can't find him

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any place.

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Speaker 11: Has anyone seen our sing?

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Speaker 4: Not a single not should time mister Ward that he

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was in the kitchen when I was take a walk

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at lunch.

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Speaker 9: I haven't seen him, mister Ward or Inspector Chane either.

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I looked all over the place.

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Speaker 11: For him too.

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Speaker 10: I saw a sing at the garage about two o'clock,

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I think it was I.

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Speaker 9: Left Inspector Chan and the study was dead, and I

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came down to talk with Kay Shannon. When I we

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and Leslie and I returned. Well, Chane had stepped out

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for a minute, so Dad said.

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Speaker 16: Right, Shan.

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Speaker 13: But I wouldn't worry about Infector Chan. He didn't look

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after himself.

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Speaker 11: I'm not worried about Chen, but I am anxious about

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all things.

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Speaker 16: Well.

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Speaker 13: I don't know i'd worry much about seeing He's pretty

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able to look after him.

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Speaker 7: Jail too well, missus o'perrell hasn't seen him for a

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couple of hours, and of course they see you in

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Ireland have been gone all afternoon.

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Speaker 4: Here is a car approachingane element to see I think

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it is a.

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Speaker 6: Yes it is.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, circainly for you.

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Speaker 9: Hello, oh yes, right, yeah yeah, oh Gleason dead eh yeah,

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all right, yeah, yes, it's all right, goodbye.

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Speaker 8: We are mister Ward. All that stuff from Reno. And

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by the way, we just overtook Inspector Chan driving the

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old car. Where down the road a little way. He'll

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be here in a minute.

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Speaker 3: Good.

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Speaker 9: I'm going to the study.

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Speaker 11: Tell you I want to see him that.

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Speaker 10: Come on, Leslie, what's the matter? Don you you seehim?

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Speaker 3: Upset? I am upset?

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Speaker 15: Who was that?

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Speaker 16: On the phone?

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Speaker 9: Done right into the chronicle. He said that Gleason was

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over the deep one saw channing I sing there, Yes,

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And Gleason said that he saw Chan put us hanging

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on the train for San Francisco.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, And I don't get old it up about it.

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Wait till mister Chang get.

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Speaker 9: She don't get all head up about it, don't connet.

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Speaker 3: After what Leslie told me about seeing us singing, come

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out of.

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Speaker 9: The study onto the balcony.

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Speaker 6: After hearing that shot, I.

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Speaker 13: Sit down, sir, and quitch storm and there's an explanation

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for everything here.

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Speaker 10: Mister Holt, sit down by the fire. I wouldn't worry

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about it done. Mister Chan isn't likely to do anything wrong.

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Speaker 9: Well, I don't get it at all. He just disappears,

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doesn't say anything about it to anyone. Then I got

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this call from Rankon. I had to pretend to Rankon.

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It was all right, try to act us if I

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knew all about it.

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Speaker 13: Well, you probably know all about it. In a few minutes,

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mister Chang said, did he tell you who the murder is?

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Speaker 16: Before the day was out?

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Speaker 13: And it's getting pretty well on the dinner time now

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a Sarah mister Ward said that she awaited me in

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study less Inspector.

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Speaker 9: I had a phone call from Bill Lancolm. He tells

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me that you just took our singing over to the

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train of truck. You I suppose I was a favor.

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Speaker 16: Eh, hold your horse is gone.

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Speaker 11: I've been double cross made of phone.

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Speaker 13: Well, now if you have, I done it. I told

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mister Chan to take our sing to truck. I told

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him to help our Shing get away to China?

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Speaker 15: Who to China?

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Speaker 11: And all the time you knew he was guilty of

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Sam Hill.

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Speaker 16: You knew he came to this room and found all

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that shun.

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Speaker 3: One moment, please, I cannot allow you, mister Holt, to

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show their responsibility for all blame.

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Speaker 9: Now, how could you let me down like this? You

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know I'm a sworn officer. I've taken my old to

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uphold alone.

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Speaker 16: We know all that shun, but there ain't anything.

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Speaker 6: I'm not going to stand here and talk.

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Speaker 3: I'm going going, Sheriff, and going where to San Francisco?

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Speaker 11: But for what?

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Speaker 15: For what?

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Speaker 6: To get our thing? To patch him back, arrest him

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for the murder of Landini.

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Speaker 3: One moment, Sheriff, I'm making grave mistake. I Sing did

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not murder Landini.

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Speaker 11: But what was that you said?

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Speaker 3: I remarked, my dear Sheriff, I Sing did not kill

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Madam Landini, nor did he kill doctor Swan. Surely, Sheriff,

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if you do not think that I am so little

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concerned and seeing justice done that I should deliberately assist

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in escape of murderer.

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Speaker 11: Well I just didn't get it at all.

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Speaker 3: But now to the immediate business of making good our

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promise to arrest murderer before this day has joined all

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other days in antiquity. Must all leave study.

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Speaker 15: I have little rearrangements of death here to do.

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Speaker 3: Then we proceed diningroom as though nothing more important than

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eating meals were in our minds.

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Speaker 13: Were you delivered my measures to all our scene, mister Chance, Yes, indeed, yes,

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mister Home.

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Speaker 3: Our Sing's eyes filled with tears, and he remarked that

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he wished the four nails of your copper to be

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the purest gold. It was highest compliment of which unemotional

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our sing.

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Speaker 15: Is casing arriffes Inspector.

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Speaker 3: Remember why guests came to Fine Views a request mister Ward,

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who desired information concerning son he believed had been born

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to Landini after a separation from him.

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Speaker 9: Yes, yes, of course, And the fact that Romano said

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that he had heard of that son.

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Speaker 3: Direct, but not so important as one other thing central clue.

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Had we but realized it was such? I very much

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fear that my friend Inspected Duff of Scotland Yard, whom

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I am indebted for praise essential clue. Yes, I am

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certain Inspected Duff would have realized it.

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Speaker 5: I don't, I can't.

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Speaker 16: Even guess you got me, mister Change.

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Speaker 3: I think I know a letter, correct, the letter addressed

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to John Ryder. Will you be so kind as to

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take my arm, mister Holt, thank you right with you

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trying to smile. Do stay very much background if you please.

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When reached living one so small, slip a robberst if necessary,

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truth and see right, inspector.

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Speaker 12: I guess so since our things disappeared with the keys

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to the sideboard as well as a sellow.

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Speaker 11: Oh there you are, mister Chan. We missed you this afternoon.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, mister Ward, that I had business which could not wait.

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Speaker 7: Something strange has happened, mister Chan. Ur Sing has disappeared.

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Speaker 11: Yes, perhaps Chan can throw some light upon the disappearance

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of Sing.

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Speaker 15: I can I grieve to tell you, mister Ward.

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00:28:38,519 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 3: All evidence uncovered so far indicates painful certainty that our

474
00:28:44,119 --> 00:28:48,160
Sings person who fired that shot which sent us hurrying

475
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:52,279
to study find Landini's dead body stretched upon floor.

476
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 7: I don't believe it. I don't care where the evidence points.

477
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,200
Sing never killed Landini.

478
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 3: But if Sing himself admits that he.

479
00:29:00,799 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 11: Did, I'd go to him at once or Sing.

480
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 3: That I fear it is impossible Sheriff was about to

481
00:29:08,839 --> 00:29:12,359
arrest him, when when he dropped from sack, then he

482
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,440
got away, all the time being he may yet be apprehended.

483
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,920
I'm so sorry, mister Ward. This must be a great.

484
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:21,279
Speaker 15: Shock for you.

485
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 3: I have stopped in dining room for only one moment

486
00:29:25,799 --> 00:29:30,599
to say I appreciate your hospital. I leave this house

487
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:31,039
at once.

488
00:29:31,799 --> 00:29:33,039
Speaker 15: There is nothing more.

489
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:33,599
Speaker 3: I can.

490
00:29:35,279 --> 00:29:38,359
Speaker 7: I suppose not, but you must not go until one

491
00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:41,200
thing is settled. I promised you one thousand dollars to

492
00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:42,759
undertake the search for my son.

493
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 15: But mister Ward, the search was soon no matter.

494
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,599
Speaker 7: There was nothing about that in our agreement, just a

495
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,519
moment I would so all.

496
00:29:52,559 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 11: Sing got away Me too.

497
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,279
Speaker 6: Mister Ryder, I can't help it, I am. Would you

498
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,160
call it late to flea.

499
00:30:00,519 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 3: You, miss Rider, find only pleasure in escape blast thing?

500
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:06,599
Speaker 11: Need I conceal that chance?

501
00:30:07,599 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 15: Sing was very good friend for you.

502
00:30:09,759 --> 00:30:13,079
Speaker 12: One of the best friends I ever had, I said

503
00:30:13,119 --> 00:30:16,200
before Sing, one of the real Chinese.

504
00:30:16,359 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 6: Then, mister Chan, the mystery is a solve.

505
00:30:19,279 --> 00:30:19,839
Speaker 3: I can go.

506
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,319
Speaker 6: You say you are leaving his house, and now I

507
00:30:23,359 --> 00:30:25,559
will go with you, not the one of the minute.

508
00:30:25,599 --> 00:30:26,599
The will I stay.

509
00:30:26,599 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 11: Planned in his money, burning holes in your pockets.

510
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 4: Romano you think you make me angry, You think your

511
00:30:34,279 --> 00:30:37,640
words are hurt and Louis romano Ah, but the no,

512
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:42,759
I consider myself, but justify you all of your other housbands.

513
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,039
Speaker 6: What do you do for that glorious voice?

514
00:30:45,119 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 17: Huh?

515
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,039
Speaker 6: Only stay for it, that is what you do.

516
00:30:48,519 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 4: But mei Romano, I make for the famous prima donna,

517
00:30:52,559 --> 00:30:54,400
I the give of the greatest.

518
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:54,799
Speaker 11: Singer A.

519
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 15: Thank you so much?

520
00:30:59,559 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 7: Won't you have a Pairwell drink chan oh? I remember

521
00:31:03,279 --> 00:31:04,079
you don't drink, do you?

522
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,079
Speaker 11: And anyway? Singing went off with the keys. John and

523
00:31:08,079 --> 00:31:11,000
I have been sitting here all evening with pouched throats.

524
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,839
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for reminding me. I'm so sorry,

525
00:31:14,839 --> 00:31:17,880
but I have been on point of forgetting. Here are

526
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,519
keys In trusted to me by asking just.

527
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:23,519
Speaker 15: Before his escape.

528
00:31:23,119 --> 00:31:26,599
Speaker 7: Well that is a bit of luck here, John, help

529
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,799
yourself to accordial with your coffee. I will sure you

530
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,920
won't change your mind, mister Chance.

531
00:31:32,279 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 15: I'm a great believer in ceremony.

532
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 3: In old days in China, refusal to drink party libation

533
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,680
would be slur on hospitality of the host.

534
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 15: Small taste.

535
00:31:47,279 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 11: Here is an extra glass for John. Help the inspector

536
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:51,640
to whatever he desires.

537
00:31:51,799 --> 00:31:57,039
Speaker 3: A little port wine, please, one thing more China. In

538
00:31:57,119 --> 00:32:02,319
old days, refusal of host to or parting libation himself

539
00:32:03,039 --> 00:32:06,519
might well have been regarded as slur on departing gets.

540
00:32:07,559 --> 00:32:11,960
But I do not press you understand. I recall my

541
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:16,759
first dinner at your tape. I recall how courteous you were,

542
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:22,240
how you serve the cocktails yourself. Now, nothing, mister Ward,

543
00:32:22,359 --> 00:32:26,160
was too much trouble until that tray of decanters was

544
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,759
placed before you. Then how you shouted for our sing

545
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,400
How singh had to return from kitchen before cordials could

546
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:38,079
be served. Ah, these little things, how they register in

547
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:43,160
detective mind? How I was to recall them later? I

548
00:32:43,279 --> 00:32:49,559
said to myself, can it be that mister Ward, mister

549
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,680
Ward is color blind?

550
00:32:51,759 --> 00:32:53,799
Speaker 11: What are you raving about? Can it?

551
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 3: Was? Interesting questions I observed in study on writing desk

552
00:32:58,839 --> 00:33:01,880
two kinds of ink black on right side, read on

553
00:33:02,039 --> 00:33:05,880
left moments ago before I left study, I took liberty

554
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:10,519
of changing their respective positions. Mister Ward, check which you

555
00:33:10,599 --> 00:33:13,359
gave me is written in red ink. So you are

556
00:33:13,559 --> 00:33:17,880
color blind? After all? I am knight of Landini murder.

557
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,359
Landini was heard to say, Oh it's you, is it?

558
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:27,519
At my scarf from bedroom the green one. Landini was

559
00:33:27,599 --> 00:33:32,279
found with pink scarf in dead hand. Also, Landini sent

560
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,720
me in great hurry to mister Ryder's room matter of

561
00:33:34,759 --> 00:33:37,519
life and death. She said. He was seated at desk

562
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:42,240
writing letter letter addressed to John Ryder. Later that letter

563
00:33:42,359 --> 00:33:46,359
was found burned, but it had been opened. Mister Rider

564
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,000
maintained that he had never received said.

565
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,519
Speaker 11: Letter, and I still say so can I never saw

566
00:33:51,559 --> 00:33:51,960
that letter?

567
00:33:52,039 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 3: Quite correct, mister Rider. It was letter to inform you,

568
00:33:55,119 --> 00:33:59,240
mister Rider, of death of Dudley Ward's son and request

569
00:33:59,279 --> 00:34:03,079
that after land Deani had left pine View, you, mister Ryder,

570
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,160
were to break the news to mister Ward.

571
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 15: But mister Ward.

572
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,800
Speaker 3: Found said letter in a fit of rags. He killed Landini.

573
00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 11: Are you mad, Inspector, No, it was.

574
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,519
Speaker 3: You who were mad. After murder, You saw confusion on table.

575
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,639
He tried to straighten things, placing red lid on yellow

576
00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:23,480
box and yellow lid on red.

577
00:34:23,559 --> 00:34:25,679
Speaker 11: I was with you in John Rider's room when the

578
00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:26,480
shot was fired.

579
00:34:26,559 --> 00:34:29,639
Speaker 3: Shot which we heard, yes, shot which was fired to

580
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:35,119
mislead last Landini was killed in noise and confusion of

581
00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:41,000
plane's arrival. Ur Singh good old r Singe, one of

582
00:34:41,039 --> 00:34:45,239
the real Chinese. He found you. There was smoking gun

583
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,880
in your hands. He hurried you from study, then he

584
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,000
fired misleading shot into pine trees.

585
00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 11: You can't arrest my friend on theories like these.

586
00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:58,199
Speaker 3: Doctor swan was also witness's murder. You removed him in

587
00:34:58,239 --> 00:34:59,880
preference to paying blackmail.

588
00:35:00,039 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 7: I'm not sorry for killing Swanley once the use John,

589
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,960
It's true, all of it.

590
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 11: I don't care. I've got nothing to live for.

591
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,599
Speaker 3: Please, mister Ward, you are not required to make any

592
00:35:17,639 --> 00:35:20,079
statements without benefit of advice a lot.

593
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 15: I'm so sorry. Take him away to Sheriff.

594
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:32,079
Speaker 2: I'm going with Okay, why miss beek Leslie.

595
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:37,039
Speaker 11: I can't help it, Ward what I can hardly believe it.

596
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,199
Speaker 15: But this is not occasion for tears.

597
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:45,599
Speaker 3: I think it is first a long succession of triumphs

598
00:35:45,599 --> 00:35:51,159
for young Sheriff, in whose success you must feel Echo Pry.

599
00:35:52,199 --> 00:35:53,199
Speaker 11: I suppose you're right.

600
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 15: Yes, I am right.

601
00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:00,760
Speaker 3: From first moment Young Sheriff's eyes lighted upon you, I

602
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,199
knew this was inevitable outcast.

603
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 11: You really are good to taketive.

604
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 15: Before I have said three things.

605
00:36:11,079 --> 00:36:15,679
Speaker 3: The wise man does not do, does not clow the sky.

606
00:36:16,679 --> 00:36:20,119
He does not paint pictures on the wall, and he

607
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:21,119
does not argue.

608
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,639
Speaker 2: After you have heard from your sponsor, Inspector Chan will

609
00:36:26,679 --> 00:37:40,840
be with us again. Well, mister chand what parting thought

610
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:41,559
have you for us?

611
00:37:41,559 --> 00:37:46,559
Speaker 3: This evening conclusion of mystery I've murder of Landini brings

612
00:37:46,639 --> 00:37:53,360
to my mind ancient saying. The road may seem endless hills,

613
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:59,119
insurmount of the night, black and stylus, and the end

614
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:03,960
of the journey lost in fearsome shadows. The wise man

615
00:38:04,119 --> 00:38:10,079
knows daylight comes, that no road is so long, but

616
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:10,599
that it.

617
00:38:10,599 --> 00:38:13,800
Speaker 15: Reaches at the last its destination.

618
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,199
Speaker 2: Thank you, mister Chan, and good night.

619
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 1: Welcome back. Who killed Ellen Landini and Doctor Swan? This

620
00:38:48,519 --> 00:38:53,239
is my theory after listening to episode thirty six of

621
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:57,920
thirty nine. I start with the fact that all Saying

622
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:02,000
has done things that imply Kate himself in the crime.

623
00:39:02,519 --> 00:39:07,599
He has refused chances and overtures from Charlie Chan to

624
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:12,199
clear himself, and Inspector Chen doesn't believe he's the killer.

625
00:39:12,639 --> 00:39:16,360
So my question would be why would all sing do this?

626
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:20,760
My answer is that a Singh is covering up for someone.

627
00:39:21,159 --> 00:39:25,719
The only person in that house that a Singh would

628
00:39:26,119 --> 00:39:31,000
try to shield is mister Dudley Ward. Why did Dudley

629
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:37,840
Ward kill Landini and doctor Swan? My answer would be

630
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:43,480
that he already knew the son that he and Landini

631
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:50,199
had together was already dead. Remember that we learned that

632
00:39:50,599 --> 00:39:57,719
doctor Swan had been blackmailing Ellen Landini, presumably because he

633
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:03,320
knew about her son. And also remember the fact that

634
00:40:03,559 --> 00:40:09,199
Landini was having trouble paying her bills and even paying

635
00:40:09,519 --> 00:40:15,199
her commitment to Romano because her money was tied up

636
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,760
in real estate. What are the odds that she was

637
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:23,440
keeping up her blackmail payments to doctor Swan. I think

638
00:40:23,519 --> 00:40:27,199
she was failing to make the payments, so doctor Swan

639
00:40:27,679 --> 00:40:33,280
told Dudley Ward because he's a blackmailer, and blackmailers are

640
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:38,000
generally awful people. Then Dudley Ward decides he's going to

641
00:40:38,079 --> 00:40:44,079
go through the motions of an investigation to find out

642
00:40:44,679 --> 00:40:49,880
where his son is. He invites the other husbands and

643
00:40:50,079 --> 00:40:54,800
the Beatens, and of course he had already hired Cecil.

644
00:40:55,159 --> 00:41:01,400
I wouldn't be surprised if that airing decision wasn't part

645
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,760
of this plot, depending on how far back it was going.

646
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:10,840
And I wouldn't be surprised if he had helped Landini

647
00:41:11,199 --> 00:41:17,039
land Ireland as the pilot, thus creating a situation where

648
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,400
the murder could occur and there could be an entire

649
00:41:21,679 --> 00:41:27,239
houseful of suspects, all of whom had reasons to kill Landini,

650
00:41:27,639 --> 00:41:31,559
and all of whom had their own reasons for wanting

651
00:41:31,679 --> 00:41:36,960
to hide their secrets, and thus making it unlikely that

652
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,599
he would be caught out. In addition, the fact that

653
00:41:41,119 --> 00:41:44,440
he was looking to Landini to tell him where his

654
00:41:44,559 --> 00:41:49,079
son was would also be a point against him being

655
00:41:49,159 --> 00:41:53,760
considered an actual suspect. Now, I do admit one big

656
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:57,719
flaw on this plan is that he went ahead and

657
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:03,440
he committed a murder with the famous Honolulu detective Charlie

658
00:42:03,559 --> 00:42:07,119
Chan present, which would be a very foolish thing to do,

659
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:12,000
but certainly not unprecedented in the annals of detective fiction. Anyway,

660
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:15,960
that's my theory, and now here is my present self

661
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,480
to tell us whether I was right or wrong and

662
00:42:19,519 --> 00:42:24,480
provide the analysis of this final episode. Okay, in terms

663
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,559
of my solution, I actually came pretty close.

664
00:42:29,119 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 3: You know.

665
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,039
Speaker 1: I got the murderer right, and I think I got

666
00:42:32,079 --> 00:42:36,199
the motive right. The big failing in my thinking was

667
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:42,320
my conclusion that this was some cleverly planned and executed

668
00:42:42,559 --> 00:42:48,039
cold blooded plot by Dudley Ward, rather than, as it

669
00:42:48,159 --> 00:42:54,199
turned out, a crime of passion that Assing very quickly

670
00:42:55,159 --> 00:42:58,880
did his best to cover up and protect his boss.

671
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,960
There was a reason they sent him to China because

672
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:08,480
even though he wasn't the murderer, he really was an

673
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:12,480
accessory after the fact, and it would have been very

674
00:43:12,519 --> 00:43:16,320
difficult for him not to get charged with anything, and

675
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:23,239
so they decided to spare him that sort of inglorious fate. Overall,

676
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:27,079
I did enjoy this. I thought it was a really

677
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:32,800
engaging mystery, a lot of twist, a lot of character relationships,

678
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:38,599
many different sort of secrets and lies being played out

679
00:43:38,639 --> 00:43:40,880
in the course of the story.

680
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:41,800
Speaker 6: It was a bit.

681
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 1: Talkie at times, and the pace was not particularly quick,

682
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:50,480
but I enjoyed that. I enjoyed just being able to

683
00:43:50,639 --> 00:43:56,679
take the time to kind of experience this whole murder mystery.

684
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:00,920
It's very different. It's a whole lot like reading a

685
00:44:01,079 --> 00:44:06,400
classic murder mystery book as opposed to a radio drama,

686
00:44:06,519 --> 00:44:10,000
and there's just not a whole lot around like this,

687
00:44:10,199 --> 00:44:13,159
so I appreciate it for its rarity, and there was

688
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:17,599
also some depth to the story, to its characters. Now,

689
00:44:17,639 --> 00:44:21,199
in terms of comparing it to the book, I think

690
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:27,639
this is a pretty solid adaptation. In its solution, it

691
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:32,519
sticks with the novel and there are whole passages of

692
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:39,480
dialogue that are ripped right from the novel. The radio

693
00:44:39,519 --> 00:44:43,000
program diverts from the book in several ways, but I

694
00:44:43,039 --> 00:44:46,960
think most of those are justified by the needs of

695
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:50,360
the radio production and also might have been influenced by

696
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:54,960
the stage play. Probably the biggest one that the way

697
00:44:55,159 --> 00:44:59,159
some events played out in the book as opposed to

698
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:03,800
the audio drama and when they happen. For example, the

699
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:09,920
death of doctor Swan on the radio occurs in episode sixteen,

700
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:18,440
and the huge revelation until in Landini's diary about the

701
00:45:18,559 --> 00:45:24,159
killer being colorblind doesn't happen until towards the end of

702
00:45:24,199 --> 00:45:30,159
the serial. In the book, the revelation about the killer

703
00:45:31,199 --> 00:45:35,920
colorblind actually occurred two thirds of the way through the book,

704
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:42,599
and doctor Swan's murder it comes about seventy five percent

705
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:46,320
of the way through the book, essentially ends the book

706
00:45:46,559 --> 00:45:51,079
second act and sets up the third act. And in fact,

707
00:45:51,639 --> 00:45:57,440
Charlie Chan wanted to find out whether doctor Swan was colorblind,

708
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:03,519
so in the book he it's Leslie beaten to ask

709
00:46:03,639 --> 00:46:08,199
for them to go to a gambling house where and

710
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:12,480
they drive to trucky which apparently had some legal gambling

711
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:16,480
and went upstairs to a poker game and played a

712
00:46:16,519 --> 00:46:20,440
couple of hands, then left. And in the course of this,

713
00:46:20,599 --> 00:46:25,679
Chan was able to find out because doctor Swan recognized

714
00:46:25,679 --> 00:46:29,039
the color of the chips, that he was not colorblind,

715
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:34,360
and so that eliminated Doctor Swan is a suspect. And

716
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,199
then he was murdered. And I mean, you can do

717
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:39,440
that in a novel, and I think it was fine,

718
00:46:39,599 --> 00:46:43,280
But as people making a radio player, you're like, Okay,

719
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,440
why are we going to do this whole scene and

720
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:52,639
introduced this whole location just to have Chan prove that

721
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:57,639
someone who is going to be killed anyway is innocent.

722
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:01,320
So they just went ahead and they had him killed

723
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:07,119
before the whole color blindness thing became a point. They

724
00:47:07,159 --> 00:47:10,800
did quite a bit of that in this story. The

725
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:18,920
radio drama is very claustrophobic. The vast majority of it

726
00:47:19,039 --> 00:47:26,920
takes place at Pineview. In the thirty three episodes we have.

727
00:47:27,639 --> 00:47:31,239
The scenes outside of pine View that we actually get

728
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:37,440
to observe are those in Reno where Charlie Chan and

729
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:44,679
Dudley Ward and mister Holt are questioning Landini's secretary, and

730
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:50,679
then the scene where Chin drops off, saying so he

731
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:56,039
can catch the train to San Francisco. The book had

732
00:47:56,159 --> 00:47:59,679
a bit more. There was a bit more in Reno.

733
00:48:00,519 --> 00:48:05,719
In addition, many of the inhabitants upon view actually were

734
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:13,039
allowed to leave and relocate to a tavern that was

735
00:48:13,159 --> 00:48:17,639
actually where doctor Swan was staying when he was murdered,

736
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:23,519
and Romano then moved into his room. I think that

737
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:27,840
they again made a production decision, let's go ahead and

738
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:32,599
consolidate locations as much as possible, and they really do

739
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:36,800
get away with it. The stuff that happened outside of

740
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:42,360
there wasn't necessary, or you have situations where people call

741
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:48,920
or were exposited that somebody told something, and by doing that,

742
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,760
they could really just have this core cast of actors

743
00:48:53,599 --> 00:48:56,840
keep the story together. And I'd be fascinating to know

744
00:48:57,079 --> 00:49:02,400
the behind the mike detail. I suspect that there was

745
00:49:02,519 --> 00:49:06,920
at least a little doubling up, with at least a

746
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:12,320
couple of actors voicing more than one character, also in

747
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:17,360
something that I think was a logical arrangement. The proposal

748
00:49:17,639 --> 00:49:24,360
didn't actually happen until after the murder was solved. In

749
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:29,239
Keeper of the Keys, probably the more important stuff in

750
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:33,159
Keeper of the Keys is that I think that the

751
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:38,360
novel was a bit more clear on the relationship between

752
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:46,679
a ward Rider and ass. Rider's friendship, or at least

753
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:54,559
acquaintanceship with Ward predated his marriage to Landini, and Ryder

754
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:58,079
had hung out at the house when he was much younger,

755
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:03,039
and he actually taught Saying how to read English. And

756
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:07,760
there's actually a scene in the book where as Singh

757
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:12,840
makes a special dish that he knows that Writer's going

758
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:19,800
to enjoy because he's known him that long. And I

759
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:23,000
think I might have been a little less confident in

760
00:50:23,079 --> 00:50:28,320
my prediction had I read the book and saw that

761
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:32,559
as it was written in the book, the relationship or

762
00:50:33,079 --> 00:50:38,039
Writer's view of us sing wasn't just some sort of

763
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:43,119
racial sentiment, but it was based on an actual relationship.

764
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,960
And also it very well could be a situation where

765
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,719
I could imagine a Singh covering up if Writer had

766
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:56,480
been the murderer. The book also went into more details

767
00:50:56,639 --> 00:51:02,960
on Ward as a person. Sam Holt revealed after the

768
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:08,639
arrest that when Landini had left, Ward had been trying

769
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:13,760
to beat her Austin had Lockward in his room, allowing

770
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:18,159
Landini to make her escape from pine View. While I

771
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:24,519
viewed her actions in hiding their child from Ward as

772
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:30,239
spotful in the book, Holt defended it because he thought

773
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:34,559
she had done it because he knew Dudley wasn't fit

774
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:39,960
to raise a child. Of course, even if true, some

775
00:51:40,039 --> 00:51:45,480
people would still debate the morality of her decision. Holt

776
00:51:46,159 --> 00:51:51,440
also stated that despite Dudley war he you know, he

777
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:57,159
was very civil, very you know, very polite throughout the

778
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:02,880
both the radio play and the book. To the end,

779
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:09,960
Sam stated that Dudley was bad tempered from his youth

780
00:52:10,079 --> 00:52:15,280
and a quote unquote natural drunkard. In fact, Ward actually

781
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:20,840
caused a mysterious wound to sing after killing Landini. Ward

782
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:23,480
wanted to get drunk, you know, and this is a

783
00:52:23,559 --> 00:52:27,519
houseful of guests with the body of Landini there, and

784
00:52:27,639 --> 00:52:31,159
Singh recognized this was a bad idea and refused to

785
00:52:31,199 --> 00:52:35,480
give the keys. And that was why Ward struck him,

786
00:52:35,519 --> 00:52:38,559
which was something he did not want to admit when

787
00:52:38,599 --> 00:52:43,079
he was arrested. And to me, reading the end, it

788
00:52:43,119 --> 00:52:46,559
gave me some insight into the toddle of the book

789
00:52:47,199 --> 00:52:52,679
because I thought that when they found that the neighbor

790
00:52:53,119 --> 00:52:58,119
had left the keys to his place with thing that

791
00:52:58,119 --> 00:53:00,840
that was what the whole keeper of the keys thing

792
00:53:01,079 --> 00:53:05,440
was about, but it was actually all the keys, particularly

793
00:53:05,639 --> 00:53:10,159
to the liquor cabinet. O Sing had spent the last

794
00:53:10,199 --> 00:53:15,840
sixty years saving Ward from himself, holding the keys like

795
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:21,360
a household designated driver to keep Ward and his family

796
00:53:21,599 --> 00:53:26,920
reputation on the road, so to speak, and using would

797
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,639
have gladly gone to the gallows in order to continue that.

798
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:37,440
And while there are some ways in which Chan's conversation

799
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:41,199
with Osing when taking him from Pineview can seem a

800
00:53:41,199 --> 00:53:46,159
bit weird and contradictory, I think that Chan had some

801
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:51,119
admiration and respect for Osing, but he also wanted Asing

802
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:56,280
to believe that they had decided that he was the killer,

803
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,800
and so therefore Ward would be in the clear, which

804
00:54:00,119 --> 00:54:04,280
have been the only way that Austin could have been

805
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:09,599
gotten to go away. The revelation about Ward's character being

806
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:14,760
very different from his public self revealed a key fact

807
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:20,519
that often pleasant and polite veneers had dark secrets behind

808
00:54:20,599 --> 00:54:27,159
closed doors, which many people who have suffered from domestic abuse,

809
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:32,039
which is part of the story, have found out in

810
00:54:32,079 --> 00:54:38,039
their lives and similarly, I think that it's very tempting

811
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:42,639
and certainly would have been in the nineteen thirties to

812
00:54:43,159 --> 00:54:49,559
be very harsh in the judgment of Ellen Landini. But

813
00:54:49,679 --> 00:54:54,920
Chan actually found as he went through her memoirs that

814
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:58,840
he actually liked her. Didn't think she was perfect, but

815
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,559
a big part of her problem was that she had

816
00:55:02,639 --> 00:55:09,000
made some very unfortunate matches when it came to her husband. Again,

817
00:55:09,119 --> 00:55:12,440
this is not the type of stuff that you think

818
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:15,840
about when you read nineteen thirties literature or when you

819
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:19,559
think about nineteen thirties literature, and it didn't make it

820
00:55:19,599 --> 00:55:24,679
to air. I speculate that this that some of the

821
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:29,480
plot elements would have limited the ability of this program

822
00:55:29,519 --> 00:55:32,519
to air in many markets. And this was a series

823
00:55:32,599 --> 00:55:36,880
that not only aired or was syndicated around the United States,

824
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:42,559
but it would also be syndicated in other countries, including Australia,

825
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:50,719
before the importation of American radio dramas to Australia was

826
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:55,239
effectively illegal. And given that it came at the end,

827
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:59,199
it's also hard to fit into the neat structure of

828
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:07,119
the radio. It also has to be said that even

829
00:56:07,159 --> 00:56:09,960
in the context of the book, it presents a problem

830
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:15,239
because sam Holt not sharing this until after the arrest

831
00:56:15,679 --> 00:56:21,039
is kind of inexplicable. He had definitive opinions of Dudley Ward,

832
00:56:21,639 --> 00:56:25,159
he had knowledge of the facts of their marriage. He

833
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:34,760
had knowledge of Ussing's past relationships with Ward and with Landini.

834
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:40,400
I mean, he went as far to say that every

835
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:45,679
family tree has its rottenness apples, and Dudley Ward was

836
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:51,840
the rottenness of his family, and his whole reason why

837
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,880
he didn't share any of these observations with Chan or

838
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:59,840
with his son during the investigation is that Ward's name

839
00:57:00,119 --> 00:57:05,280
hadn't come up. I mean, a woman is murdered in

840
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:09,079
the house of a man who she fled from in terror,

841
00:57:09,519 --> 00:57:13,079
and you spend half the book or the radio drama

842
00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:16,960
with the prime suspect being the man who actually aided

843
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:20,440
her escape, and you don't think that's relevant to mention.

844
00:57:21,239 --> 00:57:25,639
And the fact is that if sam Holt had provided

845
00:57:25,679 --> 00:57:29,880
the information, then Dudley Ward's name would have come up.

846
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:35,679
So while I appreciated the thematic revelation, I'm kind of

847
00:57:35,719 --> 00:57:38,280
glad it didn't work its way into the radio drama

848
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:43,079
because it really raises some plot issues. One thing that

849
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:46,679
was in the radio drama and not the book, in

850
00:57:46,719 --> 00:57:50,559
which I think actually the book was better for not

851
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:56,000
having it was a scene where Chan was doing these

852
00:57:56,239 --> 00:58:01,440
quick fire color tests to eliminate suspects, and you essentially

853
00:58:01,599 --> 00:58:06,000
had them eliminated on the air. And I don't think

854
00:58:06,079 --> 00:58:10,119
that having the suspects trimmed back by that was particularly

855
00:58:10,199 --> 00:58:15,000
helpful dramatically. I mean, it filled time, but it probably

856
00:58:15,199 --> 00:58:18,960
just served to make it more obvious who actually did it.

857
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:22,719
And I guess one final thing that was interesting in

858
00:58:23,039 --> 00:58:27,920
being different is in the radio drama, Romano states that

859
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,400
he was the best of the husbands, but in the

860
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:34,320
book that was actually Charlie Chance as well, that he

861
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:41,480
was the kindest of the four husbands. And honestly, looking back,

862
00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:44,719
I think a lot of stuff that felt like he

863
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:51,239
was being too clever by half, really he wasn't. I

864
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:55,320
think Romano is somebody who had been through a bit

865
00:58:55,360 --> 00:59:00,360
of an emotional ringer. A divorce is always difficult, but

866
00:59:00,519 --> 00:59:02,880
he'd gotten to a point of accepting that this was

867
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:06,559
going to happen. They'd reached the settlement, and so you

868
00:59:06,639 --> 00:59:10,519
not only have the divorce, you've got all of this

869
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:16,840
financial stress that comes from promises not being fulfilled and

870
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:22,440
him not being taken care of as the more dependent spouse.

871
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:26,519
So I think that Romano's whole thing was just that

872
00:59:27,119 --> 00:59:32,599
he'd mourned the marriage. He hadn't wanted Landini killed, but

873
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:36,840
he was really ready to move on with his life

874
00:59:37,039 --> 00:59:40,559
and get past what had been a really miserable chapter.

875
00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:46,119
The book also has more details on Charlie Chan's character.

876
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:50,320
Or decides to play guilty so the check won't be

877
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:55,719
needed at trial, and Chan is offered the check to

878
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:58,719
go ahead and cash it, and he actually destroys it

879
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:03,519
because he doesn't want to get money from someone whose

880
01:00:03,559 --> 01:00:07,559
life was ruined as a result of his investigation. And

881
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:13,800
the book shows how human and how much Charlie Chan

882
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:19,239
is engaged with a very empathetic approach. He doesn't even

883
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:22,960
really take pleasure in solving the case. It's a matter

884
01:00:23,039 --> 01:00:27,519
of duty and justice because he knows what the consequences

885
01:00:27,719 --> 01:00:32,039
will be for the killer. Like with the Serial, I

886
01:00:32,119 --> 01:00:35,760
really enjoyed Keeper of the Keys. It is not a

887
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:38,679
great book, but I think it's a good one. I

888
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:42,880
do feel like there are a few really great detective

889
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:49,039
books from different subgenres, whether you're talking about the hard

890
01:00:49,119 --> 01:00:54,360
boiled stories with the big sleep or the Maltese Falcon,

891
01:00:55,039 --> 01:00:58,599
or you're talking about something like a murder on the

892
01:00:58,679 --> 01:01:03,119
Orient Express or death on the Nile. After that, you've

893
01:01:03,159 --> 01:01:07,480
got some really well written stories that may not be classics,

894
01:01:07,559 --> 01:01:12,320
but are really good examples of their particular genre. And

895
01:01:12,519 --> 01:01:16,800
that's where I put this one. I enjoyed both because

896
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:21,280
I think that it did a good job exploring Chan

897
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:26,400
as a character, both the book and the audio drama.

898
01:01:26,559 --> 01:01:29,760
I think the film's very well beloved, but in many

899
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:34,880
of them he could practically be sidelined by the antics

900
01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:40,039
of his kids and of course the sidekick Birmingham Brown.

901
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:43,360
Here we really get a measure of the man and

902
01:01:43,719 --> 01:01:48,559
the depth of character that Earl Durbiggers gave him, and

903
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:53,239
it really is such an appealing character. And it has

904
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:55,360
been a lot of fun to bring this to you.

905
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:59,840
And of course we have another shorter serial left and

906
01:02:00,159 --> 01:02:03,840
some self contained episodes as well, but this is really

907
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:07,559
a special and unique trait as far as I'm concerned. Well,

908
01:02:07,639 --> 01:02:11,840
listener comments and feedback now, and we start out on YouTube,

909
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:17,400
where a listener agreed with my comment in regards to

910
01:02:17,519 --> 01:02:24,840
the whole issue of a wide actor playing Chan and

911
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:28,920
offered his own thoughts on the portrayal as an ESL

912
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:32,719
teacher for twenty five years in many different countries, including

913
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:37,320
twelve years in mainland China. People have their own accents

914
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:41,440
and issues with English grammar and vocabulary. From my point

915
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:46,079
of view, Charlie Chan's speech pattern is rather typical of

916
01:02:46,119 --> 01:02:50,800
someone who hasn't had too much formal English training and

917
01:02:51,039 --> 01:02:54,800
just learned rather poorly from just being in society and

918
01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:57,760
picking up the language as he goes along in his

919
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:01,559
daily life. A little close to home, my aunt married

920
01:03:01,599 --> 01:03:04,719
someone from Spain in the sixties and his English never

921
01:03:04,920 --> 01:03:09,039
improved from the day he entered the US a till today,

922
01:03:09,119 --> 01:03:13,119
although he was a very successful obgyn in South Florida.

923
01:03:13,719 --> 01:03:16,199
It's just that no one could understand him. He is

924
01:03:16,239 --> 01:03:22,760
a walking stereotype. Likewise, to my Spanish ex uncle, Charlie

925
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:25,679
tries to make sense of what he's hearing in his

926
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:31,920
Chinese mind by translating something any decent ESL teacher will

927
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:35,920
prohibit before it becomes habit because what comes out isn't

928
01:03:36,039 --> 01:03:40,039
very natural sounding. This is typical of adult students today,

929
01:03:40,119 --> 01:03:43,119
and apparently nothing much has changed in one hundred years.

930
01:03:43,719 --> 01:03:47,679
The point that Charlie Chan doesn't really fit In is

931
01:03:47,719 --> 01:03:51,119
spot on, and that's how Warner Ollen played him, as

932
01:03:51,199 --> 01:03:54,760
well as this radio actor. I contend that Charlie Chan

933
01:03:55,079 --> 01:03:58,639
is not an Uncle Tom character. In fact, quite the opposite.

934
01:03:58,719 --> 01:04:02,239
He is a full flag, three dimensional character. He's broken

935
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:06,360
English adds to the realness of his character. It's authentic,

936
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:09,639
He's authentic. I agree with the great Key Luke that

937
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:13,079
he's a Chinese hero. I would go further. He's a

938
01:04:13,119 --> 01:04:16,719
hero and a very human character and so identifiable on

939
01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:20,079
so many different levels. Look at all the actors who

940
01:04:20,119 --> 01:04:24,679
have had the privilege of portraying in Charlie Chan, this

941
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:29,239
radio actor Walter Connolly, I should give our star some

942
01:04:29,320 --> 01:04:35,960
billing here, Olin Toller, Winters, Nash Luke, and then Peter

943
01:04:36,559 --> 01:04:40,159
ustinoff In a parody and Ross Morton Martin. Not sure

944
01:04:40,199 --> 01:04:44,440
if I left anybody out. One things all these actors

945
01:04:44,519 --> 01:04:47,880
had for the character of Charlie Chan respect and that

946
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:51,920
I think is definitely a fair point. And I also

947
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:57,119
appreciate getting the ESL perspective. That's one of the great

948
01:04:57,239 --> 01:05:01,519
things about doing this podcast is I have just lived

949
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my life with the sort of limits of experience that

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I have, so it's great to hear from the experience

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and perspectives of others, and that's certainly not what I

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would have been familiar with. And then I have a

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comment on the website from Raymond regarding the Charlie Chan

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radio programs being aired. It's good that a series of

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such vintage exists, although I find these overly laden with dialogue,

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which lessens their listenability. To negatively compare adopting Chinese characteristics

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for a role by a non Oriental actor as foolish,

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After all, actors are supposed to act. Kay Luke, for instance,

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was a talented Chinese performer, but would he have equalled

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Warner Owen or Sidney Toller as Chan instead of enacting

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one of his children.

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Speaker 11: I think not.

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Speaker 1: I would add that klu did actually play Charlie Chan

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or voice him in the seventies Charlie Chan filmation cartoons.

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In addition, he did play a detective lead. He took

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over for Boris Karloff, who had starred in the first

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five Mister Wong films, and appeared in the last one,

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The Phantom of Chinatown in nineteen forty, and he quitted

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himself quite well. It was a poverty row film, so

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didn't make a whole lot of money, but it is

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actually a really solid film that's in the public domain.

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I will say that he probably couldn't have believably played

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Chan until maybe the very end of the run, and

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that would have required like some physical changes. When you

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hear about actors, you know going through wake heening dies

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had to be in something like that, plus some makeup.

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I think you can be fair and honest and say

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that the racial politics of America at the time really

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made it impossible that you could have an actor cast

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as Charlie Chan who was of Asian descent. You would

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not have had this sort of film series with the

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more than forty films. They did have Charlie Chan films

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that featured actor of Asian heritage, but those films weren't

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particularly successful and they tended to make him a secondary character.

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So really you had to have a white actor in Elite.

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That's the only way it would work commercially. That doesn't

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mean you can't enjoy and appreciate the media productions that

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came out of them. You make the you know, if

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you're making something commercial, you have to operate on the

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rules of the society as it exists and what the

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market will actually pay for. And on the positive side,

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the Charlie Chan films gave work to so many young

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actors who just would not have gotten these type of roles,

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and certainly it helped kay Luke have the amazing career

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that he had, And of course it brought the wonderful

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all American antics of the Chan children. And I think

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you can definitely appreciate the actors who played Charlie Chan,

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but I don't think it's necessary to pretend that this

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was just it was just a merit based decision.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: No, this was the nineteen thirties and Hollywood dealing with

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the racial sentiments of the time in the only way

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that it could to put out profitable films. Raymond goes

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on regarding the idea put forth in the Walter Connolly

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series of all the suspects being in the fact the murderer.

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This device had been employed earlier by the late Agatha Christie,

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one example being a tour to four second only to

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01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:26,960
her nineteen thirty nine classic, and then there were none,

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01:09:27,159 --> 01:09:31,880
which the writing, she admitted, gave her much trouble. And

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while the solution to the former strange credulity, it is remarkable,

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01:09:36,319 --> 01:09:41,319
especially as put forth in impressive detail by aqu Poirot.

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Christie's mystery output more often than not fall short of

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01:09:46,199 --> 01:09:50,119
her finest works. The Miss Marple injuries of lesser quality

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01:09:50,159 --> 01:09:53,920
than those featuring her Belgian Sleuth, possibly the result of

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01:09:53,920 --> 01:09:58,159
her prolificness, but she is reportedly now the world's most

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successful writer. Thanks so much, appreciate the comment, Raymond. Then

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we turned to Hally's email, who has a couple of

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random thoughts. Normally I prefer or, and the first is

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on Jeff Reagan. Normally I prefer orchestral scores, but Jeff

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Reagan's organist is phenomenal. It's like a little rotting commentary Mary,

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mirroring the reactions of the audience many times. She also

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shared her predictions for the possible outcomes of the Charlie

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01:10:29,680 --> 01:10:34,319
Chan mystery. We know Using didn't do it, we know

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none of the other ethnic characters did it, and we

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know Ryder didn't because he's a nasty chork. Using knows

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who did it and also knows that Dudley Ward's son

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is still alive at pine View and may have been

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the person to shoot Landini or not. Dudley Ward's son

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is either Harold Beaton or based on some add hints

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by the old sheriff youngs Holt, who was never told

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the truth about his real mother. Okay, maybe that's a

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bit out there, but but if Harold Beaten is Landini's heir,

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then wouldn't he have to the motive to shoot her?

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Or if he's really telling the truth and saying he

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doesn't care about inheriting her money, then it's I say

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that it's the person I've suspected all along for pretty

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Leslie Beaten, because well, maybe she'd want her brother to

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inherit the money she owes aw thing will cover for

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her and she'll avoid suspicion because she's pretty Leslie Beaten.

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And what's funny about this particular email A lot of

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things funny, I will add is that this email came

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to me before last week's episode went out on the podcast,

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and I ask for someone to explain, you know, why

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they might suspect Leslie Beaten and her brother at this point,

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and there we go. Seriously, I'm really enjoying Charlie Chan

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and the fact that it includes the issue of racism

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and adds some unexpected death to some of the characters

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makes it that much more engaging. As always, I enjoy

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01:12:15,199 --> 01:12:19,720
all of your programs and fun informative commentaries. Thank you,

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01:12:20,039 --> 01:12:25,720
Holly Well, thank you so much, Holly. And now that

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brings us at last to our Patreon supporter of the day,

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01:12:29,279 --> 01:12:32,720
and I want to go ahead and thank Robert, Patreon

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01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:37,920
supporter since July twenty twenty two, currently supporting the podcast

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01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:40,920
at the shawmus level of four dollars or more per month.

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01:12:41,119 --> 01:12:44,119
Thanks so much for your support, Robert, and that will

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at last do it for today. This has been fun.

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I've enjoyed talking about it, but I am conscious that

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this is probably one of the longest commentary portions in

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01:12:56,479 --> 01:12:59,720
listener feedback portions I've ever done, so if you are

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listening this far, I really appreciate it. Also appreciate everyone

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who shared their feedback and comment. We'll be back next

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Tuesday with a new shorter Charlie chan Cereal. This one

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will only take three weeks to get through. But join

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us back here tomorrow for Broadways my beat where.

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Speaker 17: I don't know, I'll just take it easy. That's better.

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What were you looking for?

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01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:33,640
Speaker 18: Pocketbook? I remember I had it. I think I had

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it when I was rocking right over there. I filled down.

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Speaker 17: Let's go see along ago jamishia pocketbook a little while.

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Speaker 18: I think I don't know an hour, I don't know,

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just a few minutes ago. I can't remember.

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Speaker 11: When here's where you fell.

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Speaker 18: Yes, I remember because when it happened, I stretched out

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my arm so I wouldn't hit the trash.

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Speaker 11: Can Is this it?

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Speaker 3: Miss? Yes?

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Speaker 18: Yes, that's it. I can remember that.

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Speaker 17: Let's open it.

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Speaker 18: Yes, yes.

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Speaker 17: The wallet is a driver's license made out to Linda

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Arnold nineteen twelve, voice, fifty four street, five four blonde hair,

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01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:25,520
green eyes. My fits and this in case of accident,

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notify Helen Carroll addressed the same.

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Speaker 18: Helen Carroll and Helen, Yes, that's right. My name's Linda

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Arnold and Helen Carrol's my aunt.

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Speaker 17: Something else at this person, Miss Arnold, recognize it?

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01:14:43,079 --> 01:14:48,720
Speaker 18: Why that's a letter opener and Helen's And there's blood

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on it.

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Speaker 17: That's right, Miss Sild it's sticky with blood.

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.

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Send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net,

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