Speaker 1: Now, doctor Watson, we await our rendezvous with the adventure
Speaker 1: of the Hangman and the Book.
Speaker 2: It was at the turn of the century. Mister Harris,
Speaker 2: the enormous pressure of work upon Holmes had become too
Speaker 2: much for it. He suggested we steal away to Paris
Speaker 2: for a week of relaxation. Holmes and I were in
Speaker 2: Paris at our hotel when this criminal began his operations.
Speaker 2: It was at the Bonton Bookstore, a world famous Parisian
Speaker 2: shop noted for its collection of rare works. In the
Speaker 2: cellar beneath the shop was a thin, drawn, nervous young.
Speaker 3: Chap I'll bear the clock.
Speaker 2: He was poking about the bookshelves with a candle in
Speaker 2: his head. Then suddenly he heard footsteps. He looked up
Speaker 2: terribly quite.
Speaker 4: Who is it?
Speaker 5: Who's coming down?
Speaker 6: I am there, oh, Monsieur Bonton.
Speaker 7: Did forbid you to come into the cellar?
Speaker 6: Yes, I had to know the secret. I had to
Speaker 6: know what you kept on here.
Speaker 7: I ought to thrash you snooping about when I told
Speaker 7: lave it.
Speaker 4: I told you I did not want anyone in this seller.
Speaker 5: I want to know my own wife.
Speaker 7: I want allow the list down here alone.
Speaker 5: A miserable, sniveling clock.
Speaker 7: How long have you been here?
Speaker 8: Just a few minutes, long enough to look about to
Speaker 8: see what I keeping?
Speaker 5: No, No, I'm sy My curiosity got the best of me.
Speaker 4: I'll never do it again.
Speaker 6: You you won't punish me with supontan.
Speaker 8: We shall see what I'll do about you, Alber. We
Speaker 8: shall see.
Speaker 9: Is the shop closed, newhel Yes.
Speaker 8: The least darling going out again for the evening. I
Speaker 8: am let me hear alone every night this week.
Speaker 9: Don't be tas you know. I'm bout to distraction.
Speaker 7: When I'm home with you, then I'll go out with you.
Speaker 7: I'll take you wherever you wish.
Speaker 10: Cell We've gone over this so many times. Help me
Speaker 10: find my jad ring like a deal, won't you?
Speaker 7: You're staying home to rite, Alisa.
Speaker 9: Stop pulling me. Let me alone.
Speaker 7: I am so loathesome to you.
Speaker 10: Yes, yes, you know you are. You never did attract me.
Speaker 10: You know that I told you before I married you
Speaker 10: for prestige and financial purposes.
Speaker 9: You accepted that. Now you insist upon being as romantic
Speaker 9: as a school board.
Speaker 5: Stop it. I don't want to hear that.
Speaker 10: I can't stand you insist upon forgetting that you are
Speaker 10: more than twenty years older than I, Amercell, you refuse
Speaker 10: to face that you're old and with it and repulsive.
Speaker 8: I'll bear my clerk is more appealing to you, isn't
Speaker 8: it nonsense?
Speaker 9: Where did you get that notion to me?
Speaker 7: I've seen you together after you thought I left the store.
Speaker 8: I saw you take them upstairs to the park just
Speaker 8: to chat.
Speaker 9: Really, get out of my way, Merc, I'm late.
Speaker 10: Go downstairs to the cellar to whatever fantastic secret down
Speaker 10: there intrigues you saw.
Speaker 8: If you go out again Tonightalist, I'll put an end
Speaker 8: to it. I won't be disgraced and thrown aside this way.
Speaker 8: I have some pride, although you used every device on
Speaker 8: earth to destroy it.
Speaker 9: That's not quarrel.
Speaker 10: Dearis here here's a kiss for you. Now, help me
Speaker 10: find my earrings, won't you right?
Speaker 5: Alice?
Speaker 7: Anything you say?
Speaker 8: Alice?
Speaker 5: Wait, yes, Albert, I ran after you to ask if
Speaker 5: i'll see you tonight, Alice.
Speaker 4: I waited for you at the cafe last night, but
Speaker 4: you never came.
Speaker 10: I shan't see you anymore all there, except at the shop,
Speaker 10: of course.
Speaker 9: On business. You what Marcell knows about us.
Speaker 4: We must stop, But you can't just dismiss it.
Speaker 9: Oh yes, I can.
Speaker 4: I risk my job because of you? Have you risked
Speaker 4: myself dragging me to court, possibly putting a knife into me.
Speaker 10: We've had some rather pleasant times together all day. Don't
Speaker 10: suppose we forget them. You're capable of that.
Speaker 6: Oh you're going out with another man, aren't you.
Speaker 10: That does not concern you. Let go my keep go
Speaker 10: back to the store. Marcelle will be upset.
Speaker 6: Do you think you've ever come to the end of it? Alice?
Speaker 6: Do you think you can go on forever like this?
Speaker 9: Albert, call me a carriage like an angel.
Speaker 6: You wouldn't be very attractive to other men. Alice, lying
Speaker 6: in the moorgue with your neck broken wealth.
Speaker 10: That's impetuous, that's very very foolish.
Speaker 9: Go on, sweet, call me a carriage. Who is there?
Speaker 10: I saw you behind that tree. I know you've been
Speaker 10: following me through this park. If you don't stop, I
Speaker 10: shall call a gender. I said, I know you are
Speaker 10: behind that tree. I can see a silhouette. Oh, so
Speaker 10: you will show me who you are. I might have
Speaker 10: known it would be you. What are you doing with
Speaker 10: that rope?
Speaker 9: You've made a hangman's loose.
Speaker 5: I through.
Speaker 11: God, we of the Sulte the French Police. We are
Speaker 11: delighted to have you with us in.
Speaker 5: Paris, Master Homes, thank you, Inspector.
Speaker 11: Your accommodations here at the hotel are satisfactory.
Speaker 3: Quite We're very comfortable, inspect enjoying our visiting men.
Speaker 4: Superb Doctor Watson. I am happy you have relaxed.
Speaker 11: Master Holmes, because a thousand apologies, the relaxation is over.
Speaker 5: I see what you mean, Inspector.
Speaker 11: Just a few moments ago, as gendarmes discovered the body
Speaker 11: of a woman hanging in the Twillery.
Speaker 4: She had been hung to a tree by a rope.
Speaker 5: Routine police matter, ordinarily.
Speaker 11: Missy Rooms, Yes, however, the case is most extraordinary.
Speaker 5: The woman was the wife of.
Speaker 11: Marcel Bouton, the distinguished owner of the Bota bookshop.
Speaker 5: Really, I know Marcel remarkable shop, one of the best.
Speaker 5: Marcel and I correspond frequently.
Speaker 11: Missy Rooms and the journalist will create a great crisis
Speaker 11: over the death of Madame Bouton.
Speaker 4: I must find the killer immediately. I need your help.
Speaker 5: Is here? Have you questioned Marcel and her husband.
Speaker 4: As best we could?
Speaker 3: Here's grief stricken, where's the body?
Speaker 4: I have closed the twillery? Doctor Watson. I have ordered
Speaker 4: that the body be left hanging from the limb exactly
Speaker 4: as it was found. It awaits your arrival, messy rooms.
Speaker 5: Very wise, Inspectan.
Speaker 4: Then you you will help us move all this solution.
Speaker 5: I will arrive at the solution, my dear Inspector Watson
Speaker 5: a cab.
Speaker 2: It's rather chilly out in the Parker homes. We had
Speaker 2: the John Darms, but tortures too. It's terribly dark in.
Speaker 4: This way, message Arms.
Speaker 11: You may see the guard we have stationed about that
Speaker 11: huge tree set and there.
Speaker 4: You need Dutch light.
Speaker 5: Swaying from the limb of the tree. The body of
Speaker 5: Ali's spontan horrifying sight. Inspector has Marcel, this dead woman's husband,
Speaker 5: any notion as to how this occurred?
Speaker 6: Oh, he is too ill.
Speaker 4: He is prostrate. It would be a few days before
Speaker 4: we can question him thoroughly.
Speaker 3: But is it home?
Speaker 5: So you see, I see, my dear Watson, I must
Speaker 5: pay a visit to Monsieur Charles Guillaume, the eminent French publisher.
Speaker 3: What on earth does he have to do with this
Speaker 3: grizzly crime?
Speaker 5: More than he would imagine. In the obscure record of
Speaker 5: that publisher, there's a forgotten entry which contains a clue
Speaker 5: as to who is responsible for this homicide. That entry
Speaker 5: speaks the name of the criminal, just as if this
Speaker 5: dead body before us were whispering it too, whispering the
Speaker 5: killer's name as it executes a macabre dance in the moonlight.
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Speaker 1: wherever you live, because your clipper craft merchant is an established,
Speaker 1: substantial hometown business man who is anxious to win and
Speaker 1: keep your friendship, to please you and give you more
Speaker 1: value for your money. He has joined with over twelve
Speaker 1: hundred outstanding merchants in a vast pool of buying power
Speaker 1: to make clipper craft values possible. Clipper Craft genuine worsted
Speaker 1: suits for forty five dollars and clipper Craft top coats
Speaker 1: for forty to forty seven fifty would not otherwise be possible.
Speaker 1: For clipper Craft quality is the traditional quality of New England,
Speaker 1: the same careful craftsmanship that built the famous Yankee clippers
Speaker 1: from which clipper Craft clothes take their name. You can
Speaker 1: trust clipper Craft clothes and you can trust the men
Speaker 1: who sell them. That's why men who know insist on
Speaker 1: clipper Craft clothes bearing the clipper Craft label, so be
Speaker 1: sure to visit the clipper Craft store in your city.
Speaker 12: These leading stores in the metropolitan area are proud to
Speaker 12: add their names to clipper Craft in your suits and
Speaker 12: top coats. In Manhattan, John Wannamaker Men's Stores Broadway at
Speaker 12: eighth and sixty seven Liberty Street, Sachs thirty fourth Broadway
Speaker 12: at thirty fourth in Brooklyn, Abraham and Strauss in Newark,
Speaker 12: New Jersey, Boulevard Men's Shop, Presgy Newark. And in Jamaica
Speaker 12: the B and B Clothes Shop one sixty four oh
Speaker 12: eight Jamaica Avenue.
Speaker 1: Now Doctor Watson, Doctor Watson, Shall we return to the
Speaker 1: adventure of the Hangman and the Book.
Speaker 3: Well, mister Header.
Speaker 2: After Holmes examined the body of Alice Bonton in the twillery,
Speaker 2: he noticed a small detail he would not disclose. Next morning,
Speaker 2: he dashed to the offices of Monsieur Guillon, the publisher.
Speaker 2: He returned with a Cheshire cat's grill that indicated he
Speaker 2: was close to his presend. Then, sometime later we visited
Speaker 2: Monsieur Bonton at his bookshop, the shop who was dismal.
Speaker 3: Lapidd you near it? Indeed, a frightening press. Mishaur Bonton
Speaker 3: came talk Miss Elms.
Speaker 5: I am enough. I hardly expected to see you on
Speaker 5: this trip myself. You know doctor Watson.
Speaker 7: You have mentioned him to me frequently.
Speaker 5: Delighted.
Speaker 7: How do you know they've heard of my tragedy?
Speaker 5: Yes, myself? Could you recount what occurred the evening of
Speaker 5: your wife's demise?
Speaker 8: She left me to visit somewhere. She seemed done troubert,
Speaker 8: so I allowed her to leave and did not escot
Speaker 8: after where she was going. Evidently, on her way home
Speaker 8: late that night she chose to work. For the fact
Speaker 8: it's really alone. I would say she was attacked by
Speaker 8: a night father. She resisted him did away with her.
Speaker 8: I was awakened by a gendarme who bought.
Speaker 7: The terrible news. You have a teary perhaps miss you.
Speaker 5: Homes Perhaps I see you still have a magnificent collection
Speaker 5: of books. We is this your entire stock here in
Speaker 5: the shop.
Speaker 7: Yes, our apartment is upstairs our book.
Speaker 8: Scene and below the shop the seller is lucked. Monsieurs.
Speaker 8: We have not been to the cellar in many years.
Speaker 3: Anyone worked for you here, Monsieur Bonton.
Speaker 7: And Boyd Clark all death.
Speaker 5: Where is he?
Speaker 7: That is a problem. He did not report for work.
Speaker 7: These past two days.
Speaker 5: Were your relations with Albert on a pleasant basis, not
Speaker 5: the tiring?
Speaker 3: How long has you been in your employees approximately?
Speaker 8: Man, what trouble have you had? I I'd like to
Speaker 8: place the young boy in a dead light, but I
Speaker 8: have reason to believe he was marred in front of
Speaker 8: my wife.
Speaker 5: I see a chat with Albert, then might be very enlightened.
Speaker 8: At these missims. I am not accusing the book clerk.
Speaker 8: You have his address twenty seven series, Albert, Julia.
Speaker 5: Come Watson to talk with the boy. Yes, perhaps this
Speaker 5: romantic young clerk in his leisure moments is a hangman.
Speaker 2: Well, Holmes, what's our next step? His landlady said the
Speaker 2: clerk Albert hasn't been home for a few days.
Speaker 5: We shall return to the Bonton bookshop. Watson, we've been there. Oh,
Speaker 5: we shall return much later this evening, midnight, I should say,
Speaker 5: when the owner has left. We shall again visit the
Speaker 5: mysterious bookshop.
Speaker 3: But Holmes, you looked at.
Speaker 5: There is one spot we did not see by far
Speaker 5: the most interesting too.
Speaker 3: What spot is that?
Speaker 5: When I'm quired about it, Bonton turned white. You tremble.
Speaker 5: What spot home the cellar, Watson, we shall pay a
Speaker 5: midnight visit the cellar.
Speaker 3: As the door don't all cellar hose will be locked.
Speaker 5: Of course, that is why I brought a few instruments
Speaker 5: with me, Watson, to coss the lock. The childish and
Speaker 5: simple Bonnie. I've made an extensive study of continental lucks.
Speaker 3: Here we are now quietly, Watson.
Speaker 5: I should work at the cellar door and keep an
Speaker 5: eye out. You are. I shouldn't take it a moment
Speaker 5: see anyone hear anyone?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 3: All clear?
Speaker 5: Go on, simple luck.
Speaker 13: Just another moment, I hear someone hopes coming down the street.
Speaker 13: I must finish Harry homes. You'll be seen one one more.
Speaker 13: Here we are quickly the doors all I mean careful
Speaker 13: wickedy wooden steps match, Watson. Might the candle be brought
Speaker 13: a certainly pose? What do you expect to find down here?
Speaker 3: Good lord? It was seems so foul must have plit
Speaker 3: you see the rats?
Speaker 5: The answer is here. What's the answer must be here?
Speaker 3: Is what sort of shocking secret lies in the cellars?
Speaker 5: And looking for it?
Speaker 3: Looking for it down here?
Speaker 5: That correction, Watson left, bring the candle. I am mamma
Speaker 5: but why is it dark at night? And me why
Speaker 5: it's the darkened night? Mamma.
Speaker 3: It's the clerk. How bare I know him from his
Speaker 3: landlad his description? He's been tied of pose. Look he's
Speaker 3: bound to that pillar.
Speaker 5: Yes, so he has, and apparently he's gone insane.
Speaker 3: Yes, wick over his head. Isn't that a form of
Speaker 3: ancient torture?
Speaker 5: It is the water lever, accomplished in this case with
Speaker 5: a large pitcher and a punnel, which is replenished now
Speaker 5: and then by his captor. Albert was bound to that pillar.
Speaker 5: But a steady drip of water strikes his head and
Speaker 5: he's gone mad, tortured also by the darkness, my hunger
Speaker 5: and thirst, and the huge rats against which he's been defenseless,
Speaker 5: and time.
Speaker 3: What's the first, of course? Just the water. The water.
Speaker 11: The water doesn't stop, you'd see, only your mind stops.
Speaker 14: That's a cruel animals, perhaps not as cruel as men.
Speaker 4: They enjoy human flesh.
Speaker 2: It must be rushed to a hospital, maybe years before
Speaker 2: his senators restored the pillow.
Speaker 5: What is a colorless compound of the hydrogen and oxygen.
Speaker 7: It is very helpful to man. It is beautiful in
Speaker 7: the form of my the ocean's legs and the rushing rivers.
Speaker 5: It has.
Speaker 4: There's many uses.
Speaker 2: All the family sent you to life homes.
Speaker 3: What are you looking for?
Speaker 6: Ah?
Speaker 5: There we are this shelf. What is it? A book
Speaker 5: faded to eligibility and parts very dusty? A book the
Speaker 5: book Watson, though not outstanding in this surprising collection.
Speaker 2: I see you mean you originally stolen to the cellar
Speaker 2: simply to find that book.
Speaker 5: Yes, now we must find Marcel Monton immediately.
Speaker 7: I will spare you the efforts, Missus.
Speaker 5: Not very hospitable of you, Marcel to greet us with
Speaker 5: a pistol.
Speaker 8: I'm familiar with your reputation, Missieurs. I realize what become suspicious.
Speaker 8: So I've been waiting for you with this pistol, which
Speaker 8: I shall you.
Speaker 5: You have come to put more?
Speaker 8: What time?
Speaker 3: The picture of my emison? But no more?
Speaker 7: What I asked, Miss Jones, what can do?
Speaker 5: So? This work in my hand is entitled Rare Techniques
Speaker 5: in Homicide. It includes an exact reproduction of a Persian
Speaker 5: manuscripts written in the time of Darius the First. The
Speaker 5: subject of it take niaks of torture and murder used
Speaker 5: during the Peloponnesian War.
Speaker 3: Homes. Why that book?
Speaker 5: When I observed myself's wife hung the limb of the
Speaker 5: tree Watson, I noticed she'd been tried with a special knot.
Speaker 5: I recognized it immediately. It was the very peculiar knot
Speaker 5: for Garrotting described in the Persian manuscript. There was just
Speaker 5: one place on earth where that knot is described in
Speaker 5: this book. I knew there were just two copies of
Speaker 5: this work left in the world.
Speaker 3: I see you have one at Baker's Street, I dare.
Speaker 5: Say, of course. I therefore asked Illon, the publisher, an
Speaker 5: expert bibiophile, where the other copy was.
Speaker 7: He told you I had it then, as you are, Yes.
Speaker 5: He did. Therefore I paid you a visit to look
Speaker 5: for it. I found it, monsieur.
Speaker 7: That unfortunately does not prove that I Alice. Why not because.
Speaker 8: Albre Mclark, gibbering there on the corner could have ready too.
Speaker 8: He has been to the cellar before I have found
Speaker 8: him there, prior to the night of the Melbourne.
Speaker 5: Yes, mycel When I saw the knot, I immediately realized
Speaker 5: the killer must either have been you or Albert, your clerk.
Speaker 5: But Albert could never have read this book and learned
Speaker 5: to tie the fatal knots by Nut. It was here
Speaker 5: he had access to it, observed the book, Sir, It's
Speaker 5: faded to the point of being illegible.
Speaker 3: Is the murder blather?
Speaker 5: Before day? Could he call upon your excellent knowledge of printing? Sir?
Speaker 5: Has it not been at least a year since this
Speaker 5: type was legible? Look at the pile of dust accumulated
Speaker 5: upon this book. Has it not been at least a
Speaker 5: year since the book was touched at all? And did
Speaker 5: you not say to me yourself that you've employed Albert
Speaker 5: for only a month? Remarkable, Marcel. You executed the contents
Speaker 5: of the book to the letter. The book relates that
Speaker 5: the ancient punishment for adultery was physical death for the wife,
Speaker 5: So you murdered Alice. And the punishment for the lover
Speaker 5: was more subtle, was mental death, torture to the point
Speaker 5: of insanity. So you punched upon Albert, tied him to
Speaker 5: that post in this cellar, and arranged your diabolical water pitcher. Yes,
Speaker 5: you've been deeply affected by this amazing collection of books.
Speaker 8: You see it for you, gentlemen, the gay secret of
Speaker 8: my cellar, which I had come see you all these years.
Speaker 7: In every book on the subject of crime, Everett.
Speaker 5: I noticed you the secret records of Caligular for Commada
Speaker 5: during inquisition, the Bloodstain memoirs of the Borger.
Speaker 7: This was my real world down here, the world upstairs,
Speaker 7: my shop, my wife.
Speaker 8: I was unhappy there this beagan as a hobby and
Speaker 8: intellectual pursuit.
Speaker 3: But then I go to absolve it to heavenly.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'd say, you become intoxicated with crime.
Speaker 7: Time and again.
Speaker 8: I was tempted to try committing a crime, and it
Speaker 8: was always in the back of my mind when I
Speaker 8: found the Leaf was making a puppet of me, when
Speaker 8: I found how she hated me, when I found out
Speaker 8: about her, and al there.
Speaker 5: You satisfied your desire and accomplished what you believed the
Speaker 5: justice by enacting what you read in this strange com.
Speaker 14: And now I have a wonderful opportunity to know the
Speaker 14: satisfaction of committing a great crime with you, of killing
Speaker 14: both of you, and then leaving out there as I
Speaker 14: planned to run away in the corner of my cellar
Speaker 14: in Living Death, my own memoir will be a glorious
Speaker 14: new addition to my collection.
Speaker 3: He's going to pull that trigger by leg Are you
Speaker 3: all right, missy owns Doctor Watson.
Speaker 5: Yes, Inspector, I am coming down.
Speaker 3: I have gone Tom Stern, peer, Inspector.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 11: It was very four sighted Messer Rones to tell me
Speaker 11: to come by should you meet Bata unexpectedly?
Speaker 5: Unexpectedly, my dear Inspector, it's obvious my reputation here on
Speaker 5: the continent is not what is thout the British Empire.
Speaker 5: You may inform your associates that there is nothing unexpected
Speaker 5: to monsieur, shut up homes. Tell doctor Watson that was
Speaker 5: a very thrilling story.
Speaker 2: Indeed, well, I'm delighted that you found the adventure so exciting,
Speaker 2: mister Harris, and I do believe that next week's story
Speaker 2: is just as griffing. It is called the Adventure of
Speaker 2: the East End Strangler. It concerns a city in terror,
Speaker 2: a scream and the night, a bit of blue thread,
Speaker 2: and an old lover.