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The original air date October twelfth, nineteen forty seven, and
the title is Death Wears a New Dress.
Speaker 2: The American Broadcasting Company challenges you to a startling puzzle
and crime The Adventures of Bill Lance starring Gerald Moore
with Alard mcneer's professor Ulysses Higgins. Hello, I'm Bill Lance.
I'm primarily a composer, also a criminologist. F's it's more
accurate to call me a student of human nature. You know.
I believe that crime is the result of a delinquent society,
that the criminal mind is a sick mind, and that
the symptoms of that sickness are always apparent in the
behavior of the criminal. Therefore, if you would expose a criminal,
look for fingerprints on the doorknob, but also look for
imprints on the human mind. In short, human emotions are
my clues. Oh yes, I also played a piano. You
can say a lot of things that way. Sometimes it's
an accompaniment to thinking, particularly when you're trying to unravel
some of the tangles of human behavior, helping to bring
some kind of order into the chaos which people seem
to create so easily. Why, for instance, when when everybody
was so curious, if not furious, about the new friend
and fashions, should death choose to wear a new dress?
Never can tell how swiftly a familiar human problem can
build into a tragic snarl of emotions. As a matter
of fact, even my friend, Professor Ulysses Higgins, seemed to
be building himself up through a passionate fury. And I
had all started and just because I felt like going
a little work on my concerto.
Speaker 3: M gCO two plus c O H two equals m
G O H two plus H no no no no
no U.
Speaker 2: C c L two. That's if I modulate into H
shop in this phrase.
Speaker 3: But if you had cal some hydroxide to magnesium chloride,
you precipitate the magnesium.
Speaker 2: As a hydrate. Maybe a progression of chords ending with
the diminished seven mg c L.
Speaker 3: Two plus t A O H two equals mg.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're speaking to me.
Speaker 3: I'm merely trying to equate chemical compoigns in my mind.
What's left on my mind?
Speaker 2: But that's infernal noise noise, my dear professor. What strikes
your tin ear as noise? Maybe heavenly music to a
more discriminating order.
Speaker 3: Even if you're proposition with true your premises fault, you
cannot call that piano chinkering music.
Speaker 2: Touchet, let's argue the point. Huh he saved by the bell?
Wouldn't dream of taking you away from your magnesium and hydrates? Hello? Oh, hello?
Speaker 3: Do you remember?
Speaker 2: Maybe you didn't start by saying guess who's so? Must
be somebody I like JOm tyling. It's been over a year.
Where have you been? Hello? Still in fiction?
Speaker 5: I got myself?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I couldn't think of a nicer figure for it.
It happened to where Oh, very she she? You're always
different from what would you always would give me good addie. Oh,
it's sometimes I talk too much for my own good.
Oh where are you living? Now? I can ride over it?
I can't tomorrow, then, Oh good, I'll see you there.
I don't think why not.
Speaker 6: I've been wanting to get a look.
Speaker 2: At the new style, to give every woman's figure a
gen kind of nice.
Speaker 7: There has been much too much idle conversation about the
new trends and miladies fashions. As long as I mean,
the world can stand still. No, as we change within,
we must change.
Speaker 2: Without without was talking about clothes without clothes, But I
all red.
Speaker 8: Look to the future, and in the future, I see
the past, and in both I see today's.
Speaker 2: Woman, the need the week. I'velady told fortunes before I
got into this racket.
Speaker 8: So now I mean today's woman on our ari.
Speaker 2: Or yourself together us.
Speaker 8: First the cocoon, the new swells silouette in smooth black wood,
no accentuations of shoulders, no accentuations of the waistline, in fact,
no situations at all.
Speaker 2: In fact no good. Where next the triangle in swimmering red.
Speaker 8: Well there with gracefully sloped shoulders, swinging simply but dramatically
to the low and white blung.
Speaker 3: Hen it must swing and swing low.
Speaker 2: Swing low sweet cherry.
Speaker 9: Yes, and now and now dramatic file the watch with
the diminished shoulders, the petted boozoom, the rounded, hiplined, and
the pinched waist.
Speaker 3: Yes, now that that's more like.
Speaker 2: Say that reminds me of my grandmother. It does better
not tell Joan that was that John modeling that one? Yes,
and she doesn't look so good that, hello, Joan, Joan,
never pardon me, man, I can throw plays John, What
is happening?
Speaker 3: What is it miss Adams doing?
Speaker 2: She can't hear you?
Speaker 6: Rage?
Speaker 2: Joanes dead?
Speaker 3: I found something there. I want to introduce you to
miss Sandra Weston.
Speaker 2: Give me miss you did find something, professor, Yes.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 2: Hello, it's Weston.
Speaker 5: Hello.
Speaker 2: Well, weren't you the cocoon, the svelt silhouette and smooth
black wolves.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm one of that.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: Why didn't you tell me that miss Adams was ill
when she came in today? But Henri, I didn't know
she was there.
Speaker 5: I won't she she was upset, but she came perfectly well.
Speaker 2: Didn't tell you why she was upsets? Were you close friends?
Speaker 5: We shared a dressing room. We liked each other. That's
what you mean.
Speaker 2: I can't understand what No, neither can I. Oh, well,
I got your message, and oh am I interrupting something private.
I inspect her. Thanks for dropping by, inspect already made.
Inspector Holland blood Ham Weston, Hello, Wow, you know Professor Higgins.
Of course, yeah, I know him.
Speaker 3: I feel exactly the same word. But mister Lance, this
is not a metaphor the burgin.
Speaker 2: Uh watched the gag? Lance, I had a girl by
the name of Joan Adams, one of URI's models, died
here just a few minutes ago. Ah, she collapsed in
the cell on. Sounds like a job for a doctor,
not me. I had an idea it might be in
your territory, Inspector. Yeah, I came down here to see
Joan adamstead Or alive. No jokes, I knew Joan. I
saw it die. Okay, I'm sorry. Well, she called me
last night she was in trouble, what kind? That's what
I came here to find out what trouble caught up
with a first? Uh, you think it's maybe suicide?
Speaker 5: Suicide?
Speaker 2: Yes, I know, Miss Weston, you're thinking the same thing.
I am. Joan wasn't that kind of a girl. Huh
then maybe murder? Maybe murder? Oh no, no, no, no,
I'm postable. How do you know it wasn't murder? Henry?
Speaker 10: How do Randal Inspector?
Speaker 3: This is definitely hill ah.
Speaker 2: Yes, and naturally that changes everything, not for me. What
have you got besides theories? Lance bots of asper and
a bottle of vitamin pills here find them on Jones
dressing table. I guess I might as want to take
them down and have them analyze. Let me know what
you find. Sure, I wouldn't want you to waste your time.
I'll give you a buzz too, Henry, in case you're
interested me, what is it the myth?
Speaker 10: I'm ruined already anyway, oh ulysses.
Speaker 2: When you answer that, please no, no, okay, okay, that's
when we haven't gotta need to stop playing. Oh it
is hello, Hello Lambs.
Speaker 4: I guess right that girl didn't want to live.
Speaker 3: She took poison, Mark old.
Speaker 2: Besson training asses. There's no proof she took it, Inspector didn't.
Analysis of the stomach content shows that you eat and lunch,
had a couple of cocktails, and ask for the vitamin pills.
Speaker 10: Without getting the eye ideas the bottom of the asp
when in the.
Speaker 2: Vitamin pills you mile show. Wonder where she got the
cocktails the last kill yourself.
Speaker 3: Told me he was in some kind of trouble.
Speaker 2: Whatever it was, he couldn't okay, thanks for letting me know. Goodbye,
late for company.
Speaker 3: Never too late for this place. I don't bother, No,
I'll get it. Oh you have the wrong appartments.
Speaker 4: Everything's wrong, even the supe parkman.
Speaker 3: I can't help it.
Speaker 2: Good thing, isn't it? Sure it's George King Cave.
Speaker 4: Then this man here was Jesus. Who is this?
Speaker 2: Bill? George King Kady? The children Beverly Hills.
Speaker 4: It isn't mention this? Oh?
Speaker 11: Can I please come in and sit them?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're better before you fall down?
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: It was my dinner. Oh George, wait a minute, here's
a chair.
Speaker 4: He feels good. What is the chine to mo hair?
Speaker 3: Hold?
Speaker 2: Hi? George? Bill? Bill?
Speaker 9: All Bill?
Speaker 4: Oh Bill, Old Bill, Old Bill.
Speaker 2: That's me, Bill, Bill.
Speaker 11: I don't know how glad I am to.
Speaker 4: See you, Bill. I just had to see you.
Speaker 3: You were there.
Speaker 4: You you'll understand.
Speaker 2: Now, give me a break, George talking in the beginning.
Speaker 11: Huh, all right, Bill, I've started right from the very beginning.
Speaker 2: That's the place.
Speaker 4: Yeah, who is that man over there in the corner.
Speaker 2: Nobody, he just lives here.
Speaker 11: Oh well, I like and bro I've started right from
the very beginning. You see down to look at me.
Speaker 2: You come on, come on, George. Why did you come here? Oh?
Speaker 4: Look, Bill, you saw everything? And he's telling me. Oh Bill, Bill.
Speaker 11: Saw my phone right before, girl, Bill.
Speaker 5: I didn't.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's given time.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, Bruce Randolph, Oh sure.
Speaker 2: Lives in bell A lots of money.
Speaker 11: One of my very best customers bought a bracelet for
his wife's birthday a couple of months ago, Diamonds and Rubies,
red Ones, the Real Thing two. And then then a
couple of days ago, Missus Randolph comes in buying something.
So naturally I asked her how she likes the bracelet.
Speaker 4: You know, she said, what bracelet going? You see what
I mean?
Speaker 2: They shot people less than that, Jordan.
Speaker 4: I know, Bill, I'm lit good. I started all.
Speaker 11: You see, mister Randolph was a little extra kirk, extra
kirk with Johan Adams.
Speaker 2: How did you know you just told me? Oh, I
knew you'd understand Bill, Bill, Bill, I feel better.
Speaker 3: I guess I'll go make it.
Speaker 11: I got his, didn't I?
Speaker 3: Bill?
Speaker 11: I certainly am glad I had this nice little talk
with you. That man's looking at me again. Watch old Bill,
he's gotten me.
Speaker 2: Oh my, there goes the forerunner of a beautiful hangover.
Oh how can you.
Speaker 3: Waste your time on a drunken pool like that?
Speaker 2: Oh? Wasted time?
Speaker 4: Then I don't start.
Speaker 3: Building a case on a lot of idol. Talk about
a bracelet? He didn't even know who mister Randolph gave
it to.
Speaker 2: But I do, evil ie, Lolok, diamonds and rubies, real thing?
Where did you get that bracelet off? Jones Racett? What
are you going to do? Oh? That's I'll give it
a mister Randolph so he can give it to missus
Randolph for her next birthday?
Speaker 3: What do you SUBI about it? So long?
Speaker 2: U Lissen is where you're going to? Early? I have
a date with a cocoon?
Speaker 3: Oh what?
Speaker 2: Oh? Why hadn't been for me?
Speaker 3: You wouldn't even know that there was a Sandra Weston
after all?
Speaker 2: iPhone? Why professor I didn't know your kid? Why didn't
you say something? I had a chance to speak to
you about it? I tell you what I'll do. I'll
put in a good word for you. Hell Sandra, and
a microphone's under the table. Nobody's even looking this way.
You can now speak freely.
Speaker 5: What do you want to know?
Speaker 2: Just what do you think of the broken down hemline
in the droopy skirt?
Speaker 3: That isn't a fair question.
Speaker 2: I make a living showing how fashion's changed, honey. This
is no change. Is the revolution that.
Speaker 3: Doesn't excite me.
Speaker 5: I've been through too many at alres. You ought to
give me a pension.
Speaker 3: I've been that so long.
Speaker 4: You think I'm one of the six shoes.
Speaker 2: Maybe anytime you want to break your contract, that could
be interested.
Speaker 11: That's a nice speech, miss Lance, But you are not
in the dress, didness?
Speaker 3: And you didn't ask me to lunch just talk shop?
Did you?
Speaker 2: Would you say, Joan Adams is shop talk? I can't
get Joan out of my mind. I I've got somebody
else on my mind now, No tell her named Randolph.
Oh you know a little.
Speaker 5: Well, then I suppose there's no reason for my trying
to cover up with.
Speaker 2: Joan and Walden. Yeah, I wondered why you didn't say
anything what Joan did with your own affair.
Speaker 5: No she's well, why thought in any ugly gods?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what was Joan really worried about?
Speaker 4: Yesterday morning?
Speaker 5: Missus Randolph called her and asked to have lunch.
Speaker 2: Oh that explains the cocktail. Well, she had a couple
of drinks with Missus Randolph, that's all she tell you.
Speaker 3: How the meeting turned off when she got back to
the shop before I did.
Speaker 5: But when I started to go into our dressing room,
I I'm had are calling.
Speaker 2: Someone to recognize the boys blues rner.
Speaker 5: But that doesn't bruve anything, doesn't.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, it does proves something very important. Who's how
lucky I am lucky? Yeah? Well this hadn't happened, I
wouldn't have messed you.
Speaker 5: Oh heaven, I'm lucky too.
Speaker 2: Now you've made me an honest man. I don't have
to play detective anymore. Just make a date with you tonight.
Well that's a slight conflict. Can I God break it?
Speaker 5: That might lead to a complication.
Speaker 2: Oh, I can be so discreet.
Speaker 5: But it's a friend of you.
Speaker 2: Oh that even makes it easier. Who is it you list?
Speaker 5: Well, what do you know? When did he make the deed?
He called us before you picked me up?
Speaker 2: Played the two timing double. I second thought, more power
to it. Right now, he and I have some shopping
to do in Beverly Hills, mister man, I would be
only too willing to help you.
Speaker 3: But of course it is completely unnecessary, now is it?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: I have talked with the inspector Alund. It is very sad.
Poor girl destroyed herself.
Speaker 2: I wonder why? Who knows?
Speaker 3: There's so many reasons why one can despair. Of course
I didn't know poor John very well. Well well enough
she she had been with me only a few months.
But that does not mean that I don't suffer as
though she had been with.
Speaker 2: Me for years. No, of course. Incidentally, did you know
that Bruce Randolph came to talk to Johnes just before? Why? Why?
Speaker 3: He's a very old and valued part on my solo?
Speaker 2: He was saying, leaving Jon's dressing room just before the
fashion show?
Speaker 4: Unpossible?
Speaker 2: Who she last?
Speaker 3: May I give you some advice?
Speaker 2: What has been has been?
Speaker 3: Digging into the past will do nobody any good.
Speaker 2: I want to apologize, I must have been pretty far
gone last night to.
Speaker 9: BARGINGI on you that way.
Speaker 2: I don't apologize, George, you were very cute.
Speaker 3: Mister Kincaid, you took an intensive discribe to me.
Speaker 4: Oh were you there? I don't remember you.
Speaker 2: I must have been a mess. How are you talking of?
Told us a very sad story about a birthday and
a bracelet. Drunkn nonsense, Bill, drunk, no nonsense.
Speaker 4: Uh do me your favor?
Speaker 2: Will you to get it?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: But there are a couple of things I'd like to
ask you about. Bruce Randolph. Bill, mister Randolph has been
a very good customer of mine for years. What I
told you you should ever get out? I'm a dead duck.
Speaker 3: Bill. Why don't you just give up and admits that
you made a mistake. Oh, I know what's on.
Speaker 2: Your mind, but there's nothing to it.
Speaker 3: And if you won't listen to me, we'll listen to
the others. Inspector Harland Henri Kincaid.
Speaker 2: I've listened to them.
Speaker 3: Well I can't see I haven't tried. Would you mind
dropping me off here?
Speaker 6: I have more important things to do.
Speaker 2: Okay, you listen. I wouldn't want to break your dates.
And anyway, you're not interested in what Missus Randolph may
have to say.
Speaker 3: Missus Randolph, No, No, I'm not well, I'm second thought.
I guess I do have time after it.
Speaker 2: Stop kidding, Professor. You know in the end, you always
come along for the ride. Uh, cozy little shack. Isn't
it very pretty? This is very pretty?
Speaker 3: I always did think that the twenty four rooms was
I'm a love.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know in a tin she could turned
his living room into a nice skating rink. Yes, oh,
missus Randolph, my name is Bill Lance. This is my friend,
Professor Higgins.
Speaker 5: Oh was it something connected with the university?
Speaker 3: No, I am not here in my official catactulus.
Speaker 5: But my busser said you had an appointment with me.
I don't remember making any sense.
Speaker 2: Oh you didn't. Actually, I took the liberty of coming
here to ask you a few questions about a friend
of mine, Oh, Joan Adams.
Speaker 5: Joan Adams. I'm sorry, I don't understand.
Speaker 2: Well, she was a very close friend of your husband's.
That's that will identify her for you.
Speaker 5: Who are you, mister Lenz?
Speaker 2: Don't you know Ulysses and missus Randolph. I thought you'd
appreciate my coming to see you before the police do police,
mister Randolph was rather deeply involved with miss Adams.
Speaker 5: Yes, I I'm aware of it.
Speaker 2: Perhaps you don't realize how deeply.
Speaker 5: But what has that to do with the police.
Speaker 2: John Adams died yesterday afternoon. I'm sorry she was murdered.
Your husband happened to be in her dressing room at
Anrie's yesterday afternoon. There was an argument. He left suddenly
and angrily, and almost immediately afterward, Joan collapsed. She died
of poison. Poison Bruce, I was the quarrel about how
far had he committed him going?
Speaker 5: But he couldn't have done it. She took the poison
herself or missus Randolph.
Speaker 2: I knew Joan Adams may have been foolish, but she
never ran away. What did she have to gain by
killing herself? But your husband was in a real jam.
It wasn't very discreet. You know all our reason knew
about him and Joan.
Speaker 5: Mister Lance, I'm going to tell you something you don't know.
I had luncheon with Joan Adams yesterday.
Speaker 2: Please.
Speaker 5: I've never had any illusions about my husband, but I
love him, so I accepted his romantic indulgences. I've even
felt sorry for some of the girls, especially when they
took him too seriously. That's why I wanted to speak
to Joan Adams. Do you understand that.
Speaker 2: Mister Lane, she took him too seriously?
Speaker 5: Uh, I had to find out she laughed at me.
How good a young girl like that? I know what
a home means? How could she know how a wife feels?
How could she understand? You don't just give up everything
that has meaning because of a whim. You think my
husband killed her? No, mister Lance, I was the one
who had to get rid of her.
Speaker 2: Oh uh less violent waves of handling? That kind of
a situations is Randolph?
Speaker 5: You told me the police would be coming here.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm quite willing to.
Speaker 5: Tell them what I've told you. And now, mister Lance,
would you leave?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 5: I assure you that I'll be here when the police arrives.
Speaker 2: Well, now I've seen everything, not a nerve in her body.
Speaker 3: Why she made me feel like she was doing us
a favor by confession?
Speaker 2: Quite a girl. Well somebody's got to stick around make
sure she doesn't change her mind. Uh huh, as I guess, Well,
goodbye there. We'll wait a minute. I've got to call
Inspector Holland, and I've got to run and catch Randall
before he leaves his office. Why Randall, don't you think
you might like to know what's happening.
Speaker 3: That's none of my mind to be a word about
your date forget me?
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, Ulysses.
Speaker 2: I'll guarantee that you keep your date, even if I
have to deliver Sondra to you personally. John Adams, No
afraid not. But let me give you the idea on you.
I had him an other things, mister Randolph's bracelet. I
thought you might want it. After all, didn't you bias
for your wife's birthday? Where did you get this from Joan?
After she died that she was poisoned? So because I
gave her that bracelet, you came here to blackmail me. Well, no, no,
that isn't why I came here. I just wanted to
tell you that your wife had luncheon with Joan yesterday.
She learned about the bracelet. They talked about you over
a couple of drinks. I thought she'd like to know also,
that your wife has just confessed that she murdered Joan Lance.
I'm a don't apologize, but I've always been able to
get away with it, always been able to go back home,
and until this time, this time I had lost my
head in Jones dressing room yesterday afternoon. Yes, yes, she's
written me my wife, I went a little crazy. Oh
so now you're confessing to the murder of John Adam. Yes, yes,
of course, yeah, that's it. Well and Randolph, in that case,
i'd high tailed out to your house.
Speaker 6: The police are on their way now to pick up
your wife.
Speaker 3: Oh what did you do with the professor?
Speaker 2: Well, he didn't really need to stand you up. He was.
He was delayed due to circumstances beyond his control. Oh,
we got on murdering. Was it really murdered? Tell you
all about it on the way out.
Speaker 5: How are we going?
Speaker 2: I promise Ulysses would take him up. We can always
get him later.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 3: Well, well, missus Weston, I hope William has explained.
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, he has, Professor Higgins your forgift.
Speaker 2: Well, it's very nice.
Speaker 3: It's very nice. Bill. The Randolphs are in the living
room with Inspector Harland. You won't be needing us any longer.
Speaker 2: Keep your shirt on, old boy. We can all go
out together later. You don't mind her, you, Sandra, take
us a minute or two. Come on, Inspector, it's quite
unnecessary to make my wife endure this any longer.
Speaker 6: I've already told.
Speaker 10: You that I did it, and I don't see you.
Speaker 2: It would prove you know it well, Lace just in
time to solve the solution I got one. Might I
read so many It's not like you to complain when business.
This is so good, inspector. But I think we can
set to us very quickly, Elli, mister Randolph, Missus Randolph. Oh, oh, yes,
I nearly forgot. Oh it's Sondra. Come on in. You
both know Sandra Weston of course. No, wait a minute,
I couldn't be mistaken. You do know one another, or
did once. As a matter of fact, that's why I
brought Sondra here to help us with that little problem.
What do you mean you know what she got to
do with our list? Well, she knows mister and missus
Randolph better than we do. Perhaps she can decide which
one is telling the truth.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't want to take that responsibility.
Speaker 2: Oh, just for a moment, imagine yourself as Joan Huh
open it yet, Think back a little while when you
were in a very similar position, weren't you. If you're
wondering how I found out, well it's pretty hard to
keep a secret around the place like Anoree's, when you
get expensive gifts from the jeweler like Kinkaid. Mister Randolph
has always been very generous to his lady friends. Here's me.
Speaker 5: You never asked me about that girl life. I would
have told you it's over anyway.
Speaker 2: Don't you agree with me that it's pretty hard to
imagine Missus Randolph killing Joan. She didn't care you and
you were involved with her husband. And when mister Randolph
had a little trouble shaking you off after it became
interested in Joan, he didn't kill you either. Have all
the answers you told me about the luncheon date with
Missus Randolph, about hearing mister Randolph and Joan's dressing room.
You knew why Joan was agitated. The stage was all set.
Joan had a headache, didn't she. Yes, you were very helpful.
She wanted some aspirin and so Phil inspector.
Speaker 5: Would you like another consents?
Speaker 2: Sandra?
Speaker 3: You were oh, rue, Sorry, you wouldn't believe me.
Speaker 4: I don't never let anyone else, hey man.
Speaker 2: It changed to one night, three confessions, only one score inspected,
A two don't count.
Speaker 3: And at least you could have told me about Sandra.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't too sure myself until Randolphs were cleared.
Speaker 3: You mean they were cleared when they confessed.
Speaker 2: Oh, sure, that eliminated them. You see, in shielding each other,
they showed how they would behave in a crisis, and
they got a motion for them rising. But if either
one of them had murdered Joan, they wouldn't have left
that bracelet on her arms, That dazzling bit of evidence
would have inevitably committed one or both of them with
a murder.
Speaker 3: But what first made you think it might be?
Speaker 2: Send Sandra herself? She told me she'd been with Henre
a long time, and Henri told me Randolph had been
an old customer. She recognized his voice in Joan's dressing room.
She called him Bruce, and then caught herself. Well, once
I knew that, it was comparatively easy to check up
on history and find out more about Randolph and Sandra,
and then I had the motive. Yes, but Sandra, why
did it have to be sent? Oh ulysses? Underneath that
solown au Steer mask of yours is a heart just
palpitating Roman. Two Vega dream girls turned out to be
Lacrisia Borger. You have been listening to another in a
series of intriguing mysteries starring Gerald Morris, Bill Lance, with
Howard McNair's Ulysses Higgins. Tonight's supporting cast included Cliff Clark
as Inspector Holland, Georgia Alisis, Sandra leam Blascusenri Lauris Corbet's
Missus Randolph, Paul mcvayhus Mister Randolph, Charles Calvert as Kincaid.
Music composed and played by Rex Cory. Join us again
next week, same time, over most of these same ABC stations,
when we bring you another of Bill Lance's strange experiences
in a story titled Special Delivery. This Bill Lance Adventure
Death Rears a New Dress was written by Barbara and
Milton Merlin and directed by Dwitehauser. Now here's a special
program note. David Harding steps into a hot better intrigue
in the case of the phony passport paper. Don't miss
David Harding. Cant us by this afternoon on his name
ABC station. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, I enjoyed this one. I did think
that his solution that if either the husband or the
wife had committed the murder, they would have taken the
bracelet with them. It's kind of making a big bet
on people thinking clearly in a very emotional situation. Criminals
do make these sort of mistakes in real life. I
think it's tricky in fiction because you don't want to
rely too much on your criminal being stupid or making
a dumb mistake. But you also want to have that
realism with that criminals do make mistakes. But other than that,
this episode was a lot of fun. I continue to
enjoy just the relationship between Bill and Ulysses. And of
course Howard mcneer is always a lot to listen to,
and this is a recurring role where he's able to
play to the eccentricity that so many of his characters possess,
you know, even in the one shots where he's playing
suspects on something like let George do It or Yours
Truly Johnny Doller. Also we got to hear Leon Blasco
in something other than The Man called Acts. That was
a question you know, Bill asked like a few months back,
and so it was nice to be able to illustrate
that on the program. The idea of a criminologist using
psychological clues to solve crimes was not unheard of. During
the Golden Ajor Radio we played a series a few
years back called The Crime Files of Lamond. However, I
think this series is actually a bit more enjoyable to
listen to. It's got quite a bit more charm and
the music element works well too. All right, well, now
I want to go ahead and thank our Patreon supporter
of the day. Thank you to Vincent, Patreon supporter since
June of twenty nineteen, currently supporting us at the rookie
level of two dollars more per month. Again, thanks so
much for your support, Vincent, and that will do it
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