Speaker 1: Unsolved mysteries.
Speaker 2: Murder most howls, as in the best it is, but
Speaker 2: this most howl strange and unnatural. Had William Shakespeare penned
Speaker 2: these lines about the murder in the Room Morgue, his
Speaker 2: description could not have been more fitting. The murder in
Speaker 2: the Room Orgue was not only strange, it was incredible.
Speaker 1: It was impossible. Yet it was.
Speaker 3: This the place. Thank you, I think.
Speaker 1: At a.
Speaker 2: Thing.
Speaker 1: The scene is Paris.
Speaker 2: Not the Paris of the bright lights, the boulevards, the
Speaker 2: cafes and the theaters, but that Paris of dark, narrow,
Speaker 2: crooked streets, That Paris in which murder is no stranger,
Speaker 2: That Paris where the wrong glance, the carelessly spoken word
Speaker 2: is answered by the knife thrust, and the offender is
Speaker 2: found cold and stark, staring with glassy eyes. At a
Speaker 2: waning moon two o'clock in the morning, Mademoiselle Ruse de
Speaker 2: LaCour turns into La Rue Morgue. The guttering street lamp
Speaker 2: shows her lithe of figure, pretty of face, at the
Speaker 2: Moiselle of the boulevards. She stops at her apartment number
Speaker 2: sixteen and rings the bell.
Speaker 4: Vella who is it Rose? You are very late?
Speaker 2: Road.
Speaker 1: I'm very child. No, no, the.
Speaker 5: Reason not what it was.
Speaker 4: H No, young gentleman, to buy you been harry.
Speaker 1: You have guessed the self time. No, don't know that
Speaker 1: I'm angling.
Speaker 4: He hums me into my room.
Speaker 1: The coffee he is hot.
Speaker 6: The bread, the sales perhaps.
Speaker 2: But not those tales rolls good say.
Speaker 4: Why do you not go to the country, away from
Speaker 4: all these me to the country. I cannot live without
Speaker 4: my party. We love to be staying the theaters because
Speaker 4: favorite body found. No no, no nurse they can perceive.
Speaker 4: And no one call upon me today, not one single person.
Speaker 4: I shall he not one come company.
Speaker 1: Drink the cause feel mean to sleep. Tomorrow may be brighter.
Speaker 4: You have been very good to me.
Speaker 1: I will do what you say.
Speaker 4: I will go to bed, but not to sleep, and
Speaker 4: then not.
Speaker 1: Alone, not to sleep.
Speaker 2: Slowly, Rose de LaCour makes her way up the creaky,
Speaker 2: rickety stairs, five flights of them, with the rotted, worm
Speaker 2: eaten banister giving under her touch as she pulls herself
Speaker 2: wearily onward her own room. At last, the heavy door
Speaker 2: groans as she opens it closes it, the rasping of
Speaker 2: the lock. She turns the key, the dull click of
Speaker 2: the boats top and bottom of the door as she
Speaker 2: forces them home. The one window, with its leaded panes
Speaker 2: of glass, slams as she closes it and turns the
Speaker 2: catch that locks it in place. Dreary silence broken only
Speaker 2: by the hammer like ticks of the old clock has
Speaker 2: rows undresses and gets into bed. A puff and the
Speaker 2: candle is out, its dying flare, showing wisps of smoke
Speaker 2: curling ceiling.
Speaker 6: Words Bruse Road, get up my sherry.
Speaker 4: Ten o'clock.
Speaker 6: I have the coffee in the rose.
Speaker 3: Rose.
Speaker 1: Pose what is it, madam?
Speaker 4: There is something wrong?
Speaker 1: I know it.
Speaker 6: Ro She doesn't answer me.
Speaker 4: Or perhaps it is that she is tired and sleeps. No, No,
Speaker 4: it is not that won you but I'm afraid God
Speaker 4: this but he quickly called him Horse Rose, answer me,
Speaker 4: speak to me.
Speaker 6: It is susan to friend.
Speaker 1: What is it you? She is dead? I know it,
Speaker 1: trouble Rose Rose. She does not answer me. Let me
Speaker 1: knock on the door. No answer that. We break down
Speaker 1: the door. Morning.
Speaker 4: You cannot break down that door without a knack.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yes, being a nut we take. We cannot
Speaker 7: bake on the door. I'll shuck it together. Wait to
Speaker 7: get the door.
Speaker 4: Said without the age.
Speaker 1: You can do nothing here. This is the biggest facts
Speaker 1: in the shell. Give it here.
Speaker 6: Stand back, many people another a little more down back.
Speaker 1: I can't it. I told it. I can't reached the boat.
Speaker 7: Sam through the heathing high fighter. This was no knife crass,
Speaker 7: No that damn that's sort or nothing right through and
Speaker 7: four in heating through the knights.
Speaker 1: She's she's dead, yeah, said madam. I got your room.
Speaker 2: We went.
Speaker 1: Come dad. I hope we can affect her. But yes,
Speaker 1: this is very strange.
Speaker 7: Lit the window is left on the inside, asked Steve
Speaker 7: brown Boy persil tennant.
Speaker 1: It is he or she could not have come in
Speaker 1: gone out that way?
Speaker 7: It is sixty think about the ground, nothing to I want,
Speaker 7: no way to get in or out, and no mark
Speaker 7: on the window the.
Speaker 8: Door, both the top and bottom. Whoever did it couldn't
Speaker 8: have turned the key in the locks, but they both
Speaker 8: said no. One could not shoot balls after leaving the room, Jinny,
Speaker 8: not that way, either wanted or not. It's easy if
Speaker 8: anything smaller than usual. You see a tile chimney not
Speaker 8: even large enough for a cat. Nothing bigger than a
Speaker 8: bird could get.
Speaker 1: Through that chimney. But somebody, somehow got in here, killed
Speaker 1: Rose and get out again? Hoddan, Hoddan? Yes, who came
Speaker 1: in here last night with Ross? No one, not one
Speaker 1: single person certain? Oh?
Speaker 4: Yes, Rose came home at two o'clock. She rang the bell.
Speaker 6: I myself opened the door.
Speaker 4: She drek some cofee in my room, and then she
Speaker 4: came upstairs. I watch her go.
Speaker 1: No one could get into the ouse without passing your room.
Speaker 1: And Pierre looks over the house before ten o'clock.
Speaker 4: Then attend the door is bolted, and no one can
Speaker 4: get inside after that without me, Madame de fran seeing.
Speaker 8: Them, and whoever committed the murtherer must have gone in
Speaker 8: before that and eating in.
Speaker 4: The house, but he could not get out again.
Speaker 1: I have the key to the front door and tell
Speaker 1: you a way.
Speaker 7: That right not explained how he got into Royses's room,
Speaker 7: and he does not explain how he gets out again.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank the pole.
Speaker 7: I'm inside, sucker. But nothing before that I see anything
Speaker 7: like this. Look you nothing a ported door. It's up
Speaker 7: window sixty feet.
Speaker 1: Above the ground. I'm fussy, I'm fu he's happened, but
Speaker 1: he don't. I'm huck. We would go to the ste
Speaker 1: I'm muched a col work on this.
Speaker 2: Cliss But neither Monsieur le Coun nor any of the
Speaker 2: other brilliant minds of the French police could find any
Speaker 2: clue upon which to start an investigation. The apartment was
Speaker 2: searched almost tall apart in an effort to find the
Speaker 2: trapped door or secret passage. Nothing nor the suggestion of anything,
Speaker 2: always a bolted door, a locked window.
Speaker 1: Two weeks later, Monsieur.
Speaker 2: Le cour is seated in this office as the serious
Speaker 2: tased off into the Lieutenant. Monsieur courlo know no further
Speaker 2: develop more in the delical case.
Speaker 7: Nothing, monsieur, I have cone the underworld of party, hoping
Speaker 7: for the chance, wor for a single thing that one
Speaker 7: might call it clue. An't see any enemies, no, monsieur,
Speaker 7: not that that the fine, no money, nothing to be
Speaker 7: a robber. Not what touch careful plan you had someone
Speaker 7: watching at the morgue when the when the.
Speaker 2: Rose Delacour was laid down, we.
Speaker 1: Monsieur, not to put the use to one morbid crowd.
Speaker 7: No, No, I'm well character and decide that everyone that
Speaker 7: I have picked up at it presently as the alibis
Speaker 7: of that time.
Speaker 2: You are no suspicion of Madame du prince normally. Besides,
Speaker 2: no woman's got that, granted which she could have knitted
Speaker 2: the murder and let him out again.
Speaker 1: That still does not account for the door bolted on
Speaker 1: the insieme.
Speaker 2: May we, of course more lutono always we counted the
Speaker 2: door bolted on the in's head.
Speaker 7: Always with you, till my dying day, I shall find
Speaker 7: myself face to faith, for that's out outdoor bolted top
Speaker 7: and bottom at lady, glass window knocked on the inside,
Speaker 7: and all de la cour lying there staring unseeing at
Speaker 7: the Stelius.
Speaker 2: And today, almost half a century later, when the Paris
Speaker 2: police discussed the murder in the room Orgue, they come
Speaker 2: face to face with the same problem, the lost window,
Speaker 2: the door bolted top and bottom on the inside. Our
Speaker 2: deference to people who are still alive, character names in
Speaker 2: these unsolved mysteries have been changed inasmuch as any solution
Speaker 2: must of necessity be supposition. Liberties of time, place, and
Speaker 2: character exist in the solution that will be presented after
Speaker 2: you've heard from your sponsor, Ladies and gentlemen, the solution
Speaker 2: for which you have been waiting, Tell me, monsieur le
Speaker 2: cur have you no idea after all these years.
Speaker 1: As to how the murder of Rose de la Cour was.
Speaker 2: Perpetrated, Maarie, because I think I have a possible solution.
Speaker 1: You must understand, monsieur.
Speaker 2: And at the time of the murders, in the room
Speaker 2: or the chimney sweep was a familiar figure on the rooftops,
Speaker 2: and among the chimney pots are Paris chimney. This week,
Speaker 2: Monsie Marie, the chimney sweep cleaned the chimneys of Pari
Speaker 2: by lowering a round brush on a piece of rope
Speaker 2: or a pool made of many pieces of wood fitted together.
Speaker 2: I understand you understand me here that I have no
Speaker 2: idea who the murderer might be, but I think I
Speaker 2: know how he committed the crime. These murderer realized that
Speaker 2: he chimney swep would hardly be noticed on the roof
Speaker 2: of Rose Delacour's apartment. I can see him donning his disguise,
Speaker 2: an old foot grind suit, carrying his bag of paraphernalia.
Speaker 1: But hidden in that bag was a French bayonet.
Speaker 2: I can hear him as he creeps over the tiles,
Speaker 2: muttering to himselom easy the way.
Speaker 1: I have planet, he cannot fail.
Speaker 9: I lower these two oaks on the two lengths of string.
Speaker 1: Now lower the bayonet.
Speaker 9: Then I will go to Rose de la course room.
Speaker 1: I will lie under the bed, and when she is
Speaker 1: fast asleep, by killer. In a few moments, I fixed
Speaker 1: the oak to.
Speaker 2: The door and the strings to the balls.
Speaker 9: It is so simple and very turn to the roof.
Speaker 9: I pulled it too, stringe and ulla they bolts stair close.
Speaker 9: I pulled the syring and the hooks up the chimney.
Speaker 9: And yes, I must not yet, I must not forget
Speaker 9: the third string. Hy pulled him two, because on.
Speaker 1: That I have to play in it.
Speaker 9: How they will puzzle over the mystery, these French police.
Speaker 2: And puzzle they did, these French police, and with them
Speaker 2: the rest of the world. Edgar Allan Paul wrote his solution.
Speaker 2: But Paul was writing fiction, and so in order to
Speaker 2: give legitimate literary punch to his deneumon, he ignored the
Speaker 2: fact that the chimney was too small for even the
Speaker 2: tiniest monkey, let alone an ape, to get through.
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