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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 Broadway's My Beat.
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But first, I want to encourage you, if you're enjoying
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And I want to also let you know that today's
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go to patreon.greatdetectives.net. Well now, from November 8th, 1952, here
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is The Bob Foster Murder Case. The Bob Foster Murder.
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Case Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle.
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The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
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Broadway's My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
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Broadway's My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
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Nighttime of November. A special time on Broadway. Sense it.
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It's a new time.
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When the after images of early autumn are dying. Cloaked
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already in river mists. Chill and drifting. And sense this.
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That winter is already at a place not far away.
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Drifting too. Hung from a pale moon. Scutting over the
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city and making new shadows. Hurry. It gets dark quickly.
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Where I was, darkness was cut across by the fingers
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of light intersecting the beams of two searchlights focused groundward.
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Destruction of building temporarily halted. Rush wrecking job stopped because
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of this. Remains of dead man found and report phone
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to headquarters. This would be the cellar, Mr. Clover, where
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we found him. Under three inches of composition flooring. Uh-huh.
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What does it look like to you, Mr.
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Clover?
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Real puzzle, huh? Just a skeleton and all? Well, there's
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something we can tell about him. You know, what I
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can't figure out, that satchel of money laying beside him.
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Must be over a thousand bucks in there. About that.
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Imagine lying five years under a cellar floor. How do
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you know it's been five years, Mr. Rogers? When I
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bought these three buildings to tear them down for a garage,
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I got a story about this one.
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Right where we're standing.
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What story? Of course, we've torn down to the cellar,
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so you can't tell, but this one used to be
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a nightclub, you know.
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No, I didn't.
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Yeah, it was. That's the story, a scandal or something
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about this nightclub. The bank told me. Partner or something
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five years ago ran away with the payroll or something
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to California. What else? Nothing, except that the other partner
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tried to hold on to the club, but it failed
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a year later. Bankrupt. Bank took it over four years ago.
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Couldn't lease it.
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Nailed it up.
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Anyhow, that's the story the bank told me. It doesn't
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look like the man ever got to California. He was murdered.
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Sure, what else?
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He didn't just lie there and pull three inches of
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composition flooring over his head. Shot. Huh? Twice.
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See the bullet?
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The chest cavity?
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Hmm.
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Small caliber, 22. And here, right arm fractured and beside it, see,
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another bullet. Bigger one. Yeah, 38. Shot twice by two
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different guns. Like I said, a puzzle.
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Well?
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Well, what? This is a rushed job, Mr.
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Clover.
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You know that. Let's get this stuff out of here. Morning, Danny.
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Say good morning in case you didn't hear. Hi, Dennis.
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Sit down. Excuse me for saying it, but you look
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a little beat. Big night last night?
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No.
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You're a single man, Danny. You're entitled to a big night.
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Were you going to say something, Danny?
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No.
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Oh.
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Then maybe this will interest you. Got a rundown on
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that corpse you found last night. What about it? Well,
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that's what it takes to get a rise out of.
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You, huh?
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Come on, come on. Get with it. Yeah, I'd better
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do that, else I won't be liked, huh? Technical, charred
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at the teeth, Mugovan put the code on a teletype.
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Late last night, the one place we got a call
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back from was Dannemora. Did you get on identification? Code
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checked out to a former prisoner named Bob Foster. Released
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six years ago after a ten-spot stretch for grand larceny.
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Anything else? Stick with me, kid. I'm loaded. My identification
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came in. I checked it with R & I. They
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had a file on Foster. Here, wait. Muggerman left some
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notes for.
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You.
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Yeah, 1947, May, May 23. The year after he was
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out of Dannemora, Foster was wanted on suspicion of grand larceny.
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Packed a satchel with his partner's dough and ran out
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on him. That would be the satchel you found.
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Who was his partner?
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A fellow by the name of Joe Turner. He and
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Foster opened a nightclub together at Blue Sheen's. The year
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after Foster allegedly checked out with his partners, though, the
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joint went into bankruptcy. And the word is Joe Turner
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cried his heart out at the time. Beat his chest.
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Called his partner naughty names. Any lead on Turner? One
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of the boys traced him to a hotel on West 12th.
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Only the hotel is out of business now. Management converted
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the place into offices. Nobody knows what became of the
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hotel records, so... So on all points, bulletin on Joe Turner, huh?
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Yeah.
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Is that all? Yeah, it's got a girl type in it, too.
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Aggie Blaine. Used to do a poker with clever parakeets
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at the boys' nightclub. The last known address, let's see,
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1326 West 34. You did real good, Dennis.
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Pull up
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Oh, what? Those bills you found in the satchel.
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What about them?
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Their serial numbers were in series. Must have been the
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nightclub's payroll. A few weeks after Foster went up in
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a puff of air, five twenties out of the same
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series turned up in sunny California. That's all? Now I
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can go? Yeah, you can go.
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Don't sit in that chair, Sonny. Just pick a spot
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on the floor and stand on it. It's the floor,
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the floor, not the rug.
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This okay, Miss Devlin?
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Floors don't belong to me, Sonny. Furniture does. Let's not
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louse up the furniture, huh? What do you want?
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Some information about a girl named Aggie Blaine.
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My niece. Brother's daughter. Brother's dead. Went out without muffler
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and rubbers. Winter of 36. Got himself a flu that
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wouldn't quit. Fell over in his face next day.
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Never got up.
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Where's Aggie?
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My niece?
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That's what you said.
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Blew out of here a long time ago. Don't know
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whether she's alive, dead, or what or. Could be married
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to the king of Turkey for all I know.
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How long ago did she leave?
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Oh, been five years. Used to be a dancer, Aggie was.
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Used to.
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Hey, don't lean on the furniture, sonny. Pretty furniture, huh?
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Huh?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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New as the day I got it. You want to
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sit down? We go in the kitchen. Not in the parlor.
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Not on this stuff.
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What do you do, Miss Devlin? Huh? Your niece used
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to live with you. She's gone now. What do you do?
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Taking rumors?
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You mean sublet?
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I guess so.
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What for?
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Who needs it?
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Retired, huh?
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It's nice.
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And all this furniture, ornate. Huh?
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Oh, you mean tricky with the curlicues and the things, huh? Yeah,
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all mine. Bought and paid for.
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Let's get back to Aggie, Miss Devlin.
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I don't know if she's alive or dead. I told
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you I didn't... There's a.
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Dance at a nightclub called the Blue Sheen.
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With pigeons.
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A blue one and a yellow one. One named Gloria,
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the other named Phyllis. Oh, I've seen it myself.
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Look, Miss Devlin, one of the men who owned that
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club was found last night. He'd been murdered.
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You're leaning, sonny.
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He'd been murdered. And your niece might be able to
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tell us something about it. Couldn't you give me some.
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No, no, nothing. Aggie, she was a dancer. Is she alive?
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Is she dead?
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How do I know?
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And leave there. And once more into November day, its
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furnishings also not to be touched nor leaned against. For instance,
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the autumn perfume worn by the girl who almost brushes
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your sleeve, sidesteps, changes course, furries on. And from far off,
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the brief wild sob of a freighter sailing out of
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autumn waters. And at headquarters, it arranges itself into familiar pattern.
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Routine investigation into death. And wait. And on the first
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quick surge of November night, the return on the all-points bulletin,
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Joe Turner, bankrupt nightclub owner, had been spotted in a
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Skid Row bar. Third booth on the right was all his.
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Go there. The place is jukebox and fat cats drawing
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symbols inside us. The place is Joe Turner, who was
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once a man.
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You come up with a drink, mister, and something good
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will happen to you.
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You understand me, Joe? I'm from the police.
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Something real good. I'll dance for you. You watch me.
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You watch me. You hear this?
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It's just for you.
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Sit down, Joe. You don't have to do that.
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You like me, huh? You'll
buy.
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Huh?
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I got other routines. Tell me about your nightclub, Joe.
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Huh?
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Your nightclub, the Blue Shane. Tell me about the club
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and about Bob Foster.
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Him? Oh, you're a friend of Bob's?
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Well.
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I'll hate you.
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I'll squash you like a fly, so help me.
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What'd he do to you, Joe?
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Oh. He did something to me.
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Foster. Bob Foster. He stole from you, didn't he?
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What?
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Out on me.
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Didn't even wave goodbye. Just took my money, danced off someplace.
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Far away.
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Never sent a postcard.
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Nothing.
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Aggie either. Aggie Blaine?
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Ah, there was a dancer. You ever see her? Oh,
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she's a stunning dancer. Well, I'll show you a dance.
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It's with the hands first.
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You know where Aggie is, Joe?
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Aggie's far away, too. Aggie and Bob. Blue Sheen.
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We found Bob last night, Joe. He'd been buried under
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the cellar of your nightclub.
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Bob. Bobby Foster. Oh, that's where he's been.
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Did you kill him, Joe? Because he stole from you
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and went away? Joe, listen to me.
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I performed for you, mister. Where's my drink?
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Did you kill him, Joe?
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I don't know. Maybe I did.
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He deserved it.
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Maybe I did. You think I did?
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Come on, Joe. Let's you and me go uptown. And
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book him. Charged. Suspected felony. Murdered. Turn him over to
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the policeman's gould as to proper procedure and proper jail
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tier and proper cell. Back to the office and sit
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at the desk. Far away, a light is turned off.
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And another. And a swollen sag of gray suddenly hangs
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from the black sky. Morning folding over the horizon.
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Danny, downstairs.
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Come on.
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Down the corridor, in the steps, and outside is damp.
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It's still night.
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Ambulance just pulled in. Blown it upstairs.
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I got it. Miss Devlin.
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Uh-huh.
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Shut.
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Dead, Danny?
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On account of the police rang her doorbell yesterday? On
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account of she's Aggie Blaine's aunt? I'm talking to you, Danny.
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You think so?
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You are listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton
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Fine and David Friedkin, and starring Larry Thor as Detective
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Danny Clover. Two outstanding events on CBS Radio tomorrow in
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the daytime. For one, the Quiz Kids return to the
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star's address to begin another series of their breathtaking metal gymnastics.
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Professor Joe Kelly will be in charge of the little wizards,
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and they'll all be waiting for you to join them
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tomorrow on most of these same stations. The other big
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event tomorrow is the American radio premiere of Christopher Columbus,
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Darius Milo's famous opera conducted in concert form by Dimitri Metropolis.
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It's the featured work on the New York Philharmonic Symphony
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heard on most of these same stations tomorrow. Broadway makes
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its entrance out of subway kiosks, out of night corridors,
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blinks once and long against the light of a new
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member day, then moves into it, soft, polite. It's the
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thing to do. Treat the morning nice. Don't step on
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the cracks. You'll still be on your feet when day
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is done. And the other performers, the man hanging from
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a spectacular, twisting out the Mazdas that died in the night.
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And the mannequin, her face dusted, a bolt tightened where
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wax had given in to night. And torso and head
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tilted closer now to shop window. And unwaxed lips, the
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good morning kiss. A new day, kid.
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Live it.
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And at headquarters November morn is Sergeant Gino Portaglia dipping
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a finger into a container of coffee.
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Just testing, Danny.
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Oh?
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You leave these things to the whim of that new
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girl in Ballows, Delco. I knew it. Too sweet.
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Oh, that's too bad, Gino.
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Eh, some days you wake up on the wrong side,
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you get too many lumps in your container.
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True, true, Gino.
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Don't feel bad about it, Danny. No percentage in building
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a tragedy out of it. We'll both be bigger persons
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if we don't make of it an issue with the delicatessen.
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And off to work we go. You game, Danny?
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Whatever you say, Gino.
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Am I permitted a simple statement of fact?
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Of course.
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I admire you.
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Thank you.
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To work.
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Why, no, Joe Turner is still in the drying-out tank. Also,
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Ballistics has established that in the murder of Miss Devlin
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and Aggie Blaine, the murder weapon was the same that
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five years ago did do in Bob Forster, suspected absconding
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with his partner's loot.
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Same weapon?
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Indeed.
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The bullet that was found in the chest cavity of
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the remains of Bob Forster bore the same markings, riflings,
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as the bullet extracted from Miss Devlin. Ergo, same weapon
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was used. Small caliber gun, Danny,. 22.
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Then whoever killed Foster five years ago is still around.
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Which brings me to Miss Aggie Blaine.
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Oh, how?
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That in a routine perusal made by our boys of
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vital statistic records, a marriage license date of July 3-0, 1947,
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was found made out to one Aggie Blaine and one
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Herbie Morse.
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They find the.
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Don't interrupt, Danny. A check was made on said Herbie
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Morse and was found that he owns a drugstore on
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23rd corner of 9th.
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That's how.
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You care for my coffee, Danny?
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No, no, but thanks anyway, do you know? Thanks for everything.
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You're just useless,
Mrs.
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Westfall, and you'll have that lanolin flush look in no
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time at all.
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Thank you. Yes, sir? What can I do for you?
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Mr.
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Moss?
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Right.
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My name's Clover, Mr.
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Moss.
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I'm from the police. Hi. I'm trying to get some
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information about a girl named Aggie Blaines.
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Depends upon what kind of info you want. She was
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my frow. Some things I'll tell you, some things I won't.
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Just tell me how you met her and when you
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met her and why you're not married to her. Things
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like that, Mr.
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Moss.
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What's the matter? You think you could have stayed married
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to her?
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Mr. Moss.
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You haven't got the dough on the wherewithal. Just tell
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me about it, Mr.
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Moss.
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She's not going to make a fool out of me.
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You know what I'm going to do one day, buddy?
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Get me another wife, a big gal, a big blonde gal.
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Then I'm going to find me Aggie and walk up
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and down in front of her with my big blonde
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wife rubbing her cheek to me.
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I'm going to show her... When did you meet Aggie?
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On an airplane.
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I said hello to her, and from there on in,
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it was air pockets all the way to Frisco.
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You met her on the way to California, huh? When
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was this? In 47, Druggers Convention.
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I never saw the inside of the convention hall, not
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with Aggie showing me the fancy eating places, and me
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with a paper to read on dressing at the prescription department.
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Go on.
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That was in June. Then back in New York, somehow,
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she wouldn't let me see it. Then she called me.
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When?
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July the 30th.
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I know, because July 31st, we tied the knot.
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How come the divorce?
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A fella.
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I worked late one night fixing up a one-cent sale.
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I came home.
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She wouldn't let me in. I beat the door in
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with my bare hands. There was a fellow there selling rugs.
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He gives me his card and left. Next day, she
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followed him. One of these days, I'm going to look
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that guy up.
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You know that? You still have his card?
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Do I?
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Right in my wallet. I want it. You're going to
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fix him, huh?
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Swell.
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Here you go.
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Here's the card.
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I'm on your side, buddy.
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Have you seen Aggie since then? I'm happy to say no.
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However, the day that I do, I will also find
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me that big blind buddy. I'm going to parade her
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up and down in front of that.
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And get out of the way of Mr. Moss's wagging finger.
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And through the aisle, lined with preparations guaranteed to keep
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you alive longer than anybody. Right turn, down the aisle
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of space guns, insecticides, and bubble baths. And then left
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at the table where everything is marked down to 19 cents...
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And out into the street. Legwork now. An address off
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the card given to you in the drugstore. Mr. Irving Lufthander,
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drug dealer. Aggie? She ran out on me, mister. Long
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time ago. Customer of mine came in one day and
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ordered our most expensive.
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Number wall to wall.
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Aggie went along with the delivery truck and never come back.
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Customer's name? Ewing.
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Dr.
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Keith Ewing. Big back man. Got offices in the Muncie building.
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And at the offices of the Muncie building, be told
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by Dr. Ewing that Miss Blaine was merely a patient
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of his, and after he cleared up her back condition,
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he never saw her again. No, he never treated her
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at his office. She was an outpatient at the Cheney Hotel.
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So go there, Cheney Hotel. Yes, the clerk says. Miss Blaine, yes, indeed.
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He checked out, he's sorry to say. The morning after
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an automobile dealer's conclave, he remembers. Forwarding address? Why, yes, indeed.
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1213 East 61st.
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So go there. The girl who answers the door is
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dressed in velvet pedal pushers, but shakes her head sadly
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at the name of Aggie Blaine. Agatha, it seems, moved
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out on her about a month ago. Bag, baggage, and
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her very own boyfriend, Tony. Where? Well, Tony owns the
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apartment building over on East River, Beekman Place.
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So go there.
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Yes?
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I'm from the police, Danny Clover.
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And I'm too desperately sorry because whatever it is, I
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can't use it.
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Let's talk about it inside, Miss Blaine.
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Oh, but then we'd be committing something or other, wouldn't we?
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Oh?
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Oh, yes, there must be a city ordinance or something.
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You see, I'd let you in here and we'd talk
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or whatever, and all the time you'd be operating under
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false pretenses. Naughty.
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Tell me about it.
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You see, dear boy, I'm not Miss Blaine. Not the
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girl you need. Not Miss... What Blaine?
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Aggie Blaine. Girl who used to work at a club
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called the Blue Sheen. Danced there with birds.
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With birds? Oh, how desperately thrilling.
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That's what we'll talk about, huh?
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So pulpy in years. Nightclub dancer with birds, man of
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the police knocking at my door. Oh, just walk right in, Mr. Crowley.
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The rugs are deep and the fireplace is Italian marble
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and my dressing room is perfumes and custom-made crystal and
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full-length golden mirror and it's a castle and I call
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it home. So you may plump down wherever you like.
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I'm grateful.
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Don't thank me, thank Tony. Tony Crenshaw, my fiancé. Nothing's
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too good for you, Agatha, he said, and he's loving it.
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I got this
shack on our wedding day. All mine. Oh,
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that Tony, he's a charm, all right, all right.
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And now you're Agatha's... Agatha Raines.
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Always was, always will be. Oh, I almost slipped. Soon,
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Agatha Crenshaw, Tony's wife.
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You want to hear about Aggie Blaine?
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Dying. It's how we met, we two. Yeah, speak to
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me of Aggie.
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Five years ago, she was a dancer at the Blue Sheen. She... Yeah, there.
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Were feathered creatures. You said all that.
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There was something else.
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A man named Bob Foster.
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Just one man? Well, this dancer couldn't have been very good.
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Bob Foster, ex-con. Five years ago, 1947. Partner in the
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Blue Sheen. We found him the other day buried under
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its cellar flooring. He'd been shot twice, murdered.
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Oh, tell me you're not making this up. Because if
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you are, I'd die of disillusion. It's so desperately sordid
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and thrilling.
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You ever know this, Bob Foster?
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Not till this precious instance. But don't let that stop you.
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Go on.
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Aggie Blaine had an aunt, Miss Devlin. Yesterday, she was
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murdered with the same gun that killed Foster.
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Isn't that always the way?
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Another thing about Aggie Blaine. In 1947, she met a
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man on a plane to California. When they came back here,
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they got married. A man named Herbie Moss... Serves the.
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Girl right, killing her aunt and that foster fellow.
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Yeah.
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Get your things. We're going downtown.
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Oh, such a short time and we so well know
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each other. Already you're taking me out.
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We want you for suspicion of murder. Get your things.
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Oh, it's a lovely day. And when I got up,
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I didn't know what I'd do with myself this morning.
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And you've come up with something. Let's go wherever you want, Mr.
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Clover.
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And this room is what, Mr. Clover?
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Interrogation room.
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Sitting or standing?
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Sit down, please. Smoke?
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Oh, I have my own. You can lighten, though.
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Yeah.
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Thanks. Still excited?
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Tolerably.
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It's slowing down. Do something about it, Mr.
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Clover.
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Like book you now?
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For what was that again I've forgotten?
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Murder.
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Oh, that's a charge, all right. That's really one of the.
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Danny? You got him? Bring him in.
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Come on, Joe.
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How do you feel, Joe?
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It's a shame the way I feel right now.
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Hi, Aggie.
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Charades, fellas? Am I supposed to guess what he is?
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Yeah, do that. Hint.
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A guy named Joe Turner. Co-owner of a nightclub named
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the Blue Sheen. Partner found in the cellar. Employed a
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girl named Aggie Blaine. Now guess why he's here.
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Hi, Aggie.
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There's no excitement in it anymore, Mr.
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Clover.
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Take me home.
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Then you don't know who this man is.
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By the pink of his eyes, I'd say a wino.
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You look nice, Aggie.
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A rumpot. Well, there's another way we can do it, Denison.
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Get the druggist, get the rug salesman, the doctor.
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Hey, look at her, Danny.
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She's getting excited all over again. Those people bring back
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fond memories, lady.
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You should have seen her when she danced. Should have
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seen her with the blue light. The spinning spot.
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Hi, Joe.
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Where you been, Aggie?
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I looked for you once, Joe. I couldn't find you.
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You're a stinking liar, Aggie.
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Now you see why I didn't find you.
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Now we all know each other. Hi, Aggie.
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Sure.
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I used to know a cop.
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I've been drinking a lot, Aggie. I've been thinking about you.
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Have you?
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Joe, she's still pretty.
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Almost all we need, Joe, is the motive. Why did
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you kill Bob Foster?
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Hey, Aggie.
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Don't remember out loud, Joe.
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He one of the business, Joe? The nightclub or her?
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Tell him, Aggie.
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You want to confess how you killed Bob?
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Go ahead.
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Oh, baby, baby. I'm going to tell him my part, baby.
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I never killed anybody.
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Joe.
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Who'd I kill?
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I wanted the business, so... So I took a shot
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at Bob, but... I hit him in the arm, that's all.
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Then he ran to you, Aggie.
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You boys believe rum pots around here?
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Go on, Joe.
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Next time I saw my... My poor old partner, he
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was dead.
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Then you felt so sorry for him, Joe, you buried
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him under the cellar with some money to see him
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on his way.
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Oh, that Aggie, she's got a mind on it.
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She figured it.
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Go ahead, Aggie, show the fellas how you got a
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mind on you.
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Mr. Clover? Huh?
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It's getting serious, huh? Huh, Mr.
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Clover?
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That's the lieutenant's serious face, yes. It's getting serious.
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Look.
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Look, Bob Foster came over with a shot arm. I said, Bob,
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before you go see an M.D. about your poor bullet-filled arm,
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here's a gun. Bob, I said, you shouldn't take that
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from a guy like Joe. When I handed the gun
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to him, it went off.
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Well, that's some mind.
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And what was your aunt defending herself against when she
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got shot by the same gun? Well... When Bob came
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to you when he was shot, you were staying at
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your aunt's place, weren't you?
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Well, yes, I was.
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Your aunt knew what happened. Blackmailed you.
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Hey, how about my aunt's furniture? A scream, huh?
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Furniture, income, proceeds from blackmail.
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Was your aunt dead, Aggie? I didn't know. Gee, you're
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all alone, huh?
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She lost the whole thing for us, Joe. This policeman
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came calling. She got panicky, called me up and said
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she was going to talk.
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Oh, I.
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You see.
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Yeah, sure.
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From the first she lost it, Joe, you and me.
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Since I got back from California, remember?
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Now, how about that California trip, Aggie?
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Great.
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Just took a flyer to plant some of that money
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Foster was supposed to have stolen to make it look
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like he'd run away to California. Hi, Joe.
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Five years, honey. I've had a lousy time.
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What about you?
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Great.
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A time... A real time.
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You're still lying.
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Yeah.
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I've missed you, Joe. We probably see a lot of
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each other now. For a time.
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For a time.
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In the ebb of nighttime, the slabs of Broadway lean
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against the darkness in crazy, tilted angles. The balance is delicate, precise.
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So the walk must be careful, the talk quiet. It's
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the never-never time that drifts in from the edge of
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the world, the time of regret. It's Broadway, the gaudiest,
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the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
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Broadway. My Beat.
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Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover,
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with Charles Calvert as Totaglia and Jack Crucian as Mugovan.
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The program is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with
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musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story,
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Mary Jane Quaft was heard as Aggie Blaine and Sheldon
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Lender as Joe Turner. Featured in the cast were James McCallion,
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Ted Bliss, Martha Wentworth, and Peter Leeds. Bill Anders speaking.
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©
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with which, nevertheless, you are temporarily bored? If so, CBS
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Radio's dramatic adventure program called Escape is meant for you.
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in for a new drama of Escape at the star's address.
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And remember, Amos and Andy are here every Sunday on
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the CBS Radio Network.
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© transcript Emily Beynon.
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Welcome back. This was actually a really interesting role for
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Sheldon Leonard. There tend to be a couple types of
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characters Leonard tended to play. One on the comedic side,
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playing a range of sketchy characters, particularly in a horse
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race story. And in there, you'll have things like Runyoness characters,
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or small-time comedy crooks or con men like he played
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on the Martin and Lewis program. And he's also shown
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that he can play the much more straightforward, dangerous criminal
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or gangster or just hard- and steely type of character.
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Here you get to hear him in a much more
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unusual range as this utterly defeated wreck of a man. Oh,
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very nice to see something a little bit different from Leonard.
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I'd have to chuckle at the line, that's the lieutenant's
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serious face. I mean, the thing is that we have
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been listening to Danny for a hundred odd episodes at
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this point. And my question would be, how would you tell?
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I mean, I'd be like, isn't that just his normal face?
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I imagine that Danny smiles less than Batman. At least
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that's how I imagine him. Listener comments and feedback now.
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We have a comment from YouTube regarding the episode, The
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another episode of Broadway's My Beat, but join us back
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here tomorrow for Dragnetware.
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Well, when I came up here this afternoon to show
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them the stones I'd brought, he didn't know the good
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from the bad.
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Yes, sir.
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Well, in almost any collection, there are bound to be
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a few stones that aren't absolutely perfect. It looked all right,
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but there may be a small flaw someplace inside the stone. Naturally,
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their value isn't the highest.
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I see, and this Roberts didn't know the difference.
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No, but I should have known anyway. Those eyes, you know,
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the meanest eyes I ever saw and so close together.
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Well, was there anything unusual that you might have noticed
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about Roberts? Anything about his speech, his manner, anything at
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all that might help us identify him? No, just like
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I told you.
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Seemed nice enough.
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Well, did he give you any indication that there might
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be something wrong? Not at all.
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Of course, I wondered about it. He's not knowing much
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about diamonds, but I figured that if he was... willing
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to pay what I wanted, I didn't have to concern
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myself with what he's going.
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To do with the stones.
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Well, Mr. Roman, I wonder if we could start from
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the beginning, exactly what happened here.
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He knocked me out.
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00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:07.500
No, sir, I mean what led up to his hitting it. Oh,
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I'm sorry.
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Well, as I said, he told me to bring the
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stones up here for his father to see. I did,
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and then we waited for the father to show up.
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We were over there by the window looking at the stones.
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You know, they look better in sunlight.
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Yes, sir.
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Well, when we finished, he said something about his father
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never being on time. I turned to look out the window,
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and that's when he hit me, right here on the
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back of my head.
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Can you see it?
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Yes, sir, I can.
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I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime,
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send your comments to box13 at greatdetectives.net. Follow us on
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signing off.