Bill Lance: Death Wears a New Dress

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it is time for this week's episode
of the Adventures of Bill Lance. The
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original air date October the twelfth,
nineteen forty seven, and the title is
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Death Wears a New Dress. The
American Broadcasting Company challenges you to a startling
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puzzle in crime, The Adventures of
Bill Lance, starring General Lord with Alan
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mcnairra's but that's w Ulyssie Higgins.
I'm their Lands. I'm primarily a composer,
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also a criminologist. That's it's more
accurate to call me a student of
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human nature. You know. I
believe that crime is the result of a
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delinquent society, that the criminal mind
is a sick mind, and that the
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symptoms of that sickness are always apparent
in the behavior of the criminal. Therefore,
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if you would expose a criminal,
look for fingerprints on the doorknob,
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but also look for imprints on the
human mind. In short, human emotions
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of my clues. Oh, yes, I also played the piano. Oh.
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You can say a lot of things
that way. Sometimes it's an accompaniment
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to thinking, particularly when you're trying
to unravel some of the tangles of human
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behavior, helping to bring some kind
of order into the chaos which people seem
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to create so easily. Why,
for instance, when when everybody was so
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curious, if not worrious, about
a new friend and fashions, should death
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choose to wear a new dress?
Never can tell how swiftly a familiar human
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problem can build into a tragic snarl
of emotions. A matter of fact,
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even my friend, Professor Ulysses Higgins, seemed to be building himself up to
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a passionate fury. And I had
all started and just because I felt like
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going a little work on my concerto
M G cl two plus c O H
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two equals m G o H two. Plush no no, no, no
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no non members c A c l
man. Huh. Yes, yes,
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perhaps if I modulate into F sharp
in this phrase. But if he had
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calcium had druck side to magnusium,
clarade your pacificate the magnesium as a hydrate.
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Maybe a progression of chords ending with
the diminished seven m zcl two plus
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c A o H two equals m
g oh. Oh, you're speaking of
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meumussis. I'm merely trying to quat
chemical campaigns in my mind what's left in
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my mind? But that's internal noise. You're making noise, my dear professor.
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What strikes you a tin here as
noise? Maybe heavenly music to a
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more discriminating order. Even if your
proposition with true your penis is false,
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you cannot call that piano chinkering music. Touche, let's argue the point.
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Huh saved by the bell shall Yeah, I wouldn't dream of taking you away
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from your magnesium and hydrates. Hello, oh, hello, I don't know
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whether you remember. You didn't start
by saying guess who, So it must
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be somebody alike. June Adams June
Darling, it's been over a year.
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Where have you been? Uh still
infection? I know, yeah, I
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couldn't think of a nice figure for
it. It happens too where yo,
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very she she, I feel you're
always different from what you always would give
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me good at Oh? Yes,
sometimes I talk too much for my own
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good. Oh where are you living? Now? I can ride over?
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I can't tomorrow? Then tomorrow,
Oh good, I'll see you there.
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I don't think why not. I've
been wanting to get a look at the
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new style, to give every woman's
figure a chance. Kind of nights.
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There has been much too much hype
of conversation about the new friends and miligious
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fashions. As soon as I mean, the world can stand still. No,
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as we change within, we must
change without without talking about clothes without
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clothes. But I ari look to
the future, and in the future I
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see the past, and in both
I see today's woman, the neat this
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trick of a week. I've very
told fortunes before you got into this racket.
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So now with me, today's woman
on our ari. Pull yourself together.
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First, the cocoon, the new
swelt, the silhouette in smooth black
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wood, no accentuations of shoulders,
no centuations of the waistline, in fact,
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no situations at all, in fact
no good Where next? Next the
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triangle in shimmering red velvet with gracefully
sloped shoulders, swinging simply but dramatically to
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the low and white bluck hen it
must swing and swing loves winglow sweet cherrier.
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Yes, out and no dramatic file. The watch with the diminished shoulders,
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the petted boozoom, the rounded hip
line, and the pinched weight.
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Hey, yes, now that that's
more like that reminds me of my grandmother.
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It does, but not tell Joan
man, who is that John modeling
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that one? Yes? And she
doesn't look so good? That good?
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Hello, Joan? Yeah, look
John, put me may I could throw
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place, mister John. What is
happening? What is it? Miss Adams?
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Joan, she can't hear you are
Ray Jones dead? I found something
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there. I want to introduce you
to miss Sandra Weston. Come in,
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Miss Weston. You did find something, professor, Yes, yes you,
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hello, miss Weston. Hello,
mister land Why why don't you the cool,
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the smelt silhouette and smooth black wool? Yes, so glad? Why
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didn't you tell me that miss Adams
was ill when she came in today.
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But Henri, I didn't know she
was there. I don't she was upset,
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but she came perfectly. Well,
I'll tell you why she was upset.
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Were you close friends? We shared
a dressing room, We liked each
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other. That's what you mean.
I can't understand what? No, neither
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can I. I got your message, and oh am I interrupting something private,
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I inspected. Thanks for dropping by, Inspects Meet Inspector Holland blood Harm
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Sandraw Weston. Hello. Wow,
you know Professor Higgins. Of course,
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yeah, I know him. I
feel exactly the same words. This is
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not a matter for watched the gag
lance. I heard a girl by the
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name of Joan Adams, one of
Henry's models, died here just a few
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minutes ago. Ah, she collapsed
in the salon. Sounds like a job
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for a doctor, not me.
Hadn't I do? It might be in
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your territory, Inspector, Yeah,
I came down here to see Joan Adam
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instead or alive. No jokes,
I knew Joan. I saw it die.
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Okay, I'm sorry, wells you
called me last night. She was
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in trouble. What kind that's what
I came here to find out what trouble
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caught up with the first. You
think it's maybe Stewart's side stars side.
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Yes, I know, miss Weston, you're thinking the same thing I am.
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Joan. Wasn't that kind of a
girl? Huh? And maybe murder?
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Maybe murder? Oh no, no, no, no, I'm postable.
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How do you know it wasn't murder? Henry? How do Randall inspector?
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This is definitely his? Yes,
and naturally that changes everything, not
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for me? What have you got
besides theories? Lance bouts of asprint a
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bottle of vitamin pills here on him
on Joan's dressing table. I guess I
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might as wont to take them down. I'll have them an alives. Let
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me know what you're find sure.
I wouldn't want you to waste your time.
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I'll give you a buzz too,
Henry, in case you're interested me.
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What is it myth? I'm ruined
already anyway? Oh your listens?
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Can you answer that place? No? No? Okay, okay, that's
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when we're getting you to stop playing
it is hello? Hello Lass. Oh
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you guess Brent, that girl didn't
want to live. She took poison.
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Michael Best aid, there's no proof
she took it, inspector didn't. Analysis
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of the stomming content shows that you
eat lunch, had a couple of cocktails
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and ask them in the vitamin pill
without getting the ideas the bottom of askepirin
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and the vitamin fills you file showed
not wonder where she got the cocktails lest
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the last you yourself told me he
was in some kind of trouble or whatever
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it was. She couldn't face it. Okay, thanks for letting me know.
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Goodbye, m Lake for company.
Never too late for this place.
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Don't don't bother number. I'll get
it. You have the wrong appostments.
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Everything's wrong, even this supartment.
I can't help it. Good thing.
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Wait a minute, uses isn't it
sure it's George King Cave? Oh?
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This is then this man? Here
was Jess Kinning. Who is this?
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Bill Joy's King Katie the jeweler in
Beverly Hills long mention this? Oh can
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I please come in and sit down? Yeah? You're better before you fall
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down? Thank you all? Was
my ginner George. Wait a minute,
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here's the chair. He feels good? What is the chin? Sumoha?
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Oh? Bill? Bill Bill A
Bill All, Bill All, Bill All,
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Bill All. That's me Bill.
Bill. I don't know how glad
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I am to see you. Bill, I just hard to see you.
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You were there. You you'll understand, of course. Now give me a
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break, Joyce talking beginning. Huh, Bill, I've started rust from the
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very beginning. That's the place.
Yeah. Who is that man over there
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is a corner? Nobody? He
just lives here. Oh well, right,
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iven, b I've started right from
the very beginning. You see down,
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look at me. You that's come
on, come on, George.
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Why did you coming here? Oh
look Bill? You saw everything anybody's telling
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me? Oh Bill, Bill saw
my father. Poor girl, Bill,
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I didn't know. He's delirious.
And I tell you list he's given time.
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Hey Bill, we don't know.
Bruce Randolph, oh sure, lives
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in Bella, lots of money.
One of my very best customers bought a
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bracelest who his wife's birthday a couple
of months ago, diamonds and rubies,
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red ones, real thing too.
And then then a couple of days ago,
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missus Randolph comes in buying something so
and actually I asked how she liked
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the bracelet. You know what she
said what bracelet? You see what I
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mean? They've shot people? But
lessing that, Jordan, I know,
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Bill, I'm all good. I
started all you see, mister Randal was
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a little extra currc extra curric he
played around with Joan Adam. How did
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you know? You just told me? Oh, I knew you would understand,
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Bill, Bill bro I feel better. I'm glad. I guess I'll
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gone on. You can make it. I got his, didn't I?
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Bill? I send him glad.
I had his nice little talk with you.
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That man's looking at me, and
watch out, Bill, he's got
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any Oh my, there goes the
forerunner of a beautiful hangover. How can
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you waste your time on a drunken
pool like that? Who wasted time?
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I don't start building a case on
a lot of idol? Talk about a
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bracelet? He didn't even know who
mister Randolph gave it to. But I
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do, evil eye look diamonds and
rubies, real thing? Where did you
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get that bracelet? Off? Jones
Race? What are you gonna do?
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That's I'll give it a mister Randolph
so he can give it to missus Randolph
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for her next birthday d d DA, So long, ulysses? Were you
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going so earlier, I have a
date with a cocoon? What oh,
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why she hadn't been for me?
You wouldn't even know that there was a
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Sandra Weston after all, I found
me? Why of fessive? I didn't
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know your kid? Why didn't you
say something? Had a chance to speak
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to you about it? You?
I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll
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put in a good word for you. Oh Sandra and a microphones under the
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table. Nobody's even looking this way. You can I'll speak freely. What
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do you want to know? Just
what do you think of the broken down
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hemline and the droopie skirt? That
isn't a fair question. I make a
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living showing how fashions change, honey, this is no change of the revolution.
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That doesn't excite to me. I've
been through too many of them at
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antrays. Do you want to give
me a pension? I've been a too
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long. You think I'm one of
the sixtures. Maybe anytime you want to
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break your contract, I could be
interesting, a nice speech, miss to
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learn, But you're not in addressing
this. When you didn't ask me to
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lunch to just to talk shop?
Did you? Would you say? Joan
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Adams is shop talking. I can't
get Joan out of my mind, as
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I've got somebody else in my mind. Now, No tell her name,
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Randolph. Oh you know very little. Well, then I suppose there's no
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reason for my trying to cover up
with Joan and wad. Yeah, I
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wondered why you didn't say anything.
What Joan did was her own affair.
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Now, well why stodn't any ugly
godsam? Yeah, I was. Joan
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really worried about yesterday morning Missus Randolph
called her and actually head lunch. Oh
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that explained the cocksail. Well,
she had a couple of drinks from Missus
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Randolph. That's all. So tell
you how the meeting turned off. She
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got back at the shop before I
did. But when I thought it grow
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into a dressing room, I heard
her calling with someone recognize the boys,
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Bruce right now. But that doesn't
prove anything, doesn't. Yes, it
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does prove something very important, Bruce. How lucky I am lucky? Yeah?
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All this hadn't happened, I wouldn't
have met you, Oh haven't.
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I'm lucky Hill. Now you've made
me an honest man, I don't have
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to play detective anymore. Just make
a date with you tonight. Well,
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that's a like concept can break that
might lead to a complication. I can
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be so discreet, but it's a
friend with you. No, that even
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makes it easier? Who is it? Ulysses? Well, what do you
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know? When did you make the
dates? He called us before you picked
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me up? Where the two timing? Double coat and second thought? More
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power to him? Right now he
and I have been shopping to do in
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Beverly Hills. Man, I would
be only too willing to help you,
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but of course it is completely unnecessary. Now is it all right? Oh?
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I have talked with the inspector.
I learned it is very sad.
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O girl destroyed herself. I wonder
why? Who knows? There's so many
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reasons why one can despair? Of
course I didn't know poor John very well.
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Well, well enough, she had
been with me only a few months.
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But it does not mean that I
don't suffer as though she had been
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with me for years. No,
of course. Incidentally, did you know
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that Bruce Randolph came to talk to
Jones just before Why? Why? He's
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a very old and valid pat on
my son. He was seeing leaving jones
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dressing room just before the fashion show
I'm possible. She last, May I
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give you some advice? What has
been has been beginn into the past.
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Will do nobody any good? Well? Bill wanted to apologize. I must
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have been pretty far gone last night
to bar Jeanne on you that way.
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Don't apologized, George, you were
very cute and mister Kinkad you took an
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intense disclike to me. Oh were
you there? I don't remember you and
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must have been a mass How are
you talking of? Told us a very
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sad story about a birthday and a
bracelet. Dunk a nonsense, Bill,
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dunk a nonsense. H do me
your favor? Will you together? Oh,
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but there are a couple of things
I'd like to ask you about.
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Bruce Randolph. Bill, mister Randolph
has been a very good customer of mine
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for years. What I told you
should ever get out? I'm a dead
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duck. Bill. Why don't you
just give up and admit that you made
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a mistake. Oh, I know
what's on your mind, but there's nothing
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to it. And if you won't
listen to me, will listen to the
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others. Inspector Harland Armory, you
can carry I've listened to them. Well,
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I can't see I haven't tried.
Would you mind dropping me off here?
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I have more important things to do. Okay, you're listening. I
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wouldn't want to break your dates and
anyway, you're not interested in what Missus
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Randolph may have to say. Missus
Randolph, No, I'm not well.
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On the second thought, I guess
I do have time after stop kidding for
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Fethy. You know in the end
you always come along for the ride.
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Cozy little shack, isn't it very
very? It is very very I always
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did think that that twenty four rooms
wasn't live Oh, I don't know.
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In a tine she could turn this
living room into a nice skating rink.
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Yes you wish to see me,
Oh, Missus Randolph. My name is
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Bill Lance. This is my friend, Professor Higgins. Oh was it something
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connected with the university. No,
no, Missus land, I am not
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here in my official capacity. But
my butler said you had an appointment with
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me. I don't remember making anything. Oh you didn't. Actually, I
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took the liberty of coming here to
ask you a few questions about a friend
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of mine. Oh, Joan Adams. Joan Adams, I'm sorry, I
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don't understand. Well, she was
a very close friend of your husband's.
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That's subtle identifying for you. Who
are you, mister Lane? Don't you
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know ulysses if Missus Randolph, I
thought you'd appreciate my coming to see you
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before the police do police, mister
Randolph was rather deeply involved with miss Adams.
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Yes, sorry, I'm aware of
that. Perhaps you don't realize how
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deeply. But what has that to
do with the police. Johan Adams died
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yesterday afternoon. I'm sorry she was
murdered. Your husband happened to be in
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her dressing room at Henri's yesterday afternoon. There was an argument. He left
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suddenly and angrily, and almost immediately
afterwards, Joan collapsed. She died of
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poison. Poison Bruce I was the
quarrel about how fared he committed himself.
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But he couldn't have done it.
She took the poison herself. Oh no,
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Missus Randolph, I knew Joan Adams
may have been foolish, but she
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never ran away. What did she
have to gain by killing herself? But
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her husband was in a real jam. He wasn't very discreet. You though
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all our reason knew about him and
Joan. Mister Lane, I'm going to
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tell you something you don't know.
I had luncheon with Joan Adams just to
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please uses. I've never had any
illusions about my husband, but I love
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him, so I accepted his romantic
indulgences. I've even felt sorry for some
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of the girls, especially when they
took him too seriously. That's why I
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wanted to speak to Joan Adams.
You understand that, mister Lane, she
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took him too seriously. I had
to find out. She laughed at me.
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How could a young girl like that
know what what a home means?
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How could she know how a wife
feels? How could she understand it?
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You don't just give up everything that
has meaning because of a whim. You
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think my husband killed her, No, mister Lane, I was the one
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who had to get rid of her. All right, let's violent ways of
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handling that kind of a situation.
Missus random you told me the police would
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be coming here. Yes, I'm
quite willing to tell them what I've told
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you. And now, mister Lance, would you leave please? I assure
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you that I'll be here when the
police arrive. Where now I've seen everything,
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not some nerve in her body?
Why does she lead me feel like
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that? She was doing us a
favor by confession. Quite a girl.
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Somebody's got to stick around make sure
she doesn't change your mind. Well,
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goodbye, wall. Wait a minute, I've got to call Inspector Holland,
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and I've got to run and catch
Randof before he leaves his office. Why
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Randoff, don't you think he might
like to know what's happening? It's none
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of mind. Would be a word
about your date? Forget me? Oh
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no, no, you listes.
I'll guarantee that you keep your date,
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even if I have to deliver Sandra
to you personally. John Adams, No
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afraid Lance whatever gave you the idea? Anio? I ad him an other
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things, mister Randolph as bracelet,
I thought you might want it, after
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all, didn't you bias for your
wife's birthday? Where did you get there
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from Joan? After she died that
she was poisoned? So because I gave
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her that bracelet, you came here
to blackmail me? Well if you no,
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No, that isn't why I came
here. I just wanted to tell
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you that your wife had launched it
with Joan yesterday she learned about the bracelet.
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May talk about you over a couple
of drinks. I thought she'd like
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to know. Also, that your
wife has just confessed that she murdered Joan
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Lance. I'm a r don't apologize, but I've always been able to get
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away with it, always been able
to go back home, and until this
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time, this time I had lost
my head Jones dressing home yesterday afternoon.
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Yes, yes, she let me
my wife. I went a little crazy.
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Oh so now you're confessing to the
murder of John Adams. Yes,
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yes, of course, Yeah,
that's it. Well and Randolph, in
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that case, i'd high tailed out
of your house. A police are on
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their way now to pick up your
wife. Oh, spies, why did
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you do with the professor? Well, he didn't really need to stand you
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up. He was he was delayed. You were the circumstances beyond his control.
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Oh we got our murdering. Was
it really murder? Tell you all
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about it on the way out.
Oh, they going. I promise Ulysses
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would take him up. We can
always ditch him later. Well, well,
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well, miss Weston, you did
me. I hope William has explained.
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Yes he has, Professor Higgins,
you're forgiven. But that's very nice.
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It's very nice. Bill The randolphs
in the living room with Inspector Harding.
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You won't be eating us any longer. You keep your shirt, an
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old boy, we can all go
out together later. You don't mind,
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are you? Soundra? Take us
a minute it too, Come on,
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inspected. It's quite unnecessary to make
my wife endure this any longer. I've
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already told you that I did it, and I don't. Yeah, you
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know it. Just a minute,
folk, Well last, you're just in
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time to solve the solution. I
got one murder at too many. Oh,
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it's not like you to complain when
business is so good, Inspector.
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But I think we can settle us
very quickly. Elements to Randolph. Missus
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Randoph. Oh, oh yes,
I need we forgot Oh Soundra, come
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on in. You both know Soundra
Weston? Of course? No, wait
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a minute. I couldn't be mistaken. You do know one another, or
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it did once. As a matter
of fact. That's why I brought Sandra
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here to help us with our little
problem. What do you mean what she
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got to do with our list?
She knows mister and Missus Randolph better than
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we do. Perhaps she can decide
which one is telling the truth. I
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wouldn't want to take that responsibility.
Oh, just for a moment, imagine
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yourself as Joan huh O very year, think back a little while when you
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were in a very similar position,
aren't you If you're wondering how I found
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out, Well, it's pretty hard
to keep the secret around the place like
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aunt Ries, when you get expensive
gifts from the jeweler, like kin Cave.
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Mister Randolph has always been very generous
to his lady friends, hasn't he.
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You never asked me about that door. I would have told you it's
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over anyway. Don't you agree with
me that it's pretty hard to imagine Missus
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Randolph killing Joan. She didn't kill
you when you were involved with her husband.
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And when mister Randolph had a little
trouble shaking you off after it became
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interested in Joan, he didn't kill
you either. You see, they have
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all the answers. You told me
about the luncheon date with Missus Randolph,
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about hearing mister Randolph and Jones dressing
room. You knew why Joan was agitated.
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The stage was all set. Joan
had a headache, didn't she.
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You were very helpful, So you
wanted some aspirin and so inspective. Would
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you like another confession, Sandra?
Sandra, you were over, you wouldn't
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believe me. I never let anyone
else, But hey man, it seems
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to do one night, three confessions, only one score inspect The two don't
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count. At least you could have
told me neither, Sandra. Yeah,
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I wasn't too sure myself until the
Randolps were cleared. You mean they were
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cleared when they confessed. Oh?
Sure, that eliminated them. You see,
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in shielding each other, they showed
how they would behave in a crisis.
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They got a move for them right
then. But if either one of
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them had murdered Joan, they wouldn't
have left that bracelet on her arm.
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That's dazzling bit of evidence. Would
have inevitably committed one or both of them
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with a murder. Se But what
first made you think it might be?
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Send Sandra herself. She told me
she'd been with Henria a long time,
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and Henri told me Randolph had been
an old customer. She recognized his voice
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in Joan's dressing room. She called
him Bruce, and then caught herself.
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Well, once I knew that it
was comparatively easy to check up on history
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and find out more about Randolph and
Sandra, and then I had the motive.
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Yes, but Sandram, why did
it have to be sent? No
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ulysses? Underneath that solemn moustear mask
of yours is a heart just palpitating with
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romances. Too bad your dream girl
turned out to be Lucretia Borger. You
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have been listening to another in a
series of undriguing mysteries starring Gerald Morris,
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Bill Lance with Hard McNair's You Listen
Higgins the Night. Supporting cast included Cliff
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Clark as Inspector Holland, Georgie Alliss, Sandra le Unblastos Are Lauras Calvertus,
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Missus, Randolph par McVeigh as mister
Randolph Charles Calvertus Kincaid. Music composed and
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played by Rex Corry. Join us
again next week, same time, over
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most of these same ABC stations,
when we bring you another of Bill Lancer's
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strange experiences in a story titled Special
Delivery. This Bill Lance Adventure Death Revenue
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Dress was written by Barbara and Milton
Merlin and directed by Whitehauser. Now Here's
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a special program note. David Harding
steps into a hot bed of intrigue in
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the case of the pony passport paper. Don't miss David Harding counters by this
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afternoon on his same ABC station,
This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Welcome
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back. Well. I enjoyed this
one. I did think that his solution
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that if either the husband or the
wife had committed the murder, they would
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have taken the bracelet with them.
It's kind of making a big bet on
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people thinking clearly in a very emotional
situation. Criminals do make these sort of
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mistakes in real life. I think
it's tricky in fiction because you don't want
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to rely too much on your criminal
being a stupid or making a dumb mistake.
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But you also wanted to have that
realism with that criminals do make mistakes.
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But other than that, this episode
was a lot of fun. I
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continue to enjoy just the relationship between
Bill and Ulysses. And of course Howard
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mcneir is always a lot to listen
to, and this is an recurring role
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where he's able to play to the
eccentricity that so many of his characters possess.
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You know, even in the one
shots where he's playing suspects on something
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like I'll let George do it or
yours truly, Johnny Dowler. Also,
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we got to hear Leon Blasco in
something other than The Man Called X.
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That was a question you know,
Bill asked like a few months back,
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and so it is nice to be
able to illustrate that on the program.
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The idea of a criminologist using psychological
clues to solve crimes was not unheard of
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during the Golden Age or radio.
We played a series a few years back
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called The Crime Piles of Flamont.
However, I think this series is actually
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a bit more enjoyable to listen to. It's got quite a bit more charm
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and the music element works well too. All right, well now I want
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more episode of the Adventures of Bill
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