May 24, 2025 • 29 mins
Step into the world of a private investigator who solves complex cases with keen observation and intellect. His adventures are filled with suspense and unexpected twists.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
William Gargan stars as Barry Craig, confidential Investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The old saying early to rise, folks can't possibly mean
a thing to a corpse.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Your Pontiac Dealer presents William Gargan in another Transcribe drama
of mystery and adventure with America's number one detective, Barry Craig,
confidential Investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Barry Craig speaking the trick and continuing on as a
confidential investigator is to keep on good terms with the police.
Right comes time for your license renewal, and a department
storehead can louse it up for you. Play foot through
with a corpse, conceal evidence, rack up as many black
marks as you must, but be sure you've got a
friend somewhere in the higher rechelance. I say, like a
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lieutenant willing to countersign your renewal application M where it
reads character references. Ah, the fool that I am, Craig
endorsing your application. Your signature goes down here trav no
bloding now right neat, certifying you as a man of
good character. However, will I atone for the perjury? The
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guilt get too much for you. I can refer you
to a Highbridge. Okay, I have sign you're free to
harris and otherwise misuse and abuse me for twelve more months.
I'm looking forward to it. Chum, I'd start and right
away if I had a case. Oh, don't tell me
the great man's idol one meal away from pouring my
bed unless you've got an idea. I get the hint
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even if I court, Why shoul I throw it in
your way? Because you hate seeing me fall dead from hunger? So?
What case did you have? And learned? Two cases? You
even have a choice. Both of them prefer a confidential
operative to official police methods, official notoriety. And I was
asked to recommend someone. I'm all is case one A
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missus Cora Talbot wants help in finding her husband, Stanley Talbot.
Talbert's been missing more than six years. What's her motive?
And looking for love or her last ditch search? She's
about lost hope that he'll ever return. She wants the
petition to haven't declared legally dead so she can remarry.
Interesting how big a fee? Twenty dollars a day in
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expenses kind of anemi saw the lady can afford? He said, no,
what's my alternative? A publisher named Hillary Grayson. He ran
the best first Novel contest fifty thousand dollars to the winner,
and the prize winning manuscript was stolen, very mysteriously. Once
it worth to Grayson to get the manuscript back a
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flat two thousand dollars. So which of the two has
you see thee with a desire to see justice done for? Well,
I don't wanna be mersed in there, and then you'll
accept missus corral talbats. I'll call and tell her, call
and tell publisher Grayson. It's not on account of the
higher tab. The fact is I've been a long time
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wanting to raise my cultural level. The publisher Grayson had
more body than any one. Guy needed three sets of
jowls and thick eyeglasses. Looking into his eyes was like
watching fish in an aquarium bowl. Get that manuscript back,
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mister Greig, spare no effort or expense. If the manuscript
isn't recovered, I'll be the jackass of the publishing world.
I hold on a minute, Grayson, you're forgetting I don't
know what it's all about. I just got here. Yes,
I suppose I should give you the facts. It would
be helpful. P winning book manuscript, The Cry of the
Hyaena by Eric Trent, was stolen right out of my office.
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That's bad, catastrophic. It was the only copy in existence.
The author has no carbon duplicating how come writers usually
make copy? Usual writers usually do. But this is no
usual writer. This is Eric Trent. Yeah, this is photograph.
Mm I get what you mean by that's why not
being usual? Does he always wear a chin whisker? Yes,
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Trench a brilliant, eccentric, a man who's roamed every corner
of the world, a wanderer who wrote one page here,
another page there, six years in the writing and more
than a thousand pages and no carbon. First prize of
sixty thousand dollars, yes, well the other awards one other
five thousand dollars or Second prize won by Oscar Sachs
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for his novel Four Devils in the Midget. Oh, this
is a photograph of Oscar sax Well, this one's clean. Seven.
Uh can I talk out of or are you the
sensitive time? Ask me whatever you like. Fifty five thousand
dollars in prize money. Isn't that a lot of cabbage
for a for a small publisher. Your offices haven't exactly
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got that mahogany and chromium. Look, the prize money doesn't
really come from me. It doesn't an independent motion picture company,
Pyramid Pictures. They pay the prizes in exchange for world
rights to film the book. Any more questions? Yes, how
many officers are there? And that's Suite six? Why do
you ask that I'm already in there pitching for you?
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That intercommunications box on your desk? Is every office equipped
with one? Yes, of course, but I don't. The box
has switched on, as you'll notice it's been on. So
this whole talk we've just had, who in the Grayson
Publishing house would be interested in the uh long range eavesdropping?
I don't know. Suppose I find out, but I didn't
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find out the eavesdropper? Is that of my curiosity? To
do with all his mite? An inkwell pitched at me?
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now back to Barry Craig.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
My eyes opened on Grayson, sprinkling water on me with
a spun. You're alright, quit watering me. I'm not a
petunia bed, but you were unconscious. I'm conscious now and
you're ruining my suit ruined anyhow equally equal. Don't tell
me red ink yet. My fees gone up? Grayson up
two thousand plus forty nine seventy five the price of
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this suit. A while later, on the street outside the
Grayson officers, the motors tootored me over a long hair
driving a sky blue pink GALUPPI. I let him pick
me up. You paging me friends? Yes, I I'd like
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to talk to you. What about it? If you get in,
we can go somewhere. I'll buy you a drink. Oh, buttermilk.
There's a buttermilk far over on eighth Avenue in the
bottomilk bar. We had a chat for the books. I'm
Oscar Sack. I know that I saw a photograph of
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you and the Grayson publishing officers. Oh, but were there
some facts about the book contest? I think you should
know why? Why you You've been engaged by mister Grayson
to locate Trent's missing manuscript while am I wearing a
sandwich son. I obtained the information through sources I cannot disclose.
He made us facts I won the second prize of
five thousand dollars, but I was cheated, cheated out of
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the big money. As a yes, explained, Please, the contest
rules clearly specified that the award was to be made
only to an American office. And I have reason to
believe Eric Trent is an Englishman, or anyhow other than
an American. To put it bluntly, a fink who should
be disqualified. Disqualified? Why you're moved up to first place
than fifty thousand dollars. Yes, let's have your bill of particular. Well,
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for one thing, Trent's way of talk, it's a z
leish is the House of Parliament. Another thing, Trent was
somewhere overseas on a tramp island in English possession when
he sent the manuscript in that summarizes it. This is Moore.
Trent has a tattoo on his right arm. I happen
to get a good look at it. It's a tattoo
of the British flag. Would an American where the British
flag on his arm? They tell me about a McDonald
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it you're really out to grab yourself fifty gees?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Well, why do you find that so odd?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Craig just that I thought artists had no money. Sent
I have, and I'm not apologizing for it. Okay, I've
got your point of view asking. Oh, yes, one little
thing remains. Hold out your hands, but hold on what proper? Asked?
Redink smudges on your right thumb. You've been playing with ink? Well, Sonny, what, Craig,
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I didn't mean. I don't apologize. Fun's fun, and I
like to play myself. My interest runs the sugar ball.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
It's Craig. No.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
No. Eric Trent's address, furnished me by Grayston, was a
rickety studio walk up Seventh Heaven in Bohemia, Greenwich Village.
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The door opened on a blonde who idewer that she
was already counting your money higher. Hello, this is sixty,
isn't it? That's what it says on the door. It's
my astigmatism? Is Eric Trenton?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
No?
Speaker 5 (11:33):
That I am.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Baby. I'm not a gentleman caller.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
So who's tough luck?
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Would you call it? Come in? Trent said for you
to wait, if you simply had to see him.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Trent expected me, yes, and.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Mister Grayson, the publisher, he phoned and said you might
be over. You're Barry Craig's a detective.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
He said, Uh, Barry Craig, confidential investigator.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
I'm Judy, Judy Joyce. Well, come on in and I
wanna bite you.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I was waiting for you to make that promise.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
God right next D and sixty. I come in here
to play the radio. Mine's out of order. Oh that's
bummy figals fans orchestra. You're hearing oh don every day
this hour, I got just me dilapidated if I miss
hearing Bunny come again?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Did you say dilapidated?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Yeah, dilapidated like fazzles, you know, fractured or were you
correcting me on the words? Oh no, no, Eric's always
correcting me on the words. Imagine me keeping company with
a real, live author type.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Sure I can't. I can even imagine fifty thousand reasons.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Huh what'd you say? Oh that's Eric now Eric, Oh Judy,
I'm the sofa very Craig, the investigator. I've been keeping
him here for you.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Thank you for the I'll he'll leave us alone.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Jure, I gotta slip the perssonow n, I was flawed myself.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Excuse me while I shut off the musical background. Oh,
mister Craig, the object of the visit. You're a stolen brainchild?
What else? But what can I do about it? I
submitted it in good order. I'm not responsible for its disappearance.
How come only one copy? Why didn't you type up
a carbon duplicate? I have no patience with purely clerical details.
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I'm an artist, but the full risk of losing the
one copy, I'm a man who takes wrist, Craig, My
years are broad away from America. I've lived a life
of risk, skipped the personal build up. Whatever I went,
I traveled lightly, suos on my back pipe, tobacco and
a pencil. It was enough of a nuisance cutting one
copy of a thousand pages around? And how was I
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to know my confounded book would ever get to a publisher,
much less win a prize? Okay for that? What's your uh?
Guests on the missing manuscripts? Grace? What more? A stump?
Grayson intends exploiting this whole affair for all the publicity
you can ring out of him. It's an angle the
fifty thousand would you say you uh won it legitimately? Legitimately?
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I mean, what if you were to be disqualified as
the first prize winner, say, on a technicality? What technicality?
Not actually being of American origin, as the contest rules specify.
But I am an American with a British accent. I've
spent years in the Islands from Jamaica and British amaticum.
I'm told you have a tattoo of the British flag
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on your right arm. So when I sailed the Seven
Seas and like a sailor, I had myself decorated with tattoos.
But the British flag on an American citizen. Ah, wait
until I open my shirt. There are you looking at
the tattoo on my chest? Mister Craig, Yeah, the American Eagle.
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Why do you know? Expand your chest? Genius, expand. I
wanted to see old ball day flappers wings. The first
break in the case developed over the phone. I was
in my office, stunking my feet, Harry Craig speaking, Hey,
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this is what garants.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
About the stolen manuscript.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Listen, Gabali Church old of.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
'em named Mike Kelsey got in touch with me.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
He admitted of stealing the manuscripting why did he mistake?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
He said he was under the impression that it was valuable,
a rare manuscripts Hulave that.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
He wants to rejet it now, with no questions as.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
How much loaded. He after one thousand dollars. It's paying ransom,
compounding a polony.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I must have the manuscript back grade. I told him
to negotiate the transfer from you, and you're representing me.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
In the minute where it's a thousand, I'm sending the.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Money over to you with cash by messenger. Go to
meet this Mike Kelsey the tavern, the fly Great Screek.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Sure, sure, I'll be discreet. The cash came by a messenger, Okay,
And I got to negotiate in the Flying Horse tavern,
A mug with heavy artillery bowsing his coat, waiting at
a table for me. You Mike Kelseie, No, I'm my McGuire.
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I'm here for Mike. Hey, you're negotiating for grations, so
I'm here negotiating for Mike Kelsey. Now let's negotiate without
any monkey business. Craig, Why ha got under both armpits,
but there so as they don't develop a stoop on
one side. Oh, now here's your manuscript right in the wrapping.
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Mike Kelsey found again. Now kempt me out of fast
Rand their one thousand dollars college yourself. It seems okay,
and don't be stupid enough. They stop me from leaving.
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The publisher Grayson was out. Would I please call later?
A secretary told me I'd gone back to my office
to cool my heels for a while. When the phone rang.
Verry Craig speaking Craig. Now watch your beef, Craig.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I've discovered something. I think you want to know.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Something that will promote you into the fifty.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Jeans, something that won't help very tend to me a fraud.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
They're playing a cracked record. Junior tell me that, all right,
I'll come hear you out as soon as I dry
my feet and rustle up a change of socks. I
didn't get to hear Sacks out. To achieve that, I'd
first have to perfect a way of communicating with the dead,
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I left Oscar sax As. I found him sprawled backwards
over a writer's desk, a nice standing vertically in the
Adam Bapple. I left him as is, so Lieutenant Trevor
Rodgers wouldn't howl the heaven and the da that I'd
once more tampered with a corpse gracing drooled with joy
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supreme over the recovered manuscript. This is a load off
my mind, Craig, A big load, but it sounds nothing.
Who stole it? And why? And why was sax murder
between the time he phoned me and the time I
got to his flat. I'll show you the manuscript racing,
and I've got a question here. Examine it and then
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tell me is this the same manuscript that was stolen?
The shame? I sure it is the cry of the
high universe, Eric Trent. Examine the manuscript, not just the
title page. Study a few sample pages and it's the same.
You'll swear to that on a stacker. No, No, I
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won't swear. You've detected something. Some changes, yes, I think yes.
The one thing this copy is cleaner. The edges of
the pages are it's so ragged from handling, as you'll
remember them. There were ben Yes, even the title page
looks faltered. Now. I remember a burn here in the
upper right corner near the author's name, to burn like
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from an accidental cigarette. I'm convinced this isn't the copy
that was stolen. But what can it mean? And to
find out? Grayson? Yes, phone Eric Trent. Get him to
come here to your office on some pretext. But why
so I can have the run of his studio without
Trent being the wiser or being present. Eric Trent had
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all the accumulated junk of a guy with a passion
for changing climate, souvenirs from Bombay, the Dutch Indies, Labrador souvenirs,
and brad carved ivory porcelains, and in the bottom bureau
drawer a manuscript, The Cry of the Hyaena, with a
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cigarette burn on the title page. Eric Trent had stolen
his own manuscript. I had the evidence in hand, but
keeping it wasn't going to be so simple. A lady
was against it. A lady healed with a gun twice
the size of her dainty lotioned hand.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Miss Judy Joy, Yes, mister Craig, it's Judy Joy.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Through the uh convenient connecting door.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I heard noises in here, and I made it just
in time to catch a burglar. Drop that manuscript.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
You charmed me into it. Want a word of advice, Beautiful, No,
I thought you would bring off Eric Trent as fast
as you can flick your glamorous eyebrows. You're crazy being
true to Trent's an awful waste of war paint. Now,
why are you tryna tell me the trent's value on
the hoof has just been slashed by about fifty thousand dollars?
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He he won't get the money. Neither will you get
the money. You're a lawyer, duh junkle. I'd hate to
see you dragging your gorgeous chassis up the river Sunday's
visiting ye author in the big house, saw me a
drink still making with the gun.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Aimed at your head while we wait for Eric. The
stuffed on that coffee table there, and soda bottles right
alongside it.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Okay, I'll play bartender.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
So when when?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
How much soda just to squirt? That's enough? Spot more? Huh?
Just enough to damp on your spirits? Had enough? Shit's
no good. We held an all night session me, Lieutenant
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trev Rodgers, and Grayson comparing the two manuscripts page for page.
It was early dawn before I found a discrepancy between
the two versions. You found something, Craig, Yes, treev. The
coral Lane's disappeared from the substituted version. Who's Coraline tell Um? Grayson?
Cora Lane is a character who appears early in the novel,
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the woman the hero meets falls in love with. She's
in version one, she's out of version two. Now, why
would the author go to all the trouble he did
submitting a manuscript and then stealing it back just to
write a character out of the book Because the name
Cora Laine means something something he didn't want f found
out means what Cora Lane was a character? Say? Uh,
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drawn from real life. She's a real name, a real person.
Excuse me, mister Craig. They're saying that Trent only realized
that when it was almost too late to make the change.
One thing's pretty clear to me, Drayson, Eric Trent didn't
write the book. Somebody else did. Who would you say
did write the book, Craig. The hero of the story
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is my guess, Stanley fields Hm. Only that name is
probably an invention, or Eric Trent would have changed it. Yes,
it figures. The book is an autobiographic work, a man's
true personal history disguised as fiction, the personal history of
someone Kent stole the manuscript from someone now dead, or
Trent would never have dared to try for the big prize.
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Trym Yes, arrest Eric Trent book him for the murder
of Oscar Saxon. You're sure sax tumbled the fellow the
truth and Trent shut 'em up. Trent was also behind
the Mike Kelsey red herring. That was a trick to
throw dust in our eyes. Arrest Trent the lieutenant, and
when that little charge all the check police files and
directories for a coral lane go to a twelve on
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this one. I'm making you.
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It took two days for trying to get back to me.
When he gave he had a lady with him, the
gray lady with hoarded eyes. This is Coral Lane. Craig,
Coral Lane, Mary Craig. Mister Craig, how do you do?
How did you find her? Travel police files. The name
of Carl Laine appeared on an old record card she
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reported her husband missing some years back. Then.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Name my husband.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
He left one morning, never returned. I was frightened. I
I imagined him injured, a traffic victim. I didn't know
then that my husband had planned.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
To just disappear, that he couldn't live in my world.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
That he had so much wonder lust.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Her husband was the Stanley in the book, the author
of it. As you theorized, Craig, your husband was a writer, Yes,
the writer all through him.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Foolish, wild, irresponsible and wonderful too.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Is he dead? Tell her to Yes, he's dead. Oh.
According to Erick Trench's confession, your husband died of a
tropical disease somewhere in the Pacific. Eric Trent was adrift
of Your only husband had taken up with an odd thing, Craig,
What odd thing? I offered you one of two cases
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the end of the day. Won't bring that up now.
You took one, but you solved both. Uh what? Cora
Lane is the maiden name of missus Stanley Talbot, Missus
Cora Talbot, not the twenty dollars a day in expenses
deal I passed up. Yes, as it turned out, you
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found her missing husband. Mm my gray, lady treve and
all around losing her life hasn't been good. Her life
needs fixing. Missus Talbot. Yes, Greg, we're taking a ride,
you and me a ride cross town. You've been poor,
but now you're rich. That book of your husband is
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the cry of the Hyaena. There's fifty thousand dollars coming
to you, and I'm going to stand over. Grayson Riley
makes out that check. Good night, folks, See you next week.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
You've been listening to William Gargan in another exciting transcribed
mystery drama from the Adventures of Barry Craig, Confidential investigator.
Tonight's story, the Paper Bullets, was written by John Robert.
Next week, it's the strange story of death and the
Purple Cow, about which Barry Craig has this to say.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Next week, I lose a client before I get him.
A man dies in a Hamburger joints, and a purple
cow turns out to be neither a cow nor a
purple See you next week, folks.
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Featured in the role of Judy was Barbara Weeks. Barry Craig,
starring William Gargan, was under the direction of Hymon Brown.
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This is Don Pardo speaking. Now. Enjoy Meredith Wilson's Music
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William Gargan stars as Barry Craig, confidential Investigator.
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The old saying early to rise, folks can't possibly mean
a thing to a corpse.
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Your Pontiac Dealer presents William Gargan in another Transcribe drama
of mystery and adventure with America's number one detective, Barry Craig,
confidential Investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Barry Craig speaking the trick and continuing on as a
confidential investigator is to keep on good terms with the police.
Right comes time for your license renewal, and a department
storehead can louse it up for you. Play foot through
with a corpse, conceal evidence, rack up as many black
marks as you must, but be sure you've got a
friend somewhere in the higher rechelance. I say, like a
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lieutenant willing to countersign your renewal application M where it
reads character references. Ah, the fool that I am, Craig
endorsing your application. Your signature goes down here trav no
bloding now right neat, certifying you as a man of
good character. However, will I atone for the perjury? The
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guilt get too much for you. I can refer you
to a Highbridge. Okay, I have sign you're free to
harris and otherwise misuse and abuse me for twelve more months.
I'm looking forward to it. Chum, I'd start and right
away if I had a case. Oh, don't tell me
the great man's idol one meal away from pouring my
bed unless you've got an idea. I get the hint
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even if I court, Why shoul I throw it in
your way? Because you hate seeing me fall dead from hunger? So?
What case did you have? And learned? Two cases? You
even have a choice. Both of them prefer a confidential
operative to official police methods, official notoriety. And I was
asked to recommend someone. I'm all is case one A
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missus Cora Talbot wants help in finding her husband, Stanley Talbot.
Talbert's been missing more than six years. What's her motive?
And looking for love or her last ditch search? She's
about lost hope that he'll ever return. She wants the
petition to haven't declared legally dead so she can remarry.
Interesting how big a fee? Twenty dollars a day in
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expenses kind of anemi saw the lady can afford? He said, no,
what's my alternative? A publisher named Hillary Grayson. He ran
the best first Novel contest fifty thousand dollars to the winner,
and the prize winning manuscript was stolen, very mysteriously. Once
it worth to Grayson to get the manuscript back a
(03:02):
flat two thousand dollars. So which of the two has
you see thee with a desire to see justice done for? Well,
I don't wanna be mersed in there, and then you'll
accept missus corral talbats. I'll call and tell her, call
and tell publisher Grayson. It's not on account of the
higher tab. The fact is I've been a long time
(03:23):
wanting to raise my cultural level. The publisher Grayson had
more body than any one. Guy needed three sets of
jowls and thick eyeglasses. Looking into his eyes was like
watching fish in an aquarium bowl. Get that manuscript back,
(03:44):
mister Greig, spare no effort or expense. If the manuscript
isn't recovered, I'll be the jackass of the publishing world.
I hold on a minute, Grayson, you're forgetting I don't
know what it's all about. I just got here. Yes,
I suppose I should give you the facts. It would
be helpful. P winning book manuscript, The Cry of the
Hyaena by Eric Trent, was stolen right out of my office.
(04:06):
That's bad, catastrophic. It was the only copy in existence.
The author has no carbon duplicating how come writers usually
make copy? Usual writers usually do. But this is no
usual writer. This is Eric Trent. Yeah, this is photograph.
Mm I get what you mean by that's why not
being usual? Does he always wear a chin whisker? Yes,
(04:28):
Trench a brilliant, eccentric, a man who's roamed every corner
of the world, a wanderer who wrote one page here,
another page there, six years in the writing and more
than a thousand pages and no carbon. First prize of
sixty thousand dollars, yes, well the other awards one other
five thousand dollars or Second prize won by Oscar Sachs
(04:50):
for his novel Four Devils in the Midget. Oh, this
is a photograph of Oscar sax Well, this one's clean. Seven.
Uh can I talk out of or are you the
sensitive time? Ask me whatever you like. Fifty five thousand
dollars in prize money. Isn't that a lot of cabbage
for a for a small publisher. Your offices haven't exactly
(05:11):
got that mahogany and chromium. Look, the prize money doesn't
really come from me. It doesn't an independent motion picture company,
Pyramid Pictures. They pay the prizes in exchange for world
rights to film the book. Any more questions? Yes, how
many officers are there? And that's Suite six? Why do
you ask that I'm already in there pitching for you?
(05:33):
That intercommunications box on your desk? Is every office equipped
with one? Yes, of course, but I don't. The box
has switched on, as you'll notice it's been on. So
this whole talk we've just had, who in the Grayson
Publishing house would be interested in the uh long range eavesdropping?
I don't know. Suppose I find out, but I didn't
(05:57):
find out the eavesdropper? Is that of my curiosity? To
do with all his mite? An inkwell pitched at me?
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Speaker 2 (08:06):
My eyes opened on Grayson, sprinkling water on me with
a spun. You're alright, quit watering me. I'm not a
petunia bed, but you were unconscious. I'm conscious now and
you're ruining my suit ruined anyhow equally equal. Don't tell
me red ink yet. My fees gone up? Grayson up
two thousand plus forty nine seventy five the price of
(08:29):
this suit. A while later, on the street outside the
Grayson officers, the motors tootored me over a long hair
driving a sky blue pink GALUPPI. I let him pick
me up. You paging me friends? Yes, I I'd like
(08:52):
to talk to you. What about it? If you get in,
we can go somewhere. I'll buy you a drink. Oh, buttermilk.
There's a buttermilk far over on eighth Avenue in the
bottomilk bar. We had a chat for the books. I'm
Oscar Sack. I know that I saw a photograph of
(09:14):
you and the Grayson publishing officers. Oh, but were there
some facts about the book contest? I think you should
know why? Why you You've been engaged by mister Grayson
to locate Trent's missing manuscript while am I wearing a
sandwich son. I obtained the information through sources I cannot disclose.
He made us facts I won the second prize of
five thousand dollars, but I was cheated, cheated out of
(09:35):
the big money. As a yes, explained, Please, the contest
rules clearly specified that the award was to be made
only to an American office. And I have reason to
believe Eric Trent is an Englishman, or anyhow other than
an American. To put it bluntly, a fink who should
be disqualified. Disqualified? Why you're moved up to first place
than fifty thousand dollars. Yes, let's have your bill of particular. Well,
(09:57):
for one thing, Trent's way of talk, it's a z
leish is the House of Parliament. Another thing, Trent was
somewhere overseas on a tramp island in English possession when
he sent the manuscript in that summarizes it. This is Moore.
Trent has a tattoo on his right arm. I happen
to get a good look at it. It's a tattoo
of the British flag. Would an American where the British
flag on his arm? They tell me about a McDonald
(10:19):
it you're really out to grab yourself fifty gees?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Well, why do you find that so odd?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Craig just that I thought artists had no money. Sent
I have, and I'm not apologizing for it. Okay, I've
got your point of view asking. Oh, yes, one little
thing remains. Hold out your hands, but hold on what proper? Asked?
Redink smudges on your right thumb. You've been playing with ink? Well, Sonny, what, Craig,
(10:45):
I didn't mean. I don't apologize. Fun's fun, and I
like to play myself. My interest runs the sugar ball.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
It's Craig. No.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
No. Eric Trent's address, furnished me by Grayston, was a
rickety studio walk up Seventh Heaven in Bohemia, Greenwich Village.
(11:19):
The door opened on a blonde who idewer that she
was already counting your money higher. Hello, this is sixty,
isn't it? That's what it says on the door. It's
my astigmatism? Is Eric Trenton?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
No?
Speaker 5 (11:33):
That I am.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Baby. I'm not a gentleman caller.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
So who's tough luck?
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Would you call it? Come in? Trent said for you
to wait, if you simply had to see him.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Trent expected me, yes, and.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Mister Grayson, the publisher, he phoned and said you might
be over. You're Barry Craig's a detective.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
He said, Uh, Barry Craig, confidential investigator.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
I'm Judy, Judy Joyce. Well, come on in and I
wanna bite you.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I was waiting for you to make that promise.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
God right next D and sixty. I come in here
to play the radio. Mine's out of order. Oh that's
bummy figals fans orchestra. You're hearing oh don every day
this hour, I got just me dilapidated if I miss
hearing Bunny come again?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Did you say dilapidated?
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Yeah, dilapidated like fazzles, you know, fractured or were you
correcting me on the words? Oh no, no, Eric's always
correcting me on the words. Imagine me keeping company with
a real, live author type.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Sure I can't. I can even imagine fifty thousand reasons.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Huh what'd you say? Oh that's Eric now Eric, Oh Judy,
I'm the sofa very Craig, the investigator. I've been keeping
him here for you.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Thank you for the I'll he'll leave us alone.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Jure, I gotta slip the perssonow n, I was flawed myself.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Excuse me while I shut off the musical background. Oh,
mister Craig, the object of the visit. You're a stolen brainchild?
What else? But what can I do about it? I
submitted it in good order. I'm not responsible for its disappearance.
How come only one copy? Why didn't you type up
a carbon duplicate? I have no patience with purely clerical details.
(13:27):
I'm an artist, but the full risk of losing the
one copy, I'm a man who takes wrist, Craig, My
years are broad away from America. I've lived a life
of risk, skipped the personal build up. Whatever I went,
I traveled lightly, suos on my back pipe, tobacco and
a pencil. It was enough of a nuisance cutting one
copy of a thousand pages around? And how was I
(13:48):
to know my confounded book would ever get to a publisher,
much less win a prize? Okay for that? What's your uh?
Guests on the missing manuscripts? Grace? What more? A stump?
Grayson intends exploiting this whole affair for all the publicity
you can ring out of him. It's an angle the
fifty thousand would you say you uh won it legitimately? Legitimately?
(14:13):
I mean, what if you were to be disqualified as
the first prize winner, say, on a technicality? What technicality?
Not actually being of American origin, as the contest rules specify.
But I am an American with a British accent. I've
spent years in the Islands from Jamaica and British amaticum.
I'm told you have a tattoo of the British flag
(14:34):
on your right arm. So when I sailed the Seven
Seas and like a sailor, I had myself decorated with tattoos.
But the British flag on an American citizen. Ah, wait
until I open my shirt. There are you looking at
the tattoo on my chest? Mister Craig, Yeah, the American Eagle.
(14:55):
Why do you know? Expand your chest? Genius, expand. I
wanted to see old ball day flappers wings. The first
break in the case developed over the phone. I was
in my office, stunking my feet, Harry Craig speaking, Hey,
(15:22):
this is what garants.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
About the stolen manuscript.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Listen, Gabali Church old of.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
'em named Mike Kelsey got in touch with me.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
He admitted of stealing the manuscripting why did he mistake?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
He said he was under the impression that it was valuable,
a rare manuscripts Hulave that.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
He wants to rejet it now, with no questions as.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
How much loaded. He after one thousand dollars. It's paying ransom,
compounding a polony.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I must have the manuscript back grade. I told him
to negotiate the transfer from you, and you're representing me.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
In the minute where it's a thousand, I'm sending the.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Money over to you with cash by messenger. Go to
meet this Mike Kelsey the tavern, the fly Great Screek.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Sure, sure, I'll be discreet. The cash came by a messenger, Okay,
And I got to negotiate in the Flying Horse tavern,
A mug with heavy artillery bowsing his coat, waiting at
a table for me. You Mike Kelseie, No, I'm my McGuire.
(16:28):
I'm here for Mike. Hey, you're negotiating for grations, so
I'm here negotiating for Mike Kelsey. Now let's negotiate without
any monkey business. Craig, Why ha got under both armpits,
but there so as they don't develop a stoop on
one side. Oh, now here's your manuscript right in the wrapping.
(16:49):
Mike Kelsey found again. Now kempt me out of fast
Rand their one thousand dollars college yourself. It seems okay,
and don't be stupid enough. They stop me from leaving.
(17:11):
The publisher Grayson was out. Would I please call later?
A secretary told me I'd gone back to my office
to cool my heels for a while. When the phone rang.
Verry Craig speaking Craig. Now watch your beef, Craig.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I've discovered something. I think you want to know.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Something that will promote you into the fifty.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Jeans, something that won't help very tend to me a fraud.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
They're playing a cracked record. Junior tell me that, all right,
I'll come hear you out as soon as I dry
my feet and rustle up a change of socks. I
didn't get to hear Sacks out. To achieve that, I'd
first have to perfect a way of communicating with the dead,
(18:07):
I left Oscar sax As. I found him sprawled backwards
over a writer's desk, a nice standing vertically in the
Adam Bapple. I left him as is, so Lieutenant Trevor
Rodgers wouldn't howl the heaven and the da that I'd
once more tampered with a corpse gracing drooled with joy
(18:32):
supreme over the recovered manuscript. This is a load off
my mind, Craig, A big load, but it sounds nothing.
Who stole it? And why? And why was sax murder
between the time he phoned me and the time I
got to his flat. I'll show you the manuscript racing,
and I've got a question here. Examine it and then
(18:53):
tell me is this the same manuscript that was stolen?
The shame? I sure it is the cry of the
high universe, Eric Trent. Examine the manuscript, not just the
title page. Study a few sample pages and it's the same.
You'll swear to that on a stacker. No, No, I
(19:14):
won't swear. You've detected something. Some changes, yes, I think yes.
The one thing this copy is cleaner. The edges of
the pages are it's so ragged from handling, as you'll
remember them. There were ben Yes, even the title page
looks faltered. Now. I remember a burn here in the
upper right corner near the author's name, to burn like
(19:35):
from an accidental cigarette. I'm convinced this isn't the copy
that was stolen. But what can it mean? And to
find out? Grayson? Yes, phone Eric Trent. Get him to
come here to your office on some pretext. But why
so I can have the run of his studio without
Trent being the wiser or being present. Eric Trent had
(20:02):
all the accumulated junk of a guy with a passion
for changing climate, souvenirs from Bombay, the Dutch Indies, Labrador souvenirs,
and brad carved ivory porcelains, and in the bottom bureau
drawer a manuscript, The Cry of the Hyaena, with a
(20:22):
cigarette burn on the title page. Eric Trent had stolen
his own manuscript. I had the evidence in hand, but
keeping it wasn't going to be so simple. A lady
was against it. A lady healed with a gun twice
the size of her dainty lotioned hand.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Miss Judy Joy, Yes, mister Craig, it's Judy Joy.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Through the uh convenient connecting door.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I heard noises in here, and I made it just
in time to catch a burglar. Drop that manuscript.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
You charmed me into it. Want a word of advice, Beautiful, No,
I thought you would bring off Eric Trent as fast
as you can flick your glamorous eyebrows. You're crazy being
true to Trent's an awful waste of war paint. Now,
why are you tryna tell me the trent's value on
the hoof has just been slashed by about fifty thousand dollars?
(21:19):
He he won't get the money. Neither will you get
the money. You're a lawyer, duh junkle. I'd hate to
see you dragging your gorgeous chassis up the river Sunday's
visiting ye author in the big house, saw me a
drink still making with the gun.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Aimed at your head while we wait for Eric. The
stuffed on that coffee table there, and soda bottles right
alongside it.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Okay, I'll play bartender.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
So when when?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
How much soda just to squirt? That's enough? Spot more? Huh?
Just enough to damp on your spirits? Had enough? Shit's
no good. We held an all night session me, Lieutenant
(22:12):
trev Rodgers, and Grayson comparing the two manuscripts page for page.
It was early dawn before I found a discrepancy between
the two versions. You found something, Craig, Yes, treev. The
coral Lane's disappeared from the substituted version. Who's Coraline tell Um? Grayson?
Cora Lane is a character who appears early in the novel,
(22:35):
the woman the hero meets falls in love with. She's
in version one, she's out of version two. Now, why
would the author go to all the trouble he did
submitting a manuscript and then stealing it back just to
write a character out of the book Because the name
Cora Laine means something something he didn't want f found
out means what Cora Lane was a character? Say? Uh,
(22:56):
drawn from real life. She's a real name, a real person.
Excuse me, mister Craig. They're saying that Trent only realized
that when it was almost too late to make the change.
One thing's pretty clear to me, Drayson, Eric Trent didn't
write the book. Somebody else did. Who would you say
did write the book, Craig. The hero of the story
(23:19):
is my guess, Stanley fields Hm. Only that name is
probably an invention, or Eric Trent would have changed it. Yes,
it figures. The book is an autobiographic work, a man's
true personal history disguised as fiction, the personal history of
someone Kent stole the manuscript from someone now dead, or
Trent would never have dared to try for the big prize.
(23:42):
Trym Yes, arrest Eric Trent book him for the murder
of Oscar Saxon. You're sure sax tumbled the fellow the
truth and Trent shut 'em up. Trent was also behind
the Mike Kelsey red herring. That was a trick to
throw dust in our eyes. Arrest Trent the lieutenant, and
when that little charge all the check police files and
directories for a coral lane go to a twelve on
(24:05):
this one. I'm making you.
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Speaker 2 (25:55):
It took two days for trying to get back to me.
When he gave he had a lady with him, the
gray lady with hoarded eyes. This is Coral Lane. Craig,
Coral Lane, Mary Craig. Mister Craig, how do you do?
How did you find her? Travel police files. The name
of Carl Laine appeared on an old record card she
(26:15):
reported her husband missing some years back. Then.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Name my husband.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
He left one morning, never returned. I was frightened. I
I imagined him injured, a traffic victim. I didn't know
then that my husband had planned.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
To just disappear, that he couldn't live in my world.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
That he had so much wonder lust.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Her husband was the Stanley in the book, the author
of it. As you theorized, Craig, your husband was a writer, Yes,
the writer all through him.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Foolish, wild, irresponsible and wonderful too.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Is he dead? Tell her to Yes, he's dead. Oh.
According to Erick Trench's confession, your husband died of a
tropical disease somewhere in the Pacific. Eric Trent was adrift
of Your only husband had taken up with an odd thing, Craig,
What odd thing? I offered you one of two cases
(27:15):
the end of the day. Won't bring that up now.
You took one, but you solved both. Uh what? Cora
Lane is the maiden name of missus Stanley Talbot, Missus
Cora Talbot, not the twenty dollars a day in expenses
deal I passed up. Yes, as it turned out, you
(27:35):
found her missing husband. Mm my gray, lady treve and
all around losing her life hasn't been good. Her life
needs fixing. Missus Talbot. Yes, Greg, we're taking a ride,
you and me a ride cross town. You've been poor,
but now you're rich. That book of your husband is
(27:56):
the cry of the Hyaena. There's fifty thousand dollars coming
to you, and I'm going to stand over. Grayson Riley
makes out that check. Good night, folks, See you next week.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
You've been listening to William Gargan in another exciting transcribed
mystery drama from the Adventures of Barry Craig, Confidential investigator.
Tonight's story, the Paper Bullets, was written by John Robert.
Next week, it's the strange story of death and the
Purple Cow, about which Barry Craig has this to say.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Next week, I lose a client before I get him.
A man dies in a Hamburger joints, and a purple
cow turns out to be neither a cow nor a
purple See you next week, folks.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Featured in the role of Judy was Barbara Weeks. Barry Craig,
starring William Gargan, was under the direction of Hymon Brown.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
This is Don Pardo speaking. Now. Enjoy Meredith Wilson's Music
Room on NBC
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