November 5, 2025 • 25 mins
Nick Carter, Master Detective was a radio crime drama based on tales of the fictional private detective Nick Carter, first seen in 1886, from Street & Smith's dime novels and pulp magazines. Lon Clark played Nick Carter and Charlotte Manson played his assistant, Patsy Bowen. Nick Carter ran from 1943 to 1955.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
New post War Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing Dirk,
presents Lick Carter, famous for chasing crime, every week at
this time two great themes. I joined as New post
war Old Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the most
resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction, Lick Carter,
(00:24):
Master Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Why do you suppose he doesn't answer the doorny?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I don't know, Betsy. Maybe if we look through this
window we can.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
See when, of course the matter. What are you staring at?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Look over there on the floor by the sofa, Betsy.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Huh, what is a man lying there? He's been shot
in the forehead.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Confound.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
He's the one man in the world who could have
told us why a young man who had everything to
live for should want to take his own life.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And now the case of the Flowery fair Well. Today's
exciting Adventures starring Lawn Clark as Nick Carter, brought to
you by New post war Old Dutch Cleanser. As our
story opens, we find Nick seated at his desk in
his office, intently studying the front page of the evening paper.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Patsy stands behind him, reading over his shoulder.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Nick it says he was only thirty five years old.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yes, Patsy, he was one of the richest industrialists in
the world, and.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
He ends up by throwing himself in a lake. Oh,
it just doesn't make sense. Why would a man like
that take his own.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Life and the suicide note he left in his car tails?
Why it's reprinted here in the paper?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh is it? I didn't see it?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, right down here at the bottom of the column.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
It is not the number of years a man who
has lived that enables him to say his life was justified.
It is the richness and fullness of his experience. I
say farewell in my own life with deep regret, And
yet I am convinced that it is better for a
man to die in his prime quickly and painlessly than
to let old age destroy him by slow stages.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
For hell, pretty flowery farewell, isn't it for?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I say, imagine anyone sitting.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Down, and I'll get a Nick Carter speaking.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Mister Carter, my name is Missus Holt, Missus Douglas Holt.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yes, Missus Holt.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I wonder whether you can come to my home this evening.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
My husband and I would like to speak to you
about the death of our very good friend, Miles Kincaid.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Oh, yes, the man who committed suicide.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
The man who died, mister Carter. Whether or not he
committed suicide is what we'd like you to find out.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Oh so far, missus Holt, I'm afraid you haven't given
me any really solid grounds for your suspicions that Kincaid
didn't kill himself. But mister Carter, Miles had everything in
the world to live for. He was rich, famous, and happy.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Well, according to his note, he wanted his life to
end at the peak of his success.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yes, but what about his call to me yesterday?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
He said he had playing reservations and was leaving for
Florida very soon.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
My wife checked on that. Mister Carter. It's true, as.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
If we were going to commit suicide today, why would
he make arrangements for a trip at a future date.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Let me ask you this.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
You're implying that Kincaid was murdered, But do you know
of anyone who would have any reason to kill him?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
How about you, mister Hope, No, I can't think of anyone.
And that you both knew him, well, didn't you?
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Yes, in fact, well, Miles and I had quite a
crush on each other a good many years ago.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That was before he introduced me to Douglas.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
See.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
He and I were partners at that time. We had
a little organization that we called Inventors Incorporated.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
We broke up after a while, but we never lost
touch with each other. And in all these years he
made no serious enemies.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Of course he might have without our knowing it, and
still doesn't add up to murder, does it, Nick Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Not to me? Then you won't investigate this murder for us,
mister Carter. Oh, I didn't say that, mister Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I wish you would, mister Carter. I just know something's
wrong somewhere. I've got a.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Well and intuition about it, very well, missus HOAt, I
have a lot of faith in a woman's intuition. There
has been a murder. I promise you I'll find it
out before the night is over.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Did you talk to Selgian Mathison on the phone.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Nick, Yes, And you should have heard the horse lamp
he gave me when I suggested that Miles Kincaid might
have been murdered.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Oh, that must mean the handwriting experts are sure about
the suicide now.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
They are, Matty says, there's absolutely no question about it
wasn't a forgery.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Well, that pretty well settles it, then, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Perhaps, But at least it won't hurt to take a
look at Kin Cage's home.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
We're almost there, Nick, it's the house at the end
of the street.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
All right, Matty wasn't even going to hold an autopsy?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Did you ask him to? I?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Did you finally agreed to it?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Good?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
All right? How about uh huh?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Whom do you expect to see here?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Nick Kinkaig's vallat man named Harry Otis Holt says it
was probably the last man to see King Cage alive.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, but do you think you're How was that? Nick?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Somebody morning? Someone pain?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
It came from those bushes by the side of the porch. Yeah,
come on, there is Nick flying in the bushes.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Give me a hand, patch wat Okay, that doesn't my head?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
What happened to you? Who are you, Nick? Car a
private investigator? Who are you here? Otis?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I'm I was mister Kincaid's.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Vala, sir. What happened to you?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Someone ranging the door bell a few minutes ago? I
opened the door, but there was no one there, so
I stepped out in the porch.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It's that's all I remember.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You must have been slugged from behind me.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah, come on, where are we going? Whoever slugged it
may have wanted to get into the house could still
be there.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Okay, Nick, if myleskin cake committed suicide, Nick, what's this
all about?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Your guess is as good as mine. Passy.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
The front door is open.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Don't break any noise.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
No one in the living room. What are you gone upstairs?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Listen?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Naked somewhere moving around.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Right behind that closed door over there that's dropping on
him unexpectedly right, Oh.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Confound it is the door locked.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Yes, I guess we'll have to announce ourselves after all.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Open up, open this door, hind through the door.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
M I hurt you? No, it was all a closed Nick,
it's all quiet in the hour. Fraid he's giving us
the slip. That gunfire was propa be intended to cover
his getaway.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Only one thing to do? Shoot the lock off? Stand back.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yep, there, I'm nikki. He must have gone out that
open window.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, I know he was going after him in the dark.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Now shucks. Oh well, you look at this room. It
must have been Kincaid's study.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
That's a mess now. A friend tore it apart, every
drawer every friday I have been after.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I don't know. There is one thing I do know,
what's that?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
As of no, I'm definitely interested in how Myles Kincaid
really died. Why certainly, mister Carter, as Miles Kincaid's lawyer,
I am happy to help you clear up any questions
you have regarding his death. While first, mister Randolph, who
(07:16):
stood a benefit by his death, well, all of his
wealth is to be divided among various foundations and charitable institutions.
What he left no private bequest whatsoever, only a comparatively
small one to Melvin Dudley.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Melvin Dudley, that's the publisher, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yeah, Sirs, Miles had arranged with Dudley to publish his memoirs,
and he left a few thousand dollars to cover the cost.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
And Kincaid was writing his memoirs at the time of
his death.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
He practically finished them, though that fact was uncommonly known.
I see, but what about all his property holdings. He
must have had an enormous estate lot anymore. He'd sold
everything in the past year, converted it all into cash.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
There's just one piece of land that he held on to.
Oh where's that over in the poorer section of town
on Montrose Avenue. That's to be so did auction now
that he's dead.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I don't understand, Randop, Why on earth would he disposed
of all his possessions at the age of thirty five.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You don almost think he knew he was going to die?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
He did, miss born what he and his personal physician
and I were the only ones who.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Were in on his secret?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
What secret? Mister Carter?
Speaker 4 (08:19):
In six weeks Myles Kincaid would have been dead of
heart trouble.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Why are we going back.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
To the office, Nick, I want to call him Mary
and check on the autopsy.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Oh Nick, you promise, hope before the night is over,
you'd at least know whether or not k and Kate was murdered.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Do you think he will?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Well I found out so far is that he had
a better reason than we thought for doing away with himself.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Yeah, but that still doesn't explain the mysterious visitor at
his house tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And also, oh That'shall phone me?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Oh yeah, yeah, I got to seek good.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Harry makes before they hang out.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Nick card speaking and Nick, this is matter. Oh yeah, Madde,
I was just gonna call you. What'd you find out?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Kincaid was drowned?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
All right?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
His lungs are full of water. What that settles that? No,
it doesn't make what you mean. His lungs are full
of water, right enough, But the water was full of chlorine. Chlorine. Eah,
But there's no chlorine in lake water.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
You're right, Nick, but there's plenty of it in the
city water system. And Myles Kincaid was drowned before he
was thrown into the lake, right, and that means murder.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Well, Nick knows at last that the wealthy young industrialist
did not die by his own hands.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
But why Myles Kincaid.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Left the suicide note, or why anyone would want to
kill a man who was doomed to die from heart
trouble within six weeks are questions that are still unanswered.
We'll continue with this baffling adventure in just a moment,
and now all back to the case of the flowery Farewell.
Today's adventure with Nick Carter drop to you by new
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post war old Dutch cleanser As we pick up our story,
a half an hour has passed. Nick and Patsy have
joined Matty at the Kincaid home, and, guided by Kim
Kaid's valet, Harry Otis, have just entered the murdered man's bedroom.
I see the bed's been made, Otis, Did you do
that today? No, sir, No one's been in here all day.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Well, in that case, king kid didn't sleep here last night.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Nick, apparently not Maddy.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
But his dressing gowns on the bed, and there's one
of his ties on the floor behind that chair.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah. Why has kinkad fully dressed when your man found him? Many?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
For sure he had on a brown business suitor blue
shirt and a green tie.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
A green tie.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yeah, oh no, No, you must be mistaken, sergeant. Now don't
tell me he had on a blue shirt and a
green tie, Sergeant. Mister Kincaid would never have worn a
combination like that. He was very particular about his clothes.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Now listen a minute. This all adds up, huh, Otis.
Take a look around. Does this room seem just about
the same to you as always? No, sir, he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
The bed's been pushed back farther than usual in the
chairs all against the wall. Hey, I'm beginning to catch horn.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Nick.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Oh this is where were you when your employer retired
last night? I had the evening off, Sir. I drew
his bath water for him.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Then I went out. When I got back, I assumed
he was asleep he drew his bath Uh, yes, sir,
well made at least we know how he died.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
But do you think he was killed?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Hearing it, I do. It was probably getting undressed when
the murderer found him.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
And they had a fight.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, that's why the furniture is out of place. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
That would also account for the bruises on King Kid's face.
We figured they was from being hit against the rocks
in the lake. Yeah, while he was probably knocked nconscious
in this room. Now, the murderer took him into the
bathroom and held his head underwater until he was dead.
Oh how hord, and he dressed him again? Master benists
a hurry. He didn't see the tie King could have
taken off, so he grabbed one out of the closet
without even noticing the color, and then he carried him out,
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shoved him in his own car, and drove to the lake.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But what about a suicide. Note.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
I've got a little theory about that too. What sort
of theory I'd rather not say until I've had a chance.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
To confirm it.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
But how are you going to do that?
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
By dropping in and a publisher named Melvin Dudley and
asking him a few questions.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I guess there's no one home.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Oh there must be, Patsy. I saw a light at
the side of the house. All let's go around the
side porch and take a look in the room where
the light is. Okay, Nick, Now you're wasting time. Na here, Nick,
we can look in through this French window.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Look at all those papers scattered all over the floor.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
He looks like a cyphone has been through here. Kenny,
what ok over there beside the sofa? He said, what sofa?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Holy smoke, Nick, there's a manline.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
There smashed the glass that he revolver. We gotta get
in there, I'll say, we have or I stand back.
Can you reach the latch? Yeh, yeah, I got it?
Holy smoke. Look at this kind nig. Yeah, shot through
the head.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That's Melvin Dudley. Nick, I've seen his picture in the paper.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Well you'll see it again to morrow. Patsy, All over
the front page.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Hey, Maddy, Yeah, the paper's on the floor. Ever seen
any just like them?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yeah? Yeah, sure.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
They have the same kind of paper, the same handwriting
as the suicide note. But I figured and look, here's
a typewritten letter among them. Uh, to Melvin Dudley from
Miles Kincaid. I'm enclosing the manuscript of my memoirs. Everything
is here except the foreword, which I'm working on.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Now. Well, there's the answer to your suicide note, Maddy.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Well, it was written by Miles Kinkaid, but it wasn't
intended as a suicide note.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And what was it?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
A page from the foreword to his memoirs. The murderer
stole it last night from Kincaid's house and planeted it
in Kincaid's car as a suicide note.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
No wonder it sounded so flowery.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
You're up against the smalln operator, Nick Flandy, smart Matty.
But he's made one big mistake when he killed Melvyn Dudley.
He should have taken those memoirs with him. Oh, Nick, Oh,
(14:22):
hello Maddy, And I've spent a very dull night reading
Kinkaid's memoirs.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Oh yeah, find.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Anything interesting in him. Yeah, but the most interesting part
isn't there. I don't get you, Mannye. Unless I'm all wrong,
these memoirs should hold the key to kin Caid's murder.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Well, apparently, when kin Kid lard he was going to die,
he decided to leave behind him a document that would
expose somebody, somebody he hated.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
And you think this.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Somebody got wind of it and knocked King Kaid off
so as to get hold of the document. I do,
But he didn't get hold of it because kin Kid
had already sent it to Dudley.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
The murderer realized that after he went back and searched
Kinkaid's study, so he went to Dudley House to get
it and ended by killing Dudley. Right, But look, Nick,
why didn't the murderer take their memoirs while he was there?
He did, at least he took that part of them
which incriminated him as one whole section missing from the manuscript.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Oh got any idea? What was in that section? Yes? Mary,
I have good boy.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
When Douglas Holt and his wife put me on this case,
Holt told me that he and Kincaid were once partners
in an outfit called the Inventors Incorporated Inventors and Corporate. Yeah,
but there's no mention of any such organization anywhere in
the memoirs.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Hey, Nick, then maybe sorry? Yeah? Why'd you find it
the newspaper? Morg passy, you get any dope on Kincag's background.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Planning, Nick? And about that company called Inventors Incorporated? There's
something funny about that?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Funny in what way?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Why there was a third partner?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Third partner? Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Huh? Was he a man named Peter Jared Peter.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Mm hm hm. No mention of him and the memoirs either, Hey, Nick,
are you thinking this Jared guy might be our man?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I don't know about that, Matty, but I am thinking
that it's strange that Holton, his wife didn't tell me
about this Peter Jarrett.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I wonder why.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I know I should have mentioned Peter Jarrett to you,
mister Carter, But frankly, I was sticking to an agreement
that Myles Kincaid and I made long ago. What sort
of agreement, mister hopt the cover up for Jarrett in
spite of the raw deal he gave us.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Oh well, he gave you a raw deal he certainly did.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Jarrett wrecked in Ventors Incorporated by walking out on us
one day, taking with him what little capital we.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Had, and you never saw him again. I'll never, but
I'm confident he's still alive.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Nick, Peter Jarrett must be our man.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
I certainly had a motive for killing k Ken Kada
was planning to expose him and the memoirs he was writing.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
You say Miles was writing his memoirs, mister Carter, Yes,
he was. They were practically complete when he died. Well,
then it all adds up, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Only a man like Jared who wanted to get hold
of those memoirs before that were published, would have had
a movie for killing a man who was going to
die anyway. Yeah, but the question is how can I
get our hands on Jared? Well, I can tell you
where his wife lives. She ought to know where he's
hiding out. If anybody does, oh good, we'll go see her.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I have an idea that we find Peter Jarrett. We'll
have this case. So dup.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, are you missus?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Jared?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
What's it? Two year?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I'm Nick cart a private investigator.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Dick, huh, you get out of here this moment missus,
get out, Jared.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Don't do that, but that gun away. Please, you come.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
One step closer and I'll start shooting, So help me.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I don't think you're going to shoot anywhere with that gun.
And the next time you want to fire a gun,
missus Jarrett, remember to lift the safety catch.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Nice going, Nick, pretty darn smart.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Now, perhaps you better talk to us.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I ain't talking to no cops.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Why not, cause I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Sick of you guys. You've been hounding me for ten years,
ever since Pete disappeared.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
You wouldn't know where your husband is, would you?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Are you crazy? I wouldn't be living like this if
I knew him with all that dough.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Why did you see him last?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I ain't seen him since the day he went to
work and didn't come home.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
And where was your husband working to day disappeared?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
He was working over that house on Montrose Avenue. Montrose Avenue.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
But why that's the one piece of property that Miles
and Kate held on to after he sold everything else.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah, well, thank you, missus, Jared. I'm very grateful to you.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
What I didn't do nothing for you?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Oh yes, you did.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
You just gave me the last piece of a very
complicated jigsaw puzzle.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Oh, Nick, what a horrible musty old plate should be?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Musty? Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Nobody's been down in the cellar for over ten years,
not since Myles Skincad and Douglas Holt closed up the
business they called Inventors Incorporated.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
What do you expect to find here, Nick, a.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Key to three murders?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I hope three, But only two men were killed.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Patsy, If my hunch is run, Wait a minute, what
do you see, Nick? Look where my flashlight's pointing. Notice
anything about that slab of concrete over there? Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Why yes, it's a different color from the rest of
the cellar floor.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Right because it was laid at a different time. Let's see.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
It's about three feet wide and six feet long, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Nick? You think that's a great I do?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
I think a man has been buried under that slab
of concrete for ten long years.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Patsy stares at the circle of light from Nick's flashlight.
Who was buried in the musty cellar on Montrose Avenue
and what bearing his death has on the murders of
Myles Kincaid and Melvin Dudley. We'll find out in just
a moment. And now for the conclusion of the case
of the Flowery. Farewell Today's adventure with Nick Carter, brought
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to you by new post war old Dutch cleanser. Almost
an hour has passed since Nick and Patsy discovered what
Nick believes to be a grave in the cellar of
the abandoned house on Montrose Avenue. They left the cellar
for a time, but have now returned to it and
are waiting impatiently.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Have a sign of him yet.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Nick, he'll be here, all right, Candiford not to come.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I still don't understand why he's so sure he's the murderer.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
You will before long?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Yeah, but ah, hold it, here he comes.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yes, we're here, Come on down. What's this all about anyway?
Familiar territory to you, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
It's been a long time since I was here. This
is where Myles Kincaid and I had our laboratory. You,
Miles Kinkaid and Peter Jarrett. Don't forget Jarrett, mister Hope,
that's right by the way.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
If you got a line on his whereabout yet, I've
done better than that. I've found it well.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Whereas right where you and Miles Kincaid buried him ten
years ago. What are you talking about, Carter, I'm talking
about murder. You and Kinkaid killed Jarrett and buried him
down here.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
That's ridiculus.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Probably did it so that you could steal an invention
of his, and you spread the word that he'd.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Run off of your fund. You must be out of
your mind.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
No, but I imagine you were nearly out of your
mind when Melvin Dudley happened to mention to you that
Kinkaid was writing his memoirs.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Why should that worry me?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Because you guessed that he was planning to expose your
part in the murder, something he couldn't have done during
his lifetime without incriminating himself. When the police dig up
Jarrett's body, I'll.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Never take it up because you won't be alive to
tell him about it.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Don't reach for your gun, Carter. I've got you both covered, hopt.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
You made a bad mistake when you admitted that you
knew Kinkaid was a dying man. That was a tip
off on you, especially since you neglected to tell me
that fact when you hired me. Well, I slipped up once,
but I won't slip this time. I'll take you first, Carter, hold,
I'll take you for what.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Drop your gun, hold, I fight behind, I'll kill you you.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
My hair.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Oh nice shooting, Nick, You cut that gun right out
of his.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Fane, and you made a nice grammatic entrance, Mady. Well
you set the stage for it, Nick, when you put
me behind that packing box.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Oh, I thought you'd never come out of their, Sergeant.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
You're a lot of ben out sooner, Patsy. Only my
pants got caught in the nail, yeah, oh, sarge. Yeah,
and my new suit too. Okay, hope, let's get moving. No,
you're just hanging around this damp cellar, and we got
a nice dry cell waiting for you down at headquarters.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Then Jared's thought he was buried in the sailor.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Nick, Yes, Patsy, and the case is closed.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Uh uh, not quite, Harter, not until you've told me
how whole found out that Kincaid was dying of heart trouble.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Well, according to the statement Holt gave Maddy down at headquarters,
kin Kid told him he did. When Holt went to
inquire about the memoirs, Kinkaid gloated that he'd be dead
in six weeks and that everybody would know that Holt
was a murderer.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Why on earth can Kid want to expose Holt, Patsy.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Don't you remember what missus Holt told us that she
used to go with kin Kid. Well, King Kate never
forgave hold for taking her away from him.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I get it.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
He couldn't get even with Holt until after he himself
was dead. That's right, yeah, But I can't understand why
Holt brought you in on this case.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
He didn't his wife did, what you mean? It was
her idea to her.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Sure, she knew nothing about the murder of Peter Jared,
and she had no idea that Holt had killed Kinkaid.
She just didn't believe that King kid had killed himself.
M m.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
And when she wanted to call you, her husband had
to agree with her so she wouldn't get suspicious of him.
That's it, oh brother.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
When you walked into that house and took the case,
it must have been the life's darkest moment for Douglas Holt.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
The darkest so far, Patsy, But the state is planning
an even darker moment for him in the very near future.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Can you tell something about the adventure new post war
old Dutch cleanser is going to bring us next week, Nick,
next week, Mike, We're going to be the man who
is honest and upright for five years in order to
build up to a fraud worth half a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Only his plan broke down because he put his fraud
in an envelope.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
A fraud and an envelope. Well, that sounds exciting. What
do you call this adventure?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
I call it the case of the King's Apology. Friends,
this is Nick Carter again, and I'd like to take
this opportunity on behalf of the Cuddiheat Packing Company to
salute the forty ninth Annual Convention of the National Association
of Retailed Grocers, which begins today in Atlantic City. The
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Independent retail Grocer is your good neighbor, bringing you fine
foods from all parts of the nation and of the world.
So let's all doff our hats to this very important businessman,
the Independent retail Grocer.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Nick Carter.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Master Detective is presented each week at this time by
the Cudaha Packing Company. It is produced and directed by
Jack McGregor and is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications Incorporated.
Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy ed Latimer plays Matty.
Today's script was written by Louis Goolfield and Ken Pettis.
Original music is played by Henry Silvern. This program is
fictional and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead
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use new post war old Dutch cleanser. This is the
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New post War Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing Dirk,
presents Lick Carter, famous for chasing crime, every week at
this time two great themes. I joined as New post
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Master Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Why do you suppose he doesn't answer the doorny?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I don't know, Betsy. Maybe if we look through this
window we can.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
See when, of course the matter. What are you staring at?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Look over there on the floor by the sofa, Betsy.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Huh, what is a man lying there? He's been shot
in the forehead.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Confound.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
He's the one man in the world who could have
told us why a young man who had everything to
live for should want to take his own life.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And now the case of the Flowery fair Well. Today's
exciting Adventures starring Lawn Clark as Nick Carter, brought to
you by New post war Old Dutch Cleanser. As our
story opens, we find Nick seated at his desk in
his office, intently studying the front page of the evening paper.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Patsy stands behind him, reading over his shoulder.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Nick it says he was only thirty five years old.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yes, Patsy, he was one of the richest industrialists in
the world, and.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
He ends up by throwing himself in a lake. Oh,
it just doesn't make sense. Why would a man like
that take his own.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Life and the suicide note he left in his car tails?
Why it's reprinted here in the paper?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh is it? I didn't see it?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, right down here at the bottom of the column.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
It is not the number of years a man who
has lived that enables him to say his life was justified.
It is the richness and fullness of his experience. I
say farewell in my own life with deep regret, And
yet I am convinced that it is better for a
man to die in his prime quickly and painlessly than
to let old age destroy him by slow stages.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
For hell, pretty flowery farewell, isn't it for?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I say, imagine anyone sitting.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Down, and I'll get a Nick Carter speaking.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Mister Carter, my name is Missus Holt, Missus Douglas Holt.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yes, Missus Holt.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I wonder whether you can come to my home this evening.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
My husband and I would like to speak to you
about the death of our very good friend, Miles Kincaid.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Oh, yes, the man who committed suicide.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
The man who died, mister Carter. Whether or not he
committed suicide is what we'd like you to find out.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Oh so far, missus Holt, I'm afraid you haven't given
me any really solid grounds for your suspicions that Kincaid
didn't kill himself. But mister Carter, Miles had everything in
the world to live for. He was rich, famous, and happy.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Well, according to his note, he wanted his life to
end at the peak of his success.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yes, but what about his call to me yesterday?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
He said he had playing reservations and was leaving for
Florida very soon.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
My wife checked on that. Mister Carter. It's true, as.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
If we were going to commit suicide today, why would
he make arrangements for a trip at a future date.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Let me ask you this.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
You're implying that Kincaid was murdered, But do you know
of anyone who would have any reason to kill him?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
How about you, mister Hope, No, I can't think of anyone.
And that you both knew him, well, didn't you?
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Yes, in fact, well, Miles and I had quite a
crush on each other a good many years ago.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That was before he introduced me to Douglas.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
See.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
He and I were partners at that time. We had
a little organization that we called Inventors Incorporated.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
We broke up after a while, but we never lost
touch with each other. And in all these years he
made no serious enemies.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Of course he might have without our knowing it, and
still doesn't add up to murder, does it, Nick Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Not to me? Then you won't investigate this murder for us,
mister Carter. Oh, I didn't say that, mister Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I wish you would, mister Carter. I just know something's
wrong somewhere. I've got a.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Well and intuition about it, very well, missus HOAt, I
have a lot of faith in a woman's intuition. There
has been a murder. I promise you I'll find it
out before the night is over.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Did you talk to Selgian Mathison on the phone.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Nick, Yes, And you should have heard the horse lamp
he gave me when I suggested that Miles Kincaid might
have been murdered.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Oh, that must mean the handwriting experts are sure about
the suicide now.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
They are, Matty says, there's absolutely no question about it
wasn't a forgery.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Well, that pretty well settles it, then, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Perhaps, But at least it won't hurt to take a
look at Kin Cage's home.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
We're almost there, Nick, it's the house at the end
of the street.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
All right, Matty wasn't even going to hold an autopsy?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Did you ask him to? I?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Did you finally agreed to it?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Good?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
All right? How about uh huh?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Whom do you expect to see here?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Nick Kinkaig's vallat man named Harry Otis Holt says it
was probably the last man to see King Cage alive.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, but do you think you're How was that? Nick?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Somebody morning? Someone pain?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
It came from those bushes by the side of the porch. Yeah,
come on, there is Nick flying in the bushes.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Give me a hand, patch wat Okay, that doesn't my head?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
What happened to you? Who are you, Nick? Car a
private investigator? Who are you here? Otis?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I'm I was mister Kincaid's.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Vala, sir. What happened to you?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Someone ranging the door bell a few minutes ago? I
opened the door, but there was no one there, so
I stepped out in the porch.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It's that's all I remember.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You must have been slugged from behind me.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah, come on, where are we going? Whoever slugged it
may have wanted to get into the house could still
be there.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Okay, Nick, if myleskin cake committed suicide, Nick, what's this
all about?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Your guess is as good as mine. Passy.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
The front door is open.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Don't break any noise.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
No one in the living room. What are you gone upstairs?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Listen?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Naked somewhere moving around.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Right behind that closed door over there that's dropping on
him unexpectedly right, Oh.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Confound it is the door locked.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Yes, I guess we'll have to announce ourselves after all.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Open up, open this door, hind through the door.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
M I hurt you? No, it was all a closed Nick,
it's all quiet in the hour. Fraid he's giving us
the slip. That gunfire was propa be intended to cover
his getaway.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Only one thing to do? Shoot the lock off? Stand back.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yep, there, I'm nikki. He must have gone out that
open window.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, I know he was going after him in the dark.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Now shucks. Oh well, you look at this room. It
must have been Kincaid's study.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
That's a mess now. A friend tore it apart, every
drawer every friday I have been after.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I don't know. There is one thing I do know,
what's that?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
As of no, I'm definitely interested in how Myles Kincaid
really died. Why certainly, mister Carter, as Miles Kincaid's lawyer,
I am happy to help you clear up any questions
you have regarding his death. While first, mister Randolph, who
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stood a benefit by his death, well, all of his
wealth is to be divided among various foundations and charitable institutions.
What he left no private bequest whatsoever, only a comparatively
small one to Melvin Dudley.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Melvin Dudley, that's the publisher, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yeah, Sirs, Miles had arranged with Dudley to publish his memoirs,
and he left a few thousand dollars to cover the cost.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
And Kincaid was writing his memoirs at the time of
his death.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
He practically finished them, though that fact was uncommonly known.
I see, but what about all his property holdings. He
must have had an enormous estate lot anymore. He'd sold
everything in the past year, converted it all into cash.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
There's just one piece of land that he held on to.
Oh where's that over in the poorer section of town
on Montrose Avenue. That's to be so did auction now
that he's dead.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I don't understand, Randop, Why on earth would he disposed
of all his possessions at the age of thirty five.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You don almost think he knew he was going to die?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
He did, miss born what he and his personal physician
and I were the only ones who.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Were in on his secret?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
What secret? Mister Carter?
Speaker 4 (08:19):
In six weeks Myles Kincaid would have been dead of
heart trouble.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Why are we going back.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
To the office, Nick, I want to call him Mary
and check on the autopsy.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Oh Nick, you promise, hope before the night is over,
you'd at least know whether or not k and Kate was murdered.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Do you think he will?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Well I found out so far is that he had
a better reason than we thought for doing away with himself.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Yeah, but that still doesn't explain the mysterious visitor at
his house tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And also, oh That'shall phone me?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Oh yeah, yeah, I got to seek good.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Harry makes before they hang out.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Nick card speaking and Nick, this is matter. Oh yeah, Madde,
I was just gonna call you. What'd you find out?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Kincaid was drowned?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
All right?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
His lungs are full of water. What that settles that? No,
it doesn't make what you mean. His lungs are full
of water, right enough, But the water was full of chlorine. Chlorine. Eah,
But there's no chlorine in lake water.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
You're right, Nick, but there's plenty of it in the
city water system. And Myles Kincaid was drowned before he
was thrown into the lake, right, and that means murder.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Well, Nick knows at last that the wealthy young industrialist
did not die by his own hands.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
But why Myles Kincaid.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Left the suicide note, or why anyone would want to
kill a man who was doomed to die from heart
trouble within six weeks are questions that are still unanswered.
We'll continue with this baffling adventure in just a moment,
and now all back to the case of the flowery Farewell.
Today's adventure with Nick Carter drop to you by new
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post war old Dutch cleanser As we pick up our story,
a half an hour has passed. Nick and Patsy have
joined Matty at the Kincaid home, and, guided by Kim
Kaid's valet, Harry Otis, have just entered the murdered man's bedroom.
I see the bed's been made, Otis, Did you do
that today? No, sir, No one's been in here all day.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Well, in that case, king kid didn't sleep here last night.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Nick, apparently not Maddy.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
But his dressing gowns on the bed, and there's one
of his ties on the floor behind that chair.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah. Why has kinkad fully dressed when your man found him? Many?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
For sure he had on a brown business suitor blue
shirt and a green tie.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
A green tie.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yeah, oh no, No, you must be mistaken, sergeant. Now don't
tell me he had on a blue shirt and a
green tie, Sergeant. Mister Kincaid would never have worn a
combination like that. He was very particular about his clothes.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Now listen a minute. This all adds up, huh, Otis.
Take a look around. Does this room seem just about
the same to you as always? No, sir, he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
The bed's been pushed back farther than usual in the
chairs all against the wall. Hey, I'm beginning to catch horn.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Nick.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Oh this is where were you when your employer retired
last night? I had the evening off, Sir. I drew
his bath water for him.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Then I went out. When I got back, I assumed
he was asleep he drew his bath Uh, yes, sir,
well made at least we know how he died.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
But do you think he was killed?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Hearing it, I do. It was probably getting undressed when
the murderer found him.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
And they had a fight.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, that's why the furniture is out of place. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
That would also account for the bruises on King Kid's face.
We figured they was from being hit against the rocks
in the lake. Yeah, while he was probably knocked nconscious
in this room. Now, the murderer took him into the
bathroom and held his head underwater until he was dead.
Oh how hord, and he dressed him again? Master benists
a hurry. He didn't see the tie King could have
taken off, so he grabbed one out of the closet
without even noticing the color, and then he carried him out,
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shoved him in his own car, and drove to the lake.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But what about a suicide. Note.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
I've got a little theory about that too. What sort
of theory I'd rather not say until I've had a chance.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
To confirm it.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
But how are you going to do that?
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
By dropping in and a publisher named Melvin Dudley and
asking him a few questions.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I guess there's no one home.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Oh there must be, Patsy. I saw a light at
the side of the house. All let's go around the
side porch and take a look in the room where
the light is. Okay, Nick, Now you're wasting time. Na here, Nick,
we can look in through this French window.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Look at all those papers scattered all over the floor.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
He looks like a cyphone has been through here. Kenny,
what ok over there beside the sofa? He said, what sofa?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Holy smoke, Nick, there's a manline.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
There smashed the glass that he revolver. We gotta get
in there, I'll say, we have or I stand back.
Can you reach the latch? Yeh, yeah, I got it?
Holy smoke. Look at this kind nig. Yeah, shot through
the head.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That's Melvin Dudley. Nick, I've seen his picture in the paper.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Well you'll see it again to morrow. Patsy, All over
the front page.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Hey, Maddy, Yeah, the paper's on the floor. Ever seen
any just like them?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yeah? Yeah, sure.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
They have the same kind of paper, the same handwriting
as the suicide note. But I figured and look, here's
a typewritten letter among them. Uh, to Melvin Dudley from
Miles Kincaid. I'm enclosing the manuscript of my memoirs. Everything
is here except the foreword, which I'm working on.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Now. Well, there's the answer to your suicide note, Maddy.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Well, it was written by Miles Kinkaid, but it wasn't
intended as a suicide note.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And what was it?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
A page from the foreword to his memoirs. The murderer
stole it last night from Kincaid's house and planeted it
in Kincaid's car as a suicide note.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
No wonder it sounded so flowery.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
You're up against the smalln operator, Nick Flandy, smart Matty.
But he's made one big mistake when he killed Melvyn Dudley.
He should have taken those memoirs with him. Oh, Nick, Oh,
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hello Maddy, And I've spent a very dull night reading
Kinkaid's memoirs.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Oh yeah, find.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Anything interesting in him. Yeah, but the most interesting part
isn't there. I don't get you, Mannye. Unless I'm all wrong,
these memoirs should hold the key to kin Caid's murder.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Well, apparently, when kin Kid lard he was going to die,
he decided to leave behind him a document that would
expose somebody, somebody he hated.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
And you think this.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Somebody got wind of it and knocked King Kaid off
so as to get hold of the document. I do,
But he didn't get hold of it because kin Kid
had already sent it to Dudley.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
The murderer realized that after he went back and searched
Kinkaid's study, so he went to Dudley House to get
it and ended by killing Dudley. Right, But look, Nick,
why didn't the murderer take their memoirs while he was there?
He did, at least he took that part of them
which incriminated him as one whole section missing from the manuscript.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Oh got any idea? What was in that section? Yes? Mary,
I have good boy.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
When Douglas Holt and his wife put me on this case,
Holt told me that he and Kincaid were once partners
in an outfit called the Inventors Incorporated Inventors and Corporate. Yeah,
but there's no mention of any such organization anywhere in
the memoirs.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Hey, Nick, then maybe sorry? Yeah? Why'd you find it
the newspaper? Morg passy, you get any dope on Kincag's background.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Planning, Nick? And about that company called Inventors Incorporated? There's
something funny about that?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Funny in what way?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Why there was a third partner?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Third partner? Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Huh? Was he a man named Peter Jared Peter.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Mm hm hm. No mention of him and the memoirs either, Hey, Nick,
are you thinking this Jared guy might be our man?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I don't know about that, Matty, but I am thinking
that it's strange that Holton, his wife didn't tell me
about this Peter Jarrett.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I wonder why.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I know I should have mentioned Peter Jarrett to you,
mister Carter, But frankly, I was sticking to an agreement
that Myles Kincaid and I made long ago. What sort
of agreement, mister hopt the cover up for Jarrett in
spite of the raw deal he gave us.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Oh well, he gave you a raw deal he certainly did.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Jarrett wrecked in Ventors Incorporated by walking out on us
one day, taking with him what little capital we.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Had, and you never saw him again. I'll never, but
I'm confident he's still alive.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Nick, Peter Jarrett must be our man.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
I certainly had a motive for killing k Ken Kada
was planning to expose him and the memoirs he was writing.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
You say Miles was writing his memoirs, mister Carter, Yes,
he was. They were practically complete when he died. Well,
then it all adds up, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Only a man like Jared who wanted to get hold
of those memoirs before that were published, would have had
a movie for killing a man who was going to
die anyway. Yeah, but the question is how can I
get our hands on Jared? Well, I can tell you
where his wife lives. She ought to know where he's
hiding out. If anybody does, oh good, we'll go see her.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I have an idea that we find Peter Jarrett. We'll
have this case. So dup.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, are you missus?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Jared?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
What's it? Two year?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I'm Nick cart a private investigator.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Dick, huh, you get out of here this moment missus,
get out, Jared.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Don't do that, but that gun away. Please, you come.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
One step closer and I'll start shooting, So help me.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I don't think you're going to shoot anywhere with that gun.
And the next time you want to fire a gun,
missus Jarrett, remember to lift the safety catch.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Nice going, Nick, pretty darn smart.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Now, perhaps you better talk to us.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I ain't talking to no cops.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Why not, cause I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Sick of you guys. You've been hounding me for ten years,
ever since Pete disappeared.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
You wouldn't know where your husband is, would you?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Are you crazy? I wouldn't be living like this if
I knew him with all that dough.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Why did you see him last?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I ain't seen him since the day he went to
work and didn't come home.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
And where was your husband working to day disappeared?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
He was working over that house on Montrose Avenue. Montrose Avenue.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
But why that's the one piece of property that Miles
and Kate held on to after he sold everything else.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah, well, thank you, missus, Jared. I'm very grateful to you.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
What I didn't do nothing for you?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Oh yes, you did.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
You just gave me the last piece of a very
complicated jigsaw puzzle.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Oh, Nick, what a horrible musty old plate should be?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Musty? Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Nobody's been down in the cellar for over ten years,
not since Myles Skincad and Douglas Holt closed up the
business they called Inventors Incorporated.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
What do you expect to find here, Nick, a.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Key to three murders?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I hope three, But only two men were killed.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Patsy, If my hunch is run, Wait a minute, what
do you see, Nick? Look where my flashlight's pointing. Notice
anything about that slab of concrete over there? Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Why yes, it's a different color from the rest of
the cellar floor.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Right because it was laid at a different time. Let's see.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
It's about three feet wide and six feet long, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Nick? You think that's a great I do?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
I think a man has been buried under that slab
of concrete for ten long years.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Patsy stares at the circle of light from Nick's flashlight.
Who was buried in the musty cellar on Montrose Avenue
and what bearing his death has on the murders of
Myles Kincaid and Melvin Dudley. We'll find out in just
a moment. And now for the conclusion of the case
of the Flowery. Farewell Today's adventure with Nick Carter, brought
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to you by new post war old Dutch cleanser. Almost
an hour has passed since Nick and Patsy discovered what
Nick believes to be a grave in the cellar of
the abandoned house on Montrose Avenue. They left the cellar
for a time, but have now returned to it and
are waiting impatiently.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Have a sign of him yet.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Nick, he'll be here, all right, Candiford not to come.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I still don't understand why he's so sure he's the murderer.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
You will before long?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Yeah, but ah, hold it, here he comes.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yes, we're here, Come on down. What's this all about anyway?
Familiar territory to you, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
It's been a long time since I was here. This
is where Myles Kincaid and I had our laboratory. You,
Miles Kinkaid and Peter Jarrett. Don't forget Jarrett, mister Hope,
that's right by the way.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
If you got a line on his whereabout yet, I've
done better than that. I've found it well.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Whereas right where you and Miles Kincaid buried him ten
years ago. What are you talking about, Carter, I'm talking
about murder. You and Kinkaid killed Jarrett and buried him
down here.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
That's ridiculus.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Probably did it so that you could steal an invention
of his, and you spread the word that he'd.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Run off of your fund. You must be out of
your mind.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
No, but I imagine you were nearly out of your
mind when Melvin Dudley happened to mention to you that
Kinkaid was writing his memoirs.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Why should that worry me?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Because you guessed that he was planning to expose your
part in the murder, something he couldn't have done during
his lifetime without incriminating himself. When the police dig up
Jarrett's body, I'll.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Never take it up because you won't be alive to
tell him about it.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Don't reach for your gun, Carter. I've got you both covered, hopt.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
You made a bad mistake when you admitted that you
knew Kinkaid was a dying man. That was a tip
off on you, especially since you neglected to tell me
that fact when you hired me. Well, I slipped up once,
but I won't slip this time. I'll take you first, Carter, hold,
I'll take you for what.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Drop your gun, hold, I fight behind, I'll kill you you.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
My hair.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Oh nice shooting, Nick, You cut that gun right out
of his.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Fane, and you made a nice grammatic entrance, Mady. Well
you set the stage for it, Nick, when you put
me behind that packing box.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Oh, I thought you'd never come out of their, Sergeant.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
You're a lot of ben out sooner, Patsy. Only my
pants got caught in the nail, yeah, oh, sarge. Yeah,
and my new suit too. Okay, hope, let's get moving. No,
you're just hanging around this damp cellar, and we got
a nice dry cell waiting for you down at headquarters.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Then Jared's thought he was buried in the sailor.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Nick, Yes, Patsy, and the case is closed.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Uh uh, not quite, Harter, not until you've told me
how whole found out that Kincaid was dying of heart trouble.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Well, according to the statement Holt gave Maddy down at headquarters,
kin Kid told him he did. When Holt went to
inquire about the memoirs, Kinkaid gloated that he'd be dead
in six weeks and that everybody would know that Holt
was a murderer.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Why on earth can Kid want to expose Holt, Patsy.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Don't you remember what missus Holt told us that she
used to go with kin Kid. Well, King Kate never
forgave hold for taking her away from him.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I get it.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
He couldn't get even with Holt until after he himself
was dead. That's right, yeah, But I can't understand why
Holt brought you in on this case.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
He didn't his wife did, what you mean? It was
her idea to her.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Sure, she knew nothing about the murder of Peter Jared,
and she had no idea that Holt had killed Kinkaid.
She just didn't believe that King kid had killed himself.
M m.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
And when she wanted to call you, her husband had
to agree with her so she wouldn't get suspicious of him.
That's it, oh brother.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
When you walked into that house and took the case,
it must have been the life's darkest moment for Douglas Holt.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
The darkest so far, Patsy, But the state is planning
an even darker moment for him in the very near future.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Can you tell something about the adventure new post war
old Dutch cleanser is going to bring us next week, Nick,
next week, Mike, We're going to be the man who
is honest and upright for five years in order to
build up to a fraud worth half a million dollars.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Only his plan broke down because he put his fraud
in an envelope.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
A fraud and an envelope. Well, that sounds exciting. What
do you call this adventure?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
I call it the case of the King's Apology. Friends,
this is Nick Carter again, and I'd like to take
this opportunity on behalf of the Cuddiheat Packing Company to
salute the forty ninth Annual Convention of the National Association
of Retailed Grocers, which begins today in Atlantic City. The
(24:40):
Independent retail Grocer is your good neighbor, bringing you fine
foods from all parts of the nation and of the world.
So let's all doff our hats to this very important businessman,
the Independent retail Grocer.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Nick Carter.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Master Detective is presented each week at this time by
the Cudaha Packing Company. It is produced and directed by
Jack McGregor and is copyrighted by Street and Smith Publications Incorporated.
Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy ed Latimer plays Matty.
Today's script was written by Louis Goolfield and Ken Pettis.
Original music is played by Henry Silvern. This program is
fictional and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead
(25:28):
is purely coincidental. This is Michael Fitzmorris saying, when minutes count,
use new post war old Dutch cleanser. This is the
mutual broadcasting system.
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