October 8, 2025 • 26 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 (00:03):
All Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing dirt, presents Nick Carter,
famous for chasing crime.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Every week.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
At this time, two great names are joined as All
Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful and
daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Detective a gambling ship. Nick, that sounds exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
You call losing your money exciting, Patsy, You're right, but
I'm not going out there for the front of it.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Oh, I suppose you'd rather go fishing.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I certainly would, and I'd rather fish for fish than
for a murderer.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Now for the case of the missing piano player, Today's
thrilling Nick Carter Adventure, brought to you by All Dutch Clinch.
Our story begins in the roulette room of the gambling ship,
which is anchored off the Atlantic coast. Several customers are
gathered about the large roulette table as the croupier prepares
to spin the wheel.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Now more, Brett's lady cant let call no more?
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Hey Bill, stop playing a minute? Yeah, Gus, no more music.
Boss wants to see you in his office.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Oh okay, Gus, what's wrong?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Come on, what's wrong? Gus?
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Can't you tell me?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Boss?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I'll talk about that inside bill.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Okay, hello Edwards.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
You you wanted to see me, mister Simmons.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yes, why haven't you been following my orders?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
I was hired to play the piano, not the customers.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You know what you were supposed to do when you
took the job.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
I took the job because I needed it. But I've
been thinking it over and I've decided that a crooked
roulette whel is not in my line.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
You knew the weird was fixed when we hired you.
It's why you was hired.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Now you're welchin on the deal now.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I want to know why.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Well, I got a sister to take care of what's
that to us? Just this, mister duchess Iman, I've decided
to quit.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Don't you know nobody quits this record once he's in it.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
I just want to get out of here. My sister
is a swell gallon. I just can't afford to stay
around here and end up behind.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
The eight ball.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You're behind the eight ball right now, Edwards.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
And it's mighty black too.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I don't want to take care of things.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Sure, boss, Sure, what are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You're going for a little walk edwards, A little walk
with guys up to the bower of the ship. Perhaps, yes,
if I finished with our case history, I don't worry,
(03:00):
mister Carter.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
They'll all be nicely typed through medical filing before you
go away on your vacation. I don't see why I
had to go. Someone at the door, Nick, I'll go.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Thanks, Patsy Homicide Sergeant Matheson. Oh hello, Maddy, Oh hi?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
And Nick? What cooks me?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I'm off for a vacation. Fishing guess called to say
that Patsy will know where I am if anything develops
that requires my attention, it won't. Where are you going,
Sandy Point?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I wish I was going along with you, so do I.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Maddie, Well, I'll be seeing you, okay, Nick.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Have fun, Nick, this is mister John Ridden.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Already do mister Ridden sit down? Thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Mister Riedden has a problem, Nick. I told him you
were just about to go away, but he's very anxious
to talk to you about one of your pet hates, gambling.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Oh that's all, Well, just what's your difficulty, mister Ridden?
A gambling ship. I've lost a great deal of money
on it, But why come to me about that I'm
convinced that the roulette feel on this ship is crooked.
If I can prove it, that is, if I can
get you to prove it, I may be able to
get back some of my losses. Sorry, I can't help you,
mister Ridden, but I'm off on a fishing trip.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Mister Ridden, If you're convinced that this gambling ship is crooked,
why don't you go to the police.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
In the first place, I can't afford the publicity. And
in the second place, the police would merely raid the
ship and shut it down, and I'd have no chance
to get back by losses. Mister Carter, Yes, I've heard
about your big hobby, you're downtown Boys Club. Well, if
you look into this matter for me, I'm prepared to
make a very substantial donation to you boys club.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Oh, Nick, that would be wonderful.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah. Where is this gambling ship anchored off the coasts
reached by launch from the town of Thompson's Coal. Thompson's Coal, Why,
that's only a few miles from Sandy Point, where I'm
going for my week of fishing. But I'll do mister Ridden.
I'll take a look at this gambling ship. If I
find anything, I'll take a case. I can't ask for
any more than that. But just why do you think
(05:04):
this gambling ship isn't on the level, mister Carter. I'm
convinced the roulette wheel is fixed. Trouble is, I don't
know just how it's done. That kind of evidence isn't
very satisfactory in the court room. Well, if we can
just find out how it's done, I can confront the
gambling syndicate with the facts and get back your money
and close up the ship.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Let's see.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Well, mister Ridden, I'll take a run out there and
have a look. Suggest you meet me at the hotel
of Thompson's Cove in a couple of days. I'll give
you my decision. I'll do that, mister Carter. I'm grateful
to you. I'll don't be grateful yet. Good day, mister Ridden,
Good day, mister Carter. Missus Bowen, good bye, mister ridd
Il Patsy. You've got a hurry up and finish those
case history.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Oh Nick, what do I I'll need you.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
With me when I go up to that gambling ship
tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Well, why didn't you say so that's different? Does that
mean we don't have to pay to write on this launch.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Oh, the gambling ship provides free transportation to its gaint.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Oh hey, there are some prosperous looking people on board.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Nick, I have to be to play roulette.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Nick, she got young girl over by the rail. She
can't be over eighteen.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Pretty too.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I wonder why she's going out to the ship. She
seems to be alone, you.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Know, Pats. Yeah, I think that'd be a good idea
if you try to find her out. She's not the
gambling type at all.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Right, Nick, I'll strike up a conversation with her as
soon as we get aboard. Nick, I want you to
meet miss Edwards. Mister Carter. How do you do, mister Curley?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
He wanted to meet you, Miss Edwards.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I noticed you coming out on the launch.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Uh, charlas plattering if you noticed by a pretty girl?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Ms Bowen and I were both wondering why a girl
like you would be visiting a place like this alone.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
See that piano over there in the roulette room. Yes,
my brother Bill played that piano until last night. Oh
did he lose his job?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I don't know, You don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
All I know is he didn't come home last night.
You see, we lived together in Thompson's cove.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I have a job there, and you've come out here
to find out what happened to your brother.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
If I can, mister Carter, I'm terribly worried.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Well, possibly I can be of some assistant.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Oh, if you only could think.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
The first step in that direction is the present piano player.
I'll go over and have a chat with him. No more?
(07:48):
Why'd you stop playing the piano so abruptly? Son?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
I don't like that number much?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
How about playing Juan's best not all over here?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I don't like that one either. You are new here,
aren't you? Kinda? What happened to the former piano player?
I want to play it here? Last night? I got
no idea, that's all. Any idea? Who could tell me
about the other piano player?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Day?
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Why did you mind your own business?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Why? I'm just curious to find out. I just stop
right in the middle of the tune.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Listen, you can I hit a damble talk to me.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I like to see mister Kada, that's real. Never mind?
Do you know my name?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
So does the boss many of thak The boss wants
to see you in his office right away.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I'll be delighted to meet the boss. As a matter
of fact, I was just about to ask someone for
a proper introduction.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Okay, follow me, I'll introduce you good and proper. Here's
mister Carter boy.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I love Nick Carter. How do you do? Don't believe
I've had the pleasure? Simmons? The name Dutch Simmons. Glad
to know you and your friends here.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
My name's gush Gus Jones.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Well, gentlemen, now that we're a quainted quarter, I want
to know what you're doing on this ship. Isn't my
money as good as any other suckers? I don't like that,
Craig Carter, this is an honest ship. I never heard
of a gambling ship that was honest. How would you
know whether or that way around is till you haven't
been gambling. We spotted you the minute you got aboard,
and we know you're a private eye giving us the
once over. Who are you working for? You should know
(09:38):
that it's unethical for me to devolve the name of
a client. That's a life of private dick talking about ethics.
Some of us are on the level. By the way,
who are you two girlfriends? One is my assistant miss Boonene,
and the other is a miss Ethel Edwards, whose brother
played the piano in your roulette room until last night.
Oh yeah, Bill Edwards, nice kid? What happened to him?
(10:02):
How should I know? He didn't go home last night?
Stranger youngster? Should just vanish? So you're working for the
kid's sister, could be? Well, you're entirely too inquisitive, mister Carter,
And if I ever see you on the ship again,
maybe you'll vanish too. Tough. Aren't you tough enough to
handle you? Gus? Yeah? Boss, take Carter and his assistant
(10:22):
and his new girlfriend to the next launch, okay, and
see that they get back to shore.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Ill. That was quite as shit.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, fantastic, isn't it. The white people flock to a
place like that just to lose their money.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
My brother Built says, they do a big.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Business, expensive layout. All right, Now we've got to figure
out how to get back there. Miss Bowne and I
have been barred bared Huh why is Edward's I'm a
private detective and miss Bowen is my assistant.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I'm investigating something on the ship for clients. But when
I heard about your missing brother, I decided I'd look
into that too.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Thank you, mister CURDI hope you can find out what's
happened to him.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I will this at all possible, and I think I'll
start by having a chat for the pilot of this launch.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Oh, we better wait for you back here, Nick.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Oh, Betsy, you'll want to be a moment Okay, nice night, skipper.
Nice enough. Suppose you sometimes get rough weather him time.
What do you do when it gets really tough? Don't run?
But how do the customers get back and forth to
the ship then they don't? Oh, and I suppose you
(11:45):
decided the ship will be open for business each evening. Yeah,
that's about it, rister huh. I have to think the
owners of the ship would certainly value your services. Not
too much. I've been working here for more than a
year and got no reas yet. Oh how about the
men who work on the ship. The bosses treat them
pretty well financially. I mean, I wouldn't know, mister. You
(12:07):
know somebody back there on the ship. Just a kid
who plays the piano. Who's that Bill Edwards?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Kids? Haven't seen him in a couple of days. You
mean he didn't come back with you last night? No,
I didn't. Did he usually right?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Say?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Why are you asking me all these questions? Thanks skippers
see again? Yeah, wait a minute, what they can do?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Well?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Nick?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Learn anything miss Edwards?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
The pilot tells me your brother didn't return the shore
last night unless he swam.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
But Phill isn't a.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Very good swimmer, and he wouldn't try to swim ashore.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
It's too far. That's what I'm afraid of.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Patsy, he's dead, mister Cutter. I just know that I
had a hard young tryer, but we don't know what's
happened to him. Mister Curry, you said you'd help me,
and I will.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I'm going through with thisation now, no matter what happens.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So a casual look into a possible gambling swindle on
Nick's part suddenly turns into a murder investigation.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Or is it murder? We'll see in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Now back to the case of the missing piano player.
Today is Nick Carter Adventure, brought to you by All
Dutch Cleanser. It is the following morning. Nick is in
John Riordon's hotel room at Thompson's Colt, where Rian has
come to hear Nick's first report mister Raydon, that gambling
ship is run by a group of dangerous men.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I thought so. They warned me not to return to
the ship or I'd vanish. Why because I think I
may be on the track of a murder. Murder, that's right.
A young piano player named Bill Edwards. I remember him?
Why why? I like his music? This kid was playing
(13:59):
the piano when the Roulette room until the night before last.
Then he vanished, how do you know? Miss Bone? And
I met his sister on the launch going out to
the ship, and for much she told us, mister ridden,
young bail ed Ridge is a prisoner on.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
That ship or dead?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Have you notified the police? No, because I'm not sure
of anything yet. Well, in the meantime, how about that
Roulette field? Is it crooked?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Is it fixed?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Shouldn't be it? All surprised after my conversation with mister
dutt Zimmon and his pal Gusts. I also think it
may have something to do with the piano piano? Eh, yes,
all right. Now my main problem is getting back to
the ship, and how do you intend to do that.
I've decided to take your case. Good, very good, but
I'm afraid it's going to cost you some extra money
(14:43):
for a bribe? How much? Possibly five hundred, possibly a thousand,
And that's nothing compared to what I've lost out there. Agreed,
Thanks for the photo. Confidence you will call pe Thompson's
code seven three eight six extension eighte.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Six extension eighth right when.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
The feet What are you doing? Cut calling the ship?
Phone number was on the guest cart I got from
this hotel. The extension I recalled from ducks A mister
dutch Zimmon's phone in his office. Hello, Hello, here's Gus's.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
There is Gus. Who's this?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
This is Nick Carter?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Nick Cuter?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
What Gus? How'd you like to pick up an extra
five hundred for what? I thought that for five hundred
dollars you'd see that I got back on that ship.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
That's a tough thing to arrange.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Cutter.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Boys don't like you.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I can't guarantee what had happened, alright, how about a thousand?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Okay to deal?
Speaker 5 (15:40):
But I won't promise what will happen after you get aboard.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I'll worry about that. Just meet me in Karrn's Bar
and grill and Thompson's cove this afternoon at four. Have
another drink.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Guess might as well, semana, you ain't touched jewish?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I will later waiter another of the same.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Yeah, come up, booze should tastes.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Funny, that's your imagination. Guess what do you know about
Bill Edwards?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Nice kid, good piano player too, It's too bad?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
What happened to him?
Speaker 4 (16:30):
He disappeared?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Where didn't he somewhere on the ship? Well, guys, drink hardy?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Yeah? Sure, what happened to Bill Edwards?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Guess Bill Edwards?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Where is he?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
He dead? Where got funny tasting and booze in this joint?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
How did Bill Edwards die? I guess where's his body?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
There was oh anchor?
Speaker 7 (17:08):
And while the ship been there for years, I ain't
there now we had to use it.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Yeah, we used it?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
So thanks answer, Thank you guys, you've helped a lot.
Homicide Sergeant Matheson, Hello, Maddie, Nick, Nick right, Thompson's Co Hotel,
(17:46):
maddic and you come out here right away?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
What's up? Thought?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
You were on a vacation been interrupted by a murder
and I need a little police cooperation and passed?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Can do?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Nick? So happens? I know the police officers out there
very well.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Fine, can you come right out?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Things a quiet here in town.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Thanks Maddie, and be sure to wear your old clothes.
I've arranged a fishing expedition for you.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Big crowd here tonight.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Nick.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yes, it's amazing the way people like to get rid
of money. Good evening.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Text here again.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
This is miss Bourne.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Hi, Hi, I enjoy your playing very much.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Ms Bourne and I were wondering why you don't use
the entire keyboard. I don't get you. I've never seen
the player in the extreme bass or the extreme treble
with such a fining surn It's a shame not to
use the whole keyboard.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Why and you two go away and play games?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I told you to stay off this ship. Catt A.
Oh hello Dutch. Oh this is my assistant, Miss Boone.
How do you do Cutter? This thing you feel in
the middle of your back is a gun, That's what
I thought. Start walking to my office?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Mind if I come along.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You stay here. I'm gonna have a little talk with
your boyfriend alone. Yes you're not wanting Betsy. I see
you later, all.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Right, Nick, I'll be waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
You were a fool to come back. Carter. I warned you.
I remember that you just said if I ever came
back here, I'd vanish like Bill Edwards. That's what you're
going to do. Yeah, yeah, open that door. Ah, come in,
mister Carter, mister ridd Yes, close the door, the sure
(19:46):
redden and no sudden moves either of you. I've got
you both covered. I wouldn't want any trouble.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Well, that is certainly an unexpected turn of events. We'll
see what happens next in just a moment. And now
for the conclusion of the case of the Missing Piano Player.
Today's Adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by Old
Dutch Cleanser. We pick up our story where we left off,
(20:21):
as Riordan says to Dutch and Nick, now.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Sudden molds either of you. I've got you both covered.
I wouldn't want any trouble. What's the idea, Ridden? Why
the gun looks like he's gone screw het up? Gus,
I'll do the talking, Ridden. What are you doing here?
This is my office, Carter, our office. So you boys
are partners in this racket. Nice deduction, Carter. I wondered
how long did it take for you to come out
in the open?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Ridden?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
But why are the gun? Gus and Dutch are going
to do some explaining. So you hired Carter? Correct, I
hired him to check up on YouTube? Are you now?
Perhaps you'll tell me why you've brought Carter in here
at the point of a gun.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
He's too nosy and.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Ask him too many questions. He knows too much. That's right,
too much about a crooked roulette wheel. You mean to
say that this smile, Alex is not telling you. Listen
to what Carter has to say. Dutch, speak up, Carter, gladly,
mister ridden at first, inasmuch as you seem to know
that's so well, will you be good enough to tell
him to take that automatic out of my spine? You
heard him, Dutch drop the gun on the floor. You'll
(21:17):
be sorry for this riding. Thanks well, Carter. How about
that roulette wheel? It's fixed. It's a lot both of you,
all right, Carter, prove it. You'll take that piano apart.
You find the answer. Our wires under the rug from
the piano to the roulett wheel. As the wheel starts spinning,
the piano starts playing, had a signal from the croupier.
(21:39):
The piano player who faces the croupier stops playing abruptly.
You're crazy, Carter, go ahead. Card I noticed that the
fear and thiss never touches the extreme treble or bass keys,
except when he stops playing. Then he does breass a
certain key at one end or the other, a key
in the bass for black, a key in the treble
for red. It's as simple as that, Ridden, So much
for the mechanics else. This fact should also be of
(22:01):
interest to you. Some of the customers are very palely
with the croupier was the same, and these customers walk
away from that table with some handsome winnings, winnings in
which you do not share, Ridden, but in which Dutch
and Gusts do. Are you going to believe this, Bump,
Carter or Rush? I'm going to believe Carter. Carter doesn't
lie alright, Ridden, what are you gonna do about it?
This Dutch, I'm going to dissolve our partnership here, and
(22:21):
not a Dutch. He's gonna set of knocking me over.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Carter.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
You don't want to be a killer too, Ridden. Oh hi, Maddy,
it's good to see you, right, Nick? Right his rain?
What's the scorn? Nick? My client here decided to become
a killer, so I tackled him and the shots went.
Why what's this all about, Carter?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Why are the cops?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It's about a murder, Maddy. Yeah, and you and the
local police find that anchor we did, Nick.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Under the bow of this ship. Well, young Bill Edwards's
body tied to it.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
There are your killers, Maddy, DUTs zim and Gus Jones.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Nice going, Nick, take him away, boys, you can't take me.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
This guy's crazy.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
The bulletshoe guys pumped into young Bill Edwards before you
drop him over the side. Don't finish putting you in
the hot seat. I'll turn him a badge. Let's go.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
H Well, Nick, another case history to type. Just as
I had everything in the office cleaned up and ready
for filing.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I'll give you something to do while I catch some fish.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
You.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Oh you know, Nick, you haven't told me how you
knew where to find Build Edward's body. I need the
facts for the file.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Scapolomyan patsy huh, scopolamine. It's a truth serum, the kind
of stuff the Germans used to get information out of
their prisoners during the war.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I don't follow you.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You recall I had a date with guests in a bar.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Well, scapolamine is a drug that makes a man unable
to avoid telling the truth. I've put some of the
drinks I bought for him. Oh, then I asked him
about Young Edwards. The minute he mentioned the anchor, I
knew the answer. I called the local police. When they
dragged the bottom under the bow of that ship. They
found what they were after, unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
And you found more than you bargained for.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yes, very true, Patsy. I realized that Riordon had a
little private drudge to settle as soon as he recognized
the name of Bill Edwards. Huh but murder. Wow, that's
something more than we bargained for.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Well, now that that's settled, I suppose you're going back
to Sandy Point.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Right, Patsy. Back to Sandy Point and some fishing, and
this time I hope to catch nothing but fish. Well, Nick,
can you give us a hit or two on the
adventure that old etch Klener's going to bring us next week? Certainly,
can Bob. It started out with a dish of macaroni
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in a one armed lunch.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Room, A dish which contained more than macaroni, I might add, and.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Which led us into strange and devious paths. First we
landed in an unused heating furnace.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Then a trash can on the corner.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Wait a minute to what we're looking for? A small
metal capsule that was worth a.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Fortune and that turned into a miniature bomb at the end.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Sounds unusual. What do you call the story, Nick? I
call it the Case of the Wandering Macaroni.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Nick carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
time and over these same stations by the Cutty Heat
Packing Company, makers of old Dutch cleanser. Nick Carter Master Detective,
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produced and directed by Jock McGregor, is copyrighted by Street
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with Charlotte Manson featured as Patsy. Matty is played by
Ed Latimer. Today's script was written by Bryce disc Junior.
Original music is played by George Wright. This program is
fictional and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead
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is purely coincidental.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
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Speaker 1 (25:58):
Saying, when minutes count, use all Dutch cleanser. This is
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All Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing dirt, presents Nick Carter,
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Every week.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
At this time, two great names are joined as All
Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful and
daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Detective a gambling ship. Nick, that sounds exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
You call losing your money exciting, Patsy, You're right, but
I'm not going out there for the front of it.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Oh, I suppose you'd rather go fishing.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I certainly would, and I'd rather fish for fish than
for a murderer.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Now for the case of the missing piano player, Today's
thrilling Nick Carter Adventure, brought to you by All Dutch Clinch.
Our story begins in the roulette room of the gambling ship,
which is anchored off the Atlantic coast. Several customers are
gathered about the large roulette table as the croupier prepares
to spin the wheel.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Now more, Brett's lady cant let call no more?
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Hey Bill, stop playing a minute? Yeah, Gus, no more music.
Boss wants to see you in his office.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Oh okay, Gus, what's wrong?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Come on, what's wrong? Gus?
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Can't you tell me?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Boss?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I'll talk about that inside bill.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Okay, hello Edwards.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
You you wanted to see me, mister Simmons.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yes, why haven't you been following my orders?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
I was hired to play the piano, not the customers.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
You know what you were supposed to do when you
took the job.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
I took the job because I needed it. But I've
been thinking it over and I've decided that a crooked
roulette whel is not in my line.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
You knew the weird was fixed when we hired you.
It's why you was hired.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Now you're welchin on the deal now.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I want to know why.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Well, I got a sister to take care of what's
that to us? Just this, mister duchess Iman, I've decided
to quit.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Don't you know nobody quits this record once he's in it.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
I just want to get out of here. My sister
is a swell gallon. I just can't afford to stay
around here and end up behind.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
The eight ball.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You're behind the eight ball right now, Edwards.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
And it's mighty black too.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I don't want to take care of things.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Sure, boss, Sure, what are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You're going for a little walk edwards, A little walk
with guys up to the bower of the ship. Perhaps, yes,
if I finished with our case history, I don't worry,
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mister Carter.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
They'll all be nicely typed through medical filing before you
go away on your vacation. I don't see why I
had to go. Someone at the door, Nick, I'll go.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Thanks, Patsy Homicide Sergeant Matheson. Oh hello, Maddy, Oh hi?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
And Nick? What cooks me?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I'm off for a vacation. Fishing guess called to say
that Patsy will know where I am if anything develops
that requires my attention, it won't. Where are you going,
Sandy Point?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I wish I was going along with you, so do I.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Maddie, Well, I'll be seeing you, okay, Nick.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Have fun, Nick, this is mister John Ridden.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Already do mister Ridden sit down? Thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Mister Riedden has a problem, Nick. I told him you
were just about to go away, but he's very anxious
to talk to you about one of your pet hates, gambling.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Oh that's all, Well, just what's your difficulty, mister Ridden?
A gambling ship. I've lost a great deal of money
on it, But why come to me about that I'm
convinced that the roulette feel on this ship is crooked.
If I can prove it, that is, if I can
get you to prove it, I may be able to
get back some of my losses. Sorry, I can't help you,
mister Ridden, but I'm off on a fishing trip.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Mister Ridden, If you're convinced that this gambling ship is crooked,
why don't you go to the police.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
In the first place, I can't afford the publicity. And
in the second place, the police would merely raid the
ship and shut it down, and I'd have no chance
to get back by losses. Mister Carter, Yes, I've heard
about your big hobby, you're downtown Boys Club. Well, if
you look into this matter for me, I'm prepared to
make a very substantial donation to you boys club.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Oh, Nick, that would be wonderful.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah. Where is this gambling ship anchored off the coasts
reached by launch from the town of Thompson's Coal. Thompson's Coal, Why,
that's only a few miles from Sandy Point, where I'm
going for my week of fishing. But I'll do mister Ridden.
I'll take a look at this gambling ship. If I
find anything, I'll take a case. I can't ask for
any more than that. But just why do you think
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this gambling ship isn't on the level, mister Carter. I'm
convinced the roulette wheel is fixed. Trouble is, I don't
know just how it's done. That kind of evidence isn't
very satisfactory in the court room. Well, if we can
just find out how it's done, I can confront the
gambling syndicate with the facts and get back your money
and close up the ship.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Let's see.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Well, mister Ridden, I'll take a run out there and
have a look. Suggest you meet me at the hotel
of Thompson's Cove in a couple of days. I'll give
you my decision. I'll do that, mister Carter. I'm grateful
to you. I'll don't be grateful yet. Good day, mister Ridden,
Good day, mister Carter. Missus Bowen, good bye, mister ridd
Il Patsy. You've got a hurry up and finish those
case history.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Oh Nick, what do I I'll need you.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
With me when I go up to that gambling ship
tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Well, why didn't you say so that's different? Does that
mean we don't have to pay to write on this launch.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Oh, the gambling ship provides free transportation to its gaint.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Oh hey, there are some prosperous looking people on board.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Nick, I have to be to play roulette.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Nick, she got young girl over by the rail. She
can't be over eighteen.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Pretty too.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I wonder why she's going out to the ship. She
seems to be alone, you.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Know, Pats. Yeah, I think that'd be a good idea
if you try to find her out. She's not the
gambling type at all.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Right, Nick, I'll strike up a conversation with her as
soon as we get aboard. Nick, I want you to
meet miss Edwards. Mister Carter. How do you do, mister Curley?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
He wanted to meet you, Miss Edwards.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I noticed you coming out on the launch.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Uh, charlas plattering if you noticed by a pretty girl?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Ms Bowen and I were both wondering why a girl
like you would be visiting a place like this alone.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
See that piano over there in the roulette room. Yes,
my brother Bill played that piano until last night. Oh
did he lose his job?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I don't know, You don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
All I know is he didn't come home last night.
You see, we lived together in Thompson's cove.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I have a job there, and you've come out here
to find out what happened to your brother.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
If I can, mister Carter, I'm terribly worried.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Well, possibly I can be of some assistant.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Oh, if you only could think.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
The first step in that direction is the present piano player.
I'll go over and have a chat with him. No more?
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Why'd you stop playing the piano so abruptly? Son?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
I don't like that number much?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
How about playing Juan's best not all over here?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I don't like that one either. You are new here,
aren't you? Kinda? What happened to the former piano player?
I want to play it here? Last night? I got
no idea, that's all. Any idea? Who could tell me
about the other piano player?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Day?
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Why did you mind your own business?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Why? I'm just curious to find out. I just stop
right in the middle of the tune.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Listen, you can I hit a damble talk to me.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I like to see mister Kada, that's real. Never mind?
Do you know my name?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
So does the boss many of thak The boss wants
to see you in his office right away.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I'll be delighted to meet the boss. As a matter
of fact, I was just about to ask someone for
a proper introduction.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Okay, follow me, I'll introduce you good and proper. Here's
mister Carter boy.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I love Nick Carter. How do you do? Don't believe
I've had the pleasure? Simmons? The name Dutch Simmons. Glad
to know you and your friends here.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
My name's gush Gus Jones.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Well, gentlemen, now that we're a quainted quarter, I want
to know what you're doing on this ship. Isn't my
money as good as any other suckers? I don't like that,
Craig Carter, this is an honest ship. I never heard
of a gambling ship that was honest. How would you
know whether or that way around is till you haven't
been gambling. We spotted you the minute you got aboard,
and we know you're a private eye giving us the
once over. Who are you working for? You should know
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that it's unethical for me to devolve the name of
a client. That's a life of private dick talking about ethics.
Some of us are on the level. By the way,
who are you two girlfriends? One is my assistant miss Boonene,
and the other is a miss Ethel Edwards, whose brother
played the piano in your roulette room until last night.
Oh yeah, Bill Edwards, nice kid? What happened to him?
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How should I know? He didn't go home last night?
Stranger youngster? Should just vanish? So you're working for the
kid's sister, could be? Well, you're entirely too inquisitive, mister Carter,
And if I ever see you on the ship again,
maybe you'll vanish too. Tough. Aren't you tough enough to
handle you? Gus? Yeah? Boss, take Carter and his assistant
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and his new girlfriend to the next launch, okay, and
see that they get back to shore.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Ill. That was quite as shit.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, fantastic, isn't it. The white people flock to a
place like that just to lose their money.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
My brother Built says, they do a big.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Business, expensive layout. All right, Now we've got to figure
out how to get back there. Miss Bowne and I
have been barred bared Huh why is Edward's I'm a
private detective and miss Bowen is my assistant.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I'm investigating something on the ship for clients. But when
I heard about your missing brother, I decided I'd look
into that too.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Thank you, mister CURDI hope you can find out what's
happened to him.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I will this at all possible, and I think I'll
start by having a chat for the pilot of this launch.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Oh, we better wait for you back here, Nick.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Oh, Betsy, you'll want to be a moment Okay, nice night, skipper.
Nice enough. Suppose you sometimes get rough weather him time.
What do you do when it gets really tough? Don't run?
But how do the customers get back and forth to
the ship then they don't? Oh, and I suppose you
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decided the ship will be open for business each evening. Yeah,
that's about it, rister huh. I have to think the
owners of the ship would certainly value your services. Not
too much. I've been working here for more than a
year and got no reas yet. Oh how about the
men who work on the ship. The bosses treat them
pretty well financially. I mean, I wouldn't know, mister. You
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know somebody back there on the ship. Just a kid
who plays the piano. Who's that Bill Edwards?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Kids? Haven't seen him in a couple of days. You
mean he didn't come back with you last night? No,
I didn't. Did he usually right?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Say?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Why are you asking me all these questions? Thanks skippers
see again? Yeah, wait a minute, what they can do?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Well?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Nick?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Learn anything miss Edwards?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
The pilot tells me your brother didn't return the shore
last night unless he swam.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
But Phill isn't a.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Very good swimmer, and he wouldn't try to swim ashore.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
It's too far. That's what I'm afraid of.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Patsy, he's dead, mister Cutter. I just know that I
had a hard young tryer, but we don't know what's
happened to him. Mister Curry, you said you'd help me,
and I will.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I'm going through with thisation now, no matter what happens.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So a casual look into a possible gambling swindle on
Nick's part suddenly turns into a murder investigation.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Or is it murder? We'll see in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Now back to the case of the missing piano player.
Today is Nick Carter Adventure, brought to you by All
Dutch Cleanser. It is the following morning. Nick is in
John Riordon's hotel room at Thompson's Colt, where Rian has
come to hear Nick's first report mister Raydon, that gambling
ship is run by a group of dangerous men.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I thought so. They warned me not to return to
the ship or I'd vanish. Why because I think I
may be on the track of a murder. Murder, that's right.
A young piano player named Bill Edwards. I remember him?
Why why? I like his music? This kid was playing
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the piano when the Roulette room until the night before last.
Then he vanished, how do you know? Miss Bone? And
I met his sister on the launch going out to
the ship, and for much she told us, mister ridden,
young bail ed Ridge is a prisoner on.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
That ship or dead?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Have you notified the police? No, because I'm not sure
of anything yet. Well, in the meantime, how about that
Roulette field? Is it crooked?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Is it fixed?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Shouldn't be it? All surprised after my conversation with mister
dutt Zimmon and his pal Gusts. I also think it
may have something to do with the piano piano? Eh, yes,
all right. Now my main problem is getting back to
the ship, and how do you intend to do that.
I've decided to take your case. Good, very good, but
I'm afraid it's going to cost you some extra money
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for a bribe? How much? Possibly five hundred, possibly a thousand,
And that's nothing compared to what I've lost out there. Agreed,
Thanks for the photo. Confidence you will call pe Thompson's
code seven three eight six extension eighte.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Six extension eighth right when.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
The feet What are you doing? Cut calling the ship?
Phone number was on the guest cart I got from
this hotel. The extension I recalled from ducks A mister
dutch Zimmon's phone in his office. Hello, Hello, here's Gus's.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
There is Gus. Who's this?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
This is Nick Carter?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Nick Cuter?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
What Gus? How'd you like to pick up an extra
five hundred for what? I thought that for five hundred
dollars you'd see that I got back on that ship.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
That's a tough thing to arrange.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Cutter.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Boys don't like you.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I can't guarantee what had happened, alright, how about a thousand?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Okay to deal?
Speaker 5 (15:40):
But I won't promise what will happen after you get aboard.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I'll worry about that. Just meet me in Karrn's Bar
and grill and Thompson's cove this afternoon at four. Have
another drink.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Guess might as well, semana, you ain't touched jewish?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I will later waiter another of the same.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Yeah, come up, booze should tastes.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Funny, that's your imagination. Guess what do you know about
Bill Edwards?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Nice kid, good piano player too, It's too bad?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
What happened to him?
Speaker 4 (16:30):
He disappeared?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Where didn't he somewhere on the ship? Well, guys, drink hardy?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Yeah? Sure, what happened to Bill Edwards?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Guess Bill Edwards?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Where is he?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
He dead? Where got funny tasting and booze in this joint?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
How did Bill Edwards die? I guess where's his body?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
There was oh anchor?
Speaker 7 (17:08):
And while the ship been there for years, I ain't
there now we had to use it.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Yeah, we used it?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
So thanks answer, Thank you guys, you've helped a lot.
Homicide Sergeant Matheson, Hello, Maddie, Nick, Nick right, Thompson's Co Hotel,
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maddic and you come out here right away?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
What's up? Thought?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
You were on a vacation been interrupted by a murder
and I need a little police cooperation and passed?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Can do?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Nick? So happens? I know the police officers out there
very well.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Fine, can you come right out?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Things a quiet here in town.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Thanks Maddie, and be sure to wear your old clothes.
I've arranged a fishing expedition for you.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Big crowd here tonight.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Nick.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yes, it's amazing the way people like to get rid
of money. Good evening.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Text here again.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
This is miss Bourne.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Hi, Hi, I enjoy your playing very much.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Ms Bourne and I were wondering why you don't use
the entire keyboard. I don't get you. I've never seen
the player in the extreme bass or the extreme treble
with such a fining surn It's a shame not to
use the whole keyboard.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Why and you two go away and play games?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I told you to stay off this ship. Catt A.
Oh hello Dutch. Oh this is my assistant, Miss Boone.
How do you do Cutter? This thing you feel in
the middle of your back is a gun, That's what
I thought. Start walking to my office?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Mind if I come along.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You stay here. I'm gonna have a little talk with
your boyfriend alone. Yes you're not wanting Betsy. I see
you later, all.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Right, Nick, I'll be waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
You were a fool to come back. Carter. I warned you.
I remember that you just said if I ever came
back here, I'd vanish like Bill Edwards. That's what you're
going to do. Yeah, yeah, open that door. Ah, come in,
mister Carter, mister ridd Yes, close the door, the sure
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redden and no sudden moves either of you. I've got
you both covered. I wouldn't want any trouble.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Well, that is certainly an unexpected turn of events. We'll
see what happens next in just a moment. And now
for the conclusion of the case of the Missing Piano Player.
Today's Adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by Old
Dutch Cleanser. We pick up our story where we left off,
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as Riordan says to Dutch and Nick, now.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Sudden molds either of you. I've got you both covered.
I wouldn't want any trouble. What's the idea, Ridden? Why
the gun looks like he's gone screw het up? Gus,
I'll do the talking, Ridden. What are you doing here?
This is my office, Carter, our office. So you boys
are partners in this racket. Nice deduction, Carter. I wondered
how long did it take for you to come out
in the open?
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Ridden?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
But why are the gun? Gus and Dutch are going
to do some explaining. So you hired Carter? Correct, I
hired him to check up on YouTube? Are you now?
Perhaps you'll tell me why you've brought Carter in here
at the point of a gun.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
He's too nosy and.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Ask him too many questions. He knows too much. That's right,
too much about a crooked roulette wheel. You mean to
say that this smile, Alex is not telling you. Listen
to what Carter has to say. Dutch, speak up, Carter, gladly,
mister ridden at first, inasmuch as you seem to know
that's so well, will you be good enough to tell
him to take that automatic out of my spine? You
heard him, Dutch drop the gun on the floor. You'll
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be sorry for this riding. Thanks well, Carter. How about
that roulette wheel? It's fixed. It's a lot both of you,
all right, Carter, prove it. You'll take that piano apart.
You find the answer. Our wires under the rug from
the piano to the roulett wheel. As the wheel starts spinning,
the piano starts playing, had a signal from the croupier.
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The piano player who faces the croupier stops playing abruptly.
You're crazy, Carter, go ahead. Card I noticed that the
fear and thiss never touches the extreme treble or bass keys,
except when he stops playing. Then he does breass a
certain key at one end or the other, a key
in the bass for black, a key in the treble
for red. It's as simple as that, Ridden, So much
for the mechanics else. This fact should also be of
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interest to you. Some of the customers are very palely
with the croupier was the same, and these customers walk
away from that table with some handsome winnings, winnings in
which you do not share, Ridden, but in which Dutch
and Gusts do. Are you going to believe this, Bump,
Carter or Rush? I'm going to believe Carter. Carter doesn't
lie alright, Ridden, what are you gonna do about it?
This Dutch, I'm going to dissolve our partnership here, and
(22:21):
not a Dutch. He's gonna set of knocking me over.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Carter.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
You don't want to be a killer too, Ridden. Oh hi, Maddy,
it's good to see you, right, Nick? Right his rain?
What's the scorn? Nick? My client here decided to become
a killer, so I tackled him and the shots went.
Why what's this all about, Carter?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Why are the cops?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It's about a murder, Maddy. Yeah, and you and the
local police find that anchor we did, Nick.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Under the bow of this ship. Well, young Bill Edwards's
body tied to it.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
There are your killers, Maddy, DUTs zim and Gus Jones.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Nice going, Nick, take him away, boys, you can't take me.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
This guy's crazy.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
The bulletshoe guys pumped into young Bill Edwards before you
drop him over the side. Don't finish putting you in
the hot seat. I'll turn him a badge. Let's go.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
H Well, Nick, another case history to type. Just as
I had everything in the office cleaned up and ready
for filing.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I'll give you something to do while I catch some fish.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
You.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Oh you know, Nick, you haven't told me how you
knew where to find Build Edward's body. I need the
facts for the file.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Scapolomyan patsy huh, scopolamine. It's a truth serum, the kind
of stuff the Germans used to get information out of
their prisoners during the war.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I don't follow you.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You recall I had a date with guests in a bar.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Well, scapolamine is a drug that makes a man unable
to avoid telling the truth. I've put some of the
drinks I bought for him. Oh, then I asked him
about Young Edwards. The minute he mentioned the anchor, I
knew the answer. I called the local police. When they
dragged the bottom under the bow of that ship. They
found what they were after, unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
And you found more than you bargained for.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yes, very true, Patsy. I realized that Riordon had a
little private drudge to settle as soon as he recognized
the name of Bill Edwards. Huh but murder. Wow, that's
something more than we bargained for.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Well, now that that's settled, I suppose you're going back
to Sandy Point.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Right, Patsy. Back to Sandy Point and some fishing, and
this time I hope to catch nothing but fish. Well, Nick,
can you give us a hit or two on the
adventure that old etch Klener's going to bring us next week? Certainly,
can Bob. It started out with a dish of macaroni
(24:41):
in a one armed lunch.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Room, A dish which contained more than macaroni, I might add, and.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Which led us into strange and devious paths. First we
landed in an unused heating furnace.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Then a trash can on the corner.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Wait a minute to what we're looking for? A small
metal capsule that was worth a.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Fortune and that turned into a miniature bomb at the end.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Sounds unusual. What do you call the story, Nick? I
call it the Case of the Wandering Macaroni.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Nick carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
time and over these same stations by the Cutty Heat
Packing Company, makers of old Dutch cleanser. Nick Carter Master Detective,
(25:32):
produced and directed by Jock McGregor, is copyrighted by Street
and Smith Publications Incorporated. Lon Clark is starred as Nick,
with Charlotte Manson featured as Patsy. Matty is played by
Ed Latimer. Today's script was written by Bryce disc Junior.
Original music is played by George Wright. This program is
fictional and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead
(25:55):
is purely coincidental.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
This is Bob Martin.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Saying, when minutes count, use all Dutch cleanser. This is
the mutual broadcasting system
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