November 11, 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 (00:00):
Post wall Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing dirt, presents
Nick Carter, famous for chasing clime. Every week at this time,
two great names are joined as new post war Old
Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful and
daring characters in all detective fictions, Nick Carter, Master Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Are you going to break into this apartment?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I don't have to, Fatcy Sally gave me her key.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
See you think of everything?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Don't you try it? Okay, come on it?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Uh huh I have This is certainly a pleasant living room.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Nothing soonerster here?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Uh? What says though? There are two bedrooms too? Wonder
whether this one is marriage? Let's see what's who? Great
skirt girl's been shot through the temple?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Nick, I wonder if.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Somebody just came in the front door. It's all a
miss Carlyle's. And now the case of the Quiet Homemate.
Today's adventure starring Lawn Clark as Nick Cutter, brought to
you by New post war Old Dutch Cleanser. It's late
in the afternoon and Nick and Patsy are in the
(01:21):
lavish office of John Fenross, president of the Fenross Department store.
I'm glad you brought miss Boone to the store with him.
Mister Carter, she'll understand his business. He said you were
being annoyed by a blackmailer, mister Fenrick, precisely.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Girl worked here until last Saturday night, is trying to
shake me down for a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You were involved with her, of course, not nothing of
the store. And what's the trouble.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Our fashion designs are being stolen?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Oh, you mean that the clothes sold in the fen
Rest store are exclusive?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
A great many of them arems born Two years ago.
I hired Jerry Bartatt, one of the best dressed designers
in the business, to create designs exclusively for the Fenris's store.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Well, I knew Fenris's models couldn't be brought anywhere else
in town.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
But that's the point.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
They can be now, Oh the cut great stores have
our exclusive styles that mark down prices before we even
put them on sail here that can't be very profitable,
profitable we've loss of fortune. And this girl says she
knows how our fashions are being pirated and who's responsible
for it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And she won't tell you who it is.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Tell me she.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Has a goal to as twenty five hundred dollars for
the information, and you want me to find out who's
stealing your design? No, I want you to force Mary
Danville to give me that.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Information without paying for it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You mean I have a right to know and it's
herd duty to tell me without blackmailing me. I want
you to scare Scaring girls is out of my line,
mister Fenris. You want me to investigate your problems.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Oh so you want to run up a lot of
investigating fees, do you. Well? I won't fall for it.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I'm not asking you to fall for anything. I'm responsible
to the board of directors where every dollar I spend.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
It isn't my money.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It's your store, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Well, it was my father's door.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Now it belongs to a great many people, and they
expect me to show a profit. I can't throw money
away detectives. Well, it's probably just as well, mister Fennis.
I don't think i'd enjoy working for you anyway.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Mister Carter.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
If my secretary were here, i'd have her show you out.
Oh we can find our way out. Come on best
with pleasure, mister Fens. Miss Carlyle, do you think my
office is a public waiting room.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Miss Drake is mist her desk, and I have to
see the second.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
If you do to marry Dandille.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Has none of my business.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
But when you start ransacking.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
My apartment, control yourself, Miss Carlisle, I've done no such things.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Then if you didn't do it, you hired someone to.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Your accusations are in particularly bad taste in front of
out tiders.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Miss Carlile.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Oh, don't worry about us, mister Fennis. This young lady's
outburst hasn't changed my opinion of you a bit. I
think i'd like to talk to Miss Carlyle privately, though
I forbid it. Oh you do, I certainly do. This
man's a detective, Miss Carlile, Fine.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Mister detective, if you come down to the Sandros Exclusive Shop,
I'd like very much to talk to you privately.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Well, I didn't imagine you'd have a private office like this,
Miss Carlyle.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Oh, yes, mister Carter, I'm in charge of the Fenruss
Exclusive Shop. But with a job like that, I should
think you'd be afraid to antagonize.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Mister Fenruss, wouldn't you hate to be fired?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
He won't fire me, Miss Bowen, What makes you so sure,
because mister Fenruss is the only person in the world
who would have any reason for ransacking the apartment that
Mary and I share. He wants the information Mary has.
Do you have it to Miss Carlyle? No, but if
I did, I'd do exactly what she's doing. I'd make
him pay for it.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
M Or was a lock on your apartment door broken?
Speaker 5 (04:40):
No, it wasn't if somebody had been there, because Mary's
wardrobe drunk, had been turned inside out and my room
had been all.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Torn up too. Was anything stolen?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Nothing of mine? And Mary says, Fenruss didn't find.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
What he was after.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I see has come out, you said. Mary Danville hasn't
told you what she knows about the fashion fift Are
you in your roommate on friendly terms?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yes, of course.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I got the store to hire her, and I also
saw to it that she was pushed to hit.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
But she still doesn't trust you enough to tell you.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
That is not the point, she said, I'd be better
off not knowing. That's what she discovered with dynamite.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Look, Miss Carlyle, I don't want to alarm you, but
can you get a room for yourself and marry Danville?
At a hotel for a few nights. Why why I
suppose so, I'd do it if I were you, and
I wouldn't let anybody know where I was saying.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
But everything's happened while I've been here at the store.
Nobody would dare to try anything while Mary and.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I were at home.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I'm not too sure of that. Is Mary at your
apartment now?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I think so?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Hi, I want to talk to her, and I'd also
like to examine your apartment.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Do you want me to take you there now?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
No, I want you to line up a hotel room. Besides,
Patsy and I may do better talking to Mary alone.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
If you think.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I don't think anything yet, Miss Carlyle, except that you
may not find it healthy to stay in your apartment.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
All right, mister Carter, I'll do whatever you say.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I can hear somebody in there, Nick, Maybe she's afraid
to open the door.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's Danville, Sally Carlisle senders. I'm Nick Carter, a private investigator. Luck,
miss Danville. I know you're in there because I heard
you moving around.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I don't guess he isn't gonna let us in.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Nick. I'm earning a camp right here on your doorstep
till you open this door, Miss Danville. I'm here to
help you if I can. Well, now you're being sensible.
I don't know you what Ms Jone and I would
like you to tell us what you can about your
apartment being searchery.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Recently, Sally Carlyle told us about it, Miss Danville, Nick.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And I are here to investigate.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
So if you'll let us in, I'm.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
In a hurry right now, I have a date. Couldn't
you come back some other time?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I'm afraid this can't wait, Miss, but I can't. That's
one thing I want. Particularly don't know. Has anything stolen
from your wardrobe trunk?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
No, Miss Carlile thinks mister Fendras.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Did the search go?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Watch?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Do you have any eyes?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Look?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Mister what's your name? I told you I'm in a hurry.
I'm light for my date now.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Good date for a gentleman friend?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yes, my dates for the man and we'll just talk.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
To you here outside your daughter. You're right, but time to.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Meet him downstairs in the lobby.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Oh, your callers meet you in the lobby, do they look?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I don't know you. Maybe you're a detective and maybe
you're not. But until Sally's here to say you're okay,
I'm not going to talk to you. I'm ready to leave,
and I'm going right now.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You're making a mistake, Miss Danville.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Maybe maybe not, But don't try to follow me down
to the lobby.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
If you do, I'll I'll call her police very well.
They won't even go down in the same elevator with you.
Go right ahead, That's what.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I intend to do. You don't.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You're going to follow us trying to wait here and
see what she does.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
But what do you expect her to do at see?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
If you were miss Danville, would you leave two strangers
standing in front of your door after a conversation like
the one we've just had.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Why that all depends?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Pens nothing. You'd meet your boyfriend in the lobby and
then get right back up here to see what's going on.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But if you ask me, I don't think she has
a date.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
You don't.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And if she did, it wasn't with a man.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Oh why do you say that?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Merch get and powder and nose, and it was shiny,
and her lipstick was none straight, no name. I have
a feeling she just wanted to get away from this
apartment as fast as she could.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Maybe you're right. Come on, let's get inside and see
what was bothering her.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh, Nick, you're going to break into that apartment? Are you?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Don't have to?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Sally Carlyle gave me her keys. You think of everything,
don't you sure?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
All right?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Come on right, Well, it's certainly a pleasant living room.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Nothing sinister here.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
M But there's other were two bedrooms? Which one is
married Danville?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Well not this one at least, I wouldn't think so.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Because the picture's on the vanity and you'd hardly have
your own picture in your.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Room, good girl? So Mary Danville's room must be the
other one. Ill, let's see what's there.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Great fucker, n no wonder Mary wanted to get away.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Let's got on the floor. He's been shot through the temple,
mister used the closest quife.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Somebody just came in the front door.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Just listen, maybe we.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Can hear something.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Okay, who's a who is it?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Wait here? Something?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
No, garry Joe.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Let's get out of here and call the police wherever
you are.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Come on out off too, all right, Miss Carlyle, Jerry
your fool lest the testis, Oh, mister Carter, are you hurt,
not a bit, miss Carlyle. But tell you a trigger
happy friend to quit punt in that revolver at me.
I'm sorry, old fellow, and I was nervous that what's
been happening. Here's good.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Those people can't hit anything with a revolver.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
This is Garry Bart that our fashion designer, Nick Carter,
and his secretary of this poet.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
How do you do? I'm awfully sorry I frightened you,
but I thought I told you not to come back here,
Miss Carlyle.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I know, but I got to thinking about Mary dan Villains. Well,
if it was dangerous for me to be here, it
was dangerous for her too.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
So I came up to get her.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
But she just left a few minutes ago. Oh I see, Well,
in that hysteria, I suppose we might as well leave
to run.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
That's a minute, Miss Carlyle. Did you see your roommate
in the lobby just now?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
In the lobby?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
No, there's somebody else in this apartment, in one of
the bedrooms.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You mean you caught our mysterious visitor.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Oh that's wonderful. But who suppose you'd take a look.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
That's a good idea?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Who no, no recognized her, Miss Carlyle.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Of course we recognize.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Her, but that's Larry Dangel.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
What do you mean this murdered girl is your roommate.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yes, but why would anyone Mister Carr, You've got to
catch her murderer.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
You got to.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I think I did catch her murderer, Miss Carlyle, but
I let her get away. Mary Danvil was apparently murdered
by the girl who made a cool, daring getaway with
the fugitive pictures on Sally Carlyle's beanity, So we should
know who she was in just a moment. Now back
(10:58):
to the case of the Quiet Room. Today's adventure with
Nick Carter brought to you by new post war old
Dutch cleanser. The scene of Sally Carle's bedroom and Nick
stairs grimly at the photograph he's removed from Sally's dressing table.
This is a picture of the girl that left your
apartment just as we arrived. Who is she, Miss Carlyle.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Well, that's Dorothy Drake.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
She a particularly good friend of yours.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Well, she gave me the picture and she stops in
to see me once in a while.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
She's friend as a secretary. So everybody in Miss start
tries to get intolid with her. I say, oh, I
think she can give him a boost. To Fenris, she
really has that much influence with him. Well, if I
think I'll have trouble getting Fenris says, okay, one of
my fashion designs, I try to sell Dothy on it. First,
It's okay with her, you'll take it.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Then she gets to see your designs before they're approved.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
I'm sure she does.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Who else sees them?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Well?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Fenris of course? And Sally, yes, I see him too.
Do you think this Dorothy Drake would commit murder to
help Fenris?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
You said she was here in this.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Apartment when he got hit, didn't you?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yes, she was, Well, I don't see why you had
to get away.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
She told us she was married Danville. We had no
reason to doubt her.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But she doesn't look the least did like Mary.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Don't forget miss Carlyle. I never saw Mary Danville before.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
And we didn't find Mary's body until afterd Dorothy Drake
had left.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
She must have killed Mary. All you have to do
is find her.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Do you know where she lives?
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Sure, there's no secret about that.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Then' r on Prince Street.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
But she won't be there. Mary must have known that
she was a passion piece.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Just a minute, miss Carlyle. We can't assume that she's
guilty of Mary's murder or of the fashion tefts. Either
you and mister Partmer, mister fennisall had access to the
fashion design.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
But if she isn't guilty, why did she run away?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
We don't know that she has run away. If she's smart,
we'll find her at home. Let's see.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
If she is smart, I'll come in.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
You don't seem surprised to see if Miss Drake, I
knew you'd be here.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Well, are you coming in? Thanks? We are. I suppose
you saw Mary's body.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
We did.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
And I suppose you're spaking to say I didn't kill
her naturally. And I suppose you won't believe me when
I do.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well, you lied to us at Sally Carlisle's apartment.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Of course I lied. I was frightened. I just saw
Mary's body.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You mean she was dead when you went into an apartment?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yes? She was?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And how did you get in?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I had a key?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Where'd you get it?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
That's some of your pets.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Solving murders is my business, Miss Drake, And unless you
give me some straight answer is I'm going to escort
you down the headquarters.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I wouldn't try that if I were you.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Why not, I'll sue you for false arrest and i'll
collect you.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Seem pretty sure of yourself.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You'll find out how sure I am. You try to
make trouble for me.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You think mister Fennis will back you up. Uh, I
wouldn't count on that if I were you. No, Look,
if you're going to take that attitude, Miss Drake, I'll
have to show you I'm not bluffing. Come on, Come on?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Where two headquarters? Where do you think? Now?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Look, you can't let me can And if you won't
come willingly with me, I'll have Sergeant Memphis another homicide
squad here within ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Just try it and see what will happen.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Very well, where's the telephone, Miss Drake, It's in the hall. Nate, fine,
call Mattie.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Right, So don't too dip water, mister Carter.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Well, if I were you, I wouldn't make any phone
calls until I knew what I was doing for.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Mister sun Rush.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I won't have my secretary, myself or the store mixed
up in a murder scandal Carter, and if you do it,
I'll run you right out of business. What are you
doing here, Fenris?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
He came because I called him as soon as I
got away from Mary Daniel's apartment.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Okay, now that we're back to that Miss Drake, I
still want to know why you went there.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
She was following orders, CURTI your orders, naturally. I was
entitled to the information the Danville girl said she had,
and I was going to get.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
It, even if you had to steal it.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Her attempt to extort money from me was outside the law.
You have to fight fire with fire.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
So you gave Miss Drake the key to Miss Danvill's apartment.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I did.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Why did you get it? We have a key shop
in the basement of our store. I borrowed Sally Carlyle's
key from her locker long enough to have a duplicate
maids Did you borrow it with Sally's permission?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I told you you have to die now.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
You have to fight fire with fire. Okay, So you
had Miss Drake sneak in to Miss Danville's apartment. What
was she supposed to steal? Mary Danville claimed she had
a package of correspondence to prove the identity of the
passion thief.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I wanted it.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Hey, wait a minute, Wait a minute. You say you
sent your secretary to get the letters Married Danville. Heead
I did, but before she'd had any chance to let
you know whether she got them or not, you called
me and asked me to get them. If that makes sense,
it makes a lot of sense. I had no intention
of hiring you. From what i'd heard about you. I
was quite sure you wouldn't take the job. Suppose I
said I would.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
I'd have found some excuse for not hiring you.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
And why did you call me?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
That's really very simple, curty.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
If Miss Drake had been successful in getting those letters,
Mary Danville would have immediately accused me of having her
apartment burglarized. But I would have been in a position
to deny it. How I could have proved that I
was trying to hire a detective to get the letters
for me at the very time somebody else was actually
getting them. Very clever, And now you've put your secretary
right on the spot.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
He has not.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
You were in the apartment with Married Danville's body when
we found you, Miss Drake, and you admit why you
were there. That doesn't mean by the way, did you
get the letters?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
When I saw Mary's body, I needn't stop to look
for them.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I think perhaps you did what I think, Perhaps you
found them and didn't want mister Fennis to know you
found them. You're accusing miss Drake of being the passion
se've met preposterous married Danville's murder. It's preposterous to Fenris,
But it happened just the same anybody else except miss
Drake check out at the store just before the murder. Yes,
Sally Carlyle took an extra hour at lunchtime because she
said she was nervous about her apartment and wanted to
(16:36):
go home to check things. How about Jerry Bartlett.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Say, I remember now what he came in while you
were out, mister Fenris and said he wanted an hour
off to attend to some personal business.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And I told him it would be all right.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So nobody's eliminated. Well, looked as though I first jobbed
to find those letters.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
But where are you going to look for them?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I don't know, mister Fenris, but I'm going to start
looking just as and when I get any information, you
can be sure I'll let you know.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Miss Bourne.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
What's the idea of summoning all of us here to
Carter's office in his high handed manner.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
He has some information for you. He isn't even here,
he said he'd be delayed.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
At that, mister fen delayed?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Doesn't he know? My time's valuable?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Should we go back to the storm?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Its dependence?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
You can go back if you like. But I'm staying
right here.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Oh you are? Are you? We'll see about that.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I'm staying too.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Mister Carter must have had an important reason for Ashne
to come here.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
The only thing that's important to me is to find
out who's been stealing our fashion design.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
You mean, murder doesn't bother you?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Married Danville is outside below, Miss Boone. She deserved what
she got. Did Carter say how soon he be here?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I'm sorry he didn't. Just the same.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
We'll wait until he gets here, all of us.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
This is an outrage. We've been here nearly two hours,
and I refuse to submit to such treatment any longer.
Where is Kyler anyway?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I'm sure I.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Don't know, mister fens All, he said over the phone.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
The last time he called.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
I know he said to tell us to wait. Well,
I'm not going to wait any longer now that you are.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Your curiosity would let you do anything else?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
What would Devil's he up to anyway?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Miss Ford wouldn't tell even to you, Jerry. Oh is
not two reasons? Why? Ah is just to wait?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Everybody, Well it's about time, Carter. Do you realize you've
kept us waiting here? Mister Fenris, I've kept you waiting
about two hours.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Well, your explanation better be good. I'm a busy man.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
My explanation is very good. I intended to keep you
people waiting here when I called you all the colossal
and I had to get you here so I could
search your homes without being disturbed. You mean, I mean
I've made a thorough search, Miss Drake, with a full
approval of the police department.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I'll I'll have you tone into jail.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I don't calm down, mister Fenris. You said the proper
way to fight fire was with fire. Remember, I confound
you were interested in results, fenders, while I've got results
right here in this package. Once in it the letters
that cost Mary Danville her life all ready to be
turned over to the police.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Have you read them?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I haven't even examined them. I thought i'd prefer to
do that with everyone present.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Oh why wait any longer? Then?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I don't intend to wait.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
No, I'll take care of this.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Nobody's going to find me. You've got a gun.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
So I see. Has anyone accused you of anything, mister Barbett. No,
nobody's going to not as long as you have that
gun in your hand. I suppose you're right.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
You just keep away from me if you don't want
this gun to go off.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Now, let's see these letters.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Quite there? They aren't the letters at all. Card is
trying to trickers.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Quite right, mister Fendlis, they're fakes. I didn't even look
for the letters. You didn't look for them, No, I didn't.
It's defendless hounded. You know these letters are fakes. Why
you said you've never seen the letters and yet you
know it once? These aren't genuine. How about that, Carter?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Are you accusing me of something?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yes, I'm accusing you of married Danville's murder.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
They're totally ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
You don't think i'd feel my own fashions, do you?
If they aren't your fashion, that's just the point, Ventrist,
They aren't your fashion.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Not see here.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
President at the store because of your name because your
father founded a business. The money you made stealing those
fashions and selling them was probably more than your salary.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
So Fenris murdered Mary then deliberately sent me to her apartment.
So there's anything went wrong.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I'd be the suspect.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Miss Drake, don't be a fird I'm not anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I'm getting smart.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
The rest of us had to check out before we
could beat.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
The store, but you didn't. And I'm the only one
who knows.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
You weren't around the store at the time of the murder.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Nick that's right, she said. Mister Fenrus was out, so
she told Jerry Bartley would be all right for him
to leave.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Look, Cartery, it may be news to you, but there
aren't any letters. There are no Mary and I worked
out that scheme because I thought Fenris suspected me. What
seems well, you see, it was like this. I paid
Mary to quitter job and make Finris that position. My
professional reputation was at taken. I thought I could get
the fashioned feet to show his hand that way. If
you knew they wanted a letters, why did you pull
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that gun? Well, I got excited. I guess I knew
there weren't any letters, And then when you showed up
with a whole bundle of them, I figured I was
being framed with fate letters. I wasn't gonna stand for that.
I have all lost your senses believing that fantastic story
about hiring Mary Danville.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Look at him with his gunman's hand. Yeah, look out, enough,
barlet im trying to get.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Your gun back, Not unless you want to slug in
the heart. And I thought for all of you, mister
Fenross covering the group with the revolver, he grabbed somem
Bartlet edges his way towards the door of Nick caught
his office. We'll see what happens in just a moment,
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and all for the conclusion of the case of the
Quiet Room Mate, Today's adventure with Nick Carter, brought to
you by new post war old Dutch closer. Mister Fenross's
revolver in one hand reaches for the door of Nick's
office with the other. So you thought Mary Danville knew
you'd been selling those fashion designs the Fenris and that's
why you killed Yes, I thought you was all set
to blackmail me for the rest of my life.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
It's Boat's fault of a Kildren.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Oh, you can't hang the blame on me, Fenris.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
And you can't leave this office either. Try to stop me,
see what happens to you. I have a trick lock
on the door to prevent just that thing. I snapped
the secret touch when I came into the room. You
will never be able to find it, Penris. Thanks for
telling me, CURTERI. In that case, I'll let you find
it for me. Oh no, no, die, you don't have
any choice.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Get over here and open this door or I'll blow
your head off.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Wow, I mean it. Okay, I guess you got me.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
We'll get it open and be quick about it, all.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Right, all right, take it easy, Penriss, I can't be
quick about it. First, you twist the door handle slightly
to the left like me, and a full turned to
the right like then.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Don't try any funny business, Carter.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I'm right behind you, and I'm ready to pull the
trigger if I I'm sure you are. How you turned
the door up to the left again? And wait, give
me the gun me.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
You slam the door into me again, and.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I'm gonna slam my left fist.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Right for your face if you don't not that dun
you I've got a caller, all right, good, hold on
with this time. I didn't want to kill Mary Daniboum.
I thought I had to do it.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I'm sorry. I can't sympathize with you.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
He checked me, Carter, how did you know?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I didn't know Henrith, didn't have any idea of who
was Gilly. But you remember what I said about Gilly
people running away. But that's why I arranged this meeting,
to give them murder a chance to try to run away.
And it worked.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
But if there were letters, Nick, if Mary Daniel didn't
have any letters.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
But she didn't have them.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
The letters were from Fenris to the people who brought
the fashion designs from him. Yes, they wouldn't buy unless
I gave them something to put them in the clear
in case the store ever brought any suits against them.
I thought you got hold of it in some way,
but you act to deserve your thought I was double crossing.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Oh you had me half crazy. I had to accuse someone,
didn't I?
Speaker 5 (24:06):
And you're still trying to justify yourself, an't you?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
The store should have been mine.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I only got a small part of what I deserved
while starting right now, Fenris, you're going to get more
than a small part of what you deserve. You're going
to get the works. Well, Nick, let's hear something about
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the adventure new post war old Dutch cleanser is going
to bring us next week, Mike. It started when Patsy
and I went on a visit to another city and
were greeted by a welcoming committee.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
A welcoming committee with machine guns, no less.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
See.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I went there and looked for a gangster, but I
spent most of my time looking for Patsy.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You see, Mike, I found the gangster first, and I
was sorry I ever did believe me.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah, Patsy pretended to be a gun Matt. She played
the part of Tyler too well for her own safety.
That sounds as though we're in for an exciting half hour, Nick,
What do you call this adventure? I call it the
Case of the Great Impersonation? Nick Carter Master Detective is
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
Are you going to break into this apartment?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I don't have to, Fatcy Sally gave me her key.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
See you think of everything?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Don't you try it? Okay, come on it?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Uh huh I have This is certainly a pleasant living room.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Nothing soonerster here?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Uh? What says though? There are two bedrooms too? Wonder
whether this one is marriage? Let's see what's who? Great
skirt girl's been shot through the temple?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Nick, I wonder if.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Somebody just came in the front door. It's all a
miss Carlyle's. And now the case of the Quiet Homemate.
Today's adventure starring Lawn Clark as Nick Cutter, brought to
you by New post war Old Dutch Cleanser. It's late
in the afternoon and Nick and Patsy are in the
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lavish office of John Fenross, president of the Fenross Department store.
I'm glad you brought miss Boone to the store with him.
Mister Carter, she'll understand his business. He said you were
being annoyed by a blackmailer, mister Fenrick, precisely.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Girl worked here until last Saturday night, is trying to
shake me down for a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You were involved with her, of course, not nothing of
the store. And what's the trouble.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Our fashion designs are being stolen?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Oh, you mean that the clothes sold in the fen
Rest store are exclusive?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
A great many of them arems born Two years ago.
I hired Jerry Bartatt, one of the best dressed designers
in the business, to create designs exclusively for the Fenris's store.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Well, I knew Fenris's models couldn't be brought anywhere else
in town.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
But that's the point.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
They can be now, Oh the cut great stores have
our exclusive styles that mark down prices before we even
put them on sail here that can't be very profitable,
profitable we've loss of fortune. And this girl says she
knows how our fashions are being pirated and who's responsible
for it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And she won't tell you who it is.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Tell me she.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Has a goal to as twenty five hundred dollars for
the information, and you want me to find out who's
stealing your design? No, I want you to force Mary
Danville to give me that.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Information without paying for it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You mean I have a right to know and it's
herd duty to tell me without blackmailing me. I want
you to scare Scaring girls is out of my line,
mister Fenris. You want me to investigate your problems.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Oh so you want to run up a lot of
investigating fees, do you. Well? I won't fall for it.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I'm not asking you to fall for anything. I'm responsible
to the board of directors where every dollar I spend.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
It isn't my money.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
It's your store, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Well, it was my father's door.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Now it belongs to a great many people, and they
expect me to show a profit. I can't throw money
away detectives. Well, it's probably just as well, mister Fennis.
I don't think i'd enjoy working for you anyway.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Mister Carter.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
If my secretary were here, i'd have her show you out.
Oh we can find our way out. Come on best
with pleasure, mister Fens. Miss Carlyle, do you think my
office is a public waiting room.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Miss Drake is mist her desk, and I have to
see the second.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
If you do to marry Dandille.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Has none of my business.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
But when you start ransacking.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
My apartment, control yourself, Miss Carlisle, I've done no such things.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Then if you didn't do it, you hired someone to.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Your accusations are in particularly bad taste in front of
out tiders.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Miss Carlile.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Oh, don't worry about us, mister Fennis. This young lady's
outburst hasn't changed my opinion of you a bit. I
think i'd like to talk to Miss Carlyle privately, though
I forbid it. Oh you do, I certainly do. This
man's a detective, Miss Carlile, Fine.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Mister detective, if you come down to the Sandros Exclusive Shop,
I'd like very much to talk to you privately.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Well, I didn't imagine you'd have a private office like this,
Miss Carlyle.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Oh, yes, mister Carter, I'm in charge of the Fenruss
Exclusive Shop. But with a job like that, I should
think you'd be afraid to antagonize.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Mister Fenruss, wouldn't you hate to be fired?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
He won't fire me, Miss Bowen, What makes you so sure,
because mister Fenruss is the only person in the world
who would have any reason for ransacking the apartment that
Mary and I share. He wants the information Mary has.
Do you have it to Miss Carlyle? No, but if
I did, I'd do exactly what she's doing. I'd make
him pay for it.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
M Or was a lock on your apartment door broken?
Speaker 5 (04:40):
No, it wasn't if somebody had been there, because Mary's
wardrobe drunk, had been turned inside out and my room
had been all.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Torn up too. Was anything stolen?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Nothing of mine? And Mary says, Fenruss didn't find.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
What he was after.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I see has come out, you said. Mary Danville hasn't
told you what she knows about the fashion fift Are
you in your roommate on friendly terms?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yes, of course.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I got the store to hire her, and I also
saw to it that she was pushed to hit.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
But she still doesn't trust you enough to tell you.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
That is not the point, she said, I'd be better
off not knowing. That's what she discovered with dynamite.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Look, Miss Carlyle, I don't want to alarm you, but
can you get a room for yourself and marry Danville?
At a hotel for a few nights. Why why I
suppose so, I'd do it if I were you, and
I wouldn't let anybody know where I was saying.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
But everything's happened while I've been here at the store.
Nobody would dare to try anything while Mary and.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I were at home.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I'm not too sure of that. Is Mary at your
apartment now?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I think so?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Hi, I want to talk to her, and I'd also
like to examine your apartment.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Do you want me to take you there now?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
No, I want you to line up a hotel room. Besides,
Patsy and I may do better talking to Mary alone.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
If you think.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I don't think anything yet, Miss Carlyle, except that you
may not find it healthy to stay in your apartment.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
All right, mister Carter, I'll do whatever you say.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I can hear somebody in there, Nick, Maybe she's afraid
to open the door.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's Danville, Sally Carlisle senders. I'm Nick Carter, a private investigator. Luck,
miss Danville. I know you're in there because I heard
you moving around.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I don't guess he isn't gonna let us in.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Nick. I'm earning a camp right here on your doorstep
till you open this door, Miss Danville. I'm here to
help you if I can. Well, now you're being sensible.
I don't know you what Ms Jone and I would
like you to tell us what you can about your
apartment being searchery.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Recently, Sally Carlyle told us about it, Miss Danville, Nick.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And I are here to investigate.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
So if you'll let us in, I'm.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
In a hurry right now, I have a date. Couldn't
you come back some other time?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I'm afraid this can't wait, Miss, but I can't. That's
one thing I want. Particularly don't know. Has anything stolen
from your wardrobe trunk?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
No, Miss Carlile thinks mister Fendras.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Did the search go?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Watch?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Do you have any eyes?
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Look?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Mister what's your name? I told you I'm in a hurry.
I'm light for my date now.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Good date for a gentleman friend?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yes, my dates for the man and we'll just talk.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
To you here outside your daughter. You're right, but time to.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Meet him downstairs in the lobby.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Oh, your callers meet you in the lobby, do they look?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I don't know you. Maybe you're a detective and maybe
you're not. But until Sally's here to say you're okay,
I'm not going to talk to you. I'm ready to leave,
and I'm going right now.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You're making a mistake, Miss Danville.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Maybe maybe not, But don't try to follow me down
to the lobby.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
If you do, I'll I'll call her police very well.
They won't even go down in the same elevator with you.
Go right ahead, That's what.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I intend to do. You don't.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You're going to follow us trying to wait here and
see what she does.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
But what do you expect her to do at see?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
If you were miss Danville, would you leave two strangers
standing in front of your door after a conversation like
the one we've just had.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Why that all depends?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Pens nothing. You'd meet your boyfriend in the lobby and
then get right back up here to see what's going on.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
But if you ask me, I don't think she has
a date.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
You don't.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And if she did, it wasn't with a man.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Oh why do you say that?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Merch get and powder and nose, and it was shiny,
and her lipstick was none straight, no name. I have
a feeling she just wanted to get away from this
apartment as fast as she could.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Maybe you're right. Come on, let's get inside and see
what was bothering her.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh, Nick, you're going to break into that apartment? Are you?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Don't have to?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Sally Carlyle gave me her keys. You think of everything,
don't you sure?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
All right?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Come on right, Well, it's certainly a pleasant living room.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Nothing sinister here.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
M But there's other were two bedrooms? Which one is
married Danville?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Well not this one at least, I wouldn't think so.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Because the picture's on the vanity and you'd hardly have
your own picture in your.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Room, good girl? So Mary Danville's room must be the
other one. Ill, let's see what's there.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Great fucker, n no wonder Mary wanted to get away.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Let's got on the floor. He's been shot through the temple,
mister used the closest quife.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
Somebody just came in the front door.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Just listen, maybe we.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Can hear something.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Okay, who's a who is it?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Wait here? Something?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
No, garry Joe.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Let's get out of here and call the police wherever
you are.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Come on out off too, all right, Miss Carlyle, Jerry
your fool lest the testis, Oh, mister Carter, are you hurt,
not a bit, miss Carlyle. But tell you a trigger
happy friend to quit punt in that revolver at me.
I'm sorry, old fellow, and I was nervous that what's
been happening. Here's good.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Those people can't hit anything with a revolver.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
This is Garry Bart that our fashion designer, Nick Carter,
and his secretary of this poet.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
How do you do? I'm awfully sorry I frightened you,
but I thought I told you not to come back here,
Miss Carlyle.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I know, but I got to thinking about Mary dan Villains. Well,
if it was dangerous for me to be here, it
was dangerous for her too.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
So I came up to get her.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
But she just left a few minutes ago. Oh I see, Well,
in that hysteria, I suppose we might as well leave
to run.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
That's a minute, Miss Carlyle. Did you see your roommate
in the lobby just now?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
In the lobby?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
No, there's somebody else in this apartment, in one of
the bedrooms.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You mean you caught our mysterious visitor.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Oh that's wonderful. But who suppose you'd take a look.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
That's a good idea?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Who no, no recognized her, Miss Carlyle.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Of course we recognize.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Her, but that's Larry Dangel.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
What do you mean this murdered girl is your roommate.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yes, but why would anyone Mister Carr, You've got to
catch her murderer.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
You got to.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I think I did catch her murderer, Miss Carlyle, but
I let her get away. Mary Danvil was apparently murdered
by the girl who made a cool, daring getaway with
the fugitive pictures on Sally Carlyle's beanity, So we should
know who she was in just a moment. Now back
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to the case of the Quiet Room. Today's adventure with
Nick Carter brought to you by new post war old
Dutch cleanser. The scene of Sally Carle's bedroom and Nick
stairs grimly at the photograph he's removed from Sally's dressing table.
This is a picture of the girl that left your
apartment just as we arrived. Who is she, Miss Carlyle.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Well, that's Dorothy Drake.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
She a particularly good friend of yours.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Well, she gave me the picture and she stops in
to see me once in a while.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
She's friend as a secretary. So everybody in Miss start
tries to get intolid with her. I say, oh, I
think she can give him a boost. To Fenris, she
really has that much influence with him. Well, if I
think I'll have trouble getting Fenris says, okay, one of
my fashion designs, I try to sell Dothy on it. First,
It's okay with her, you'll take it.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Then she gets to see your designs before they're approved.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
I'm sure she does.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Who else sees them?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Well?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Fenris of course? And Sally, yes, I see him too.
Do you think this Dorothy Drake would commit murder to
help Fenris?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
You said she was here in this.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Apartment when he got hit, didn't you?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yes, she was, Well, I don't see why you had
to get away.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
She told us she was married Danville. We had no
reason to doubt her.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But she doesn't look the least did like Mary.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Don't forget miss Carlyle. I never saw Mary Danville before.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
And we didn't find Mary's body until afterd Dorothy Drake
had left.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
She must have killed Mary. All you have to do
is find her.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Do you know where she lives?
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Sure, there's no secret about that.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Then' r on Prince Street.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
But she won't be there. Mary must have known that
she was a passion piece.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Just a minute, miss Carlyle. We can't assume that she's
guilty of Mary's murder or of the fashion tefts. Either
you and mister Partmer, mister fennisall had access to the
fashion design.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
But if she isn't guilty, why did she run away?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
We don't know that she has run away. If she's smart,
we'll find her at home. Let's see.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
If she is smart, I'll come in.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
You don't seem surprised to see if Miss Drake, I
knew you'd be here.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Well, are you coming in? Thanks? We are. I suppose
you saw Mary's body.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
We did.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
And I suppose you're spaking to say I didn't kill
her naturally. And I suppose you won't believe me when
I do.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well, you lied to us at Sally Carlisle's apartment.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Of course I lied. I was frightened. I just saw
Mary's body.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You mean she was dead when you went into an apartment?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yes? She was?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And how did you get in?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I had a key?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Where'd you get it?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
That's some of your pets.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Solving murders is my business, Miss Drake, And unless you
give me some straight answer is I'm going to escort
you down the headquarters.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I wouldn't try that if I were you.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Why not, I'll sue you for false arrest and i'll
collect you.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Seem pretty sure of yourself.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You'll find out how sure I am. You try to
make trouble for me.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You think mister Fennis will back you up. Uh, I
wouldn't count on that if I were you. No, Look,
if you're going to take that attitude, Miss Drake, I'll
have to show you I'm not bluffing. Come on, Come on?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Where two headquarters? Where do you think? Now?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Look, you can't let me can And if you won't
come willingly with me, I'll have Sergeant Memphis another homicide
squad here within ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Just try it and see what will happen.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Very well, where's the telephone, Miss Drake, It's in the hall. Nate, fine,
call Mattie.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Right, So don't too dip water, mister Carter.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Well, if I were you, I wouldn't make any phone
calls until I knew what I was doing for.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Mister sun Rush.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I won't have my secretary, myself or the store mixed
up in a murder scandal Carter, and if you do it,
I'll run you right out of business. What are you
doing here, Fenris?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
He came because I called him as soon as I
got away from Mary Daniel's apartment.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Okay, now that we're back to that Miss Drake, I
still want to know why you went there.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
She was following orders, CURTI your orders, naturally. I was
entitled to the information the Danville girl said she had,
and I was going to get.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
It, even if you had to steal it.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Her attempt to extort money from me was outside the law.
You have to fight fire with fire.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
So you gave Miss Drake the key to Miss Danvill's apartment.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
I did.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Why did you get it? We have a key shop
in the basement of our store. I borrowed Sally Carlyle's
key from her locker long enough to have a duplicate
maids Did you borrow it with Sally's permission?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I told you you have to die now.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
You have to fight fire with fire. Okay, So you
had Miss Drake sneak in to Miss Danville's apartment. What
was she supposed to steal? Mary Danville claimed she had
a package of correspondence to prove the identity of the
passion thief.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I wanted it.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Hey, wait a minute, Wait a minute. You say you
sent your secretary to get the letters Married Danville. Heead
I did, but before she'd had any chance to let
you know whether she got them or not, you called
me and asked me to get them. If that makes sense,
it makes a lot of sense. I had no intention
of hiring you. From what i'd heard about you. I
was quite sure you wouldn't take the job. Suppose I
said I would.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
I'd have found some excuse for not hiring you.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
And why did you call me?
Speaker 4 (15:41):
That's really very simple, curty.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
If Miss Drake had been successful in getting those letters,
Mary Danville would have immediately accused me of having her
apartment burglarized. But I would have been in a position
to deny it. How I could have proved that I
was trying to hire a detective to get the letters
for me at the very time somebody else was actually
getting them. Very clever, And now you've put your secretary
right on the spot.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
He has not.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
You were in the apartment with Married Danville's body when
we found you, Miss Drake, and you admit why you
were there. That doesn't mean by the way, did you
get the letters?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
When I saw Mary's body, I needn't stop to look
for them.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I think perhaps you did what I think, Perhaps you
found them and didn't want mister Fennis to know you
found them. You're accusing miss Drake of being the passion
se've met preposterous married Danville's murder. It's preposterous to Fenris,
But it happened just the same anybody else except miss
Drake check out at the store just before the murder. Yes,
Sally Carlyle took an extra hour at lunchtime because she
said she was nervous about her apartment and wanted to
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go home to check things. How about Jerry Bartlett.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Say, I remember now what he came in while you
were out, mister Fenris and said he wanted an hour
off to attend to some personal business.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And I told him it would be all right.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So nobody's eliminated. Well, looked as though I first jobbed
to find those letters.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
But where are you going to look for them?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I don't know, mister Fenris, but I'm going to start
looking just as and when I get any information, you
can be sure I'll let you know.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Miss Bourne.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
What's the idea of summoning all of us here to
Carter's office in his high handed manner.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
He has some information for you. He isn't even here,
he said he'd be delayed.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
At that, mister fen delayed?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Doesn't he know? My time's valuable?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Should we go back to the storm?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Its dependence?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
You can go back if you like. But I'm staying
right here.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Oh you are? Are you? We'll see about that.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I'm staying too.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Mister Carter must have had an important reason for Ashne
to come here.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
The only thing that's important to me is to find
out who's been stealing our fashion design.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
You mean, murder doesn't bother you?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Married Danville is outside below, Miss Boone. She deserved what
she got. Did Carter say how soon he be here?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I'm sorry he didn't. Just the same.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
We'll wait until he gets here, all of us.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
This is an outrage. We've been here nearly two hours,
and I refuse to submit to such treatment any longer.
Where is Kyler anyway?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I'm sure I.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Don't know, mister fens All, he said over the phone.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
The last time he called.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
I know he said to tell us to wait. Well,
I'm not going to wait any longer now that you are.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Your curiosity would let you do anything else?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
What would Devil's he up to anyway?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Miss Ford wouldn't tell even to you, Jerry. Oh is
not two reasons? Why? Ah is just to wait?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Everybody, Well it's about time, Carter. Do you realize you've
kept us waiting here? Mister Fenris, I've kept you waiting
about two hours.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Well, your explanation better be good. I'm a busy man.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
My explanation is very good. I intended to keep you
people waiting here when I called you all the colossal
and I had to get you here so I could
search your homes without being disturbed. You mean, I mean
I've made a thorough search, Miss Drake, with a full
approval of the police department.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I'll I'll have you tone into jail.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I don't calm down, mister Fenris. You said the proper
way to fight fire was with fire. Remember, I confound
you were interested in results, fenders, while I've got results
right here in this package. Once in it the letters
that cost Mary Danville her life all ready to be
turned over to the police.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Have you read them?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I haven't even examined them. I thought i'd prefer to
do that with everyone present.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Oh why wait any longer? Then?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I don't intend to wait.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
No, I'll take care of this.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Nobody's going to find me. You've got a gun.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
So I see. Has anyone accused you of anything, mister Barbett. No,
nobody's going to not as long as you have that
gun in your hand. I suppose you're right.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
You just keep away from me if you don't want
this gun to go off.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Now, let's see these letters.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Quite there? They aren't the letters at all. Card is
trying to trickers.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Quite right, mister Fendlis, they're fakes. I didn't even look
for the letters. You didn't look for them, No, I didn't.
It's defendless hounded. You know these letters are fakes. Why
you said you've never seen the letters and yet you
know it once? These aren't genuine. How about that, Carter?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Are you accusing me of something?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yes, I'm accusing you of married Danville's murder.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
They're totally ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
You don't think i'd feel my own fashions, do you?
If they aren't your fashion, that's just the point, Ventrist,
They aren't your fashion.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Not see here.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
President at the store because of your name because your
father founded a business. The money you made stealing those
fashions and selling them was probably more than your salary.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
So Fenris murdered Mary then deliberately sent me to her apartment.
So there's anything went wrong.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I'd be the suspect.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Miss Drake, don't be a fird I'm not anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I'm getting smart.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
The rest of us had to check out before we
could beat.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
The store, but you didn't. And I'm the only one
who knows.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
You weren't around the store at the time of the murder.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Nick that's right, she said. Mister Fenrus was out, so
she told Jerry Bartley would be all right for him
to leave.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Look, Cartery, it may be news to you, but there
aren't any letters. There are no Mary and I worked
out that scheme because I thought Fenris suspected me. What
seems well, you see, it was like this. I paid
Mary to quitter job and make Finris that position. My
professional reputation was at taken. I thought I could get
the fashioned feet to show his hand that way. If
you knew they wanted a letters, why did you pull
(21:08):
that gun? Well, I got excited. I guess I knew
there weren't any letters, And then when you showed up
with a whole bundle of them, I figured I was
being framed with fate letters. I wasn't gonna stand for that.
I have all lost your senses believing that fantastic story
about hiring Mary Danville.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Look at him with his gunman's hand. Yeah, look out, enough,
barlet im trying to get.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Your gun back, Not unless you want to slug in
the heart. And I thought for all of you, mister
Fenross covering the group with the revolver, he grabbed somem
Bartlet edges his way towards the door of Nick caught
his office. We'll see what happens in just a moment,
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and all for the conclusion of the case of the
Quiet Room Mate, Today's adventure with Nick Carter, brought to
you by new post war old Dutch closer. Mister Fenross's
revolver in one hand reaches for the door of Nick's
office with the other. So you thought Mary Danville knew
you'd been selling those fashion designs the Fenris and that's
why you killed Yes, I thought you was all set
to blackmail me for the rest of my life.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
It's Boat's fault of a Kildren.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Oh, you can't hang the blame on me, Fenris.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
And you can't leave this office either. Try to stop me,
see what happens to you. I have a trick lock
on the door to prevent just that thing. I snapped
the secret touch when I came into the room. You
will never be able to find it, Penris. Thanks for
telling me, CURTERI. In that case, I'll let you find
it for me. Oh no, no, die, you don't have
any choice.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Get over here and open this door or I'll blow
your head off.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Wow, I mean it. Okay, I guess you got me.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
We'll get it open and be quick about it, all.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Right, all right, take it easy, Penriss, I can't be
quick about it. First, you twist the door handle slightly
to the left like me, and a full turned to
the right like then.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Don't try any funny business, Carter.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I'm right behind you, and I'm ready to pull the
trigger if I I'm sure you are. How you turned
the door up to the left again? And wait, give
me the gun me.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
You slam the door into me again, and.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I'm gonna slam my left fist.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Right for your face if you don't not that dun
you I've got a caller, all right, good, hold on
with this time. I didn't want to kill Mary Daniboum.
I thought I had to do it.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I'm sorry. I can't sympathize with you.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
He checked me, Carter, how did you know?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I didn't know Henrith, didn't have any idea of who
was Gilly. But you remember what I said about Gilly
people running away. But that's why I arranged this meeting,
to give them murder a chance to try to run away.
And it worked.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
But if there were letters, Nick, if Mary Daniel didn't
have any letters.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
But she didn't have them.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
The letters were from Fenris to the people who brought
the fashion designs from him. Yes, they wouldn't buy unless
I gave them something to put them in the clear
in case the store ever brought any suits against them.
I thought you got hold of it in some way,
but you act to deserve your thought I was double crossing.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Oh you had me half crazy. I had to accuse someone,
didn't I?
Speaker 5 (24:06):
And you're still trying to justify yourself, an't you?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
The store should have been mine.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I only got a small part of what I deserved
while starting right now, Fenris, you're going to get more
than a small part of what you deserve. You're going
to get the works. Well, Nick, let's hear something about
(24:33):
the adventure new post war old Dutch cleanser is going
to bring us next week, Mike. It started when Patsy
and I went on a visit to another city and
were greeted by a welcoming committee.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
A welcoming committee with machine guns, no less.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
See.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I went there and looked for a gangster, but I
spent most of my time looking for Patsy.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You see, Mike, I found the gangster first, and I
was sorry I ever did believe me.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah, Patsy pretended to be a gun Matt. She played
the part of Tyler too well for her own safety.
That sounds as though we're in for an exciting half hour, Nick,
What do you call this adventure? I call it the
Case of the Great Impersonation? Nick Carter Master Detective is
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