October 29, 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):
Or Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing dirt, presents Nick Carter,
famous for chasing crime. Every week at this time, two
great names are joined as you. Post War Old Dutch
Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful and daring
(00:21):
characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Nick. This green rug, it's completely out of place in
this room.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Everything else is blue.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You're right, Patsy, it doesn't really long here at all.
You are great at a time like this. You two
have to worry about the interior decoration.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Besides, there's no reason for a rug there no.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Not unless and unless, if there's placed there to cover something,
lift it up.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Maybe you'll find somebody hiding under that suffering wild sickness.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's blood and now the case of the Star of Evil.
Today's adventure starring Long Clark as Nick Carter, brought to
you by new post War Old Dutch Pleasure. It's late
(01:18):
in the afternoon as Nick and Patsy enter the luxurious
Brentwood Arms Hotel in answer to a call from Irving Malcolm,
president of Gigantic Films Incorporated. They step into the elevator
and Nick gives the number of Malcolm's floor sixteen. Please
my signs.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
There's a private elevator private year for the Maharajah Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And is sweet the Maharajah Jennifer.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Yeah, they got the fourteen to fifteen floors all of themselves,
so they rate their own elevators. Oh class the mohoraz
up another.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Hot set today? Huh? How came this to Larson? Well?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
What are you know?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Speed? Larcense? Why? Nick? How are you? I?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Speed?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Hello? Patsy that the cans?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
You do?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
One? Here? Speed? Hold on the second. I'll tell you
right now at the little busy with the kid here. Okay, Son,
how aboutother hot shot today?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
We'll try Lady Biden, the fifth of Jamaica.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I got it straight from the chat. Okay, business is over, heah,
but you're gonna tell us what you're doing? You mean
you haven't heard why I'm doing public relations for the
Maharaja of Janniport.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
What I thought the paper said he didn't want any
public look.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
God see, how can you keep a guy like that
off the front pages? He's young, single, romantic, and he's
got more money than the mint. Did you see that
two page spread and dispatch about his diamonds.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Did what what's that big diamond called the one in
his turban?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
A star of evin And you know how much that
stone weighs? How much? Over a hundred tarrats?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
It's worth a quarter of a million bucks?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
A diamond of the first water.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Why are they always calling diamonds of the first water?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Maybe because a really clear diamond it's completely invisible in
pure water. Oh hey, hey, here comes his nibs to
my house? Really? And did he always go around with
a couple of Russian wolfhounds and a half dozen attendants
in full costumes? Sure that's royalty for you, hey, kid,
snap to attention you. Here comes his majesty.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Okay, mister last look.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Look at that diamond in this turban. Did you ever
see anything like it in your life?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
They have the famous star of evils feed?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Yeah, yeah, look, kids, would you mind moving back a little?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
His lip doesn't like people wrong. I have to leave anyway, Remember, Bessy.
They came here to find out that mister Malcolm as
on this mine. It's my daughter caught her. She's disappeared.
She left the hotel at ten o'clock this morning and
(03:33):
I haven't seen her since.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
But that's only six hours ago, mister Malcolm. There's nothing
to be alarmed the back yet.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Is there?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You don't know Linda, miss Bourde. She's only seventeen and
she's led a very show good life sheltered sounds a
little odd for the daughter of a Hollywood producer. No
daughter of mine is going to marry an actor. I
know them too well, I say. But now about her disappearing, Oh,
I can't tell you much. Linda and I were going
to have lunch together, but when I went to a
room for her, she was gone. The desk clerk said
she left the hotel at ten this morning. Frankly, mister Malcolm,
(03:59):
I think you're ad or nothing.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
I tell you, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Something's happened to her?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Do you mean she's met with an accident?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Either that or she's been kidnaped. Now, let's not jump
to conclusions. Perhaps it would be a good idea if
I took a look at Linda's room. What's all to
find out what clothes she's wearing today? After all, when
we send out the police alarm, I want to describe
how she's dressed. I certainly plenty of dresses in this closet, Uh,
(04:31):
mister Malcolm, can you tell us missing? I'm afraid not
tought her. Here. Wait a minute, her leopard skin coat's going.
I know she had met with her. Did she bring
all her things in these two bags? No? There should
be one more, and over night bag and a jewel
case that's missing too. In other words, she left with
a jewel case, an overnight bag, and a fur coat
for which today's weather is entirely too warm. I don't
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know the stand. It almost looks as though she's run away,
doesn't it, Yes, it almost does.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Nikes a movie here?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
What is has it?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
This blotter on the writing desk, it's a new one,
but it has some pretty plain ink marks on it.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
All right, hold it up to the mayor.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Look, it's the end of a letter. I can make
out until tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
There's something else And then darling, and the sign is
you're Linda.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That's impossible. Linda doesn't call anyone Dolly in that part.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
That's blood just before darling. That could be a name.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, it could starts for the capital are.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Could it be Robert?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Now? Look's going the wrong direction? Looks small like Romney, Romney,
Romney Lewis. So that's who it is and who is
Romney Lewis, The star of my latest picture, and exactly
the sort of man I've tried to keep Linda away
from it.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I get a rid of a movie star named Romney Lewis.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
This is his first picture, and believe me, it'll be
his last. I picked him out of the gutter and
I'll kick him right back there. Hold on, mister Malcolm,
we don't know that you're daughter. I'll handle this myself,
mister Carter, and I'll handle it my own way. Romney
Lewis included.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Nick Cardy's office Tattybonne speaking.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Is mister Carter there?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh, yes, the moment, it's the unique Thanks, Hey God speaking.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
This is mister Pringle, manager of Brentwood Arms Hotel.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Can you come over right away? Why? Yes? Yes, So
you calling for mister Malcolm. Though I don't know anything
about mister Malcolm. But there's been a robbery here on
the fifteenth floor. The fifteen floor, Yes, isn't that the
one occupied by the Maharaja of Janniper.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yes, that's why walk the hotel have its own investigator
on the case. The maharajas so much in the public eye.
The publicity will be ruinous if we don't get it back.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
At what back, mister Pringle? What's Mian stolen a diamond
of his?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
The Star of Evil?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Fifteen?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Jerry? How came it? Strangle?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Why did you find out the diamond was gone? Mister Brangle?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Mister Lawson told me about it at seven thirty. I
said I'd try to get you to handle it, mister Carter,
and that we could keep the whole thing quiet.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
No publicity. Did Larson agreed to that?
Speaker 5 (07:17):
No? Well, he was most completely uncooperative.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
As a result, the place has been simply crowded with
police officers and with reporters from every paper in town.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Thank Heaven, they're gone now, Hey, are mister Strangle? That
thing crossed the hall in mister Carter? That open door?
Hi V some story?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I'm sure it.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, I already get your headlines all over the country.
How'd it happened? Gang of mastermind? That's all it could
have been? And you discovered the robber? Did? Sure? Went
down a lobby for some cigars. Couldn't have been going
over fifteen or twenty minutes, right, Jerry?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
All about ten, I'd say, mister Lawson. And when I
brought him back up, mister Carter. He knew what had
happened before he even got out of the elevator.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You knew the diamond againstna speed, I sure did. How
could you tell that? Well, the door was opened this
room and I could see his nibs turban lying on
the floor with the star of Evil ripped right out
of it like it is now.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Where was the Manoraza?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I don't know he was in the room when I left,
but I guess he went out.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
But he wouldn't go anywhere without his turban, would he.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Well, maybe he's prowling around incognito, like like some old
guy in the Arabian Knights.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Look s feet nobody walks away and leaves a quarter
million dollar diamond lying around without even closing the door.
You don't know his nibs to him?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
A million is peanuts, penut.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Hey worker's in this case here? Huh? This big Morocco
leather case lying open here on the table. Oh yeah,
that was stolen too. I guess Mohammad's vengeance. He called
it is a sword A sword, yeah, I think, heavy
thing with a cavalry saber. It's got a solid gold
handle trusted with Ruby's memo.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Nick, do you notice that little rug over there where?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Petty over get that door?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
His ole room is decorated in blue. So what's the
green rug doing in here?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But somebody must have moved he was born that rug
belongs in the bedroom.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Good.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Great, here we've got the biggest jewel robbery of the century,
and you too have to worry about the interior deckorations.
You're right, Patsy, there's no reason for a rug that
at all, not unless and I let's just place there
to cover something. So now we're going to look under
the rug. Huh what do you expect to find somebody
hiding the suffering wildcats?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
That? It's blood on the floor, isn't it blood?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yes? And on the sill of this door, too rugged
place here hide it. It looks as though.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Part of the blood stain is on the other side
of the door.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Hole, flock, I just don't lead to mister Pingle. Right,
it's just a closet a key, no, but the housekeeper
has one.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I'll go get it, all right, Jerry, and hurry, Oh, Nick.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Are you thinking the same thing?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I am afraid I am, Patsy. I'm afraid that when
we open that door, we'll find out why the Maharaja
is no longer interested in the Star of Evil.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
And here's the key in that closet, mister Pringle, the
one the linen room was gone, so I had to
go down to the dancer.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Thanks day. Here's Takada. Thanks dead body. Heysak.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
That can't be the Manaraja Looking at ten, they're as
white as mine.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
And the Maharaja had a dark complexion.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Turn him over so we can see him.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, good grief.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
This man had guessed at the hotel and the Springle. No, no,
I never saw him before. I know what it is,
Nick who He's a movie actor named Romney Lewis. Romney Lewis,
who's supposed to be in Hollywood, is found dead in
(10:45):
the New York hotel rooms of the massirious Maharajah Jolly
Poor and Linda Malcolm, in love with Lewis, has disappeared.
We'll see what happens in just a moment. Now back
to the case of the Star of Evil. Today's adventure
with Nick Carter brought to you by new post war
(11:06):
old Dutch cleanser. It's been almost an hour since Nick
found the body of Romney Lewis locked in the closet
of the Maharaja or Johnny Pool's hotel. Swite. Sergeant Mathieson
of the homicide squad has a riot to take over.
And now you say that when you open the closet, Nick,
this sword was in there as well as the body.
That's right, Maddy. Well, I guess there's no doubt that
(11:26):
it's the murder weapon.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Golly yeah, somebody must have used it like an axe.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You keep out of this, Jerry. They all came.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
You better go back to you elevator, and really I
should be down at the.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Desk, so you generally excuse this, and I think you
better sting around, mister Berengle.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Give me to mister Carter.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yes, you too, a swell now.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
I'll tell one of the other guys to take over
my car.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It's ring very well, Jerry, but come right back, yes, sir,
okay speed. This isn't the publicity story any longer. It's murdered.
Open up and tell us the truth about the Maharaja,
Nick Nick. You've gotta believe me.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I didn't count on anything like this.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Well, then where is his Highness and why was this
Romney loewe us in this room when they should have
been three thousand miles away in Hollywood. Did he know
the Maharaja?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Know him?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
He was the Maharaja? It was all publicity, gag. Lewis
was the star of a movie called The Star of Evil.
It's going to open here in a couple of weeks.
Oh fine, it plays in East Indian Prince and it's
all We thought we'd get a lot of publicity out
of the fake robbery. The robbery, you mean the diamond
hasn't really been stolen. I don't know, Nick. We planned
for tomorrow. But when I came up here and saw
the turbine on the floor with a diamond, gone, well,
(12:28):
I thought somebody jumped the gun. So I went into
my act. Speed. How much was that diamond? RALI worth?
O couple one hundred? Maybe?
Speaker 5 (12:36):
See ed he's taking over the elevator for me, mister Pringle.
Now what can I do for you, Saje?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
It can kick quiet till I call on you. Now
look speed.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
When you went downstairs at seven point fifteen, was Lewis
alone here in this suite on this floor?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, he was in his bedroom changing clothes for dinner.
Now on they changed, he took off the Indian makeup.
Where were all those these Indian servants? Wow? Their rooms
are on the floor below this. They're really Hollywood X.
He was not servants, so they never come up here
unless the reporters arom the place.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
You were one of them caught have made a sneak
up the stairs.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Couldn't look, Sonny boy, would you mind letting me ask
the question that effect sage?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
It nothing like that could have happened. The stairway doors
are locked, mister Lawson's instruction.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah, but I Jerry okay, okay, And anyone who came
to this floor while Speed was downstairs must have used
the elevator.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
None of the car stop at this floor except Jerry's.
You didn't bring anywhere up here, did you, Jerry?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Well, there wasn't anybody came up in the elevator.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
But I found that letter. It was getting in the lowers,
the handkerchief in his.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Dress and er what letters that pass? A letter to
Romney Lewis. I'm Lenda Malcolm. I have an idea they
were planning to elok.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
They were the letters Stare should be waiting for him
at the Alexander Hotel in Chicago. He was to take
a plane and join a dare so they could be
married tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So Lewis was running off with the boss's daughter, great
jumping horn tos help it. Malcolm was wild.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
You're right about that, ah, So that's why mister Malcolm
made that disgraceful scene in the lobby.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
What's that? Well, me and mister Breda.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
As I was going on duty at the desk about
seven o'clock, there was a commotion over by the elevators
and I looked up just in times see mister Malcolm
grabbed them the haag mister Lewis, that is by the coat,
as if you were actually going to strike him.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Did you hear what they said? No? But he was
terribly angry.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Anyone could see that. Yeah, I heard his sides. He said,
if you don't keep away from my daughter, I'll kill you.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Well, I guess that solves this case, all right, I'll
be so sure, Maddy. Well, how do you think Malcolm
got here? Jerry says, nobody came to this door by
elevator and the stairway door was locked.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
That's what I've been trying to tell you, mister Malcolm
standing on the floor above this and that stairway door
ain't locked.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Why it isn't No, I noticed that when I was
out in the hall a minute ago. Come on, Nick,
we're going to call on mister Malcolm in a hurry.
All right. Suppose I did say I'd kill Louis if
he didn't stay away from my daughter. Naturally I didn't
meet it. Literally. Yeah, But fifteen minutes after you said it,
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he was dead. Now how do you explain that? I
don't have to explain it. He promised not to see
her again, so I didn't have any reason to better him. Huh.
How do we know Lewis promise? Did anyone hear him?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
But I can prove that he did. He told me well,
and he is at the Alexander Hotel in Chicago. I
took her a long distance call to her. I'm waiting
for it to come Prue. Now, Lewis undoubted the major
that promise mister Malcolm, but I'm afraid he didn't intend
to keep it. What do you mean? Take a look
at this? What is his next copy of a telegram?
Lewis gone down to the desk at seven point fifteen. Hey,
let me see that.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Thend the Malcolm Alexander Hotel, Chicago, disregard any messages.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
From your father. Just regard plane to Saint Louis.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Meet you there tomorrow and go through with playing as
scheduled room boy.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
That dirty double crossover, that's why he got out of
that Maharaja get up.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
He was hopping the plane for Saint Louis. Eh.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And when you.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Found out about it, Malcolm, you knocked him off, just.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Like you said you will. That's a lie. I didn't
even know he was dead, sure you told me, Maddie.
I want to ask a couple of questions.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Go ahead, Nick, I want to look around this room anyway,
but to.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Find another body hidden in the closet. Never mind the
wise clutch. Mister Malcolm Lewis has murdered between seven fifteen
and seven thirty, only a few minutes after you threatened
him in the lobby. Where were you at that time? Well,
I came up here to my room for a while, eh,
and I went out for a walk. Afterwards, I came
back and put through that long distance call. Can you
(16:22):
prove that? If you mean, did anyone see me? No?
Then I'm afraid you haven't much of an alibi. What
is it, Maddie, Nick, whoever killed Lewis had to have
a master key to unlock that closet where he hid
the body, didn't he sure? But we know he's stole
that from the linen room, right, mister Malcolm, Are you
sure you didn't go down there and slight that key
when you came upstairs after threatening Lewis in the lobby?
(16:44):
Of course, I'm sure.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
And you didn't use that same key to unlock the
stairway door so you could walk.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Down one flight, knock off Lewis and then get back
to your own floor, I, moll certainly did not. All right, then,
why did you hide the key under the scarf on
your dresser?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
The key?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Mad?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
He?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Sure I did? How could I miss it in a
spot like that? I don't know anything about it. I
never saw that to you before. Huh. Well, you're going
to see it again, mister Malcolm, and plenty, you're going
to see it in court because this key is the
evidence that's going to convict you of murder. Hey and Nick,
(17:25):
why did Patsy stay up in Malcolm's sweet after he
was taken to headquarters? Huh? Or he asked her to
stay and take that long distance call from his daughter
would have come to Maddie. Okay, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
I guess so. Oh you want me to ring for
the ovator? Yeah, I want to find Franklin. Ask him
a few more questions. What for this case is wound up?
Think so? My sure, Malcolm's guilty. Every bit of evidence
(17:46):
points to him. That's the trouble matting. Why would a
smart guy like Malcolm leave so many clues? Well so,
why would he murder a man right after threatening him
in front of witness it because he was too mad
to think about being smart? Why when he found out
that Lewis was double coursing him, Nick, he blew his top. No,
I don't think so well. And if I find what
I'm looking for, Maddie, I'm afraid you're going to look
pretty silly. What are you talking about? I'm talking about
(18:09):
one piece of evidence. The killer would have to get
rid of something that would convict him beyond the shadow
of a doubt. Oh oh, you you mean.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
The Diamond Hires the Cotta side. Hey, that was a
great piece of work you did, catching that Malcolm guy
so quick. Yeah, thanks, Sonny.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Oh, Jerry, I'm looking for mister Pringle in a lobby.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Yeah, I'll take you down there.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Thanks. Hey, Nick, I don't know how you can think
Malcolm is innocent after finding that key in his room.
I'll tell you later, Maddy. Okay, but if we find
that diamond on in two, you're the one that's going
to look silly. Mister Pingless. You want to look in
(18:52):
the incinerator? Is it? Thanks?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Sam?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Have there been a fire in here in the last
few hours? No? No service card I was used to
get ready to start to one? Now? Oh look, Nick,
why do you think anybody would want to hide a
diamond and the incinerator? I'm not worried about the diamond? Matic. Well,
then what if I give you five dollars when you're
crawling that incinerator and try to find something for me? Yes? Sure?
What do you want me to look for? Suit of cloth? Sam?
(19:17):
A bloodstained suit of clothes? Blood? I don't know about that.
I'll make it ten dollars. Well, okay for then, I
don't mind blood. Wait till I open the door. Yeah,
I'll help you get in, all right? You go?
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Hey, Nick, what's all this about a bloodstained.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Suit and clothes? If you recall, Maddy, the murderer didn't
stab with that sort he up. Yeah, yeah, I know.
I saw the body and any dragged lewis inside that clot,
which means he's bound. I've got blood in his clothes. Yeah,
I guess he would have done. And he'd also want
to get rid of that suit. But fast, and the
easiest way to get rid of his suit, But fast
to be the throat and the incinerator. Sure, and with
the incinerator chef opening on every floor, he could throw
(20:00):
it down here from any places? Does it? Whether you
want from mister Carter? Is it a bundle of clothes? Sam? Well,
I found the bundle of something. I hang it out
the door to you. Huh, okay, here you are, Mandy,
this is it. Look for the love of Pete. But
that was Brown to us not to waste time talking.
I'll have to grab him before he gets away.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Hello, Hello, Oberator, this is miss Brown and mister Malcolm's
sweet No word on that call to Chicago yet, I
see well, thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yes, yes, I'll wait here until it comes through.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Oh, I don't think anybody was weird.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Hello Jerry, Yeah, I'm going to take a phone croll
from mister Malcolm.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Oh hey, I heard mister Carter say they'd have to
find that diamond before they'd really had their goods on.
Malcolm and I got a swell idea.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
You decided you'd come up here and find it for them?
Is that it?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
And you can help me? We'll turn this place outside.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
No, Jerry, the police will search the place. We don't
have any right to.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Kevin.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Look, if we find that diamond, will get credit for
cracking the case. Maybe the deal.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
No Jerry, absolutely not. Oh okay, huh. It's hot in here,
isn't it. I think I'll open a window.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Here it is hot. I think y'all got a drink
of water before I go back to the elevator.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Hm, there's a beautiful view from this window. I didn't
realize we were.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
So high up. Hey, Heymus fallen wal What of the Jerry?
The diamond? I didn't even have to look for it.
It was right here in this glass. Hot was the
one on the pressure here. It was hot, full of
water when I started to empty.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
It, so it was I could get myself a drink.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
There was a Diamond's.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Thought, that's impossible.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Don't remember what mister Carter said the sacknoon about a diamond.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Being invisible in water?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Well, mister Malcolm must have known.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
About that too.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Are you trying to tell me, mister Malcolm had the
diamond in that glass of water? Sure?
Speaker 5 (21:59):
The best place to hide it fin is right out
in the open, because nobody ever thinks to look.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
For Jerry, I had a drink of water from that
glass not five minutes ago, and the diamond wasn't.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
There then, okay there must have been. No, you just
put it there.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's why you can't stop this room to hide that
diamonds some place where you thought the police would find it. Oh, no,
you're on what did you hit that key? You're a
plan suspicion of mister Malcolm. No, no, I didn't you
stole that diamond?
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Jerry?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
You killed Lewis, all.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Right, so what if I did? You're you're gonna run
and tell the cops.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Jerry Kerry, keep away from me from that window, Come
any closer.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
I was sixteen stories down this poort and you're gonna
make that flip side.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Patsy clings desperately to the window frame, but her strength
is no match for Jerry's, and slowly he forces her
backward through the open window. We'll see what happens in
just a moment now for the conclusion of the case
of the Star of Evil. Today's adventure with Nick Carter
brought to you by a new post war old Dutch cleanser.
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In a suite at the Brentwood Arms Hotel, Patsy stands
by an open window facing a killer who says.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Stories down, then you're gonna make that crypt some first, great.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Care. I missed that time on purpose, but I won't
miss again.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
But you need Missicotta.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I was just trying to kill me though it pushing
me out the window. You children, Homney Lewis.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I know, pat Come on you from now. All the
only windows you'll be looking out, we're gonna have bars
on them, and so Patsy.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
When we found that bloodstained uniform the incinerator, Nick and
I started.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
To look for the elevator boy, and the indicator showed
that his elevator was stopped at the sixteenth floor. That's
why we figured he'd gone up to Malcolm.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Sweet Oh, thank goodness you got there when you did.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
We got a complete confession from him at headquarters. Good
It seems that when he came back up in the
elevator after taking speed, larsened downstairs. The door across the.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Hall was open, and there was the turbine with the
diamond and nobody in the room.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
And I suppose Lewis came in and caught him stealing it.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Hunt. Yeah, and Jerry got panicking, grabbed the start off
the table and slashed at him. When he realized Lewis
was dead, he remembered the quarrel and the lobbrary and
got the idea of framing Malcolm for the murder. That's
why he stole the master key from the linen room. Yes,
he locked Lewis's body in the closet, unlocked the stairway door,
then Kane of the key in Malcolm sweet.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yeah, But what about the bloodstained uniform?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
That was his next move?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
He got to the bell boy's locker room without being seen,
changed into another uniform and threw the one he'd been
wearing down the incinerator shaft, thinking it'd be burned up
before anyone pounded. And tell me, Nick, when did you
begin to suspect Jerry almost the how neither Speed nor
any of the Hollywood extra is acting as the Maharaja
servant did have any motor Forstina in the diamond. They
all knew it was a fake and Pringer was on
jury at the desk when Lewis was killed, right, So
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there wasn't anyone left but Jerry, that is after I
eliminated Malcolm. Yeah, you eliminated everybody but Jerry.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
And after his trial, Nick, I gotta hunch the state
is going to eliminate him.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Nick. Carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
time by the Cutter heat Packing Company. It is produced
and directed by Doc McGregor and is copyrighted by Street
and Smith Publications Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy.
Matty is played by Ed Latimer. Today's script was written
by Jim Parsons. Original music is played by Henry Silvern.
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or dead is purely coincidental. This Tuesday, April sixth is
Army Day, and we wish to take this opportunity to
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Or Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing dirt, presents Nick Carter,
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characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Nick. This green rug, it's completely out of place in
this room.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Everything else is blue.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You're right, Patsy, it doesn't really long here at all.
You are great at a time like this. You two
have to worry about the interior decoration.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Besides, there's no reason for a rug there no.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Not unless and unless, if there's placed there to cover something,
lift it up.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Maybe you'll find somebody hiding under that suffering wild sickness.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's blood and now the case of the Star of Evil.
Today's adventure starring Long Clark as Nick Carter, brought to
you by new post War Old Dutch Pleasure. It's late
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in the afternoon as Nick and Patsy enter the luxurious
Brentwood Arms Hotel in answer to a call from Irving Malcolm,
president of Gigantic Films Incorporated. They step into the elevator
and Nick gives the number of Malcolm's floor sixteen. Please
my signs.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
There's a private elevator private year for the Maharajah Jennifer.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And is sweet the Maharajah Jennifer.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Yeah, they got the fourteen to fifteen floors all of themselves,
so they rate their own elevators. Oh class the mohoraz
up another.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Hot set today? Huh? How came this to Larson? Well?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
What are you know?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Speed? Larcense? Why? Nick? How are you? I?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Speed?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Hello? Patsy that the cans?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
You do?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
One? Here? Speed? Hold on the second. I'll tell you
right now at the little busy with the kid here. Okay, Son,
how aboutother hot shot today?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
We'll try Lady Biden, the fifth of Jamaica.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I got it straight from the chat. Okay, business is over, heah,
but you're gonna tell us what you're doing? You mean
you haven't heard why I'm doing public relations for the
Maharaja of Janniport.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
What I thought the paper said he didn't want any
public look.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
God see, how can you keep a guy like that
off the front pages? He's young, single, romantic, and he's
got more money than the mint. Did you see that
two page spread and dispatch about his diamonds.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Did what what's that big diamond called the one in
his turban?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
A star of evin And you know how much that
stone weighs? How much? Over a hundred tarrats?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
It's worth a quarter of a million bucks?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
A diamond of the first water.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Why are they always calling diamonds of the first water?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Maybe because a really clear diamond it's completely invisible in
pure water. Oh hey, hey, here comes his nibs to
my house? Really? And did he always go around with
a couple of Russian wolfhounds and a half dozen attendants
in full costumes? Sure that's royalty for you, hey, kid,
snap to attention you. Here comes his majesty.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Okay, mister last look.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Look at that diamond in this turban. Did you ever
see anything like it in your life?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
They have the famous star of evils feed?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Yeah, yeah, look, kids, would you mind moving back a little?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
His lip doesn't like people wrong. I have to leave anyway, Remember, Bessy.
They came here to find out that mister Malcolm as
on this mine. It's my daughter caught her. She's disappeared.
She left the hotel at ten o'clock this morning and
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I haven't seen her since.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
But that's only six hours ago, mister Malcolm. There's nothing
to be alarmed the back yet.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Is there?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
You don't know Linda, miss Bourde. She's only seventeen and
she's led a very show good life sheltered sounds a
little odd for the daughter of a Hollywood producer. No
daughter of mine is going to marry an actor. I
know them too well, I say. But now about her disappearing, Oh,
I can't tell you much. Linda and I were going
to have lunch together, but when I went to a
room for her, she was gone. The desk clerk said
she left the hotel at ten this morning. Frankly, mister Malcolm,
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I think you're ad or nothing.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
I tell you, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Something's happened to her?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Do you mean she's met with an accident?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Either that or she's been kidnaped. Now, let's not jump
to conclusions. Perhaps it would be a good idea if
I took a look at Linda's room. What's all to
find out what clothes she's wearing today? After all, when
we send out the police alarm, I want to describe
how she's dressed. I certainly plenty of dresses in this closet, Uh,
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mister Malcolm, can you tell us missing? I'm afraid not
tought her. Here. Wait a minute, her leopard skin coat's going.
I know she had met with her. Did she bring
all her things in these two bags? No? There should
be one more, and over night bag and a jewel
case that's missing too. In other words, she left with
a jewel case, an overnight bag, and a fur coat
for which today's weather is entirely too warm. I don't
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know the stand. It almost looks as though she's run away,
doesn't it, Yes, it almost does.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Nikes a movie here?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
What is has it?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
This blotter on the writing desk, it's a new one,
but it has some pretty plain ink marks on it.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
All right, hold it up to the mayor.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Look, it's the end of a letter. I can make
out until tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
There's something else And then darling, and the sign is
you're Linda.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That's impossible. Linda doesn't call anyone Dolly in that part.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
That's blood just before darling. That could be a name.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, it could starts for the capital are.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Could it be Robert?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Now? Look's going the wrong direction? Looks small like Romney, Romney,
Romney Lewis. So that's who it is and who is
Romney Lewis, The star of my latest picture, and exactly
the sort of man I've tried to keep Linda away
from it.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I get a rid of a movie star named Romney Lewis.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
This is his first picture, and believe me, it'll be
his last. I picked him out of the gutter and
I'll kick him right back there. Hold on, mister Malcolm,
we don't know that you're daughter. I'll handle this myself,
mister Carter, and I'll handle it my own way. Romney
Lewis included.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Nick Cardy's office Tattybonne speaking.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Is mister Carter there?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh, yes, the moment, it's the unique Thanks, Hey God speaking.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
This is mister Pringle, manager of Brentwood Arms Hotel.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Can you come over right away? Why? Yes? Yes, So
you calling for mister Malcolm. Though I don't know anything
about mister Malcolm. But there's been a robbery here on
the fifteenth floor. The fifteen floor, Yes, isn't that the
one occupied by the Maharaja of Janniper.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yes, that's why walk the hotel have its own investigator
on the case. The maharajas so much in the public eye.
The publicity will be ruinous if we don't get it back.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
At what back, mister Pringle? What's Mian stolen a diamond
of his?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
The Star of Evil?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Fifteen?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Jerry? How came it? Strangle?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Why did you find out the diamond was gone? Mister Brangle?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Mister Lawson told me about it at seven thirty. I
said I'd try to get you to handle it, mister Carter,
and that we could keep the whole thing quiet.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
No publicity. Did Larson agreed to that?
Speaker 5 (07:17):
No? Well, he was most completely uncooperative.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
As a result, the place has been simply crowded with
police officers and with reporters from every paper in town.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Thank Heaven, they're gone now, Hey, are mister Strangle? That
thing crossed the hall in mister Carter? That open door?
Hi V some story?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I'm sure it.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, I already get your headlines all over the country.
How'd it happened? Gang of mastermind? That's all it could
have been? And you discovered the robber? Did? Sure? Went
down a lobby for some cigars. Couldn't have been going
over fifteen or twenty minutes, right, Jerry?
Speaker 5 (07:47):
All about ten, I'd say, mister Lawson. And when I
brought him back up, mister Carter. He knew what had
happened before he even got out of the elevator.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You knew the diamond againstna speed, I sure did. How
could you tell that? Well, the door was opened this
room and I could see his nibs turban lying on
the floor with the star of Evil ripped right out
of it like it is now.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Where was the Manoraza?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I don't know he was in the room when I left,
but I guess he went out.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
But he wouldn't go anywhere without his turban, would he.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Well, maybe he's prowling around incognito, like like some old
guy in the Arabian Knights.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Look s feet nobody walks away and leaves a quarter
million dollar diamond lying around without even closing the door.
You don't know his nibs to him?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
A million is peanuts, penut.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Hey worker's in this case here? Huh? This big Morocco
leather case lying open here on the table. Oh yeah,
that was stolen too. I guess Mohammad's vengeance. He called
it is a sword A sword, yeah, I think, heavy
thing with a cavalry saber. It's got a solid gold
handle trusted with Ruby's memo.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Nick, do you notice that little rug over there where?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Petty over get that door?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
His ole room is decorated in blue. So what's the
green rug doing in here?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
But somebody must have moved he was born that rug
belongs in the bedroom.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Good.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Great, here we've got the biggest jewel robbery of the century,
and you too have to worry about the interior deckorations.
You're right, Patsy, there's no reason for a rug that
at all, not unless and I let's just place there
to cover something. So now we're going to look under
the rug. Huh what do you expect to find somebody
hiding the suffering wildcats?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
That? It's blood on the floor, isn't it blood?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yes? And on the sill of this door, too rugged
place here hide it. It looks as though.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Part of the blood stain is on the other side
of the door.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Hole, flock, I just don't lead to mister Pingle. Right,
it's just a closet a key, no, but the housekeeper
has one.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I'll go get it, all right, Jerry, and hurry, Oh, Nick.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Are you thinking the same thing?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I am afraid I am, Patsy. I'm afraid that when
we open that door, we'll find out why the Maharaja
is no longer interested in the Star of Evil.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
And here's the key in that closet, mister Pringle, the
one the linen room was gone, so I had to
go down to the dancer.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Thanks day. Here's Takada. Thanks dead body. Heysak.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
That can't be the Manaraja Looking at ten, they're as
white as mine.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
And the Maharaja had a dark complexion.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Turn him over so we can see him.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, good grief.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
This man had guessed at the hotel and the Springle. No, no,
I never saw him before. I know what it is,
Nick who He's a movie actor named Romney Lewis. Romney Lewis,
who's supposed to be in Hollywood, is found dead in
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the New York hotel rooms of the massirious Maharajah Jolly
Poor and Linda Malcolm, in love with Lewis, has disappeared.
We'll see what happens in just a moment. Now back
to the case of the Star of Evil. Today's adventure
with Nick Carter brought to you by new post war
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old Dutch cleanser. It's been almost an hour since Nick
found the body of Romney Lewis locked in the closet
of the Maharaja or Johnny Pool's hotel. Swite. Sergeant Mathieson
of the homicide squad has a riot to take over.
And now you say that when you open the closet, Nick,
this sword was in there as well as the body.
That's right, Maddy. Well, I guess there's no doubt that
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it's the murder weapon.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Golly yeah, somebody must have used it like an axe.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You keep out of this, Jerry. They all came.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
You better go back to you elevator, and really I
should be down at the.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Desk, so you generally excuse this, and I think you
better sting around, mister Berengle.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Give me to mister Carter.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yes, you too, a swell now.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
I'll tell one of the other guys to take over
my car.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It's ring very well, Jerry, but come right back, yes, sir,
okay speed. This isn't the publicity story any longer. It's murdered.
Open up and tell us the truth about the Maharaja,
Nick Nick. You've gotta believe me.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I didn't count on anything like this.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Well, then where is his Highness and why was this
Romney loewe us in this room when they should have
been three thousand miles away in Hollywood. Did he know
the Maharaja?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Know him?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
He was the Maharaja? It was all publicity, gag. Lewis
was the star of a movie called The Star of Evil.
It's going to open here in a couple of weeks.
Oh fine, it plays in East Indian Prince and it's
all We thought we'd get a lot of publicity out
of the fake robbery. The robbery, you mean the diamond
hasn't really been stolen. I don't know, Nick. We planned
for tomorrow. But when I came up here and saw
the turbine on the floor with a diamond, gone, well,
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I thought somebody jumped the gun. So I went into
my act. Speed. How much was that diamond? RALI worth?
O couple one hundred? Maybe?
Speaker 5 (12:36):
See ed he's taking over the elevator for me, mister Pringle.
Now what can I do for you, Saje?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
It can kick quiet till I call on you. Now
look speed.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
When you went downstairs at seven point fifteen, was Lewis
alone here in this suite on this floor?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, he was in his bedroom changing clothes for dinner.
Now on they changed, he took off the Indian makeup.
Where were all those these Indian servants? Wow? Their rooms
are on the floor below this. They're really Hollywood X.
He was not servants, so they never come up here
unless the reporters arom the place.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
You were one of them caught have made a sneak
up the stairs.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Couldn't look, Sonny boy, would you mind letting me ask
the question that effect sage?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
It nothing like that could have happened. The stairway doors
are locked, mister Lawson's instruction.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah, but I Jerry okay, okay, And anyone who came
to this floor while Speed was downstairs must have used
the elevator.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
None of the car stop at this floor except Jerry's.
You didn't bring anywhere up here, did you, Jerry?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Well, there wasn't anybody came up in the elevator.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
But I found that letter. It was getting in the lowers,
the handkerchief in his.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Dress and er what letters that pass? A letter to
Romney Lewis. I'm Lenda Malcolm. I have an idea they
were planning to elok.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
They were the letters Stare should be waiting for him
at the Alexander Hotel in Chicago. He was to take
a plane and join a dare so they could be
married tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So Lewis was running off with the boss's daughter, great
jumping horn tos help it. Malcolm was wild.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
You're right about that, ah, So that's why mister Malcolm
made that disgraceful scene in the lobby.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
What's that? Well, me and mister Breda.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
As I was going on duty at the desk about
seven o'clock, there was a commotion over by the elevators
and I looked up just in times see mister Malcolm
grabbed them the haag mister Lewis, that is by the coat,
as if you were actually going to strike him.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Did you hear what they said? No? But he was
terribly angry.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Anyone could see that. Yeah, I heard his sides. He said,
if you don't keep away from my daughter, I'll kill you.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Well, I guess that solves this case, all right, I'll
be so sure, Maddy. Well, how do you think Malcolm
got here? Jerry says, nobody came to this door by
elevator and the stairway door was locked.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
That's what I've been trying to tell you, mister Malcolm
standing on the floor above this and that stairway door
ain't locked.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Why it isn't No, I noticed that when I was
out in the hall a minute ago. Come on, Nick,
we're going to call on mister Malcolm in a hurry.
All right. Suppose I did say I'd kill Louis if
he didn't stay away from my daughter. Naturally I didn't
meet it. Literally. Yeah, But fifteen minutes after you said it,
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he was dead. Now how do you explain that? I
don't have to explain it. He promised not to see
her again, so I didn't have any reason to better him. Huh.
How do we know Lewis promise? Did anyone hear him?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
But I can prove that he did. He told me well,
and he is at the Alexander Hotel in Chicago. I
took her a long distance call to her. I'm waiting
for it to come Prue. Now, Lewis undoubted the major
that promise mister Malcolm, but I'm afraid he didn't intend
to keep it. What do you mean? Take a look
at this? What is his next copy of a telegram?
Lewis gone down to the desk at seven point fifteen. Hey,
let me see that.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Thend the Malcolm Alexander Hotel, Chicago, disregard any messages.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
From your father. Just regard plane to Saint Louis.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Meet you there tomorrow and go through with playing as
scheduled room boy.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
That dirty double crossover, that's why he got out of
that Maharaja get up.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
He was hopping the plane for Saint Louis. Eh.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And when you.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Found out about it, Malcolm, you knocked him off, just.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Like you said you will. That's a lie. I didn't
even know he was dead, sure you told me, Maddie.
I want to ask a couple of questions.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Go ahead, Nick, I want to look around this room anyway,
but to.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Find another body hidden in the closet. Never mind the
wise clutch. Mister Malcolm Lewis has murdered between seven fifteen
and seven thirty, only a few minutes after you threatened
him in the lobby. Where were you at that time? Well,
I came up here to my room for a while, eh,
and I went out for a walk. Afterwards, I came
back and put through that long distance call. Can you
(16:22):
prove that? If you mean, did anyone see me? No?
Then I'm afraid you haven't much of an alibi. What
is it, Maddie, Nick, whoever killed Lewis had to have
a master key to unlock that closet where he hid
the body, didn't he sure? But we know he's stole
that from the linen room, right, mister Malcolm, Are you
sure you didn't go down there and slight that key
when you came upstairs after threatening Lewis in the lobby?
(16:44):
Of course, I'm sure.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
And you didn't use that same key to unlock the
stairway door so you could walk.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Down one flight, knock off Lewis and then get back
to your own floor, I, moll certainly did not. All right, then,
why did you hide the key under the scarf on
your dresser?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
The key?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Mad?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
He?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Sure I did? How could I miss it in a
spot like that? I don't know anything about it. I
never saw that to you before. Huh. Well, you're going
to see it again, mister Malcolm, and plenty, you're going
to see it in court because this key is the
evidence that's going to convict you of murder. Hey and Nick,
(17:25):
why did Patsy stay up in Malcolm's sweet after he
was taken to headquarters? Huh? Or he asked her to
stay and take that long distance call from his daughter
would have come to Maddie. Okay, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
I guess so. Oh you want me to ring for
the ovator? Yeah, I want to find Franklin. Ask him
a few more questions. What for this case is wound up?
Think so? My sure, Malcolm's guilty. Every bit of evidence
(17:46):
points to him. That's the trouble matting. Why would a
smart guy like Malcolm leave so many clues? Well so,
why would he murder a man right after threatening him
in front of witness it because he was too mad
to think about being smart? Why when he found out
that Lewis was double coursing him, Nick, he blew his top. No,
I don't think so well. And if I find what
I'm looking for, Maddie, I'm afraid you're going to look
pretty silly. What are you talking about? I'm talking about
(18:09):
one piece of evidence. The killer would have to get
rid of something that would convict him beyond the shadow
of a doubt. Oh oh, you you mean.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
The Diamond Hires the Cotta side. Hey, that was a
great piece of work you did, catching that Malcolm guy
so quick. Yeah, thanks, Sonny.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Oh, Jerry, I'm looking for mister Pringle in a lobby.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Yeah, I'll take you down there.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Thanks. Hey, Nick, I don't know how you can think
Malcolm is innocent after finding that key in his room.
I'll tell you later, Maddy. Okay, but if we find
that diamond on in two, you're the one that's going
to look silly. Mister Pingless. You want to look in
(18:52):
the incinerator? Is it? Thanks?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Sam?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Have there been a fire in here in the last
few hours? No? No service card I was used to
get ready to start to one? Now? Oh look, Nick,
why do you think anybody would want to hide a
diamond and the incinerator? I'm not worried about the diamond? Matic. Well,
then what if I give you five dollars when you're
crawling that incinerator and try to find something for me? Yes? Sure?
What do you want me to look for? Suit of cloth? Sam?
(19:17):
A bloodstained suit of clothes? Blood? I don't know about that.
I'll make it ten dollars. Well, okay for then, I
don't mind blood. Wait till I open the door. Yeah,
I'll help you get in, all right? You go?
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Hey, Nick, what's all this about a bloodstained.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Suit and clothes? If you recall, Maddy, the murderer didn't
stab with that sort he up. Yeah, yeah, I know.
I saw the body and any dragged lewis inside that clot,
which means he's bound. I've got blood in his clothes. Yeah,
I guess he would have done. And he'd also want
to get rid of that suit. But fast, and the
easiest way to get rid of his suit, But fast
to be the throat and the incinerator. Sure, and with
the incinerator chef opening on every floor, he could throw
(20:00):
it down here from any places? Does it? Whether you
want from mister Carter? Is it a bundle of clothes? Sam? Well,
I found the bundle of something. I hang it out
the door to you. Huh, okay, here you are, Mandy,
this is it. Look for the love of Pete. But
that was Brown to us not to waste time talking.
I'll have to grab him before he gets away.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Hello, Hello, Oberator, this is miss Brown and mister Malcolm's
sweet No word on that call to Chicago yet, I
see well, thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yes, yes, I'll wait here until it comes through.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Oh, I don't think anybody was weird.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Hello Jerry, Yeah, I'm going to take a phone croll
from mister Malcolm.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Oh hey, I heard mister Carter say they'd have to
find that diamond before they'd really had their goods on.
Malcolm and I got a swell idea.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
You decided you'd come up here and find it for them?
Is that it?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
And you can help me? We'll turn this place outside.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
No, Jerry, the police will search the place. We don't
have any right to.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Kevin.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Look, if we find that diamond, will get credit for
cracking the case. Maybe the deal.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
No Jerry, absolutely not. Oh okay, huh. It's hot in here,
isn't it. I think I'll open a window.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Here it is hot. I think y'all got a drink
of water before I go back to the elevator.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Hm, there's a beautiful view from this window. I didn't
realize we were.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
So high up. Hey, Heymus fallen wal What of the Jerry?
The diamond? I didn't even have to look for it.
It was right here in this glass. Hot was the
one on the pressure here. It was hot, full of
water when I started to empty.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
It, so it was I could get myself a drink.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
There was a Diamond's.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Thought, that's impossible.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Don't remember what mister Carter said the sacknoon about a diamond.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Being invisible in water?
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Well, mister Malcolm must have known.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
About that too.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Are you trying to tell me, mister Malcolm had the
diamond in that glass of water? Sure?
Speaker 5 (21:59):
The best place to hide it fin is right out
in the open, because nobody ever thinks to look.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
For Jerry, I had a drink of water from that
glass not five minutes ago, and the diamond wasn't.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
There then, okay there must have been. No, you just
put it there.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's why you can't stop this room to hide that
diamonds some place where you thought the police would find it. Oh, no,
you're on what did you hit that key? You're a
plan suspicion of mister Malcolm. No, no, I didn't you
stole that diamond?
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Jerry?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
You killed Lewis, all.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Right, so what if I did? You're you're gonna run
and tell the cops.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Jerry Kerry, keep away from me from that window, Come
any closer.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
I was sixteen stories down this poort and you're gonna
make that flip side.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Patsy clings desperately to the window frame, but her strength
is no match for Jerry's, and slowly he forces her
backward through the open window. We'll see what happens in
just a moment now for the conclusion of the case
of the Star of Evil. Today's adventure with Nick Carter
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(23:11):
In a suite at the Brentwood Arms Hotel, Patsy stands
by an open window facing a killer who says.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Stories down, then you're gonna make that crypt some first, great.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Care. I missed that time on purpose, but I won't
miss again.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
But you need Missicotta.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I was just trying to kill me though it pushing
me out the window. You children, Homney Lewis.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I know, pat Come on you from now. All the
only windows you'll be looking out, we're gonna have bars
on them, and so Patsy.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
When we found that bloodstained uniform the incinerator, Nick and
I started.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
To look for the elevator boy, and the indicator showed
that his elevator was stopped at the sixteenth floor. That's
why we figured he'd gone up to Malcolm.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Sweet Oh, thank goodness you got there when you did.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
We got a complete confession from him at headquarters. Good
It seems that when he came back up in the
elevator after taking speed, larsened downstairs. The door across the.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Hall was open, and there was the turbine with the
diamond and nobody in the room.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
And I suppose Lewis came in and caught him stealing it.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Hunt. Yeah, and Jerry got panicking, grabbed the start off
the table and slashed at him. When he realized Lewis
was dead, he remembered the quarrel and the lobbrary and
got the idea of framing Malcolm for the murder. That's
why he stole the master key from the linen room. Yes,
he locked Lewis's body in the closet, unlocked the stairway door,
then Kane of the key in Malcolm sweet.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yeah, But what about the bloodstained uniform?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
That was his next move?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
He got to the bell boy's locker room without being seen,
changed into another uniform and threw the one he'd been
wearing down the incinerator shaft, thinking it'd be burned up
before anyone pounded. And tell me, Nick, when did you
begin to suspect Jerry almost the how neither Speed nor
any of the Hollywood extra is acting as the Maharaja
servant did have any motor Forstina in the diamond. They
all knew it was a fake and Pringer was on
jury at the desk when Lewis was killed, right, So
(25:10):
there wasn't anyone left but Jerry, that is after I
eliminated Malcolm. Yeah, you eliminated everybody but Jerry.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
And after his trial, Nick, I gotta hunch the state
is going to eliminate him.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Nick. Carter Master Detective is presented each week at this
time by the Cutter heat Packing Company. It is produced
and directed by Doc McGregor and is copyrighted by Street
and Smith Publications Incorporated. Charlotte Manson is featured as Patsy.
Matty is played by Ed Latimer. Today's script was written
by Jim Parsons. Original music is played by Henry Silvern.
(25:59):
This is fictional and any resemblance to actual persons living
or dead is purely coincidental. This Tuesday, April sixth is
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