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Dan Holiday answers a letter to Box 13 and finds himself engaged to a wealthy heiress whose first two intendeds met untimely deaths.
Original Air Date: April 21, 1948
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Dan Holiday answers a letter to Box 13 and finds himself engaged to a wealthy heiress whose first two intendeds met untimely deaths.
Original Air Date: April 21, 1948
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(00:28):
Welcome to the Great Detectives of OldTime Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
is your host, Adam Graham,bringing you this week's episode of Box thirteen.
If you have any comments, sendthem my way Box thirteen at Great
Detectives dot net. Please cast yourvote for the show on podcast Alley Podcast
Alley dot Great Detectives dot net,and remember our Facebook page. You can
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become a fan at Facebook dot GreatDetectives dot net. Well, I want
to just say I hope everybody enjoyed, uh this past week's movie Sherlock Holmes
in The Secret Weapon. It's oneof my absolute favorites and it's something I'm
glad to be able to do overpodcast Day. It's it's really a nice
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innovation and I'm very grateful that we'reable to bring that to you. So
I hope people enjoy it, andwe're I'm already thinking about what we're gonna
do for next month. Obviously afocus is still going to be on Old
Time Radio Detectives, but I thinkthe movies it makes a nice edition.
There was one movie I've actually decidednot to do, even though it's traditionally
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listed in a mystery in the mysterygenre. And I'll actually talk a little
bit more about that on Friday,but for today, let's get into today's
episode of Box thirteen. Uh.This week's episode is entitled Look Pleasant Place,
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Box thirteen with the Star of ParamountPictures, Alan lad As Dan Holiday
Box thirteen, care of Star Times. He'd meet me at two o'clock tomorrow
afternoon in front of the Mercantile building. You can do me a tremendous favor,
perhaps changed the whole course of mylife. I shall be wearing a
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brown gabteen suit, and I'll becarrying a far screened I'll be carrying a
far screen suede handbag. That wasall no name, no initials, just
the letter. Well, it didn'tsound like much of an adventure, brother,
But how I could have used acrystal ball in good working order?
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And now back to its thirteen andthen Holiday's newest adventure look pleasantly. He
means, your holiday doesn't look particularlythrilling. But I guess it's like the
old each. Huh, So whatthe old each? You know, when
somebody says something smart, it meanssomething different from what it cares, only
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it's the same thing. Oh oh, on your next trip around the office.
Fix that one up, sissie.Never mind, just save up your
adage, Okay, okay, Ican just make it to the Mercantile building
by two o'clock. So long,Sussie. There were lots of people standing
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in front of the building, butonly one girl in a brown gabatine super
green hat and handbag. I didn'twalk up to her right away, because
well, I wanted to take agood look. And what I saw was
good, maybe about twenty four slenderlots and lots of brown hair that fell
down from that cute hat in anice way. Her clothes spelled money with
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two capital limbs. Well, Iwalked over to her. Good afternoon.
Oh I'm a man from blox thirteen. Oh thank you. Look, I
know this sounds terribly foolish and stillit, but I do want your holiday,
Dan Holiday. Oh all right,mister Holiday, do you have half
an hour to spare? The afternoon'syoung and I can wear it away to
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an old age. I'll answer yourquestion, yes it does. Do you
photograph well, mister Holiday? H? Well, my baby pictures always turned
out pretty good. Of course thatwas a little while ago. And look,
I want you to have your photographtaken with me. Oh is that
all? Yes, that's all,of course, I'll pay you for your
time and trouble. Oh no,no, no, My time's my own,
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and what trouble I get into isusually my own fault. All right,
mister Holiday, there's a photographer inthis building. He's ready for us.
Oh, by the way, what'syour name? O? The Jones
and Mary Jones? Oh you know, miss Jones a writer off and spends
hours thinking of the right name forthe characters in his stories. But here
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you come along without patting an eye, think of a very unusual one.
Do you have to know my realname? Well, I'll live without it,
but will you do it? MisterHoliday? All right, miss Jones,
let's go look at the birdie.The photographer was ready. It didn't
take long from the run off.Three shots, the stones paving, and
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the two of us went back downstairsout on the pavement. I turned to
her, and I because she readthe look on my face, please don't
ask me why, mister Holiday,goodbye and thanks very much. Well,
before I could move my feet,she was into a cabin. Gone.
If this was it, I justchalked up the shortest adventure on record.
There's nothing to do but go homeand mark it off to experience. Yeah,
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that's where it should have stopped.The next morning I walked into my
office, is huge, lan,Hey, hey, hey, what is
this? Susie? You could havetold me I quit. You didn't trust
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me? Oh, Susie, whenyou stop? Oh? When the phone's
been ringing all morning? Everybody wantsto know about it? About what you
down to the phone and find outyou careful, Susie, careful? Hello
the morning? Love a boy?Oh? Cling? Well, how's the
police department? It's frighten earily,it's not good to hear your voice.
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I call for information? What kind? What about? What shall I wear?
Why? Augunty had a crap machine? Bad? What are you talking
about? What is the matter witheveryone? What? Nothing? Angel's face?
All's well with the world about fifteenmillions? Everybody's crazy? Yeah,
everybody? But you nice? Goode? I'm a nice scorde? Am I
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invited? Or don't you want cops? It might make the thing look bad?
You know? In two seconds,Cling, I'm going to hang up
on you. What goes? Howdo you ever read the papers? Oh?
Don't you know what's going on inYou're now listen. I oh,
go arrest somebody. Oh look,Susie, what's this all about? Look
at the morning papers? Right,I'm looking at Holy mackerel. He's awful,
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pretty quiet, Susie. Prominent heiressannounces engagement two Dan Holiday, Dan
Holiday, that's me. That's mypicture with her. Here it is I've
been framed. Oh but you wouldn'tfame a newspaper, thank you, would
you? Marsh You Jamison beautiful rissto Jamison Lumberfortune announced his engagement. You're
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just a gamma John don Juan,one of the two. But you could
have told me. I could havetold myself, Susie. If that phone
rings anymore, I don't answer untilI get this thing cleared up, one
way or another. Goodbye. Igot Marsha Jamis's addressed from the society editor
at the Start Times, and ahalf hour later I was ushered into the
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big library at the Jameson Home.Sitting behind a desk was a youngish looking
man. He rose to meet meas I walked into the room. Oh,
mister Holiday, I'm very happy toknow you. Yeah, I wish
I could say the same. Ibeg your pardon, boys, Miss Jamieson
I've asked her to come down.Good. I suppose i'd better introduce myself.
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I'm Roger Jamieson, Marsha's uncle andguardian. She needs one, I
don't understand. Well, that makestwo of us. Suppose we pull our
facts and get one good, twistedstory out of them. Mister Holiday,
you're acting very strangely. I mustsay that my niece's choice of her husband
is well peculiar. All right,I'm peculiar at parties. I'm a standout.
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But i'd like to darling, hownice of you to come this morning?
What did you expect you? Ofcourse you've met Uncle Roger. Yes,
Marsha, we've met her. Oh, I want you to to like
each other. All fine, Ilove everybody in the world. But Uncle
Roger. Could I speak to Danalone? Please stain me, Marga,
you'll stay for lunch, mister Holiday, No, thank you? Oh,
yes you will, Uncle Roger.Good. We'll have a long talk now,
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Miss Jamison, why did you comehere? Maybe you haven't seen the
morning paper, mister Holiday, Danhelp me. I did, and I've
got engaged. Look, miss Jamison, I'm Marsha. I don't know you
that well. We just became engagedthis morning. Dan, it's imperative that
you act as my fiance until afterthe sixteenth of this month. Oh what
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happens then? Oh Dan, ifyou'll just do what I ask until the
sixteenth on that day, Yes,come in, lunch is ready anytime you
are staying, mister Holiday, Yes, you've stay, Uncle Roger. One
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more lunch like that might have hadindigestion for the rest of my life.
Uncle Roger was very curious about me. He asked a lot of questions,
which marsh answered then when I wasready to leave. Of course, mister
Holiday, this engagement came as acomplete surprise to me. I had no
idea you and Marshy even knew eachother. Well, I get around a
lot, mister Jamison. You'd bettercall me Roger Dan. Yes, this
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is nothing like being friendly. Well, I'm sure Dan has a lot of
things to do this afternoon, UncleRoger, we'd better let him go.
Of course, we'll have plenty oftime to talk about things, Dane.
Goodbye, mister Roger. Oh thankyou Dan. You were wonderful, superb
considering I didn't know where the ballwas half the time. We'll wait until
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sixteenth, won't you it's five daysfrom now. Meanwhile, how do I
tell my friends? And where doI stack the wedding presents? You can
always say we broke up, wellhuh, and I'll tell you something else,
Dan, Can there be anything else? I almost wished the whole thing
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was true. Goodbye Dan, Andwith that I was left standing on the
other good steps of the Jamison Castle. I could have put the whole thing
on the line and cleared up thesituation. It could have been easy,
just deny it, tell the wholestory. Or I could stay in the
play and see what the score was. I walked down the stairs and glanced
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back and looked up at a windowand right into Uncle Roger's eyes. Before
I could smile, he let thecurtains fall back in place. Okay,
that made up my mind. Curiositykilled a cat. They say, all
right, yo, well, Danny, welcome to the Star Times. And
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what brings you into the morgue?Jones? I want to do some research,
so you came to the right place. Oh congratulations, thanks, that's
a lot of though you're marrying.Yeah, kind of sudden, wasn't it
known her a long time? Jones? I feel as though it was just
yesterday. Get me everything you've goton her. Huh, you're going to
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look up your own fiancee. Yep, what's the idea? Kind of silly,
isn't it. Well, it's yourbusiness. I can put my fingers
right on the stock. We gotmuch all here. Matter of fact,
I was reading about her this morning, but I heard you were marrying her.
I did some work, and well, on the sixteenth of this month
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she comes into about fifteen million.What yeah, but she has to be
married by then. Oh how comeher father's will said so. If she
doesn't marry by the sixteenth of thismonth, this year, her fifteen million
goes to oh rodya Jamieson. Uncle, Oh you didn't know. I don't
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know a lot of things. Whatelse they got, Johnsie? She had
came a bad luck before. Yeah, that's what time engaged twice before,
and both a fiances had accidents badYeah. Dead. Well if they weren't,
they had enough of thirty trick pladeon him what they were buried.
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pleads. Another Box thirteen adventure withAlan Ladd as damn Holiday. Well there
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I was all wide eyed and innocent, engaged to marry a girl whose last
two fiances had lots of bad luckFor myself. I wasn't anxious to inherit
any of that, but I hadto find out a little more. So
I went back to the Jamison place. The butler recognized me and let me
in without announcing me. I walkeddown the hall and heard voices in the
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library. Ordinarily keyhole listening would havebeen out, but well, I heard
my name. The door was opened. So I tell you Dan, we'll
go through with it. Oh Dan, Dan first name already. Oh don't
be silly, Charles. I've gotto convince everybody is my fiance. Oh
what'll be backs before the sixteen?He won't? What makes us? Were
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sure? I know? Oh,don't be stupid, Jar, I'm not
stupid. I'm just careful, darling, Darling, you know better? Well
are you all right? Musha?Now you really better go, child?
As I say in Alice in wonderland. Curious sir, and curious Sir.
I was wondering about it. WhenCharles came toward the door. I backed
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away and duck into another room.Well where is Dan? Now? I
don't know, child, but you'dbetter get back to the office or garage.
You will missue, all right,Den, bye, I'll tell you
when and where we can meet agame. Sweetheart. You know I'm fuss
about these things. Who the devil? The name's Holiday, Charlie. I'm
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engaged to my shoe. How didyou get in the front door? It
works? You ought to be ashamedof yourself, Charles kissing another man's betroth.
I now look, Dan, ohyou you go on, child,
Danna. I want to explain somethingthe good standard. Now look, Holiday
child, very well, I'll seeyou. Will you come into the library,
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Dan, but I've got a book. Please, I owe you an
explanation. Okay, all right,go ahead, little Charles, Charles the
man you love. That's the lineof honey for yes, all right,
that's the first all I bought atthe bottle. The rest. You're easy,
but it isn't you see? Dan? Your life in danger? Yes?
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I gathered that from the things Iread a while. I go you're
read, yes, the newspaper files. Oh Dan, if you want to,
you can back out. Huh,I know, but maybe I'm more
than a little curious. But doyou know about about my two fiances extinct?
Uncle Roger killed them or had themkilled? And Uncle Roger knows nothing
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about Charles? No we aforementioned Unclethinks I'm fiance number three in order of
appearance. Uncle tries to put ablock on me while Charles goes for a
touchdown. Right, Oh, youmake it sound of brutal hawks, got
any other words for it? Youand Charles lived happily ever after. I
don't all right, all right,you can do as you please. I
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was going to ask you to gothrough with it, but like so,
before I left, I promised MarshI'd stick it out another day. Okay,
I'm a sucker, but if UncleRoger was going to toss a curve,
I'd at least be waiting for it. But before I went any further,
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I called on Lieutenant Cling told himI was up. He was very
sympathetic. What a story it makesme funny? Yeah. All I want
to know is was there anything thatmight have tied the uncle in with the
death so marshious fiance. No,you're sure? Sure I am. I
read about your engagement. I rememberedher name, and those deaths were accidents.
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And the uncle clean love cling.They be smart? It could be.
There are lots of smart people inthe world. Oh, but I'm
not one of them. Is thatit? Look? Holiday? I warned
you that someday a box thirteen routinewould land you in a slippery spot.
Okay, it's up to you tokeep your footing cling. Suppose just suppose
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I leave with my chin and UncleRoger takes a poke at it. Would
that open up the other two cases? Sure? All right, maybe I'll
do it Holiday. Why you welllook good? Take it easy? Why,
lieutenant, you sound concerned for me. I'd miss having to hold your
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hand every once in a while.What are you gonna do? Now?
Call on Uncle Roger and make likea sucker? Well, then sit on.
What's your thanks, Roger? Youknow it's going to be quite a
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treat seeing Marsha married. Yes,after two unhappy beginnings before or you know
about those Marsha told you. Isuppose in a way, Yes, you
want to see me about something?Dan, I was just a social call
if you're busier. Oh no,no, not at all. I was
about to leave anyway. You know, Roger, it's very strange. Strange.
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What is You haven't asked anything aboutmyself. I don't have to,
Dan, meaning I've been very busysince this morning. You see, I
have quite a bit of influence connection, so to speak. And they told
you what who you are, whereyou live, what you do for a
living? Dan, how much doyou love Marsha. I'm going to marry
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you. You have quite a goodincome, so it's not the money you're
after, obviously, Dan, I'dgive anything in the world to see Marsha
happy. We well, we practicallygrew up together, only ten years difference
in our ages. You see,my brother was twenty when I was born.
I see Marsha is my only livingrelative. Oh, then I understand
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your concern for I'm glad you do. I want to show you something,
miss Claridge, bringing them Jamison estatepapers. Will you thank you? What's
that for? Dan? You writemysteries among other things. Consequently, I
think you have a suspicious mind.What do you mean by that? Well,
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I'm Marsha's uncle, trustee of herfortune until she gets married. Which
must be by the sixteenth of thismonth. Now, surely in one of
your stories you must have written abouta guardian who misappropriates funds embezzles. No,
I never have. Well, itdoesn't really matter. You see the
papers, mister Jameson. I thoughtI asked Miss Claridge to bring them in.
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Oh, well she was busy andI was on my way past anyway.
All right, Charles, thank youor Charles. This is Dan holiday
Marsh's fiance. Dan. This isCharles Crane. How are you fine?
Congratulations? Thanks? Is that oldmister Jameson? Yes, that's all,
thank you. All right, hereare the papers. I think you will
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find every penny accounted for everything inorder. Dan. It looks like we're
going to get along, Dan,get along beautifully. I wonder for how
long if Uncle Roger was planning onmaking me number three on his hit parade.
He was playing a smile. Ohhe was smooth, so smooth that
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I'd stated at a hotel that nightif Uncle Roger knew where I lived and
I'd have visitors. Of course,I didn't sleep much. There was a
lot of thinking to do, andit added up to something funny. The
next day was Saturday, and itcame in handy because Uncle Roger's office was
closed and I wanted to see somethingthere. I called on Marsha and told
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her. Maybe she was a littlesurprised. Why do you want to go
through the files? Dan? AndI've got a hunch, Marsha, maybe
Uncle Roger didn't show me the rightpapers for the estate. Yeah, that's
it. Have you got a keyto the office. I can get one
and one to the files. Getthem fall me with you? Say,
yeah, where's Uncle Rodgers today?Oh? On the yacht an to the
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harbor. You're to go there tomorrownight. Why he's arranged an engagement party,
Danny. If you don't want togo, if you want to back
out, now, nothing doing.I'm beginning to like this, all right,
Masha, get me the keys.Getting into the office was easy.
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I went to the files, MarkJamison, Yeah, the papers were there,
all right, But the said UncleRoger had shown me these were different.
What little I knew about finance showedme some fancy juggling had been going
on. I was checking them carefullyhim. A neat round hole appeared in
the filecase alongside my head. I'mback behind the case and peek around,
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just in time to see the outerdoor of the office close somebody with a
silent gun play play pigeon with me. So Uncle Roger was on the yacht.
Was he? And I got backout on the street of storm and
kicked up. I took a cabback to my apartment. Phone Marsha.
She didn't answer. The butler saidshe had gone and Uncle Roger was on
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the yacht. Late in the eveningI received a note from Marsha. I'm
terribly frightened. Uncle Roger insisted thatI come to the yacht tonight. I'm
writing the note from my cabin nowI know something dreadful will happen. So
pleased if you can come at,there's feet boat in the door to take
you off. But be careful,be careful. It could have been a
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trap that I compared the writing onthis note with her first letter, the
box thirteen. How it was hersall right, careful, neat precise.
Okay, if this was a showdown, might as well get it over with.
When I got here, the yachtwas pitching and rolling like a bad
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bronch with a bur under his saddle. That all day storm hadn't let up
a bit. Then I was onboard, but nobody was in sight.
There was one cabin with a lightinside. I went to it, opened
the door. Holliday, what areyou doing here visiting? I don't understand.
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Didn't Marsha tell you the party wastomorrow night? I like to be
early for appointments. Where is Marsha? What's the matter with you? She's
not here? Oh? Yes sheis? Have you gone crazy? Not
yet? Sit on Uncle Roger?Oh right, you know, Uncle Roger.
I I don't like beings shot at. I don't know what you're talking
about. Where is Marsha? Cutit out? All right? Yes?
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What were you going to say?Well? What's the malay? Have you
got a gun? Gun? Yes? But get it? Aren't you get
it fast? It's not here,It's always in this desk drawer. Is
this what you're looking for? Charles? What are you doing here? And
you might ask him what he's doingwith your gun? It is yours,
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isn't it? It looks like it. You don't think I kill you with
my own gun? Do you?Holiday? Very neat? Charlie, very
neat? But the crew just twocrewmen aboard restaurants. You here until the
morrow and that storm is convenient,lots of noise, something funny. Holiday,
Yeah, yeah you are. You'relike you're gonna get by with us,
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don't you? Is there anything tostop me? What is this all
about? If this is a priceRoger not a joke, definitely not.
Charles and Marsha had it all plannedvery neatly. The accidents to her other
fiances gave these two beauties the idea. Charles fakes another set of papers to
look as though you were embezzling andwhat Yeah, they make it look as
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though you can't afford to have hermarried by the sixteenth, because if she
doesn't marry, then the estate goesto you and you're killed with my gun.
That's it, and you're killed thesame way. Charles muscles up this
cabin and make it look as thoughthey were a struggling all right. Holiday's
second guessing. Oh no, Charlie, I'm not so dumb. I you
see how called the police before Icame aboard. You see, I guess
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you're a liar. You couldn't know, Oh but I could. Marsha's note
gave it away. Marsh's note huh, the note she was supposed to have
written aboard this shot. You seeher handwriting was neat, precise, careful,
Charlie. Ever, try to writea neat hand on a pitching,
rolling yacht can't be done. SoI knew she wasn't a board and there
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was only one reason she'd want toget me here to work this frame.
And oh, hello, Autenic Cling, Lieutenant a gun Holiday is he?
Charlie's gone bye bye for a littlewhile. Call the police in here,
Dan, I, where are theAre you kidding? Lieutenant Cling is probably
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saving his betty by may I Igotta sit on you, say, Susie.
They weren't satisfied with fifteen million.They wanted Uncle Roger's money too,
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which they would have had if thatframement worked. Hey, what are you
doing? What do you got?Then? A new camera? It's got
a wonderful gadget on it. That'sme getting the picture I do with Pettice
buttman. Oh here I'll show youwell? Oh no, not again.
Good Night's Susie, Next week,same time. Allan Ladd stars as Dan
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Holiday in Box thirteen. Allen Laddappears through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures Watch
for him in his latest picture,Sigon. Box thirteen is directed by Richard
Sandville, with an original story byRussell Hughes and original music composed and conducted
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by Rudy Schrager. The part ofSusie is played by Sylvia Picker and that
of Lieutenant Kling by Edmund McDonald.John Beale played Roger Jamison. Production is
supervised by Burne Carstenson. This isa Mayfair production from Hollywood. Welcome Back.
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Sorry, a sound quality on thisparticular episode wasn't up to par with
most of the other Box thirteens weheard. But still despite sound quality issues,
this was a pretty nice episode.It really turned around one of the
big cluches of mysteries and detective storieswith the money clenching guardian who who embezzles
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A very nice twist. I wouldwouldn't have thought of it, but it
turns out that another person sent aletter to Box thirteen expecting to find Patsy.
Almost found one, but Dan Holidayonce again triumps. So always a
good ending there. We're gonna goahead and wrap this up. We'll be
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back tomorrow with pant Novac for hireand I found some interesting facts that will
give us some new insights perhaps onBacamatigan. So join us tomorrow for Pat
Nolvak for hire. Got any comments, send them to me Box thirteen at
Great Detectives dot net. Please castyour vote for the show on podcast Alley,
Podcast Alley dot Great Detectives dot net. But from Boise, Idaho,
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this is your host, Adam Grahamsigning off.
Welcome to the Great Detectives of OldTime Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
is your host, Adam Graham,bringing you this week's episode of Box thirteen.
If you have any comments, sendthem my way Box thirteen at Great
Detectives dot net. Please cast yourvote for the show on podcast Alley Podcast
Alley dot Great Detectives dot net,and remember our Facebook page. You can
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become a fan at Facebook dot GreatDetectives dot net. Well, I want
to just say I hope everybody enjoyed, uh this past week's movie Sherlock Holmes
in The Secret Weapon. It's oneof my absolute favorites and it's something I'm
glad to be able to do overpodcast Day. It's it's really a nice
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innovation and I'm very grateful that we'reable to bring that to you. So
I hope people enjoy it, andwe're I'm already thinking about what we're gonna
do for next month. Obviously afocus is still going to be on Old
Time Radio Detectives, but I thinkthe movies it makes a nice edition.
There was one movie I've actually decidednot to do, even though it's traditionally
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listed in a mystery in the mysterygenre. And I'll actually talk a little
bit more about that on Friday,but for today, let's get into today's
episode of Box thirteen. Uh.This week's episode is entitled Look Pleasant Place,
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Box thirteen with the Star of ParamountPictures, Alan lad As Dan Holiday
Box thirteen, care of Star Times. He'd meet me at two o'clock tomorrow
afternoon in front of the Mercantile building. You can do me a tremendous favor,
perhaps changed the whole course of mylife. I shall be wearing a
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brown gabteen suit, and I'll becarrying a far screened I'll be carrying a
far screen suede handbag. That wasall no name, no initials, just
the letter. Well, it didn'tsound like much of an adventure, brother,
But how I could have used acrystal ball in good working order?
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And now back to its thirteen andthen Holiday's newest adventure look pleasantly. He
means, your holiday doesn't look particularlythrilling. But I guess it's like the
old each. Huh, So whatthe old each? You know, when
somebody says something smart, it meanssomething different from what it cares, only
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it's the same thing. Oh oh, on your next trip around the office.
Fix that one up, sissie.Never mind, just save up your
adage, Okay, okay, Ican just make it to the Mercantile building
by two o'clock. So long,Sussie. There were lots of people standing
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in front of the building, butonly one girl in a brown gabatine super
green hat and handbag. I didn'twalk up to her right away, because
well, I wanted to take agood look. And what I saw was
good, maybe about twenty four slenderlots and lots of brown hair that fell
down from that cute hat in anice way. Her clothes spelled money with
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two capital limbs. Well, Iwalked over to her. Good afternoon.
Oh I'm a man from blox thirteen. Oh thank you. Look, I
know this sounds terribly foolish and stillit, but I do want your holiday,
Dan Holiday. Oh all right,mister Holiday, do you have half
an hour to spare? The afternoon'syoung and I can wear it away to
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an old age. I'll answer yourquestion, yes it does. Do you
photograph well, mister Holiday? H? Well, my baby pictures always turned
out pretty good. Of course thatwas a little while ago. And look,
I want you to have your photographtaken with me. Oh is that
all? Yes, that's all,of course, I'll pay you for your
time and trouble. Oh no,no, no, My time's my own,
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and what trouble I get into isusually my own fault. All right,
mister Holiday, there's a photographer inthis building. He's ready for us.
Oh, by the way, what'syour name? O? The Jones
and Mary Jones? Oh you know, miss Jones a writer off and spends
hours thinking of the right name forthe characters in his stories. But here
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you come along without patting an eye, think of a very unusual one.
Do you have to know my realname? Well, I'll live without it,
but will you do it? MisterHoliday? All right, miss Jones,
let's go look at the birdie.The photographer was ready. It didn't
take long from the run off.Three shots, the stones paving, and
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the two of us went back downstairsout on the pavement. I turned to
her, and I because she readthe look on my face, please don't
ask me why, mister Holiday,goodbye and thanks very much. Well,
before I could move my feet,she was into a cabin. Gone.
If this was it, I justchalked up the shortest adventure on record.
There's nothing to do but go homeand mark it off to experience. Yeah,
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that's where it should have stopped.The next morning I walked into my
office, is huge, lan,Hey, hey, hey, what is
this? Susie? You could havetold me I quit. You didn't trust
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me? Oh, Susie, whenyou stop? Oh? When the phone's
been ringing all morning? Everybody wantsto know about it? About what you
down to the phone and find outyou careful, Susie, careful? Hello
the morning? Love a boy?Oh? Cling? Well, how's the
police department? It's frighten earily,it's not good to hear your voice.
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I call for information? What kind? What about? What shall I wear?
Why? Augunty had a crap machine? Bad? What are you talking
about? What is the matter witheveryone? What? Nothing? Angel's face?
All's well with the world about fifteenmillions? Everybody's crazy? Yeah,
everybody? But you nice? Goode? I'm a nice scorde? Am I
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invited? Or don't you want cops? It might make the thing look bad?
You know? In two seconds,Cling, I'm going to hang up
on you. What goes? Howdo you ever read the papers? Oh?
Don't you know what's going on inYou're now listen. I oh,
go arrest somebody. Oh look,Susie, what's this all about? Look
at the morning papers? Right,I'm looking at Holy mackerel. He's awful,
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pretty quiet, Susie. Prominent heiressannounces engagement two Dan Holiday, Dan
Holiday, that's me. That's mypicture with her. Here it is I've
been framed. Oh but you wouldn'tfame a newspaper, thank you, would
you? Marsh You Jamison beautiful rissto Jamison Lumberfortune announced his engagement. You're
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just a gamma John don Juan,one of the two. But you could
have told me. I could havetold myself, Susie. If that phone
rings anymore, I don't answer untilI get this thing cleared up, one
way or another. Goodbye. Igot Marsha Jamis's addressed from the society editor
at the Start Times, and ahalf hour later I was ushered into the
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big library at the Jameson Home.Sitting behind a desk was a youngish looking
man. He rose to meet meas I walked into the room. Oh,
mister Holiday, I'm very happy toknow you. Yeah, I wish
I could say the same. Ibeg your pardon, boys, Miss Jamieson
I've asked her to come down.Good. I suppose i'd better introduce myself.
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I'm Roger Jamieson, Marsha's uncle andguardian. She needs one, I
don't understand. Well, that makestwo of us. Suppose we pull our
facts and get one good, twistedstory out of them. Mister Holiday,
you're acting very strangely. I mustsay that my niece's choice of her husband
is well peculiar. All right,I'm peculiar at parties. I'm a standout.
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But i'd like to darling, hownice of you to come this morning?
What did you expect you? Ofcourse you've met Uncle Roger. Yes,
Marsha, we've met her. Oh, I want you to to like
each other. All fine, Ilove everybody in the world. But Uncle
Roger. Could I speak to Danalone? Please stain me, Marga,
you'll stay for lunch, mister Holiday, No, thank you? Oh,
yes you will, Uncle Roger.Good. We'll have a long talk now,
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Miss Jamison, why did you comehere? Maybe you haven't seen the
morning paper, mister Holiday, Danhelp me. I did, and I've
got engaged. Look, miss Jamison, I'm Marsha. I don't know you
that well. We just became engagedthis morning. Dan, it's imperative that
you act as my fiance until afterthe sixteenth of this month. Oh what
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happens then? Oh Dan, ifyou'll just do what I ask until the
sixteenth on that day, Yes,come in, lunch is ready anytime you
are staying, mister Holiday, Yes, you've stay, Uncle Roger. One
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more lunch like that might have hadindigestion for the rest of my life.
Uncle Roger was very curious about me. He asked a lot of questions,
which marsh answered then when I wasready to leave. Of course, mister
Holiday, this engagement came as acomplete surprise to me. I had no
idea you and Marshy even knew eachother. Well, I get around a
lot, mister Jamison. You'd bettercall me Roger Dan. Yes, this
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is nothing like being friendly. Well, I'm sure Dan has a lot of
things to do this afternoon, UncleRoger, we'd better let him go.
Of course, we'll have plenty oftime to talk about things, Dane.
Goodbye, mister Roger. Oh thankyou Dan. You were wonderful, superb
considering I didn't know where the ballwas half the time. We'll wait until
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sixteenth, won't you it's five daysfrom now. Meanwhile, how do I
tell my friends? And where doI stack the wedding presents? You can
always say we broke up, wellhuh, and I'll tell you something else,
Dan, Can there be anything else? I almost wished the whole thing
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was true. Goodbye Dan, Andwith that I was left standing on the
other good steps of the Jamison Castle. I could have put the whole thing
on the line and cleared up thesituation. It could have been easy,
just deny it, tell the wholestory. Or I could stay in the
play and see what the score was. I walked down the stairs and glanced
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back and looked up at a windowand right into Uncle Roger's eyes. Before
I could smile, he let thecurtains fall back in place. Okay,
that made up my mind. Curiositykilled a cat. They say, all
right, yo, well, Danny, welcome to the Star Times. And
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what brings you into the morgue?Jones? I want to do some research,
so you came to the right place. Oh congratulations, thanks, that's
a lot of though you're marrying.Yeah, kind of sudden, wasn't it
known her a long time? Jones? I feel as though it was just
yesterday. Get me everything you've goton her. Huh, you're going to
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look up your own fiancee. Yep, what's the idea? Kind of silly,
isn't it. Well, it's yourbusiness. I can put my fingers
right on the stock. We gotmuch all here. Matter of fact,
I was reading about her this morning, but I heard you were marrying her.
I did some work, and well, on the sixteenth of this month
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she comes into about fifteen million.What yeah, but she has to be
married by then. Oh how comeher father's will said so. If she
doesn't marry by the sixteenth of thismonth, this year, her fifteen million
goes to oh rodya Jamieson. Uncle, Oh you didn't know. I don't
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know a lot of things. Whatelse they got, Johnsie? She had
came a bad luck before. Yeah, that's what time engaged twice before,
and both a fiances had accidents badYeah. Dead. Well if they weren't,
they had enough of thirty trick pladeon him what they were buried.
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pleads. Another Box thirteen adventure withAlan Ladd as damn Holiday. Well there
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I was all wide eyed and innocent, engaged to marry a girl whose last
two fiances had lots of bad luckFor myself. I wasn't anxious to inherit
any of that, but I hadto find out a little more. So
I went back to the Jamison place. The butler recognized me and let me
in without announcing me. I walkeddown the hall and heard voices in the
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library. Ordinarily keyhole listening would havebeen out, but well, I heard
my name. The door was opened. So I tell you Dan, we'll
go through with it. Oh Dan, Dan first name already. Oh don't
be silly, Charles. I've gotto convince everybody is my fiance. Oh
what'll be backs before the sixteen?He won't? What makes us? Were
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sure? I know? Oh,don't be stupid, Jar, I'm not
stupid. I'm just careful, darling, Darling, you know better? Well
are you all right? Musha?Now you really better go, child?
As I say in Alice in wonderland. Curious sir, and curious Sir.
I was wondering about it. WhenCharles came toward the door. I backed
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away and duck into another room.Well where is Dan? Now? I
don't know, child, but you'dbetter get back to the office or garage.
You will missue, all right,Den, bye, I'll tell you
when and where we can meet agame. Sweetheart. You know I'm fuss
about these things. Who the devil? The name's Holiday, Charlie. I'm
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engaged to my shoe. How didyou get in the front door? It
works? You ought to be ashamedof yourself, Charles kissing another man's betroth.
I now look, Dan, ohyou you go on, child,
Danna. I want to explain somethingthe good standard. Now look, Holiday
child, very well, I'll seeyou. Will you come into the library,
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Dan, but I've got a book. Please, I owe you an
explanation. Okay, all right,go ahead, little Charles, Charles the
man you love. That's the lineof honey for yes, all right,
that's the first all I bought atthe bottle. The rest. You're easy,
but it isn't you see? Dan? Your life in danger? Yes?
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I gathered that from the things Iread a while. I go you're
read, yes, the newspaper files. Oh Dan, if you want to,
you can back out. Huh,I know, but maybe I'm more
than a little curious. But doyou know about about my two fiances extinct?
Uncle Roger killed them or had themkilled? And Uncle Roger knows nothing
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about Charles? No we aforementioned Unclethinks I'm fiance number three in order of
appearance. Uncle tries to put ablock on me while Charles goes for a
touchdown. Right, Oh, youmake it sound of brutal hawks, got
any other words for it? Youand Charles lived happily ever after. I
don't all right, all right,you can do as you please. I
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was going to ask you to gothrough with it, but like so,
before I left, I promised MarshI'd stick it out another day. Okay,
I'm a sucker, but if UncleRoger was going to toss a curve,
I'd at least be waiting for it. But before I went any further,
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I called on Lieutenant Cling told himI was up. He was very
sympathetic. What a story it makesme funny? Yeah. All I want
to know is was there anything thatmight have tied the uncle in with the
death so marshious fiance. No,you're sure? Sure I am. I
read about your engagement. I rememberedher name, and those deaths were accidents.
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And the uncle clean love cling.They be smart? It could be.
There are lots of smart people inthe world. Oh, but I'm
not one of them. Is thatit? Look? Holiday? I warned
you that someday a box thirteen routinewould land you in a slippery spot.
Okay, it's up to you tokeep your footing cling. Suppose just suppose
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I leave with my chin and UncleRoger takes a poke at it. Would
that open up the other two cases? Sure? All right, maybe I'll
do it Holiday. Why you welllook good? Take it easy? Why,
lieutenant, you sound concerned for me. I'd miss having to hold your
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hand every once in a while.What are you gonna do? Now?
Call on Uncle Roger and make likea sucker? Well, then sit on.
What's your thanks, Roger? Youknow it's going to be quite a
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treat seeing Marsha married. Yes,after two unhappy beginnings before or you know
about those Marsha told you. Isuppose in a way, Yes, you
want to see me about something?Dan, I was just a social call
if you're busier. Oh no,no, not at all. I was
about to leave anyway. You know, Roger, it's very strange. Strange.
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What is You haven't asked anything aboutmyself. I don't have to,
Dan, meaning I've been very busysince this morning. You see, I
have quite a bit of influence connection, so to speak. And they told
you what who you are, whereyou live, what you do for a
living? Dan, how much doyou love Marsha. I'm going to marry
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you. You have quite a goodincome, so it's not the money you're
after, obviously, Dan, I'dgive anything in the world to see Marsha
happy. We well, we practicallygrew up together, only ten years difference
in our ages. You see,my brother was twenty when I was born.
I see Marsha is my only livingrelative. Oh, then I understand
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your concern for I'm glad you do. I want to show you something,
miss Claridge, bringing them Jamison estatepapers. Will you thank you? What's
that for? Dan? You writemysteries among other things. Consequently, I
think you have a suspicious mind.What do you mean by that? Well,
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I'm Marsha's uncle, trustee of herfortune until she gets married. Which
must be by the sixteenth of thismonth. Now, surely in one of
your stories you must have written abouta guardian who misappropriates funds embezzles. No,
I never have. Well, itdoesn't really matter. You see the
papers, mister Jameson. I thoughtI asked Miss Claridge to bring them in.
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Oh, well she was busy andI was on my way past anyway.
All right, Charles, thank youor Charles. This is Dan holiday
Marsh's fiance. Dan. This isCharles Crane. How are you fine?
Congratulations? Thanks? Is that oldmister Jameson? Yes, that's all,
thank you. All right, hereare the papers. I think you will
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find every penny accounted for everything inorder. Dan. It looks like we're
going to get along, Dan,get along beautifully. I wonder for how
long if Uncle Roger was planning onmaking me number three on his hit parade.
He was playing a smile. Ohhe was smooth, so smooth that
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I'd stated at a hotel that nightif Uncle Roger knew where I lived and
I'd have visitors. Of course,I didn't sleep much. There was a
lot of thinking to do, andit added up to something funny. The
next day was Saturday, and itcame in handy because Uncle Roger's office was
closed and I wanted to see somethingthere. I called on Marsha and told
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her. Maybe she was a littlesurprised. Why do you want to go
through the files? Dan? AndI've got a hunch, Marsha, maybe
Uncle Roger didn't show me the rightpapers for the estate. Yeah, that's
it. Have you got a keyto the office. I can get one
and one to the files. Getthem fall me with you? Say,
yeah, where's Uncle Rodgers today?Oh? On the yacht an to the
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harbor. You're to go there tomorrownight. Why he's arranged an engagement party,
Danny. If you don't want togo, if you want to back
out, now, nothing doing.I'm beginning to like this, all right,
Masha, get me the keys.Getting into the office was easy.
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I went to the files, MarkJamison, Yeah, the papers were there,
all right, But the said UncleRoger had shown me these were different.
What little I knew about finance showedme some fancy juggling had been going
on. I was checking them carefullyhim. A neat round hole appeared in
the filecase alongside my head. I'mback behind the case and peek around,
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just in time to see the outerdoor of the office close somebody with a
silent gun play play pigeon with me. So Uncle Roger was on the yacht.
Was he? And I got backout on the street of storm and
kicked up. I took a cabback to my apartment. Phone Marsha.
She didn't answer. The butler saidshe had gone and Uncle Roger was on
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the yacht. Late in the eveningI received a note from Marsha. I'm
terribly frightened. Uncle Roger insisted thatI come to the yacht tonight. I'm
writing the note from my cabin nowI know something dreadful will happen. So
pleased if you can come at,there's feet boat in the door to take
you off. But be careful,be careful. It could have been a
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trap that I compared the writing onthis note with her first letter, the
box thirteen. How it was hersall right, careful, neat precise.
Okay, if this was a showdown, might as well get it over with.
When I got here, the yachtwas pitching and rolling like a bad
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bronch with a bur under his saddle. That all day storm hadn't let up
a bit. Then I was onboard, but nobody was in sight.
There was one cabin with a lightinside. I went to it, opened
the door. Holliday, what areyou doing here visiting? I don't understand.
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Didn't Marsha tell you the party wastomorrow night? I like to be
early for appointments. Where is Marsha? What's the matter with you? She's
not here? Oh? Yes sheis? Have you gone crazy? Not
yet? Sit on Uncle Roger?Oh right, you know, Uncle Roger.
I I don't like beings shot at. I don't know what you're talking
about. Where is Marsha? Cutit out? All right? Yes?
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What were you going to say?Well? What's the malay? Have you
got a gun? Gun? Yes? But get it? Aren't you get
it fast? It's not here,It's always in this desk drawer. Is
this what you're looking for? Charles? What are you doing here? And
you might ask him what he's doingwith your gun? It is yours,
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isn't it? It looks like it. You don't think I kill you with
my own gun? Do you?Holiday? Very neat? Charlie, very
neat? But the crew just twocrewmen aboard restaurants. You here until the
morrow and that storm is convenient,lots of noise, something funny. Holiday,
Yeah, yeah you are. You'relike you're gonna get by with us,
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don't you? Is there anything tostop me? What is this all
about? If this is a priceRoger not a joke, definitely not.
Charles and Marsha had it all plannedvery neatly. The accidents to her other
fiances gave these two beauties the idea. Charles fakes another set of papers to
look as though you were embezzling andwhat Yeah, they make it look as
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though you can't afford to have hermarried by the sixteenth, because if she
doesn't marry, then the estate goesto you and you're killed with my gun.
That's it, and you're killed thesame way. Charles muscles up this
cabin and make it look as thoughthey were a struggling all right. Holiday's
second guessing. Oh no, Charlie, I'm not so dumb. I you
see how called the police before Icame aboard. You see, I guess
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you're a liar. You couldn't know, Oh but I could. Marsha's note
gave it away. Marsh's note huh, the note she was supposed to have
written aboard this shot. You seeher handwriting was neat, precise, careful,
Charlie. Ever, try to writea neat hand on a pitching,
rolling yacht can't be done. SoI knew she wasn't a board and there
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was only one reason she'd want toget me here to work this frame.
And oh, hello, Autenic Cling, Lieutenant a gun Holiday is he?
Charlie's gone bye bye for a littlewhile. Call the police in here,
Dan, I, where are theAre you kidding? Lieutenant Cling is probably
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saving his betty by may I Igotta sit on you, say, Susie.
They weren't satisfied with fifteen million.They wanted Uncle Roger's money too,
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which they would have had if thatframement worked. Hey, what are you
doing? What do you got?Then? A new camera? It's got
a wonderful gadget on it. That'sme getting the picture I do with Pettice
buttman. Oh here I'll show youwell? Oh no, not again.
Good Night's Susie, Next week,same time. Allan Ladd stars as Dan
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Holiday in Box thirteen. Allen Laddappears through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures Watch
for him in his latest picture,Sigon. Box thirteen is directed by Richard
Sandville, with an original story byRussell Hughes and original music composed and conducted
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by Rudy Schrager. The part ofSusie is played by Sylvia Picker and that
of Lieutenant Kling by Edmund McDonald.John Beale played Roger Jamison. Production is
supervised by Burne Carstenson. This isa Mayfair production from Hollywood. Welcome Back.
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Sorry, a sound quality on thisparticular episode wasn't up to par with
most of the other Box thirteens weheard. But still despite sound quality issues,
this was a pretty nice episode.It really turned around one of the
big cluches of mysteries and detective storieswith the money clenching guardian who who embezzles
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A very nice twist. I wouldwouldn't have thought of it, but it
turns out that another person sent aletter to Box thirteen expecting to find Patsy.
Almost found one, but Dan Holidayonce again triumps. So always a
good ending there. We're gonna goahead and wrap this up. We'll be
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back tomorrow with pant Novac for hireand I found some interesting facts that will
give us some new insights perhaps onBacamatigan. So join us tomorrow for Pat
Nolvak for hire. Got any comments, send them to me Box thirteen at
Great Detectives dot net. Please castyour vote for the show on podcast Alley,
Podcast Alley dot Great Detectives dot net. But from Boise, Idaho,
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this is your host, Adam Grahamsigning off.
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