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Rogue is hired to the find the wife of a lawyer who wants to divorce her.
Original Air Date: June 29, 1947
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Rogue is hired to the find the wife of a lawyer who wants to divorce her.
Original Air Date: June 29, 1947
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As we've mentioned before, Dick Powellleft Rogues Gallery after the summer nineteen
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forty six series Well Fitch his Shampoo. The sponsor decided to bring Rogues Gallery
back without Dick Powe in the summerof nineteen forty seven, and they chose
a film star, Barry Sullivan.Sullivan was a very solid working actor who
would enjoy some success, particularly lateron in television when he would play Ken
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Thurston in The Man Colbeck's TV series, and would also star in The Horror
Master and The Tall Man. OverRadio. He did fill in for two
weeks for Vincent Price when Price wasnot available to play the role of the
saint, and so he took onin eighteen weeks mer series of Rogues Gallery
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in nineteen forty seven. This isthe fourth episode of the eighteen It's called
Phyllis Adrian is Missing from June twentyninth of nineteen forty seven. Laugh awhile,
let a song, do you sire? You said stamp so to say,
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use your head? Said your head, you said stamn. The F
W. Fitch Company presents Barry Sullivanas Brivate Detective Richard Rogue in Rogues Galleries
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Rouge speaking. You know, inmy business it's hard to get ahead,
but so many other people trying toget ahead my head. That is sometimes
I think it might be to letthem scrape my name off the door before
they sizzle it into a headstone,because I'm just a guy who doesn't like
to see people get pushed around,myself in particular, and I often wonder
if there's any real future for meand a sneak snoop and snitch racket,
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and so many people don't want meto have one. That was a frame
of mind I was in one Saturdayafternoon one, Howard Adrian, a well
known mouthpiece, cold to tell mehis troubles. Hello, Rogie, this
is Howard Adrian. Hey, howare you say? You're just in time?
I'm thinking of selling out? Gota wonderful set a law books here.
Let you have the cheap never evencut the pages, never had time.
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My wife is missing. Well she'snot here. I just took inventory.
You don't understand she's gone time.I'm worried, Rogie. How long
have you been gone, Howard?In two weeks? What have you done
to Lokay that nothing at all?Until now? This has got to be
between you and me, Rogan.You see it. It's rather Phillis is
pretty headstrong, and I've got tomove cautiously. Okay, Howard, I
think I understand you. Sit tight. I'll be right over and relax,
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Richard. Rogue will bring her backalive. Yeah, that's what I said.
But the way it turned out,I didn't. I paid a call
on Howard Adrian. His outer officewas empty, and when I ended his
private office without knocking, I foundhim kissing his secretary. Made a pretty
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picture suitable for framing. Well,well, now I get it. You
buried your wife in the cellar,like Edgar Allan fozy, you could marry
your beautiful secretary. You only hiredme for a blind like in the Detective
story. Cut it out, rogyor attempted humor isn't funny. Yeah,
I guess you're right. Sorry,no time for me to go fipping off.
All right, this is miss Carbon, Miss Crystal Carbon, Richard Roll.
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I'm sorry. Likewise, now,Howard, how about your work just
a minute, that'll be all missCarb the no way, Maybe she can
help you. Suppose we may aswell as help mister Rode. You see.
And it's an old story. Ihope we're not boring you, not
at all. Well, here's somegood news. I may have a line
on her already. The elevator operatorstells me he took her down from here
on the day she disappeared. Shewas with a tall man with brown muscles.
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Oh yeah, that would be NickyBarren. Nicky Barren, I know
him. He used to be mixedup with Rockey Malachesta when they were running
the gambling ships off the coast.Good trial for the murder of Pig Muldoon
and Fristo gang war, say Howard, didn't you handle Barren's defense at that
file? That's right. He musthave been clean or you wouldn't have touched
them. Thanks, and you're right. That's how I broke my reputation,
and the reputation helped. Nicky wasacquitted and he stayed clean ever since.
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He's doing what doing all right?Apparently operates a small club in the valley.
The Mandalay stopped in the sun methe other day, look shop and
walked out with your wife. Hey, this is radically there was nothing between
missus. Who side are you on? Mis car He's only trying to help
Howard. You know your working conditionsare so pleasant. I can't see why
you want me to find your wife. Why not leave well enough alone?
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Because Howard wants her back to wayto make a clean break, that things
settled once and for all. Allthat's right. You'll find us so I
could lose it legally. She'll giveyou a divorce, won Hortel? Oh
why she doesn't like me? Ohshe doesn't like you? No? Does
she love you? Cigarette? Thanks? Thanks, Rogie, don't worry about
it. Just fine, Phillis andforget the rest. Sure, how I'll
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remember that. But if I don'tforget it, you remind me. Hum
Phillis Atian seemed to advantage like JudgeCrayton. She seemed to have rolled a
footsteps up behind her, and evenher shadow must have been following a wrong
blund. My first move in locatingit was refreshingly simple. I merely called
another private detective and assigned him tocheck every hotel in town at half my
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daily feeds. Yeah, I shouldhave been an agent. Then I headed
for the Mandalaid. The Mandalaid waslined with woven grass mats and paneled with
bamboo. He should have held handsacross the dance floor, and in the
middle of it, a girl wastrying to shake herself out of a coat
of three spain and a surround tasterall right without being hit by a flying
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hip and lade the door of NickyBarron's office. It was easy money.
Laus Adrien was there. Well,well, hello missus Adien, good bye
mister Rogue. Why Nicky, that'snot a very warm welcome. I make
it warmer if you get funny,Snooper. My friends say I am naturally
funny. Maybe we'd make a team. I think you're a wonderful student.
I warn't you come shoot? Yeah, wouldn't that be a shade? Okay,
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rogue, stand up and take itall? Relax? Will you start
off like that? What you're gonnado for an encle? I don't shoot
snoop clay me alone. I'm inthe clear with this joint. Very interesting.
Fall back and regroup, Nikki,I'm not interested in you, and
then put that suck on your accountin case you get that way? Do
you mind get off the floor.It's a new carpet, Missus Adrien,
I care about shown off baby.Can't think of anybody I care more about
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at the moment. Well, Luckythe man is that home? Yeah?
The life of the party, that'shim. Will you see me when I
try on the lamb shades? MissusAdrian's how rum as just one of the
thing, says Nicky. Would youstep over here a minute? No,
a little more this way please?That's good comedy, Team slapsters. Did
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you get that wonderful pull you have? Mass I just blow myself up with
a bicycle pump. Shall we go? And that's the first act of tonight's
graphic adventure from Rogues Gallery. TheF. W. Fitz Company is presenting
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be made. Everyone in the familywill want to listen for details. When
I walk in on a tender loveseeing between Howard Adrian and has set Terry,
I couldn't see why he was soanxious for me to locate his missing
wife. But I did locate her, and I was ready to take her
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home. So I had to overcomethe objections of one Nicki, baron and
proprietor of a mandalaide. I guessNickie was convinced he because as he lay
there on the cop as, hedidn't seem to have another word to say.
Well, for a moment, Philosadrianseemed undecided between the horizontal mister Baron
and the perpendicular mister Rhode, andhe began to smile. I'm not to
look that an out of the divinesomeday Wallace, who just part of life
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at its best. Yeah, it'sgiven me an idea. We're nice?
Were will you and wait for mein the lobby? Well, I don't
like to wear out my welcome.I long to bear. When this wiltor
snap dragon revived, I'll have somethingto say to him. The reason for
yours. Shall I here heard?So I was a darling? What else
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did I do in that silk dressedPhilishadrians? Geography was making history. I
waited in the lobby and I wasjust telling the hat check girl to look
out for men? Who tell hatcheck girl to look out for men?
When someone tug at my sleeve.I turned around. At first I didn't
recognize it without ellipstick Smith. Itwas Crystal Corbon. Well, well,
this Carbon, you're looking a littlelike a Dresden doll to night thanks to
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you look, mister rogue. Butthen your job, your Thomas's agim.
That's all how it's playing you todo. I'll I'll be smart and stop
playing with Dynamo. Nicky Barren alonethe st kid. You surprise me.
What makes you think I'm interested inNicky Barren because I know you had Deddy
Callaham tucking the news take a filethis afternoon on the death of pigmal GM
and Nicky won't like that. It'sa crime to waste those games doing Nikki's
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leg work. What's your interest,Crystal? Well? You interest me enough.
Why I wouldn't like to see thatsmile without any teeth? And why
Chris, I didn't know you're killingmister rogue. But get Nicki barn and
get missus abim back to our husband. Maybe I will. It's just what
I'm trying to do, Darling.If people will stop shoving Nikki Baron down
my throat, I comes, Fillip, I get to stand. Good boys,
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r ready to go back to Poppins. Don't be so easy to get
rid of me, I said,I have one more statement to doing about
everything I've been trying to do thisweek. You're important in my blind Look
where do I get in? Wewant to just met? Well, it's
complicated. Did you set in?I tell you just smell. I'm up
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to my master. I'm a prettybusiness. I'm with a lever. I
need the swinging. There along afew more hands without looking at my cards,
and I'll fling him a card.I've already got a deal from your
husband. Remember, I'll after yourcollection on that too, and I'll be
bored. Say no more. I'min Now, who's grave do I have
to rob? Not to far onwith that list we're staring, of course,
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But all you have to do isstand in the background and let's we
got where we were going at tentwenty five. It was a house on
the ocean front near Malibu. Whoseplaces there asking no question? What are
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you waiting for, lady? No, just looking for the light switch.
Here it is. The place wasa man's idea, what a woman would
think a man's place. Order lookedlike lots of copper, knotty pine,
big brick fireplace, white baskin rugs, you know, the woods. One
another room was sliding glass windows fromtop to bottom, looking out my private
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beach and plenty of Pacific. I'dno sooner taste the layout than philos adrians
snapped off the lights. He cutit out. I'm sit of the dark.
Oh no, don't tell me you'refrightened. The pool a little could
be, baby could be. ButI just don't like the idea of making
mud pies and somebody else's sandbox.Come here, ins down. Do you
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love the moonlight? It's overlated.It shines on the same thing as the
sun does. Baby. Yeah,yeah, I guess there's none of us
so perfectly. We couldn't stand thesofter focus more ways than one. More
ways, let's just stick to one. What's happening? Whose place is this?
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It's my uncle didn't answer, andit was right. Then I began
to feel that not in my chest, the uncanny vibrations of something about to
happen. And from then until itdid happen, my heart was on a
pogo stick, and my nerves wasskipping rope through list bunch of a record
cabinet and fumble through a row offlatters until she found the ones who wanted,
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and pale the cereal strains of theviolin until the room. Then and
ghostly mist Is Adrian listened like someonein a dream. She flowed into the
chair oppositely and settle herself in it, like a cloud coming to rest on
a hill. Recognize d who isit? Evelyn? And a magic violin?
No God, because you how?In this composition he wrote, O
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pretty man, Yeah, come onover here and sit on my sofa.
I always sit here when you please. She stands right there, nice with
you always. You always close youreyes. Had anything throws through well,
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thesic appreciations a wonderful thing, Butgunshot crescendos are two models for my taste.
I opened my eyes and left tomy feet, and that not in
my chest pulled tight as a hangman'snoose. Philos Adrian still sat where she
was sitting. There was still asmile on her face. She still looked
good. Yeah, wood and dead. There was a gushing red hole in
her throat. The clock said elevenh five. I don't know why.
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The first thing I did was knockedthe playing arm off that record. I
guess it made me nervous. ThenI took a quick study around the house.
There was no one in the kitchen. The closets are under the bed.
I don't seem to have come fromclose by, maybe from a private
beach beyond the big window, soI dived through them. There's nothing out
there but sand, pounding surf andfog. Fog thickest taffy was rolling in
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off the sea, coming in fastlike they do at Malibu, plotting out
everything, everything but one shape ofthe shoreline that didn't look like driftwood.
I ain't got my heater and droppedit a sand Hey, yo, stop,
women are digging. I'm coming afterto give you the first one office
tell me I'm meant to like.That's truth, I have got one.
You better start sitting bullets here.I make that first one's house. I
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started inching toward him. My fingerstumbling on a tiger, ready for a
duel on the fog. But hefoxed me. He stood up and started
waving his arms over his head.So up, okay, fuddy, just
hold it like that? How starttalking? Who are you? Bred?
Heck? Hey, the private snoop? I what you know? No?
Why? I'm the guy who hiredyou, the fine missus alien. You're
Richard Grove. Yeah, you're workingfor me bull It's fun. Yeah,
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but I said find it, notget her? That her alive? Wait
a minute, you ain't telling meI who else? You won't get sure?
No, I won't get sore?He is sure. I seen you.
I was watching through the bag windows. She was sitting in the touch
with her back to me. Shewas sitting in the chair facing me.
She was listening to the music,and all of a sudden, you'll let
her hap us? What another doingsome look music? At that time you're
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making I want to know how youhappened every outside that window. I told
you to check hotels from missus aprien. Tonight I find your keeping two windows
that belonged to a friend of hers. You'll get around. You're terrific.
Tell me a secret. Oh well, well, I found the same registered
at the worship pot terrist is Aprien? Howard? How would I if you
an Aprien? How would you getit wonderful? How'd you ever figure it
out? Listen? If you can'tpray for the other guys, what's Turnno?
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Okay, keep talking? Well,I keep the telephone calls, and
they was all to this spee chairpersShe wasn't nun, So I come out
looking for her. I looked throughthe window and I seen it happened?
You saw me killer? Huh?Whoa? It was turner dust. Maybe
it was too wonderful and you're holdingthe gun road. Yeah, it's going
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must to make a mistake. Ifyou thought I did it wanting to go
for a cop instead of hiding outhere on a bib age, Well,
I didn't want no cops in onthe tail. I was gonna tell you
when you left, you putting thisracket long enough to know that there's there's
more, mother, and not tellingwho's done it? You know what?
You put the hooks in me fora hushing. Well we all make mistakes,
rugs here, but you're overdoing it. Okay, bird, let's go
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inside the house. I'm calling hamassure, somebody's gonna be sorry. All
right, rog got that here andrace You're all right? First, I'm
sorry. Okay, Baron, thismakes you dealer, My boy Rose,
hand over those papers. Amen.Oh I might have known it'd be papers.
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Well. I hate to say thisbecause I know what will happen.
But what papers? Oh that's didit happened? If you want it bad
enough about missus Adrian for Oh nowyou're telling me I didn't who else I
thought you did? No? Waita minute, I just walked into this.
I found her that way. I'lltry to hang it on me.
Don't mind him, so I hangit on anybody who comes along. It
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was just create a business associated you'recan talk in front of him. Okay,
you have benefit. Createst dame triedto shake me down tonight. As
supposed to meet her at twelve o'clockwith ten grand and hush money. When
I walked in, she was likethat, go ahead, tell him where
I come in. Oh sure,I was having trouble raising the dough.
So she tells me to night.She's taking a rogue into the deal with
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it. There's a smart Chamas likehim would know how to pedal that kind
of dope. The rogue here couldn'twait for the split, so he cut
her out with a slug. Clapsit up, promoter. Oh but one
thing, what was he shown?I don't mind telling you now. I
got nothing to lose beside, youtwo have a murder rep of your own
to settle between you. Okay,I got a little careless once up in
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Frisco, was tossing letter on fora bluff and a gent named Pig Muldoon
stepped in a one and called me. Oh, I was very sorry,
but it couldn't have happened to aworse wreck. Sure, I remember,
but I thought you was cleared.Yeah, it was. There was just
one little technicality. I was guilty, Howard. Adrian didn't know that when
he took the case. No,not when he took the case he didn't.
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But before the fire was over hedid see. The jury was already
out when a guy called Meathead Maxwellpaid him a call. He was the
boy who was with me at thetime. It wasn't trying to finger me.
He just wanted a little powder moneyto blow down before anyone caught up
with him and started asking questions.You mean Adrian made a deal with Hell
stace evidence. Yeah, he probablywouldn't have, but the jury was already
out and he built up to thebeautiful case. But he still didn't like
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it. No, he got meoff all right, but he also got
a statement from the meathead and he'sbeen holding it over my head, making
me walk the chuck. That waswhat was in the paper to catch on
quick kid. But I was doingall right, you seem until missus Adrian
gets her miss on the safety depositsseem all in the line of her wifely
duties, going through his pockets onenight. Next day she opens a box
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and pulls out my pack and startsin selling it back to me. I
can't see your doing. And she'sdoing all right, Ain't she just doing
missus as Yeah, but she's notbeing just missus Adrian. She's being a
patron of the arts. I'm aside, sponsoring concerts here and there, and
I am the angel. Either Iangel her boyfriend Egosky or she's fade drop
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muldoon nice bitter. I thought she'dlike it all right now roads on it
huh No, no hot feeling.If you're still telling I'm still buying If
the killing that dame all I gotto you was congratulates. Okay, you
put it that way. Did youbring the money with him? Joe?
So I got it right here,let's see it. Yeah, it is
run here if a bird. He'snot so tough at the second time tonight
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he's dropped his guide. You don'tyou You make the very same as take
clothing money legal. Let us contited. So on, kitty, yst easy,
now you're look, we're chief there. Cheek to cheek, folks.
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Rogue in rope gallery. I wokeup with a lump the size of a
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hat on my head. Both myplaymates were gone, Hecked with a ten
grand and Baron probably after him witha grudge, and me with nothing but
a corpse. I'd have a swelltime explaining. I dragged myself to the
phone and called Betty Callahan, anewspaper guys who sometimes knows the answers.
I told her what happened and askedher to check the alibis of three other
people, Crystal Corbin, Howard Adrian, and the violinist, even the GHOSTI
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then I spent the next twenty minutestrying to figure out one for myself.
I still didn't have one when Itell phone Rang it was Betty. At
the time of the murder, HowardAdrian had been making a speech in front
of seventy lawyers in a downtown hotel. Ivana Gerski was in San Diego giving
a concert. He only had twothousand witnesses away. The olibis were stacking
up. I figured Crystal Corbin wouldhave been taking a bath in the Hollywood
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Bowl, but knows he'd been withHoward. Betty said she'd notified him and
he was on his way out.So I had to have some answers ready
fast. And then I saw it, he answered in front of me.
All the time, Phyllis Adrian.The bullet had entered her throat at an
up angle from somewhere in the floor. From then, I traced the possible
trajectory of a slug to its pointof origin and found myself looking at a
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wall guess heater with an aluminum grillwork. I went over to it and
heilt down, twisted some knobs,and removed the grill. There the wire
to the pipes inside was a twentytwo target pistol. A little further back
slam to another pipe with a silvertuning fork. Two fine top of wires
ran from the tips of the fortwith the trigger of a gun. The
certammer of a gun had been workedon with a file to make it respond
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to a hair trigger touch. Ididn't have to test it to know that
the tuning fork would vibrate with acrescendo in a Drowski's concerto, The Concerto
of Death. We got your restestas we could. What happened? It's
Betty, you don't I think you'dwant to sort the focus. But I
don't understand. How could it happen? Would you right here as you killer
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Howard? Death by a remote controlcommits murder on qu to a musical note?
Good lord? But who? Whydidn't you tell me your wife was
in love with another man? Buthow could I? I never knew.
Y're sure of that, of course, I'm sure. What are you driving
at? Rogue? Well, somebodyknew whoever plan of this gadget knew every
detail, as she always sat inthat chair in that exact spot whenever she
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listened to him play. Who couldhave known that except the other man?
Yeah, that's a nactual thought,Crystal. I think it's what we were
meant to think that. It isn'tthe answer. You know the answer.
I know a lot of answers.Baby, Now, did you ever tell
Howard you were Nikky Baron's sister?Your old newspaper files to the trial.
Baby, you changed your name andthe color of your hair, but you
were still Nikki's sister, and youcouldn't hide that. She wasn't trying to
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hire it if I knew it allthe time. You can't persecute the girl
because of her block trying too.I'm just saying she made a play for
you so you could get her handon those papers you were holding over a
brother's head and destroy them. Right, Crystals, you're not trying to say
that. I'm not saying anything.I'm just clearing a record. No,
Crystal didn't kill your wife, Howard, because you did me. Well,
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do you realize what you're saying?What possible motive could I have? Well,
I've got my choice of several,but most of them involved blackmail and
legal loopholes, and you would havehad a neat way of getting around those.
So I two good old fashioned jealousy, the one thing you wouldn't have
known how to handle. You mustbe out of your mind. How could
I be jealous of something I didn'teven know about? But you did know
it, Howard? And the veryfact that you want to such pains to
conceal your knowledge as the tip ofthat couldn't be. Doesn't make sense.
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Howard loves me. You know yousaw, I saw, I was meant
to see. The guy's a lawyer. Baby, you were exhibit A,
and I was going to be astar with us. You're skating gun very
thin, nice world. What makesyou think I knew a little guy named
Bert Heck, a guy I hiredto help me find your wife. Only
he found her too fast, andhe isn't that good. I figured right
then he'd been keeping an eye onher for a long time by somebody else.
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But why me? You? Becausehe said you? Howard? Who
would a jealous husband hires a detectiveto follow his wife? Yeah, extra
ports must have made good reading allthe unimate details about the private concerts and
a special how old that's closed enough. I'm sorry. Put on a gun.
Yes, yes, I'm really sorry. Rogue to you. It's you.
I'm sorry for how I told methat nobody feels sorry for me,
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not me, not Howard Adrian.I don't need it. How you,
Crystal, You you try to getclose enough to hurt me, just like
all the rest, but you nevercould. Nobody gets close to me.
Nobody knows what makes me take inhere? Even for the cart room pay
you finished here? Yes, Iknow, but so are you old?
So are you if it happens infor you? I well, you're just
too smart to live. Goodbye,mister roge or an instant. I stood
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expecting to fall dead, but Ididn't. Instead, Howard jerked, arrested,
fun around like a ballet answer,and crumpled to the floor body again.
I got it. The tuning forcewas still attached, the gun was
an automatic, and Crystal's high pitchedscream had set the thing in most in
a second time. Howard hadn't thoughtof that when he stood in the line
of fire, and when he didthink of it, it was too late.
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He was killed, as you mightsay, by his own ingenious hand.
Well, that wrapped it up.It is a good Hexul who prompt
appearance on the scene of a crimethat at start of the hunts I played
against Howard's alibi just a little toocoincidental. The police snared Hecked crossing the
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border to Mexico, and they pickedup Barren while he was boarding a plane
for Las Vegas. Hex's original thoughtwas the blackmail Howard. That's why he
didn't tell me. Howard had hiredhim three months before the spy on his
wife, but the ten grand wasquicker, so he took that instead.
Oh yes, the papers. Wenever did find any papers. I kind
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of like to think that they didn'texist. You know what I mean.
You had just heard Barry Sullivan asfive A Detective Richard Rogue in this week's
glashic Adventure from Rogues Gallery. I'dlike to thank our Rogues Gallery players who
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Motor Card welcome back. Well,I have to say, quite honestly,
not quite as good as the DickPowe version, and that's vain generous.
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Not only was Sullivan's performance of Roguequite different from Powell's, but the writing
felt a little bit off. Ofcourse, if there were more episodes,
Sullivan might grow as at least apassable private detective show, but clearly a
lot more generic than a role thatwas really best associated with Dick Powell.
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Well, there actually is one moreversion of Rogue's Gallery. This one will
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As we've mentioned before, Dick Powellleft Rogues Gallery after the summer nineteen
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in nineteen forty seven. This isthe fourth episode of the eighteen It's called
Phyllis Adrian is Missing from June twentyninth of nineteen forty seven. Laugh awhile,
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Rouge speaking. You know, inmy business it's hard to get ahead,
but so many other people trying toget ahead my head. That is sometimes
I think it might be to letthem scrape my name off the door before
they sizzle it into a headstone,because I'm just a guy who doesn't like
to see people get pushed around,myself in particular, and I often wonder
if there's any real future for meand a sneak snoop and snitch racket,
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and so many people don't want meto have one. That was a frame
of mind I was in one Saturdayafternoon one, Howard Adrian, a well
known mouthpiece, cold to tell mehis troubles. Hello, Rogie, this
is Howard Adrian. Hey, howare you say? You're just in time?
I'm thinking of selling out? Gota wonderful set a law books here.
Let you have the cheap never evencut the pages, never had time.
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My wife is missing. Well she'snot here. I just took inventory.
You don't understand she's gone time.I'm worried, Rogie. How long
have you been gone, Howard?In two weeks? What have you done
to Lokay that nothing at all?Until now? This has got to be
between you and me, Rogan.You see it. It's rather Phillis is
pretty headstrong, and I've got tomove cautiously. Okay, Howard, I
think I understand you. Sit tight. I'll be right over and relax,
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Richard. Rogue will bring her backalive. Yeah, that's what I said.
But the way it turned out,I didn't. I paid a call
on Howard Adrian. His outer officewas empty, and when I ended his
private office without knocking, I foundhim kissing his secretary. Made a pretty
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picture suitable for framing. Well,well, now I get it. You
buried your wife in the cellar,like Edgar Allan fozy, you could marry
your beautiful secretary. You only hiredme for a blind like in the Detective
story. Cut it out, rogyor attempted humor isn't funny. Yeah,
I guess you're right. Sorry,no time for me to go fipping off.
All right, this is miss Carbon, Miss Crystal Carbon, Richard Roll.
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I'm sorry. Likewise, now,Howard, how about your work just
a minute, that'll be all missCarb the no way, Maybe she can
help you. Suppose we may aswell as help mister Rode. You see.
And it's an old story. Ihope we're not boring you, not
at all. Well, here's somegood news. I may have a line
on her already. The elevator operatorstells me he took her down from here
on the day she disappeared. Shewas with a tall man with brown muscles.
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Oh yeah, that would be NickyBarren. Nicky Barren, I know
him. He used to be mixedup with Rockey Malachesta when they were running
the gambling ships off the coast.Good trial for the murder of Pig Muldoon
and Fristo gang war, say Howard, didn't you handle Barren's defense at that
file? That's right. He musthave been clean or you wouldn't have touched
them. Thanks, and you're right. That's how I broke my reputation,
and the reputation helped. Nicky wasacquitted and he stayed clean ever since.
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He's doing what doing all right?Apparently operates a small club in the valley.
The Mandalay stopped in the sun methe other day, look shop and
walked out with your wife. Hey, this is radically there was nothing between
missus. Who side are you on? Mis car He's only trying to help
Howard. You know your working conditionsare so pleasant. I can't see why
you want me to find your wife. Why not leave well enough alone?
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Because Howard wants her back to wayto make a clean break, that things
settled once and for all. Allthat's right. You'll find us so I
could lose it legally. She'll giveyou a divorce, won Hortel? Oh
why she doesn't like me? Ohshe doesn't like you? No? Does
she love you? Cigarette? Thanks? Thanks, Rogie, don't worry about
it. Just fine, Phillis andforget the rest. Sure, how I'll
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remember that. But if I don'tforget it, you remind me. Hum
Phillis Atian seemed to advantage like JudgeCrayton. She seemed to have rolled a
footsteps up behind her, and evenher shadow must have been following a wrong
blund. My first move in locatingit was refreshingly simple. I merely called
another private detective and assigned him tocheck every hotel in town at half my
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daily feeds. Yeah, I shouldhave been an agent. Then I headed
for the Mandalaid. The Mandalaid waslined with woven grass mats and paneled with
bamboo. He should have held handsacross the dance floor, and in the
middle of it, a girl wastrying to shake herself out of a coat
of three spain and a surround tasterall right without being hit by a flying
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hip and lade the door of NickyBarron's office. It was easy money.
Laus Adrien was there. Well,well, hello missus Adien, good bye
mister Rogue. Why Nicky, that'snot a very warm welcome. I make
it warmer if you get funny,Snooper. My friends say I am naturally
funny. Maybe we'd make a team. I think you're a wonderful student.
I warn't you come shoot? Yeah, wouldn't that be a shade? Okay,
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rogue, stand up and take itall? Relax? Will you start
off like that? What you're gonnado for an encle? I don't shoot
snoop clay me alone. I'm inthe clear with this joint. Very interesting.
Fall back and regroup, Nikki,I'm not interested in you, and
then put that suck on your accountin case you get that way? Do
you mind get off the floor.It's a new carpet, Missus Adrien,
I care about shown off baby.Can't think of anybody I care more about
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at the moment. Well, Luckythe man is that home? Yeah?
The life of the party, that'shim. Will you see me when I
try on the lamb shades? MissusAdrian's how rum as just one of the
thing, says Nicky. Would youstep over here a minute? No,
a little more this way please?That's good comedy, Team slapsters. Did
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you get that wonderful pull you have? Mass I just blow myself up with
a bicycle pump. Shall we go? And that's the first act of tonight's
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I walk in on a tender loveseeing between Howard Adrian and has set Terry,
I couldn't see why he was soanxious for me to locate his missing
wife. But I did locate her, and I was ready to take her
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home. So I had to overcomethe objections of one Nicki, baron and
proprietor of a mandalaide. I guessNickie was convinced he because as he lay
there on the cop as, hedidn't seem to have another word to say.
Well, for a moment, Philosadrianseemed undecided between the horizontal mister Baron
and the perpendicular mister Rhode, andhe began to smile. I'm not to
look that an out of the divinesomeday Wallace, who just part of life
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at its best. Yeah, it'sgiven me an idea. We're nice?
Were will you and wait for mein the lobby? Well, I don't
like to wear out my welcome.I long to bear. When this wiltor
snap dragon revived, I'll have somethingto say to him. The reason for
yours. Shall I here heard?So I was a darling? What else
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did I do in that silk dressedPhilishadrians? Geography was making history. I
waited in the lobby and I wasjust telling the hat check girl to look
out for men? Who tell hatcheck girl to look out for men?
When someone tug at my sleeve.I turned around. At first I didn't
recognize it without ellipstick Smith. Itwas Crystal Corbon. Well, well,
this Carbon, you're looking a littlelike a Dresden doll to night thanks to
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you look, mister rogue. Butthen your job, your Thomas's agim.
That's all how it's playing you todo. I'll I'll be smart and stop
playing with Dynamo. Nicky Barren alonethe st kid. You surprise me.
What makes you think I'm interested inNicky Barren because I know you had Deddy
Callaham tucking the news take a filethis afternoon on the death of pigmal GM
and Nicky won't like that. It'sa crime to waste those games doing Nikki's
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leg work. What's your interest,Crystal? Well? You interest me enough.
Why I wouldn't like to see thatsmile without any teeth? And why
Chris, I didn't know you're killingmister rogue. But get Nicki barn and
get missus abim back to our husband. Maybe I will. It's just what
I'm trying to do, Darling.If people will stop shoving Nikki Baron down
my throat, I comes, Fillip, I get to stand. Good boys,
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r ready to go back to Poppins. Don't be so easy to get
rid of me, I said,I have one more statement to doing about
everything I've been trying to do thisweek. You're important in my blind Look
where do I get in? Wewant to just met? Well, it's
complicated. Did you set in?I tell you just smell. I'm up
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to my master. I'm a prettybusiness. I'm with a lever. I
need the swinging. There along afew more hands without looking at my cards,
and I'll fling him a card.I've already got a deal from your
husband. Remember, I'll after yourcollection on that too, and I'll be
bored. Say no more. I'min Now, who's grave do I have
to rob? Not to far onwith that list we're staring, of course,
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But all you have to do isstand in the background and let's we
got where we were going at tentwenty five. It was a house on
the ocean front near Malibu. Whoseplaces there asking no question? What are
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you waiting for, lady? No, just looking for the light switch.
Here it is. The place wasa man's idea, what a woman would
think a man's place. Order lookedlike lots of copper, knotty pine,
big brick fireplace, white baskin rugs, you know, the woods. One
another room was sliding glass windows fromtop to bottom, looking out my private
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beach and plenty of Pacific. I'dno sooner taste the layout than philos adrians
snapped off the lights. He cutit out. I'm sit of the dark.
Oh no, don't tell me you'refrightened. The pool a little could
be, baby could be. ButI just don't like the idea of making
mud pies and somebody else's sandbox.Come here, ins down. Do you
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love the moonlight? It's overlated.It shines on the same thing as the
sun does. Baby. Yeah,yeah, I guess there's none of us
so perfectly. We couldn't stand thesofter focus more ways than one. More
ways, let's just stick to one. What's happening? Whose place is this?
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It's my uncle didn't answer, andit was right. Then I began
to feel that not in my chest, the uncanny vibrations of something about to
happen. And from then until itdid happen, my heart was on a
pogo stick, and my nerves wasskipping rope through list bunch of a record
cabinet and fumble through a row offlatters until she found the ones who wanted,
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and pale the cereal strains of theviolin until the room. Then and
ghostly mist Is Adrian listened like someonein a dream. She flowed into the
chair oppositely and settle herself in it, like a cloud coming to rest on
a hill. Recognize d who isit? Evelyn? And a magic violin?
No God, because you how?In this composition he wrote, O
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pretty man, Yeah, come onover here and sit on my sofa.
I always sit here when you please. She stands right there, nice with
you always. You always close youreyes. Had anything throws through well,
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thesic appreciations a wonderful thing, Butgunshot crescendos are two models for my taste.
I opened my eyes and left tomy feet, and that not in
my chest pulled tight as a hangman'snoose. Philos Adrian still sat where she
was sitting. There was still asmile on her face. She still looked
good. Yeah, wood and dead. There was a gushing red hole in
her throat. The clock said elevenh five. I don't know why.
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The first thing I did was knockedthe playing arm off that record. I
guess it made me nervous. ThenI took a quick study around the house.
There was no one in the kitchen. The closets are under the bed.
I don't seem to have come fromclose by, maybe from a private
beach beyond the big window, soI dived through them. There's nothing out
there but sand, pounding surf andfog. Fog thickest taffy was rolling in
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off the sea, coming in fastlike they do at Malibu, plotting out
everything, everything but one shape ofthe shoreline that didn't look like driftwood.
I ain't got my heater and droppedit a sand Hey, yo, stop,
women are digging. I'm coming afterto give you the first one office
tell me I'm meant to like.That's truth, I have got one.
You better start sitting bullets here.I make that first one's house. I
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started inching toward him. My fingerstumbling on a tiger, ready for a
duel on the fog. But hefoxed me. He stood up and started
waving his arms over his head.So up, okay, fuddy, just
hold it like that? How starttalking? Who are you? Bred?
Heck? Hey, the private snoop? I what you know? No?
Why? I'm the guy who hiredyou, the fine missus alien. You're
Richard Grove. Yeah, you're workingfor me bull It's fun. Yeah,
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but I said find it, notget her? That her alive? Wait
a minute, you ain't telling meI who else? You won't get sure?
No, I won't get sore?He is sure. I seen you.
I was watching through the bag windows. She was sitting in the touch
with her back to me. Shewas sitting in the chair facing me.
She was listening to the music,and all of a sudden, you'll let
her hap us? What another doingsome look music? At that time you're
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making I want to know how youhappened every outside that window. I told
you to check hotels from missus aprien. Tonight I find your keeping two windows
that belonged to a friend of hers. You'll get around. You're terrific.
Tell me a secret. Oh well, well, I found the same registered
at the worship pot terrist is Aprien? Howard? How would I if you
an Aprien? How would you getit wonderful? How'd you ever figure it
out? Listen? If you can'tpray for the other guys, what's Turnno?
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Okay, keep talking? Well,I keep the telephone calls, and
they was all to this spee chairpersShe wasn't nun, So I come out
looking for her. I looked throughthe window and I seen it happened?
You saw me killer? Huh?Whoa? It was turner dust. Maybe
it was too wonderful and you're holdingthe gun road. Yeah, it's going
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must to make a mistake. Ifyou thought I did it wanting to go
for a cop instead of hiding outhere on a bib age, Well,
I didn't want no cops in onthe tail. I was gonna tell you
when you left, you putting thisracket long enough to know that there's there's
more, mother, and not tellingwho's done it? You know what?
You put the hooks in me fora hushing. Well we all make mistakes,
rugs here, but you're overdoing it. Okay, bird, let's go
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inside the house. I'm calling hamassure, somebody's gonna be sorry. All
right, rog got that here andrace You're all right? First, I'm
sorry. Okay, Baron, thismakes you dealer, My boy Rose,
hand over those papers. Amen.Oh I might have known it'd be papers.
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Well. I hate to say thisbecause I know what will happen.
But what papers? Oh that's didit happened? If you want it bad
enough about missus Adrian for Oh nowyou're telling me I didn't who else I
thought you did? No? Waita minute, I just walked into this.
I found her that way. I'lltry to hang it on me.
Don't mind him, so I hangit on anybody who comes along. It
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was just create a business associated you'recan talk in front of him. Okay,
you have benefit. Createst dame triedto shake me down tonight. As
supposed to meet her at twelve o'clockwith ten grand and hush money. When
I walked in, she was likethat, go ahead, tell him where
I come in. Oh sure,I was having trouble raising the dough.
So she tells me to night.She's taking a rogue into the deal with
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it. There's a smart Chamas likehim would know how to pedal that kind
of dope. The rogue here couldn'twait for the split, so he cut
her out with a slug. Clapsit up, promoter. Oh but one
thing, what was he shown?I don't mind telling you now. I
got nothing to lose beside, youtwo have a murder rep of your own
to settle between you. Okay,I got a little careless once up in
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Frisco, was tossing letter on fora bluff and a gent named Pig Muldoon
stepped in a one and called me. Oh, I was very sorry,
but it couldn't have happened to aworse wreck. Sure, I remember,
but I thought you was cleared.Yeah, it was. There was just
one little technicality. I was guilty, Howard. Adrian didn't know that when
he took the case. No,not when he took the case he didn't.
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But before the fire was over hedid see. The jury was already
out when a guy called Meathead Maxwellpaid him a call. He was the
boy who was with me at thetime. It wasn't trying to finger me.
He just wanted a little powder moneyto blow down before anyone caught up
with him and started asking questions.You mean Adrian made a deal with Hell
stace evidence. Yeah, he probablywouldn't have, but the jury was already
out and he built up to thebeautiful case. But he still didn't like
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it. No, he got meoff all right, but he also got
a statement from the meathead and he'sbeen holding it over my head, making
me walk the chuck. That waswhat was in the paper to catch on
quick kid. But I was doingall right, you seem until missus Adrian
gets her miss on the safety depositsseem all in the line of her wifely
duties, going through his pockets onenight. Next day she opens a box
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and pulls out my pack and startsin selling it back to me. I
can't see your doing. And she'sdoing all right, Ain't she just doing
missus as Yeah, but she's notbeing just missus Adrian. She's being a
patron of the arts. I'm aside, sponsoring concerts here and there, and
I am the angel. Either Iangel her boyfriend Egosky or she's fade drop
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muldoon nice bitter. I thought she'dlike it all right now roads on it
huh No, no hot feeling.If you're still telling I'm still buying If
the killing that dame all I gotto you was congratulates. Okay, you
put it that way. Did youbring the money with him? Joe?
So I got it right here,let's see it. Yeah, it is
run here if a bird. He'snot so tough at the second time tonight
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he's dropped his guide. You don'tyou You make the very same as take
clothing money legal. Let us contited. So on, kitty, yst easy,
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Rogue in rope gallery. I wokeup with a lump the size of a
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hat on my head. Both myplaymates were gone, Hecked with a ten
grand and Baron probably after him witha grudge, and me with nothing but
a corpse. I'd have a swelltime explaining. I dragged myself to the
phone and called Betty Callahan, anewspaper guys who sometimes knows the answers.
I told her what happened and askedher to check the alibis of three other
people, Crystal Corbin, Howard Adrian, and the violinist, even the GHOSTI
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then I spent the next twenty minutestrying to figure out one for myself.
I still didn't have one when Itell phone Rang it was Betty. At
the time of the murder, HowardAdrian had been making a speech in front
of seventy lawyers in a downtown hotel. Ivana Gerski was in San Diego giving
a concert. He only had twothousand witnesses away. The olibis were stacking
up. I figured Crystal Corbin wouldhave been taking a bath in the Hollywood
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Bowl, but knows he'd been withHoward. Betty said she'd notified him and
he was on his way out.So I had to have some answers ready
fast. And then I saw it, he answered in front of me.
All the time, Phyllis Adrian.The bullet had entered her throat at an
up angle from somewhere in the floor. From then, I traced the possible
trajectory of a slug to its pointof origin and found myself looking at a
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wall guess heater with an aluminum grillwork. I went over to it and
heilt down, twisted some knobs,and removed the grill. There the wire
to the pipes inside was a twentytwo target pistol. A little further back
slam to another pipe with a silvertuning fork. Two fine top of wires
ran from the tips of the fortwith the trigger of a gun. The
certammer of a gun had been workedon with a file to make it respond
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to a hair trigger touch. Ididn't have to test it to know that
the tuning fork would vibrate with acrescendo in a Drowski's concerto, The Concerto
of Death. We got your restestas we could. What happened? It's
Betty, you don't I think you'dwant to sort the focus. But I
don't understand. How could it happen? Would you right here as you killer
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Howard? Death by a remote controlcommits murder on qu to a musical note?
Good lord? But who? Whydidn't you tell me your wife was
in love with another man? Buthow could I? I never knew.
Y're sure of that, of course, I'm sure. What are you driving
at? Rogue? Well, somebodyknew whoever plan of this gadget knew every
detail, as she always sat inthat chair in that exact spot whenever she
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listened to him play. Who couldhave known that except the other man?
Yeah, that's a nactual thought,Crystal. I think it's what we were
meant to think that. It isn'tthe answer. You know the answer.
I know a lot of answers.Baby, Now, did you ever tell
Howard you were Nikky Baron's sister?Your old newspaper files to the trial.
Baby, you changed your name andthe color of your hair, but you
were still Nikki's sister, and youcouldn't hide that. She wasn't trying to
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hire it if I knew it allthe time. You can't persecute the girl
because of her block trying too.I'm just saying she made a play for
you so you could get her handon those papers you were holding over a
brother's head and destroy them. Right, Crystals, you're not trying to say
that. I'm not saying anything.I'm just clearing a record. No,
Crystal didn't kill your wife, Howard, because you did me. Well,
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do you realize what you're saying?What possible motive could I have? Well,
I've got my choice of several,but most of them involved blackmail and
legal loopholes, and you would havehad a neat way of getting around those.
So I two good old fashioned jealousy, the one thing you wouldn't have
known how to handle. You mustbe out of your mind. How could
I be jealous of something I didn'teven know about? But you did know
it, Howard? And the veryfact that you want to such pains to
conceal your knowledge as the tip ofthat couldn't be. Doesn't make sense.
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Howard loves me. You know yousaw, I saw, I was meant
to see. The guy's a lawyer. Baby, you were exhibit A,
and I was going to be astar with us. You're skating gun very
thin, nice world. What makesyou think I knew a little guy named
Bert Heck, a guy I hiredto help me find your wife. Only
he found her too fast, andhe isn't that good. I figured right
then he'd been keeping an eye onher for a long time by somebody else.
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But why me? You? Becausehe said you? Howard? Who
would a jealous husband hires a detectiveto follow his wife? Yeah, extra
ports must have made good reading allthe unimate details about the private concerts and
a special how old that's closed enough. I'm sorry. Put on a gun.
Yes, yes, I'm really sorry. Rogue to you. It's you.
I'm sorry for how I told methat nobody feels sorry for me,
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not me, not Howard Adrian.I don't need it. How you,
Crystal, You you try to getclose enough to hurt me, just like
all the rest, but you nevercould. Nobody gets close to me.
Nobody knows what makes me take inhere? Even for the cart room pay
you finished here? Yes, Iknow, but so are you old?
So are you if it happens infor you? I well, you're just
too smart to live. Goodbye,mister roge or an instant. I stood
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expecting to fall dead, but Ididn't. Instead, Howard jerked, arrested,
fun around like a ballet answer,and crumpled to the floor body again.
I got it. The tuning forcewas still attached, the gun was
an automatic, and Crystal's high pitchedscream had set the thing in most in
a second time. Howard hadn't thoughtof that when he stood in the line
of fire, and when he didthink of it, it was too late.
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He was killed, as you mightsay, by his own ingenious hand.
Well, that wrapped it up.It is a good Hexul who prompt
appearance on the scene of a crimethat at start of the hunts I played
against Howard's alibi just a little toocoincidental. The police snared Hecked crossing the
(30:00):
border to Mexico, and they pickedup Barren while he was boarding a plane
for Las Vegas. Hex's original thoughtwas the blackmail Howard. That's why he
didn't tell me. Howard had hiredhim three months before the spy on his
wife, but the ten grand wasquicker, so he took that instead.
Oh yes, the papers. Wenever did find any papers. I kind
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of like to think that they didn'texist. You know what I mean.
You had just heard Barry Sullivan asfive A Detective Richard Rogue in this week's
glashic Adventure from Rogues Gallery. I'dlike to thank our Rogues Gallery players who
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were Loreene Tuttle, Gerald Moore,Peter Leaves and Ed Matt Thanks to the
Charles Bender, producer and director ofYour Fix Bandwagon summer series Rogues Gallery Until
Sunday. Then, this is BarrySullivan saying, don't forget to switch to
pick last awhile let us on NewTime. Must damnpool Son to stay,
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use your head, save your hair, you spitch Sao men after shaving the
smile happy for that tingling, frostyfresh feeling. Use Switches skin Pep after
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or after Shaving Lotions to Fix theMine six Iowa Jim Doyle seeking the National
Broadcasting Company. The preceding NBC programwas transcribed earlier to be heard at this
time k f I Los Angeles orthe Anthony Incorporated, California distributor of Packard
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Motor Card welcome back. Well,I have to say, quite honestly,
not quite as good as the DickPowe version, and that's vain generous.
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Not only was Sullivan's performance of Roguequite different from Powell's, but the writing
felt a little bit off. Ofcourse, if there were more episodes,
Sullivan might grow as at least apassable private detective show, but clearly a
lot more generic than a role thatwas really best associated with Dick Powell.
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Well, there actually is one moreversion of Rogue's Gallery. This one will
take us into the nineteen fifties.I'll tell you about it next week.
Remember we do do one Dragnet episodeper week, and you can listen to
those who are old Time Dragnet podcast, the one that started at all Radio
Dragnet dot com and the Old TimeRadio Superman Show at a laserinsword dot com.
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this is your host, Adam Grahamsigning off.
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