September 28, 2025 • 34 mins
Gregory Hood and Sandy find a man about to jump off a bridge, but he apparently dies of a heart attack while talking about a gun, and traces of cyanide are found, and then a doctor says the man was stabbed.
Original Air Date: June 3, 1946
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Original Air Date: June 3, 1946
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
From Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham, and
we are going to be bringing you a Sunday Encore
now this year. We are going to actually make one series,
our default Sunday Encore show.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Between now and the end of the year, we will
have some specials and some holiday themed programs. But if
we're not doing that, we are going to be playing
The Casebook of Gregory Hod with Gail Gordon, which is
an underrated show that I quite enjoyed and I hope
(01:09):
you like it as well. Now, as always, any offers
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But here now is our Sunday Encore real.
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(01:51):
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net or beginning a new series. This one is called
The Case Book of Gregory Hood. And if you listen
to the Basil Wrathbone and Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes series,
particularly the last season from nineteen thirty five to thirty six,
there'll be some familiarity here. Patrick Wine, the sponsor of
(02:39):
Sherlock Holmes, sponsored The Case Book of Gregory Hood as
a replacement series for the summer, with the hops that
Sherlock Holmes would return for another season with Wrathbone and Bruce. However,
Wrathbone was tired of the series and the series would
continue on with Tom and Nigel Bruce over on ABC.
(03:03):
The series was written by by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher,
who were the writers of of Sherlock Holmes. This was
a series that would have a surprising life and continue
off and on until the nineteen early nineteen fifties, and
(03:25):
we'll start off with the very first ten episodes, and
the star of that series is mister Gail Gordon. Gordon
was listed as number six on my list of Radio's
most Essential People, so we'll have quite a bit to
say about Gail Gordon, and of course he will feature
prominently in our ap extras. And the co star at
(03:50):
the start of the series is William Johnstone, who of
course stars on Saturday's episode of the lineup. So for
a few weeks you'll hear William Johnstone as the co
star on Tuesday and the star on Saturday. So all right, well,
let's go ahead and take take a listen. Let's go
open up the Casebook for of Gregory Hood. From June
(04:13):
third of nineteen forty six, Petro.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Wine brings you Casebook of Gregory Hood tonight for Petrie Family,
the family that took time to bring you good wines.
Invite you to listen to the story of the Free
(04:37):
Silver Papers, another exciting story from the Casebook of Gregory Hood.
And I'd like to invite you to try something that
will turn those impatient minutes you spend waiting for dinner
to be served into a time you really look forward to.
You can do that by pouring yourself a glass of
Petrie California's sharing. Yes, just sit back and.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Enjoy that Petrie shriff good.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
It's great. Just hold that glass of Petrie sherry to
the light and notice the beautiful, deep ambered color, clear
as crystal. Get the aroma of this fine wine. It
has all the fragrance of the luscious sun ripe and
grapes from which it's made. But wait, do you taste
that Petrie sherry? Then I can stop talking because you'll
know for yourself how good it is. Oh and say,
(05:23):
if you like your sherry dry, you know not sweet.
Petrie makes a delicious dry sherry, Petree pale dry. If
you don't know which you prefer, the regular sherry or
the pale dry, why not try them both. Don't buy one,
buy two, but just be sure you always buy Petrick. Well,
(06:00):
it's Monday evening in San Francisco and we have a
date with Gregory Hood and his friend Sanderson Taylor. Rondezvous
tonight is at Gregory's apartment high on nob Hill and
overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Let's keep our date. Joey
Good evening to that Hello Quang, mister heard expecting you,
(06:21):
mister t, I've already arrived. Please to go into thanks Pang,
Hey t HELLI Hello Sandy sand Here, good evening, harrying Gregory,
Oh please don't stop playing that soundeds well, oh you
like it? This is our first appearance on the radio.
(06:42):
I thought i'd grip up a little number in honor
of the occasional other radio shows have a musful theme.
I thought this might be appropriate for aull So. As
well as being the head of Gregory Hood and Company
importers and an amateur detective, you're also a composer in
a very modest way, Harry. How about you, Sandy. I
know that you're misters attorney as well as as close
(07:04):
as flans. Do you have any unusual talent you've been
hiding under a bushel? No, Harry, I'm a very dull
dog companer. Gregory. I'm a good family man. I showed
an erratic game of golf, and I wield a writ
of habeas coffee with moderate I don't believe a word
he says. Harry, Sandy has many hidden talents. The fact
that you will find out as Tonight's story gets underway
(07:25):
with Keffert glass of sherry. Oh, that'd be very nice, Serry.
Which particular page of a notebook if you decided to
turn two for your first story, A page that has
the heading the Case of the Three Silver Pasos. So
we thought it was an adventure that would show you, Harry,
that Gregory and I really don't go looking for trouble,
although we do have an uncanny facility for meeting up
with it. And how did the Three Silver Pasos catch
(07:47):
up with him? Well, it was about six o'clock one
evening a few weeks ago that Sandy and I started
our drive across the Bay Bridge found for Sandy's home
in the Berkeley Hills. Little did we think that what
promised to be an evening of present domesticity was destined
turned into his wild and woolly and adventure. Bridge is
beautiful and design, isn't, Gregor Sunny? Just the same? I
(08:09):
missed the ferry boat. If you made the trip across
as often as I do, you wouldn't. The bridge is
not half an hour off the trip even so, I see, hey,
look at that cord. Why doesn't he stand in his
own lane?
Speaker 5 (08:22):
He's an oozer?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
They drives me crazy. What's an oozer? Plenty of them
on the roads. When they change lanes. I never give
a signal. They just Ooh. Watch out. He's weaving from
side to side. Now he's pulling in toward the rail.
He's going to stop, but you're not allowed to stop
on the brim. He must be ill and I'm going
to pull up an idy. He's opened the car door.
(08:45):
He's staggering for the Papo suicide. A get away from
that terrific too hired jup for you. My friends stand here?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Hold him?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Hey, who are you God? God? Yes? Yes, the gun
would be simpler. Come on, get in our car. We'll
see you home greatly. I leave. He's danger. Get into
the car for devil. I suppose his heart gave him
his wish, and get into a doctor fast. We may
be wrong. Oh hit him a copy. Your car stopped
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on the bridge of Moon and we've got to get
this metal a doctor, officer. He's still his heels. What
about a car. You get his car cleared off the
brig officer. We'll call back when we get to the
Oakland side and make our reports. Okay, get moments. He
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is dead, Greg, I'm sure as you find any identification
on him. According to his valet, his name is Harrison
Travers and he's from Los Angeles. Anything in his pocket package,
a chest, a fuse room key from the hotel's bottom.
O that one of those flea dumps on Search Street.
What else?
Speaker 5 (09:58):
We till the bellow?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
A small glass vial SENTI regulating, good lord tyan eide?
Do you suppose he swallowed it as he stepped out
of the car for thee As soon as we get
across the bridge, we'll stop at the mirror doctors and
find out. And that's not story, doctor Donald, What explanation
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can you give? Doctor?
Speaker 7 (10:29):
This is a fantastic keys gentleman. You see that the
man talked of the gun, carried an empty Cyanide vial,
tried to jump off the bridge, and apparently died of
heart fading.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I tried, doctor.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
All very interesting, my friends, But this body happens to
have been stabbed.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Sad what he died.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
From a sharp instrument piercing the chest near the hut.
This gentleman is murdered.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Back we head for the bridge to San Francisco with
a corpse as a passenger. Just at the time we
should be having a Marcini who am It's the only
tentible thing to do, Gregory. The border line between San
Francisco and Alameda County runs right through the center of
the bridge. The murder happened on the San Francisco side,
So we hand a nice new corpse over to Lieutenant
Macgruder of homicide, who hates me and probably won't believe
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a word was saying. We can't take any chances, Gregory,
we have mixed up in a murder key true, true,
But Magruder will probably say the guy was stabbed to
death in my arms. I'll have a heck of a
job proving he was. Macgrudor loves to put the finger
on me. Now, Gregory, I'm not going to allow you
to get mixed up in it any further. But I
am an extender up to my chain. I've got to
follow through to clear myself. But doctor Arnold made that
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stabbing business perfectly clear, Gregory. A man who such a
wound might easily think it a mere trash and walk
around for an hour before he drops dead. The police
surgeon will understand, I hope. So did you call Mary? Yes? Yes,
I said we'd be back by seven thirty. It's all right.
I suppose you told her we just had to run
across back to the city. Yes, a wonderful understanding girl. Man,
(12:11):
when she knows I'm with you, Gregory, she's so bad
for anything. Oh why are we shouting? Don't you see
the damsel in distress teetering on the curb ahead of us?
Damsel nothing, damsels, don't sur rhyme? Oh you must god
against being snobbish. Then, in any case, we've got a
We'll say he's a bit under the weather. I've been young, lad.
(12:31):
There's room for three in front, so over godly, I
was beginning to think you've never got off a friend.
I'm Genellope, tense to s. My name is Taylor, and
mine's hood. What's wrong with your friends about him? H huh? Oh,
you don't feel very well, dear sir.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Oh, well, what's happened before?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Don't you think it's a little dangerous for young girls
who hit rhymes across the Britain. Don't worry, mister Penny
can take care of herself. I had a day of
seven fifteen and I just mister trainer didn't want to wait. Well,
I'm sure you didn't have to wait long for a hour.
I didn't that I'm choosing too many long wolves on wheels.
And when we slowed down ten air, suppose the natural
(13:09):
honesty of our expressions decided you that you'd be safe
without say you're pretty smooth. What's your other name, mister
hood Gregory? I don't know how safe a girl to
be with you, Gregory? I got you cure a good time.
I am reputed to have my moment, Penny Gregory. Don't
you think it was the mister travers in the backet problem?
(13:33):
Let me out of brand new. That's the trouble with
these modern hats. They have no stamina. I'll go back
and get it for you. I watch the traffic, Gregory,
don't get out that time. I don't worry, Sandy. I
never commit su aide on Monday. If I just move
over a little bit, thank you, I'll be your friends mine.
What did he do? Why he's in the importing business?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
What's the kinning Emperor? I don't see it well. I
what happened? Anny shot our car and our car and
the lieutenant Magruder is never going to believe this one.
(14:28):
And that's our story to tennant, magudda, and you're expecting
me to believe it. I suppose what did I tell you?
Sanday misterhood you're in the importing business. I keep my
nose out of that kind of stuff. Why do you
mix yourself up with a homicide gig? I didn't, Magruder.
It mixed yourself up with me. Yeah, don't give me that.
You think you're a hot shot detective. You're a smart
boy who's always trying to show us up. There's a
(14:49):
bunch of flat foot. Don't waste my time, Magruder. The
San Francisco Police Force is one of the finests in
the country. Why do you have to spoil the records?
What do I have to do to make you realize
it's been a murder me a murdered man. But we
had him. His corps was in the stolen car. Sure, sure,
And before he was stiff, you thought he was going
to jump off the bridge. Then he had a heart attack,
then he was going to shoot himself, then that he's
(15:10):
poisoned himself, and finally a doctor told he been nice. Yeah.
To cap it all off, a blonde babe steals your
cock and your car. Who you're trying to kid Well,
I admit that it sounds unlikely, but it's true. McGruder,
prove it. How about the traffic cop who came up
for us on the bridge, Yeah, he drove the dead
man's car way ahead of it. He must have found
in a report. He Now, well, I've checked the records
(15:33):
and there hasn't been a traffic report from the Babe
Bridge since four o'clock. Now what are you say, mister Hood,
that I'll prove it to you? Come on, Sanders, come
back on Saturday, monsieur Hood, it's my day off. You
see how much your law abiding instincts, super offender Magruder
doesn't believe us, And see what your chivalrous instincts did
(15:55):
for it. Your damsel in distress runs off with your
car and the evidence. Now we've got to follow this
thing through the pool. I'm a bruder that we're not nuts.
You've got to call Mary and tell her it will
have to be a midnight snack. Okay, Gregory, but I
don't see where we go from here. Luckily I kept
these three objects that were in the dead man's pocket,
the only clues we've got a hotel key, empty vial
(16:19):
and free silver paste here, let's take the key first
hotels bottom room to seven. All right, time it that's
our first pot of call. What a ghastly jump, Grigory,
(16:41):
But as you see service with an allad smile. Oh
good evening. Well, I'm so glad. I hope you stay
that way. What do you want to see, mister Harrison
trappers now travers here? Not a wile, but this key
to our seventh God. Glad to have it back, stolen
promised months ago. Thanks? Who's living in that room? I
(17:01):
am night? You know, Gregory, I'm beginning to think that
(17:21):
Magruder was nice and that this whole business didn't happen
after all. And I'm getting his obstiner. Thet's all get out.
I didn't believe that hotel sert, but I couldn't press
the room without a police warrant, and with mcgrudy in
his pleasant frame of mind, that wouldn't be the easiest thing. Again,
where we headed for Now? The shop of my old
friend Goldwasser along here somewhere. How can he help us?
(17:44):
He's a coin dealer, the best in San Francisco. I
want to ask him about these three silver of papos. Ah.
Here's a job. Hello, Henriydn dear Foy, how good to
see you. This is mister Sanderson Taylor.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
How do you do do?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Let's go into my romance apair. We can't sit down
and becomfortable, kind Gregory. Time has it better for seeing
you after this long time?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
So sit down just a special occasion.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Perhaps you will join you in a little lass of thoughts,
my friend. Wonderful idea, Heinrich, We're in something of a jam.
I'm hoping you can help us.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Tell me to believe that you can't do take greg
thanks the tailor. No tell me how I may help you, Henry.
I want you to look at the sugar pass. Is
there anything odd or rare about them?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Or any way we could trace their ownership?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Man?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Well commonly not calling on you.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I have many such delicate cars here.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
I would checked this for rag. Either put one of
your coins on the scale, though, and on the other scale.
I have just put one of my duplicate coun I
not beginning though. And what did you find the coin
I gave you as much lighter and must be counted
it you might do not, thankful? Let me look at
it through my glass? Oh what is it? Coin? Uncool,
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the hollow section inside there is a white powder inside dope.
At last we know what were up against man. I
use your telephone, Henric. So we are mixed up with
a dope ring Gregory no doubt about it than this. Now,
perhaps I can make Magruder nibble a little humble.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Pie, please, Macgrous speaking Magerda.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
This is the Gregory Hood it is. Where are you
Goldloss's coin a shop on market. I've got some news
for you mcgroth, and I've got some for you.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
We'd mind your car deserted.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
On Turkey Street with a corpse and sho good the
not perhaps who believe that it wasn't the course you described.
It was a nice prey of corpse by the name
of Penelope Honey dead.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Stay away, I'll be right over to a restaurant suspicion of.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
You'll hear the rest of tonight's story from the case
Book of Gregory Hood in just a second. It's time
for me to mention that the only thing necessary to
make a good dinner just perfect is to serve that
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or chops or stew, and in fact, with any meat
or meat dish. You couldn't ask for a better companion
(20:36):
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Petrie Burgundy and Petrie so Turned. It's bound to be
good if it's Petrie. Oh, Sandy, you certainly weren't up
to your ears that time. I guess you were able
to talk yourself out of it with Magruder. No, Harry,
the more eloquent Gregory became, the more suspicious it seemed
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to make Magruder, and I couldn't do anything to prevent
Magruder booking him on suspicion of money. Do you mean
to say you were actually locked up? Yes, Harry, I
landed in the jug with a resounding splash at just
about the time a civilized man is warming his cockles
with a good branda, and this scurried off to get
a rid of Haviea's Carpus. But for nearly an hour
I found myself in a spell a joining a certain
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unhappy character named Joe. I don't what made me. I
don't put your handle mat Sam, Sam McGee, you look strict.
You want to Charlie's mom. I on the censure for Sam,
the words sliced up, Mamal you kidn't you're talking to
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Sam and the slicer. I ought to see what I
did to Fanning had there in nineteen pieces. A surgeon
couldn't have done a better job, not as neat as
slicing as I did on an Agata, though I can
still see her expression as I cut her head off.
Look kind just a small time for it, man. They
shouldn't want to put me next to you, mel Hey, off.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
It, Joe.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I'm gonna spring. I'm gonna spring both of us. I
don't want to go nowhere with you. Hi, down go.
I got a pineapple in my pocket. I'm gonna talk
it out there in the island. Blow this coop sky high.
Don't do a taste, Johnny, come here. Samda slice is
gonna make the price, take care away from it with us.
I shave him I got to do to right, sy
gotta right to be locked up nice and squire. I
don't jo your attorney to mister, I am sorry to
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so long Gregory. Come on, that's a cozy little cell,
but I don't want to overstay my welcome or so
long ago your body mister. No, No, he's got the
gold down this imagination. Did you get the car back landage?
Speaker 7 (23:04):
No?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Still being held is evidence and means grab a cab
as fast as we can. There's a lot of unfinished
business ahead of us. Fisherman's way. Why Fisherman's wall stranger
(23:28):
just put him a call to Herb Kane of the
Fantasisco Chronicles. He tells me there's a film company shooting
night location there. How does a film company tie in
with our little headache? It's simple, I'm looking for an actress. Now,
what's playing at Segary there? Drawing room comedy, Yes, and
there's a costume music with the current correct they showed
the golden case is a dance fandom sing there's no access,
(23:48):
so that's out Therefore a film company get it, absolutely
and unequivocally, no veryone else. Let's work the case out backwards.
Now that would be a great help. Why not sideways
Maybe my recent incarpiration that made me a little stir crazy.
Tell me how you figured the thing out so far,
fans will obviously Tiber's the man we found on the
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bridge was mixed up with the dope gang and was
probably killed in some internal quarrel. And exhibit number two,
the late Penelope, where did she sit in? I don't
think that's a hard one. She was a member of
the ring.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
They stationed her near the entrance to the bridge, knowing.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
That a man of your notorious susceptibilities would be bound
to pick her up. And oh yeah, indeed, and then
she stole the cause. The hotel Kirk was bribed to
deny the murdered man's existence. And later they killed the
girl who make things favors or maybe she wanted too
much of a cut. Then you're excelling yourself elementary, my
dear Gregor. But I still don't see where an actor
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enters the picture. But surely you see who the killer
is now, don't you. Well, I've read enough mystery stories
to know that it must be the LST the lead
suspected person. You have that LSP tone in your voice,
Gingery but we haven't met any LSPs unless it's Bone
(25:10):
or Doctor Arnold. Remember sand that the original bridge episode
was never reported, nor was Taver's car turn in. Magruder
told us fair So the traffic cop to whom we
turned over, Travis Corvers, a pony and a killer. Probably
he was tailing Favers to make sure he died, which
he did, but we got away with the car. So
he phoned poor Penelope across the bay to Suffers on
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the approach to the bridge on the way back. Now,
who could, at a moment's notice after himself as a
traffic cop for shadowing purposes? I get it, Gregory? An actor, right,
an actor having a uniform for such a role. Yeah,
Max Fisherman's work. Fine, wait here for us driver, won't
be a minute. Come on, Well, look at the crowds, Gregory,
(25:52):
it's not surprising Hollywood putting on a free outdoor floor show.
You can't come any fathers, Holly, who's the director on
this picture? Or es to Garland, I'm Bud Denton, second assistant.
Can I help him? I hope?
Speaker 7 (26:03):
So?
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Do you have an actor in this production who's playing
a traffic cup? Yeah? Funny you should ask that he's
been missing all day. So there's motorcycles and no answer
from his hotel either. Do you happen to remember the
name of his hotel? Here, Hotel Batman Turksley and his
name gun Fred Gunn bred gun that's obliged to you.
I'm on, Sandy, You're welcome. Now. It's clear, Sandy, the
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dying man's words meant not a weapon but a name.
What bread is done. Let's get back into our cap
and go back to the hotel Botman and visited him.
When I tell you there's no Olf Fred Gunn ben Leving,
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and I tell you that he's still living in two
o seven. Give us a fast key.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
You can't know, but we are.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Sending for them in a few minutes. You might as
well keep yourself out of a bad mess. Yeah, here's
a passcake, and don't tie me up in anything. I
just did when I was told, And what were you told?
My friend? Decide that I was living in two or seven.
I didn't see any harm in that week. You don't
ask too many questions. Here is Fred Gunn in his
room now? Yeah, it came in an hour ago. It's
(27:15):
some drunken bumb It couldn't stand up. They were plastered
as hoodie allos, all right, might as well walk up.
It's only the second floor. I suppose if I were
in this game professionally, I'd be carrying a gun, Sandy.
I'd feel safer if you were. Gregory looks as if
we've got to kill a corner in a rat hole.
He might shoot before he asked questions. You know, Sandy. Hmmm.
(27:38):
I don't want to be melodramatic, but you've got a
wife and two children. I wish you'd go back and
wait for me in the lobby. Nice of you, Gregory,
but this is hood company business. In any case, I
don't want to miss the fun. You're a remarkably square man, Sandy.
There are times when I'm quite fond of you. Yeah.
Here we are, two hundreds go not Our only chance
(28:05):
is to rush him. Ook the doors in the block,
Watch out, Fani done done. He's asleep on the bed.
Take it easy, Gregory, taken time with the bed clothes.
He doesn't need bed clothes, family, he needs a shroud.
He's dead. No with bottle of whiskey, can spike with cyanide,
Great Scott, Greggy, look here on the floor. So now
(28:30):
familiar corpse of mister Travers. How it does get around.
We're in a serious gem now, Gregory. He deepen corpses
and not a single suspect left. We don't need one.
I know who murdered Gun, and oddly enough he's in
the room now, the killer. We're closer than that, Stanly.
Oh now look, Gregory, if you're going to put the
(28:51):
finger on me as the least suspected person is going
too far, I won't stand worth no no family. Mister
Travers lying on the floor is the latest killer? You
mean the corp system?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Remember the anti sion eye bial. Before Travers was killed himself,
he'd poisoned guns whiskey. Gun figured he'd stay sober until
he'd retrieved Travers cough. He thought it back here, started
to figure out how he was going to disport him exactly.
He decided to take a slug of whiskey to help
his thinking machinery, and so he died, murdered by his
own victim. Oh I see now I have a call
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Elmwood six four two two calling Lieutenant Magruder. Sure this
is going to be fun, Magruder and homicidally after you
threw Gregory. I'll call Mary, we'll have one of her
delicious rabbits, and you'll say the night's magruder. This is
Gregory Hood. Now settle back in your chair and make
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yourself comfortable, because I've got a fairy story to tell you.
Once upon a time, a couple of worthy citizens for
driving across the Bay Bridge when the car in front
of them started to weed. You will never believe this, magruder.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
But well, Gregory, that was a twelve star very different too.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Yes, and I might say it almost masks the end
of my beautiful friendship with macrut. Oh, it's quite a
Swiss Gregory the murderer being murdered by his victims. And
I'd like to point out tomorrow, if you parton my
pointing right ahead, the story proves that you get what
you give. Unfortunately that works for the best. So quite
a philosopher, aren't you just what you mean? Well, we
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all get what we get. But when you drop by
my house, what do I get? A warm welcome and
a good dinner and oh, a glass of Petrie water, right?
And when I visit you, I get Petrie right again.
And that's because we both know that Petrie wine is
a good wine. Petrie wine has got to be good wine.
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Look at the long years of skill and experience that
goes into its making. Why the Petrie family has been
making wine for generations. Wine making is their heritage, a
heritage handed on down from father to son, from father
to son. And don't forget ever since the Petrie family
first went into business, they've watched over that business person. Yes,
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the making of Petrie wine is a family affair, and
the Petrie family has every intention of keeping it just that.
So you know that the name Petrie on a bottle
of wine is more than a trademark. It's a personal
assurance of the Petrie family if Petree wine is and
always will be good wine, well Bredory to what page
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of your casebook are you turning? Next MONA? Next Monday, Harry,
I'm going to tell you an odd story that concerns
the San Francisco cable car, a rather unusual brunette, and
the blood stained hatchet. I call it the Black U.
See you next Monday, Harry. The Case Book of Gregory
(32:14):
Hood is written by Dannis Green and Anthony Bouscher. Original
music is composed and played by Dean Fosterwood. Mister Gail
Gordon plays the part of Gregory Hood, and Sanderson Taylor
is played by mister Bill Johnstone. The Petrie Wine Company
(32:35):
of San Francisco, California invites you to tune in again
next week, same time, same station. The Case Book of
Gregory Hood comes to you from our Hollywood studio. This
is Harry Bartowell saying good night for the Petrick family
(33:00):
for the solid all all of exciting mystery dramas. Listen
every Monday on most of these same stations at eight
o'clock to Michael James, followed immediately by Casebooks of Gregory Hood.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
This is a mutual podcasting.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Welcome back, well outside of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. I
have to say it's probably been a while since we've
had a case that that was that cleverly concocted, and
to be honest, having listened to a lot of the
Green and Boucher Sherlock Holmes, their Casebook of Gregory Hood
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actually seems better. Gail Gordon does a great job, and
we'll talk more about him, like I said on Tuesday,
but it's very interesting to see him in this role
of the swave amateur detective, given that He's best known
for parts like Lucille Ball's boss on The Lucy Show.
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But like I said, more about him next Tuesday, and
I hope you enjoyed this series as much as I am.
All Right, well, that will do it for today. Sendra
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From Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham, and
we are going to be bringing you a Sunday Encore
now this year. We are going to actually make one series,
our default Sunday Encore show.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Between now and the end of the year, we will
have some specials and some holiday themed programs. But if
we're not doing that, we are going to be playing
The Casebook of Gregory Hod with Gail Gordon, which is
an underrated show that I quite enjoyed and I hope
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you like it as well. Now, as always, any offers
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net or beginning a new series. This one is called
The Case Book of Gregory Hood. And if you listen
to the Basil Wrathbone and Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes series,
particularly the last season from nineteen thirty five to thirty six,
there'll be some familiarity here. Patrick Wine, the sponsor of
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Sherlock Holmes, sponsored The Case Book of Gregory Hood as
a replacement series for the summer, with the hops that
Sherlock Holmes would return for another season with Wrathbone and Bruce. However,
Wrathbone was tired of the series and the series would
continue on with Tom and Nigel Bruce over on ABC.
(03:03):
The series was written by by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher,
who were the writers of of Sherlock Holmes. This was
a series that would have a surprising life and continue
off and on until the nineteen early nineteen fifties, and
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we'll start off with the very first ten episodes, and
the star of that series is mister Gail Gordon. Gordon
was listed as number six on my list of Radio's
most Essential People, so we'll have quite a bit to
say about Gail Gordon, and of course he will feature
prominently in our ap extras. And the co star at
(03:50):
the start of the series is William Johnstone, who of
course stars on Saturday's episode of the lineup. So for
a few weeks you'll hear William Johnstone as the co
star on Tuesday and the star on Saturday. So all right, well,
let's go ahead and take take a listen. Let's go
open up the Casebook for of Gregory Hood. From June
(04:13):
third of nineteen forty six, Petro.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Wine brings you Casebook of Gregory Hood tonight for Petrie Family,
the family that took time to bring you good wines.
Invite you to listen to the story of the Free
(04:37):
Silver Papers, another exciting story from the Casebook of Gregory Hood.
And I'd like to invite you to try something that
will turn those impatient minutes you spend waiting for dinner
to be served into a time you really look forward to.
You can do that by pouring yourself a glass of
Petrie California's sharing. Yes, just sit back and.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Enjoy that Petrie shriff good.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
It's great. Just hold that glass of Petrie sherry to
the light and notice the beautiful, deep ambered color, clear
as crystal. Get the aroma of this fine wine. It
has all the fragrance of the luscious sun ripe and
grapes from which it's made. But wait, do you taste
that Petrie sherry? Then I can stop talking because you'll
know for yourself how good it is. Oh and say,
(05:23):
if you like your sherry dry, you know not sweet.
Petrie makes a delicious dry sherry, Petree pale dry. If
you don't know which you prefer, the regular sherry or
the pale dry, why not try them both. Don't buy one,
buy two, but just be sure you always buy Petrick. Well,
(06:00):
it's Monday evening in San Francisco and we have a
date with Gregory Hood and his friend Sanderson Taylor. Rondezvous
tonight is at Gregory's apartment high on nob Hill and
overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Let's keep our date. Joey
Good evening to that Hello Quang, mister heard expecting you,
(06:21):
mister t, I've already arrived. Please to go into thanks Pang,
Hey t HELLI Hello Sandy sand Here, good evening, harrying Gregory,
Oh please don't stop playing that soundeds well, oh you
like it? This is our first appearance on the radio.
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I thought i'd grip up a little number in honor
of the occasional other radio shows have a musful theme.
I thought this might be appropriate for aull So. As
well as being the head of Gregory Hood and Company
importers and an amateur detective, you're also a composer in
a very modest way, Harry. How about you, Sandy. I
know that you're misters attorney as well as as close
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as flans. Do you have any unusual talent you've been
hiding under a bushel? No, Harry, I'm a very dull
dog companer. Gregory. I'm a good family man. I showed
an erratic game of golf, and I wield a writ
of habeas coffee with moderate I don't believe a word
he says. Harry, Sandy has many hidden talents. The fact
that you will find out as Tonight's story gets underway
(07:25):
with Keffert glass of sherry. Oh, that'd be very nice, Serry.
Which particular page of a notebook if you decided to
turn two for your first story, A page that has
the heading the Case of the Three Silver Pasos. So
we thought it was an adventure that would show you, Harry,
that Gregory and I really don't go looking for trouble,
although we do have an uncanny facility for meeting up
with it. And how did the Three Silver Pasos catch
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up with him? Well, it was about six o'clock one
evening a few weeks ago that Sandy and I started
our drive across the Bay Bridge found for Sandy's home
in the Berkeley Hills. Little did we think that what
promised to be an evening of present domesticity was destined
turned into his wild and woolly and adventure. Bridge is
beautiful and design, isn't, Gregor Sunny? Just the same? I
(08:09):
missed the ferry boat. If you made the trip across
as often as I do, you wouldn't. The bridge is
not half an hour off the trip even so, I see, hey,
look at that cord. Why doesn't he stand in his
own lane?
Speaker 5 (08:22):
He's an oozer?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
They drives me crazy. What's an oozer? Plenty of them
on the roads. When they change lanes. I never give
a signal. They just Ooh. Watch out. He's weaving from
side to side. Now he's pulling in toward the rail.
He's going to stop, but you're not allowed to stop
on the brim. He must be ill and I'm going
to pull up an idy. He's opened the car door.
(08:45):
He's staggering for the Papo suicide. A get away from
that terrific too hired jup for you. My friends stand here?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Hold him?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Hey, who are you God? God? Yes? Yes, the gun
would be simpler. Come on, get in our car. We'll
see you home greatly. I leave. He's danger. Get into
the car for devil. I suppose his heart gave him
his wish, and get into a doctor fast. We may
be wrong. Oh hit him a copy. Your car stopped
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on the bridge of Moon and we've got to get
this metal a doctor, officer. He's still his heels. What
about a car. You get his car cleared off the
brig officer. We'll call back when we get to the
Oakland side and make our reports. Okay, get moments. He
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is dead, Greg, I'm sure as you find any identification
on him. According to his valet, his name is Harrison
Travers and he's from Los Angeles. Anything in his pocket package,
a chest, a fuse room key from the hotel's bottom.
O that one of those flea dumps on Search Street.
What else?
Speaker 5 (09:58):
We till the bellow?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
A small glass vial SENTI regulating, good lord tyan eide?
Do you suppose he swallowed it as he stepped out
of the car for thee As soon as we get
across the bridge, we'll stop at the mirror doctors and
find out. And that's not story, doctor Donald, What explanation
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can you give? Doctor?
Speaker 7 (10:29):
This is a fantastic keys gentleman. You see that the
man talked of the gun, carried an empty Cyanide vial,
tried to jump off the bridge, and apparently died of
heart fading.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I tried, doctor.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
All very interesting, my friends, But this body happens to
have been stabbed.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Sad what he died.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
From a sharp instrument piercing the chest near the hut.
This gentleman is murdered.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Back we head for the bridge to San Francisco with
a corpse as a passenger. Just at the time we
should be having a Marcini who am It's the only
tentible thing to do, Gregory. The border line between San
Francisco and Alameda County runs right through the center of
the bridge. The murder happened on the San Francisco side,
So we hand a nice new corpse over to Lieutenant
Macgruder of homicide, who hates me and probably won't believe
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a word was saying. We can't take any chances, Gregory,
we have mixed up in a murder key true, true,
But Magruder will probably say the guy was stabbed to
death in my arms. I'll have a heck of a
job proving he was. Macgrudor loves to put the finger
on me. Now, Gregory, I'm not going to allow you
to get mixed up in it any further. But I
am an extender up to my chain. I've got to
follow through to clear myself. But doctor Arnold made that
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stabbing business perfectly clear, Gregory. A man who such a
wound might easily think it a mere trash and walk
around for an hour before he drops dead. The police
surgeon will understand, I hope. So did you call Mary? Yes? Yes,
I said we'd be back by seven thirty. It's all right.
I suppose you told her we just had to run
across back to the city. Yes, a wonderful understanding girl. Man,
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when she knows I'm with you, Gregory, she's so bad
for anything. Oh why are we shouting? Don't you see
the damsel in distress teetering on the curb ahead of us?
Damsel nothing, damsels, don't sur rhyme? Oh you must god
against being snobbish. Then, in any case, we've got a
We'll say he's a bit under the weather. I've been young, lad.
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There's room for three in front, so over godly, I
was beginning to think you've never got off a friend.
I'm Genellope, tense to s. My name is Taylor, and
mine's hood. What's wrong with your friends about him? H huh? Oh,
you don't feel very well, dear sir.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Oh, well, what's happened before?
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Don't you think it's a little dangerous for young girls
who hit rhymes across the Britain. Don't worry, mister Penny
can take care of herself. I had a day of
seven fifteen and I just mister trainer didn't want to wait. Well,
I'm sure you didn't have to wait long for a hour.
I didn't that I'm choosing too many long wolves on wheels.
And when we slowed down ten air, suppose the natural
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honesty of our expressions decided you that you'd be safe
without say you're pretty smooth. What's your other name, mister
hood Gregory? I don't know how safe a girl to
be with you, Gregory? I got you cure a good time.
I am reputed to have my moment, Penny Gregory. Don't
you think it was the mister travers in the backet problem?
(13:33):
Let me out of brand new. That's the trouble with
these modern hats. They have no stamina. I'll go back
and get it for you. I watch the traffic, Gregory,
don't get out that time. I don't worry, Sandy. I
never commit su aide on Monday. If I just move
over a little bit, thank you, I'll be your friends mine.
What did he do? Why he's in the importing business?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
What's the kinning Emperor? I don't see it well. I
what happened? Anny shot our car and our car and
the lieutenant Magruder is never going to believe this one.
(14:28):
And that's our story to tennant, magudda, and you're expecting
me to believe it. I suppose what did I tell you?
Sanday misterhood you're in the importing business. I keep my
nose out of that kind of stuff. Why do you
mix yourself up with a homicide gig? I didn't, Magruder.
It mixed yourself up with me. Yeah, don't give me that.
You think you're a hot shot detective. You're a smart
boy who's always trying to show us up. There's a
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bunch of flat foot. Don't waste my time, Magruder. The
San Francisco Police Force is one of the finests in
the country. Why do you have to spoil the records?
What do I have to do to make you realize
it's been a murder me a murdered man. But we
had him. His corps was in the stolen car. Sure, sure,
And before he was stiff, you thought he was going
to jump off the bridge. Then he had a heart attack,
then he was going to shoot himself, then that he's
(15:10):
poisoned himself, and finally a doctor told he been nice. Yeah.
To cap it all off, a blonde babe steals your
cock and your car. Who you're trying to kid Well,
I admit that it sounds unlikely, but it's true. McGruder,
prove it. How about the traffic cop who came up
for us on the bridge, Yeah, he drove the dead
man's car way ahead of it. He must have found
in a report. He Now, well, I've checked the records
(15:33):
and there hasn't been a traffic report from the Babe
Bridge since four o'clock. Now what are you say, mister Hood,
that I'll prove it to you? Come on, Sanders, come
back on Saturday, monsieur Hood, it's my day off. You
see how much your law abiding instincts, super offender Magruder
doesn't believe us, And see what your chivalrous instincts did
(15:55):
for it. Your damsel in distress runs off with your
car and the evidence. Now we've got to follow this
thing through the pool. I'm a bruder that we're not nuts.
You've got to call Mary and tell her it will
have to be a midnight snack. Okay, Gregory, but I
don't see where we go from here. Luckily I kept
these three objects that were in the dead man's pocket,
the only clues we've got a hotel key, empty vial
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and free silver paste here, let's take the key first
hotels bottom room to seven. All right, time it that's
our first pot of call. What a ghastly jump, Grigory,
(16:41):
But as you see service with an allad smile. Oh
good evening. Well, I'm so glad. I hope you stay
that way. What do you want to see, mister Harrison
trappers now travers here? Not a wile, but this key
to our seventh God. Glad to have it back, stolen
promised months ago. Thanks? Who's living in that room? I
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am night? You know, Gregory, I'm beginning to think that
(17:21):
Magruder was nice and that this whole business didn't happen
after all. And I'm getting his obstiner. Thet's all get out.
I didn't believe that hotel sert, but I couldn't press
the room without a police warrant, and with mcgrudy in
his pleasant frame of mind, that wouldn't be the easiest thing. Again,
where we headed for Now? The shop of my old
friend Goldwasser along here somewhere. How can he help us?
(17:44):
He's a coin dealer, the best in San Francisco. I
want to ask him about these three silver of papos. Ah.
Here's a job. Hello, Henriydn dear Foy, how good to
see you. This is mister Sanderson Taylor.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
How do you do do?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Let's go into my romance apair. We can't sit down
and becomfortable, kind Gregory. Time has it better for seeing
you after this long time?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
So sit down just a special occasion.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Perhaps you will join you in a little lass of thoughts,
my friend. Wonderful idea, Heinrich, We're in something of a jam.
I'm hoping you can help us.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Tell me to believe that you can't do take greg
thanks the tailor. No tell me how I may help you, Henry.
I want you to look at the sugar pass. Is
there anything odd or rare about them?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Or any way we could trace their ownership?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Man?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Well commonly not calling on you.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I have many such delicate cars here.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
I would checked this for rag. Either put one of
your coins on the scale, though, and on the other scale.
I have just put one of my duplicate coun I
not beginning though. And what did you find the coin
I gave you as much lighter and must be counted
it you might do not, thankful? Let me look at
it through my glass? Oh what is it? Coin? Uncool,
(19:09):
the hollow section inside there is a white powder inside dope.
At last we know what were up against man. I
use your telephone, Henric. So we are mixed up with
a dope ring Gregory no doubt about it than this. Now,
perhaps I can make Magruder nibble a little humble.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Pie, please, Macgrous speaking Magerda.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
This is the Gregory Hood it is. Where are you
Goldloss's coin a shop on market. I've got some news
for you mcgroth, and I've got some for you.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
We'd mind your car deserted.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
On Turkey Street with a corpse and sho good the
not perhaps who believe that it wasn't the course you described.
It was a nice prey of corpse by the name
of Penelope Honey dead.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Stay away, I'll be right over to a restaurant suspicion of.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
You'll hear the rest of tonight's story from the case
Book of Gregory Hood in just a second. It's time
for me to mention that the only thing necessary to
make a good dinner just perfect is to serve that
good dinner with a good petree dinner, wine, with steak
or chops or stew, and in fact, with any meat
or meat dish. You couldn't ask for a better companion
(20:36):
than a glass of Petrie California Burgundy. Petri Burgundy is
a hoty, full bodied red wine. It's the very last
word and wonderful flavor. If you're having fish or chicken
for dinner, then you'd love Petree California so Turn. Petrie
So Turn is a delicately flavored, subtle fight wine that
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your whole family will enjoy. Get a bottle of boat
Petrie Burgundy and Petrie so Turned. It's bound to be
good if it's Petrie. Oh, Sandy, you certainly weren't up
to your ears that time. I guess you were able
to talk yourself out of it with Magruder. No, Harry,
the more eloquent Gregory became, the more suspicious it seemed
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to make Magruder, and I couldn't do anything to prevent
Magruder booking him on suspicion of money. Do you mean
to say you were actually locked up? Yes, Harry, I
landed in the jug with a resounding splash at just
about the time a civilized man is warming his cockles
with a good branda, and this scurried off to get
a rid of Haviea's Carpus. But for nearly an hour
I found myself in a spell a joining a certain
(21:39):
unhappy character named Joe. I don't what made me. I
don't put your handle mat Sam, Sam McGee, you look strict.
You want to Charlie's mom. I on the censure for Sam,
the words sliced up, Mamal you kidn't you're talking to
(22:01):
Sam and the slicer. I ought to see what I
did to Fanning had there in nineteen pieces. A surgeon
couldn't have done a better job, not as neat as
slicing as I did on an Agata, though I can
still see her expression as I cut her head off.
Look kind just a small time for it, man. They
shouldn't want to put me next to you, mel Hey, off.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
It, Joe.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
I'm gonna spring. I'm gonna spring both of us. I
don't want to go nowhere with you. Hi, down go.
I got a pineapple in my pocket. I'm gonna talk
it out there in the island. Blow this coop sky high.
Don't do a taste, Johnny, come here. Samda slice is
gonna make the price, take care away from it with us.
I shave him I got to do to right, sy
gotta right to be locked up nice and squire. I
don't jo your attorney to mister, I am sorry to
(22:47):
so long Gregory. Come on, that's a cozy little cell,
but I don't want to overstay my welcome or so
long ago your body mister. No, No, he's got the
gold down this imagination. Did you get the car back landage?
Speaker 7 (23:04):
No?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Still being held is evidence and means grab a cab
as fast as we can. There's a lot of unfinished
business ahead of us. Fisherman's way. Why Fisherman's wall stranger
(23:28):
just put him a call to Herb Kane of the
Fantasisco Chronicles. He tells me there's a film company shooting
night location there. How does a film company tie in
with our little headache? It's simple, I'm looking for an actress. Now,
what's playing at Segary there? Drawing room comedy, Yes, and
there's a costume music with the current correct they showed
the golden case is a dance fandom sing there's no access,
(23:48):
so that's out Therefore a film company get it, absolutely
and unequivocally, no veryone else. Let's work the case out backwards.
Now that would be a great help. Why not sideways
Maybe my recent incarpiration that made me a little stir crazy.
Tell me how you figured the thing out so far,
fans will obviously Tiber's the man we found on the
(24:09):
bridge was mixed up with the dope gang and was
probably killed in some internal quarrel. And exhibit number two,
the late Penelope, where did she sit in? I don't
think that's a hard one. She was a member of
the ring.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
They stationed her near the entrance to the bridge, knowing.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
That a man of your notorious susceptibilities would be bound
to pick her up. And oh yeah, indeed, and then
she stole the cause. The hotel Kirk was bribed to
deny the murdered man's existence. And later they killed the
girl who make things favors or maybe she wanted too
much of a cut. Then you're excelling yourself elementary, my
dear Gregor. But I still don't see where an actor
(24:49):
enters the picture. But surely you see who the killer
is now, don't you. Well, I've read enough mystery stories
to know that it must be the LST the lead
suspected person. You have that LSP tone in your voice,
Gingery but we haven't met any LSPs unless it's Bone
(25:10):
or Doctor Arnold. Remember sand that the original bridge episode
was never reported, nor was Taver's car turn in. Magruder
told us fair So the traffic cop to whom we
turned over, Travis Corvers, a pony and a killer. Probably
he was tailing Favers to make sure he died, which
he did, but we got away with the car. So
he phoned poor Penelope across the bay to Suffers on
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the approach to the bridge on the way back. Now,
who could, at a moment's notice after himself as a
traffic cop for shadowing purposes? I get it, Gregory? An actor, right,
an actor having a uniform for such a role. Yeah,
Max Fisherman's work. Fine, wait here for us driver, won't
be a minute. Come on, Well, look at the crowds, Gregory,
(25:52):
it's not surprising Hollywood putting on a free outdoor floor show.
You can't come any fathers, Holly, who's the director on
this picture? Or es to Garland, I'm Bud Denton, second assistant.
Can I help him? I hope?
Speaker 7 (26:03):
So?
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Do you have an actor in this production who's playing
a traffic cup? Yeah? Funny you should ask that he's
been missing all day. So there's motorcycles and no answer
from his hotel either. Do you happen to remember the
name of his hotel? Here, Hotel Batman Turksley and his
name gun Fred Gunn bred gun that's obliged to you.
I'm on, Sandy, You're welcome. Now. It's clear, Sandy, the
(26:26):
dying man's words meant not a weapon but a name.
What bread is done. Let's get back into our cap
and go back to the hotel Botman and visited him.
When I tell you there's no Olf Fred Gunn ben Leving,
(26:48):
and I tell you that he's still living in two
o seven. Give us a fast key.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
You can't know, but we are.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Sending for them in a few minutes. You might as
well keep yourself out of a bad mess. Yeah, here's
a passcake, and don't tie me up in anything. I
just did when I was told, And what were you told?
My friend? Decide that I was living in two or seven.
I didn't see any harm in that week. You don't
ask too many questions. Here is Fred Gunn in his
room now? Yeah, it came in an hour ago. It's
(27:15):
some drunken bumb It couldn't stand up. They were plastered
as hoodie allos, all right, might as well walk up.
It's only the second floor. I suppose if I were
in this game professionally, I'd be carrying a gun, Sandy.
I'd feel safer if you were. Gregory looks as if
we've got to kill a corner in a rat hole.
He might shoot before he asked questions. You know, Sandy. Hmmm.
(27:38):
I don't want to be melodramatic, but you've got a
wife and two children. I wish you'd go back and
wait for me in the lobby. Nice of you, Gregory,
but this is hood company business. In any case, I
don't want to miss the fun. You're a remarkably square man, Sandy.
There are times when I'm quite fond of you. Yeah.
Here we are, two hundreds go not Our only chance
(28:05):
is to rush him. Ook the doors in the block,
Watch out, Fani done done. He's asleep on the bed.
Take it easy, Gregory, taken time with the bed clothes.
He doesn't need bed clothes, family, he needs a shroud.
He's dead. No with bottle of whiskey, can spike with cyanide,
Great Scott, Greggy, look here on the floor. So now
(28:30):
familiar corpse of mister Travers. How it does get around.
We're in a serious gem now, Gregory. He deepen corpses
and not a single suspect left. We don't need one.
I know who murdered Gun, and oddly enough he's in
the room now, the killer. We're closer than that, Stanly.
Oh now look, Gregory, if you're going to put the
(28:51):
finger on me as the least suspected person is going
too far, I won't stand worth no no family. Mister
Travers lying on the floor is the latest killer? You
mean the corp system?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Remember the anti sion eye bial. Before Travers was killed himself,
he'd poisoned guns whiskey. Gun figured he'd stay sober until
he'd retrieved Travers cough. He thought it back here, started
to figure out how he was going to disport him exactly.
He decided to take a slug of whiskey to help
his thinking machinery, and so he died, murdered by his
own victim. Oh I see now I have a call
(29:27):
Elmwood six four two two calling Lieutenant Magruder. Sure this
is going to be fun, Magruder and homicidally after you
threw Gregory. I'll call Mary, we'll have one of her
delicious rabbits, and you'll say the night's magruder. This is
Gregory Hood. Now settle back in your chair and make
(29:47):
yourself comfortable, because I've got a fairy story to tell you.
Once upon a time, a couple of worthy citizens for
driving across the Bay Bridge when the car in front
of them started to weed. You will never believe this, magruder.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
But well, Gregory, that was a twelve star very different too.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Yes, and I might say it almost masks the end
of my beautiful friendship with macrut. Oh, it's quite a
Swiss Gregory the murderer being murdered by his victims. And
I'd like to point out tomorrow, if you parton my
pointing right ahead, the story proves that you get what
you give. Unfortunately that works for the best. So quite
a philosopher, aren't you just what you mean? Well, we
(30:41):
all get what we get. But when you drop by
my house, what do I get? A warm welcome and
a good dinner and oh, a glass of Petrie water, right?
And when I visit you, I get Petrie right again.
And that's because we both know that Petrie wine is
a good wine. Petrie wine has got to be good wine.
(31:05):
Look at the long years of skill and experience that
goes into its making. Why the Petrie family has been
making wine for generations. Wine making is their heritage, a
heritage handed on down from father to son, from father
to son. And don't forget ever since the Petrie family
first went into business, they've watched over that business person. Yes,
(31:26):
the making of Petrie wine is a family affair, and
the Petrie family has every intention of keeping it just that.
So you know that the name Petrie on a bottle
of wine is more than a trademark. It's a personal
assurance of the Petrie family if Petree wine is and
always will be good wine, well Bredory to what page
(31:48):
of your casebook are you turning? Next MONA? Next Monday, Harry,
I'm going to tell you an odd story that concerns
the San Francisco cable car, a rather unusual brunette, and
the blood stained hatchet. I call it the Black U.
See you next Monday, Harry. The Case Book of Gregory
(32:14):
Hood is written by Dannis Green and Anthony Bouscher. Original
music is composed and played by Dean Fosterwood. Mister Gail
Gordon plays the part of Gregory Hood, and Sanderson Taylor
is played by mister Bill Johnstone. The Petrie Wine Company
(32:35):
of San Francisco, California invites you to tune in again
next week, same time, same station. The Case Book of
Gregory Hood comes to you from our Hollywood studio. This
is Harry Bartowell saying good night for the Petrick family
(33:00):
for the solid all all of exciting mystery dramas. Listen
every Monday on most of these same stations at eight
o'clock to Michael James, followed immediately by Casebooks of Gregory Hood.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
This is a mutual podcasting.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Welcome back, well outside of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. I
have to say it's probably been a while since we've
had a case that that was that cleverly concocted, and
to be honest, having listened to a lot of the
Green and Boucher Sherlock Holmes, their Casebook of Gregory Hood
(33:35):
actually seems better. Gail Gordon does a great job, and
we'll talk more about him, like I said on Tuesday,
but it's very interesting to see him in this role
of the swave amateur detective, given that He's best known
for parts like Lucille Ball's boss on The Lucy Show.
(33:59):
But like I said, more about him next Tuesday, and
I hope you enjoyed this series as much as I am.
All Right, well, that will do it for today. Sendra
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This is your host, Adam Grand signing off
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