April 22, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
William Gargan stars as Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Over exertion can be dangerous, folks, but no exercise at
all is even worse. Complete inactivity can only mean you're
either muscle bound or dead.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The National Broadcasting Company presents William Cargan in another transcribed
drama of mystery and adventure with America's number one detective,
Barry Craig Confidential Investigator.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Barry Craig speaking.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Every profession has its system of reciprocal favors among colleagues.
Doctor consults a fellow practitioners, lawyers put their heads together,
and even private police operatives requisition each other's time and brain.
Can the colleague and competitor who sought my aid one
fine day? It was a chap named Max Mossy Marsey
operated a one man investigation agency.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
A half a mile from the down by call my own.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Not too young, Massy, long in years, ready for retirement,
but too poor to afford it. I'm thirty five years
in the business, Craig. I'm afraid there's only one way
I know of to quit feet first? Uh in a
pine box?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yes? What keeps you coppering? Max? When you could be
riding a rocking chair, the same thing that started me
working three decades ago.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Food shelter and the high cost of government and liveliho
and yes, nothing sought away Max. Oh, maybe five hundred
dollars in war bonds, not much for a lifetime and harness.
You know there's an old axiom, Craig. It's up there
on my wall reading cops die broke, work for me,
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Craig on what and the man? I frankly find him
possible to locate for three weeks now, I've used every
trick I know, every avenue. His name Anatol Barber. The
only clue I have is that he was once a
rug dealer, a rug dealer, Oriental rugs fifteen years ago.
He had a store on Third Avenue, cold trail.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Cold like ice. Who assigned you to look for Anatole barber?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
And that information is confidential?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I understand client doesn't want his name bandied about. So
you're really stuck? I am? I?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Oh, not so much stuck as it as sick, exhausted.
I don't have the old strength. You know, the machine
runs down. It's coming October. I'm sixty four, Craig. Then
why not just dump a tough case. Why agrate yourself
two thousand dollars? Who can dump two thousand dollars? No cop,
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I know, find anatol, I'll split with you.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Uh uh.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
The thieves are yours. I'll just tap you for expenses.
Boba a one time rug dealer. You've of course got
a full description of him, even a photograph. Oh, Craig,
I don't know how to thank you. I'm not doing
it for you, Max, I'm really doing it for me.
I look at you, and I see me me.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
A quarter of a century.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Hence I'm out asking a younger cop to.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Help me stay in business. One cop runs into a
blank wall. Another cop finds a door through the wall.
The luck of the game. What was tough for.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Max Marsey was easy for me. As it turned out,
an next Oriental rug dealer is a member of a klan.
A tricky science of drugs limits the colony of dealers
to a small, tight elite, one big family of operators,
so to speak. My information on Anatole Barba came from
a gentleman named Amar Suraby. Yes, anatold Baba, but he's
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well known to me.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Under which rug is he hiding?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
For a long time. Now Anatole, he's nineteen our trade.
He had a store on Upper Third Avenue some fifteen
years ago out here, Yes, the Mecca Bassaar. He was
the cleverest trader of all of us, Anatole. But he
folded his tent. Why he gave up his business? Nobody knows.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
You make it sound mystifying.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Fine Oriental rugs are more than a business, mister Craig.
They are a culture and the passion. I might even
say a cult. It is in our blood.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Now really enlighten me? Huh?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Where can I find your renegade colleague, Anatol Baba?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
He lives in Sacred Bay, sac at Bay naw.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yes, he's using his mother's name now Bellmar. His mother
was English, Anatole Belmar. Yes, tell me, how is it
you have Anatole Barba Bellmar's whereabouts?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
At your finger TOI we have a read association.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I am corresponding secretary. Even though Anatole is retired from
my trade, he has faithfully kicked up his dues.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I see. Oh, I want to thank you, mister Sarabain.
I've been pretty villeged.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Hey, you are perhaps interested in a fine Bolkana rug
at a great sacrifice price.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Mister Seaby, please let go of my coat. Lapels.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I phone Max Marcy the good news. Hello Max, Yes, Craig,
that two thousand dollars fee starts spending it.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You found Anatole Barber.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Anatole Boba belmar he's using his mother's maiden name. Lives
out in Sagat Bay, thirty miles out in Long Island. Max, Craig,
I'm at a loss for words. Why it's hardly been
twelve hours. No bouquets, Max, it happens the breaks, I
got the breaks.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Okay for me to follow through in Sacon Bay.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Er just to verify his presence there. How he's established, Craig,
don't alarm the man in the flight. I oppose as
a door to door salesman. Max, don't worry. Telephoned me
from shack at Bay.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
We'll do so.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
On at Sacad Bay, Long Island. The guy with blue
freckles in the general store told me where to find
Anatole Belma on an island.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
A half mile off the mainland.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Anatold bee was known around Sacond Bay as the recluse type.
The gent with a black patch over his eye ferried
me to Belmar's Island.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
He drove the leaky motor boat like a.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Suicide as many knots an hour as.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
He had kids in his brain.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Hey Buster slowed down at Buster an two premiums behind.
In mine short, I went either a death mute or.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Not the talking at time. I found a suitable player
and began to mumble it.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Belmar's Island had over stuffed seagulls on it. The size
of it also had a shock. The shot put together
with paper, paste and wire. I had not politely, Oh
Anatole Belmar, no answer.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I did the impolite thing.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I just walked in inside. I again did the polite thing.
I removed my hat. You generally do what you've got
visiting manners. You even make a special point of remembering
to remove your hat in the presence of the dead.
How dead was Anatole Belmar? Dead beyond recall. He was
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hanging by his neck from a beam eight feet off
the floor. I changed my first diagnose suicide when I
saw the lump on his head. He'd been slugged and
strung up by somebody hoping to pass it off with suicide.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I had news for the local police, and after.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That I had mournful news for Max.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Back in Manhattan, USA.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I gave Max the mournful news funny thing, though Max
wasn't too surprised. All day to day, I anticipated just
what you've now told me, Craig. You guessed i'd find
anatole Barbara bellmar dead. I guess, jess where do you
hide your Ouiji board?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I'll explained, But first tell me if you smell something,
smell yeah, smoke, I smell smoke. I come, I show
you why my fireroom.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Look, Craig, you've had a fire in there. Huh? When Max?
This morning?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
How come the fire was localized in the one room
chemical extinguishes the building porter discovered the fire. He broke
down the door and managed to put the fire out.
And in sundiary fire, obviously, lane is my nose, and said,
nose is as plain as an aviation landing strip. I
see papers were pulled out of your cabinets, pile on
the floor.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Then a match led to the pile.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And when I found the fire, I knew at once
you'd find anatole barber.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Did what's your theory? There?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
The client who engaged me to find anatole barber, I
had his signature on a retainer for my regularly us
in my agency every time I take on a case.
So I've carefully reconstructed the pattern of the fire.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
What files were burned?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I asked myself, who'd have some interest in destroying a
section of my files? And you finally fixed on this
one client, the only active account I've had in six weeks.
His file was among those destroyed. That's a bit arbitrary
as a conclosion, mag and not so arbitrary when you
related to the murder of anatol Barber. It's a fact, Crake.
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The purpose in engaging me was to find anatole Barbara
belmar so he could be murdered, and the strict with
my files was to erase every clue there could be
to the murderer, the murderer being the man who engaged
you in the first place. Yes, what was the signature
on that retainer form, Alan Merritt?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
A traceable signature?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
God, since for a cop to find some public record,
that's why he had to recover.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
It, destroy it.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yes, and the fire was set to confuse matters as
a cover up. A yes, Alan Marrett, what does he
look like?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Max? Like anybody? Nothing? Distinctive to his appearance. He's averaging height, build, complexion,
dress speech.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh grace, what reason did he give you for wanting
you to round up anatole barber? Barber owed him ten
thousand dollars from an old business investment. He wanted to
locate Barber so he could file civil suit. A fish story,
A lie, yes, surely a lie, a Max history. The
sad truth is in finding anatole Barba, you gave an
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unwitting assist to a murder. Also to give credit where credit.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Is due, so well as did I We were fingermen.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
One other thing, Max, What this alias Alan Marrett, even
with the traceable signature on that retainer form no longer worrying?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I mean he's still got a loose threat.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Dangling a thread that can become a hangman's noose. What
thread you two ever come face to face you can
identify him?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I care? Yes? Are you reading my mind? Max? Yes?
This alias Alan Merritt. To really be safe, he he
must also kill me.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
That chance meeting face to face somewhere sometime fates for
the liony your client must right now be fretting over it.
He'll try to kill you, Max. And that puts us
right back in business, or it puts me in a
grieve to get at you. He's got to show himself.
He shows himself and I nab him.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Craig, what Mac after you make the arrest, Please see
that Max Marshy gets a burial a hers drawn by
sixteen prancing chorus girls. Max, I make you that promise
in due time.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
The attempted murder of Max Marsey Private Eye came to
pass Quiet Street in the noonday sun, Max leaning conspicuously
against the store.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Window reading the newspaper.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yours truly deployed across the street, waiting and watching it.
The attempt came like a type of thunder from the sky.
Max was just a wee bit hysterical grat. Look how
croach the word came here. She's a crown of my hat.
A half sine is beneficial. Max helps prevent premature ballness. Craig,
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don't joke. If I didn't joke, I'd cry. He escaped
you totally. He was staked out somewhere on one of
the roofs on that Frankly, I never figured now what.
I always line up a second try at you. I'll
have the roofs covered this time all the men Lieutenant
tried Rogers over at police had quartus can spare sorry
to do this to you Max. The unfortunate thing about
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murder is you can't always predict where and when it
will take place. We had cops staked out on roofs,
Max sunning himself on.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
The open street every day for a week.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
When the second attempt on Max finally came, it came
out of left field. It was in Max's office in
the afternoon heat, summer heat that dehydrated you every ten minutes.
I watched Max idel over to his filtered water cooler.
I watched Max for himself a drink. Ten seconds later,
I watched Max turn colors. Great, Max, what's wrong, Craig,
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I've pois poisoned? Max poison in the water cooler, but
not enough to kill. Luckily in the hospital. Six hours later,
Max managed a whispered conversation.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Great, Yes, Max won. Two tempts number three.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Superstition, fatalistic talk. Think of it this way, two strikes
so far, Strike three.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
The killers out.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
How How long will I be laid up overnight? You
got a mild dose, only enough to give you stomach cramps?
Oh hopeless, creek alias Alan Marrett would even more in
the dark.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Better to give up.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
He's shrewd and slippery, are alias Alan Merritt. But I'll
find an avenue to him. From here on, I am
going all out max for otter lack of a lead.
I didn't ex best to the aimless thing I stopped
into with my Oriental carpets in the shop of my
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original contact, Amar Seraby. Yes, I had heard this sorrowful news.
Police check disclosed that no next of kin, no relatives,
anatold Babur was alone in the world.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
How about best friends?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Anatold barber turned friendships away. He was suspicious and secretive.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
How about lady friends? Ladies? No, I do not think.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Oh, come on, even a suspicious and secretive reclose has
some male ego, some passing interest in the opposite sex.
There was a woman, Oh, but such a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
What was her name?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Madame Niela Gallard?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
You know where I can find her?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Nobody has seen Niela Gallard for eighteen years?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
How close was she to Ana Tobarba?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
All I know to say she worked in his store,
the Maca Bazaar. They would work together, take their meals together.
Sounds chummy enough, say serabys anatole barber's burial. The police
have it scheduled for the day after tomorrow, a potter's
failed burial under the auspices of the city.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Oh, this is regrettable.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I shall see that the association extends the unders due him,
that is to say, pays the bills for the funeral. Well,
that's fine, but keep that quiet. What I want you
to do is spread the word around at a kinsman's
being given an obscure pauper's burial, creates sentiment and sympathy.
Make old friends and business associates want to pay their
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last respects. Give Anatole Boba a decent sender. You think
Niela Gallard will hear the symptom to the funeral?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I hope Niela Gallad will put in an appearance.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Pianerals are sad, but to me this one was a joy.
I was all smiles when Amr.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Seraby whispered the magic words into my ear.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That woman standing there wearing the backveil, she's Madame Nila Gallan.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Some hours later I took tea with Madame Gallad. Her
home was a frame dwelling in suburban.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
New Jersey, a middle aged woman. What's beautiful, you could tell,
but heavy lines her face now like she'd known trouble times.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
I knew it was a mistake to come to Anatole's burial.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Now, look, you're a dignified woman, so let's do this
with dignity.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Don't make me talk like a bad man.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
At Cop, I have a sealed ve ope given to
me by Anatol Barber. I have kept it unopened for
fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
He wanted it kept unopened.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Yes, he was afraid, afraid of what in the end
was his feet murder?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Murder.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Here's the better On the uh. On the envelope, you
will see Anatole's own handwriting, to.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Be opened only in case of my death. Wow, you're
in the total dot making blind circles and then the
bar of clear daylight knife through the black art suddenly
or in the no I let Max Marsey in on
the contents of the letter left with Madame Gallop.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Oh you're a bloodhound, Craig.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I keep moving and hoping you s sooner or later
got the spark. Anatol Barba spells out his secret in
this letter, blackmail, fifteen years of it.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Anatole Barba had.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Been blackmailing an important social figure named wind Blake. Win Blake, Well,
that's very hard to believe that man man is one
of fifty best known people in the world. In the letter,
anatole sounds of fatalistic notes. Write in your style, Max,
he expected to sooner or later be murdered the blackmailer's
chronic anxiety.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
They figure the worm has to turn.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
The sucker must finally strike back. Craig, Yes, Mix, What
what's your attitude at this point?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Meaning? Oh, don't misunderstand me, Craig, please, But but you
can speak out openly? Mix, Well, do I motivate decisions
from now on? How do you? Meaning it was your
case originally?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Dear these new ramifications A lot of it. None of
our business as private operatives. Then the man like this
wind Blake figure his size, We bungle handling it somewhere
to blow up in our faces.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Come down to what's bothering you? Max? All right, frankly,
isn't any of our business? Now? It's my business? Max?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
You can scare off and quit, figure the angles and
decide there's no dough anywhere in it, only headaches and risks.
But don't please decide for me. Murder in blackmail is
a public business, and while I'm a private investigator, I'm
also a public citizen. You're pretty good at speeches too,
all right, Forget I said anything, Do what you have
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to do.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
What I had to do was go see wind Blake,
which I did. Blake House was.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Not only upperland, said, the top story of the upper class.
And the guy who wheeled the scepter of the palace
looked every inch his roll in life, gray distinguished, with
a stiff aristocratic spying, a polished surface for near with
only one thing marring him his eyes. I'd never seen
sad or eyes. I wondered when there would be that
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a man just like yourself, a detective, would come to
Blake manor you've been wondering that nightmare for fifteen years, Yes,
for fifteen years. Your deal of it, sir, the eternal apprehension.
There he goes to your closet, clanking his chains. In
these days since the the death of anat told Barber
have barely withered him remorse. I'm not surprised at the innuendo.
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I rather expected it. Who else would care to murder
anatole Barbara? I have no answer to that barber leech,
who's been blackmailing you for fifteen years, when I paid
his every demand all these years, Why then now would
I want to do violence to the man. I've got
a simple answer to that. You just couldn't find Barbara
to kill him.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Murder or cause the murder of anatold barber. What was
he blackmailing you for? What did he have on you?
Without legal counsel? I'm not sure? I alright, I'll tell you.
I was involved in an accident in the summer of
nineteen thirty nine automobile license Yes, a laid out in
a driving rain, very little visibility, was on a downtown street.
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I struck and killed an elderly pedestrian, hit and running.
I'm ready now to face the charges. But I was
covered enough and fool enough to drive away. I let
my panic override my better judgment, my.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
More decent instincts. You see, you had a lot to lose.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You figured you didn't want a vehicular homicide against you.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I I just drove away.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
But not unnoticed and undetected as you believe. Then somebody
saw the accident, jotted down your license plate number.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
And I told Bob.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
He operated a store with the accident in the curb,
the rug shop, the mecha bazaar. He saw everything through
the store window, and he's bled you ever since. He
promptly closed up shop and made you his chief business
from then on. I he exhorted a fortune for me
in he's fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
What did he tell you last two weeks before he died?
How much did you give him?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
The usual periodic ten thousand dollars in cash. I left
the money in a designated place, as I always did.
Barbara never showed himself personally.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
He wasn't taking any chances.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Did you hire a private detective to locate Anatole Barba's
whereabouts for you? I did not, No, huh, anybody else
in your family aware of your uh predicament with Anatole Barba.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
My wife knew, and so does my son. Your wife knew?
You say my wife is dead? Oh? And your son
where is he? He lives away at his school. What's
the school?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Eagle University of Medical College, Stewarts in the senior class.
But my son couldn't possibly have anything to be sure?
I I suppose I cannot be sure. Son trying to
get his pop out of a situation a son nervy
enough to commit murder his father shrinks from doing when
Blake or the son Stuart Blake. I ask you who
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else would want a murder Anatol Barba? And so Barry
Craig went to college. College dormitory Rome is only a box.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Built around silver loving cups, souvenir banners, and pin ups
of Jane Russell. Barbara was vermin.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Murder was too merciful for him, asked me to deserve
fifteen years of some insidious oriental torture.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Did you kill him? Did I what murder? Anatol Barba? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah, sure I did. Yet it coming, and I gave
it to him. Nice try, Sonny, try try it taking
the heat off your father. My father, Dad hasn't got
the moxy for the job done an Anatole Barber, but
you have, Huh?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
I say I killed him. So let's not beat that
question around anymore.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Okay, we'll bypassed question for the time being. Now answer
me this and truthfully. Did you hire a private detective
to track down Boba?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I hired Max Massey here. Do you doubt that too
well proof could help proof? Sure? Sure? Wait a second, yeah,
here's your proof.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
A receipt that's right for three hundred dollars a retainer
initialed MM my down payment to Max Marcy for his services.
There was a statue in bronze on the college campus
steps general somebody or other. It was almost a second
statue unveiled there about the time I was leaving statue
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of yours, truly stiffened the joints with an undertaker's glaze
on top of the shot that frozen, froze me but
didn't kill me.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I was marked for murder. I had the case.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Wrapped up, and the killer knew it. I brought Max
Massey up to date.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
The son is paintly lying to protect the father. That's
my thought.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Arrest the father under arrest, he'll confess to keep the
boy on us turn to let the son take his
the father's blame. That's the ultimate cowardice. It's unthinkable. No
decent father would.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
You're right there, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I swiped a photograph of the son off his bulltop.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
This Max m handsome kid, hung yes stamping.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Nothing average about his looks mix way above average and height, size,
very distinguished, looking generally crew cut, a break in the beak,
of his nose.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
And unusual looking boy. Yes, that admission, Max kind of
gives you the lie lie.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Oh you mean my description of alias Alan Merritt. Yeah,
you are nothing description of a man you invented the
big lie you told me I've just remarked on the
glaring flo and your almost perfect scheme, Max, scheme crime.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
You're accusing me.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Of dating my time to sack at Bay murdering anatole
Barba Before I got there, I found Barbara for you.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
You did the rest, like Craig.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Consider all the facts, Sax huh Fax, Like the phony
fire you set yourself, or the hood you hired to
climb a roof and shoot at you, or the motus
dose of insect poison you deliberately poured yourself from the
water cooler, all the blind metior guilt, or maybe the
fact that you tried to kill me today on the
campus steps of Eagle University.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
You are full of ideas, my good friend. Yeah I am.
How much dough have you got sorted away? Now? Max?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I'm penniless, was until you found that gold mine of
cash and Barba Shak the fortune you knew he'd accumulated
by blackmailing Wind Blake for fifteen years. You really tried
providing for your old age Collie.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
We're jaccusationians talk. You need proof.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I know a tough old bird like you, and will
need an army of cops to find that fortune you
swipe and stashed away. Sure, proof's going to be tough,
but let's start it going officially. Huh, you're arresting me,
arresting and charging you. From there on, it's up to
the regular police. I've personally gone as far as I
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care to go. You're sentimental about me, No, Max, not
a bit sentimental, just fed up and bored. You're kind
of creep I'd rather read about you in the papers.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Why knock myself out? Walk ahead of me? Max, You have.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
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Hey is for Homicide, And the reason for this has
something to do with a hay ride and a farmer's daughter.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
With that combination, how could it help being murder?
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
Barry Craig speaking.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Every profession has its system of reciprocal favors among colleagues.
Doctor consults a fellow practitioners, lawyers put their heads together,
and even private police operatives requisition each other's time and brain.
Can the colleague and competitor who sought my aid one
fine day? It was a chap named Max Mossy Marsey
operated a one man investigation agency.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
A half a mile from the down by call my own.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Not too young, Massy, long in years, ready for retirement,
but too poor to afford it. I'm thirty five years
in the business, Craig. I'm afraid there's only one way
I know of to quit feet first? Uh in a
pine box?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yes? What keeps you coppering? Max? When you could be
riding a rocking chair, the same thing that started me
working three decades ago.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Food shelter and the high cost of government and liveliho
and yes, nothing sought away Max. Oh, maybe five hundred
dollars in war bonds, not much for a lifetime and harness.
You know there's an old axiom, Craig. It's up there
on my wall reading cops die broke, work for me,
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Craig on what and the man? I frankly find him
possible to locate for three weeks now, I've used every
trick I know, every avenue. His name Anatol Barber. The
only clue I have is that he was once a
rug dealer, a rug dealer, Oriental rugs fifteen years ago.
He had a store on Third Avenue, cold trail.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Cold like ice. Who assigned you to look for Anatole barber?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
And that information is confidential?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I understand client doesn't want his name bandied about. So
you're really stuck? I am? I?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Oh, not so much stuck as it as sick, exhausted.
I don't have the old strength. You know, the machine
runs down. It's coming October. I'm sixty four, Craig. Then
why not just dump a tough case. Why agrate yourself
two thousand dollars? Who can dump two thousand dollars? No cop,
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I know, find anatol, I'll split with you.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Uh uh.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
The thieves are yours. I'll just tap you for expenses.
Boba a one time rug dealer. You've of course got
a full description of him, even a photograph. Oh, Craig,
I don't know how to thank you. I'm not doing
it for you, Max, I'm really doing it for me.
I look at you, and I see me me.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
A quarter of a century.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Hence I'm out asking a younger cop to.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Help me stay in business. One cop runs into a
blank wall. Another cop finds a door through the wall.
The luck of the game. What was tough for.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Max Marsey was easy for me. As it turned out,
an next Oriental rug dealer is a member of a klan.
A tricky science of drugs limits the colony of dealers
to a small, tight elite, one big family of operators,
so to speak. My information on Anatole Barba came from
a gentleman named Amar Suraby. Yes, anatold Baba, but he's
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well known to me.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Under which rug is he hiding?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
For a long time. Now Anatole, he's nineteen our trade.
He had a store on Upper Third Avenue some fifteen
years ago out here, Yes, the Mecca Bassaar. He was
the cleverest trader of all of us, Anatole. But he
folded his tent. Why he gave up his business? Nobody knows.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
You make it sound mystifying.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Fine Oriental rugs are more than a business, mister Craig.
They are a culture and the passion. I might even
say a cult. It is in our blood.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Now really enlighten me? Huh?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Where can I find your renegade colleague, Anatol Baba?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
He lives in Sacred Bay, sac at Bay naw.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yes, he's using his mother's name now Bellmar. His mother
was English, Anatole Belmar. Yes, tell me, how is it
you have Anatole Barba Bellmar's whereabouts?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
At your finger TOI we have a read association.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I am corresponding secretary. Even though Anatole is retired from
my trade, he has faithfully kicked up his dues.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I see. Oh, I want to thank you, mister Sarabain.
I've been pretty villeged.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Hey, you are perhaps interested in a fine Bolkana rug
at a great sacrifice price.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Mister Seaby, please let go of my coat. Lapels.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I phone Max Marcy the good news. Hello Max, Yes, Craig,
that two thousand dollars fee starts spending it.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You found Anatole Barber.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Anatole Boba belmar he's using his mother's maiden name. Lives
out in Sagat Bay, thirty miles out in Long Island. Max, Craig,
I'm at a loss for words. Why it's hardly been
twelve hours. No bouquets, Max, it happens the breaks, I
got the breaks.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Okay for me to follow through in Sacon Bay.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Er just to verify his presence there. How he's established, Craig,
don't alarm the man in the flight. I oppose as
a door to door salesman. Max, don't worry. Telephoned me
from shack at Bay.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
We'll do so.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
On at Sacad Bay, Long Island. The guy with blue
freckles in the general store told me where to find
Anatole Belma on an island.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
A half mile off the mainland.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Anatold bee was known around Sacond Bay as the recluse type.
The gent with a black patch over his eye ferried
me to Belmar's Island.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
He drove the leaky motor boat like a.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Suicide as many knots an hour as.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
He had kids in his brain.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Hey Buster slowed down at Buster an two premiums behind.
In mine short, I went either a death mute or.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Not the talking at time. I found a suitable player
and began to mumble it.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Belmar's Island had over stuffed seagulls on it. The size
of it also had a shock. The shot put together
with paper, paste and wire. I had not politely, Oh
Anatole Belmar, no answer.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I did the impolite thing.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I just walked in inside. I again did the polite thing.
I removed my hat. You generally do what you've got
visiting manners. You even make a special point of remembering
to remove your hat in the presence of the dead.
How dead was Anatole Belmar? Dead beyond recall. He was
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hanging by his neck from a beam eight feet off
the floor. I changed my first diagnose suicide when I
saw the lump on his head. He'd been slugged and
strung up by somebody hoping to pass it off with suicide.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I had news for the local police, and after.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That I had mournful news for Max.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Back in Manhattan, USA.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I gave Max the mournful news funny thing, though Max
wasn't too surprised. All day to day, I anticipated just
what you've now told me, Craig. You guessed i'd find
anatole Barbara bellmar dead. I guess, jess where do you
hide your Ouiji board?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I'll explained, But first tell me if you smell something,
smell yeah, smoke, I smell smoke. I come, I show
you why my fireroom.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Look, Craig, you've had a fire in there. Huh? When Max?
This morning?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
How come the fire was localized in the one room
chemical extinguishes the building porter discovered the fire. He broke
down the door and managed to put the fire out.
And in sundiary fire, obviously, lane is my nose, and said,
nose is as plain as an aviation landing strip. I
see papers were pulled out of your cabinets, pile on
the floor.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Then a match led to the pile.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And when I found the fire, I knew at once
you'd find anatole barber.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Did what's your theory? There?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
The client who engaged me to find anatole barber, I
had his signature on a retainer for my regularly us
in my agency every time I take on a case.
So I've carefully reconstructed the pattern of the fire.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
What files were burned?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I asked myself, who'd have some interest in destroying a
section of my files? And you finally fixed on this
one client, the only active account I've had in six weeks.
His file was among those destroyed. That's a bit arbitrary
as a conclosion, mag and not so arbitrary when you
related to the murder of anatol Barber. It's a fact, Crake.
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The purpose in engaging me was to find anatole Barbara
belmar so he could be murdered, and the strict with
my files was to erase every clue there could be
to the murderer, the murderer being the man who engaged
you in the first place. Yes, what was the signature
on that retainer form, Alan Merritt?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
A traceable signature?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
God, since for a cop to find some public record,
that's why he had to recover.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
It, destroy it.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yes, and the fire was set to confuse matters as
a cover up. A yes, Alan Marrett, what does he
look like?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Max? Like anybody? Nothing? Distinctive to his appearance. He's averaging height, build, complexion,
dress speech.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh grace, what reason did he give you for wanting
you to round up anatole barber? Barber owed him ten
thousand dollars from an old business investment. He wanted to
locate Barber so he could file civil suit. A fish story,
A lie, yes, surely a lie, a Max history. The
sad truth is in finding anatole Barba, you gave an
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unwitting assist to a murder. Also to give credit where credit.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Is due, so well as did I We were fingermen.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
One other thing, Max, What this alias Alan Marrett, even
with the traceable signature on that retainer form no longer worrying?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I mean he's still got a loose threat.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Dangling a thread that can become a hangman's noose. What
thread you two ever come face to face you can
identify him?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I care? Yes? Are you reading my mind? Max? Yes?
This alias Alan Merritt. To really be safe, he he
must also kill me.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
That chance meeting face to face somewhere sometime fates for
the liony your client must right now be fretting over it.
He'll try to kill you, Max. And that puts us
right back in business, or it puts me in a
grieve to get at you. He's got to show himself.
He shows himself and I nab him.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Craig, what Mac after you make the arrest, Please see
that Max Marshy gets a burial a hers drawn by
sixteen prancing chorus girls. Max, I make you that promise
in due time.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
The attempted murder of Max Marsey Private Eye came to
pass Quiet Street in the noonday sun, Max leaning conspicuously
against the store.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Window reading the newspaper.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yours truly deployed across the street, waiting and watching it.
The attempt came like a type of thunder from the sky.
Max was just a wee bit hysterical grat. Look how
croach the word came here. She's a crown of my hat.
A half sine is beneficial. Max helps prevent premature ballness. Craig,
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don't joke. If I didn't joke, I'd cry. He escaped
you totally. He was staked out somewhere on one of
the roofs on that Frankly, I never figured now what.
I always line up a second try at you. I'll
have the roofs covered this time all the men Lieutenant
tried Rogers over at police had quartus can spare sorry
to do this to you Max. The unfortunate thing about
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murder is you can't always predict where and when it
will take place. We had cops staked out on roofs,
Max sunning himself on.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
The open street every day for a week.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
When the second attempt on Max finally came, it came
out of left field. It was in Max's office in
the afternoon heat, summer heat that dehydrated you every ten minutes.
I watched Max idel over to his filtered water cooler.
I watched Max for himself a drink. Ten seconds later,
I watched Max turn colors. Great, Max, what's wrong, Craig,
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I've pois poisoned? Max poison in the water cooler, but
not enough to kill. Luckily in the hospital. Six hours later,
Max managed a whispered conversation.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Great, Yes, Max won. Two tempts number three.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Superstition, fatalistic talk. Think of it this way, two strikes
so far, Strike three.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
The killers out.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
How How long will I be laid up overnight? You
got a mild dose, only enough to give you stomach cramps?
Oh hopeless, creek alias Alan Marrett would even more in
the dark.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Better to give up.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
He's shrewd and slippery, are alias Alan Merritt. But I'll
find an avenue to him. From here on, I am
going all out max for otter lack of a lead.
I didn't ex best to the aimless thing I stopped
into with my Oriental carpets in the shop of my
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original contact, Amar Seraby. Yes, I had heard this sorrowful news.
Police check disclosed that no next of kin, no relatives,
anatold Babur was alone in the world.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
How about best friends?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Anatold barber turned friendships away. He was suspicious and secretive.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
How about lady friends? Ladies? No, I do not think.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Oh, come on, even a suspicious and secretive reclose has
some male ego, some passing interest in the opposite sex.
There was a woman, Oh, but such a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
What was her name?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Madame Niela Gallard?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
You know where I can find her?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Nobody has seen Niela Gallard for eighteen years?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
How close was she to Ana Tobarba?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
All I know to say she worked in his store,
the Maca Bazaar. They would work together, take their meals together.
Sounds chummy enough, say serabys anatole barber's burial. The police
have it scheduled for the day after tomorrow, a potter's
failed burial under the auspices of the city.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Oh, this is regrettable.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I shall see that the association extends the unders due him,
that is to say, pays the bills for the funeral. Well,
that's fine, but keep that quiet. What I want you
to do is spread the word around at a kinsman's
being given an obscure pauper's burial, creates sentiment and sympathy.
Make old friends and business associates want to pay their
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last respects. Give Anatole Boba a decent sender. You think
Niela Gallard will hear the symptom to the funeral?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I hope Niela Gallad will put in an appearance.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Pianerals are sad, but to me this one was a joy.
I was all smiles when Amr.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Seraby whispered the magic words into my ear.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That woman standing there wearing the backveil, she's Madame Nila Gallan.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Some hours later I took tea with Madame Gallad. Her
home was a frame dwelling in suburban.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
New Jersey, a middle aged woman. What's beautiful, you could tell,
but heavy lines her face now like she'd known trouble times.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
I knew it was a mistake to come to Anatole's burial.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Now, look, you're a dignified woman, so let's do this
with dignity.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Don't make me talk like a bad man.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
At Cop, I have a sealed ve ope given to
me by Anatol Barber. I have kept it unopened for
fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
He wanted it kept unopened.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Yes, he was afraid, afraid of what in the end
was his feet murder?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Murder.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Here's the better On the uh. On the envelope, you
will see Anatole's own handwriting, to.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Be opened only in case of my death. Wow, you're
in the total dot making blind circles and then the
bar of clear daylight knife through the black art suddenly
or in the no I let Max Marsey in on
the contents of the letter left with Madame Gallop.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Oh you're a bloodhound, Craig.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I keep moving and hoping you s sooner or later
got the spark. Anatol Barba spells out his secret in
this letter, blackmail, fifteen years of it.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Anatole Barba had.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Been blackmailing an important social figure named wind Blake. Win Blake, Well,
that's very hard to believe that man man is one
of fifty best known people in the world. In the letter,
anatole sounds of fatalistic notes. Write in your style, Max,
he expected to sooner or later be murdered the blackmailer's
chronic anxiety.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
They figure the worm has to turn.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
The sucker must finally strike back. Craig, Yes, Mix, What
what's your attitude at this point?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Meaning? Oh, don't misunderstand me, Craig, please, But but you
can speak out openly? Mix, Well, do I motivate decisions
from now on? How do you? Meaning it was your
case originally?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Dear these new ramifications A lot of it. None of
our business as private operatives. Then the man like this
wind Blake figure his size, We bungle handling it somewhere
to blow up in our faces.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Come down to what's bothering you? Max? All right, frankly,
isn't any of our business? Now? It's my business? Max?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
You can scare off and quit, figure the angles and
decide there's no dough anywhere in it, only headaches and risks.
But don't please decide for me. Murder in blackmail is
a public business, and while I'm a private investigator, I'm
also a public citizen. You're pretty good at speeches too,
all right, Forget I said anything, Do what you have
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to do.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
What I had to do was go see wind Blake,
which I did. Blake House was.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Not only upperland, said, the top story of the upper class.
And the guy who wheeled the scepter of the palace
looked every inch his roll in life, gray distinguished, with
a stiff aristocratic spying, a polished surface for near with
only one thing marring him his eyes. I'd never seen
sad or eyes. I wondered when there would be that
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a man just like yourself, a detective, would come to
Blake manor you've been wondering that nightmare for fifteen years, Yes,
for fifteen years. Your deal of it, sir, the eternal apprehension.
There he goes to your closet, clanking his chains. In
these days since the the death of anat told Barber
have barely withered him remorse. I'm not surprised at the innuendo.
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I rather expected it. Who else would care to murder
anatole Barbara? I have no answer to that barber leech,
who's been blackmailing you for fifteen years, when I paid
his every demand all these years, Why then now would
I want to do violence to the man. I've got
a simple answer to that. You just couldn't find Barbara
to kill him.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Murder or cause the murder of anatold barber. What was
he blackmailing you for? What did he have on you?
Without legal counsel? I'm not sure? I alright, I'll tell you.
I was involved in an accident in the summer of
nineteen thirty nine automobile license Yes, a laid out in
a driving rain, very little visibility, was on a downtown street.
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I struck and killed an elderly pedestrian, hit and running.
I'm ready now to face the charges. But I was
covered enough and fool enough to drive away. I let
my panic override my better judgment, my.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
More decent instincts. You see, you had a lot to lose.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You figured you didn't want a vehicular homicide against you.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I I just drove away.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
But not unnoticed and undetected as you believe. Then somebody
saw the accident, jotted down your license plate number.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
And I told Bob.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
He operated a store with the accident in the curb,
the rug shop, the mecha bazaar. He saw everything through
the store window, and he's bled you ever since. He
promptly closed up shop and made you his chief business
from then on. I he exhorted a fortune for me
in he's fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
What did he tell you last two weeks before he died?
How much did you give him?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
The usual periodic ten thousand dollars in cash. I left
the money in a designated place, as I always did.
Barbara never showed himself personally.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
He wasn't taking any chances.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Did you hire a private detective to locate Anatole Barba's
whereabouts for you? I did not, No, huh, anybody else
in your family aware of your uh predicament with Anatole Barba.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
My wife knew, and so does my son. Your wife knew?
You say my wife is dead? Oh? And your son
where is he? He lives away at his school. What's
the school?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Eagle University of Medical College, Stewarts in the senior class.
But my son couldn't possibly have anything to be sure?
I I suppose I cannot be sure. Son trying to
get his pop out of a situation a son nervy
enough to commit murder his father shrinks from doing when
Blake or the son Stuart Blake. I ask you who
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else would want a murder Anatol Barba? And so Barry
Craig went to college. College dormitory Rome is only a box.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Built around silver loving cups, souvenir banners, and pin ups
of Jane Russell. Barbara was vermin.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Murder was too merciful for him, asked me to deserve
fifteen years of some insidious oriental torture.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Did you kill him? Did I what murder? Anatol Barba? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah, sure I did. Yet it coming, and I gave
it to him. Nice try, Sonny, try try it taking
the heat off your father. My father, Dad hasn't got
the moxy for the job done an Anatole Barber, but
you have, Huh?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
I say I killed him. So let's not beat that
question around anymore.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Okay, we'll bypassed question for the time being. Now answer
me this and truthfully. Did you hire a private detective
to track down Boba?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I hired Max Massey here. Do you doubt that too
well proof could help proof? Sure? Sure? Wait a second, yeah,
here's your proof.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
A receipt that's right for three hundred dollars a retainer
initialed MM my down payment to Max Marcy for his services.
There was a statue in bronze on the college campus
steps general somebody or other. It was almost a second
statue unveiled there about the time I was leaving statue
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of yours, truly stiffened the joints with an undertaker's glaze
on top of the shot that frozen, froze me but
didn't kill me.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I was marked for murder. I had the case.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Wrapped up, and the killer knew it. I brought Max
Massey up to date.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
The son is paintly lying to protect the father. That's
my thought.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Arrest the father under arrest, he'll confess to keep the
boy on us turn to let the son take his
the father's blame. That's the ultimate cowardice. It's unthinkable. No
decent father would.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
You're right there, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I swiped a photograph of the son off his bulltop.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
This Max m handsome kid, hung yes stamping.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Nothing average about his looks mix way above average and height, size,
very distinguished, looking generally crew cut, a break in the beak,
of his nose.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
And unusual looking boy. Yes, that admission, Max kind of
gives you the lie lie.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Oh you mean my description of alias Alan Merritt. Yeah,
you are nothing description of a man you invented the
big lie you told me I've just remarked on the
glaring flo and your almost perfect scheme, Max, scheme crime.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
You're accusing me.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Of dating my time to sack at Bay murdering anatole
Barba Before I got there, I found Barbara for you.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
You did the rest, like Craig.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Consider all the facts, Sax huh Fax, Like the phony
fire you set yourself, or the hood you hired to
climb a roof and shoot at you, or the motus
dose of insect poison you deliberately poured yourself from the
water cooler, all the blind metior guilt, or maybe the
fact that you tried to kill me today on the
campus steps of Eagle University.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
You are full of ideas, my good friend. Yeah I am.
How much dough have you got sorted away? Now? Max?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I'm penniless, was until you found that gold mine of
cash and Barba Shak the fortune you knew he'd accumulated
by blackmailing Wind Blake for fifteen years. You really tried
providing for your old age Collie.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
We're jaccusationians talk. You need proof.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I know a tough old bird like you, and will
need an army of cops to find that fortune you
swipe and stashed away. Sure, proof's going to be tough,
but let's start it going officially. Huh, you're arresting me,
arresting and charging you. From there on, it's up to
the regular police. I've personally gone as far as I
(27:23):
care to go. You're sentimental about me, No, Max, not
a bit sentimental, just fed up and bored. You're kind
of creep I'd rather read about you in the papers.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Why knock myself out? Walk ahead of me? Max, You have.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Been listening to William Gargan and another exciting transcribed mystery
drama from the Adventures of Barry Craig, Confidential Investigator. Tonight's story,
Blood Money, was written by John Robert. Next week my
story is titled hay is for Homicide, about which Barry
Craig has this to say. Next week's story is titled
(28:08):
Hey is for Homicide, And the reason for this has
something to do with a hay ride and a farmer's daughter.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
With that combination, how could it help being murder?
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Good Nightfall, See you next week.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
The National Broadcasting Company has just brought you, an NBC
Radio Network production with William Gargan starring as Barry Craig,
confidential Investigator and directed by Arthur Jacobson. Also heard were
Jim Musser, Marvin Miller, Betty lou Gerson, Jack Moyles, and
(28:53):
Paul Richards.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
John Lang speaking
Speaker 1 (29:01):
There's another exciting Dragnet adventure tonight on most NBC radio
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