May 6, 2025 • 32 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You heard me tell the rest of them. These pictures
are not for sale. I paint them for my own amusement.
I am a great artist, and I like to see
my own work all around me. That's why I will
never never let one single picture go. Now, if you've
got any ideas you're going to steal one of my pictures,
(00:22):
just get it up your head. And another thing, That
gun of yours doesn't frighten me one bit. It doesn't
frighten me.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Why why you missed?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Doctor van Field, student of crime psychology, as many times
provided the police with a solution to a baffling crime.
There's an interesting case ahead for the doctor today. We'll
call it death Paints a Picture.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Death Valley. They sure named it, right, Dan.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
How can people stand living out in such a lonely
place as this?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Usually they have some psychological correct either they've been wrong
by someone, or they themselves.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Are wrong someone.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
They can't stand people, so they bury themselves in loneliness.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Practical escape is m h.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
I'd rather lose myself in a crowd than there are
some people who just love the desert.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Well, it gives me the shivers, and we.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Better start looking for a place to put up for
the night.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
You said it.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
Yeah, I say, according to the information given us by
the auto cloud, there should be a place coming up
pretty soon, place called Shoshone Wells Hotel.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Well, I will probably drive right on past it the way.
This sand is blowing.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yes, I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Automobiles have been covered up with that stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Oh, Dan, don't say things like that.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Now you can stop wearing rusty. Here's a hotel, that
awful looking place. Yeah, we can't be checker. It was
he at a time like this. I guess we turn
in here and I much sign of a road, sands
blown over it.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Oh, isn't there some other place?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Further on, not Brady or ninety miles?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
There isn't. Oh, yeah, here we are.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I don't like this place, Dan.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh well, we'll be on our way in the morning.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Right now, I'm hungry and I want to get inside
somewhere where I can get this sand out of my arms.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Come on, so when you don't help, even mister kylet.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, let's see now. Yes, if there's a doorbell.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Times and a place like this.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yes, it does seem either are, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Well, at least there's somebody here. It isn't closed for
the winter.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Good evening, my secretary, and I my groom is for
the night.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Oh oh, well, come right in, come right into my
porter establishment.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Why dan he quite?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I see?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I am doctor Daniel Danfield, and this is my secretary,
Miss Fairfax.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
A doctor. I'm very fond of doctors. They're always convenient
to have an attendance when anyone dies. In a moment.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
We'll return for the second act of danger, doctor Danfield.
But first, now back to Michael Dunn for the second
(03:42):
act of danger, Doctor Danfield.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And my name is Baracks Bedlow.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
We're very glad to meet you, mister Bedlow, especially with
this dust storm blowing. I leave your hotel? Is I
haven indeed?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yes? Yes, yes, dust storms. I'm very fond of the storms. Doctor.
There will be many dead things in the morning.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Then, don't you think we'd bore?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Don't be frightened him, lady, death is a very common
occurrence here in death, valet, that's not a misnomer.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
You know you're cheering me up, no end.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
If you'd care to join us, dimmer is now being served, yes, yes,
and did we would follow me?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
This place is screwy, that's that bored dead lower, that
old pakistain bearing that coasured voice. They don't fit.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Oh, a desert great strange creatures, rusty. Here we are, doctor.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Ah, you and Miss Fairfax.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
We sit at the foot of the table. We serve
here family style. Thank you, Thank you, Ms Bellow. And
now I would like to make you acquainted with the
rest of my guests, Miss Fairfax and doctor Dan Phil
Sue Pierce. How do you do?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Miss Pierce?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Missus oh, and her husband, mister Harvey pears How the
leaving Mister Pearce is a landscape painter.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Doctor.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
He's here to do dead scenes.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Oh, I'm very fond of desert scenes. I'm a great
admirer of Rumington Remington bar.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I'm a dobber.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I am the greatest landscape artist who ever dip.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
You should see his latest, Doctor Denfield, a picture of
a dead cow. I should have to hug. Blessed.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Here you are turning Indian and this is.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Mister Kenneth Wakefield. I'm a not connasier doctor. I came
here expressly to buy some of Peerson's paintings.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
They're really good, you know, by my paintings. Never they're
my mind to admire and in charge.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Everybody in this place is more than slightly not.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And this is Jerry Me. How do you do, miss Fairfax.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
I'm delighted to see another of the fair Secs in
our midst.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Really, you're quite beautiful.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You know you don't lose any time starting to work,
do you, mister Me?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Not me?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
I believe in cutting all corners, yes.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
And I believe in cutting all comers. I should put
you in your place if you have one.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Jerry, you know I'm only kidding with us.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Soon yeah, better be only kidding. Uh tell me what
is your businessness to me? I'm a prospector.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I'm searching for that filthy thing called gold.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
You prospector.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
I thought all prospectors were old and had whiskers and
road mules.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Well not all of us, my dear. You see, I
studied metallurgy in college, and I've come out here to
put some of the new methods.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
To a test. Struck pay dirty, No, but I'm getting
pretty close to it. Mister Me doesn't stop at my
establishment to take his meals here. He has a cabin
of his own mouth back about a quarter of a mile.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Well, I must say you have a very interesting little
group here, mister bel.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yes, indeed, doctor Danfrew, and now only I stopped causing
the lambs. It's very fresh. I killed it myself this morning.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
M Oh, how about you, missus Spears. I'm sorry I
didn't hear you come out. I was out here watching
the sandblall doctor dancers.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Just got to take me away from here.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
The wind is howling, so that what.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Did you say?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I said you got to take me away from here?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And missus Pears, I.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Can't stand at the desert, the baroness, the lone that's
dawn will Why don't you have your husband?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I hate him.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
But if you hate him, why did you a.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Girl such as a young zureau and yes, beautiful, do
you think I could love a daughtering old man who's
over twice my age?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Do you do?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
You?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Then? Why did you marry him?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I did any young girl marry an old man? Money position?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Missus Pears, you should have thought about that before you
got yourself mixed up in This man.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Got a good way. I'll die if I don't, but
you will take me with you, won't you.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
I'm sorry, missus Pears, but I never interfere with.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
A man and wife were concerned. I'll have to say no.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
You got to tease me.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
No, miss please, please, I'll stop it, will you? Oh,
I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Right, you will take me with you. I didn't say that.
I said, oh yeah, I'm away from Dan.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
You you three timers.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I didn't hear you. Come out.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
If that woman doesn't drag herself out of your arms
this instant, nobody i'll hear go in.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Now, look, fierce, you simply got to sell me that
painting the Skeleton of the Cow. I'm at liberty to
offer you twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I've told you before, mister Wakefield, my paintings are not
for sale.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
But why why why just look at these walls literally
covered with your.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Work, Just to look at them. My babies, my.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Creations, everyone a masterpiece. And to think I did them
all myself and you asked me to sell them?
Speaker 8 (08:38):
Bah?
Speaker 6 (08:38):
What but I'm only asking for one and twenty thousand
dollars is a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Money?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
What is money compared to a great art?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well?
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Money means something to me, even if it doesn't you.
I have a client who wants that picture. If you
won't sell it, I spend to lose good.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Profit and I won't sell.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That's your last word. My last word is.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
No, you stub an old cuss. You may be nearer
to your last word than you think. And then now,
mister Bettler or Rusty and I really would like.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
To take a look at mister Pierce's painting. That is,
if you think he won't.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Mind, Well, come on, we'll see if the old boy's
in right. H It doesn't seem to be. Uh, he
just went out. Come on, I'll I'll show them.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
To Maybe he doesn't care to have us look at them.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Oh, not fierce, he loves it. He does. It's quite
often he does what uh he sneaks out of the
room when anybody's looking at his paintings and listens in
to what they say on the other side of the door.
How I uh, queer is the word. He's a vain
old chap. I should warn you don't say anything detrimental
to his word.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Well, come on, right, yeah, just look at these paintings.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
It's fifty yes, yes, Pear says nothing. It's not prolific.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
He's a productive dynamo. I'm sure he lives for nothing
but the pen.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I wonder his wife is turning to newer pastures. The
old fellow can't have very much time for her not
know all this too.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
She'd better stay in heround backyard if she knows.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
What's good for you can't old trample hear you.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Oh, by the way, mister Bedlow, which is the one
you admire so much, the one you were speaking of
a dinner?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It was a dry waterhoo.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yes, yes, I believe you call it the dead cow.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yes here it is like I do over here.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
Oh, oh, I know, and it's horrible if you ask me,
it's sink who said that I did misappierce you?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
You?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
You dare to criticize my work?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Me, Harvey Peers, me the greatest landscape artist alive today.
I'll have you know, young lady, that you know nothing
about contemporary painting.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
On that wall, it's a master I not it.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Out, Get out, get out.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
And I think we'd better go.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yes, come along, both of you, get up, Get up.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
That bowl man nearly had apoplexy.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
He's positively a new right.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Uh. It's interesting, doctor Danville. Interest do people die of
neurosis and not usually matter Bedlow?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But uh, it can be a contributing factor. Very interesting.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Really, well, I suppose you'd both like to go to
your room.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yes, I'm rather tired.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I'm just plain sleeping.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yes, it was always nice to have a good night's sleep.
So uncertain, though, what do you mean? One never knows
whether one will ever wake up again? Does one?
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Mister Boru, though, do you wanna know something?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
What?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
My dear?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
I wish you'd crawl way off somewhere and die.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
In a moment?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Who returned for the third act of danger, Doctor Danfield?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
But first, h.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Now back to Michael Dunn for the third act of danger,
Doctor Danfield.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
What the dickens? I don't wonder who that is?
Speaker 10 (12:40):
Where are my shoes?
Speaker 5 (12:47):
What's happening?
Speaker 6 (12:48):
It sounds like Sue Pierce? Come on, she downstairs?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Sue?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Did you downstairs at this time in the morning?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I don't know she's in the room. What the paintings are?
Missus Pierce? Okay, what's going on in here? He's dead?
I know it. I can tell.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
It's not only dead, mister Bedlow. Mister Pierce has been murdered.
Everybody here, mister Bedlong.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yes, indeed everybody that is except Jerry Mead. He lives
in the shack out back.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
You know, well, I wouldn't bother sending out for him.
I can talk to him in the morning.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Oh this is terrible, doctor Danfield, poor old peers.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yes, mister Wakefield, murder is always terrible.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
It's uh strangely quiet. Something seems to be missing. It's
the wind, the wind to stop blowing. It's always quiet
when there's no wind. Yes, that must be no wind.
No ciar Oh, beg your pardon my mistake. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Apparently from the condition of mister Pearce's body, he was
killed about two hours ago by a bullet through his heart. Oh,
missus pears as, how did you happen to discover the body?
Speaker 7 (14:15):
I went to bed about eleven, shortly before three.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I woke up and started Harvey hadn't come up yet.
Maybe he'd fallen asleep down here. So I came down
and bring him up to bed.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yes, and I came in here. The light was a hut.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yes, I sent up missus Pears. We know the rest,
mister Wakefield. What time did you go to bed? I
don't know, about eleven thirty, I guess that long.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
How about you? Right after you and miss Surfax went
upstairs about twelve o'clock, and what time did Jerry me
leave to go to his cabin all right after dinner?
I'd let him out the door myself. Good.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Good, Now did any of you wake up, say around
one o'clock where any of you startled by a sharp sound?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Dan, what are you getting it?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Well, that's about the.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Time Pierce must have been killed. I don't know if
anybody heard the shot.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Had they believe in he of us could have heard
the shot through the den field, not the way the
wind was blowing.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Yes, yes, you may be right he did.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
One of the pictures, is this right up there?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
See for the walls fading, there's a perfect outline where
a painting has been hung.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yes, yes, so it is.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Oh, mister Bedlow, would you have any idea as to
just what painting has been hanging there?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Oh my George, yes it's been stolen that That was
the picture of the dead cow.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Oh it's a beautiful morning.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I see it's hot.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Oh well, you've got to expect a little bit on
the desert, especially if Death Valley.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
You know, this is silly walking around before break.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
There you go it work up an appetite, good pressure.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Just look at that sand rusty, just like driven smell
very clean, windswept carpet, not a blemish.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Remark on it, waves of sand.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Hip, and pretty soon a bunch of almost cold men
will come out and mess it all up again, just
like we're.
Speaker 10 (16:02):
Doing right Noway.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Let me see Jerry Mead's cabinet over there.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, looks like he has already come over for breakfast.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
How can you tell that?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Footprints? Silly?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
See that unbroken line of footprints coming from his cabin cure, and.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
As there is only one set of footprints, and they're
coming this way and I'm going back, I therefore simize
that Jerry has arrived for breakfast.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Wouldn't take a hawk shot to figure that out?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Morning, Doctor Dan?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Do you miss pay out taking the constitution? Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Just getting in the mood for some of your ham
and eggs.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Got the murder figure dot yet? No?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
No, but I'm working on it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Oh, say, would you mind sending Jerry Mead out?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I'd like to have a little talk with that boy
Jerry Mead, yes, said please, will you?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I'm afraid that I can send him out if Jerry
hasn't come over from these cabinets as yet. Oh, who
is it?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
It's me Jerry? Doctor Danfield can I come in?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Oh, walk right in, dares and lock.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Well, you're rather a late riser, and Jerry.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Taken the day off today that i'd sleep in. Oh
did you bring your little honeyway? You rusty.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
We'll leave Rusty out of this if.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
You don't mind.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Okay, I don't mind. What did you come over for?
Speaker 10 (17:29):
It?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Certainly not have to see if I watched behind my ears.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
No, no, Jerry, I'm investigating a supernatural phenomenon ghost. No, no, no,
I don't think so, Jerry. I'm just wondering how a
man could walk over to the hotel from this cabin
in the dead of night, leaving a perfectly clear trail
of footprints, kill a man and then get back to
this cabin without leaving a mark. Or who did that?
(17:52):
I was hoping that it might be you me, yes, sickon?
What is this?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Wait a minute, did you say somebody kill I did?
Speaker 10 (18:01):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Old Harvey pears Harvey. Oh that's wonderful.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Now sou can get out of the desert.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
H mind if I take a look around your cavin, Jerry,
or what for? Well, there's a gun missing. Also one
appears is painting one of the old boys things.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
You couldn't get one of those things inside this cabin,
let alone hide it. Yes, yes, I guess you're right.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Unless the canvas was cut out of the frame and
rolled up.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
I wish I could take of things like that. Come on, Daniel,
I'll help you.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Look what are we looking for nowadays?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
The missing gun?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Rusty? Oh, be careful how you pull out those drawers,
old Borax. We'll hear you and come a running.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Do you think Boris did it?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
No, but I'm not passing up any chances. Well, I
can't figure out is what happened to that picture? We
looked everywhere. Simply can't hide anything that big in a
place like this.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Maybe they cut it out of the frame, like you said, Well,
what happened to the frame?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Maybe they burned it where the ashes.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
We've looked everywhere.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Maybe they buried him in the sand?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Uh Uh.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I couldn't do addressed him. Not. If the murder was
committed like I think it was, after the wind had
gone down, there would be a big mark on the
sand where they buried it, and a set of footprints
to and from the place.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Huh, then are we dumb?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
What thought on ever?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Remark?
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Who have been looking in all these Dressey drawers for
a good Yeah, and here's one lying right on top
of the dresser, right back here by the mirror.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Well, what do you know? Our murderer is a far
cleverer man.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Than I imagine.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
What makes you say that?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Well, if this is the murder weapon he is, he
hid it by not hiding it at all. No one
ever looks for you don't have to look. You know,
I've seen uh yeah, it's uh been cleaned recently.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
What does that prove it?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Only that it's probably been used recently? Oh m soon
empty shows a great careless of him.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Yes, I did think he would have replaced him, most likely.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
This and his gun. It's an old type forty four.
Shells of this type are hard to obtain. If it
was his own gun, he would have had some Wait.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
A minute, the two empty shells. There was only one
wound in mister Pearce's body.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yes, yes, and that.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Clears up a lot of things. Restie, I think that
in the smart way our friend had up hiding things.
Come on, Rusty, let's get this mob all together. Mister
Pearce's studio, As we.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Say in geometry, qed this case is solved.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And they're all here. Danfield, thanks Bedlo. Well, come on,
dan Field, out with it.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
I want to see what kind of a case you
beamed up about me, so I can get in touch.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
With my lawyer.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
You tried to buy the picture, didn't you, Wakefield?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
But of course I did. But I didn't steal it.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
And I'm rather inclined to believe you. You hated your husband,
didn't you, missus Pears?
Speaker 6 (20:54):
I did.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
There's no use denying it.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
I told you myself enough to kill him.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Maybe I would have if somebody else hadn't saved me
the trouble, I.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
See boor X. How about you?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Well, surely, doctor Danfield, you don't think I did it.
What possible reason would I have to kill a paying customer?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You're almost a psychopathic case. That's a bed law. You
have an obsession about death. You better watch yourself if
you don't someday cross over the borderline and actually commit
one of the crimes you're always dreaming about.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Well, I, yes, yes, maybe you're right.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Now are you? Rusty?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Me O?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I didn't do it now, I'm certain about you, Rusty.
I just want to ask you a questionary, don't scare
me like that. If you were going to hide a needle, Rusty,
where would.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
You hide it? And a haystack?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah, it's yes, But everybody hasn't got a haystack? Where next?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Right?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Why I am with another bunch of needles?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I guess right now, Jerry, where would you hide a
picture if you wanted to hide one? But I don't
want to hide a picture. Oh, I doesn't answer my question.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I know, with a bunch of other picture?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Right again, Rusty. So let's take a look around, Jerry.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
There's about fifty pictures in this very well.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I see it, I see it. That did go?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yes, isn't it right over here on the opposite side
of the room.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Well, then there wasn't stolen at all.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Oh yes it was, Jerry. You stole it just as
sureley as if you had taken it to your own cabin,
and just as shirley as you murdered the man who
painted it.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
You're crazy.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
I wasn't even over here last night. The tracks in
the sand proved.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
That tracks in the sand proved that you were over here.
The only thing they don't prove is that you went
back to your cabin.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
If you're so brilliant.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Then how did I get back?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
We'll get to that later. Right now, I want to
look behind this picture.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Why then, well, I think we'll find a.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Bullet hole, the hole from the bullet that we didn't
find in mister Pearce.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Hey see, Jerry, all that that hole is made by
a forty four.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
But it wasn't my god.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Oh, Jerry, up to a point, you were so cleverer.
Now you have to go and spoil it at all.
Huh how did you come to that conclusion by proclaiming
the fact that it wasn't your gun? You admitted that
you know whose gun it was? Nobody, but the murderer
would know that, Jerry, mister Bedlow.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Would you mind calling the sheriff.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
In a moment, we returned for the conclusion of danger,
doctor Danfield.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
But first.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Now we returned to Michael Dunn for the conclusion of danger,
Doctor Danfield.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
You know, Dan, you are the luckiest guy.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Huh what do you mean lucky?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Why if that Jerry hadn't made that crack about the gun,
you never would have found out.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh you think so?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Arresting him, of course, why don't you admit it?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Are you forgetting the footprints rusting the single track plunning
rant from Jerry's cabin at the hotel.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
What about those footprints?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Well, i'll see.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Here's what happened. Jerry came over to either buy or
steal that painting. He heard Wakefield offer twenty thousand for it,
and he thought he had a chance to find gold
quick without having to dig port.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
You see, Well, what's that got to do with a footprint?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Well, the same was blowing around like all get out
when Jerry came over, and he counted on it, covering
up all his tracks. But all of a sudden, the
wind stopped blowing. You can imagine the quandary our boyfriend
was in. He committed a murder and in the morning
there would be a perfect trail, a one way trail,
straight to his cabin, pointing him out like the finger
of doom.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Oh my gosh, what did he do?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
They went back to his Kevin?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Well, I know, but his footprints were porting the other way.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Of course, that's why he walked backwards backward. Yes, what
he didn't realize was that anyone walking backwards always puts
the weight on the ball of the foot instead of
on the heel. As they wouldn't walk he naturally, it
showed up in that nice clean stand like a kid's
drawing of a mustache on his best girl's picture.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
Oh, Dan, I hate those childs.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Oh, I've come closer and I'll protect you. Hm Dan huh, Yes.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I think.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Do you suppose we could make that darn thing howl again?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Danger? Doctor Danfield?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
You know, Rusty, I'd like to know the value of
an original Edgar Allen Poe manuscript and what the chances
are of one being discovered that hadn't been accounted for previously.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Why don't see how you can stand? Someone's behind that
pile of boxes.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Yes, we've gotta hey, who turned off those lights? Rusty,
they're coming right.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Doctor Daniel Danfield, student of crime psychology, as many times
provided police with a solution to a baffling case, and
at times too the alert Doctor Danfield has found that
his pet theories on the workings of the criminal mind
must be subject to change without notice. There's another interesting
case I had for the doctor today. Let's see how
he handles it. Our story opens in an antique shop
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located in the old part of the city. It is
early morning.
Speaker 10 (27:06):
Good morning, mister Exeter.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Hey, who the devil you? What are you doing here? Why?
Speaker 8 (27:13):
I'm Maurice, mister Exeter. Don't you remember you hired me
three months ago?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Really?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Oh that's interesting. Yes, you look like a capable fellow, Maurice.
By the way, where's that woman.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
Miss Nevin's why she's in your private office, mister Exeter.
She went looking for mister Furbush.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Those two?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
What are they doing in my private office?
Speaker 6 (27:37):
I told that old fuddy daddy Furbush to keep out
of there.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Furbush?
Speaker 10 (27:43):
How many times have I?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
What are you doing there? What are you doing here?
I say, answer me? Speak up, man, give me the
how dare you put down there? Horri Furrie?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Worry?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
What about that's about?
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Well?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
If it came from in here, we'll soon find out.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Good gosh, look it's for Bush and Exeter. Mister exit.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Marie.
Speaker 10 (28:18):
Yes, miss Nevis, I'm right here.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Oh good, Heaven just cared me.
Speaker 10 (28:25):
Is something wrong, Miss Nevin?
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Oh no, not a thing, except that Exeter's faded and
Halbert Furbush is dead dead.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Miss Novin hasse he's dead.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Take a look at desks, pindles sticking right through his heart.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Maurice, I think we've got.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
To call a doctor and maybe the police.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Answer that we're arresting.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Of course doctor Danfield's office. Oh he has kept noticed. Yes,
he's here. It's for you, Dan, Captain OLiS, thank you.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Don't forget that you promised to take me to dinner
in the theater tonight.
Speaker 10 (29:06):
How could I forget?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Hello, Captain Olics, Yes, yes, of course I see accidental deaths.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
You say you're not good.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
How was that, captain?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Death was instantaneous? Huh, let's see well.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Yes, yes, of course, yes, I think it would give
me an excellent opportunity to study an unusual type of criminal.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Yes, that's a good idea, Captain. It'd be considerable advantage
to it.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Thirty one.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I'll drop over to your office first, and then you
can call the ledger and make the necessary arrangements. Fine,
we'll be over in about twenty minutes.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Goodbye, captain. Pick up your notebook, rusty. We're going down
the head quarter.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
And that's about all I know.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
Dan prayer Bush was apparently leaning over the desk and
fell forward. Well, it is rather an unusual accident, Captain.
I suppose it could have happened that way. Yeah, there's
this spindle that penetrated his heart. M ugly looking thing.
Finger prints none, We've already checked.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
It still looks like an accident to me.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
It did to me too, Rushy, until I heard about
the missing manuscript. Oh can you give me any additional
background on that, Captain, Only what Miss Novin's Exeter's secretary
told me. According to her, Exeter has always been a
great admirer of Edgar Allen Poe's works, sort of a
crackpot on the subject my.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Old manifestation of mania. That sword is common among normal people. Captain,
it doesn't necessarily mean that Exeter is mentally arranged.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
You can tell more about that when you meet him, Dan.
But anyway, he recently came across what he believes to
be an original Poe manuscript worth a great deal of money.
It disappeared at the same time of the so called accident.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Captain.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Notice you said that mister Exeter is a rather absent
minded type of Christ.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Yes, it's extremely so, and isn't it possible? And he
might have misplaced the manuscript?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Now that's what his secretary seems to think.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
But I'm not convinced.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
What is the secretary like, young and beautiful?
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Not particularly she's an ex newspaper woman. You know, Captain,
I think there's more to this than appears on the surface.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Well, even if there isn't, I can see that you
won't be satisfied.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Until you've had a flinger, right, Rusty, So put on
your best sister act and will not see mister Exeter
a visit. Keep in touch with me, will you? Dan Right? Captain,
come on, Rusty.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
In a moment, we'll return for the second act of danger,
Doctor Danfield.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
But first.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
And now back to Michael Dunn for the second act
o danger, Doctor Danfield. This is the place here, arresting.
I's go in and get acquainted with mister Exeter.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
There he is sitting at the desk. He must be deaf.
He didn't even look up.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Maybe he just doesn't care. Good evening.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Are you a mister Exeter?
Speaker 10 (32:14):
Eh?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
What was that, young man?
Speaker 3 (32:17):
I said, Are you mister Exeter?
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Exeter? Yes, come to figure that I am.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Aren't you sure
You heard me tell the rest of them. These pictures
are not for sale. I paint them for my own amusement.
I am a great artist, and I like to see
my own work all around me. That's why I will
never never let one single picture go. Now, if you've
got any ideas you're going to steal one of my pictures,
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just get it up your head. And another thing, That
gun of yours doesn't frighten me one bit. It doesn't
frighten me.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Why why you missed?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Doctor van Field, student of crime psychology, as many times
provided the police with a solution to a baffling crime.
There's an interesting case ahead for the doctor today. We'll
call it death Paints a Picture.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Death Valley. They sure named it, right, Dan.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
How can people stand living out in such a lonely
place as this?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Usually they have some psychological correct either they've been wrong
by someone, or they themselves.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Are wrong someone.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
They can't stand people, so they bury themselves in loneliness.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Practical escape is m h.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
I'd rather lose myself in a crowd than there are
some people who just love the desert.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Well, it gives me the shivers, and we.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Better start looking for a place to put up for
the night.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
You said it.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
Yeah, I say, according to the information given us by
the auto cloud, there should be a place coming up
pretty soon, place called Shoshone Wells Hotel.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Well, I will probably drive right on past it the way.
This sand is blowing.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yes, I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Automobiles have been covered up with that stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Oh, Dan, don't say things like that.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Now you can stop wearing rusty. Here's a hotel, that
awful looking place. Yeah, we can't be checker. It was
he at a time like this. I guess we turn
in here and I much sign of a road, sands
blown over it.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Oh, isn't there some other place?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Further on, not Brady or ninety miles?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
There isn't. Oh, yeah, here we are.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I don't like this place, Dan.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh well, we'll be on our way in the morning.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Right now, I'm hungry and I want to get inside
somewhere where I can get this sand out of my arms.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Come on, so when you don't help, even mister kylet.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, let's see now. Yes, if there's a doorbell.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Times and a place like this.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yes, it does seem either are, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Well, at least there's somebody here. It isn't closed for
the winter.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Good evening, my secretary, and I my groom is for
the night.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Oh oh, well, come right in, come right into my
porter establishment.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Why dan he quite?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I see?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I am doctor Daniel Danfield, and this is my secretary,
Miss Fairfax.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
A doctor. I'm very fond of doctors. They're always convenient
to have an attendance when anyone dies. In a moment.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
We'll return for the second act of danger, doctor Danfield.
But first, now back to Michael Dunn for the second
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act of danger, Doctor Danfield.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
And my name is Baracks Bedlow.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
We're very glad to meet you, mister Bedlow, especially with
this dust storm blowing. I leave your hotel? Is I
haven indeed?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yes? Yes, yes, dust storms. I'm very fond of the storms. Doctor.
There will be many dead things in the morning.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Then, don't you think we'd bore?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Don't be frightened him, lady, death is a very common
occurrence here in death, valet, that's not a misnomer.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
You know you're cheering me up, no end.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
If you'd care to join us, dimmer is now being served, yes, yes,
and did we would follow me?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
This place is screwy, that's that bored dead lower, that
old pakistain bearing that coasured voice. They don't fit.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Oh, a desert great strange creatures, rusty. Here we are, doctor.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Ah, you and Miss Fairfax.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
We sit at the foot of the table. We serve
here family style. Thank you, Thank you, Ms Bellow. And
now I would like to make you acquainted with the
rest of my guests, Miss Fairfax and doctor Dan Phil
Sue Pierce. How do you do?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Miss Pierce?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Missus oh, and her husband, mister Harvey pears How the
leaving Mister Pearce is a landscape painter.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Doctor.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
He's here to do dead scenes.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Oh, I'm very fond of desert scenes. I'm a great
admirer of Rumington Remington bar.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I'm a dobber.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I am the greatest landscape artist who ever dip.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
You should see his latest, Doctor Denfield, a picture of
a dead cow. I should have to hug. Blessed.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Here you are turning Indian and this is.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Mister Kenneth Wakefield. I'm a not connasier doctor. I came
here expressly to buy some of Peerson's paintings.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
They're really good, you know, by my paintings. Never they're
my mind to admire and in charge.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Everybody in this place is more than slightly not.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And this is Jerry Me. How do you do, miss Fairfax.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
I'm delighted to see another of the fair Secs in
our midst.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Really, you're quite beautiful.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You know you don't lose any time starting to work,
do you, mister Me?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Not me?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
I believe in cutting all corners, yes.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
And I believe in cutting all comers. I should put
you in your place if you have one.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Jerry, you know I'm only kidding with us.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Soon yeah, better be only kidding. Uh tell me what
is your businessness to me? I'm a prospector.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I'm searching for that filthy thing called gold.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
You prospector.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
I thought all prospectors were old and had whiskers and
road mules.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Well not all of us, my dear. You see, I
studied metallurgy in college, and I've come out here to
put some of the new methods.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
To a test. Struck pay dirty, No, but I'm getting
pretty close to it. Mister Me doesn't stop at my
establishment to take his meals here. He has a cabin
of his own mouth back about a quarter of a mile.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Well, I must say you have a very interesting little
group here, mister bel.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yes, indeed, doctor Danfrew, and now only I stopped causing
the lambs. It's very fresh. I killed it myself this morning.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
M Oh, how about you, missus Spears. I'm sorry I
didn't hear you come out. I was out here watching
the sandblall doctor dancers.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Just got to take me away from here.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
The wind is howling, so that what.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Did you say?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I said you got to take me away from here?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And missus Pears, I.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Can't stand at the desert, the baroness, the lone that's
dawn will Why don't you have your husband?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I hate him.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
But if you hate him, why did you a.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Girl such as a young zureau and yes, beautiful, do
you think I could love a daughtering old man who's
over twice my age?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Do you do?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
You?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Then? Why did you marry him?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
I did any young girl marry an old man? Money position?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Missus Pears, you should have thought about that before you
got yourself mixed up in This man.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Got a good way. I'll die if I don't, but
you will take me with you, won't you.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
I'm sorry, missus Pears, but I never interfere with.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
A man and wife were concerned. I'll have to say no.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
You got to tease me.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
No, miss please, please, I'll stop it, will you? Oh,
I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Right, you will take me with you. I didn't say that.
I said, oh yeah, I'm away from Dan.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
You you three timers.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I didn't hear you. Come out.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
If that woman doesn't drag herself out of your arms
this instant, nobody i'll hear go in.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Now, look, fierce, you simply got to sell me that
painting the Skeleton of the Cow. I'm at liberty to
offer you twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I've told you before, mister Wakefield, my paintings are not
for sale.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
But why why why just look at these walls literally
covered with your.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Work, Just to look at them. My babies, my.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Creations, everyone a masterpiece. And to think I did them
all myself and you asked me to sell them?
Speaker 8 (08:38):
Bah?
Speaker 6 (08:38):
What but I'm only asking for one and twenty thousand
dollars is a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Money?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
What is money compared to a great art?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well?
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Money means something to me, even if it doesn't you.
I have a client who wants that picture. If you
won't sell it, I spend to lose good.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Profit and I won't sell.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That's your last word. My last word is.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
No, you stub an old cuss. You may be nearer
to your last word than you think. And then now,
mister Bettler or Rusty and I really would like.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
To take a look at mister Pierce's painting. That is,
if you think he won't.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Mind, Well, come on, we'll see if the old boy's
in right. H It doesn't seem to be. Uh, he
just went out. Come on, I'll I'll show them.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
To Maybe he doesn't care to have us look at them.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Oh, not fierce, he loves it. He does. It's quite
often he does what uh he sneaks out of the
room when anybody's looking at his paintings and listens in
to what they say on the other side of the door.
How I uh, queer is the word. He's a vain
old chap. I should warn you don't say anything detrimental
to his word.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Well, come on, right, yeah, just look at these paintings.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
It's fifty yes, yes, Pear says nothing. It's not prolific.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
He's a productive dynamo. I'm sure he lives for nothing
but the pen.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I wonder his wife is turning to newer pastures. The
old fellow can't have very much time for her not
know all this too.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
She'd better stay in heround backyard if she knows.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
What's good for you can't old trample hear you.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Oh, by the way, mister Bedlow, which is the one
you admire so much, the one you were speaking of
a dinner?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It was a dry waterhoo.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yes, yes, I believe you call it the dead cow.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yes here it is like I do over here.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
Oh, oh, I know, and it's horrible if you ask me,
it's sink who said that I did misappierce you?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
You?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
You dare to criticize my work?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Me, Harvey Peers, me the greatest landscape artist alive today.
I'll have you know, young lady, that you know nothing
about contemporary painting.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
On that wall, it's a master I not it.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Out, Get out, get out.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
And I think we'd better go.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yes, come along, both of you, get up, Get up.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
That bowl man nearly had apoplexy.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
He's positively a new right.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Uh. It's interesting, doctor Danville. Interest do people die of
neurosis and not usually matter Bedlow?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But uh, it can be a contributing factor. Very interesting.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Really, well, I suppose you'd both like to go to
your room.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yes, I'm rather tired.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I'm just plain sleeping.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yes, it was always nice to have a good night's sleep.
So uncertain, though, what do you mean? One never knows
whether one will ever wake up again? Does one?
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Mister Boru, though, do you wanna know something?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
What?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
My dear?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
I wish you'd crawl way off somewhere and die.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
In a moment?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Who returned for the third act of danger, Doctor Danfield?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
But first, h.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Now back to Michael Dunn for the third act of danger,
Doctor Danfield.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
What the dickens? I don't wonder who that is?
Speaker 10 (12:40):
Where are my shoes?
Speaker 5 (12:47):
What's happening?
Speaker 6 (12:48):
It sounds like Sue Pierce? Come on, she downstairs?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Sue?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Did you downstairs at this time in the morning?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I don't know she's in the room. What the paintings are?
Missus Pierce? Okay, what's going on in here? He's dead?
I know it. I can tell.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
It's not only dead, mister Bedlow. Mister Pierce has been murdered.
Everybody here, mister Bedlong.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yes, indeed everybody that is except Jerry Mead. He lives
in the shack out back.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
You know, well, I wouldn't bother sending out for him.
I can talk to him in the morning.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Oh this is terrible, doctor Danfield, poor old peers.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yes, mister Wakefield, murder is always terrible.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
It's uh strangely quiet. Something seems to be missing. It's
the wind, the wind to stop blowing. It's always quiet
when there's no wind. Yes, that must be no wind.
No ciar Oh, beg your pardon my mistake. Let's see.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Apparently from the condition of mister Pearce's body, he was
killed about two hours ago by a bullet through his heart. Oh,
missus pears as, how did you happen to discover the body?
Speaker 7 (14:15):
I went to bed about eleven, shortly before three.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I woke up and started Harvey hadn't come up yet.
Maybe he'd fallen asleep down here. So I came down
and bring him up to bed.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yes, and I came in here. The light was a hut.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yes, I sent up missus Pears. We know the rest,
mister Wakefield. What time did you go to bed? I
don't know, about eleven thirty, I guess that long.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
How about you? Right after you and miss Surfax went
upstairs about twelve o'clock, and what time did Jerry me
leave to go to his cabin all right after dinner?
I'd let him out the door myself. Good.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Good, Now did any of you wake up, say around
one o'clock where any of you startled by a sharp sound?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Dan, what are you getting it?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Well, that's about the.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Time Pierce must have been killed. I don't know if
anybody heard the shot.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Had they believe in he of us could have heard
the shot through the den field, not the way the
wind was blowing.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Yes, yes, you may be right he did.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
One of the pictures, is this right up there?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
See for the walls fading, there's a perfect outline where
a painting has been hung.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yes, yes, so it is.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Oh, mister Bedlow, would you have any idea as to
just what painting has been hanging there?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Oh my George, yes it's been stolen that That was
the picture of the dead cow.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Oh it's a beautiful morning.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I see it's hot.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Oh well, you've got to expect a little bit on
the desert, especially if Death Valley.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
You know, this is silly walking around before break.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
There you go it work up an appetite, good pressure.
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Just look at that sand rusty, just like driven smell
very clean, windswept carpet, not a blemish.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Remark on it, waves of sand.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Hip, and pretty soon a bunch of almost cold men
will come out and mess it all up again, just
like we're.
Speaker 10 (16:02):
Doing right Noway.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Let me see Jerry Mead's cabinet over there.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, looks like he has already come over for breakfast.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
How can you tell that?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Footprints? Silly?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
See that unbroken line of footprints coming from his cabin cure, and.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
As there is only one set of footprints, and they're
coming this way and I'm going back, I therefore simize
that Jerry has arrived for breakfast.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Wouldn't take a hawk shot to figure that out?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Morning, Doctor Dan?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Do you miss pay out taking the constitution? Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Just getting in the mood for some of your ham
and eggs.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Got the murder figure dot yet? No?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
No, but I'm working on it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Oh, say, would you mind sending Jerry Mead out?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I'd like to have a little talk with that boy
Jerry Mead, yes, said please, will you?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I'm afraid that I can send him out if Jerry
hasn't come over from these cabinets as yet. Oh, who
is it?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
It's me Jerry? Doctor Danfield can I come in?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Oh, walk right in, dares and lock.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Well, you're rather a late riser, and Jerry.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Taken the day off today that i'd sleep in. Oh
did you bring your little honeyway? You rusty.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
We'll leave Rusty out of this if.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
You don't mind.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Okay, I don't mind. What did you come over for?
Speaker 10 (17:29):
It?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Certainly not have to see if I watched behind my ears.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
No, no, Jerry, I'm investigating a supernatural phenomenon ghost. No, no, no,
I don't think so, Jerry. I'm just wondering how a
man could walk over to the hotel from this cabin
in the dead of night, leaving a perfectly clear trail
of footprints, kill a man and then get back to
this cabin without leaving a mark. Or who did that?
(17:52):
I was hoping that it might be you me, yes, sickon?
What is this?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Wait a minute, did you say somebody kill I did?
Speaker 10 (18:01):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Old Harvey pears Harvey. Oh that's wonderful.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Now sou can get out of the desert.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
H mind if I take a look around your cavin, Jerry,
or what for? Well, there's a gun missing. Also one
appears is painting one of the old boys things.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
You couldn't get one of those things inside this cabin,
let alone hide it. Yes, yes, I guess you're right.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Unless the canvas was cut out of the frame and
rolled up.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
I wish I could take of things like that. Come on, Daniel,
I'll help you.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Look what are we looking for nowadays?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
The missing gun?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Rusty? Oh, be careful how you pull out those drawers,
old Borax. We'll hear you and come a running.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Do you think Boris did it?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
No, but I'm not passing up any chances. Well, I
can't figure out is what happened to that picture? We
looked everywhere. Simply can't hide anything that big in a
place like this.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Maybe they cut it out of the frame, like you said, Well,
what happened to the frame?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Maybe they burned it where the ashes.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
We've looked everywhere.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Maybe they buried him in the sand?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Uh Uh.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I couldn't do addressed him. Not. If the murder was
committed like I think it was, after the wind had
gone down, there would be a big mark on the
sand where they buried it, and a set of footprints
to and from the place.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Huh, then are we dumb?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
What thought on ever?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Remark?
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Who have been looking in all these Dressey drawers for
a good Yeah, and here's one lying right on top
of the dresser, right back here by the mirror.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Well, what do you know? Our murderer is a far
cleverer man.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Than I imagine.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
What makes you say that?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Well, if this is the murder weapon he is, he
hid it by not hiding it at all. No one
ever looks for you don't have to look. You know,
I've seen uh yeah, it's uh been cleaned recently.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
What does that prove it?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Only that it's probably been used recently? Oh m soon
empty shows a great careless of him.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Yes, I did think he would have replaced him, most likely.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
This and his gun. It's an old type forty four.
Shells of this type are hard to obtain. If it
was his own gun, he would have had some Wait.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
A minute, the two empty shells. There was only one
wound in mister Pearce's body.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yes, yes, and that.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Clears up a lot of things. Restie, I think that
in the smart way our friend had up hiding things.
Come on, Rusty, let's get this mob all together. Mister
Pearce's studio, As we.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Say in geometry, qed this case is solved.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And they're all here. Danfield, thanks Bedlo. Well, come on,
dan Field, out with it.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
I want to see what kind of a case you
beamed up about me, so I can get in touch.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
With my lawyer.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
You tried to buy the picture, didn't you, Wakefield?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
But of course I did. But I didn't steal it.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
And I'm rather inclined to believe you. You hated your husband,
didn't you, missus Pears?
Speaker 6 (20:54):
I did.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
There's no use denying it.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
I told you myself enough to kill him.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Maybe I would have if somebody else hadn't saved me
the trouble, I.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
See boor X. How about you?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Well, surely, doctor Danfield, you don't think I did it.
What possible reason would I have to kill a paying customer?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You're almost a psychopathic case. That's a bed law. You
have an obsession about death. You better watch yourself if
you don't someday cross over the borderline and actually commit
one of the crimes you're always dreaming about.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Well, I, yes, yes, maybe you're right.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Now are you? Rusty?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Me O?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
I didn't do it now, I'm certain about you, Rusty.
I just want to ask you a questionary, don't scare
me like that. If you were going to hide a needle, Rusty,
where would.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
You hide it? And a haystack?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah, it's yes, But everybody hasn't got a haystack? Where next?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Right?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Why I am with another bunch of needles?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I guess right now, Jerry, where would you hide a
picture if you wanted to hide one? But I don't
want to hide a picture. Oh, I doesn't answer my question.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
I know, with a bunch of other picture?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Right again, Rusty. So let's take a look around, Jerry.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
There's about fifty pictures in this very well.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I see it, I see it. That did go?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yes, isn't it right over here on the opposite side
of the room.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Well, then there wasn't stolen at all.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Oh yes it was, Jerry. You stole it just as
sureley as if you had taken it to your own cabin,
and just as shirley as you murdered the man who
painted it.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
You're crazy.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
I wasn't even over here last night. The tracks in
the sand proved.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
That tracks in the sand proved that you were over here.
The only thing they don't prove is that you went
back to your cabin.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
If you're so brilliant.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Then how did I get back?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
We'll get to that later. Right now, I want to
look behind this picture.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Why then, well, I think we'll find a.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Bullet hole, the hole from the bullet that we didn't
find in mister Pearce.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
Hey see, Jerry, all that that hole is made by
a forty four.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
But it wasn't my god.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Oh, Jerry, up to a point, you were so cleverer.
Now you have to go and spoil it at all.
Huh how did you come to that conclusion by proclaiming
the fact that it wasn't your gun? You admitted that
you know whose gun it was? Nobody, but the murderer
would know that, Jerry, mister Bedlow.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Would you mind calling the sheriff.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
In a moment, we returned for the conclusion of danger,
doctor Danfield.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
But first.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Now we returned to Michael Dunn for the conclusion of danger,
Doctor Danfield.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
You know, Dan, you are the luckiest guy.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Huh what do you mean lucky?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Why if that Jerry hadn't made that crack about the gun,
you never would have found out.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh you think so?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Arresting him, of course, why don't you admit it?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Are you forgetting the footprints rusting the single track plunning
rant from Jerry's cabin at the hotel.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
What about those footprints?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Well, i'll see.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Here's what happened. Jerry came over to either buy or
steal that painting. He heard Wakefield offer twenty thousand for it,
and he thought he had a chance to find gold
quick without having to dig port.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
You see, Well, what's that got to do with a footprint?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Well, the same was blowing around like all get out
when Jerry came over, and he counted on it, covering
up all his tracks. But all of a sudden, the
wind stopped blowing. You can imagine the quandary our boyfriend
was in. He committed a murder and in the morning
there would be a perfect trail, a one way trail,
straight to his cabin, pointing him out like the finger
of doom.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Oh my gosh, what did he do?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
They went back to his Kevin?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Well, I know, but his footprints were porting the other way.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Of course, that's why he walked backwards backward. Yes, what
he didn't realize was that anyone walking backwards always puts
the weight on the ball of the foot instead of
on the heel. As they wouldn't walk he naturally, it
showed up in that nice clean stand like a kid's
drawing of a mustache on his best girl's picture.
Speaker 7 (25:05):
Oh, Dan, I hate those childs.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Oh, I've come closer and I'll protect you. Hm Dan huh, Yes.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I think.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Do you suppose we could make that darn thing howl again?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Danger? Doctor Danfield?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
You know, Rusty, I'd like to know the value of
an original Edgar Allen Poe manuscript and what the chances
are of one being discovered that hadn't been accounted for previously.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Why don't see how you can stand? Someone's behind that
pile of boxes.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Yes, we've gotta hey, who turned off those lights? Rusty,
they're coming right.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Doctor Daniel Danfield, student of crime psychology, as many times
provided police with a solution to a baffling case, and
at times too the alert Doctor Danfield has found that
his pet theories on the workings of the criminal mind
must be subject to change without notice. There's another interesting
case I had for the doctor today. Let's see how
he handles it. Our story opens in an antique shop
(26:58):
located in the old part of the city. It is
early morning.
Speaker 10 (27:06):
Good morning, mister Exeter.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Hey, who the devil you? What are you doing here? Why?
Speaker 8 (27:13):
I'm Maurice, mister Exeter. Don't you remember you hired me
three months ago?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Really?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Oh that's interesting. Yes, you look like a capable fellow, Maurice.
By the way, where's that woman.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
Miss Nevin's why she's in your private office, mister Exeter.
She went looking for mister Furbush.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Those two?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
What are they doing in my private office?
Speaker 6 (27:37):
I told that old fuddy daddy Furbush to keep out
of there.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Furbush?
Speaker 10 (27:43):
How many times have I?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
What are you doing there? What are you doing here?
I say, answer me? Speak up, man, give me the
how dare you put down there? Horri Furrie?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Worry?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
What about that's about?
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Well?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
If it came from in here, we'll soon find out.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Good gosh, look it's for Bush and Exeter. Mister exit.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Marie.
Speaker 10 (28:18):
Yes, miss Nevis, I'm right here.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Oh good, Heaven just cared me.
Speaker 10 (28:25):
Is something wrong, Miss Nevin?
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Oh no, not a thing, except that Exeter's faded and
Halbert Furbush is dead dead.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Miss Novin hasse he's dead.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Take a look at desks, pindles sticking right through his heart.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Maurice, I think we've got.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
To call a doctor and maybe the police.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Answer that we're arresting.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Of course doctor Danfield's office. Oh he has kept noticed. Yes,
he's here. It's for you, Dan, Captain OLiS, thank you.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Don't forget that you promised to take me to dinner
in the theater tonight.
Speaker 10 (29:06):
How could I forget?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Hello, Captain Olics, Yes, yes, of course I see accidental deaths.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
You say you're not good.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
How was that, captain?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Death was instantaneous? Huh, let's see well.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Yes, yes, of course, yes, I think it would give
me an excellent opportunity to study an unusual type of criminal.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Yes, that's a good idea, Captain. It'd be considerable advantage
to it.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Thirty one.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I'll drop over to your office first, and then you
can call the ledger and make the necessary arrangements. Fine,
we'll be over in about twenty minutes.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Goodbye, captain. Pick up your notebook, rusty. We're going down
the head quarter.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
And that's about all I know.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
Dan prayer Bush was apparently leaning over the desk and
fell forward. Well, it is rather an unusual accident, Captain.
I suppose it could have happened that way. Yeah, there's
this spindle that penetrated his heart. M ugly looking thing.
Finger prints none, We've already checked.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
It still looks like an accident to me.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
It did to me too, Rushy, until I heard about
the missing manuscript. Oh can you give me any additional
background on that, Captain, Only what Miss Novin's Exeter's secretary
told me. According to her, Exeter has always been a
great admirer of Edgar Allen Poe's works, sort of a
crackpot on the subject my.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Old manifestation of mania. That sword is common among normal people. Captain,
it doesn't necessarily mean that Exeter is mentally arranged.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
You can tell more about that when you meet him, Dan.
But anyway, he recently came across what he believes to
be an original Poe manuscript worth a great deal of money.
It disappeared at the same time of the so called accident.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Captain.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Notice you said that mister Exeter is a rather absent
minded type of Christ.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Yes, it's extremely so, and isn't it possible? And he
might have misplaced the manuscript?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Now that's what his secretary seems to think.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
But I'm not convinced.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
What is the secretary like, young and beautiful?
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Not particularly she's an ex newspaper woman. You know, Captain,
I think there's more to this than appears on the surface.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Well, even if there isn't, I can see that you
won't be satisfied.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Until you've had a flinger, right, Rusty, So put on
your best sister act and will not see mister Exeter
a visit. Keep in touch with me, will you? Dan Right? Captain,
come on, Rusty.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
In a moment, we'll return for the second act of danger,
Doctor Danfield.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
But first.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
And now back to Michael Dunn for the second act
o danger, Doctor Danfield. This is the place here, arresting.
I's go in and get acquainted with mister Exeter.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
There he is sitting at the desk. He must be deaf.
He didn't even look up.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Maybe he just doesn't care. Good evening.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Are you a mister Exeter?
Speaker 10 (32:14):
Eh?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
What was that, young man?
Speaker 3 (32:17):
I said, Are you mister Exeter?
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Exeter? Yes, come to figure that I am.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Aren't you sure
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