October 11, 2025 • 29 mins
Nick Carter, Master Detective was a radio crime drama based on tales of the fictional private detective Nick Carter, first seen in 1886, from Street & Smith's dime novels and pulp magazines. Lon Clark played Nick Carter and Charlotte Manson played his assistant, Patsy Bowen. Nick Carter ran from 1943 to 1955.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
What's the matter. What is It's another.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Case for Nick Carter, Master Detective.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
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adventure Poison with a past Or, Nick Carter, the mystery
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Speaker 5 (01:58):
And now for today's mysterious adventure was Nick Carter.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
As we joined Nick and Passy and Nick Carter's office,
we find Nick talking to Riley on the phone. But
look here, Riley, I can't drop everything I'm doing and
help the police department out every time somebody gets killed.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
And I'm not asking you to a nikki, but this
is something special I think you'd enjoy working on.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yes, you always say that, Riley, every time you get stuck.
You tell me it's not usually interesting case.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
But this time it is.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Nick, honest, it is all right.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Give me one reason why it's not just a routine
murder case.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Because the guy was killed while a lot of other
people was around, and nobody knows what's happened.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
The medical examiner is you're in these squares.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
It's a Pyson case, but he's stuck completely.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
He's some queer stuff you never ran into before.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Now you're an expert on Pyson's, nick you are to
look into this.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
An unknown poison, huh, either giving him externally or internally.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
We don't know.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
There's not a trace of evidence to show how it
was done at tall and you know old Doc Buck
is no slouch when it comes to poisions.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh, but knows the stuff all right. You can't figure
it out.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
He's trying every tricky nose, Nickie, and nothing seems to work.
Speaker 7 (03:04):
When you take a run over here, you didn't see
what you can make of it?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Okay, Rally, what's the address.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
The Hamilton's apartments on River's Head Driven apartment.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Chief for it.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I'll be right here waiting for you within twenty minutes,
but it'd better be good.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Jes Nicky, you won't be sorry.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It is so long, so long, so he managed to
rope you did it?
Speaker 8 (03:23):
I don't know whether he's roped me or not, As
you so elegantly put it, it's got me interested enough,
so I'm going over and have a look at it.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
You want to come?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Do I want to come? You don't think I want
to sit around here when there's a medicase to be solved.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
To you not? Okay, get your hat, let's be on
our way.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Welcome to ourn and gathering, Nick, and you too.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Karence does not appear to highten.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
All right, all right, let's just spend there. The preliminaries rally,
get down the business right away? Who's that? And where's
a body?
Speaker 8 (03:59):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's real?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
And the boy yard now eh, okay, the corps is
pretty chilly. The explorer Shelby, Well, that fella's got more
lives than a cat.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Well he must have used up all none of them
if he's dead. Now.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
The body's right in here in the library, like.
Speaker 9 (04:14):
Look at all the book both of them pretty old too, French, German, Russian?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
That one Sanskrit? Betsy was there? Hindu? Who lives here? Rally?
This Shelby's apartment, Norning.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It belongs to Professor Alexandra Travers.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Travers. Oh yeah, it's a specialist on Hindu literature and philosophy. Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Human some of his friends were talking about that Hindu stuff,
and Shelby was killed.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Here's the body here, hmm, and that long not over an.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Hour, the doc says in that text is what the
others tell us.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
We're holding them here for now.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
The expression on his face, he must have died in terrible.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
AGONI no doubt of that, and there's no doubt if
it's being poisoned either, not with that look on his face.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Doug Book said the same thing, but not one of
his tests showed him what kind of prison was used.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
He's headed, could be most anything.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
That's the shift that light over. I want to say something, yes, yes, the.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Color of a skin practically blue white.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
He looks all much like a marble statue.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, Hi, rally where the rest of the party say,
you're holding him here?
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Here?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
They're in the next room. There's Professor Travers.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
This is his apartment, like I said, a good look,
and dame by the name of Mary Divine and doctor
Paul Starr, he's a college teacher. Now, they didn't know
what happened when they shall be passed out, so they
fought for an ambulance, and the intern took one look
at him and called.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Us anything else before I talk to them.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
They told the doc that none of them had eaten
or drug anything before after they came here. So the
doc figured maybe shall be was pisoned by the cigarettes
he smoke. So we sent all the butts and ashes
down to the lab for analysis.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
They sent down the.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Pack of cigarette two, only one packing him.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
They was all smoking out of the same pack.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Any report yet, no, No.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
I told him to call me here.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
This weesday finished.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
All right, have a look at your witnesses.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Get in here. This yere is Nick Carter. Folks, Nick,
this is Mary Devine. Here over here's Professor Travers.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Let's doctor start.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Let annoy you, miss Cutter at first, let's get straightened
out who you all are.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Professor Travers? What do you do?
Speaker 8 (06:27):
I teach oriental literature at the University of mister Carter.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
But I don't see what you got the star. What
do you do? I'm a botanist, mister Carter. I'm connected
with the university too indirectly, see you, mister Vine.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I'm just a student at the university.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
But a very fine student, mister Carter. Mister Vine won
a fellowship and oriental literature. She's done some excellent work.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And I of you know any possible motive for Shelby's death.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
I know we've been talking about it, and we're as
much in the dark as you are.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
What do you know about Shelby's Not very much.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
We have only one common interest, the Vedanta. As a
matter of fact, we first met him at a meeting
of the Vedanta Society. She shall be feeling all right
this afternoon, As far as we know, he said nothing
about feeling ill. Now tell me what happened here this
afternourse name as you can recall, you say you were
all sitting around talking. That's right, we were discussing the Vedanta.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Professor Travers can probably explain that better than I, Patsy.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
It's a philosophy of life, this first put forward fifteen
hundred years ago by Hindu scholars. It has to do
with controlling the bodily expression so as.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
To heighten the powers of the mind.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Why don't you come to a meeting of the Vadanta
Society with a someday that would explain it better than
I could?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Perhaps, thanks, maybe I will some days. But now what
happened here?
Speaker 8 (07:44):
Why we were all seated around smoking and chatting when
suddenly shall Be started to get faint.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
A few minutes he passed out.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
That's all you were all smoking?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yes, why I understand you were all smoking the same
brand of cigarette. Whose were they?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
They were mine?
Speaker 8 (07:58):
Miss Carter shall Be forgot to bring his pipe, and
Star was out of the private brand he smokes. I
had a full pack, so I used mine, even Star
smoked one. He usually wouldn't look at any cigarette that
wasn't his own private mixture.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Anything else you can think of, No, I think not.
That's all I know.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Nothing happened that was really unusual, except that mister Shelby died.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
All right, give your names and the addresses to Lieutenant Rally,
and don't leave town until we tell you can.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
That's all all right.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Make what do you make of it?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Oh? No, no affairent motive, no suspects, unknown poison. Of course,
it's too early to know.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Definitely, it couldn't be suicide, could he?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
No, I don't think so, Patty. I'm pretty sure it's murder.
But I'm also sure the murderer covered his tracks very thoroughly.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yes it didn't, Yes, I got it, of course, I'll
tell him.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Well, what did you expect?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Oh you, goodbye?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I gather that was Riley you were talking to you?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Gather right? He said to be here and tell you
that the laboratory reports absolutely nothing wrong with the cigarettes
or the butts of the ashes, all normal and natural.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Hmm, too bad, sort of hoping that I only never mind.
There's an answer somewhere and I'll find it, you get.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And he also said to tell you that Mary Divine
was coming in.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
To see you very shortly.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Now did you say what for?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
No, just said she was coming.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
And maybe she's remembered something and.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I'll get it next that maybe miss Divine.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Now or a bill collector.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Oh tell me miss Divine.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Good morning, mister Vine.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Morning, mister Carter.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
I don't know that what I have to tell you
is that any value, But I'll let you decide that
fair enough.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Do you know what this is? Oh? It's a beautiful flow?
Speaker 9 (09:59):
What is In India? They call it datura? It has
other names too, natura.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
But that's a poison, yes, Betty, after my notes on poison?
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Right here?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yet here you are, thanks gouraure, Yes here we are. Hmm.
Taste is pleasant given in small doses. It intoxicates strongly.
Food DRAMs will prove fatal at once, can be mixed
with food or drink, and will kill without leaving a trace.
(10:32):
Cannot be isolated unless the chemist knows what he's looking for.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
That's a nasty point in him.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
Yes, in India, mother's feed it to unwonted girl babies.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
It's divine. Where did you get this flower?
Speaker 9 (10:42):
I got its special delivery this morning. Doctor Starr got one,
and Professor Travis got one too, the same way I see.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
In other words, the murderer warns you that he's going
to kill all three of you, same way he murdered Chelmby.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
It looks that way. Why would you want to kill
all of them there?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Probably because he's afraid that they noticed something. When Shelby
was killed yesterday. They would give him away if they
told I know what about it.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
But I don't know anything, mister Carter. Neither do the others.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Perhaps you do, mister Vine. Don't realize it. It often
happens at any rate. The killer is taking no chances.
That's a car Alex. I have him tell the lab
what to look for. Maybe they can find some traces
of it. That way court.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
What do you think I'd better do, mister Carter.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Let's be very careful of what you eat or drink
with whom you associate for a few days. In the meantime,
I'll be busy finding out what I can. You have
any plans for the immediate future? No, not especially, And
you're sure nothing happened. If Professor Travers are propping yesterday.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
That would help us, No, mister Carter, not a thing.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I better see Stean Travis. Maybe they can tell me
something they overlooked the for.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Will mister Carter.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
They'll both be at the Bedanta Society meeting this morning
at eleven. Swami Atulnadi is speaking, and he's the favorite lecturer.
Why don't we go to the meeting too. You can
talk to them there.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Excellent's idea, mister Viran.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
If you take care of notifying the lad.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Thanks bessy, mister Ian, and I go into a meeting
of the Danta Society. You better stay here in case
Ronnie does learn anything. I'll call you later. You ready,
mister Van, Yes, all right, let's go.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I really don't know much about them, mister Carton, I.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Say, but perhaps you could tell me this how close
to Shelby were Travers and Star?
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Well, Paul Star barely knew him. As a matter of fact,
he met Shelby for the first.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Time yesterday, and Professor Travers, Oh.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
He and Shelby were pretty chummy. They had a common
interest in the Badante and they each have a collection
of rare sanscript manuscripts which they will to each other
when they die.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
You mean, whoever dies first bequeaths his manuscripts to the others.
How valuable all these manuscripts.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Oh, they're priceless, I understand.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Hmm. What about you? Why do you fit into this picture?
Speaker 9 (12:49):
Well, I I met them because of my interest in
Oriental languages and literature. I feel that after the war,
with the world made so much smaller by the use
of airlines all over the globe, I may be glad
to know all I can about the audience.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yes, that's Cord. How much further is this place where
the meeting is being held.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Oh, just across the next avenue, in that old brownstone house.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
I'm sure you'll enjoy the meeting with Swami Attu La
Nada being the lecture.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
He's wonderful, perhaps so, But I think I'm going to
enjoy talking to Star and Travers even more.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Well, mister Cutter, wasn't he wonderful?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yes, that's very interesting, much more intelectual than I expected.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Well, Mary, I see you've managed to convert mister Cutter.
That's past word.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I wouldn't call it conversion, Doctor Star. My main reason
for coming here was to talk to you and Professor Travis.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
You you want to talk to me, Carter, I do
just for a few minutes. Well, suppose we have lunch
first and then talk later.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
A good idea. Where shall we go?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Let's go to the Bombay Curry Shop, the best place
of its kime in town. Excellent, I'm starve.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
How about you, miss Cutter. I could certainly eat something.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Well, come on, then the curry shops.
Speaker 9 (14:13):
You see, mister Carter, this is the main dish, miss,
curried rice and vegetables.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
And then over there in the center of the restaurant,
on that long table there, those are the special seasoning
psycho order you help yourself to those.
Speaker 9 (14:25):
Whatever you want to go with this name dish such
as what old Bombay duck, dried saltfish, tamarind and other
spicy things set up the stars getting his Now.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Shall we try them.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Oh wow, I mean, come on, some of these things
are really delicious.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Here, professor, how about some of his tamarin? Have you
learned to like it yet?
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Ha ha?
Speaker 8 (14:44):
I ate tamarin before you were born. You may good
helping up with the star here you.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I it's delicious.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Take anything you like, mister Carter. You never know what's
good until you try it.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
You know it looks advertising. Let's try a little of
everything that certainly was good. I enjoyed that meal.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
I thought you would. A cigarette called over.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
No thanks, I don't smoke.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
How about your star careful one?
Speaker 9 (15:17):
No thanks, I prefer my own special mad Doctor Starr
is a cigarette fiend, mister Carter, but he won't smoke
anything but his own brand, said, any other kind makes
him sick.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
Well, gentlemen, now that we've taken care of the inner man,
i'd like to ask you a few questions about Shelby.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Sure, sure, ask away.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Well, we don't know.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
You won't tell you why, Professor, I believe you're drunk, don't, no, sir,
I never touched a drop of liquor. It's too intoxic
in tax it's not.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Good for you.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Well, you are a drunk professor, don't try to kid us.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I'm not I know what's eeding you.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
You're jealous. I'm I'm an a better man than you,
and I proved it.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Didn't I I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
No, you're a liar, scar you know?
Speaker 7 (16:06):
All right?
Speaker 6 (16:06):
All right?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
But she she with it travers travers dead the cotter.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
That's just the way Shelby died.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
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left Nick Carper in the Bombay curry shop where he
has been lunching. Suddenly Professor Travers uttered a few strains
remarks and fell over dead. Later that same afternoon, Nick
is talking to Lieutenant Raleigh in the latter's office.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
You said, Niggs, that is that tourer whatever it is,
killed him.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Huh, Well, obviously, Raleigh, all the symptoms are present, although
I didn't realize it until after it was all over.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
No, but Nick goodtill and Raley's chemist has analyzed all
the food in the restaurant and nothing out of the
way was found.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You all ate the same food, didn't you, Yes, Betsy,
we did.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Then how is it.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
That Professor Travis died and none of the rest of
you who were even sick?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I don't know yet.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Well, I think you're a nutsneak.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Now, look, you said, Travers and Shelby has got to
leave each other their collections of manuscripts, now.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Didn't you?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
That's what Mary said?
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Well, then Travers invited Shelby to his apartment and killed
him so as to get Shelby's collection. Then when you
started questioning him today, he gets careed and committed suice.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Hed It's as plain as he No, no, no, Riley,
that's impossible.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Man, a Travers type wouldn't kill himself to escape arrest.
He tried to kill me instead.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
He was an egotist, and his conversation proved egotist considered
suicide a sign of weakness.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
But if it was murdered, how is it done? They
canswer me that.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I'm not ready to answer that yet.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Well, have you got.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Even one little cruel that has It's murdered just one.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yes, Riley, I have you have?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Why did doctor Starr smoke one of Professor Travis' cigarettes
when they were at Traver's apartment When Mary tells me
he'd rather go without smoking than to smoke anything but
his own particular mixture.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
But they all smoked the same cigarettes that.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Day, nickoll me Shelby was killed where the Star coming?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
And today Nick, you said the jar did smoke? Is down? Nick?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yes, but facts are facts. Fancy. You can't get away
from that doctor Starr did something unusual. It probably was
done for reasons. The fact that I don't yet understand
the reason doesn't make it any less important.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Nicholas Carter's office is mister Carter the airplanes. This is Mary,
Divine's mother calling.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Oh Sureley, doctor, moment for.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You, Nick, Mary's mother.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Promises, Divine, What can I do for you?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Well, I just want you to.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Know that Mary will be a little lady meeting you,
meeting me. Yes, she expected to be there by ad o'clock.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Would you'll be delayed fifteen or twenty minutes?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Just a minute, mister. He expected to be where a
doctor Star's appartment as you asked her to When did
I ask her to meet me at doctor Starr's apartment?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Why why you phoned an hour ago?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I did not, I did not well.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Well whoever phone said he was you and said you
or he had something important.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
To tell her and asked her to be a doctor
Star's apartment by eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I'm glad you called, misters Devine. I'll take care of
it right away.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
What's wrong, mister Carter? Mary? Isn't it any danger?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Is she yet? And she might have been if you
hadn't called.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Please don't let anything happen.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Don't worry misus Devan. I'll take care of her, and
I'll take care of him too.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Come in, Mariya Carter.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yes, doctor Starr Carter, you expected me.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I know.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I thought you thought I was married to Vine, didn't you?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Why?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I Why do you say that? Mary's mother told me
you were the one who phoned her. Won't you clever?
Aren't you?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I phoned her.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
I had something I wanted to show.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I suppose you showed it to me instead. I don't
think you'd be interested Why you're wrong? I'd be interested
in anything about you? For example, why you smoked one
of Professor Travers's cigarettes yesterday at his apartment, when you
would usually prefer to go without rather than smoke anything
but your own particular mixture.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
I answer my question for you.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You wanted to kill Travers. It was blad Bud between
crab Bay over that woman Travers mentioned in the Curry
shot this afternoon. So you prepared a cigarette full of
the torah dried ground fine, and when you took one
of the cigarette and the pack, Travers had you substituted
the one you'd prepared. He knew Mary was safe because
she didn't smoke, but you made a mistake in your calculation.
Samwhere and Shelby got the poisoned cigarette instead of Traverse.
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Isn't that it? You're very clever, an't you? Mister Carter.
I've changed my mind and I do have something here
I want to show your FLEs hmm. I'm God was that?
But you're going to show Mary when she got here? No,
but I can't take any chance on you. Notice who
you are. How do you know it was God tour
kill Shelby. I recognize the symptoms as soon as Mary
told me what they were, and they were the same
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symptoms as Traver showed when they died this afternoon, died
from eating tamarins sprinkled with a turror powder.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Right, you seem to be always right, mister Carter. Yes,
I got to the condiment table first, sprinkled the poison
on some of the tamarins. Then I made sure Trevor's got.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
It, Starr, Why did you hate it so because he took.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
My girl away from me, took her away from me
just because he wanted to prove.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
He could do it.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
He didn't want her. In fact, after he got.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Her, he refused to marry her and broke her hut.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
She killed herself.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
He's an eating, batistical beast.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
And having got rid of Travers, you felt you had
to get rid of Mary too because you might unconsciously
betray you some way. Right, Quite right, my omnis and detective.
Now that you've played up all the mystery, I'm afraid.
Speaker 8 (22:59):
I shall let to get rid of you because I
can't have you going around.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Mary.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Come in. The one gets in here and the left
right taking care of you? Are you're wrong? Star? I
left the outside latch off when I came in earlier.
Let you come on in, Mary, You.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
I will tell you I.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Don't like having anyone try to finish me off. Star.
I've you heard it with a finishing off myself. He's
a minute, Come on in, Mary.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
How are you all right?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
And then what happened? Did you get what happened? Mister Connor?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Patty wouldn't tell me.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Doctor starrs no condition to ask you in, so I
will come on?
Speaker 7 (23:52):
What did you have to kill him?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Nick?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Oh Riley, you know me better than that. No, it's
just temporarily off. Let me get the.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Cushion of me before it comes to that'll hold him.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
You were right in it.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
It was the Star as Patsy.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
It was.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I felt pretty sure of it from the first. It
was being a botanist and the specialist and oriental plant life,
he'd know all about the datura plant. But I couldn't
figure out any motive for him to want to kill Shelby,
and that stopped me until Travers was killed. Then I
realized that maybe Starr didn't intend to kill Shelby at all.
It s turned out to be the case.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
But mister Carter, how did you know that it was
doctor Starr? Even when Professor Travis was killed.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
It was Travers himself who gave me the clue I needed.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
You remember what he said in the curry shop about
having proved himself a better man than Star.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
Yes, but I thought he was just raving Mary.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
He was doing that deliberately. The Fidanta philosophy teaches control
of the body to sharpen the mind, doesn't, Yes, it does.
I feel sure that when Travers knew he was dying,
that's just what he did, an extraordinary effort. He kept
his mind clear enough to accuse Star by giving me
Starr's motive for killing him. But he did it by insinuations.
So it's not the warm Star what he was doing.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
It's sure a new one on me using a Hindu
philosophy to accuse your murder.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Yes, Ranny, it is a new one. This shows you
how you can get something valuable out of anything you study.
Every religion, every system of thought, every philosophy has something
worthwhile in it, no matter how peculiar it may seem
to us at first. In just a moment, Nick and
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Well, what do you call this cheerful little tale?
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And now for today's mysterious adventure was Nick Carter.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
As we joined Nick and Passy and Nick Carter's office,
we find Nick talking to Riley on the phone. But
look here, Riley, I can't drop everything I'm doing and
help the police department out every time somebody gets killed.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
And I'm not asking you to a nikki, but this
is something special I think you'd enjoy working on.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yes, you always say that, Riley, every time you get stuck.
You tell me it's not usually interesting case.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
But this time it is.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Nick, honest, it is all right.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Give me one reason why it's not just a routine
murder case.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Because the guy was killed while a lot of other
people was around, and nobody knows what's happened.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
The medical examiner is you're in these squares.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
It's a Pyson case, but he's stuck completely.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
He's some queer stuff you never ran into before.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Now you're an expert on Pyson's, nick you are to
look into this.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
An unknown poison, huh, either giving him externally or internally.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
We don't know.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
There's not a trace of evidence to show how it
was done at tall and you know old Doc Buck
is no slouch when it comes to poisions.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh, but knows the stuff all right. You can't figure
it out.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
He's trying every tricky nose, Nickie, and nothing seems to work.
Speaker 7 (03:04):
When you take a run over here, you didn't see
what you can make of it?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Okay, Rally, what's the address.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
The Hamilton's apartments on River's Head Driven apartment.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Chief for it.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I'll be right here waiting for you within twenty minutes,
but it'd better be good.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Jes Nicky, you won't be sorry.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It is so long, so long, so he managed to
rope you did it?
Speaker 8 (03:23):
I don't know whether he's roped me or not, As
you so elegantly put it, it's got me interested enough,
so I'm going over and have a look at it.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
You want to come?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Do I want to come? You don't think I want
to sit around here when there's a medicase to be solved.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
To you not? Okay, get your hat, let's be on
our way.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Welcome to ourn and gathering, Nick, and you too.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Karence does not appear to highten.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
All right, all right, let's just spend there. The preliminaries rally,
get down the business right away? Who's that? And where's
a body?
Speaker 8 (03:59):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's real?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
And the boy yard now eh, okay, the corps is
pretty chilly. The explorer Shelby, Well, that fella's got more
lives than a cat.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Well he must have used up all none of them
if he's dead. Now.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
The body's right in here in the library, like.
Speaker 9 (04:14):
Look at all the book both of them pretty old too, French, German, Russian?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
That one Sanskrit? Betsy was there? Hindu? Who lives here? Rally?
This Shelby's apartment, Norning.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It belongs to Professor Alexandra Travers.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Travers. Oh yeah, it's a specialist on Hindu literature and philosophy. Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Human some of his friends were talking about that Hindu stuff,
and Shelby was killed.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Here's the body here, hmm, and that long not over an.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Hour, the doc says in that text is what the
others tell us.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
We're holding them here for now.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
The expression on his face, he must have died in terrible.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
AGONI no doubt of that, and there's no doubt if
it's being poisoned either, not with that look on his face.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Doug Book said the same thing, but not one of
his tests showed him what kind of prison was used.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
He's headed, could be most anything.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
That's the shift that light over. I want to say something, yes, yes, the.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Color of a skin practically blue white.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
He looks all much like a marble statue.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, Hi, rally where the rest of the party say,
you're holding him here?
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Here?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
They're in the next room. There's Professor Travers.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
This is his apartment, like I said, a good look,
and dame by the name of Mary Divine and doctor
Paul Starr, he's a college teacher. Now, they didn't know
what happened when they shall be passed out, so they
fought for an ambulance, and the intern took one look
at him and called.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Us anything else before I talk to them.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
They told the doc that none of them had eaten
or drug anything before after they came here. So the
doc figured maybe shall be was pisoned by the cigarettes
he smoke. So we sent all the butts and ashes
down to the lab for analysis.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
They sent down the.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Pack of cigarette two, only one packing him.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
They was all smoking out of the same pack.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Any report yet, no, No.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
I told him to call me here.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
This weesday finished.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
All right, have a look at your witnesses.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Get in here. This yere is Nick Carter. Folks, Nick,
this is Mary Devine. Here over here's Professor Travers.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Let's doctor start.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Let annoy you, miss Cutter at first, let's get straightened
out who you all are.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Professor Travers? What do you do?
Speaker 8 (06:27):
I teach oriental literature at the University of mister Carter.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
But I don't see what you got the star. What
do you do? I'm a botanist, mister Carter. I'm connected
with the university too indirectly, see you, mister Vine.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I'm just a student at the university.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
But a very fine student, mister Carter. Mister Vine won
a fellowship and oriental literature. She's done some excellent work.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And I of you know any possible motive for Shelby's death.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
I know we've been talking about it, and we're as
much in the dark as you are.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
What do you know about Shelby's Not very much.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
We have only one common interest, the Vedanta. As a
matter of fact, we first met him at a meeting
of the Vedanta Society. She shall be feeling all right
this afternoon, As far as we know, he said nothing
about feeling ill. Now tell me what happened here this
afternourse name as you can recall, you say you were
all sitting around talking. That's right, we were discussing the Vedanta.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Professor Travers can probably explain that better than I, Patsy.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
It's a philosophy of life, this first put forward fifteen
hundred years ago by Hindu scholars. It has to do
with controlling the bodily expression so as.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
To heighten the powers of the mind.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Why don't you come to a meeting of the Vadanta
Society with a someday that would explain it better than
I could?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Perhaps, thanks, maybe I will some days. But now what
happened here?
Speaker 8 (07:44):
Why we were all seated around smoking and chatting when
suddenly shall Be started to get faint.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
A few minutes he passed out.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
That's all you were all smoking?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yes, why I understand you were all smoking the same
brand of cigarette. Whose were they?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
They were mine?
Speaker 8 (07:58):
Miss Carter shall Be forgot to bring his pipe, and
Star was out of the private brand he smokes. I
had a full pack, so I used mine, even Star
smoked one. He usually wouldn't look at any cigarette that
wasn't his own private mixture.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Anything else you can think of, No, I think not.
That's all I know.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Nothing happened that was really unusual, except that mister Shelby died.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
All right, give your names and the addresses to Lieutenant Rally,
and don't leave town until we tell you can.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
That's all all right.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Make what do you make of it?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Oh? No, no affairent motive, no suspects, unknown poison. Of course,
it's too early to know.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Definitely, it couldn't be suicide, could he?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
No, I don't think so, Patty. I'm pretty sure it's murder.
But I'm also sure the murderer covered his tracks very thoroughly.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yes it didn't, Yes, I got it, of course, I'll
tell him.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Well, what did you expect?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Oh you, goodbye?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I gather that was Riley you were talking to you?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Gather right? He said to be here and tell you
that the laboratory reports absolutely nothing wrong with the cigarettes
or the butts of the ashes, all normal and natural.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Hmm, too bad, sort of hoping that I only never mind.
There's an answer somewhere and I'll find it, you get.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And he also said to tell you that Mary Divine
was coming in.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
To see you very shortly.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Now did you say what for?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
No, just said she was coming.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
And maybe she's remembered something and.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I'll get it next that maybe miss Divine.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Now or a bill collector.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Oh tell me miss Divine.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Good morning, mister Vine.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Morning, mister Carter.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
I don't know that what I have to tell you
is that any value, But I'll let you decide that
fair enough.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Do you know what this is? Oh? It's a beautiful flow?
Speaker 9 (09:59):
What is In India? They call it datura? It has
other names too, natura.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
But that's a poison, yes, Betty, after my notes on poison?
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Right here?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yet here you are, thanks gouraure, Yes here we are. Hmm.
Taste is pleasant given in small doses. It intoxicates strongly.
Food DRAMs will prove fatal at once, can be mixed
with food or drink, and will kill without leaving a trace.
(10:32):
Cannot be isolated unless the chemist knows what he's looking for.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
That's a nasty point in him.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
Yes, in India, mother's feed it to unwonted girl babies.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
It's divine. Where did you get this flower?
Speaker 9 (10:42):
I got its special delivery this morning. Doctor Starr got one,
and Professor Travis got one too, the same way I see.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
In other words, the murderer warns you that he's going
to kill all three of you, same way he murdered Chelmby.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
It looks that way. Why would you want to kill
all of them there?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Probably because he's afraid that they noticed something. When Shelby
was killed yesterday. They would give him away if they
told I know what about it.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
But I don't know anything, mister Carter. Neither do the others.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Perhaps you do, mister Vine. Don't realize it. It often
happens at any rate. The killer is taking no chances.
That's a car Alex. I have him tell the lab
what to look for. Maybe they can find some traces
of it. That way court.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
What do you think I'd better do, mister Carter.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Let's be very careful of what you eat or drink
with whom you associate for a few days. In the meantime,
I'll be busy finding out what I can. You have
any plans for the immediate future? No, not especially, And
you're sure nothing happened. If Professor Travers are propping yesterday.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
That would help us, No, mister Carter, not a thing.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I better see Stean Travis. Maybe they can tell me
something they overlooked the for.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Will mister Carter.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
They'll both be at the Bedanta Society meeting this morning
at eleven. Swami Atulnadi is speaking, and he's the favorite lecturer.
Why don't we go to the meeting too. You can
talk to them there.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Excellent's idea, mister Viran.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
If you take care of notifying the lad.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Thanks bessy, mister Ian, and I go into a meeting
of the Danta Society. You better stay here in case
Ronnie does learn anything. I'll call you later. You ready,
mister Van, Yes, all right, let's go.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I really don't know much about them, mister Carton, I.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Say, but perhaps you could tell me this how close
to Shelby were Travers and Star?
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Well, Paul Star barely knew him. As a matter of fact,
he met Shelby for the first.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Time yesterday, and Professor Travers, Oh.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
He and Shelby were pretty chummy. They had a common
interest in the Badante and they each have a collection
of rare sanscript manuscripts which they will to each other
when they die.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
You mean, whoever dies first bequeaths his manuscripts to the others.
How valuable all these manuscripts.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Oh, they're priceless, I understand.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Hmm. What about you? Why do you fit into this picture?
Speaker 9 (12:49):
Well, I I met them because of my interest in
Oriental languages and literature. I feel that after the war,
with the world made so much smaller by the use
of airlines all over the globe, I may be glad
to know all I can about the audience.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yes, that's Cord. How much further is this place where
the meeting is being held.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Oh, just across the next avenue, in that old brownstone house.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
I'm sure you'll enjoy the meeting with Swami Attu La
Nada being the lecture.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
He's wonderful, perhaps so, But I think I'm going to
enjoy talking to Star and Travers even more.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Well, mister Cutter, wasn't he wonderful?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yes, that's very interesting, much more intelectual than I expected.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Well, Mary, I see you've managed to convert mister Cutter.
That's past word.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I wouldn't call it conversion, Doctor Star. My main reason
for coming here was to talk to you and Professor Travis.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
You you want to talk to me, Carter, I do
just for a few minutes. Well, suppose we have lunch
first and then talk later.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
A good idea. Where shall we go?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Let's go to the Bombay Curry Shop, the best place
of its kime in town. Excellent, I'm starve.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
How about you, miss Cutter. I could certainly eat something.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Well, come on, then the curry shops.
Speaker 9 (14:13):
You see, mister Carter, this is the main dish, miss,
curried rice and vegetables.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
And then over there in the center of the restaurant,
on that long table there, those are the special seasoning
psycho order you help yourself to those.
Speaker 9 (14:25):
Whatever you want to go with this name dish such
as what old Bombay duck, dried saltfish, tamarind and other
spicy things set up the stars getting his Now.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Shall we try them.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Oh wow, I mean, come on, some of these things
are really delicious.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Here, professor, how about some of his tamarin? Have you
learned to like it yet?
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Ha ha?
Speaker 8 (14:44):
I ate tamarin before you were born. You may good
helping up with the star here you.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I it's delicious.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Take anything you like, mister Carter. You never know what's
good until you try it.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
You know it looks advertising. Let's try a little of
everything that certainly was good. I enjoyed that meal.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
I thought you would. A cigarette called over.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
No thanks, I don't smoke.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
How about your star careful one?
Speaker 9 (15:17):
No thanks, I prefer my own special mad Doctor Starr
is a cigarette fiend, mister Carter, but he won't smoke
anything but his own brand, said, any other kind makes
him sick.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
Well, gentlemen, now that we've taken care of the inner man,
i'd like to ask you a few questions about Shelby.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Sure, sure, ask away.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Well, we don't know.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
You won't tell you why, Professor, I believe you're drunk, don't, no, sir,
I never touched a drop of liquor. It's too intoxic
in tax it's not.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Good for you.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Well, you are a drunk professor, don't try to kid us.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I'm not I know what's eeding you.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
You're jealous. I'm I'm an a better man than you,
and I proved it.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Didn't I I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
No, you're a liar, scar you know?
Speaker 7 (16:06):
All right?
Speaker 6 (16:06):
All right?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
But she she with it travers travers dead the cotter.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
That's just the way Shelby died.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Well, here's another clue for Nick in his effort to
find out who killed Shelby, and how will he be
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left Nick Carper in the Bombay curry shop where he
has been lunching. Suddenly Professor Travers uttered a few strains
remarks and fell over dead. Later that same afternoon, Nick
is talking to Lieutenant Raleigh in the latter's office.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
You said, Niggs, that is that tourer whatever it is,
killed him.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Huh, Well, obviously, Raleigh, all the symptoms are present, although
I didn't realize it until after it was all over.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
No, but Nick goodtill and Raley's chemist has analyzed all
the food in the restaurant and nothing out of the
way was found.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You all ate the same food, didn't you, Yes, Betsy,
we did.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Then how is it.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
That Professor Travis died and none of the rest of
you who were even sick?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I don't know yet.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Well, I think you're a nutsneak.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Now, look, you said, Travers and Shelby has got to
leave each other their collections of manuscripts, now.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Didn't you?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
That's what Mary said?
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Well, then Travers invited Shelby to his apartment and killed
him so as to get Shelby's collection. Then when you
started questioning him today, he gets careed and committed suice.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Hed It's as plain as he No, no, no, Riley,
that's impossible.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Man, a Travers type wouldn't kill himself to escape arrest.
He tried to kill me instead.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
He was an egotist, and his conversation proved egotist considered
suicide a sign of weakness.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
But if it was murdered, how is it done? They
canswer me that.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I'm not ready to answer that yet.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Well, have you got.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Even one little cruel that has It's murdered just one.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yes, Riley, I have you have?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Why did doctor Starr smoke one of Professor Travis' cigarettes
when they were at Traver's apartment When Mary tells me
he'd rather go without smoking than to smoke anything but
his own particular mixture.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
But they all smoked the same cigarettes that.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Day, nickoll me Shelby was killed where the Star coming?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
And today Nick, you said the jar did smoke? Is down? Nick?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yes, but facts are facts. Fancy. You can't get away
from that doctor Starr did something unusual. It probably was
done for reasons. The fact that I don't yet understand
the reason doesn't make it any less important.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Nicholas Carter's office is mister Carter the airplanes. This is Mary,
Divine's mother calling.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Oh Sureley, doctor, moment for.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You, Nick, Mary's mother.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Promises, Divine, What can I do for you?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Well, I just want you to.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Know that Mary will be a little lady meeting you,
meeting me. Yes, she expected to be there by ad o'clock.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Would you'll be delayed fifteen or twenty minutes?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Just a minute, mister. He expected to be where a
doctor Star's appartment as you asked her to When did
I ask her to meet me at doctor Starr's apartment?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Why why you phoned an hour ago?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I did not, I did not well.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Well whoever phone said he was you and said you
or he had something important.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
To tell her and asked her to be a doctor
Star's apartment by eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I'm glad you called, misters Devine. I'll take care of
it right away.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
What's wrong, mister Carter? Mary? Isn't it any danger?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Is she yet? And she might have been if you
hadn't called.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Please don't let anything happen.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Don't worry misus Devan. I'll take care of her, and
I'll take care of him too.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Come in, Mariya Carter.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yes, doctor Starr Carter, you expected me.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I know.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I thought you thought I was married to Vine, didn't you?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Why?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I Why do you say that? Mary's mother told me
you were the one who phoned her. Won't you clever?
Aren't you?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I phoned her.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
I had something I wanted to show.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
I suppose you showed it to me instead. I don't
think you'd be interested Why you're wrong? I'd be interested
in anything about you? For example, why you smoked one
of Professor Travers's cigarettes yesterday at his apartment, when you
would usually prefer to go without rather than smoke anything
but your own particular mixture.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
I answer my question for you.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You wanted to kill Travers. It was blad Bud between
crab Bay over that woman Travers mentioned in the Curry
shot this afternoon. So you prepared a cigarette full of
the torah dried ground fine, and when you took one
of the cigarette and the pack, Travers had you substituted
the one you'd prepared. He knew Mary was safe because
she didn't smoke, but you made a mistake in your calculation.
Samwhere and Shelby got the poisoned cigarette instead of Traverse.
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Isn't that it? You're very clever, an't you? Mister Carter.
I've changed my mind and I do have something here
I want to show your FLEs hmm. I'm God was that?
But you're going to show Mary when she got here? No,
but I can't take any chance on you. Notice who
you are. How do you know it was God tour
kill Shelby. I recognize the symptoms as soon as Mary
told me what they were, and they were the same
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symptoms as Traver showed when they died this afternoon, died
from eating tamarins sprinkled with a turror powder.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Right, you seem to be always right, mister Carter. Yes,
I got to the condiment table first, sprinkled the poison
on some of the tamarins. Then I made sure Trevor's got.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
It, Starr, Why did you hate it so because he took.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
My girl away from me, took her away from me
just because he wanted to prove.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
He could do it.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
He didn't want her. In fact, after he got.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Her, he refused to marry her and broke her hut.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
She killed herself.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
He's an eating, batistical beast.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
And having got rid of Travers, you felt you had
to get rid of Mary too because you might unconsciously
betray you some way. Right, Quite right, my omnis and detective.
Now that you've played up all the mystery, I'm afraid.
Speaker 8 (22:59):
I shall let to get rid of you because I
can't have you going around.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Mary.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Come in. The one gets in here and the left
right taking care of you? Are you're wrong? Star? I
left the outside latch off when I came in earlier.
Let you come on in, Mary, You.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
I will tell you I.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Don't like having anyone try to finish me off. Star.
I've you heard it with a finishing off myself. He's
a minute, Come on in, Mary.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
How are you all right?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
And then what happened? Did you get what happened? Mister Connor?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Patty wouldn't tell me.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Doctor starrs no condition to ask you in, so I
will come on?
Speaker 7 (23:52):
What did you have to kill him?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Nick?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Oh Riley, you know me better than that. No, it's
just temporarily off. Let me get the.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Cushion of me before it comes to that'll hold him.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
You were right in it.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
It was the Star as Patsy.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
It was.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I felt pretty sure of it from the first. It
was being a botanist and the specialist and oriental plant life,
he'd know all about the datura plant. But I couldn't
figure out any motive for him to want to kill Shelby,
and that stopped me until Travers was killed. Then I
realized that maybe Starr didn't intend to kill Shelby at all.
It s turned out to be the case.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
But mister Carter, how did you know that it was
doctor Starr? Even when Professor Travis was killed.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
It was Travers himself who gave me the clue I needed.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
You remember what he said in the curry shop about
having proved himself a better man than Star.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
Yes, but I thought he was just raving Mary.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
He was doing that deliberately. The Fidanta philosophy teaches control
of the body to sharpen the mind, doesn't, Yes, it does.
I feel sure that when Travers knew he was dying,
that's just what he did, an extraordinary effort. He kept
his mind clear enough to accuse Star by giving me
Starr's motive for killing him. But he did it by insinuations.
So it's not the warm Star what he was doing.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
It's sure a new one on me using a Hindu
philosophy to accuse your murder.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Yes, Ranny, it is a new one. This shows you
how you can get something valuable out of anything you study.
Every religion, every system of thought, every philosophy has something
worthwhile in it, no matter how peculiar it may seem
to us at first. In just a moment, Nick and
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Next time? Black widows can? What kind of widows are
black widows? Less spiders can? Poisonous spiders, but they've been.
Speaker 9 (27:14):
Very lovely webs that are used by the Army and
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Speaker 3 (27:18):
The web of black widow spiders is unexcelled for making
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Speaker 1 (27:34):
But a black widow stopped him with nicked out.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Well, what do you call this cheerful little tale?
Speaker 9 (27:39):
Webs of murder or the Mystery of the black widow Spiders?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Complete details next week. So long, So long everybody, and
so long to both of you, Nick and Patsy. We'll
be waiting for your story next week as usual. Next week,
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