August 14, 2025 • 29 mins
Richard Diamond, Private Detective was an American detective drama, created by Blake Edwards, which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953. Dick Powell starred as Richard Diamond in the radio series as a wisecracking former police officer turned private detective. Episodes often had Diamond taking on a case at the behest of his friend and former partner, Lt. Walter Levinson. The plot remained relatively unchanged throughout the series, with the hard-boiled Diamond enduring physical confrontations while tackling a challenging murder investigation, aided by the police department. Notably, despite the numerous gun battles, Diamond was never injured by gunfire. Most episodes end with Diamond at the piano, singing a popular song to his girlfriend, Helen Asher. This radio program was later adapted successfully to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
The makers of Camel's Cigarettes present Dick Powell as Richard
Diamond Private Detective. The proof of a cigarette is in
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steady smoke for you? Here transcribed is Richard Diamond Private Detective,
starring Dick Powell, Diamond Detective Agency for Mayhem of Distinction.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh yes, oh no, why distinction?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I said that?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
And I said, was it that bad?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Say it?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Diamond Detective Agency for Mayhem of Distinction.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Mmm?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
See yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Well what am I going to do about? What about
slogans gets tough after a while?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
How about when I call you up, I give the
slogan instead?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Well, I don't know, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You don't know?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I'll have to give you an audition. I need a
new one every morning. Fine, starting tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I'll call you back the minute.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I have one pleasure.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm going to see you tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Sure about seven.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'll call you back the minute.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I have timon, Well, what can I talk to you?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Sure? Come on in, Rick, somebody just came in.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Oh bye bye, wow a long time, Tinny.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, what are gonna do for you?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
You get a proposition?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
You do? Huh?
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
You like to make yourself twenty five hundred tiny. I
like money, but when a guy like you has a
proposition turned me.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Up and up. Damon.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, if it is, it's the first time.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Well you got to do is listen. If you don't
like it, you.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Don't take it for twenty five hundred dollars.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Read the papers this month, Yeah, al Brenner skipped.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I read that al Brenner's was supposed to pay before
the grand jury.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I had enough on him to put him away for
twenty years.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Five thousand dollars. Uh huh. Twenty five hundred would be
half of that, wouldn't it?
Speaker 8 (02:48):
Just have me?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Where is he? That's what you wanted me to listen to,
isn't it.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
But I'm not sure I know where he is.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I just think you want me to make sure that
I want you to help.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
I got the leave, but I don't want to turn
him in me.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
You know what happens if the boys find out you tippany.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Or I give it a lot of thought.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Look, tiny, Donny, I gotta be honest. I don't like you.
What's okay?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I never did well.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Done you a few favors when he was a cop.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
You came out all right, and I still didn't like you.
I don't like professional schoolies, a little kid especially. I
don't like one for a partner.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Well, then take the whole five thousand and pay me
for my services.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
No, No, If I can do wal Levens in the
favor and bring in Brenner's and still make twenty five hundred, we'll.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Split it right down the middle. It's a deal as
long as I don't have to see you too much. Now,
this is what I've got. There's a guy named Stringer.
You heard him, I don't think so. But he's not
a local boy. He's an import.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Used to work for Brennard's back in Saint Louis nineteen
twenty nine thirty.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
When Brenne's moved east, he stayed and did himself some good.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
That's before my time. Well, Stringers in town.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
So what I hear Brennie's ain't even skip town. He's
hiding out, riding town somewhere until the heat cools.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
That'd be smart, he knows they'd cover everything in and out.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Well, Brenners skipped yesterday morning. The lawd didn't spot it
until the afternoon. I heard about.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Stringing, and I started thinking Brenner's needs a contact.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
He's smart, and.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
He wouldn't trust any of his local boys. Mmm, so
stringers that, Yeah, that's all you've got. No.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I followed Stringer last night and now lay ten to one.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You saw Brenner's.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Where you meet me tonight at the corner of Mapleland, Palm.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Maple and Palm Long Island. Well, what's out there?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
You'll be there, I'll show you.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Oh look, Tiny you Yeah, I'm just playing the safe diamond.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I'd tell you everything. You could make the score wrong
and I couldn't open my mouth.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Okay, Tiny, what time eight o'clock?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Well, I'd made a deal with Tiny Gillespie half of
a five thousand dollars reward for al Brenner is one
of the biggest hoodlums in the business. I'd known Tiny
for a lot of years. He was a professional stoolie,
who the underworld like the inside of his shirt and
didn't have a friend of his name. It was dangerous
doing business with tiny, but twenty five one hundred can
take the edge off a lot of danger. I went home,
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changed my clothes, and was about to pick up the
phone to call Helen.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, I called your office. Oh h how's this di'mond
Detective Agency. If you can't get Sherlock or Perry Mason
for one hundred a day, I start chasing hell pretty good.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Huh oh, it's great, I thought, so, just great.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Why did you leave your office so early?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I was just gonna call you, y, I can't make
it until late. Sleet that I'm sorry, but I.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Started such a wonderful.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Dinner and I started making twenty five hundred dollars.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Twenty five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yes, well, you just take your time. The dinner's not
that important.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I knew you would understand.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Now, work hard and don't worry about me.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I'll see you when you solve the cake and get
the twenty five hundred rick.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You don't think that I'm only interested in the money,
not in.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
A million dollars years. Because Helen was so interested in
my welfare I managed to borrow her convertible, and by
eight o'clock I was parked at the corner of Maple
and Palm on Long Island. It was easy to understand
why Tiny had picked the spot to meet. It was
as dark as a mind chef, and there wasn't a
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house within a half mile. I let a camel sat
back to wake. It got to be eight fifteen and
Tiny still hadn't arrived. By eight thirty, I was beginning
to wonder if he ever would, and by nine I
was sure he wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I turned the car back for town, kicked myself all
the way there.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
A guy liked Tiny you couldn't trust, and I was
seeming a little more than guilty for getting involved.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
By the time I had brought away, I was mad
at in a wild bull with a hot foot.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I turned right, drove down to the river and a
dive called a Purple Guiter, a hangout for a winose bum,
and a STOOLI named Tiny Gillespie. There were only a
few customers in the room, and a bar the name
Sampson that I'd done business with before.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
All mister Damon Ala Sampson, I'm looking for Tiny Gillespie.
Mean here, how about a drink?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Mmm?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
No, I'm not interested in the long illness. Have you
seen Tan earlier? What's earlier? Around seven? He left around seven?
No where he was going. He didn't leave no quoting address.
What's he doing? I was just looking for him? If
you see him telling that with him? Oh Kellen, hey
friendy yours? Well? Well?
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Rick? Get the skits? What are you doing looking for
a chocolate bald aloe?
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Samson? Islet not fristy? You guys are turning into knobs.
You don't give us much choice. Samson, it's that a
a stomach pump. I showed your insults with complete into it.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Who are you looking for? Paddy? Who says I? When
you're wearing that official from proom Brawl Levinson? Samson? You
see tiny Gillespie and he's getting poppy? What do you mean?
Ho ho ho? What do you mean? He's getting popular?
This is the diamond? Was just to ask him for him?
Oh that's what I'm in.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
What did you want him for?
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Rick?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
He was supposed to meet me? Why just to talk
about what all?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Stop acting like a copy what's it all about?
Speaker 7 (08:24):
I'm just stay him checking on Chinese activities prior to
eight o'clock tonight.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And just what did Tiny do prior to eight o'clock tonight?
For one thing, he got himself killed.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
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Speaker 8 (09:43):
Oh my.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Lorette, me make the camel thirty.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
You see smoke camels.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And now back to Richard. I am in Private Detective
starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
It all started when a professional stool pigeon named Tiny
Gillespie thought he knew the whereabouts of al.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Brenner's missing defended and a grand jury investigation.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Tiny had agreed to meet me at eight o'clock that night,
but he never showed up, and when I went looking
for him, I ran into Lieutenant Walt eleventh and fifth
Precinct Police.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Walt told me Tiny had been killed. We went out
of the station where we talked more about it.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
He was killed sometime between seven thirty and eight where
about a half mile from where you say you were
supposed to meet him.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Oh, beaten there?
Speaker 9 (10:41):
Why that's right.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Somebody really worked him over. And I got a medical
report here, sir. Here here it is broken back fracture
of the female fracture.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Okay, okay, he was a miss a cookie bright eye.
Yeah no thanks, daddy, help yourself. That's part of your diet.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Whoope's a weight off you?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
That's obvious. Tell me, h, skinny you ever? He have
a hood named Stringer. Stringly Saint Louis worked for al
Brenner's in nineteen twenty nine thirty or where what she
got to do with Dony's been following him. Doney thought
Stringer was working as a contact for Brenner's. Tiny say
Brunners was still in town.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Mmmm, he thought so. He said he followed the Stringers
on placed, and he believed he met with Brennis.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Rick.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You ought to know better than get mixed up with
a guy like Tiny.
Speaker 9 (11:27):
You ought to double date with my conscience, Ah Drake
Bury co you do oh most from coffee?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah? Black, sure of the usual twelve plumps. Listen, sweety pie.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
If Breners is close and Tiny was supposed to meet
you a half mile from.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Where he was killed, it's a good bet Brenners could
still be in that area.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Unless he skipped again and found out Tiny had him spotted.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
M Well, he knows he'd never get out of town now.
And I don't think he's too worried about killing Tiny.
I don't think he'd ever figured Tiny would tell anybody
what he knew. You know, it's Tiny. He's done business
with the law.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Mm.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
And he knows that the law would have come instead
of Tiny. That's right. I think Brenner's is worried, But
if he's got a good hideout, I think it's stay put.
Here's a lab report on the Tiny.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Straight pigs from the bottom of his shoes indicate fertilizer
and new grass. Tiny's body was lying at the bottom
of a gully nothing but dirt.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Play m any houses near not from miles? Show me
on the map where the body was found.
Speaker 9 (12:24):
Yea, right, then, mm I was supposed to meet him
there Maple and palm, sure as much in that section.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Tiny couldn't have been too far from me before he
was killed. He wouldn't have picked maple and palm if
it was very fire for but he wanted to show me.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Uh makes sense, because they sure wouldn't dump his body
too close to Brenner's hideout.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Okay, okay, maybe they drawing five or ten miles five
or ten miles in every direction from mabele and Palm.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
That's a lot of territory. Yeah, I know, Well, you
better start checking it. I've got a hunt shore big.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Up Brenner's I'll put it out on a bb on
a stringer guy. As soon as I checked the record
and talk with St. Louis for a description.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Fine, I'll see you later. Where are you going to
see if I can beat you to Brenner's.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Oh, honey, with tiny dead there's a big old five
thousand dollar in one chunk.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I'll let you know if I find Brenners. I don't
want that glory, just the loot.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I left the station, climbed in the car and a
drive to a gas station, where I filled up with
gas and picked up.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
A map of the Long Island section.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Then I went back to my office and started checking
the Long Island phone directory. I knew it would take
me a week to find a new lawn, and Walter
was already doing that, so I concentrated on something else.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I looked for some place that might sell.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Fertilizer and grass seed. There was one such place in
that area, Hudson Garden Supplies, And there was a phone.
I took a chance at maybe the owner or someone
lived there, and called it, Ay.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Is this the Hudson Garden Supply? Is this the Hudson Guden?
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Yeah? Who is this?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Who is this?
Speaker 8 (14:04):
This is Hudson? Who is this?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
My name's Diamond.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
Well, what do you want is after twelve?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Did you sell any fertilizer a grass seat in the
last two or three weeks?
Speaker 8 (14:11):
Are you kidding? You do sell fertilizer, A lokwise guy.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Oh, come on, this is police business, police wal Elevenson,
faith pray sinct.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I thought you said your name was Diamond. You want
us to come out and put you out of bed?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Oh look, I'm sorry. It sounds like a cag.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Have you sold any fertilizer a grass seat in the
last few weeks?
Speaker 8 (14:30):
Yeah, and a lot of fertilizer. It's good fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Any grass seed? Yeah, to an address in that area.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
A couple of weeks ago. I saw the big load.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Who'd you sell it to?
Speaker 8 (14:39):
No? Remember the bill? Have to look it up.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Look it up now unless you want us to come
out there and help you.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Okay, hold the phone.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Where is yah?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Hello?
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Yeah, that grass seat went to seventy seven eighty eight Choreum.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
What's the name of the bill?
Speaker 8 (15:01):
The Hillview Rest Home.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You sell any other grass seat the last week?
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Oh, it's a lot of flowers, plants, plenty of fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
You must love your work.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I climbed back into the car and headed back to
Long Island in seventy seven eighty eighth shore On drive.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Forty minutes later, I pulled up on a lonely, dark
road and turned the car lights out.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
The Hillview Rest home stood out against the moon like
a lonely castle. It was dark except for a light
in one of the wings, and the grounds was surrounded
by a high fence.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I got out of the car and started walking.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
I kept going until I found a section of fence
that a man might climb and not be seen from
the house. I went up and over, dropping down and
stopping my fall with my hands. When I felt my hands, they.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Were wet and covered with new grass.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
There were about a hundred yards between the fence and
a main building, and the moon reflected off the wet
grass like a mirror. If anybody was watching from the house,
I'd never make it without being seen. I'd bet as
low as I could and ran about half way his stock.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Listening.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
It was like a bad green crouching under the moon,
trying to make my breath come out slowly so it
wouldn't show against the coal, and feeling like I wanted
to dig a hole and hide right there, or better still,
wake up. I started again, running low, looking from side
to side but never behind. I got to the main
building and slammed myself against it. I stayed there until
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I caught my breath, and I moved around to the
front door and tried it.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I got the surprise of my life. It was open.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I found myself standing in a large room, dark except
for a small red light burning over a.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Door at the back.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
A staircase to my left led to the floors above,
and there was another smaller room to my right that
was black except for the shafts of moonlight slanting down
through the barred windows. Barred windows, and an open door.
Something was wrong, Nor move, no move. He was behind me,
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probably waiting behind the door. When I came in, and
with a door on locked like that. It figured he
had been expecting me in that case, you'll put my back.
I'll take your gun.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I don't have one. What would you call this? Oh
that's really just a big cigarette ladder?
Speaker 9 (17:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Your wallet? What is this of ITCHI dimond?
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Private detective, A private detective who may retire.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yeah, I think I can guarantee it. Did you stop
me causing along?
Speaker 5 (17:58):
When you climb the fence it set off an alarm?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Well, my car broke gun. I thought you could use
the phone. Yeah, I'm afraid I don't believe you. Better
come down and see he's a private detective, got out
a light, he had a gun. Well you know, hello, Brenners, he's.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
A private cap alright, used to be a legit cap.
All right, you damon surprised. I thought you skipped You
know I didn't. Tiny got you, Tiny.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I told you, I told you. We shut up. Look,
you got to get out of here. I lose my
whole business. He's making enough of But now with.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
This private detective, that man last night, you're telling you
how many more.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I don't know who you're talking about, Brenners. I'm just
as surprised at seeing you as you lie. Brendors. Please,
he might have told the police what he knows be
here by my mouth he had. You're gonna be in
a little trouble hiding out a man who's wanted by
the federal government. He's right, Brenners. Whether he's trying to
talk himself out of a gem or not, he's right.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Relax and string again here. I'll leaves meantime. You better
take care of Diamond. You mean, like, yeah, the way
you did with Tiny Gillspie. No, but he's in there.
You don't want to lose this place, do you?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
No?
Speaker 4 (19:13):
And I don't want anybody around to talk about me.
How come you work tiny over like that? Why didn't
you just use your gun? You're in for a three
dimon You're gonna have a hard time working me over
like that. Oh, we're not gonna do a thing. Better
take him downstairs. Stream should be here anymore. Yeah, all right,
walk over to that door.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I see you again, Diamond. Yeah, open the door.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Go on.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I'll have to shoot you. Keep going down those stairs.
You're not going a big mistake. I have no choice.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
State's evidence might get you off easy. I want a
murder charge, might get just life.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
And I might not stop right there. Open the door
and going in on a law Shoot you right here? Okay,
alf alf, I'm here. What is that? I got somebody
for you, alf get in there. I love it. I
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was locked in the basement and there was someone else
there with me. It was a man. His head was
shaved clean, and his eyes were wild and staring.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
He was sitting in the corner, and as he pulled
himself up, he looked at me, tipped his head to
one side like he was listening to something.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I've gotta take care of you too, man.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Then he was on his feet shoulders hunks and his
arms hanging at his sides, and even benthover like that.
He must have been six and a half feet tall.
He shuffled towards me like an ape, and I realized
what it was that had given Tiny such a beating.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
You're a big lasson. You're gonna give me a little funny,
easy boy, easy.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
And I put my back to the wall and kept
settling him.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
But he seemed to enjoy watching me try to get away.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
He'd reach out when I got he'd smile a horrible
mouthful of teeth and rub his hands together like a
little kid with a new game. I kept moving, talking
to him, trying to calm him down, but I knew
there wasn't a chance. The basement was a solid four
walls and the heavy locked door, and one of us
would have to die before the night was over. The
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way things stood, it was pretty obvious to what it
was going to be. And if I kept running, I
was going to get tired and dialoct with Wicker.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I stopped to play no more. He looked almost unhappy,
like he wanted to keep on playing. I wasn't going
to be able to.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
He started moving in again, and I kicked him as
heart as I could in the stomach.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
He doubled over him for a second. I felt bad.
Then he straightened and rushed me.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
He got his arms around me, and it was like
being caught by a ball constrictor.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
The hard I fought the tier he squeeze.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I started to pass out, thought I heard shots.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Then he picked me up over his head and threw
me the length of the room.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I tried to sit up, but I was two dazed.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
In the half light, I watched him shuffle in his arms, swinging.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
He was so strong and didn't even know he was
fighting a man.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Just a doll that wouldn't play anymore, and he was
gonna break it in a thousand pieces. He reached for
me just when somebody on the other side of the
door started shooting. The giant stopped as the boat of
the door was pulled back, and then he turned.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
You come to fight me? To look on, Rick?
Speaker 7 (23:02):
How'd you find me? All located? Stringer and tail them?
So Heaven's car parked outside the fence.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
There is that thing.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Over there, just an animal. He used to be a man.
That's the way Tiny got killed.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
How bad are you? Oh? Just shaking up but another
couple of minutes. Way, I'll give you a hand. Thanks. Hmmm,
you get Brunner's.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
Yeah, they're putting him in the car.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
You know me, I'm okay. What was all the shooting
outside the door? Oh? Barnes, he didn't want to let me?
And who told you? I was down here?
Speaker 7 (23:40):
In a minute we came through the front door. Barns
headed down the stairs. I spotted him and went after him.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Bless you a little high? What are you gonna do
with that five thousand? Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
What I'm going to buy you the best peasant you
ever had in your life?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Oh Rick, you like it, dear?
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Oh it's a beautiful stone.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Well it's it's really nothing.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Nothing got the beast during a summer safari in Africa.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Goodbye, Joe, this is mink.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
What did you expect you, old girl? And borne meadow
mouth rabbid?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Look here listened to minth of in ten thousand miles
of Africa.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Come to think if he was rather winded. Don't laugh,
ole girl.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
That mink was the biggest animal I've ever seen, stood
six feet high, and way one hundred and eighty couldn't
kill him? Well, then, how did you ever get the store,
gave him a haircut.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Was right there and play the piano while I run
upstairs and.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Put on something that'll show off my store.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
No memory.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Oh baaby what.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
I with plenty of money and boom in spite of
the worry that money brings just a little.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Filthy looker buys a lot.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Of things, and the blagon take you.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
The places where you'd like to go.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
But outside of that, I've no use for gold.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
It's the root of all evil, of strife and up
e a.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
But I'm certain, honey, that life could be sunny with
plenty of money.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
And you thank you? How do I look? Oh?
Speaker 4 (25:49):
That mink never had it so good? Right there, I'm
going to buy you the fancy I got it. Ashes,
make fine, b you're present, arrive. Oh I hope you
like it.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
Lost, I don't know how to thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Well, it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I know.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
We have it in good health and I'll see you soon.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
I'll never forget you for this.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Old man bye. What he loved his present?
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Oh you gonna have a present too.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
But he saved my life. I bought him a beautiful
cashmere uniform. Kashmir, you couldn't get all red. Now let's go.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
There, Rick, you must have spent an awful lot of
money for.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
The people I love. I've still got about fifteen hundred lefs.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
That's pretty good after taxes, taxes, Rick, Oh, give me
a pencil, give me petcul right there.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Understand, didn't you take out any good holding five.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Thousand dollars seven hundred and fifty casual uniform a seven
fifty meat stole.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Take away, take away, take away.
Speaker 10 (26:51):
Yeah, I owe the government sixteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Dick Powell will return in just a minute.
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The brand name most was camel. Yes.
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Speaker 6 (27:36):
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Speaker 3 (27:43):
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Speaker 3 (28:09):
Now NTI next week, enjoy camels I always.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Do to Night's transcribed adventure of Richard Diamond was written
and directed by Blake Edwards, with music by Frank Worth.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Virginia Gregg played the part.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Of Helamasher and Alan Reid was Lieutenant Levinson.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Others in the cast.
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Speaker 3 (29:05):
Ten.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Listen next week for another exciting adventure of Richard Diamond,
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This program came to you from Hollywood. This is the
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steady smoke for you? Here transcribed is Richard Diamond Private Detective,
starring Dick Powell, Diamond Detective Agency for Mayhem of Distinction.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh yes, oh no, why distinction?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I said that?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
And I said, was it that bad?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Say it?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Diamond Detective Agency for Mayhem of Distinction.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Mmm?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
See yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Well what am I going to do about? What about
slogans gets tough after a while?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
How about when I call you up, I give the
slogan instead?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Well, I don't know, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You don't know?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I'll have to give you an audition. I need a
new one every morning. Fine, starting tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I'll call you back the minute.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I have one pleasure.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm going to see you tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Sure about seven.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'll call you back the minute.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I have timon, Well, what can I talk to you?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Sure? Come on in, Rick, somebody just came in.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Oh bye bye, wow a long time, Tinny.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, what are gonna do for you?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
You get a proposition?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
You do? Huh?
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
You like to make yourself twenty five hundred tiny. I
like money, but when a guy like you has a
proposition turned me.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Up and up. Damon.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, if it is, it's the first time.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Well you got to do is listen. If you don't
like it, you.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Don't take it for twenty five hundred dollars.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
Listen.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Read the papers this month, Yeah, al Brenner skipped.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I read that al Brenner's was supposed to pay before
the grand jury.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I had enough on him to put him away for
twenty years.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Five thousand dollars. Uh huh. Twenty five hundred would be
half of that, wouldn't it?
Speaker 8 (02:48):
Just have me?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Where is he? That's what you wanted me to listen to,
isn't it.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
But I'm not sure I know where he is.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I just think you want me to make sure that
I want you to help.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
I got the leave, but I don't want to turn
him in me.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
You know what happens if the boys find out you tippany.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Or I give it a lot of thought.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Look, tiny, Donny, I gotta be honest. I don't like you.
What's okay?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I never did well.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Done you a few favors when he was a cop.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
You came out all right, and I still didn't like you.
I don't like professional schoolies, a little kid especially. I
don't like one for a partner.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Well, then take the whole five thousand and pay me
for my services.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
No, No, If I can do wal Levens in the
favor and bring in Brenner's and still make twenty five hundred, we'll.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Split it right down the middle. It's a deal as
long as I don't have to see you too much. Now,
this is what I've got. There's a guy named Stringer.
You heard him, I don't think so. But he's not
a local boy. He's an import.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Used to work for Brennard's back in Saint Louis nineteen
twenty nine thirty.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
When Brenne's moved east, he stayed and did himself some good.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
That's before my time. Well, Stringers in town.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
So what I hear Brennie's ain't even skip town. He's
hiding out, riding town somewhere until the heat cools.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
That'd be smart, he knows they'd cover everything in and out.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Well, Brenners skipped yesterday morning. The lawd didn't spot it
until the afternoon. I heard about.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Stringing, and I started thinking Brenner's needs a contact.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
He's smart, and.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
He wouldn't trust any of his local boys. Mmm, so
stringers that, Yeah, that's all you've got. No.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I followed Stringer last night and now lay ten to one.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You saw Brenner's.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Where you meet me tonight at the corner of Mapleland, Palm.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Maple and Palm Long Island. Well, what's out there?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
You'll be there, I'll show you.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Oh look, Tiny you Yeah, I'm just playing the safe diamond.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I'd tell you everything. You could make the score wrong
and I couldn't open my mouth.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Okay, Tiny, what time eight o'clock?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Well, I'd made a deal with Tiny Gillespie half of
a five thousand dollars reward for al Brenner is one
of the biggest hoodlums in the business. I'd known Tiny
for a lot of years. He was a professional stoolie,
who the underworld like the inside of his shirt and
didn't have a friend of his name. It was dangerous
doing business with tiny, but twenty five one hundred can
take the edge off a lot of danger. I went home,
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changed my clothes, and was about to pick up the
phone to call Helen.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, I called your office. Oh h how's this di'mond
Detective Agency. If you can't get Sherlock or Perry Mason
for one hundred a day, I start chasing hell pretty good.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Huh oh, it's great, I thought, so, just great.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Why did you leave your office so early?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I was just gonna call you, y, I can't make
it until late. Sleet that I'm sorry, but I.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Started such a wonderful.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Dinner and I started making twenty five hundred dollars.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Twenty five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yes, well, you just take your time. The dinner's not
that important.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I knew you would understand.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Now, work hard and don't worry about me.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I'll see you when you solve the cake and get
the twenty five hundred rick.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You don't think that I'm only interested in the money,
not in.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
A million dollars years. Because Helen was so interested in
my welfare I managed to borrow her convertible, and by
eight o'clock I was parked at the corner of Maple
and Palm on Long Island. It was easy to understand
why Tiny had picked the spot to meet. It was
as dark as a mind chef, and there wasn't a
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house within a half mile. I let a camel sat
back to wake. It got to be eight fifteen and
Tiny still hadn't arrived. By eight thirty, I was beginning
to wonder if he ever would, and by nine I
was sure he wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I turned the car back for town, kicked myself all
the way there.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
A guy liked Tiny you couldn't trust, and I was
seeming a little more than guilty for getting involved.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
By the time I had brought away, I was mad
at in a wild bull with a hot foot.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I turned right, drove down to the river and a
dive called a Purple Guiter, a hangout for a winose bum,
and a STOOLI named Tiny Gillespie. There were only a
few customers in the room, and a bar the name
Sampson that I'd done business with before.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
All mister Damon Ala Sampson, I'm looking for Tiny Gillespie.
Mean here, how about a drink?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Mmm?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
No, I'm not interested in the long illness. Have you
seen Tan earlier? What's earlier? Around seven? He left around seven?
No where he was going. He didn't leave no quoting address.
What's he doing? I was just looking for him? If
you see him telling that with him? Oh Kellen, hey
friendy yours? Well? Well?
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Rick? Get the skits? What are you doing looking for
a chocolate bald aloe?
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Samson? Islet not fristy? You guys are turning into knobs.
You don't give us much choice. Samson, it's that a
a stomach pump. I showed your insults with complete into it.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Who are you looking for? Paddy? Who says I? When
you're wearing that official from proom Brawl Levinson? Samson? You
see tiny Gillespie and he's getting poppy? What do you mean?
Ho ho ho? What do you mean? He's getting popular?
This is the diamond? Was just to ask him for him?
Oh that's what I'm in.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
What did you want him for?
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Rick?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
He was supposed to meet me? Why just to talk
about what all?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Stop acting like a copy what's it all about?
Speaker 7 (08:24):
I'm just stay him checking on Chinese activities prior to
eight o'clock tonight.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And just what did Tiny do prior to eight o'clock tonight?
For one thing, he got himself killed.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
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Speaker 8 (09:43):
Oh my.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Lorette, me make the camel thirty.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
You see smoke camels.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And now back to Richard. I am in Private Detective
starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
It all started when a professional stool pigeon named Tiny
Gillespie thought he knew the whereabouts of al.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Brenner's missing defended and a grand jury investigation.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Tiny had agreed to meet me at eight o'clock that night,
but he never showed up, and when I went looking
for him, I ran into Lieutenant Walt eleventh and fifth
Precinct Police.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Walt told me Tiny had been killed. We went out
of the station where we talked more about it.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
He was killed sometime between seven thirty and eight where
about a half mile from where you say you were
supposed to meet him.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Oh, beaten there?
Speaker 9 (10:41):
Why that's right.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Somebody really worked him over. And I got a medical
report here, sir. Here here it is broken back fracture
of the female fracture.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Okay, okay, he was a miss a cookie bright eye.
Yeah no thanks, daddy, help yourself. That's part of your diet.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Whoope's a weight off you?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
That's obvious. Tell me, h, skinny you ever? He have
a hood named Stringer. Stringly Saint Louis worked for al
Brenner's in nineteen twenty nine thirty or where what she
got to do with Dony's been following him. Doney thought
Stringer was working as a contact for Brenner's. Tiny say
Brunners was still in town.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Mmmm, he thought so. He said he followed the Stringers
on placed, and he believed he met with Brennis.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Rick.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You ought to know better than get mixed up with
a guy like Tiny.
Speaker 9 (11:27):
You ought to double date with my conscience, Ah Drake
Bury co you do oh most from coffee?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah? Black, sure of the usual twelve plumps. Listen, sweety pie.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
If Breners is close and Tiny was supposed to meet
you a half mile from.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Where he was killed, it's a good bet Brenners could
still be in that area.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Unless he skipped again and found out Tiny had him spotted.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
M Well, he knows he'd never get out of town now.
And I don't think he's too worried about killing Tiny.
I don't think he'd ever figured Tiny would tell anybody
what he knew. You know, it's Tiny. He's done business
with the law.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Mm.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
And he knows that the law would have come instead
of Tiny. That's right. I think Brenner's is worried, But
if he's got a good hideout, I think it's stay put.
Here's a lab report on the Tiny.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Straight pigs from the bottom of his shoes indicate fertilizer
and new grass. Tiny's body was lying at the bottom
of a gully nothing but dirt.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Play m any houses near not from miles? Show me
on the map where the body was found.
Speaker 9 (12:24):
Yea, right, then, mm I was supposed to meet him
there Maple and palm, sure as much in that section.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Tiny couldn't have been too far from me before he
was killed. He wouldn't have picked maple and palm if
it was very fire for but he wanted to show me.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Uh makes sense, because they sure wouldn't dump his body
too close to Brenner's hideout.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Okay, okay, maybe they drawing five or ten miles five
or ten miles in every direction from mabele and Palm.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
That's a lot of territory. Yeah, I know, Well, you
better start checking it. I've got a hunt shore big.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Up Brenner's I'll put it out on a bb on
a stringer guy. As soon as I checked the record
and talk with St. Louis for a description.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Fine, I'll see you later. Where are you going to
see if I can beat you to Brenner's.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Oh, honey, with tiny dead there's a big old five
thousand dollar in one chunk.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I'll let you know if I find Brenners. I don't
want that glory, just the loot.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I left the station, climbed in the car and a
drive to a gas station, where I filled up with
gas and picked up.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
A map of the Long Island section.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Then I went back to my office and started checking
the Long Island phone directory. I knew it would take
me a week to find a new lawn, and Walter
was already doing that, so I concentrated on something else.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I looked for some place that might sell.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Fertilizer and grass seed. There was one such place in
that area, Hudson Garden Supplies, And there was a phone.
I took a chance at maybe the owner or someone
lived there, and called it, Ay.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Is this the Hudson Garden Supply? Is this the Hudson Guden?
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Yeah? Who is this?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Who is this?
Speaker 8 (14:04):
This is Hudson? Who is this?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
My name's Diamond.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
Well, what do you want is after twelve?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Did you sell any fertilizer a grass seat in the
last two or three weeks?
Speaker 8 (14:11):
Are you kidding? You do sell fertilizer, A lokwise guy.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Oh, come on, this is police business, police wal Elevenson,
faith pray sinct.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I thought you said your name was Diamond. You want
us to come out and put you out of bed?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Oh look, I'm sorry. It sounds like a cag.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Have you sold any fertilizer a grass seat in the
last few weeks?
Speaker 8 (14:30):
Yeah, and a lot of fertilizer. It's good fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Any grass seed? Yeah, to an address in that area.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
A couple of weeks ago. I saw the big load.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Who'd you sell it to?
Speaker 8 (14:39):
No? Remember the bill? Have to look it up.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Look it up now unless you want us to come
out there and help you.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Okay, hold the phone.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Where is yah?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Hello?
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Yeah, that grass seat went to seventy seven eighty eight Choreum.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
What's the name of the bill?
Speaker 8 (15:01):
The Hillview Rest Home.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You sell any other grass seat the last week?
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Oh, it's a lot of flowers, plants, plenty of fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
You must love your work.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I climbed back into the car and headed back to
Long Island in seventy seven eighty eighth shore On drive.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Forty minutes later, I pulled up on a lonely, dark
road and turned the car lights out.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
The Hillview Rest home stood out against the moon like
a lonely castle. It was dark except for a light
in one of the wings, and the grounds was surrounded
by a high fence.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I got out of the car and started walking.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
I kept going until I found a section of fence
that a man might climb and not be seen from
the house. I went up and over, dropping down and
stopping my fall with my hands. When I felt my hands, they.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Were wet and covered with new grass.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
There were about a hundred yards between the fence and
a main building, and the moon reflected off the wet
grass like a mirror. If anybody was watching from the house,
I'd never make it without being seen. I'd bet as
low as I could and ran about half way his stock.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Listening.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
It was like a bad green crouching under the moon,
trying to make my breath come out slowly so it
wouldn't show against the coal, and feeling like I wanted
to dig a hole and hide right there, or better still,
wake up. I started again, running low, looking from side
to side but never behind. I got to the main
building and slammed myself against it. I stayed there until
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I caught my breath, and I moved around to the
front door and tried it.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I got the surprise of my life. It was open.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I found myself standing in a large room, dark except
for a small red light burning over a.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Door at the back.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
A staircase to my left led to the floors above,
and there was another smaller room to my right that
was black except for the shafts of moonlight slanting down
through the barred windows. Barred windows, and an open door.
Something was wrong, Nor move, no move. He was behind me,
(17:24):
probably waiting behind the door. When I came in, and
with a door on locked like that. It figured he
had been expecting me in that case, you'll put my back.
I'll take your gun.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I don't have one. What would you call this? Oh
that's really just a big cigarette ladder?
Speaker 9 (17:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Your wallet? What is this of ITCHI dimond?
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Private detective, A private detective who may retire.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Yeah, I think I can guarantee it. Did you stop
me causing along?
Speaker 5 (17:58):
When you climb the fence it set off an alarm?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Well, my car broke gun. I thought you could use
the phone. Yeah, I'm afraid I don't believe you. Better
come down and see he's a private detective, got out
a light, he had a gun. Well you know, hello, Brenners, he's.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
A private cap alright, used to be a legit cap.
All right, you damon surprised. I thought you skipped You
know I didn't. Tiny got you, Tiny.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I told you, I told you. We shut up. Look,
you got to get out of here. I lose my
whole business. He's making enough of But now with.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
This private detective, that man last night, you're telling you
how many more.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I don't know who you're talking about, Brenners. I'm just
as surprised at seeing you as you lie. Brendors. Please,
he might have told the police what he knows be
here by my mouth he had. You're gonna be in
a little trouble hiding out a man who's wanted by
the federal government. He's right, Brenners. Whether he's trying to
talk himself out of a gem or not, he's right.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Relax and string again here. I'll leaves meantime. You better
take care of Diamond. You mean, like, yeah, the way
you did with Tiny Gillspie. No, but he's in there.
You don't want to lose this place, do you?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
No?
Speaker 4 (19:13):
And I don't want anybody around to talk about me.
How come you work tiny over like that? Why didn't
you just use your gun? You're in for a three
dimon You're gonna have a hard time working me over
like that. Oh, we're not gonna do a thing. Better
take him downstairs. Stream should be here anymore. Yeah, all right,
walk over to that door.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I see you again, Diamond. Yeah, open the door.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Go on.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I'll have to shoot you. Keep going down those stairs.
You're not going a big mistake. I have no choice.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
State's evidence might get you off easy. I want a
murder charge, might get just life.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
And I might not stop right there. Open the door
and going in on a law Shoot you right here? Okay,
alf alf, I'm here. What is that? I got somebody
for you, alf get in there. I love it. I
(20:18):
was locked in the basement and there was someone else
there with me. It was a man. His head was
shaved clean, and his eyes were wild and staring.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
He was sitting in the corner, and as he pulled
himself up, he looked at me, tipped his head to
one side like he was listening to something.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I've gotta take care of you too, man.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Then he was on his feet shoulders hunks and his
arms hanging at his sides, and even benthover like that.
He must have been six and a half feet tall.
He shuffled towards me like an ape, and I realized
what it was that had given Tiny such a beating.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
You're a big lasson. You're gonna give me a little funny,
easy boy, easy.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
And I put my back to the wall and kept
settling him.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
But he seemed to enjoy watching me try to get away.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
He'd reach out when I got he'd smile a horrible
mouthful of teeth and rub his hands together like a
little kid with a new game. I kept moving, talking
to him, trying to calm him down, but I knew
there wasn't a chance. The basement was a solid four
walls and the heavy locked door, and one of us
would have to die before the night was over. The
(21:30):
way things stood, it was pretty obvious to what it
was going to be. And if I kept running, I
was going to get tired and dialoct with Wicker.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I stopped to play no more. He looked almost unhappy,
like he wanted to keep on playing. I wasn't going
to be able to.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
He started moving in again, and I kicked him as
heart as I could in the stomach.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
He doubled over him for a second. I felt bad.
Then he straightened and rushed me.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
He got his arms around me, and it was like
being caught by a ball constrictor.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
The hard I fought the tier he squeeze.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I started to pass out, thought I heard shots.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Then he picked me up over his head and threw
me the length of the room.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I tried to sit up, but I was two dazed.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
In the half light, I watched him shuffle in his arms, swinging.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
He was so strong and didn't even know he was
fighting a man.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Just a doll that wouldn't play anymore, and he was
gonna break it in a thousand pieces. He reached for
me just when somebody on the other side of the
door started shooting. The giant stopped as the boat of
the door was pulled back, and then he turned.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
You come to fight me? To look on, Rick?
Speaker 7 (23:02):
How'd you find me? All located? Stringer and tail them?
So Heaven's car parked outside the fence.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
There is that thing.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Over there, just an animal. He used to be a man.
That's the way Tiny got killed.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
How bad are you? Oh? Just shaking up but another
couple of minutes. Way, I'll give you a hand. Thanks. Hmmm,
you get Brunner's.
Speaker 9 (23:26):
Yeah, they're putting him in the car.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
You know me, I'm okay. What was all the shooting
outside the door? Oh? Barnes, he didn't want to let me?
And who told you? I was down here?
Speaker 7 (23:40):
In a minute we came through the front door. Barns
headed down the stairs. I spotted him and went after him.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Bless you a little high? What are you gonna do
with that five thousand? Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
What I'm going to buy you the best peasant you
ever had in your life?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Oh Rick, you like it, dear?
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Oh it's a beautiful stone.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Well it's it's really nothing.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Nothing got the beast during a summer safari in Africa.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Goodbye, Joe, this is mink.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
What did you expect you, old girl? And borne meadow
mouth rabbid?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Look here listened to minth of in ten thousand miles
of Africa.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Come to think if he was rather winded. Don't laugh,
ole girl.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
That mink was the biggest animal I've ever seen, stood
six feet high, and way one hundred and eighty couldn't
kill him? Well, then, how did you ever get the store,
gave him a haircut.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Was right there and play the piano while I run
upstairs and.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Put on something that'll show off my store.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
No memory.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Oh baaby what.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
I with plenty of money and boom in spite of
the worry that money brings just a little.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Filthy looker buys a lot.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Of things, and the blagon take you.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
The places where you'd like to go.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
But outside of that, I've no use for gold.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
It's the root of all evil, of strife and up
e a.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
But I'm certain, honey, that life could be sunny with
plenty of money.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
And you thank you? How do I look? Oh?
Speaker 4 (25:49):
That mink never had it so good? Right there, I'm
going to buy you the fancy I got it. Ashes,
make fine, b you're present, arrive. Oh I hope you
like it.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
Lost, I don't know how to thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Well, it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I know.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
We have it in good health and I'll see you soon.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
I'll never forget you for this.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Old man bye. What he loved his present?
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Oh you gonna have a present too.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
But he saved my life. I bought him a beautiful
cashmere uniform. Kashmir, you couldn't get all red. Now let's go.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
There, Rick, you must have spent an awful lot of
money for.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
The people I love. I've still got about fifteen hundred lefs.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
That's pretty good after taxes, taxes, Rick, Oh, give me
a pencil, give me petcul right there.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Understand, didn't you take out any good holding five.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Thousand dollars seven hundred and fifty casual uniform a seven
fifty meat stole.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Take away, take away, take away.
Speaker 10 (26:51):
Yeah, I owe the government sixteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Dick Powell will return in just a minute.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Tens of thousands of doctors doctors in all branches of
medicine in all parts of the country were asked what
cigarette they smoked.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
The brand name most was camel. Yes.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
According to this nationwide survey, more doctors smoke camels than
any other cigarette. Enjoy Camels the cigarette, so many doctors
enjoy and say, friends, buy your camels, buy the curtain
the handy thrifty way. Yes, that way. You always have
camels when you want them.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Oh, my, smoke camels.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Here's Dick Powell with a special message. Thank you, ladies
and gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
The hospitalized men of our armed forces like to know
that they're not forgotten. Each week, the makers of camels
send out thousands of packs of gift camels.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
To these men.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
This week's camels go to veterans hospitals Aspenwallpenslvania and Lord
of Kentucky, Tinker Air Force Hospital, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. To
all hospitals operated by the Army for US Forces in Austria.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Now NTI next week, enjoy camels I always.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Do to Night's transcribed adventure of Richard Diamond was written
and directed by Blake Edwards, with music by Frank Worth.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Virginia Gregg played the part.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Of Helamasher and Alan Reid was Lieutenant Levinson.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Others in the cast.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Were Howard McNair at Max, Jane of Vallo, and Joel
Samuel's be sure to listen to another Great Camel Show
Von Monroe and the Camel Caravan every Saturday Night.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
To Bite and the Pleasures in When You Smoke Prince.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Albert, The Bites Out and the pleasures in when You
pack your pipe with America's largest selling smoking tobacco, Prince
Albert PA's choice tobacco especially treated to insure against tongue bite.
Yes with Prince Albert, The Bites Out and the Pleasures
in and there's more tobacco in the pocket.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Ten.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Listen next week for another exciting adventure of Richard Diamond,
starring Dick Powell. This is your FBI. The official broadcast
from the files of the FBI follows immediately. Stay tuned.
This program came to you from Hollywood. This is the
American Broadcasting Company.
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