August 21, 2025 • 28 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. Why are Camels by far America's most popular cigarette.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Two of the reasons are flavor and mildness. No other
cigarette has Camel's rich full flavor.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And no other cigarette offers this proof of mildness. In
a coast to coast test of hundreds of people with
normal throats, noted throats specialists reported not one single case
of throat irritation due to smoking Camels.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Try Camels yourself, then you'll know why Camel leads all
other brands by billions of cigarettes per year.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Here transcribed is Richard Diamond, Private detective Storring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I'm a detective agency. We make crime pay for one
hundred a day, plus expenses. I have them.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I'd like, how are you.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
No cut rates for attractive redheads?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
But I'm a working girl. I only make twelve dollars
and forty cents a week doing what.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Running an elevator in the automat?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
My dear girl, there are no elevators in the automat.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I wonder they wouldn't give me a raise.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Oh that's funny.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I want to hire you.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
To protect me from a man. He's been bothering me.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And just who is this man?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
His name's Richard Diamond.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, no wonder he's been bothering you. You've been bothering him.
You take my cake. Just as far as my apartment,
we'll open it up and have a partylous only when
I miss you. I saw you last night. You're just
bored and I miss you. I broke. I gotta hang
around and pray for a client.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Well, I've got a wonderful suggestion.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Why don't you? Why, Yes, come in.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Rad.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Who is it?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I don't know, but I'm making plans for some extensive research.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
I didn't mean to disturb you.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I don't know how you could help it.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Rick, who is that?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I'll call you back when I find out that's a girl?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It certainly is Ri Now reck.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
You your girl on the phone.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Oh oh h just an old wealthy aunt. She's leaving
me her lumber fortune. Yes, sit down, sit down, miss Simpson, missus.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
Oh so you have an aunt in lumber?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh yes, yes, broke one day, made a million, the
next discovered trees on her property. Trees on her property? Well,
what are you going to do?
Speaker 7 (03:06):
I came in to hire you, mister Diamond.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
You have a kind heart and plenty of money.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
I hope my husband need protection.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Yeah, I beg your pardon.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Nothing, nothing, just snapping at judgments. Occupational hazard.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
My husband is John Simpson.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
You've heard of him, the John Simpson.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Yes, No, he's retired. He discovered oil on his property.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh that one. Oh sure. He was responsible for my
bearings burning out at seven hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
He was walking in the garden the other day.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Going to drill in a daisy bed.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Someone shot at him. Oh he's all right. They didn't
hit him. But I've been terribly worried ever since.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Not to mention how your husband feels.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
He wouldn't call the police and wouldn't give me a reason.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
But he wants me to protect him.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
He doesn't even know I've come to see you.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Well, what's he going to say?
Speaker 7 (03:53):
I'm hiring you, and I hope he'll understand.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Well, I hope so too. I charge one hundred a
day at expenses.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
I had my own bank account.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Diamond. Well, Aunt Hannah, what, oh that's nice, Aunt Hannah.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I think spruce is just the thing.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Aunt Hannah Spouce.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Richard Diamond of course, Aunt Hannah, I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I knew what she's a blonde.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
She sure is, Aunt Hannah, Aunt Hannah, the one with
the trees, thinking about buying a Carlo the spruce.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Nice am I hired?
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Then let's get out of here. Aunt Hannah might be
over with a bat spruce of course.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Well that's how it started. A lovely blonde named Simpson
with a wealthy husband. The husband a doctor bullet in
his garden, and now the lovely blonde wanted protection for him.
A few casual jokes, the fat retainer, and Richard Diamond
was once more in the ranks of the employer. We
left the office and climbed in her station wagon. Forty
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minutes later we were pulling up in front of the
Simpson house on Long Island. Ah. Quite a place.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
It's beautiful, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, if you like money, John's probably in the study.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
May I take your hat?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Well, I'll just keep it with me. Your husband might
not want a body guide. Well you're baking a hurry.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Oh, hello, Ralph, this is mister Diamond.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Glad to meet you, mister Diamond.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Hello missus Ralph Simpson, mister Diamond, my stepson.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
People am more in planned to think where brother and sister.
I can understand.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Ralph was the one who suggested you.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Oh, I mean reputation. Looks like everyone knows about me,
but the man I'm supposed to protect, and he won't
like it much at first. I've already been brief. But
whether he understands or not, it's most necessary he has protection. Well,
let's get it over with. Hello, dear, what is this?
Speaker 8 (06:00):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Jans?
Speaker 7 (06:01):
Professor?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Who where is this man?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
This person with the hat?
Speaker 7 (06:04):
This is mister Diamond, John, mister Diamond. This is my husband,
mister Simpson, yeah, charmed, And this is Professor Fisher.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
How do you do, mister Diamond? I love? Professor? Where
do you do? Young man?
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Do Mister Diamond is a private detective?
Speaker 9 (06:17):
Dear?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
What now?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Dear?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
It was my idea a private detective.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Now just relax, Oh boy, you quack. I've been relaxing enough.
I can't think straight anymore. You've been making me relax
so much. If you're not careful, I told you I
didn't want anyone, but after being shot at, you pay
your retainer?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Diamond?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah? Did she explain my feeling on this subject? Well? Yeah,
and you still took the money. I've been poor. I
told every one of you I can take care of myself.
You know, I think he's right. Here's your retainer, mister Diamond.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Please, where do.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You think you're going. I have to find the guy
who took a shot at you and give him some
target practice. You've been paid a retainer to do a job.
Now let's see you do it.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
John.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I had a feeling you were going to do something
like this, bringing up a detective or a policeman or something. Well,
if he's supposed to give me a protection, that's what
he'll do. Now all of you get out of here.
I want to talk to this mister Diamond.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Thank you, John.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I'll see you at dinner. Yeah, Now, you take care
of yourself, you old scon be good. Buye mister Diamond.
Nice man of your professor. Well, mister Diamond, I have
a feeling you might regret this job. It's possible I
really wanted you. I was just keeping up a front
for the benefit of the family. Is Professor Fisher one
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of the family, an old friend. Professor Fisher as a psychologist.
After my stroke, he came to help me.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
He teaches me.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
How to relax.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
You had a stroke three months ago. The professor has
been a great help. You have a physician also, I
don't need one.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Long you're here to protect me, I might as well
tell you what it's all about. Answer me one question first,
all right? Why not calling the police? I have you do?
I need the police now. When someone takes a shot
at someone, I think the police should be the first
to do about it. Now, if you are quite done,
mister Diamond, I'll continue. I'm well done this morning. If
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my wife had brought you in, I would have had
to thrown out. I didn't want any outsiders mixed up
in this. What saves your mind? A letter? Yeah? Oh
read it all right? I will I missed you in
the garden. I won't miss again. You will pay for Ashanti.
(08:38):
It's in Africa. Oh. Twenty years ago, I was in
the mining business. I had a partner, Frank Victor. We
didn't get along and there was an argument one day
in the mind. It was quite a scrap and there
was a cave in. I got out, Frank didn't. There
was an investigation and I was cleared. Why tell me
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the shoot in the garden could have been any crack pot.
I didn't want any publicity, so I didn't want any outsiders.
Then this letter I have to confide in someone, let
them know who to look for. Who else knew about it?
No one that it should make any difference to Victor
was a bachelor without a family, could be blackmail someone
who was there or at the investigation. Then why shoot
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at me to give you a good scare, You'll probably
get another letter demanding money. This person must be coped.
In my position, I can't afford the scandal. Now you
say I'm the first one you've told outside of your family.
I haven't told my family a thing. Even my first
wife didn't know about it. You've heard nothing of the
incident for twenty years. Nothing. Uhh. I'll see what I
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can find out. I promised John Simpson my confidence. He
offered me a large bonus if I should discover who
had sent him a threatening letter. Then I borrowed one
of his cars and drove back to the city, where
I looked up an old friend, Lieutenant Lemonson's fifth Precinct
Police Station. Smiling gum shoe, Hello, happiness and light. Why
(10:04):
don't you a favor dependance? You can strain your arches.
I like some confidential information on a few people. What
is in it for me? I promise not to tell
anyone about a mercenary policeman you are. I like dinner,
maybe a big state. You'll get dinner. Maybe y'all name
you gotta deal with that restaurant. Certainly they saved me
all the leftover fortunes stuck in the cookies. Who he
(10:26):
interested in? I want to know about a young guy
named Ralph Simpson, an attractive blonde named Missus Simpson, and
a man named Professor Fisher Simpson, Simpson and Fisher. The
boy named Ralph is the son of John Simpson. No, yeah,
the John Simpson know who he is? No? Well, I'm
like my aunt Hannah, who discovered trees and her property
an hammer, Simpson discovered oil. Oh that one? His wife
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is the blonde? Which blonde the one I want you
to check on Missus Simpson. Oh, how silly I should know?
Don't forget the professor. I thought you said his name
was Fisher, I did. How does he fit in with Simpson?
A friend of the family. Now you got everything? Sure?
Shure blonde named Missus Simpson, her son named Rouse, He's
not her son.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Well, you just said he was John's son.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Who's the blonde John's other wife, John's on the way,
that's right. Oh he's her stepson. Oh well, ryther Den,
you want me to check on these people, I'm thinking
about having a bridge party. Give me the rundown on him? Sure? Well, eh,
put your shoes on.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I gave Walter run down. He watted and headed for
the newspaper, where I knew I could waller to the
Morgue fire and not be disturbed. I went back twenty
years and after wallowing for three or four hours, found
a small article dated Ashanti Africa, nineteen thirty. It didn't
say much more than what John Simpson had already told me.
It mentioned the mind cave in an depending investigation on
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the death of Frank Victor, and in addition, dated three
weeks later, I found the account of the investigation and
Simpson story. I left the newspaper, went back to my
office to check on a few things. Then as I
was about to leave and close up until I'd finished
the case, I got a phone. Yeah, Diamond, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
This is John Simpson. I took a chance you might
be in your office. Oh.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I was just coming back out there.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
This is John Simpson. I took a chance you might
be in your office.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you said that.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I'd like you to pick up something for me.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Oh sure, it's a package.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
It's at a bar on fifty seventh Street, the Blue Pheasant.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
The Blue Pheasant on fifty seventh Street.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Mister Diamond, this is John Simpsons.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yes, yes, I know, I know anything else? Hello, mister Simpson,
bring it.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Out to me right away. It's very important.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I'll pick it up and break it right hard. Something wrong,
mister Simpson. Hello?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Oh m funny.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Before we continue with Richard Diamond, here is an important question.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
What cigarette do you smoke? Doctor?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That question was asked a few years ago of one
hundred thirteen thousand, five hundred and ninety seven doctors. The
brand name most was Camel.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Recently, that question was again asked of tens of thousands
of doctors across the country, doctors in all branches of medicine,
and again the brand named most was Camel.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
According to these nationwide surveys, more doctors smoke Camels than
any other cigarette. Friends smoke the cigarette, so many doctors
and joy change to Camels for thirty days and see
how mild, how flavorful, how enjoyable a cigarette can be? Yes,
change to camels for thirty days, and you'll stay with
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camels from then on.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Oh my, you make the camel forty day time and
you see small camels.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And now back to Richard Diamond Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I left the office and went down to fifty seventh
Street in the Blue Pheasants, where I told the bartender
who I was, and he handed me the package Simpson
that wanted me to pick up for him. I drove
back out of the house along island. The maid let
me in, and Missus Simpson met me at the study door. Hello, well, hi,
where's your husband?
Speaker 7 (14:44):
I think he's still in the study. He was a
little while ago. You're going on some shopping, you're staying
for dinner.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Where's your step son?
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Ralph went out just after you left. Did you want
him stoping?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No?
Speaker 7 (14:57):
Just wondered then shopping.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Oh, this is a package for your husband. Wanted me
to pick it up and it seven Uh Missus Simpson, Yes,
Professor Fisher, what m how long.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Have you known him?
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Since I've been married to John.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Your husband said he was helping him to relax.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
Yes, is there something wrong?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I don't know. I talked to your husband earlier when
he asked me to pick up this package. He sounded
rather strange, kept repeating himself since.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
He had a stroke he does that sometimes.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Or should he have a nurse?
Speaker 7 (15:27):
He should, but he won't. If something should happen, Professor
Fisher's numbers in the book on John's desk, or call
the maid, I'll see it.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
But well, hello, mister Simpson, I've got the package. Give
me the package.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Mister Simpson, give me the package.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Are you feeling all right? Give me the package? Okay? Here, Oh,
I did some checking on your story about a shabby You're.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Not give me the package?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You've got it, mister Simpson. Hey, what's wrong? Mister Simpson?
Did you hear me? I better get the maid maid
made diamond? Yeah, Ralph, Yeah, what's wrong? I don't know
your father's act. It felt like the whole building was
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coming down around my ears. Ralph and I were thrown
back against the wall, and by the time we got out,
the study was a smoking black hole. I stumbled in
after Rob, but there wasn't much to stumble in. After
John Simpson had been blown to Kingdom. Come, you're sure
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it was Simpson on the phone. Sure, I'm sure it
was Simpson on the phone. Wall He asked you to
pick up the package. That's right. He wanted it when
I brought it into him. You wouldn't anything else. He
just demanded that package. He'd been pretty sick and me. Yeah,
but a man doesn't go to that much trouble to
commit suicide. No, maybe somebody planted the bar. Look, let's
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let's check with that bartender at the Blue Peasant. I
want to talk to the rest of the family first.
By the way, why did you find out about them? No?
Police records can't find out much about the professor. He
has no practice, no license in the state. I'll see
if you can find out something interested. Yeah, it's funny
when a man is a high condition and won't have
a doctor. I'll drag a professor in if you like. No, no, no,
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you go talk to the family. I'll go and check
for the bartender. Wait a minute, Sherlock, you better tell
me how you got into this mess. Okay, Fatty, I
guess it won't hurt now. I told Wald everything the
late mister Simpson had told me, then headed back to
Town and the Blue Pheasant on fifty seventh Straight. By
the time I got there, the place was pretty well fell.
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But the bartender who had given me the package that
afternoon wasn't in sight.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Yeah, well it be.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Where's the bartender who was working this afternoon? How do
I know he just works in the afternoon. Where's he lived?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Why? Well, I'm collecting addresses of bartenders.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Now where does he live? You collect addresses? I collect? Wise,
guys'll beat it? You mean, I got to show my
little old badge, A little old badge.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
When you say so complex.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
He lives at five hundred West, one hundred and fifty
seventh Street. What's his name? Well, Earl Collins. No relation
to time? Yeah, no relation to the time. Huh, what do
you gotta do? I pile out of the bar and
back in the car, drove across town to one hundred
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and fifty seventh Street, five hundred West. It was a
big apartment house and Earl Collins was registered in four
or five. I climbed the stairs and knocked, gave him
a few minutes while I knocked my knuckles close, then
went and dug up the land lady to have opened
the door. She was a charmer about four years older
than Grant's to him with a gen disposition that would
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make a lost weekend seem like I'm any vacation the
type that should never have been dug up. No, honey,
I got cleaning to do, sweetheart, sweetheart, an expression of funding.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
Buster.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Don't give me no worries longer than one trouble cop,
will you? Yes? Mother, mother, sweetheart, some cop. We'll discuss
my qualifications as soon as you open that door.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
Okay, sweetheart, there holy.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
You said it.
Speaker 10 (19:45):
Is?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
He dead as dead as he can get, still warm,
and I'm not interested. I needed a drink. Did you
see him come in? No? Did you see anybody else
come in here? I've been in my apartment all afternoon.
I'm going back there. Sure you was something awfully? Neat?
Job neat? What are you looking at? What's that other room?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
What's room? Keep it quiet? What's that room? Oh? Good gosh?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Bedroom?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Any other rooms? Answer me?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
That room?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Fire escape? Where is it? Into the hall?
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Look, there's some blood leading to that bedroom.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Now take it easy, go downstairs and call Lieutenant Walter Levinson. Warrison,
Walter Levinson, goodbye. There were several drops of blood leading
to the bedroom door. There was a good chance that
the killer had been surprised and couldn't get out. I
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went to the door and.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Tried it as quietly as I could.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
It gave and I kicked it open. The shades were down,
the room was dark enough to make it difficult to
spot anyone. I moved in with my gun in front
of me. He was standing right by the door, and
he had a knife. You should have listened. I didn't
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want to. Sorry, professor, don't be It's better this way. Look, look,
you're in bad shape. Better tell me about it. You
fired the shop in the garden and sent the letter. Yeah,
help me sit up, okay, yeah, lean against the wall here.
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I still can't figure why Simpson had me pick up
that bomb. I made him, you did. I have been
treating him for nerves. I started giving him a hypnotics
when he had his first spells doing one of those
times he re enacted the Ashanti affair. So you decided
to blackmail him first, and when you took the case,
we decided to eliminate him. We missus Simpson and I
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have been.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
And that much time internal bleeding place will be here
pretty quick.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Decided to kill the old man and Jane would get
to state.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
I thought you'd be blown up with him.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Mister Simpson was under some sort of influence when I
walked into the study, my profession. After you left, I
returned and talked him into a deep sleep. I had
him call you at your office. He nearly messed it up. Hypnosis,
nothing unusual, simple suggestions. And when I walked into the study,
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he'd been ordered to ask for the package and open it.
You mean he was asleep when I walked in. Yes,
you see, it's too late. You'd have to guess the
rest bleeding in. Yeah, well you better lie down again, professor.
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You'll have to get used to it.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
But why did he kill the bartender?
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Well?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Checked, and the Professor had been coming into the bar
for some time in the afternoons. He made friends with
Earl about tender left the package with him when he
found out I hadn't been killed in the blast. He
killed Earl to keep him from identifying charming. Yep, like
an asylum in an earthquake. Well, I told you to
stick to redheads already.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Well, you know any available ones one how available.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
You'll have to do some extensive research.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Okay, After dinner. I do not do any research on
the schedule.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
Don't you dinner for sure will get cold.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Wick.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
I'm hungry, Oh for peace.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
You seen something? Well, I go put the food on
a train. We need in here by the You're.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Gonna get fata sick. I take it back. You're already
say you sing something.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Let'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
I'll be right back. I'll be right back. I gonna
sing for everything.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Oh, do do do.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Do do, do, do.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Do do, Just get the food. Huh.
Speaker 11 (24:20):
I think of you with every breath lty, and every
breath becomes a sign, not a sign of despair, but a.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Sign that I care for you.
Speaker 11 (24:41):
I hear your name with every breath lty, on every breeze.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
That one is my and your name is a song.
Speaker 11 (24:56):
I remember the long years.
Speaker 12 (25:04):
Even though I walk, you guide me in the darkest,
You light my way and all the wild inside me,
love seems to say.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
Some day, some day, And when I sleep, you keep.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
My heart awake.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
But when I wake from dreams, divide. Every breath that
I take is a prayer that I'll me.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
You man.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
Why mm hmm, is there really anything to this hypnosis?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Well?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Sure is the old professor made Simpson open that package.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Is it hard to do?
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Look, I'll show you.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Just sit right there, all right, Just look me right
in the eye.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
You're going to sleep. You're going to sleep. You just
want to go to sleep. Nothing makes any difference. Just sleep, sleep, sleep, wish.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
Deep deep sleep, a deep share, peaceful, keep sick.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Dick Powell will return in just a minute to find
out how well camels agree with the throats of smokers.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
This far reaching test was.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Made hundreds of people from coast to coast. People with
normal throats smoked only camels for thirty days. Each week.
Leading throat specialists examined the throats of these smokers. They
made two thousand, four hundred and seventy examinations and reported.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Not one single case of throat irritation. You to smoking camels.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Try camels for thirty days and see how mild, how flavorful,
how enjoyable a cigarette can be?
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Oh mild, MA, sigarette me small camels.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Here's Dick Powell with a special message.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Thank you ladies and Dentomn. The makers of camels have
sent more than one hundred and ninety eight million gift
camels to our armed forces this week. Gift camels go
to hospitalized servicemen and veterans at Veterans Hospitals Framingham, Massachusetts
and Durban, Michigan. US Naval Hospital San Diego, California, and
of all hospitals operated for the US Air Forces in
the Far East.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Now until next week, enjoy camel I always do.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Tonight's transcribed adventure of Richard Diamond was written and directed
by Blake Edwards, with music by Frank Worth. Virginia Greig
played the part of Helen Asher, and Alan Reed was
Lieutenant Levinson. Others in the cast were Gene Bates, Herbert Butterfield,
and Tony Michaels. Be sure to listen to another great
camel show, Von Munroe and the Camel Caravan every Saturday night,
The makers of Camel's cigarettes present Dick Powell as Richard Diamond,
private detective. Why are Camels by far America's most popular cigarette.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Two of the reasons are flavor and mildness. No other
cigarette has Camel's rich full flavor.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And no other cigarette offers this proof of mildness. In
a coast to coast test of hundreds of people with
normal throats, noted throats specialists reported not one single case
of throat irritation due to smoking Camels.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Try Camels yourself, then you'll know why Camel leads all
other brands by billions of cigarettes per year.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Here transcribed is Richard Diamond, Private detective Storring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I'm a detective agency. We make crime pay for one
hundred a day, plus expenses. I have them.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I'd like, how are you.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
No cut rates for attractive redheads?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
But I'm a working girl. I only make twelve dollars
and forty cents a week doing what.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Running an elevator in the automat?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
My dear girl, there are no elevators in the automat.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I wonder they wouldn't give me a raise.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Oh that's funny.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I want to hire you.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
To protect me from a man. He's been bothering me.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And just who is this man?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
His name's Richard Diamond.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, no wonder he's been bothering you. You've been bothering him.
You take my cake. Just as far as my apartment,
we'll open it up and have a partylous only when
I miss you. I saw you last night. You're just
bored and I miss you. I broke. I gotta hang
around and pray for a client.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Well, I've got a wonderful suggestion.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Why don't you? Why, Yes, come in.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Rad.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Who is it?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I don't know, but I'm making plans for some extensive research.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
I didn't mean to disturb you.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I don't know how you could help it.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Rick, who is that?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I'll call you back when I find out that's a girl?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It certainly is Ri Now reck.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
You your girl on the phone.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Oh oh h just an old wealthy aunt. She's leaving
me her lumber fortune. Yes, sit down, sit down, miss Simpson, missus.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
Oh so you have an aunt in lumber?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh yes, yes, broke one day, made a million, the
next discovered trees on her property. Trees on her property? Well,
what are you going to do?
Speaker 7 (03:06):
I came in to hire you, mister Diamond.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
You have a kind heart and plenty of money.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
I hope my husband need protection.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Yeah, I beg your pardon.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Nothing, nothing, just snapping at judgments. Occupational hazard.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
My husband is John Simpson.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
You've heard of him, the John Simpson.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Yes, No, he's retired. He discovered oil on his property.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh that one. Oh sure. He was responsible for my
bearings burning out at seven hundred thousand miles.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
He was walking in the garden the other day.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Going to drill in a daisy bed.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Someone shot at him. Oh he's all right. They didn't
hit him. But I've been terribly worried ever since.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Not to mention how your husband feels.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
He wouldn't call the police and wouldn't give me a reason.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
But he wants me to protect him.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
He doesn't even know I've come to see you.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Well, what's he going to say?
Speaker 7 (03:53):
I'm hiring you, and I hope he'll understand.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Well, I hope so too. I charge one hundred a
day at expenses.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
I had my own bank account.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Diamond. Well, Aunt Hannah, what, oh that's nice, Aunt Hannah.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I think spruce is just the thing.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Aunt Hannah Spouce.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Richard Diamond of course, Aunt Hannah, I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I knew what she's a blonde.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
She sure is, Aunt Hannah, Aunt Hannah, the one with
the trees, thinking about buying a Carlo the spruce.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Nice am I hired?
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Then let's get out of here. Aunt Hannah might be
over with a bat spruce of course.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Well that's how it started. A lovely blonde named Simpson
with a wealthy husband. The husband a doctor bullet in
his garden, and now the lovely blonde wanted protection for him.
A few casual jokes, the fat retainer, and Richard Diamond
was once more in the ranks of the employer. We
left the office and climbed in her station wagon. Forty
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minutes later we were pulling up in front of the
Simpson house on Long Island. Ah. Quite a place.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
It's beautiful, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, if you like money, John's probably in the study.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
May I take your hat?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Well, I'll just keep it with me. Your husband might
not want a body guide. Well you're baking a hurry.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Oh, hello, Ralph, this is mister Diamond.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Glad to meet you, mister Diamond.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Hello missus Ralph Simpson, mister Diamond, my stepson.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
People am more in planned to think where brother and sister.
I can understand.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
Ralph was the one who suggested you.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Oh, I mean reputation. Looks like everyone knows about me,
but the man I'm supposed to protect, and he won't
like it much at first. I've already been brief. But
whether he understands or not, it's most necessary he has protection. Well,
let's get it over with. Hello, dear, what is this?
Speaker 8 (06:00):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Jans?
Speaker 7 (06:01):
Professor?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Who where is this man?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
This person with the hat?
Speaker 7 (06:04):
This is mister Diamond, John, mister Diamond. This is my husband,
mister Simpson, yeah, charmed, And this is Professor Fisher.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
How do you do, mister Diamond? I love? Professor? Where
do you do? Young man?
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Do Mister Diamond is a private detective?
Speaker 9 (06:17):
Dear?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
What now?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Dear?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
It was my idea a private detective.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Now just relax, Oh boy, you quack. I've been relaxing enough.
I can't think straight anymore. You've been making me relax
so much. If you're not careful, I told you I
didn't want anyone, but after being shot at, you pay
your retainer?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Diamond?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah? Did she explain my feeling on this subject? Well? Yeah,
and you still took the money. I've been poor. I
told every one of you I can take care of myself.
You know, I think he's right. Here's your retainer, mister Diamond.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Please, where do.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You think you're going. I have to find the guy
who took a shot at you and give him some
target practice. You've been paid a retainer to do a job.
Now let's see you do it.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
John.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I had a feeling you were going to do something
like this, bringing up a detective or a policeman or something. Well,
if he's supposed to give me a protection, that's what
he'll do. Now all of you get out of here.
I want to talk to this mister Diamond.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Thank you, John.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I'll see you at dinner. Yeah, Now, you take care
of yourself, you old scon be good. Buye mister Diamond.
Nice man of your professor. Well, mister Diamond, I have
a feeling you might regret this job. It's possible I
really wanted you. I was just keeping up a front
for the benefit of the family. Is Professor Fisher one
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of the family, an old friend. Professor Fisher as a psychologist.
After my stroke, he came to help me.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
He teaches me.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
How to relax.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
You had a stroke three months ago. The professor has
been a great help. You have a physician also, I
don't need one.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Long you're here to protect me, I might as well
tell you what it's all about. Answer me one question first,
all right? Why not calling the police? I have you do?
I need the police now. When someone takes a shot
at someone, I think the police should be the first
to do about it. Now, if you are quite done,
mister Diamond, I'll continue. I'm well done this morning. If
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my wife had brought you in, I would have had
to thrown out. I didn't want any outsiders mixed up
in this. What saves your mind? A letter? Yeah? Oh
read it all right? I will I missed you in
the garden. I won't miss again. You will pay for Ashanti.
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It's in Africa. Oh. Twenty years ago, I was in
the mining business. I had a partner, Frank Victor. We
didn't get along and there was an argument one day
in the mind. It was quite a scrap and there
was a cave in. I got out, Frank didn't. There
was an investigation and I was cleared. Why tell me
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the shoot in the garden could have been any crack pot.
I didn't want any publicity, so I didn't want any outsiders.
Then this letter I have to confide in someone, let
them know who to look for. Who else knew about it?
No one that it should make any difference to Victor
was a bachelor without a family, could be blackmail someone
who was there or at the investigation. Then why shoot
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at me to give you a good scare, You'll probably
get another letter demanding money. This person must be coped.
In my position, I can't afford the scandal. Now you
say I'm the first one you've told outside of your family.
I haven't told my family a thing. Even my first
wife didn't know about it. You've heard nothing of the
incident for twenty years. Nothing. Uhh. I'll see what I
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can find out. I promised John Simpson my confidence. He
offered me a large bonus if I should discover who
had sent him a threatening letter. Then I borrowed one
of his cars and drove back to the city, where
I looked up an old friend, Lieutenant Lemonson's fifth Precinct
Police Station. Smiling gum shoe, Hello, happiness and light. Why
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don't you a favor dependance? You can strain your arches.
I like some confidential information on a few people. What
is in it for me? I promise not to tell
anyone about a mercenary policeman you are. I like dinner,
maybe a big state. You'll get dinner. Maybe y'all name
you gotta deal with that restaurant. Certainly they saved me
all the leftover fortunes stuck in the cookies. Who he
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interested in? I want to know about a young guy
named Ralph Simpson, an attractive blonde named Missus Simpson, and
a man named Professor Fisher Simpson, Simpson and Fisher. The
boy named Ralph is the son of John Simpson. No, yeah,
the John Simpson know who he is? No? Well, I'm
like my aunt Hannah, who discovered trees and her property
an hammer, Simpson discovered oil. Oh that one? His wife
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is the blonde? Which blonde the one I want you
to check on Missus Simpson. Oh, how silly I should know?
Don't forget the professor. I thought you said his name
was Fisher, I did. How does he fit in with Simpson?
A friend of the family. Now you got everything? Sure?
Shure blonde named Missus Simpson, her son named Rouse, He's
not her son.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Well, you just said he was John's son.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Who's the blonde John's other wife, John's on the way,
that's right. Oh he's her stepson. Oh well, ryther Den,
you want me to check on these people, I'm thinking
about having a bridge party. Give me the rundown on him? Sure? Well, eh,
put your shoes on.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I gave Walter run down. He watted and headed for
the newspaper, where I knew I could waller to the
Morgue fire and not be disturbed. I went back twenty
years and after wallowing for three or four hours, found
a small article dated Ashanti Africa, nineteen thirty. It didn't
say much more than what John Simpson had already told me.
It mentioned the mind cave in an depending investigation on
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the death of Frank Victor, and in addition, dated three
weeks later, I found the account of the investigation and
Simpson story. I left the newspaper, went back to my
office to check on a few things. Then as I
was about to leave and close up until I'd finished
the case, I got a phone. Yeah, Diamond, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
This is John Simpson. I took a chance you might
be in your office. Oh.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I was just coming back out there.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
This is John Simpson. I took a chance you might
be in your office.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you said that.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I'd like you to pick up something for me.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Oh sure, it's a package.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
It's at a bar on fifty seventh Street, the Blue Pheasant.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
The Blue Pheasant on fifty seventh Street.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Mister Diamond, this is John Simpsons.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yes, yes, I know, I know anything else? Hello, mister Simpson,
bring it.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Out to me right away. It's very important.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I'll pick it up and break it right hard. Something wrong,
mister Simpson. Hello?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Oh m funny.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Before we continue with Richard Diamond, here is an important question.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
What cigarette do you smoke? Doctor?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That question was asked a few years ago of one
hundred thirteen thousand, five hundred and ninety seven doctors. The
brand name most was Camel.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Recently, that question was again asked of tens of thousands
of doctors across the country, doctors in all branches of medicine,
and again the brand named most was Camel.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
According to these nationwide surveys, more doctors smoke Camels than
any other cigarette. Friends smoke the cigarette, so many doctors
and joy change to Camels for thirty days and see
how mild, how flavorful, how enjoyable a cigarette can be? Yes,
change to camels for thirty days, and you'll stay with
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camels from then on.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
Oh my, you make the camel forty day time and
you see small camels.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And now back to Richard Diamond Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I left the office and went down to fifty seventh
Street in the Blue Pheasants, where I told the bartender
who I was, and he handed me the package Simpson
that wanted me to pick up for him. I drove
back out of the house along island. The maid let
me in, and Missus Simpson met me at the study door. Hello, well, hi,
where's your husband?
Speaker 7 (14:44):
I think he's still in the study. He was a
little while ago. You're going on some shopping, you're staying
for dinner.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Where's your step son?
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Ralph went out just after you left. Did you want
him stoping?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
No?
Speaker 7 (14:57):
Just wondered then shopping.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Oh, this is a package for your husband. Wanted me
to pick it up and it seven Uh Missus Simpson, Yes,
Professor Fisher, what m how long.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Have you known him?
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Since I've been married to John.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Your husband said he was helping him to relax.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
Yes, is there something wrong?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I don't know. I talked to your husband earlier when
he asked me to pick up this package. He sounded
rather strange, kept repeating himself since.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
He had a stroke he does that sometimes.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Or should he have a nurse?
Speaker 7 (15:27):
He should, but he won't. If something should happen, Professor
Fisher's numbers in the book on John's desk, or call
the maid, I'll see it.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
But well, hello, mister Simpson, I've got the package. Give
me the package.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Mister Simpson, give me the package.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Are you feeling all right? Give me the package? Okay? Here, Oh,
I did some checking on your story about a shabby You're.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Not give me the package?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You've got it, mister Simpson. Hey, what's wrong? Mister Simpson?
Did you hear me? I better get the maid maid
made diamond? Yeah, Ralph, Yeah, what's wrong? I don't know
your father's act. It felt like the whole building was
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coming down around my ears. Ralph and I were thrown
back against the wall, and by the time we got out,
the study was a smoking black hole. I stumbled in
after Rob, but there wasn't much to stumble in. After
John Simpson had been blown to Kingdom. Come, you're sure
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it was Simpson on the phone. Sure, I'm sure it
was Simpson on the phone. Wall He asked you to
pick up the package. That's right. He wanted it when
I brought it into him. You wouldn't anything else. He
just demanded that package. He'd been pretty sick and me. Yeah,
but a man doesn't go to that much trouble to
commit suicide. No, maybe somebody planted the bar. Look, let's
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let's check with that bartender at the Blue Peasant. I
want to talk to the rest of the family first.
By the way, why did you find out about them? No?
Police records can't find out much about the professor. He
has no practice, no license in the state. I'll see
if you can find out something interested. Yeah, it's funny
when a man is a high condition and won't have
a doctor. I'll drag a professor in if you like. No, no, no,
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you go talk to the family. I'll go and check
for the bartender. Wait a minute, Sherlock, you better tell
me how you got into this mess. Okay, Fatty, I
guess it won't hurt now. I told Wald everything the
late mister Simpson had told me, then headed back to
Town and the Blue Pheasant on fifty seventh Straight. By
the time I got there, the place was pretty well fell.
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But the bartender who had given me the package that
afternoon wasn't in sight.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Yeah, well it be.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Where's the bartender who was working this afternoon? How do
I know he just works in the afternoon. Where's he lived?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Why? Well, I'm collecting addresses of bartenders.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Now where does he live? You collect addresses? I collect? Wise,
guys'll beat it? You mean, I got to show my
little old badge, A little old badge.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
When you say so complex.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
He lives at five hundred West, one hundred and fifty
seventh Street. What's his name? Well, Earl Collins. No relation
to time? Yeah, no relation to the time. Huh, what do
you gotta do? I pile out of the bar and
back in the car, drove across town to one hundred
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and fifty seventh Street, five hundred West. It was a
big apartment house and Earl Collins was registered in four
or five. I climbed the stairs and knocked, gave him
a few minutes while I knocked my knuckles close, then
went and dug up the land lady to have opened
the door. She was a charmer about four years older
than Grant's to him with a gen disposition that would
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make a lost weekend seem like I'm any vacation the
type that should never have been dug up. No, honey,
I got cleaning to do, sweetheart, sweetheart, an expression of funding.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
Buster.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Don't give me no worries longer than one trouble cop,
will you? Yes? Mother, mother, sweetheart, some cop. We'll discuss
my qualifications as soon as you open that door.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
Okay, sweetheart, there holy.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
You said it.
Speaker 10 (19:45):
Is?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
He dead as dead as he can get, still warm,
and I'm not interested. I needed a drink. Did you
see him come in? No? Did you see anybody else
come in here? I've been in my apartment all afternoon.
I'm going back there. Sure you was something awfully? Neat?
Job neat? What are you looking at? What's that other room?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
What's room? Keep it quiet? What's that room? Oh? Good gosh?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Bedroom?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Any other rooms? Answer me?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
That room?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Fire escape? Where is it? Into the hall?
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Look, there's some blood leading to that bedroom.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Now take it easy, go downstairs and call Lieutenant Walter Levinson. Warrison,
Walter Levinson, goodbye. There were several drops of blood leading
to the bedroom door. There was a good chance that
the killer had been surprised and couldn't get out. I
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went to the door and.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Tried it as quietly as I could.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
It gave and I kicked it open. The shades were down,
the room was dark enough to make it difficult to
spot anyone. I moved in with my gun in front
of me. He was standing right by the door, and
he had a knife. You should have listened. I didn't
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want to. Sorry, professor, don't be It's better this way. Look, look,
you're in bad shape. Better tell me about it. You
fired the shop in the garden and sent the letter. Yeah,
help me sit up, okay, yeah, lean against the wall here.
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I still can't figure why Simpson had me pick up
that bomb. I made him, you did. I have been
treating him for nerves. I started giving him a hypnotics
when he had his first spells doing one of those
times he re enacted the Ashanti affair. So you decided
to blackmail him first, and when you took the case,
we decided to eliminate him. We missus Simpson and I
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have been.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
And that much time internal bleeding place will be here
pretty quick.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Decided to kill the old man and Jane would get
to state.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
I thought you'd be blown up with him.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Mister Simpson was under some sort of influence when I
walked into the study, my profession. After you left, I
returned and talked him into a deep sleep. I had
him call you at your office. He nearly messed it up. Hypnosis,
nothing unusual, simple suggestions. And when I walked into the study,
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he'd been ordered to ask for the package and open it.
You mean he was asleep when I walked in. Yes,
you see, it's too late. You'd have to guess the
rest bleeding in. Yeah, well you better lie down again, professor.
(23:01):
You'll have to get used to it.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
But why did he kill the bartender?
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Well?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Checked, and the Professor had been coming into the bar
for some time in the afternoons. He made friends with
Earl about tender left the package with him when he
found out I hadn't been killed in the blast. He
killed Earl to keep him from identifying charming. Yep, like
an asylum in an earthquake. Well, I told you to
stick to redheads already.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Well, you know any available ones one how available.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
You'll have to do some extensive research.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Okay, After dinner. I do not do any research on
the schedule.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
Don't you dinner for sure will get cold.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Wick.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
I'm hungry, Oh for peace.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
You seen something? Well, I go put the food on
a train. We need in here by the You're.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Gonna get fata sick. I take it back. You're already
say you sing something.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Let'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
I'll be right back. I'll be right back. I gonna
sing for everything.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Oh, do do do.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Do do, do, do.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Do do, Just get the food. Huh.
Speaker 11 (24:20):
I think of you with every breath lty, and every
breath becomes a sign, not a sign of despair, but a.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Sign that I care for you.
Speaker 11 (24:41):
I hear your name with every breath lty, on every breeze.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
That one is my and your name is a song.
Speaker 11 (24:56):
I remember the long years.
Speaker 12 (25:04):
Even though I walk, you guide me in the darkest,
You light my way and all the wild inside me,
love seems to say.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
Some day, some day, And when I sleep, you keep.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
My heart awake.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
But when I wake from dreams, divide. Every breath that
I take is a prayer that I'll me.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
You man.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
Why mm hmm, is there really anything to this hypnosis?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Well?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Sure is the old professor made Simpson open that package.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Is it hard to do?
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Look, I'll show you.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Just sit right there, all right, Just look me right
in the eye.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
You're going to sleep. You're going to sleep. You just
want to go to sleep. Nothing makes any difference. Just sleep, sleep, sleep, wish.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
Deep deep sleep, a deep share, peaceful, keep sick.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Dick Powell will return in just a minute to find
out how well camels agree with the throats of smokers.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
This far reaching test was.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Made hundreds of people from coast to coast. People with
normal throats smoked only camels for thirty days. Each week.
Leading throat specialists examined the throats of these smokers. They
made two thousand, four hundred and seventy examinations and reported.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Not one single case of throat irritation. You to smoking camels.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Try camels for thirty days and see how mild, how flavorful,
how enjoyable a cigarette can be?
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Oh mild, MA, sigarette me small camels.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Here's Dick Powell with a special message.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Thank you ladies and Dentomn. The makers of camels have
sent more than one hundred and ninety eight million gift
camels to our armed forces this week. Gift camels go
to hospitalized servicemen and veterans at Veterans Hospitals Framingham, Massachusetts
and Durban, Michigan. US Naval Hospital San Diego, California, and
of all hospitals operated for the US Air Forces in
the Far East.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Now until next week, enjoy camel I always do.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Tonight's transcribed adventure of Richard Diamond was written and directed
by Blake Edwards, with music by Frank Worth. Virginia Greig
played the part of Helen Asher, and Alan Reed was
Lieutenant Levinson. Others in the cast were Gene Bates, Herbert Butterfield,
and Tony Michaels. Be sure to listen to another great
camel show, Von Munroe and the Camel Caravan every Saturday night,
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