November 26, 2024 • 34 mins
Today's Mystery:A San Francisco detective is convinced that one of three Americans at a Brazillian plantation is a fugitive killer in disguise. But which one?
Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 8, 1946
Originating from New York CityStarring: Ken Lynch
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 8, 1946
Originating from New York CityStarring: Ken Lynch
Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net
Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.
Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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can find all of our podcast over a website at
Great Detectives dot net. As I mentioned, we ended up
finishing Bulldog Drummond abruptly a week early, and I did
not want to reschedule the rest of the year, So
we're playing a midweek special which will bring us another
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episode of Malay Mystery Theater. And this is actually a
story we played an adaptation of back in season seven
in an episode of Escape starring Jeff Chandler, and we
recently got season seven uploaded on our Volume three feed,
(01:53):
and I was thinking that it would be fun to
revisit that story because there was an escape version with
Willard Waterman. I found out that there was an entirely
different version that was actually done for the Molay Mystery Theater,
which is kind of appropriate for what will be bringing
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you next week. So here now from March eighth, nineteen
forty six is the episode Red Wine.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
And now the Molay Mystery Theater presented by M Lle
Molay the Heavier Brushless shaving Cream for heavy Beards.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Good evening.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
This is Jeffrey Bones welcoming you to the program that
presents the best in detective and mystery fiction. Tonight, we
have selected for you a masterful story of suspense entitled
red Wine. In red Wine, we have an unusual think.
It's a mystery story that stood a good chance of
being completely lost to mystery fans. It is published more
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than fifteen years ago, and to the best of my knowledge,
has never been republished in any mystery anthology. And so
it is with great pleasure that we now present L. G.
Blockmann's Red Wine. It's an extraordinary story and one that
certainly does not deserve to be forgotten.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Before you begin your story, mister Barnes, here's something.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
It will pay the men in our audience.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Not to forget.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
If you have wiry, hard to cut whiskers or a
tender skin, and you dread the agony of that morning shave,
then shaved with Molay, the heavier brushless shaving crane. Yes,
sir man, it's smooth, so smooth. It's slack, so slack.
It's a small, smooth, slack slake shave.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
You get with M. L. L. E.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Molay, the heavier brushless cream for tender skins. That's right,
Molay is a heavier cream, the kind of cream you
need if you have a wiry, hard to cut beard
or a tender skin. Because Molay is heavier, it softens
your whiskers, holds them up straighter, and makes them easy
to cut. So you shave faster, closer, easier, and you
(04:21):
shave painlessly with Molay, the heavier brushless cream for tender skins.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
Molay.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And now here is Jeffrey Barnes with Tonight's Molay Mystery
red Wine. This happened at Bohar Plantation down in the
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valley of the Amazon, And the men who grow rubber
in the jungle will vouch for the story, and they
tell it nights in the bar of Maraccas, And they say.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
That it had to do with three who were hunted, and.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
The fourth the hunter fall, and all they say, and
the bitter ending in a bottle of red wine. The
four sit at the table, no sound as the dealer
fixed the cards. The lamp shines wearily on the set faces.
(05:29):
The dealer's eyes move slowly watching each man. Joe Best hard,
heavy lipped, sensual, I opened with two box, Dick hallap easy,
full muscled, sometimes smiling above that. Three William Carr quiet, quick,
handy with a knife, all right along. The dealer's eyes
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move slowly, watching each man inside the stifling room. The
never ceasing smell of coagulating rubber from the mill, the dull,
wet heat of the jungle cards. Gentlemen, the dealer spoke,
boyd trasker. The dealer, I'll take two. Joe Best takes
two cards. And now the fifth man in the room,
(06:14):
Don Hernando Valcar, gets up from his chair in the
far corner and comes close to the table.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Uh is permitted to watch, senor Uh? Thank you?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Cards?
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Helop three cards.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Car?
Speaker 7 (06:33):
One could.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Dealers stands Pat well Best you opened opener, checks a
bit hel up, check car check out at fifty bucks.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
I r all, I can stand at this cat and
mouse stuff.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
What do you mean?
Speaker 7 (06:53):
I mean, Trasker, You're.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
An out and out pony.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
You're not watching the game at all.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
You're watching us.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
You heard what I said, Trasker.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I heard you best.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
What are you here, Fort Treska? Yeah, Treska.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
You said you were a stockholder and Boha rubber Boja
is privately owned.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
There are no stockholders.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Somebody was snooping around my bunk this morning. What are
you here for, Treska. Somebody went to my foot locker
two days in the morning at Tresky. You better go
back where you came from. We don't like.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh, Jen tileman Jan, we don't.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Like you either. Back easy for what a native flight cup?
So he's Don hernandol Baca. So he's police chief of
my Raka. So what So we're American citizens, all three
of us. Why do you here, Fort Tresker.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Maybe we can help you find what you're looking for, Treska.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Maybe you can calm. I'm looking for a murderer named
Jerome Steek.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Jerome Steek, So yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Jerome Steak wanted in San Francisco for the murder of
his wife.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Known to have escaped to Brazil. Brazil's a big place.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Treska, also known to have paddled down the Amazon Valley
to Boha Rubber Place. Antation appearance, of course, will be altered.
Dark hair, probably bleached blonde.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Now I'm blonde, Treska.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
See all three of you are. That is what I
told the Senuel Trosca when he first came to my
office in Moncas. I said, all three men are blonde, Senor,
I said.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Go on. Jerome Steek is an American, quite cultured, very
well read, connoisseur of wine, fond of horse racing, women,
good clothes. Also a heavy gambler. So that's why you
arranged this poker game to see how we bet.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Jerome Steak is also very clever. He's a good actor.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
He's capable of concealing his breeding, of passing himself off
as a ship's engineer. Say or a Steve adoor Field hand,
I'm a ship's engineer. You want to see my papers.
I don't want anything help except except what accept to
admit I've made a mistake.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Okay, yeah, that's better, don Henando, I apologize. I should
have listened to you.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I told you, was it wild goose change?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I had to see it for myself, well have you? Yes,
it's quite obvious that none of you is drome stick.
So when the launch comes up the river again, I'll
take it and return to the United States. Launch won't
be here for a week. That's unfortunate. Best you will
have to put up with me until then.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Awake is a long time trisk. Four guys could get
on each other's lives in a week. We'll have to
take a chance on that car. My nerves are pretty good.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Yes, this joke as trunk right, must be something here
for the love, Oh, don Nando, I didn't hear you right, Nerve,
don't be foolish.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I would not blame you my friend coming here to
the bunk house. I'm snooping. This is an unwise thing
you do. If that Joe Best saw you're going through,
he's trunk senor Trasca. Please come away from here. I
have heard the men talk. I am responsible for your safety.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
You're a good guy. And Nando relax, please, I have
heard the talk.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
He's a dangerous man.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
You know what I'm going to do when I get home.
And Ando I'm going to make you an honorary member
of the San Francisco Police.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Ah dun l nandovaka San Francisco Police.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
That is nice, an honorary member for helping us catch
Jerome Steak.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Steak, Santa Maria, why you keep mentioning his name? You
already said you have made a mistake, that you do
not believe any of these men.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
They said that for a reason, Hernando, one of them
is Steak.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Come here. If you were a field hand and a
rubber plantation, would you be reading the poems of Charles
al Jernon swin.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Burn Senor I do not understand.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Maybe I's in your best. What's the matter with reading
swind nothing at all best, It's just a little unusual.
Jerome Steak is the sort of a man who might
read love poems Joe Best.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
Wouldn't He might?
Speaker 5 (11:23):
And he might not put that book back in my trunk, trasker,
close the trunk and get out of here. Before I
Steak was known to have a severe temper.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Are you on your best? He would not be good
to resolve the violence. After all, he's a law in
Morocca's these three I am only it's all believed.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Okay, okay, put the gun down. But I'm telling you, Trasker,
you're poking your nose into trouble. Car seems to have
(12:07):
enough bottles hanging around here looking for something, mister Tress.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Oh hello, Car, I cut myself. I was told there
was some peroxide in this first aid cabinet. Funny they
told you to come all the way down to my
shack for peroxide, is it?
Speaker 8 (12:28):
I think so they have. I had dined up at
the main office, that's all.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
I had dines much better for cuts, particularly little scratches
like that. Thanks, Car, I remember that I would if
I were you at TRESK.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
You can't be too careful.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
That's right, especially when your bottle labeled machine oil contains peroxide.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
My fool people, meaning nothing important.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I was just thinking peroxide is bad for the hair, tends.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
To bleach it, does it? Really, that's what they say, Traska.
You lied to us the other day. That apology of
yours was a store. You still think one of us
is this Jerome Steak could be Car. I've got five
days to find out.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Yeah, Trasky, you've got five days if you live that floor.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
As the curtain falls on Act one of our story.
It looks as though board Trasker is in for plenty
of trouble, and very shortly. The chances are mister Trasker
would much rather be back in San Francisco right now
than risking his life in the Brazilian jungle. Well, mister Barnes,
I don't know about mister Trasker, but I do know this,
there are a lot of men who'd rather face all
the tortures of the worst jungle than go through the
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punishment of a morning shave.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Well almost You.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
See, many a man has a wiry, hard to cut
beard or a tender skin, and shaving can really be painful.
And yet it needn't be, not if they shave with
Molay brushless shaving cream, the heavier cream for tender skins. Yes,
Molay is a heavier cream, the cream that softens your whiskers,
sets them up straighter, and lets your razor sweep right
(14:27):
through them. With Molay, you shave faster, closer, easier, and
you shave painlessly. Try it and see if you don't
say it's smooth, so smooth.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
It's slick, sol slick.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
It's a smooth, smooth, slick slake shave you get with.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Molay the heavier brushless cream for tender skins Molay allow.
Back to Jeffrey Barnes and Act two of The Moley Mystery,
Red Wine. Boyd Trasker, San Francisco detective is on a
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rubber plantation and the jungles of the Amazon looking for
a murderer named Jerome Steak. He is convinced that one
of the Americans there is the murderer. When he challenges
the three men, each denies he is Jerome Steak. The
search becomes a hunt. One man hunting, three hunted.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Joe Best, William Carr, Dick Hallop the hunted, Boyd Trasker
the hunter. But as the hours of the week slip by,
the tension grows tighter, the hostility comes out in the open,
and the tables are turned.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
The hunter becomes the hunted.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Then one afternoon, the four go off into the jungle
to shoot wild pigs.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Say you Trusco s.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Trusca, you are all right? Did you come from Hernando?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
You are all right?
Speaker 5 (16:06):
I told you not to worry about me.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I could not help it. I had to come when
I heard you had agreed to go peek hunting me
those men.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
I can take care of myself.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
What's such unnecessary risks this jungle? Anything?
Speaker 7 (16:16):
What you want me to do?
Speaker 5 (16:17):
They came to me this morning, all three of them,
and said they always hunt pig on the day off,
and would I like to come along?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
But it would be so easy. A hunting accident, Pean.
Everybody is so sorry, and you are dead.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Yes, I'm expecting at any minute, what a hunting accident?
One of those men out there on a brushious steak.
I feel certain of it. He already has one murder
towards credit, and I'm going to find out if he
has nerve enough to try a seconds that little rise
of ground ahead, See, they gave me that as my post.
When the pig is sided, a car is somewhere to
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the left, vest is over there to the right, by
that clump of trees, and help is behind us now and.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
All right, please do not go to your posts, Insca.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
I don't intend to, huh, but my son helmet is going.
My son helmet will show just above the bushes in
the spot where I'm supposed to be.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Wait.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Wait, I'm coming with you.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Yeah, Please send your trasca, please, Fernando, and stay down
this is your post right here?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Yes, wait away.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Here goes send you all wait Traska's helmet showing just
above the bush. No one would trask us helmet. Gentlemen,
this Jerome Steek watching.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
This will prove nothing.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Let's see now, watch.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Santa Maria.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Didn't take them long?
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Did it?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Clean through the helmet? Lean through the helmet and the
direction indicated clear as a weather vein. It came from behind.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Us, behind, Send your holop, he's behind.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Help was behind us, but car and Best could drop back.
It could have been any one of them, but it
was one of them.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
What you say now, don Hernando?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
What do I say now? I say you are right? Senor?
Who of these three men? Easily murderer Jerome Steak.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
That was the first attempt on board Traska's life.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
The second attempt involves a melee man catcher, that horrible
machine that is set off by a concealed wire and
plunges spiked bamboo steaks into its victim.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
So sen you trust, Senor Trush.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
I'm all right, Henando. Luckily for me, I've travel in Java.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
I know the setup of a melee man catcher when
I see one.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
My houseboy wasn't so fortunate.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Oh poor Manuel, those Bomboo steaks pierced right through.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
How could a melee man catcher suddenly appear outside my shack?
Jerome Steak lived many years in Java. He could answer
that that.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Was attempt number two on Tasker's life, and then that
night attempt number three.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Din this way quick, she said, Oh see what has happened,
mother of Heaven a bush master.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Yeah, it was curled up between my bed sheets. I
got it just in time if I hadn't been on
the lookout for something.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Devious snake in all the world.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Yes, another quaint device of our friend, Jerome Steak.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
The hunter has become the hunted, and both are working
against time.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
One day left, Sire, I cannot stand much more of you.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
You won't have to, Rnando. It has been Steak's life
of mine. Now it's going to be steaks.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
You are sure the riva won't arrive tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
I know, but I still haven't played my trump card.
You're trunk, yes, Fernando. In North America we call it
our ace in the hole. Oh God, event, I let
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drink about an hour? Right? The bike man, gentlemen's gone.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
How are you doing here, Tresker? This is a private part.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
I don't expect to stay best.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Good Amen.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I came to extend an invitation. Yeah, off, how you
get with any of your invitations, trasker. Will you listen
or not? If it'll help get you out of here
any faster, go ahead, spill it tomorrow. I am leaving
Boha for good, and i'd like to leave with no
hard feelings. If you let me, boys, I want to
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throw a party for you. We're having a party, a
real party, on board the steamer before I sail. I
know the skipper of the Salvador, and the skipper knows food.
He has a top notch wine cellar board specializes in
Chateau malerve. He also has a fine Chinese cook. What
do you say? Ah?
Speaker 7 (21:29):
The devil with you and your party?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Now?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Wait a minute, An, We don't like Transkan.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
We made no bones about it, but I think we
should take him up on this offer. After all, good
food and wine don't turn up around here every day.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
I'll leave your show, Transk.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Thanks, Hallop and you calm, it's okay with hellup, it's
okay with me. That leaves you best, and I won't
like any better. Trus you being thank you gentlemen, you
will come on to lunch with me. Oh, we'll paddle
down a river ourselves as you like. Well, good night,
(22:09):
I'll see you on the steamer tomorrow. I have an idea.
It'll be a party. You'll never forget.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
This is Jeffrey Barnes again. In just a moment, we'll
return you to Act three of red Wine. Don't let
specks of dandriff on your coat collar embarrass you. Do
what thousands are doing for relief from this social and
business handicap. Use double danderine. You'll quickly discover.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
The double danderine is unlike so many hair preparations available today,
preparations that really do no more to fight a common
type of dandrift than plain water does. That is, they
simply remove loose dandreff. Double danderene, you see, actually combats
this dandriff by killing on contact. The germs that many
outstanding authorities contend are cars. I repeat, it actually kills
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them on contact.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Now.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
The amazing effectiveness of double danderene is due to a
special ingredient called al zam an activatiseptic so remarkably efficient
that many hospitals use it and among hair preparations. Double
danderene and double dandurene alone has it. So try double
danderene and see if you don't agree that most ordinary
hair preparations can't compare with its dandriff combating effectiveness. If
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you're not satisfied, return the empty bottle and get your
money back by double danderene at your druggists.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
I like miss Ta Taska flight sim setti I sens
antos letti everything. Letty you taste o yang, everything smells perfect.
That's proven up for me.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
You're a great.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Dyna and own.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
See see is the change you say? Oh young, he's
number warm.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Cook.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
My guests have arrived.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
They are waiting in the sheep.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Sell on, let's go. Then everything is already. I don't
forget you. Bring in the ice cubes when I call
for you, see, I will bring them. I will remember.
He's old, planted good Now, don hernando. I am ready
for my ace in the hole. Yes, I've told you before.
Jerome Steak is a connoisseur of good food and rare wine.
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Now this little bottle of Chateau Malure will be his finish,
this little bottle. It will as surely as he meant
his melee man catcher to finish me midway through the dinner.
I'll rise and call for silence. Gentlemen, I'll say, in
a moment, I'll open this rare vintage wine. I'd be
pleased if all of you will join me in a
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farewell drink. You're having a good time, boy, God, I
may I have your attention for just the moment, gentlemen. Please, gentlemen,
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in a moment, I'll open this rare vintage wine. I'll
be pleased if all of you will join me in
a farewell drink. Why not pour it off?
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Might as well go the lemmon.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
This wine is Chau nineteen eleven. Pour it out, never
mind the build up. The vineyards produced real nectar that year.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Yeah, let's drink and not talk.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Okay, best here she comes, Mmm, okay, pass the bottle around.
Just have a whiff of it here, best smell it
smells okay, here here, take a sniff. Make the man happy.
I'll tryscrab it fred drinking some as you say. The glasses, gentlemen,
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now we're getting somewhere.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
Pass them down, all right.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
It's precious stuff. You will taste no other like it.
Class for Joe Best, one to take calap and one
for William Carr. Well, let's hope it tastes as good
as you've tried to make it sound. Well, Helop, I
assure you, Uh, don Lenando.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Hernando, what's he doing here?
Speaker 5 (26:16):
He was with me in the launch, don Nando Froscar
calling had the ice pail, see.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Right, ice pail?
Speaker 8 (26:25):
Yes, Helop, Look are we gonna drink this wine or not?
Speaker 5 (26:27):
We're going to drink a car We just removed the
cover from the pail and drop a cube of ice
into each glass. It'll add to the refreshment. One cube
for Joe Best.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
I can't wait to have any.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
And one for William.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Hey, hey, you're not going to put ice some ice
to melt?
Speaker 6 (26:45):
Hey, what's the matica?
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Why not? Car Well?
Speaker 7 (26:52):
And any fool knows it?
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Yes, car Well, Well, I mean everyone knows that Chateau
melas drunken room temperature.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Everyone does. I don't think so, Carr. I think that
is something only Jerome Steak would know. William Carr, or
if you prefer Jerome Steak, I arrest you for the
murder of your wife.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
William Carr was arrested, but Joe Best and Dick helap
our freed the next morning, best and help push their
canoe into the river and start peddling upstream toward home.
Speaker 7 (27:39):
Two of you are at Liberty to return up river to.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Boorha at Pompa's pool. Dad, I just can't get it
through my head. Quiet Billyka who just thought it could
be our friend Bilika? Yeah, nice guy, all this you
know best.
Speaker 7 (28:04):
When you come to think of it. That was pretty
dark clever at Trask.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
He figured only a guy who really knew his liquor
would walk.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
And have an ice putting his wine.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
He's sure enough, trap Bill with those cubes in the
Chateau Malure nineteen eleven.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
Pretty clever, i'd see.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Maybe, and maybe not so clear?
Speaker 7 (28:29):
What do you mean not so clever?
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Any wine merchant could tell you howp There was no
Chateau Malare in nineteen eleven.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
It was a bad year. The vineyards didn't bottle. Yes, that's.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
The best.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Wait a minute.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Only one man around these parts that know a thing
like that, Jerome Steek.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Oh, keep right on paddling, helop and don't turn around.
You might be sorry. You you're gonna kill me, I suppose, Oh, yes,
you're the only man alive who knows I'm your own steak.
I can hardly allow you to return to poor hour
of that knowledge.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
I'd be embarrassed.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Yeah, you'll be even more embarrassed when you try to
shoot that revolver. I emptied the chambers this morning, you see, best, Trask,
and I've been trying to find you for months. We
narrowed it down to un car but we were stimied
from there. We had to hear it from your own mouth.
We chose this way, counting on your ego. I wouldn't
try anything, Joe.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
The chambers in this gun are quite well loaded. I see.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Shall we be getting back to the Salvador? Trascor will
be waiting, I guess, sir. We can finish the bottle
if you like.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Bottle.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Okay, Hello, always was a sucker for red wine.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Now this is Jeffrey Barnes again inviting you to be
with us next week when we present a comedy mystery
by Joseph Ruscolle entitled The Case of the Missing Mind,
you'll meet a delightful little Broadway wise guy named Kenny
who has one of the most mad, exciting, hilarious experiences
on record.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
When he meets a strange mystic named Aladdin.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
So join us next week to meet two wonderful characters
in the Case of the Missing Mind.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
The original music for the Molee Mystery Theater is composed
and conducted by Alexander Semdler. Red Wine was written by L. G.
Blackman and adapted for radio by Louis Pellettier and Jacques Fink.
Kenneth Lynch was featured in tonight's program, This is dan
Seymour saying good night until next Friday, when the Mystery
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Theater presents the Case of the Missing Mind.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Tonight's Mystery Theater presentation came to you from New York's
Radio City.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Welcome back. I thought it was an enjoyable episode and
a nice chance to see Ken Lynch in action as
the lead. I still think the escape version is better
because it's more faithful to the source material. There were
two big twists in this episode. The first was from
the short story and the revelation about the ice and
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the Red Wine. The second was an original to the
Mullay Mystery Theater, and it's not a great one. The
idea that Trasker had an inside man of the three
and therefore there were really only two suspects. Kind of
diminishes the mystery. And if Trasker did have a secret partner,
it seems like they could have wrapped this up much
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earlier rather than this dragging out for days and weeks.
If nothing else, having someone among the three suspects should
have prevented the murderer from going out and setting up
elaborate death traps for Trasker. I mean, you would think, however,
this story may despite some of the issues with the adaptation.
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Oh Molay for bringing it to light, because who knows
if the Escape adaptation or a later TV adaptation with
David Niven on the Four Star Playhouse would have come
to fruition if Molay hadn't highlighted the story. There were
a lot of mystery stories that were published at the
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same time as Red Wine, with so many popular mystery
magazines that some have just really been lost in the
and been forgotten, even though they're perfectly fine stories. So
Molay may have spared red Wine from that fate. All right, Well,
now it's time to think our Patreon supporter of the
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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
going to bring you a rare midweek special. But if
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can find all of our podcast over a website at
Great Detectives dot net. As I mentioned, we ended up
finishing Bulldog Drummond abruptly a week early, and I did
not want to reschedule the rest of the year, So
we're playing a midweek special which will bring us another
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episode of Malay Mystery Theater. And this is actually a
story we played an adaptation of back in season seven
in an episode of Escape starring Jeff Chandler, and we
recently got season seven uploaded on our Volume three feed,
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and I was thinking that it would be fun to
revisit that story because there was an escape version with
Willard Waterman. I found out that there was an entirely
different version that was actually done for the Molay Mystery Theater,
which is kind of appropriate for what will be bringing
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you next week. So here now from March eighth, nineteen
forty six is the episode Red Wine.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
And now the Molay Mystery Theater presented by M Lle
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Speaker 3 (02:52):
Good evening.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
This is Jeffrey Bones welcoming you to the program that
presents the best in detective and mystery fiction. Tonight, we
have selected for you a masterful story of suspense entitled
red Wine. In red Wine, we have an unusual think.
It's a mystery story that stood a good chance of
being completely lost to mystery fans. It is published more
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than fifteen years ago, and to the best of my knowledge,
has never been republished in any mystery anthology. And so
it is with great pleasure that we now present L. G.
Blockmann's Red Wine. It's an extraordinary story and one that
certainly does not deserve to be forgotten.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Before you begin your story, mister Barnes, here's something.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
It will pay the men in our audience.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Not to forget.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
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Speaker 7 (04:27):
Molay.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And now here is Jeffrey Barnes with Tonight's Molay Mystery
red Wine. This happened at Bohar Plantation down in the
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valley of the Amazon, And the men who grow rubber
in the jungle will vouch for the story, and they
tell it nights in the bar of Maraccas, And they say.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
That it had to do with three who were hunted, and.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
The fourth the hunter fall, and all they say, and
the bitter ending in a bottle of red wine. The
four sit at the table, no sound as the dealer
fixed the cards. The lamp shines wearily on the set faces.
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The dealer's eyes move slowly watching each man. Joe Best hard,
heavy lipped, sensual, I opened with two box, Dick hallap easy,
full muscled, sometimes smiling above that. Three William Carr quiet, quick,
handy with a knife, all right along. The dealer's eyes
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move slowly, watching each man inside the stifling room. The
never ceasing smell of coagulating rubber from the mill, the dull,
wet heat of the jungle cards. Gentlemen, the dealer spoke,
boyd trasker. The dealer, I'll take two. Joe Best takes
two cards. And now the fifth man in the room,
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Don Hernando Valcar, gets up from his chair in the
far corner and comes close to the table.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Uh is permitted to watch, senor Uh? Thank you?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Cards?
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Helop three cards.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Car?
Speaker 7 (06:33):
One could.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Dealers stands Pat well Best you opened opener, checks a
bit hel up, check car check out at fifty bucks.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
I r all, I can stand at this cat and
mouse stuff.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
What do you mean?
Speaker 7 (06:53):
I mean, Trasker, You're.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
An out and out pony.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
You're not watching the game at all.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
You're watching us.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
You heard what I said, Trasker.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I heard you best.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
What are you here, Fort Treska? Yeah, Treska.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
You said you were a stockholder and Boha rubber Boja
is privately owned.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
There are no stockholders.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Somebody was snooping around my bunk this morning. What are
you here for, Treska. Somebody went to my foot locker
two days in the morning at Tresky. You better go
back where you came from. We don't like.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh, Jen tileman Jan, we don't.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Like you either. Back easy for what a native flight cup?
So he's Don hernandol Baca. So he's police chief of
my Raka. So what So we're American citizens, all three
of us. Why do you here, Fort Tresker.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Maybe we can help you find what you're looking for, Treska.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Maybe you can calm. I'm looking for a murderer named
Jerome Steek.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Jerome Steek, So yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Jerome Steak wanted in San Francisco for the murder of
his wife.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Known to have escaped to Brazil. Brazil's a big place.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Treska, also known to have paddled down the Amazon Valley
to Boha Rubber Place. Antation appearance, of course, will be altered.
Dark hair, probably bleached blonde.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Now I'm blonde, Treska.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
See all three of you are. That is what I
told the Senuel Trosca when he first came to my
office in Moncas. I said, all three men are blonde, Senor,
I said.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Go on. Jerome Steek is an American, quite cultured, very
well read, connoisseur of wine, fond of horse racing, women,
good clothes. Also a heavy gambler. So that's why you
arranged this poker game to see how we bet.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Jerome Steak is also very clever. He's a good actor.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
He's capable of concealing his breeding, of passing himself off
as a ship's engineer. Say or a Steve adoor Field hand,
I'm a ship's engineer. You want to see my papers.
I don't want anything help except except what accept to
admit I've made a mistake.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Okay, yeah, that's better, don Henando, I apologize. I should
have listened to you.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I told you, was it wild goose change?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I had to see it for myself, well have you? Yes,
it's quite obvious that none of you is drome stick.
So when the launch comes up the river again, I'll
take it and return to the United States. Launch won't
be here for a week. That's unfortunate. Best you will
have to put up with me until then.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Awake is a long time trisk. Four guys could get
on each other's lives in a week. We'll have to
take a chance on that car. My nerves are pretty good.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Yes, this joke as trunk right, must be something here
for the love, Oh, don Nando, I didn't hear you right, Nerve,
don't be foolish.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I would not blame you my friend coming here to
the bunk house. I'm snooping. This is an unwise thing
you do. If that Joe Best saw you're going through,
he's trunk senor Trasca. Please come away from here. I
have heard the men talk. I am responsible for your safety.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
You're a good guy. And Nando relax, please, I have
heard the talk.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
He's a dangerous man.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
You know what I'm going to do when I get home.
And Ando I'm going to make you an honorary member
of the San Francisco Police.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Ah dun l nandovaka San Francisco Police.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
That is nice, an honorary member for helping us catch
Jerome Steak.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Steak, Santa Maria, why you keep mentioning his name? You
already said you have made a mistake, that you do
not believe any of these men.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
They said that for a reason, Hernando, one of them
is Steak.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Come here. If you were a field hand and a
rubber plantation, would you be reading the poems of Charles
al Jernon swin.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Burn Senor I do not understand.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Maybe I's in your best. What's the matter with reading
swind nothing at all best, It's just a little unusual.
Jerome Steak is the sort of a man who might
read love poems Joe Best.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
Wouldn't He might?
Speaker 5 (11:23):
And he might not put that book back in my trunk, trasker,
close the trunk and get out of here. Before I
Steak was known to have a severe temper.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Are you on your best? He would not be good
to resolve the violence. After all, he's a law in
Morocca's these three I am only it's all believed.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Okay, okay, put the gun down. But I'm telling you, Trasker,
you're poking your nose into trouble. Car seems to have
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enough bottles hanging around here looking for something, mister Tress.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Oh hello, Car, I cut myself. I was told there
was some peroxide in this first aid cabinet. Funny they
told you to come all the way down to my
shack for peroxide, is it?
Speaker 8 (12:28):
I think so they have. I had dined up at
the main office, that's all.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
I had dines much better for cuts, particularly little scratches
like that. Thanks, Car, I remember that I would if
I were you at TRESK.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
You can't be too careful.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
That's right, especially when your bottle labeled machine oil contains peroxide.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
My fool people, meaning nothing important.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I was just thinking peroxide is bad for the hair, tends.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
To bleach it, does it? Really, that's what they say, Traska.
You lied to us the other day. That apology of
yours was a store. You still think one of us
is this Jerome Steak could be Car. I've got five
days to find out.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Yeah, Trasky, you've got five days if you live that floor.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
As the curtain falls on Act one of our story.
It looks as though board Trasker is in for plenty
of trouble, and very shortly. The chances are mister Trasker
would much rather be back in San Francisco right now
than risking his life in the Brazilian jungle. Well, mister Barnes,
I don't know about mister Trasker, but I do know this,
there are a lot of men who'd rather face all
the tortures of the worst jungle than go through the
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punishment of a morning shave.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Well almost You.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
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beard or a tender skin, and shaving can really be painful.
And yet it needn't be, not if they shave with
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you shave painlessly. Try it and see if you don't
say it's smooth, so smooth.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
It's slick, sol slick.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
It's a smooth, smooth, slick slake shave you get with.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
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Back to Jeffrey Barnes and Act two of The Moley Mystery,
Red Wine. Boyd Trasker, San Francisco detective is on a
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rubber plantation and the jungles of the Amazon looking for
a murderer named Jerome Steak. He is convinced that one
of the Americans there is the murderer. When he challenges
the three men, each denies he is Jerome Steak. The
search becomes a hunt. One man hunting, three hunted.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Joe Best, William Carr, Dick Hallop the hunted, Boyd Trasker
the hunter. But as the hours of the week slip by,
the tension grows tighter, the hostility comes out in the open,
and the tables are turned.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
The hunter becomes the hunted.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Then one afternoon, the four go off into the jungle
to shoot wild pigs.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Say you Trusco s.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Trusca, you are all right? Did you come from Hernando?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
You are all right?
Speaker 5 (16:06):
I told you not to worry about me.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I could not help it. I had to come when
I heard you had agreed to go peek hunting me
those men.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
I can take care of myself.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
What's such unnecessary risks this jungle? Anything?
Speaker 7 (16:16):
What you want me to do?
Speaker 5 (16:17):
They came to me this morning, all three of them,
and said they always hunt pig on the day off,
and would I like to come along?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
But it would be so easy. A hunting accident, Pean.
Everybody is so sorry, and you are dead.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Yes, I'm expecting at any minute, what a hunting accident?
One of those men out there on a brushious steak.
I feel certain of it. He already has one murder
towards credit, and I'm going to find out if he
has nerve enough to try a seconds that little rise
of ground ahead, See, they gave me that as my post.
When the pig is sided, a car is somewhere to
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the left, vest is over there to the right, by
that clump of trees, and help is behind us now and.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
All right, please do not go to your posts, Insca.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
I don't intend to, huh, but my son helmet is going.
My son helmet will show just above the bushes in
the spot where I'm supposed to be.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Wait.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Wait, I'm coming with you.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Yeah, Please send your trasca, please, Fernando, and stay down
this is your post right here?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Yes, wait away.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Here goes send you all wait Traska's helmet showing just
above the bush. No one would trask us helmet. Gentlemen,
this Jerome Steek watching.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
This will prove nothing.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Let's see now, watch.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Santa Maria.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Didn't take them long?
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Did it?
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Clean through the helmet? Lean through the helmet and the
direction indicated clear as a weather vein. It came from behind.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Us, behind, Send your holop, he's behind.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Help was behind us, but car and Best could drop back.
It could have been any one of them, but it
was one of them.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
What you say now, don Hernando?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
What do I say now? I say you are right? Senor?
Who of these three men? Easily murderer Jerome Steak.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
That was the first attempt on board Traska's life.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
The second attempt involves a melee man catcher, that horrible
machine that is set off by a concealed wire and
plunges spiked bamboo steaks into its victim.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
So sen you trust, Senor Trush.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
I'm all right, Henando. Luckily for me, I've travel in Java.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
I know the setup of a melee man catcher when
I see one.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
My houseboy wasn't so fortunate.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Oh poor Manuel, those Bomboo steaks pierced right through.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
How could a melee man catcher suddenly appear outside my shack?
Jerome Steak lived many years in Java. He could answer
that that.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Was attempt number two on Tasker's life, and then that
night attempt number three.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Din this way quick, she said, Oh see what has happened,
mother of Heaven a bush master.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Yeah, it was curled up between my bed sheets. I
got it just in time if I hadn't been on
the lookout for something.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Devious snake in all the world.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Yes, another quaint device of our friend, Jerome Steak.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
The hunter has become the hunted, and both are working
against time.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
One day left, Sire, I cannot stand much more of you.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
You won't have to, Rnando. It has been Steak's life
of mine. Now it's going to be steaks.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
You are sure the riva won't arrive tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
I know, but I still haven't played my trump card.
You're trunk, yes, Fernando. In North America we call it
our ace in the hole. Oh God, event, I let
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drink about an hour? Right? The bike man, gentlemen's gone.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
How are you doing here, Tresker? This is a private part.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
I don't expect to stay best.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Good Amen.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I came to extend an invitation. Yeah, off, how you
get with any of your invitations, trasker. Will you listen
or not? If it'll help get you out of here
any faster, go ahead, spill it tomorrow. I am leaving
Boha for good, and i'd like to leave with no
hard feelings. If you let me, boys, I want to
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throw a party for you. We're having a party, a
real party, on board the steamer before I sail. I
know the skipper of the Salvador, and the skipper knows food.
He has a top notch wine cellar board specializes in
Chateau malerve. He also has a fine Chinese cook. What
do you say? Ah?
Speaker 7 (21:29):
The devil with you and your party?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Now?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Wait a minute, An, We don't like Transkan.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
We made no bones about it, but I think we
should take him up on this offer. After all, good
food and wine don't turn up around here every day.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
I'll leave your show, Transk.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Thanks, Hallop and you calm, it's okay with hellup, it's
okay with me. That leaves you best, and I won't
like any better. Trus you being thank you gentlemen, you
will come on to lunch with me. Oh, we'll paddle
down a river ourselves as you like. Well, good night,
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I'll see you on the steamer tomorrow. I have an idea.
It'll be a party. You'll never forget.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
This is Jeffrey Barnes again. In just a moment, we'll
return you to Act three of red Wine. Don't let
specks of dandriff on your coat collar embarrass you. Do
what thousands are doing for relief from this social and
business handicap. Use double danderine. You'll quickly discover.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
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preparations that really do no more to fight a common
type of dandrift than plain water does. That is, they
simply remove loose dandreff. Double danderene, you see, actually combats
this dandriff by killing on contact. The germs that many
outstanding authorities contend are cars. I repeat, it actually kills
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them on contact.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Now.
Speaker 9 (23:04):
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special ingredient called al zam an activatiseptic so remarkably efficient
that many hospitals use it and among hair preparations. Double
danderene and double dandurene alone has it. So try double
danderene and see if you don't agree that most ordinary
hair preparations can't compare with its dandriff combating effectiveness. If
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you're not satisfied, return the empty bottle and get your
money back by double danderene at your druggists.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
I like miss Ta Taska flight sim setti I sens
antos letti everything. Letty you taste o yang, everything smells perfect.
That's proven up for me.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
You're a great.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Dyna and own.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
See see is the change you say? Oh young, he's
number warm.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Cook.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
My guests have arrived.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
They are waiting in the sheep.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Sell on, let's go. Then everything is already. I don't
forget you. Bring in the ice cubes when I call
for you, see, I will bring them. I will remember.
He's old, planted good Now, don hernando. I am ready
for my ace in the hole. Yes, I've told you before.
Jerome Steak is a connoisseur of good food and rare wine.
(24:28):
Now this little bottle of Chateau Malure will be his finish,
this little bottle. It will as surely as he meant
his melee man catcher to finish me midway through the dinner.
I'll rise and call for silence. Gentlemen, I'll say, in
a moment, I'll open this rare vintage wine. I'd be
pleased if all of you will join me in a
(24:49):
farewell drink. You're having a good time, boy, God, I
may I have your attention for just the moment, gentlemen. Please, gentlemen,
(25:13):
in a moment, I'll open this rare vintage wine. I'll
be pleased if all of you will join me in
a farewell drink. Why not pour it off?
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Might as well go the lemmon.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
This wine is Chau nineteen eleven. Pour it out, never
mind the build up. The vineyards produced real nectar that year.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Yeah, let's drink and not talk.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Okay, best here she comes, Mmm, okay, pass the bottle around.
Just have a whiff of it here, best smell it
smells okay, here here, take a sniff. Make the man happy.
I'll tryscrab it fred drinking some as you say. The glasses, gentlemen,
(25:54):
now we're getting somewhere.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
Pass them down, all right.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
It's precious stuff. You will taste no other like it.
Class for Joe Best, one to take calap and one
for William Carr. Well, let's hope it tastes as good
as you've tried to make it sound. Well, Helop, I
assure you, Uh, don Lenando.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Hernando, what's he doing here?
Speaker 5 (26:16):
He was with me in the launch, don Nando Froscar
calling had the ice pail, see.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Right, ice pail?
Speaker 8 (26:25):
Yes, Helop, Look are we gonna drink this wine or not?
Speaker 5 (26:27):
We're going to drink a car We just removed the
cover from the pail and drop a cube of ice
into each glass. It'll add to the refreshment. One cube
for Joe Best.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
I can't wait to have any.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
And one for William.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Hey, hey, you're not going to put ice some ice
to melt?
Speaker 6 (26:45):
Hey, what's the matica?
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Why not? Car Well?
Speaker 7 (26:52):
And any fool knows it?
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Yes, car Well, Well, I mean everyone knows that Chateau
melas drunken room temperature.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Everyone does. I don't think so, Carr. I think that
is something only Jerome Steak would know. William Carr, or
if you prefer Jerome Steak, I arrest you for the
murder of your wife.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
William Carr was arrested, but Joe Best and Dick helap
our freed the next morning, best and help push their
canoe into the river and start peddling upstream toward home.
Speaker 7 (27:39):
Two of you are at Liberty to return up river to.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Boorha at Pompa's pool. Dad, I just can't get it
through my head. Quiet Billyka who just thought it could
be our friend Bilika? Yeah, nice guy, all this you
know best.
Speaker 7 (28:04):
When you come to think of it. That was pretty
dark clever at Trask.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
He figured only a guy who really knew his liquor
would walk.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
And have an ice putting his wine.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
He's sure enough, trap Bill with those cubes in the
Chateau Malure nineteen eleven.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
Pretty clever, i'd see.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Maybe, and maybe not so clear?
Speaker 7 (28:29):
What do you mean not so clever?
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Any wine merchant could tell you howp There was no
Chateau Malare in nineteen eleven.
Speaker 7 (28:37):
It was a bad year. The vineyards didn't bottle. Yes, that's.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
The best.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Wait a minute.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Only one man around these parts that know a thing
like that, Jerome Steek.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Oh, keep right on paddling, helop and don't turn around.
You might be sorry. You you're gonna kill me, I suppose, Oh, yes,
you're the only man alive who knows I'm your own steak.
I can hardly allow you to return to poor hour
of that knowledge.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
I'd be embarrassed.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Yeah, you'll be even more embarrassed when you try to
shoot that revolver. I emptied the chambers this morning, you see, best, Trask,
and I've been trying to find you for months. We
narrowed it down to un car but we were stimied
from there. We had to hear it from your own mouth.
We chose this way, counting on your ego. I wouldn't
try anything, Joe.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
The chambers in this gun are quite well loaded. I see.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Shall we be getting back to the Salvador? Trascor will
be waiting, I guess, sir. We can finish the bottle
if you like.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Bottle.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Okay, Hello, always was a sucker for red wine.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Now this is Jeffrey Barnes again inviting you to be
with us next week when we present a comedy mystery
by Joseph Ruscolle entitled The Case of the Missing Mind,
you'll meet a delightful little Broadway wise guy named Kenny
who has one of the most mad, exciting, hilarious experiences
on record.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
When he meets a strange mystic named Aladdin.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
So join us next week to meet two wonderful characters
in the Case of the Missing Mind.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
The original music for the Molee Mystery Theater is composed
and conducted by Alexander Semdler. Red Wine was written by L. G.
Blackman and adapted for radio by Louis Pellettier and Jacques Fink.
Kenneth Lynch was featured in tonight's program, This is dan
Seymour saying good night until next Friday, when the Mystery
(31:27):
Theater presents the Case of the Missing Mind.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Tonight's Mystery Theater presentation came to you from New York's
Radio City.
Speaker 7 (31:48):
This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Welcome back. I thought it was an enjoyable episode and
a nice chance to see Ken Lynch in action as
the lead. I still think the escape version is better
because it's more faithful to the source material. There were
two big twists in this episode. The first was from
the short story and the revelation about the ice and
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the Red Wine. The second was an original to the
Mullay Mystery Theater, and it's not a great one. The
idea that Trasker had an inside man of the three
and therefore there were really only two suspects. Kind of
diminishes the mystery. And if Trasker did have a secret partner,
it seems like they could have wrapped this up much
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earlier rather than this dragging out for days and weeks.
If nothing else, having someone among the three suspects should
have prevented the murderer from going out and setting up
elaborate death traps for Trasker. I mean, you would think, however,
this story may despite some of the issues with the adaptation.
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Oh Molay for bringing it to light, because who knows
if the Escape adaptation or a later TV adaptation with
David Niven on the Four Star Playhouse would have come
to fruition if Molay hadn't highlighted the story. There were
a lot of mystery stories that were published at the
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same time as Red Wine, with so many popular mystery
magazines that some have just really been lost in the
and been forgotten, even though they're perfectly fine stories. So
Molay may have spared red Wine from that fate. All right, Well,
now it's time to think our Patreon supporter of the
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day and I want to go head and thanks Susan,
who's been one of our Patreon supporters since March twenty
twenty three, currently supporting the podcast at the Shawmas level
of four dollars or more per month. Thank you so
much for your support, Susan, and that will actually do
it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow
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We'll be back next Tuesday with a previously uncirculated episode
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