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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Rick your Diamond Private Detective starring Dick Paul.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Diamond Detective Agency. Roses are red, violets are blue. Crime
doesn't pay, but see.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
That you do?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Oh Rick?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Oh hi Helen, baby Rick.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Have you ever thought of writing holiday greeting cards?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Mm?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
No, but then you might just have a thought there.
Christmas isn't far away.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I think you'd better aim toward April Fool's Day.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Oh sweet Helen, did you call just to insult my
creative genius?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Or do I get an invitation to dinner? Well?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
The genius? I didn't even recognize the dinner.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well maybe h Here, I am a poor, starving detective
and you confront me with maybe.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Oh well, a girl can't be too careful about who
she invites into her house these days. Do you have
references from.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
The best crooks in town?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Well, I suppose it's all right. Come around to the
back door and I'll have france. It's fix you a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, and I don't go to all that bother Helen,
I'll I'll just stop off at the mission.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Oh you fool?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Are you busy? Mm mm? Haven't had a case since it? Well,
what is it?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I'm not sure, but I think a flying saucer landed
outside and it's occupant just walked in.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Wick.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
What are you talking about? Who came in?
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Well, it looks like an otis love loom, but it's awake.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
All diamonds mm got a vocabulary like otis.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Too, Look, Shamus, hurry up. Well yeah, I got business
with you.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Hella, and I have no choice but to hang up.
This man speaks with such authority.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Oh reck, the potus is. They're go easy on him.
You'll pease that poor boy out.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Of his mind, Helen. He Oh no, it's too obvious.
Somewhat say it.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I'll see it. Demn it my.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, well, well size and otis love loon? What brings
you up here? I'm going to sign your report card?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
The lieutenant sent me a wise guy. Oh now, let's
see where they put that paper paper? Oh oh here, uh,
mister Richard Diamond, we of the fifth Precinct, having mister
Sparkland personality, do hereby invite you to a tee to
(02:21):
be held this palm?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
This what this palm? That's what it says.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Let me see that pairer ODIs that's PM. Well don't
that snow?
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Say?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
What is all this a tea at the fifth Precinct. Sure,
that's my idea.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
The lieutenant says, we got to be more formal from
now on, and he wants to see you.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
So oh, this is your idea being formal. That's right.
Trouble with you, diamond Is, you got no culture. Well
I'm hurt o this. You see, Wald wants to see me. Yeah,
he sent me the squad cup for you. Well, I
can hardly wait to find out what this is all about.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
Me too.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I delivered a letter to him this morning. He's a
changed man ever since a letter.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Hmm maybe he Oh no, no, no, Walt's too old
for the draft, and so yours truly was ushered into
a waiting squad guy.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Usually Walt Levinson let me wear our.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Shoe leather on my trips to the fifth Precinct, and
his hospitality was overwhelming. Otis even stopped on the way
and Bobby's some chewing gum. Of course it was Otis's
favorite brand, But then I'm no prude. I enjoy blowing bubbles.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
He's in here, damon, take up your hat? What no rule?
Oh no, here he is, Lieutenant.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Well, I got eyes your nuns. Thank you, Sergeant Otus.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh, thank you, lieutenant, it was a pleasure.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
You may take your leave now, Sergeant Otus.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yes, sir, Lieutenant Levinson. Oh this, curtsy and get out
of here, will you? This is killing me. Oh you
had to go and ruin at all?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well, what's going on down here? Look at your desk?
What's wrong with my desk?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Well it's tidy. Everything's in place. Are you ill?
Speaker 7 (04:08):
As the diamond, A man's desk reflects his character.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Now, please be seated. I think i'd better take this standing.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
This new trend and character is amazing, Rick, Look at
this looks like an ordinary letter to me.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yes, but what's in it? Well, you tell me what's
in it?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Rick, I've been invited to speak at the annual Peace
Officers Symposium at the University of North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
So so, but.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Don't you know what this means?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
The top men from all over the country will be
there and to be a speaker.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Well that's quite an honor.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Oh comes the dawn. So this is why everything around
here has become formal.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
I'm sure, after all, we've got to have a little dignity.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Why send for me in the squad car? Yet?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Well, it's like this, Rick, I'm supposed to make a
speech concerning juvenile.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
Delinquency in New York.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Now they also want someone.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
To make a speech on the relationship between the policeman
and the private detective.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Touching.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
They told me to pick out a good man and
bring him down. So I faked you.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh, Walt, you're so thoughtful. Sorry, but speeches aren't my line. Ah, Rick,
don't be that way. We'll have a good time.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
We leave tonight from Penn Station, get there in the morning,
and be a nice vacation.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Wald I can't afford a nice vacation. While I'm down
there over the weekend, I might bess a client. I'll
get somebody else. And Rick, well, remember.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Last year when we decided to give all the private
detectives an examination to find out whether or not they
were still qualified to operate?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Why, Well, I just heard the Commission may call another
examination this year.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So what's this got to do with me going to
North Carolina?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Well? Last year, remember I didn't exactly help you, just
to cough here and there when I saw you were
writing the wrong answer. Go on, just thinking maybe this
year I won't have a cold.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Oh now, wald Rick, this trip to.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
North Carolina means a lot to me. All kidding aside,
it's a big honor. I'll be a power and go along. Well,
what it's a boy, I'll have the ticket clerk line
up two tickets.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh well, I'll agree on one condition. Shoot, but I
realize you're now a man of dignity, and I know
that you think things should be more formal.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, but for.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Pete's sake, take that doyly off the lie detector. Oh
that's a nice, healthy groan. That's about a walt train
rides makeey.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Ill or something.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
No, but I just had a horrible thought. I was
so excited about leaving I forgot Otis.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Will be in charge while I'm gone. Oh great, this
is the biggest boon to crime sense prohibition.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Don't remind me of it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'll take your mind off of it. Look at the
more pleasant things in life, like that bond up front.
You're catching on fat Eh, cute, isn't she?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I guess so?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Only she keeps looking around so the suspicious like.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Well, can't you take your mind off crime once in
a while? All arrive, So I have brought it up.
Everyone is in criminal. You know, he's probably a co
ed on her way back to school. That's your opinion.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Me, I say she's got criminal connections.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Well I have a buck that says you're wrong.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
All right, you're on. How do we find out?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, you just so naive. Look, she's going to be
the club guy. Come on, now, where'd she go? Unless
she is the end of the car. Come on, Eric,
maybe we shouldn't. She might have a boyfriend around somewhere.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
So it's all right, Walt, I have you to protect me.
Come uh, pardon me, miss?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, I'm Richard Diamond and this is Walt Levinson. Wall
says he'd like very much to meet you, but he's
the shy type. And ask me the mile standish for him?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Diamond?
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Where you Americans have certainly direct in making the acquaintance
of young women, but I cannot remember anyone.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
Who has done it in so few words.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Well, we're really harmless, and we would like to buy
your drink.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Why, I think that would be very nice.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Good, let's order before Diamond proposes on me.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Oh, the waiter seems to be busy at the other
end of the car.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Log it down there and.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Get the drinks. Excuse me, er, uh, are you traveling farmers.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Sir Krona, it's about Croner. I'm on my way to
North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Oh well, how nice are we? Do you live in
New York?
Speaker 8 (08:33):
No, I'm from Switzerland.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Oh then you're a long way from home.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Yes, but I love traveling in your country. Everything is
so beautiful. This is my first trip, but I hope
to return.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Pleasure trip or a business Oh well, a.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
Little of both.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
I'm representing my country's police department at the North Carolina Symposium.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
Perhaps I should explain that you.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
See, uh, they are holding a convert I'll never mind.
We know that's where we headed for too.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Where such a coincident?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Your police officer, Yes, that's right, Walter, Lieutenant and Diamond
business for myself.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Well we are hope Scotch is all right?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Fine?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Thank you here, Diamond, pardon my thumb, Scotch and fingerprint
ink for the combination.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Mister Diamond tells me that you are a policeman, mister Levinson, Yes.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
But don't let that frighten you. It's a tough life,
but off duty with just like everyone else.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well, I remember, well, before you start telling her all
about crime, let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
She happens to be a policewoman.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
What well I'll be you certainly will a flat put
in high heels.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Well, sometimes it is advantageous, Lieutenant, if I were easily
recognized as a police woman, or my usefulness would be
at an.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
End, Well, I I wouldn't exactly say that.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
Let's have another.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
By the time our train reached Raleigh, North Carolina, we
were all friends.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
From Raleigh.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
We took a bus to Chapel Hill, where the university
was located. As we got off the bus, a short,
red faced man came up to greece us.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
How low there? How do you how long? My name
is Kevin, Christopher Kevin.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
I take a two folks are here for the Peace
Officer Symposium.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I'm Levinson from New York. Is Miss Isabel Crona and
this is what.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
You're I'm very glad. How are you? I am the
chairman of the institute.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
We're taking the group picture on the front steps, and
I think you're about.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
The last to arrive.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
We can get started with the picture now.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
This is the police convention all right here two minutes
and lawyer of Phil Potts wants to mug you.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
You three in the back row there please.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Well, that's one suggestion. I don't mind bother you.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Dear.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Well, since it's all for right, I do not think
I might.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Now we get all my you in the front row.
You moved again. Now you got our old friend is
having a rough time? What about it?
Speaker 8 (11:11):
Or it is nothing? It just takes family file?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No strange ey? Oh no the third row? Will you please?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
The little photographer pulled out a few hairs from his
head and patiently rearranged his subjects. Half an hour later,
he had succeeded in snapping enough pictures in the group disbanded.
Missus Croner promised to have dinner with us that evening.
So a couple of hours later, Wald and I were
walking down the hall to her room, playing like gentlemen.
We knocked on the door. There was half a jar,
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no answer. Still the gentleman. We knocked again. This is
getting monotonous, so we quit being gentlemen. We shouldn't walk
right in rick. Oh, come on, maybe she forgot after all?
What she didn't forget?
Speaker 5 (12:04):
What?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Look? Good? Lord, better get on the phone, call the
local peace officer.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
We have no jurisdiction here, not even for murder. Walt
and I stared down at isabel Croner's body on the floor.
What had once been a pretty head was now crushed
and wasn't a very pleasant sight. Walt called the local
sheriff and we waited until he arrived. Well, you see,
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you two found the body. That's right, Sheriff. My name's Diamond.
This is Walt Levinson. We're here for the peace officers
some portion. Oh oh yeah, into Who was she?
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Name was Croner, Isabelle. She was a police woman from Switzerland.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Well, corner will be finished in a few minutes. Done
this thing I ever heard of. A police woman gets
killed right smack in the middle of a gathering of
the best cops in the country, and.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
We called you right away.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
We figured that the news leaked out every cop in
the place to try and catch the murderer. Hat all
run into each other, make a you'll mess. Yeah, if
we'd better keep it quiet till we can make an investigation.
You all seem to know some of the facts about
a care to give me a.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Hand, sure would, Sheriff.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Mister Diamond, here is a private detective, though there's no client, Rick,
do you want to work on it?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That's a nasty pulk Wall. I'm as anxious as you
are to catch this girl's killer. Good Now, any reason
you know of why anyone would want to get rid
of her? I can't think of any She said, this
was her first clip to this country.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Johnson.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Check with the hotel manager, see if he saw anyone
come in who might have entered this room.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Let's see, looks like she was hit with a heavy instrument.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Yeah, we noticed what might be a clue over here, Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
There on the floor a little vial. We figured it
might have fallen from the killer's pocket during the struggle.
It's it's marks silver night trate. There might be some
prints on the bottle.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Let's hope there are. We can use a few breaks
in this case. What do you think about Simmons?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Oh, he seems like a competent shriff.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
He wants us over at his office after we have dinner.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, he's sending the vial onto the lab in Raleigh.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I hope to turn up something.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
What beats me is why was Isabel Crona killed?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Who did she know? Here? Well? I hmm, what's the matter? Rick?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I was just thinking, remember when we had our picture
taken earlier today? Sure, why a little photographer. Isabel seemed
to recognize him. She shrugged it off and I asked
her about it, but she had a strange look in
her face.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Yeah, you might have something there. At least there's one
person who might have known her. Let's look him up
and ask him a few questions.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Oh no, no, And second, I don't think it'd better
if he did kill her. And we asked questions, he
might leave. Tom Let's just keep an eye on him
to the lab. Has a chance to go over that vial.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Right, here's a drug store we can look up his.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Luckily, we found that the fairest city of Chapel Hill
had only one photographer, the little man who had snapped
our picture that morning. His name was William Ayvery, and
we jotted down his address. Ten minutes later, we were
waiting outside his studio.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Can you see him through that window?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Rick, Yeah, he's putting on his hat, moved back into
that doorway.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
He's coming out.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Come on, let him get farther ahead. That's good, let's go.
Uhh Rick, he's stopping.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, hey, there he goes into that restaurant.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Go on, let's go across the street.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Still think we ought to question him.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
No, no, no, no way. If he thinks no one
suspects him, he may let his guide down. Let's just
wait here. We can watch him through the window.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
The waitress is taking his order. Good.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Well, I'm gonna take a chance. If he's ordering dinner,
he'll be in there for a little while. I'm going
back to his studio and look around.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Hey, now, Rick, you can't just break in there.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
You have no jurisdiction down here.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And someone had no jurisdiction to kill Isabelle Croner. I'm sorry, Walt,
there might be something in that studio. Depends on Avery.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Okay, you win, But I'll go back and look around.
I was breaking in houses while you were still breaking.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
In rat Okay, Grandpa, i't about anyone near your bones creek.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
You find anything in the studio?
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Well, and how our friend Avery has a broken camera.
It's been smashed. Oh oh, they hold it here.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
He comes out of the restaurant, looks like he's heading
for his studio.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
You uh, you say his camera was smashed, Yeah, found
in the closet, did in the car?
Speaker 7 (17:07):
And I say Isabelle had been killed with a heavy instrument.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
That's right. You know all this may fit after air.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
If he took the picture you recognized as a bell
and still with his camera, you went to see her,
they fought me, bashed her with it. I'll buy that,
And maybe we're just grabbing its straws. We still need
something concrete to tie every end of that murder. I ay,
wait a minute, huh, look up a head. There, he's
got an apple. Look at the way he's eating it.
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But what about it?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
He's only biting it on the right side of his mouth,
So what how behind you? That's all?
Speaker 7 (17:39):
Well, if it's about that apple, forget it.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
He just threw it away.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
Yeah, well, what's all this about anyway?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I didn't go on. Well, we'll know where to find him.
And besides, I want this apple.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Holy cow, what are you doing in the gutter? If
you're that hungry, I'll buy your whole apple.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
No thanks, Come on this apple. The teeth marks show
it's only been chewed on one side of the mouth.
Now maybe that's just habit, I don't know, or maybe
avery has bad teeth. No matter what it is, how
does it help? I think it may help a lot.
Let's get back to the sheriff. Well, that's about time
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you fellas got here. I thought you were coming over
right after dinner. I was sorry, Sheriff, And we followed
a hunch. You know a photographer here in town named Avery,
Bill Avery, Why sure, he is the best photographer in town.
Came down about a year ago. Why we think he
killed Isabelle Chrona. Well, now, what makes you think a
thing like that? So far, it's nothing concrete, But as
Bell seemed to recognize him today.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Yeah, so we followed him and later I found a
broken camera in its studio.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
We think it's the death weapon.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Well, well, now, broken camera is hardly enough to convict
the man.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
We know that, Sheriff. But here's something else. You remember
that vial of silver night trade we found by Isabel's body. Sure,
what about it?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Well, some dentists prescribe silver nitrate for use on the
gums in case of infected teeth. Now look at this
apple Avery was chewing. The teeth marks show it's been
eaten only with the right half of the jaw, So
so that could indicate Avery has had bad teeth and
may have been using silver nitrate on his gums. Now
that's down right clever. Of course, it still don't prove
nothing well it might though. Send this apple onto the lab.
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If they find traces of silver nitrate on it, it.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Will at least indicate Avery was in Isabelle's room.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Yeah, and I've been thinking it might just be a
wild guess. But if the girl recognized Avery, he probably
recognized her. He might be a big European criminal. He
was afraid she'd turn him in, so he killed her.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You may have something there off A transatlantic call to
the Swiss Detective Bureau might clear up his real identity.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Now, now, boys, before you go running up my phone bill,
let's just take it nice and easy, like this broken camera,
silver nitrate, apple, and motive. It's almighty interesting, but I
don't think we'd better waste time sending this apple to
the lab.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Doubt if they'd find anything on it. Well, you'll at
least check it, won't you. No, Like I say, all
these things are real interesting, but there's just one thing
stands in the way of me trying to arrest Avery.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
What are you getting at, Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Well, while you boys were out playing cops and robbers,
I caught the murderer hit Why Yep, nothing fancy, just
thorough routine investigations.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I sent a man to check the hotel manager.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
He hadn't seen anyone, but he said the maid was
due to clean that room about the time of the murder.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
We questioned her. She got nervous and broke down, confessed
she killed a Kroner. But why, lieutenant, what's the reason
for most of the killings in your state every year?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
What's the motive?
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Well, robbery's mostly the motive.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
That's right, and it's the same down here.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
The maid told her she was going through Crona's purse
when Krona came in and caught her. She got frightened,
picked up a vacuum sweeper attachment and hit her with it.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
You know how her circa petty thief can get when
they're afraid they'll be caught. Keavi at the silver nitrate
in the apple hell the apples coincidence, the silver night
rate belonged to Krona.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
She too had bad teeth. Well, I'll be move over
wald that next two of us.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yes, sir. When I heard all you fellas were having
a big convention down here, I said to my deputy
Pete said, we're going to see ourselves some fancy investigating
if anything should happen while those fellows are here only
I'm sure sorry you went to all that trouble for nothing, Rick,
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don't speak to me.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I'm still brooding.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Well, at least we got through the speeches.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Yeah, whatever, an a swell trip if it wasn't for
that hunch of yours.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Oh that said, blame it all on me, apples and
silver nitrate?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
What about you? Broken camera? That motive, big European criminal?
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Alright, alright, sort of funny though, that poor little photographer.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, we were all set to send him of the chair.
Uh wald uh, maybe we shouldn't say anything about this
when we get back.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
I was thinking the same thing. If always ever hears
about it would be disgraceful life. Yeah, let's just forget it.
Look at the more pleasant things.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
In life, like that little redhead up front.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Mm I uh, I was just kind of uh uh oh,
I have a feeling we've been.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Through all this before. You're right, Well, shall we have
a game of cards?
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Wal H.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Richard Diamond Private Detective stars Dick Powell in the title role.
Was written by Blake Edwards, with music composed and conducted
by Frank Word. This is Bill Forman speaking Richard Diamond
Private Detective is transcribed in Hollywood by himI del Via.
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This is the United States Armed Forces radio and television service.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Some TI
Rick your Diamond Private Detective starring Dick Paul.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Diamond Detective Agency. Roses are red, violets are blue. Crime
doesn't pay, but see.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
That you do?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Oh Rick?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Oh hi Helen, baby Rick.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Have you ever thought of writing holiday greeting cards?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Mm?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
No, but then you might just have a thought there.
Christmas isn't far away.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I think you'd better aim toward April Fool's Day.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Oh sweet Helen, did you call just to insult my
creative genius?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Or do I get an invitation to dinner? Well?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
The genius? I didn't even recognize the dinner.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well maybe h Here, I am a poor, starving detective
and you confront me with maybe.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Oh well, a girl can't be too careful about who
she invites into her house these days. Do you have
references from.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
The best crooks in town?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Well, I suppose it's all right. Come around to the
back door and I'll have france. It's fix you a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, and I don't go to all that bother Helen,
I'll I'll just stop off at the mission.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Oh you fool?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Are you busy? Mm mm? Haven't had a case since it? Well,
what is it?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I'm not sure, but I think a flying saucer landed
outside and it's occupant just walked in.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Wick.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
What are you talking about? Who came in?
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Well, it looks like an otis love loom, but it's awake.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
All diamonds mm got a vocabulary like otis.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Too, Look, Shamus, hurry up. Well yeah, I got business
with you.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Hella, and I have no choice but to hang up.
This man speaks with such authority.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Oh reck, the potus is. They're go easy on him.
You'll pease that poor boy out.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Of his mind, Helen. He Oh no, it's too obvious.
Somewhat say it.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I'll see it. Demn it my.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, well, well size and otis love loon? What brings
you up here? I'm going to sign your report card?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
The lieutenant sent me a wise guy. Oh now, let's
see where they put that paper paper? Oh oh here, uh,
mister Richard Diamond, we of the fifth Precinct, having mister
Sparkland personality, do hereby invite you to a tee to
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be held this palm?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
This what this palm? That's what it says.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Let me see that pairer ODIs that's PM. Well don't
that snow?
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Say?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
What is all this a tea at the fifth Precinct. Sure,
that's my idea.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
The lieutenant says, we got to be more formal from
now on, and he wants to see you.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
So oh, this is your idea being formal. That's right.
Trouble with you, diamond Is, you got no culture. Well
I'm hurt o this. You see, Wald wants to see me. Yeah,
he sent me the squad cup for you. Well, I
can hardly wait to find out what this is all about.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
Me too.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I delivered a letter to him this morning. He's a
changed man ever since a letter.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Hmm maybe he Oh no, no, no, Walt's too old
for the draft, and so yours truly was ushered into
a waiting squad guy.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Usually Walt Levinson let me wear our.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Shoe leather on my trips to the fifth Precinct, and
his hospitality was overwhelming. Otis even stopped on the way
and Bobby's some chewing gum. Of course it was Otis's
favorite brand, But then I'm no prude. I enjoy blowing bubbles.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
He's in here, damon, take up your hat? What no rule?
Oh no, here he is, Lieutenant.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Well, I got eyes your nuns. Thank you, Sergeant Otus.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh, thank you, lieutenant, it was a pleasure.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
You may take your leave now, Sergeant Otus.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yes, sir, Lieutenant Levinson. Oh this, curtsy and get out
of here, will you? This is killing me. Oh you
had to go and ruin at all?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well, what's going on down here? Look at your desk?
What's wrong with my desk?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Well it's tidy. Everything's in place. Are you ill?
Speaker 7 (04:08):
As the diamond, A man's desk reflects his character.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Now, please be seated. I think i'd better take this standing.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
This new trend and character is amazing, Rick, Look at
this looks like an ordinary letter to me.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yes, but what's in it? Well, you tell me what's
in it?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Rick, I've been invited to speak at the annual Peace
Officers Symposium at the University of North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
So so, but.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Don't you know what this means?
Speaker 5 (04:32):
The top men from all over the country will be
there and to be a speaker.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Well that's quite an honor.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Oh comes the dawn. So this is why everything around
here has become formal.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
I'm sure, after all, we've got to have a little dignity.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Why send for me in the squad car? Yet?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Well, it's like this, Rick, I'm supposed to make a
speech concerning juvenile.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
Delinquency in New York.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Now they also want someone.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
To make a speech on the relationship between the policeman
and the private detective.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Touching.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
They told me to pick out a good man and
bring him down. So I faked you.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh, Walt, you're so thoughtful. Sorry, but speeches aren't my line. Ah, Rick,
don't be that way. We'll have a good time.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
We leave tonight from Penn Station, get there in the morning,
and be a nice vacation.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Wald I can't afford a nice vacation. While I'm down
there over the weekend, I might bess a client. I'll
get somebody else. And Rick, well, remember.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Last year when we decided to give all the private
detectives an examination to find out whether or not they
were still qualified to operate?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Why, Well, I just heard the Commission may call another
examination this year.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So what's this got to do with me going to
North Carolina?
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Well? Last year, remember I didn't exactly help you, just
to cough here and there when I saw you were
writing the wrong answer. Go on, just thinking maybe this
year I won't have a cold.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Oh now, wald Rick, this trip to.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
North Carolina means a lot to me. All kidding aside,
it's a big honor. I'll be a power and go along. Well,
what it's a boy, I'll have the ticket clerk line
up two tickets.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh well, I'll agree on one condition. Shoot, but I
realize you're now a man of dignity, and I know
that you think things should be more formal.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, but for.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Pete's sake, take that doyly off the lie detector. Oh
that's a nice, healthy groan. That's about a walt train
rides makeey.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Ill or something.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
No, but I just had a horrible thought. I was
so excited about leaving I forgot Otis.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Will be in charge while I'm gone. Oh great, this
is the biggest boon to crime sense prohibition.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Don't remind me of it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'll take your mind off of it. Look at the
more pleasant things in life, like that bond up front.
You're catching on fat Eh, cute, isn't she?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I guess so?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Only she keeps looking around so the suspicious like.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Well, can't you take your mind off crime once in
a while? All arrive, So I have brought it up.
Everyone is in criminal. You know, he's probably a co
ed on her way back to school. That's your opinion.
Speaker 7 (07:10):
Me, I say she's got criminal connections.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Well I have a buck that says you're wrong.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
All right, you're on. How do we find out?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, you just so naive. Look, she's going to be
the club guy. Come on, now, where'd she go? Unless
she is the end of the car. Come on, Eric,
maybe we shouldn't. She might have a boyfriend around somewhere.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
So it's all right, Walt, I have you to protect me.
Come uh, pardon me, miss?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, I'm Richard Diamond and this is Walt Levinson. Wall
says he'd like very much to meet you, but he's
the shy type. And ask me the mile standish for him?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Diamond?
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Where you Americans have certainly direct in making the acquaintance
of young women, but I cannot remember anyone.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
Who has done it in so few words.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Well, we're really harmless, and we would like to buy
your drink.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Why, I think that would be very nice.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Good, let's order before Diamond proposes on me.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Oh, the waiter seems to be busy at the other
end of the car.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Log it down there and.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Get the drinks. Excuse me, er, uh, are you traveling farmers.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Sir Krona, it's about Croner. I'm on my way to
North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Oh well, how nice are we? Do you live in
New York?
Speaker 8 (08:33):
No, I'm from Switzerland.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Oh then you're a long way from home.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Yes, but I love traveling in your country. Everything is
so beautiful. This is my first trip, but I hope
to return.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Pleasure trip or a business Oh well, a.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
Little of both.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
I'm representing my country's police department at the North Carolina Symposium.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
Perhaps I should explain that you.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
See, uh, they are holding a convert I'll never mind.
We know that's where we headed for too.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Where such a coincident?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Your police officer, Yes, that's right, Walter, Lieutenant and Diamond
business for myself.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Well we are hope Scotch is all right?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Fine?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Thank you here, Diamond, pardon my thumb, Scotch and fingerprint
ink for the combination.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Mister Diamond tells me that you are a policeman, mister Levinson, Yes.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
But don't let that frighten you. It's a tough life,
but off duty with just like everyone else.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well, I remember, well, before you start telling her all
about crime, let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
She happens to be a policewoman.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
What well I'll be you certainly will a flat put
in high heels.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Well, sometimes it is advantageous, Lieutenant, if I were easily
recognized as a police woman, or my usefulness would be
at an.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
End, Well, I I wouldn't exactly say that.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
Let's have another.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
By the time our train reached Raleigh, North Carolina, we
were all friends.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
From Raleigh.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
We took a bus to Chapel Hill, where the university
was located. As we got off the bus, a short,
red faced man came up to greece us.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
How low there? How do you how long? My name
is Kevin, Christopher Kevin.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
I take a two folks are here for the Peace
Officer Symposium.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I'm Levinson from New York. Is Miss Isabel Crona and
this is what.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
You're I'm very glad. How are you? I am the
chairman of the institute.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
We're taking the group picture on the front steps, and
I think you're about.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
The last to arrive.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
We can get started with the picture now.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
This is the police convention all right here two minutes
and lawyer of Phil Potts wants to mug you.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
You three in the back row there please.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Well, that's one suggestion. I don't mind bother you.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Dear.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Well, since it's all for right, I do not think
I might.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Now we get all my you in the front row.
You moved again. Now you got our old friend is
having a rough time? What about it?
Speaker 8 (11:11):
Or it is nothing? It just takes family file?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No strange ey? Oh no the third row? Will you please?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
The little photographer pulled out a few hairs from his
head and patiently rearranged his subjects. Half an hour later,
he had succeeded in snapping enough pictures in the group disbanded.
Missus Croner promised to have dinner with us that evening.
So a couple of hours later, Wald and I were
walking down the hall to her room, playing like gentlemen.
We knocked on the door. There was half a jar,
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no answer. Still the gentleman. We knocked again. This is
getting monotonous, so we quit being gentlemen. We shouldn't walk
right in rick. Oh, come on, maybe she forgot after all?
What she didn't forget?
Speaker 5 (12:04):
What?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Look? Good? Lord, better get on the phone, call the
local peace officer.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
We have no jurisdiction here, not even for murder. Walt
and I stared down at isabel Croner's body on the floor.
What had once been a pretty head was now crushed
and wasn't a very pleasant sight. Walt called the local
sheriff and we waited until he arrived. Well, you see,
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you two found the body. That's right, Sheriff. My name's Diamond.
This is Walt Levinson. We're here for the peace officers
some portion. Oh oh yeah, into Who was she?
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Name was Croner, Isabelle. She was a police woman from Switzerland.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Well, corner will be finished in a few minutes. Done
this thing I ever heard of. A police woman gets
killed right smack in the middle of a gathering of
the best cops in the country, and.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
We called you right away.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
We figured that the news leaked out every cop in
the place to try and catch the murderer. Hat all
run into each other, make a you'll mess. Yeah, if
we'd better keep it quiet till we can make an investigation.
You all seem to know some of the facts about
a care to give me a.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Hand, sure would, Sheriff.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Mister Diamond, here is a private detective, though there's no client, Rick,
do you want to work on it?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That's a nasty pulk Wall. I'm as anxious as you
are to catch this girl's killer. Good Now, any reason
you know of why anyone would want to get rid
of her? I can't think of any She said, this
was her first clip to this country.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Johnson.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Check with the hotel manager, see if he saw anyone
come in who might have entered this room.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Let's see, looks like she was hit with a heavy instrument.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Yeah, we noticed what might be a clue over here, Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
There on the floor a little vial. We figured it
might have fallen from the killer's pocket during the struggle.
It's it's marks silver night trate. There might be some
prints on the bottle.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Let's hope there are. We can use a few breaks
in this case. What do you think about Simmons?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Oh, he seems like a competent shriff.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
He wants us over at his office after we have dinner.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, he's sending the vial onto the lab in Raleigh.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I hope to turn up something.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
What beats me is why was Isabel Crona killed?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Who did she know? Here? Well? I hmm, what's the matter? Rick?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I was just thinking, remember when we had our picture
taken earlier today? Sure, why a little photographer. Isabel seemed
to recognize him. She shrugged it off and I asked
her about it, but she had a strange look in
her face.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Yeah, you might have something there. At least there's one
person who might have known her. Let's look him up
and ask him a few questions.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Oh no, no, And second, I don't think it'd better
if he did kill her. And we asked questions, he
might leave. Tom Let's just keep an eye on him
to the lab. Has a chance to go over that vial.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Right, here's a drug store we can look up his.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Luckily, we found that the fairest city of Chapel Hill
had only one photographer, the little man who had snapped
our picture that morning. His name was William Ayvery, and
we jotted down his address. Ten minutes later, we were
waiting outside his studio.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Can you see him through that window?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Rick, Yeah, he's putting on his hat, moved back into
that doorway.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
He's coming out.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Come on, let him get farther ahead. That's good, let's go.
Uhh Rick, he's stopping.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, hey, there he goes into that restaurant.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Go on, let's go across the street.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Still think we ought to question him.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
No, no, no, no way. If he thinks no one
suspects him, he may let his guide down. Let's just
wait here. We can watch him through the window.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
The waitress is taking his order. Good.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Well, I'm gonna take a chance. If he's ordering dinner,
he'll be in there for a little while. I'm going
back to his studio and look around.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Hey, now, Rick, you can't just break in there.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
You have no jurisdiction down here.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And someone had no jurisdiction to kill Isabelle Croner. I'm sorry, Walt,
there might be something in that studio. Depends on Avery.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Okay, you win, But I'll go back and look around.
I was breaking in houses while you were still breaking.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
In rat Okay, Grandpa, i't about anyone near your bones creek.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
You find anything in the studio?
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Well, and how our friend Avery has a broken camera.
It's been smashed. Oh oh, they hold it here.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
He comes out of the restaurant, looks like he's heading
for his studio.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
You uh, you say his camera was smashed, Yeah, found
in the closet, did in the car?
Speaker 7 (17:07):
And I say Isabelle had been killed with a heavy instrument.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
That's right. You know all this may fit after air.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
If he took the picture you recognized as a bell
and still with his camera, you went to see her,
they fought me, bashed her with it. I'll buy that,
And maybe we're just grabbing its straws. We still need
something concrete to tie every end of that murder. I ay,
wait a minute, huh, look up a head. There, he's
got an apple. Look at the way he's eating it.
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But what about it?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
He's only biting it on the right side of his mouth,
So what how behind you? That's all?
Speaker 7 (17:39):
Well, if it's about that apple, forget it.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
He just threw it away.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
Yeah, well, what's all this about anyway?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I didn't go on. Well, we'll know where to find him.
And besides, I want this apple.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Holy cow, what are you doing in the gutter? If
you're that hungry, I'll buy your whole apple.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
No thanks, Come on this apple. The teeth marks show
it's only been chewed on one side of the mouth.
Now maybe that's just habit, I don't know, or maybe
avery has bad teeth. No matter what it is, how
does it help? I think it may help a lot.
Let's get back to the sheriff. Well, that's about time
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you fellas got here. I thought you were coming over
right after dinner. I was sorry, Sheriff, And we followed
a hunch. You know a photographer here in town named Avery,
Bill Avery, Why sure, he is the best photographer in town.
Came down about a year ago. Why we think he
killed Isabelle Chrona. Well, now, what makes you think a
thing like that? So far, it's nothing concrete, But as
Bell seemed to recognize him today.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Yeah, so we followed him and later I found a
broken camera in its studio.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
We think it's the death weapon.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Well, well, now, broken camera is hardly enough to convict
the man.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
We know that, Sheriff. But here's something else. You remember
that vial of silver night trade we found by Isabel's body. Sure,
what about it?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Well, some dentists prescribe silver nitrate for use on the
gums in case of infected teeth. Now look at this
apple Avery was chewing. The teeth marks show it's been
eaten only with the right half of the jaw, So
so that could indicate Avery has had bad teeth and
may have been using silver nitrate on his gums. Now
that's down right clever. Of course, it still don't prove
nothing well it might though. Send this apple onto the lab.
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If they find traces of silver nitrate on it, it.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Will at least indicate Avery was in Isabelle's room.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Yeah, and I've been thinking it might just be a
wild guess. But if the girl recognized Avery, he probably
recognized her. He might be a big European criminal. He
was afraid she'd turn him in, so he killed her.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You may have something there off A transatlantic call to
the Swiss Detective Bureau might clear up his real identity.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Now, now, boys, before you go running up my phone bill,
let's just take it nice and easy, like this broken camera,
silver nitrate, apple, and motive. It's almighty interesting, but I
don't think we'd better waste time sending this apple to
the lab.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Doubt if they'd find anything on it. Well, you'll at
least check it, won't you. No, Like I say, all
these things are real interesting, but there's just one thing
stands in the way of me trying to arrest Avery.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
What are you getting at, Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Well, while you boys were out playing cops and robbers,
I caught the murderer hit Why Yep, nothing fancy, just
thorough routine investigations.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I sent a man to check the hotel manager.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
He hadn't seen anyone, but he said the maid was
due to clean that room about the time of the murder.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
We questioned her. She got nervous and broke down, confessed
she killed a Kroner. But why, lieutenant, what's the reason
for most of the killings in your state every year?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
What's the motive?
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Well, robbery's mostly the motive.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
That's right, and it's the same down here.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
The maid told her she was going through Crona's purse
when Krona came in and caught her. She got frightened,
picked up a vacuum sweeper attachment and hit her with it.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
You know how her circa petty thief can get when
they're afraid they'll be caught. Keavi at the silver nitrate
in the apple hell the apples coincidence, the silver night
rate belonged to Krona.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
She too had bad teeth. Well, I'll be move over
wald that next two of us.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yes, sir. When I heard all you fellas were having
a big convention down here, I said to my deputy
Pete said, we're going to see ourselves some fancy investigating
if anything should happen while those fellows are here only
I'm sure sorry you went to all that trouble for nothing, Rick,
(21:36):
don't speak to me.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I'm still brooding.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Well, at least we got through the speeches.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Yeah, whatever, an a swell trip if it wasn't for
that hunch of yours.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Oh that said, blame it all on me, apples and
silver nitrate?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
What about you? Broken camera? That motive, big European criminal?
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Alright, alright, sort of funny though, that poor little photographer.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, we were all set to send him of the chair.
Uh wald uh, maybe we shouldn't say anything about this
when we get back.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
I was thinking the same thing. If always ever hears
about it would be disgraceful life. Yeah, let's just forget it.
Look at the more pleasant things.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
In life, like that little redhead up front.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Mm I uh, I was just kind of uh uh oh,
I have a feeling we've been.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Through all this before. You're right, Well, shall we have
a game of cards?
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Wal H.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Richard Diamond Private Detective stars Dick Powell in the title role.
Was written by Blake Edwards, with music composed and conducted
by Frank Word. This is Bill Forman speaking Richard Diamond
Private Detective is transcribed in Hollywood by himI del Via.
(23:48):
This is the United States Armed Forces radio and television service.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
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