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Speaker 1 (00:07):
The makers of Camel Cigarettes present Dick Powell as Richard Diamond,
Private Detective. Why don't you smoke the cigarette so many
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doctors enjoy? In a nationwide survey a few years ago,
one hundred thirteen thousand, five hundred ninety seven doctors were
asked what cigarette do you smoke?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Doctor? The brand name most was Camel.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It was true then, it is true now because repeated
surveys have been made.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And every time a brand named most has been Camel. Yes,
the surveys show that more doctors smoke Camel's than any
other cigarette.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Why don't you smoke the cigarette so many doctors enjoy?
Now we bring you another transcribed adventure with Richard Diamond,
Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Diamond Detective Agency, Mister Diamond.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Speaking, excuse me, I must have the wrong number.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Oh is that you Helen? This is me jan Oh well,
I thought maybe you might be a client. How are you, dear?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Well?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I'm fine? But what's wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Wrong?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yes? What means that?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Diamond Detective Agency Mister Diamond speaking usually come on the
phone like.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Roy Rogers and his horse trigger. How come now?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Slogans, I'll tell you the truth.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Dere couldn't think of one this week anyway, aren't you
the gal who's always after me to get some culture?
This is culture, ain't nothing else. But you just want
a job. You got something important to talk about?
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
This is Friday, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It happens every week.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
Yes, but this is the friday when if you haven't
got a client by noon, we're going for a drive.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Remember, By jove, that's right.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Well, bye Joe.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
It is now eleven forty three and fifteen seconds approximately.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Sounds like someone gave you a new What does that.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Broken sentence mean?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Client walkersh quiet talks a loud there. This one looks
like he might scarily a good morning?
Speaker 8 (02:34):
Good morning? Are you? Are you mister Diamond?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I am mister Diamond. Won't you come in?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Said the spider to the fly. I'll hang up, Rick,
call me back if you have time?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
All right?
Speaker 9 (02:45):
There?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Bye?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Bye?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Well come in, come in, mister uh.
Speaker 8 (02:50):
Walker, Thomas Walker, Oh I do hope I didn't interrupt
your conversation, mister Diamond.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Oh it wasn't important. Just my broker calling to tell
you I've been why But enough of me, mister Walker.
Let's talk about you.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
Would it be all right if I sat down. I'm
a little nervous this morning.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
You do seem a little worked up over something?
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Sure, said now, mister Walker said on anywhere at all?
Speaker 8 (03:12):
Thank you? And are you engaged, mister Diamond.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Well, not yet, but she's working at it. Just between
the tours. I think if I can hold off through
the month of June.
Speaker 8 (03:24):
No, no, no, mister Diamond, I mean, are you working
for anyone on a caper? I believe you call them?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Oh no, no, no, be honest and true. Private detectives
just call them cases. As a matter of fact, You're
in luck. I am at liberty to listen to your proposal,
that is, if you wish to engage me.
Speaker 8 (03:42):
Good, good, good. It's taken me some time to work
a up enough courage to come to a private detective.
I don't think I could do it again.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I don't think you're could either. All right, mister Walker,
Just what is it that's troubling you?
Speaker 8 (03:54):
Well, I hope, mister Diamond, that it's nothing more than
my suspicious mind. Who don't misunderstand me. I'm not, by
nature a suspicious person, but I have stumbled across something
that I think should be brought to the attention of
the local authorities.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Then why not bring it to the attention of the
local authorities.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Because because I'm afraid they'll laugh at me.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
So you want me to go down and let them
laugh me?
Speaker 8 (04:18):
Huh oh No, no, no, at least not right away,
not until after you've confirmed my suspicions or proved them ridiculous.
Neither event. You will know then what to do.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, before you lose me entirely, mister Walker, maybe you'd
better tell me just what it is you want me
to do.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
I think the best thing to do is yes. I
think that would be the best. That way they will.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Remember me, mister Walker.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Mister Diamond, I want you to follow someone. Shadow Him
is the word I believe you use.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Shadow?
Speaker 8 (04:50):
Yes, you do do that type of word, don't you?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Oh occasionally? Just who is it you want me to shadow,
mister Walker? Carter?
Speaker 8 (04:57):
I believe his name is Joseph Carter. He must be
the ringleader.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Oh this Joseph Carter Lee's ring.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
Well, as I said, mister Diamond, these are only my suspicions.
If you're going to life at.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Me, no, no, take it easy, mister Walker. I'm just
trying to get as much information from you as I can.
Who is this Carter fellow and where can I get
in touch with him?
Speaker 8 (05:16):
He's a chemist, at least he's supposed to be. And
I don't want you to get in touch with him,
mister Diamond. I just want you to follow him. It
could be disastrous. VIEW spoke to him about my suspicions.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Mister Walker. You may not believe this, but I don't
even know yet what your suspicions are.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
And I think it would be best if I didn't
tell you. Oh, that way you can form your own
opinions about what is going on.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Uh, mister Walker, this is getting tougher as you go along.
I don't even know where to find this Joseph Carter.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
Oh oh, I have that all arranged, mister Diamond. Rather
clever plan too, if I do say so myself. You see,
I'm meeting him for lunch and he thinks we're going
to talk about his wife.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
By jove, that is clever.
Speaker 8 (05:58):
Yes, yes, isn't it. Now after lunch that will be
around one o'clock. I'll drop him off on the corner
of First to Elm. Do you know where that is? H? Good? Now,
my car is a blue Essex sedan. When you see
it pull around the corner, you be prepared to follow
whoever steps out.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Oh gosh, I haven't done this since the correspondent school
sent me my diploma. All right, mister Walker.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
What happens then, then, mister Diamond, you stay with him
night and day. You do have operators who work in shifts,
don't you.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh sure, sure, sure?
Speaker 8 (06:30):
Oh good, good. Now the important thing is to impress
upon your men the seriousness of what they're doing. Under
no condition. Are they to let him out of their sight?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Oh that's a cinch. Couldn't you give us something a
little hrder, like following four people at the same time.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
No, no one of them might get suspicious, mister Diamond,
then that wouldn't do. Now about your.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Money, Oh yes, yes, by all means. My fee is
one hundred a day in expenses, mister Walker. And believe me,
you're going to have some hundred.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
Isn't that a little steep?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
It's too much, mister Walker?
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Well no, no, I suppose not. I'll have to write
you out a check. Will three hundred be enough that'll
pay you up to monday?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Well?
Speaker 8 (07:13):
Yes, yes, By then you will have cracked this thing
or written me off as a suspicious old fool.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Now, mister Walker, think how few private detectives there would
be if no one listened to their client suspicions.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
There you are, mister Diamond. Oh and here is my card.
Both my business and home phone numbers are out.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Oh fine, all right, thank you Walker Plumbing Company. You,
mister Walker, are a plumber.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
Yes, it is surprising, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I smiled at him as he went out, and then
called Helen and broke the sad news. She potted a little,
I could a little. Then we both hung up, feeling
very good inside. I had an hour to kill, so
I decided to get a little fresh air. I was
half a block from my office building when a whole
ounce of imported perfume floated out of a doorway. It
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circled around a while and finally settled over my eyes.
What I could see through the haze would have caused
any airline pilot to come in for an emergency landing.
And even though I don't fly myself, I put the
flaps down and kind of slowed up a little.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
Why, mister Diamond, I do believe you're starring?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Sorry, do I know?
Speaker 10 (08:33):
You please, No, mister Diamond, it isn't that good.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Of course you know me.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I do, huh oh sure, sure, I remember now Monte Carlo.
Wasn't it only you were a blonde then with the
moonlight behind you making a halo for your lovely head.
And I'm just ad libbing, So get me out of this.
Speaker 11 (08:52):
Who are you, lady, Sandra Browning? And it wasn't Monte Carlo.
Come on, I'll buy you a drink and refresh your memory.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
M all right, but I hope we can cover everything
in an hour. There's quite a bit of you to.
Speaker 11 (09:05):
Cover, isn't it, yeeps, much too much to run through
in an hour. You're working on a case, then.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
The luck of Ricky Diamond. Yes, miss Browning, I am
in the midst of what my client calls a caper
go on the payroll at one o'clock.
Speaker 10 (09:19):
I see, And just to who is your client?
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Ricky?
Speaker 8 (09:26):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
We were going to talk about you, remember, Oh?
Speaker 11 (09:28):
But I'm so dull, mister Diamond, and you're so fascinating. True, Yes,
this place look alrightd.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Fine, fine.
Speaker 10 (09:40):
Intimate, isn't it, mister Diamond?
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Say?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Just how well do we know each other? Can't you
tell honey right now, I probably could even tell you
my name. And I'm beginning to need that drink more
and more. Shall we go mingle with those strangers? Stranger
wh As we walked over to a table, I shook
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my head a few times to clear it and get
out of the danger zone of the perfume. I knew
I'd never seen Miss Browning before. No, not that I've
led a sheltered life, but something like her only happens once,
and it usually costs an awful lot of money, money
I've never had so Naturally, the same applied to Miss Browning.
So the renewed figure and a firm grip on my wallet,
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I sat down beside her, cozy too cozy. I'm a
sort of a wide open spaces man myself and oh,
a couple of Martini's. George, George, Now about you, miss
b Where was it our paths first crossed?
Speaker 10 (10:48):
No, mister d I've changed my mind. I'm going to
make you guess.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It'll be more fun that way, and it will also
be along winter. Now figuring to get anything accomplished, maybe
you better start talking. An hour goes pretty fast.
Speaker 10 (11:03):
What happens in an hour? That's so terribly important, mister.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Diamond, I guess.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
I don't want to guess. I want you to tell me.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
You know, we may run out of things to talk
about in a minute now, not.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
If you tell me what I want to know? Mm hmm,
all right, I'll take a guess. Does this case have
anything to do with, say a bank?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Will you tell me? Does it have something to do
with say a bank?
Speaker 10 (11:31):
You're fighting me, mister Diamond.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Who's fighting who? All I'm trying to find out is
what you're.
Speaker 10 (11:35):
Going to wish, mister Diamond that you had talked to me.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh well, conversation seems to have picked up a little,
but we might as well save your breath. Sandra, I
ain't talking, You ain't talking, so.
Speaker 10 (11:47):
If you'll excuse me, I have to make a telephone call.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
All of which left me was still a half hour
to kill. I paid the check and then drop the
fifth precinct to say hello to Walt Levinson. He was sleeping,
so I tiptoed back out and headed to the corner
first at ELM. I'd been there about five minutes when
a guy whose face looked vaguely famidiar it came up and.
Speaker 12 (12:11):
Said, excuse me, there's a bus stop.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
No, but there's a cab stand a block down the street.
Speaker 12 (12:16):
Oh thanks, I might have stood here for three days.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
How's that?
Speaker 12 (12:21):
I saw you waiting around, so I figured it was
a bus stop. Yes, I'll have to take a cab now, say,
if you're waiting for one, maybe we can split the fair.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Oh no, no thanks. Funny, I'd swear you were hanging
around the fifth Precinct when I came out.
Speaker 12 (12:36):
Oh how long ago?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
About fifteen minutes.
Speaker 12 (12:40):
We come to think of it as possible that you did.
I went in to pay a traffic fine.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Speeding?
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Was it?
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (12:48):
As a matter of fact, it was. Those things do happen,
you know, yes.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Of course. The really interesting part about all this is
that the fifth Precinct doesn't accept traffic fines. You have
to go all the way down on town to pay them.
Speaker 12 (13:01):
You're kind of a smart alec, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Oh's life at the party. Just give me a lampshade
and a bustle and lamb a hey, what's a car
spun around the corner? Just as the guy shout me
I landed in the street, would roll over in time
to see the front door open and the body come
spelling out, sliding to a stop against the curb, the
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guy with a phony ticket hopped on the running board,
and the blue Essex Sadan lost itself in the uptown traffic.
All I could do was sit there and look at
the crumbled form lying in the gutters. Mister Thomas Walker
had given me a check for three hundred dollars that
was to last until Monday. For mister Walker, Monday was
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just two days too many.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Before we continue with Richard, here are a few words
about smoking enjoyment.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
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Speaker 2 (14:12):
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Speaker 1 (14:21):
Smoke camels and camels only for the next thirty days.
In other words, go steady with camels for thirty days,
pack after pack, week after week.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
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Speaker 1 (14:35):
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Speaker 3 (14:39):
Pack after pack.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
You'll discover how well camel's get along with your throat
week after week.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
That does sound like a sensible way to judge a cigarette,
doesn't it? So why not start your own thirty day
camel test tonight. It won't take you long to find
out why camel leads all other cigarettes in popularity by
billions of cigarette per year. Oh, mild mile mile a mile?
Speaker 10 (15:04):
Can a cigarette?
Speaker 5 (15:06):
You make the caw thirty day test, and you see small.
Speaker 12 (15:11):
Camels and see.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And now back to Richard Diamond Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Abandoned the car about four blocks down the street. Rig
too bad. You didn't get to look at the guy
behind the wheel.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Everything happened to a fast walk.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Yeah you feel all right now?
Speaker 8 (15:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Just well.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I guess the idea of this is that somebody figured
you and Walker new too much. Now that doesn't make
sense either, Rick, you said Walker wouldn't tell you a thing.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Nobody gave me three hundred dollars between on Monday. I'm
gonna try to earn it. I can use the help.
He's got the idea who was gunning for, not exactly,
but whoever it was kept pretty close tabs. He was
followed to my office. He tells you that, And how
do you know indirectly a girl named Sandra Browning. Did
she said something else? That's kind of kicking around in
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the back of my head too.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Sandra Brownie, that's a brunette you told me about.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah, she seemed to think Walker said something to me
about a bank, but he didn't. No, but that's what
makes it so interesting. Oh, drop me off of that
drug store. Well you all, I want to look up
a phone number, Sandra. Uh, fellow named Joseph Kyler who's
he supposed to be a chemist? Walker told me about him.
Thanks for let fatty, anything happens, I'll get in touch
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with you. Mister Carter.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Oh, yes, that's right.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I'm a private detective. Me I come in. I'd like
to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You mean about my wife, mister Diamond, Richard Diamond, What.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
About your wife?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Nothing, I merely supposed I mean, after all, you said
you were a private detective.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Oh, yes, yes, but I don't handle divorce cases, mister Carter. No,
I see then?
Speaker 7 (17:10):
What?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Uh? I just want to ask you a couple of
questions about a plumber named Walker, Thomas Walker. Do you
know him?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
A plumber? Now that's stranger. Mister Walker called me on
the phone this morning and asked me to meet him
for lunch. He said it was important to me that
I be there.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Were you?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Well, yes I was. That is I was the appointed
place at the proper hour. But this mister Walker never
did make an appearance. I see you said this mister Walker.
Does that mean you didn't know it? Not? To my knowledge.
The voice didn't register and the name wasn't familiar. This
is very interesting, mister dam Would you like some coffee?
I'll ring for the house.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
No, no, no, no, no thanks. If you didn't know Walker,
mister Carter, why did you agree to have lunch with him?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, for several reasons, As I told you, he said
it was important to me, and since I was going
to be down to anyway.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
That isn't good enough, mister Carter.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Well, I'm afraid I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Thomas Walker was killed less than an hour ago. You
say you were supposed to have lunch with him. That
puts you in a suspicious position.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yes, I see. So that's what this is about. How
did you get my name? Mister Diamond?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh that isn't important. What I want to know is
why you agreed to have lunch with someone you didn't
even know? Well, he this walker fellow.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
He said some things over the full kind of things
about my wife. He said it would be to my
advantage to meet him and discuss it under these circumstances.
I had nothing to lose, so I agreed. Under what circumstances. Well,
you see, mister Diamond, my wife and I are well,
we're drifting apart. She's been seen with another man, a
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fellow named Dave Johnson.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Dave Johnson, who's he?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Chap I sold my shop to when I retired last month.
Speaker 10 (18:58):
He and excuse me, I didn't know you had company.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Oh well, come in, come in, Sondra.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
We were just no, no, I won't disturb you.
Speaker 13 (19:09):
Go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Oh yes, yes, come in.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
This is my wife, Sandra. Come in there, come in.
Speaker 10 (19:17):
I'd rather know.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Oh it's all right. I was leaving anyway. Come right in, missus. Uh, Carter,
isn't it.
Speaker 14 (19:25):
Anything break patty, nothing but my head.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
I've been doing some thinking, Rick.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Well, since you've already pulled the French line, go ahead.
Speaker 13 (19:48):
Oh look, Greg, you said this is Sandra brown.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Uh Carter Browning is a phony.
Speaker 13 (19:55):
You know someday you're going to meet a girl and gaves.
You're right, man, and you won't know how to react.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
That's as soon as you have finished the discourse, Fatty,
we get back to the plot. What have you been thinking?
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Well, you said that this miss Carter.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Uh, it's missus Carter Walls.
Speaker 13 (20:10):
When you stop that, I don't caremast missus whifferm petfol
I want to know what she said. She did say
something about a bank, didn't she She did? And you
said something about a guy named Joseph Carter was a chemist.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Well, so help me.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
If you tell me their merit, I'll throw this phone
from me here to the fifth praecinct.
Speaker 13 (20:24):
You do, you'll never find out the startling news I'm
about to unfold.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
All right, unfold, it's better.
Speaker 13 (20:30):
On the corner of Preston Elm, on the very corner
where you nearly met your demise, there.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Is a bank that's very interesting.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
To Right next door to this bank is a small
shop with a sign painted on the window. Pretty good
sign too. Somebody took a lot of pains with it.
All right, all right, maybe it doesn't mean anything, but
the sign says Carter Chepistry Corporation.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Oh that's what you've been thinking about.
Speaker 13 (20:56):
Yeah, Only now it's even more interesting because of this
son Browning Cotta girl.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
It's a different.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Connection, uh huh with Walker the plumber making the connection. Well,
thanks Walt, and bye.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I'm looking for mister Carter.
Speaker 15 (21:20):
Is he and I ain't nobody hear me? And I'm
getting readily closing up a little earlier. It's only four o'clock. Oh,
I see you're doing a little repair work in the.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Back of the shop there. Yeah. I had a little
explosion in here a couple of days ago. I must
have ripped up a little plumbing down that close to
the floor.
Speaker 15 (21:36):
Yeah, we're getting it fixed up. Sorry to rush out
like this, buddy. Do you know it is Friday afternoon
weekend coming up?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
You know? Oh yes, yes, Well, when you see mister Catta,
just tell him Horace Crutch buyers in to see him.
He'll understand, Horace.
Speaker 15 (21:50):
Well tell you the truth, Horace. Mister Carter don't come
around here no more. He's retired, sold out everything, lock
stock and test to or.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Is that's all? Well, I'll get in touch with him
at home, see you, yeah, see you horrors.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
You know this could turn out kind of silly, Rick.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
What if they don't show up? Oh, they'll show off
any I checked the floor plan of both buildings. Got it.
Figure they'll break through about of here. How many of them?
You think they'll be? Just three? If they knocked off
Walker because he got suspicious, they won't cut anybody else in.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Is coloring on this Rick? His chemistry shop, isn't it No?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Not anymore? He sold out to a guy named Dave Johnson.
You'll meet him as soon as they blast the ball out.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
And what I'm anxious to meet is this Sundra brownie cutlor.
Sounds like quite a dish.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Not my type, Halt. I like him a little more tender.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
That's the other guy's name, the one to shove Walter
out of the car.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I don't know yet. I met him in the shops
after noon. But you like him too. He's got sort
of an in grown face. You know.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
You got to hand it to him, Rick. It's a
pretty slick stunt ped pulling. I am the shop next
door to a bank. Digg him through the wall and
they are Maybe we better get over here, right?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
What I tell you?
Speaker 8 (23:11):
Ever say anything's easy in your life?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Dave?
Speaker 10 (23:13):
Does he have to keep talking? Can't you mean?
Speaker 5 (23:15):
For quoth of you?
Speaker 12 (23:16):
Knock it off and let's get busy. Eh, we've only
got until tomorrow morning.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Hit the lights.
Speaker 9 (23:20):
Rick, okay, well, well why you don't plan?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Its smart? You don't want to carry anyone out of here?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Is this the bank you were talking about? Sandra still
not talking.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
She doesn't look like much to me right.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Now, wal don't be catty. Remember she's been a very
busy girl.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Well, now that they're broken into this kind of work,
I guess they won't mind it so much for the
next few years.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
But Rick, why did Walker want you to follow Joseph Carter?
Speaker 10 (24:06):
He didn't have anything to do.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
With this, didy No, but Walker thought he did. He
tumbled what was going on when he went into repair
the plumbing. Naturally he figured Carter was behind it. He'd
like getting smiters and months go by.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
And speaking of months going by, yes, Dar, it will
soon be June.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You know June. Oh, now there's a month to conjure with.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Do you mean it?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Rick?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Well, sure, June must be about my favorite. Let's see now,
don't I know a song with June in it?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Rick, let's say June. June kind of a strange name
to me, but well, this might do it. Oh, it's a.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Long, long while.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
From May to December. But the days grohort. When you
reach September, when the autumn weather.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Turns leaves to flame, one hasn't got time for the
way in game.
Speaker 9 (25:23):
All the days tumble down.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
To a precious view.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Septembermber, Novemmber, and.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
These few precious days I'll spend with you, these precious days.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I'll spend you.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Why you faker you?
Speaker 10 (26:08):
There wasn't a single June anywhere in that song.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Come to think of it, there wasn't you.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Want to try again?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I guess not something.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
Else you'd rather do.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Honey, Honey, what an opening that is? Sm here?
Speaker 10 (26:25):
Now that's what I've been waiting for.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
More, more, more, honey stop. If this keeps up, I
won't be able to hold off till June.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Dick Powell will return in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
What's America's most popular cigarette?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Camel is in the lead by billions of cigarettes per year.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
One reason is Camel's rich, full flavor, a flavor no
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Speaker 2 (27:00):
And another reason is Camel's pack after pack, week after
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Speaker 1 (27:04):
Tonight, start enjoying the one cigarette America enjoys most.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
It's camel, of course, yes, of all the cigarettes on
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of cigarettes per year.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
How mild, how mile?
Speaker 7 (27:21):
How mild?
Speaker 12 (27:22):
Canis cigarette being small?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Camels and sea.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Here's Dick Powell with a special message. Thank you, ladies
and gentlemen. To bring a little extra cheer and comfort
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Speaker 1 (28:12):
Tonight's adventure of Richard Diamond was written by Ty Cobb
with music by Frank Worth. For Ginia, Greg was heard
as Helen Asher and Alan Reid as Lieutenant Walt Levinson.
Others in the cast were Bob Griffin, Joyce Manors, Sidney Miller,
and Jim Beckett. Richard Diamond, Private Detective is transcribed in
Hollywood by himI del Vayer. Be sure to listen to
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week for another exciting adventure of Richard Diamond starring Dick Powell.
Now stay tuned for This is Your FBI, followed immediately
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The makers of Camel Cigarettes present Dick Powell as Richard Diamond,
Private Detective. Why don't you smoke the cigarette so many
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one hundred thirteen thousand, five hundred ninety seven doctors were
asked what cigarette do you smoke?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Doctor? The brand name most was Camel.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It was true then, it is true now because repeated
surveys have been made.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
And every time a brand named most has been Camel. Yes,
the surveys show that more doctors smoke Camel's than any
other cigarette.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Why don't you smoke the cigarette so many doctors enjoy?
Now we bring you another transcribed adventure with Richard Diamond,
Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Diamond Detective Agency, Mister Diamond.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Speaking, excuse me, I must have the wrong number.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Oh is that you Helen? This is me jan Oh well,
I thought maybe you might be a client. How are you, dear?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Well?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I'm fine? But what's wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Wrong?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yes? What means that?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Diamond Detective Agency Mister Diamond speaking usually come on the
phone like.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Roy Rogers and his horse trigger. How come now?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Slogans, I'll tell you the truth.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Dere couldn't think of one this week anyway, aren't you
the gal who's always after me to get some culture?
This is culture, ain't nothing else. But you just want
a job. You got something important to talk about?
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
This is Friday, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It happens every week.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
Yes, but this is the friday when if you haven't
got a client by noon, we're going for a drive.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Remember, By jove, that's right.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Well, bye Joe.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
It is now eleven forty three and fifteen seconds approximately.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Sounds like someone gave you a new What does that.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Broken sentence mean?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Client walkersh quiet talks a loud there. This one looks
like he might scarily a good morning?
Speaker 8 (02:34):
Good morning? Are you? Are you mister Diamond?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I am mister Diamond. Won't you come in?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Said the spider to the fly. I'll hang up, Rick,
call me back if you have time?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
All right?
Speaker 9 (02:45):
There?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Bye?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Bye?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Well come in, come in, mister uh.
Speaker 8 (02:50):
Walker, Thomas Walker, Oh I do hope I didn't interrupt
your conversation, mister Diamond.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Oh it wasn't important. Just my broker calling to tell
you I've been why But enough of me, mister Walker.
Let's talk about you.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
Would it be all right if I sat down. I'm
a little nervous this morning.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
You do seem a little worked up over something?
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Sure, said now, mister Walker said on anywhere at all?
Speaker 8 (03:12):
Thank you? And are you engaged, mister Diamond.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Well, not yet, but she's working at it. Just between
the tours. I think if I can hold off through
the month of June.
Speaker 8 (03:24):
No, no, no, mister Diamond, I mean, are you working
for anyone on a caper? I believe you call them?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Oh no, no, no, be honest and true. Private detectives
just call them cases. As a matter of fact, You're
in luck. I am at liberty to listen to your proposal,
that is, if you wish to engage me.
Speaker 8 (03:42):
Good, good, good. It's taken me some time to work
a up enough courage to come to a private detective.
I don't think I could do it again.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I don't think you're could either. All right, mister Walker,
Just what is it that's troubling you?
Speaker 8 (03:54):
Well, I hope, mister Diamond, that it's nothing more than
my suspicious mind. Who don't misunderstand me. I'm not, by
nature a suspicious person, but I have stumbled across something
that I think should be brought to the attention of
the local authorities.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Then why not bring it to the attention of the
local authorities.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Because because I'm afraid they'll laugh at me.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
So you want me to go down and let them
laugh me?
Speaker 8 (04:18):
Huh oh No, no, no, at least not right away,
not until after you've confirmed my suspicions or proved them ridiculous.
Neither event. You will know then what to do.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, before you lose me entirely, mister Walker, maybe you'd
better tell me just what it is you want me
to do.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
I think the best thing to do is yes. I
think that would be the best. That way they will.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Remember me, mister Walker.
Speaker 8 (04:43):
Mister Diamond, I want you to follow someone. Shadow Him
is the word I believe you use.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Shadow?
Speaker 8 (04:50):
Yes, you do do that type of word, don't you?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Oh occasionally? Just who is it you want me to shadow,
mister Walker? Carter?
Speaker 8 (04:57):
I believe his name is Joseph Carter. He must be
the ringleader.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Oh this Joseph Carter Lee's ring.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
Well, as I said, mister Diamond, these are only my suspicions.
If you're going to life at.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Me, no, no, take it easy, mister Walker. I'm just
trying to get as much information from you as I can.
Who is this Carter fellow and where can I get
in touch with him?
Speaker 8 (05:16):
He's a chemist, at least he's supposed to be. And
I don't want you to get in touch with him,
mister Diamond. I just want you to follow him. It
could be disastrous. VIEW spoke to him about my suspicions.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Mister Walker. You may not believe this, but I don't
even know yet what your suspicions are.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
And I think it would be best if I didn't
tell you. Oh, that way you can form your own
opinions about what is going on.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Uh, mister Walker, this is getting tougher as you go along.
I don't even know where to find this Joseph Carter.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
Oh oh, I have that all arranged, mister Diamond. Rather
clever plan too, if I do say so myself. You see,
I'm meeting him for lunch and he thinks we're going
to talk about his wife.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
By jove, that is clever.
Speaker 8 (05:58):
Yes, yes, isn't it. Now after lunch that will be
around one o'clock. I'll drop him off on the corner
of First to Elm. Do you know where that is? H? Good? Now,
my car is a blue Essex sedan. When you see
it pull around the corner, you be prepared to follow
whoever steps out.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Oh gosh, I haven't done this since the correspondent school
sent me my diploma. All right, mister Walker.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
What happens then, then, mister Diamond, you stay with him
night and day. You do have operators who work in shifts,
don't you.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh sure, sure, sure?
Speaker 8 (06:30):
Oh good, good. Now the important thing is to impress
upon your men the seriousness of what they're doing. Under
no condition. Are they to let him out of their sight?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Oh that's a cinch. Couldn't you give us something a
little hrder, like following four people at the same time.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
No, no one of them might get suspicious, mister Diamond,
then that wouldn't do. Now about your.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Money, Oh yes, yes, by all means. My fee is
one hundred a day in expenses, mister Walker. And believe me,
you're going to have some hundred.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
Isn't that a little steep?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
It's too much, mister Walker?
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Well no, no, I suppose not. I'll have to write
you out a check. Will three hundred be enough that'll
pay you up to monday?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Well?
Speaker 8 (07:13):
Yes, yes, By then you will have cracked this thing
or written me off as a suspicious old fool.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Now, mister Walker, think how few private detectives there would
be if no one listened to their client suspicions.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
There you are, mister Diamond. Oh and here is my card.
Both my business and home phone numbers are out.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Oh fine, all right, thank you Walker Plumbing Company. You,
mister Walker, are a plumber.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
Yes, it is surprising, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I smiled at him as he went out, and then
called Helen and broke the sad news. She potted a little,
I could a little. Then we both hung up, feeling
very good inside. I had an hour to kill, so
I decided to get a little fresh air. I was
half a block from my office building when a whole
ounce of imported perfume floated out of a doorway. It
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circled around a while and finally settled over my eyes.
What I could see through the haze would have caused
any airline pilot to come in for an emergency landing.
And even though I don't fly myself, I put the
flaps down and kind of slowed up a little.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
Why, mister Diamond, I do believe you're starring?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Sorry, do I know?
Speaker 10 (08:33):
You please, No, mister Diamond, it isn't that good.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Of course you know me.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I do, huh oh sure, sure, I remember now Monte Carlo.
Wasn't it only you were a blonde then with the
moonlight behind you making a halo for your lovely head.
And I'm just ad libbing, So get me out of this.
Speaker 11 (08:52):
Who are you, lady, Sandra Browning? And it wasn't Monte Carlo.
Come on, I'll buy you a drink and refresh your memory.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
M all right, but I hope we can cover everything
in an hour. There's quite a bit of you to.
Speaker 11 (09:05):
Cover, isn't it, yeeps, much too much to run through
in an hour. You're working on a case, then.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
The luck of Ricky Diamond. Yes, miss Browning, I am
in the midst of what my client calls a caper
go on the payroll at one o'clock.
Speaker 10 (09:19):
I see, And just to who is your client?
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Ricky?
Speaker 8 (09:26):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
We were going to talk about you, remember, Oh?
Speaker 11 (09:28):
But I'm so dull, mister Diamond, and you're so fascinating. True, Yes,
this place look alrightd.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Fine, fine.
Speaker 10 (09:40):
Intimate, isn't it, mister Diamond?
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Say?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Just how well do we know each other? Can't you
tell honey right now, I probably could even tell you
my name. And I'm beginning to need that drink more
and more. Shall we go mingle with those strangers? Stranger
wh As we walked over to a table, I shook
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my head a few times to clear it and get
out of the danger zone of the perfume. I knew
I'd never seen Miss Browning before. No, not that I've
led a sheltered life, but something like her only happens once,
and it usually costs an awful lot of money, money
I've never had so Naturally, the same applied to Miss Browning.
So the renewed figure and a firm grip on my wallet,
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I sat down beside her, cozy too cozy. I'm a
sort of a wide open spaces man myself and oh,
a couple of Martini's. George, George, Now about you, miss
b Where was it our paths first crossed?
Speaker 10 (10:48):
No, mister d I've changed my mind. I'm going to
make you guess.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
It'll be more fun that way, and it will also
be along winter. Now figuring to get anything accomplished, maybe
you better start talking. An hour goes pretty fast.
Speaker 10 (11:03):
What happens in an hour? That's so terribly important, mister.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Diamond, I guess.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
I don't want to guess. I want you to tell me.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
You know, we may run out of things to talk
about in a minute now, not.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
If you tell me what I want to know? Mm hmm,
all right, I'll take a guess. Does this case have
anything to do with, say a bank?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Will you tell me? Does it have something to do
with say a bank?
Speaker 10 (11:31):
You're fighting me, mister Diamond.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Who's fighting who? All I'm trying to find out is
what you're.
Speaker 10 (11:35):
Going to wish, mister Diamond that you had talked to me.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh well, conversation seems to have picked up a little,
but we might as well save your breath. Sandra, I
ain't talking, You ain't talking, so.
Speaker 10 (11:47):
If you'll excuse me, I have to make a telephone call.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
All of which left me was still a half hour
to kill. I paid the check and then drop the
fifth precinct to say hello to Walt Levinson. He was sleeping,
so I tiptoed back out and headed to the corner
first at ELM. I'd been there about five minutes when
a guy whose face looked vaguely famidiar it came up and.
Speaker 12 (12:11):
Said, excuse me, there's a bus stop.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
No, but there's a cab stand a block down the street.
Speaker 12 (12:16):
Oh thanks, I might have stood here for three days.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
How's that?
Speaker 12 (12:21):
I saw you waiting around, so I figured it was
a bus stop. Yes, I'll have to take a cab now, say,
if you're waiting for one, maybe we can split the fair.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Oh no, no thanks. Funny, I'd swear you were hanging
around the fifth Precinct when I came out.
Speaker 12 (12:36):
Oh how long ago?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
About fifteen minutes.
Speaker 12 (12:40):
We come to think of it as possible that you did.
I went in to pay a traffic fine.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Speeding?
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Was it?
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (12:48):
As a matter of fact, it was. Those things do happen,
you know, yes.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Of course. The really interesting part about all this is
that the fifth Precinct doesn't accept traffic fines. You have
to go all the way down on town to pay them.
Speaker 12 (13:01):
You're kind of a smart alec, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Oh's life at the party. Just give me a lampshade
and a bustle and lamb a hey, what's a car
spun around the corner? Just as the guy shout me
I landed in the street, would roll over in time
to see the front door open and the body come
spelling out, sliding to a stop against the curb, the
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guy with a phony ticket hopped on the running board,
and the blue Essex Sadan lost itself in the uptown traffic.
All I could do was sit there and look at
the crumbled form lying in the gutters. Mister Thomas Walker
had given me a check for three hundred dollars that
was to last until Monday. For mister Walker, Monday was
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just two days too many.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Before we continue with Richard, here are a few words
about smoking enjoyment.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
After all the cigarette mildness tests, including the famous thirty
day camel test, Camel leads all other brands by billions.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Here's how you can make your own thirty day camel test,
a sensible test of cigarette mildness based on steady smoking.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Smoke camels and camels only for the next thirty days.
In other words, go steady with camels for thirty days,
pack after pack, week after week.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Here's what you'll find out from your own thirty day
camel test.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
You'll see how rich how flavorful camels are.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Pack after pack.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
You'll discover how well camel's get along with your throat
week after week.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
That does sound like a sensible way to judge a cigarette,
doesn't it? So why not start your own thirty day
camel test tonight. It won't take you long to find
out why camel leads all other cigarettes in popularity by
billions of cigarette per year. Oh, mild mile mile a mile?
Speaker 10 (15:04):
Can a cigarette?
Speaker 5 (15:06):
You make the caw thirty day test, and you see small.
Speaker 12 (15:11):
Camels and see.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And now back to Richard Diamond Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Abandoned the car about four blocks down the street. Rig
too bad. You didn't get to look at the guy
behind the wheel.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Everything happened to a fast walk.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Yeah you feel all right now?
Speaker 8 (15:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Just well.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I guess the idea of this is that somebody figured
you and Walker new too much. Now that doesn't make
sense either, Rick, you said Walker wouldn't tell you a thing.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Nobody gave me three hundred dollars between on Monday. I'm
gonna try to earn it. I can use the help.
He's got the idea who was gunning for, not exactly,
but whoever it was kept pretty close tabs. He was
followed to my office. He tells you that, And how
do you know indirectly a girl named Sandra Browning. Did
she said something else? That's kind of kicking around in
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the back of my head too.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Sandra Brownie, that's a brunette you told me about.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah, she seemed to think Walker said something to me
about a bank, but he didn't. No, but that's what
makes it so interesting. Oh, drop me off of that
drug store. Well you all, I want to look up
a phone number, Sandra. Uh, fellow named Joseph Kyler who's
he supposed to be a chemist? Walker told me about him.
Thanks for let fatty, anything happens, I'll get in touch
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with you. Mister Carter.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Oh, yes, that's right.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I'm a private detective. Me I come in. I'd like
to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You mean about my wife, mister Diamond, Richard Diamond, What.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
About your wife?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Nothing, I merely supposed I mean, after all, you said
you were a private detective.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Oh, yes, yes, but I don't handle divorce cases, mister Carter. No,
I see then?
Speaker 7 (17:10):
What?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Uh? I just want to ask you a couple of
questions about a plumber named Walker, Thomas Walker. Do you
know him?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
A plumber? Now that's stranger. Mister Walker called me on
the phone this morning and asked me to meet him
for lunch. He said it was important to me that
I be there.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Were you?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Well, yes I was. That is I was the appointed
place at the proper hour. But this mister Walker never
did make an appearance. I see you said this mister Walker.
Does that mean you didn't know it? Not? To my knowledge.
The voice didn't register and the name wasn't familiar. This
is very interesting, mister dam Would you like some coffee?
I'll ring for the house.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
No, no, no, no, no thanks. If you didn't know Walker,
mister Carter, why did you agree to have lunch with him?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, for several reasons, As I told you, he said
it was important to me, and since I was going
to be down to anyway.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
That isn't good enough, mister Carter.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Well, I'm afraid I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Thomas Walker was killed less than an hour ago. You
say you were supposed to have lunch with him. That
puts you in a suspicious position.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yes, I see. So that's what this is about. How
did you get my name? Mister Diamond?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh that isn't important. What I want to know is
why you agreed to have lunch with someone you didn't
even know? Well, he this walker fellow.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
He said some things over the full kind of things
about my wife. He said it would be to my
advantage to meet him and discuss it under these circumstances.
I had nothing to lose, so I agreed. Under what circumstances. Well,
you see, mister Diamond, my wife and I are well,
we're drifting apart. She's been seen with another man, a
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fellow named Dave Johnson.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Dave Johnson, who's he?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Chap I sold my shop to when I retired last month.
Speaker 10 (18:58):
He and excuse me, I didn't know you had company.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Oh well, come in, come in, Sondra.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
We were just no, no, I won't disturb you.
Speaker 13 (19:09):
Go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Oh yes, yes, come in.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
This is my wife, Sandra. Come in there, come in.
Speaker 10 (19:17):
I'd rather know.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Oh it's all right. I was leaving anyway. Come right in, missus. Uh, Carter,
isn't it.
Speaker 14 (19:25):
Anything break patty, nothing but my head.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
I've been doing some thinking, Rick.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Well, since you've already pulled the French line, go ahead.
Speaker 13 (19:48):
Oh look, Greg, you said this is Sandra brown.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Uh Carter Browning is a phony.
Speaker 13 (19:55):
You know someday you're going to meet a girl and gaves.
You're right, man, and you won't know how to react.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
That's as soon as you have finished the discourse, Fatty,
we get back to the plot. What have you been thinking?
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Well, you said that this miss Carter.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Uh, it's missus Carter Walls.
Speaker 13 (20:10):
When you stop that, I don't caremast missus whifferm petfol
I want to know what she said. She did say
something about a bank, didn't she She did? And you
said something about a guy named Joseph Carter was a chemist.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Well, so help me.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
If you tell me their merit, I'll throw this phone
from me here to the fifth praecinct.
Speaker 13 (20:24):
You do, you'll never find out the startling news I'm
about to unfold.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
All right, unfold, it's better.
Speaker 13 (20:30):
On the corner of Preston Elm, on the very corner
where you nearly met your demise, there.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Is a bank that's very interesting.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
To Right next door to this bank is a small
shop with a sign painted on the window. Pretty good
sign too. Somebody took a lot of pains with it.
All right, all right, maybe it doesn't mean anything, but
the sign says Carter Chepistry Corporation.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Oh that's what you've been thinking about.
Speaker 13 (20:56):
Yeah, Only now it's even more interesting because of this
son Browning Cotta girl.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
It's a different.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Connection, uh huh with Walker the plumber making the connection. Well,
thanks Walt, and bye.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I'm looking for mister Carter.
Speaker 15 (21:20):
Is he and I ain't nobody hear me? And I'm
getting readily closing up a little earlier. It's only four o'clock. Oh,
I see you're doing a little repair work in the.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Back of the shop there. Yeah. I had a little
explosion in here a couple of days ago. I must
have ripped up a little plumbing down that close to
the floor.
Speaker 15 (21:36):
Yeah, we're getting it fixed up. Sorry to rush out
like this, buddy. Do you know it is Friday afternoon
weekend coming up?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
You know? Oh yes, yes, Well, when you see mister Catta,
just tell him Horace Crutch buyers in to see him.
He'll understand, Horace.
Speaker 15 (21:50):
Well tell you the truth, Horace. Mister Carter don't come
around here no more. He's retired, sold out everything, lock
stock and test to or.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Is that's all? Well, I'll get in touch with him
at home, see you, yeah, see you horrors.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
You know this could turn out kind of silly, Rick.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
What if they don't show up? Oh, they'll show off
any I checked the floor plan of both buildings. Got it.
Figure they'll break through about of here. How many of them?
You think they'll be? Just three? If they knocked off
Walker because he got suspicious, they won't cut anybody else in.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Is coloring on this Rick? His chemistry shop, isn't it No?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Not anymore? He sold out to a guy named Dave Johnson.
You'll meet him as soon as they blast the ball out.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
And what I'm anxious to meet is this Sundra brownie cutlor.
Sounds like quite a dish.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Not my type, Halt. I like him a little more tender.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
That's the other guy's name, the one to shove Walter
out of the car.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I don't know yet. I met him in the shops
after noon. But you like him too. He's got sort
of an in grown face. You know.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
You got to hand it to him, Rick. It's a
pretty slick stunt ped pulling. I am the shop next
door to a bank. Digg him through the wall and
they are Maybe we better get over here, right?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
What I tell you?
Speaker 8 (23:11):
Ever say anything's easy in your life?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Dave?
Speaker 10 (23:13):
Does he have to keep talking? Can't you mean?
Speaker 5 (23:15):
For quoth of you?
Speaker 12 (23:16):
Knock it off and let's get busy. Eh, we've only
got until tomorrow morning.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Hit the lights.
Speaker 9 (23:20):
Rick, okay, well, well why you don't plan?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Its smart? You don't want to carry anyone out of here?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Is this the bank you were talking about? Sandra still
not talking.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
She doesn't look like much to me right.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Now, wal don't be catty. Remember she's been a very
busy girl.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Well, now that they're broken into this kind of work,
I guess they won't mind it so much for the
next few years.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
But Rick, why did Walker want you to follow Joseph Carter?
Speaker 10 (24:06):
He didn't have anything to do.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
With this, didy No, but Walker thought he did. He
tumbled what was going on when he went into repair
the plumbing. Naturally he figured Carter was behind it. He'd
like getting smiters and months go by.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
And speaking of months going by, yes, Dar, it will
soon be June.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You know June. Oh, now there's a month to conjure with.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Do you mean it?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Rick?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Well, sure, June must be about my favorite. Let's see now,
don't I know a song with June in it?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Rick, let's say June. June kind of a strange name
to me, but well, this might do it. Oh, it's a.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Long, long while.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
From May to December. But the days grohort. When you
reach September, when the autumn weather.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
Turns leaves to flame, one hasn't got time for the
way in game.
Speaker 9 (25:23):
All the days tumble down.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
To a precious view.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Septembermber, Novemmber, and.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
These few precious days I'll spend with you, these precious days.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I'll spend you.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Why you faker you?
Speaker 10 (26:08):
There wasn't a single June anywhere in that song.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Come to think of it, there wasn't you.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Want to try again?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
I guess not something.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
Else you'd rather do.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Honey, Honey, what an opening that is? Sm here?
Speaker 10 (26:25):
Now that's what I've been waiting for.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
More, more, more, honey stop. If this keeps up, I
won't be able to hold off till June.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Dick Powell will return in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
What's America's most popular cigarette?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Camel is in the lead by billions of cigarettes per year.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
One reason is Camel's rich, full flavor, a flavor no
other cigarette has.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
And another reason is Camel's pack after pack, week after
week mildness.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Tonight, start enjoying the one cigarette America enjoys most.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
It's camel, of course, yes, of all the cigarettes on
the market today, camel is in the lead by billions
of cigarettes per year.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
How mild, how mile?
Speaker 7 (27:21):
How mild?
Speaker 12 (27:22):
Canis cigarette being small?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Camels and sea.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Here's Dick Powell with a special message. Thank you, ladies
and gentlemen. To bring a little extra cheer and comfort
to our hospitalized servicemen and veterans, the makers of Camels
send them thousands of packs of gift cameos every week.
This week, the gift camels go to veterans hospitals Clarksburg,
West Virginia and Miles City, Montana. US Naval Hospital, Corona, California,
(27:48):
US Army Station Hospital, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, the Military Air
Transport Service, which evacuates virtually all overseas wounded personnel. Now
until next week, enjoy Camels, I always do.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Tonight's adventure of Richard Diamond was written by Ty Cobb
with music by Frank Worth. For Ginia, Greg was heard
as Helen Asher and Alan Reid as Lieutenant Walt Levinson.
Others in the cast were Bob Griffin, Joyce Manors, Sidney Miller,
and Jim Beckett. Richard Diamond, Private Detective is transcribed in
Hollywood by himI del Vayer. Be sure to listen to
(28:33):
another great Camel Shall Vaughn Monroe and the Camel Caravan
every Saturday night. If you're ever asked who's the most
obliging taxpayer, vote for yourself if you're a cigarette smoker,
because you and sixty million others pay more than a
fifty percent tax on the cigarettes you smoke. Yes, every
time you buy a pack of cigarettes, you pay the
(28:53):
federal government eight cents, and most of you pay three
or four cents more in state or city cigarette taxes
on that pack. That means that better than half the
price you pay for cigarettes goes for tax. Listen next
(29:16):
week for another exciting adventure of Richard Diamond starring Dick Powell.
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