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Speaker 1 (00:07):
The makers of Camel Cigarettes present Dick Powell as Richard
Diamond Private Detective. Here's a question that was asked of
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one hundred thirteen thousand, five hundred and ninety seven doctors
in a nationwide survey a.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Few years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
What cigarette do you smoke? Doctor? The brand name most
was Camel. Again and again. Since then, a cross section
of America's doctors has been asked that same question, and
again and again. Every time, the brand name most has
been Camel.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
According to repeated surveys, more doctors smoke Camels than any
other cigarette. Now, wait, bring you another transcribed adventure with
Richard Diamond Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Diamond Detective Agency, R fee deductible on next year's and
come tags.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Richard Diamond Private Deduction speaking.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I beg your pardon, sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It's much too worthy to go over again.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Yes, uh, mister Diamond, this is Fred Lane speaking. You
once did a job for a friend of mine.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Well, if your friend wants his money bag, tell him
I've already spent it.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Oh no, nothing like that, he recommended you.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, well, wonders never cease.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
I'd like to hire you, mister Diamond. May I inquire as.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
To your feet.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
You may one hundred dollars a day and expenses.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Oh, let us run steep, But I think I can.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Manage, spoken like a true millionaire, mister Lane, I live
at fourteen eighty two Riverside.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Please get here as soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, I'm pretty busy, but I'll try to please do,
mister Diamond.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
I'll have a check waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
M mister Lane, go to your front door. I'm there.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
People who promise to have checks waiting are people for
whom Diamond loves to work. I went downstairs, picked up
my car, and drove to the address on Riverside. Rang
the doorbell. The door opened, Then my blood pressure started
doing pushups. She was tall, blonde, and more addressed than
would have even been banned on television.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
You must be, mister Diamond.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well how can you tell? Don't other men?
Speaker 7 (02:53):
Drew come in? Please?
Speaker 8 (02:54):
Fred's expecting you, friend, mister Lane, my husband, Oh, this way, please,
Fred's in the den. I do hope you'll be able
to help us, mister Diamond.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, so do why missus Lane? What seems to be
the trouble.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
I'll let Fred explain to you this whole business has
got me rather upset. I it's in here, Fred, Yes,
mister Diamond's here.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Oh good, come in, Diamond, come in.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
I'll be upstairs, Fred, of course, deir.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
So now, mister Diamond, thank you. You got here in
a hurry. It's certainly true to your word, sir.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I all of my boy scout training.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Well here as I promised. Check good, good.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Now that we're both men of our word, let's met
with some more words. Why do you want to hire me,
mister Lane.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
It's about my wife Mary. She's being blackmailed, mister Diamond.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I see.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
It's been going on for a month now. Finally last
night she broke down and told me all about it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
All about what, mister Lane, Why is she being blackmailed?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
She made a few mistakes before I met her. No
reason to go into that now. But the blackmailer knows
all about those mistakes.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You speak as if you knew who the blackmail was,
mister Lane. I do.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Perhaps I should clarify that a bit. However, I don't
know the man personally, but Mary tells me he was
a classmate of hers during her college years. She told
me his name is Lewis Dixon, that he was staying
at the Bruster Hotel on thirty fifth. I went there
this morning to have it out with him, and he
checked out last night.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Huh, mister Lane, I still don't see why you hired me.
Now that your wife's told you about the blackmail, you
could just report it to the police next time this
Dixon guy calls, they had nabbed him.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I'm not interested in turning him over to the police,
mister Diamond.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I don't quite follow you.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I'm only interested in seeing that he doesn't bother Mary anymore.
When you locate Dixon, let me know I intend to
give him a thrashing. He'll never forget.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That's letting a blackmail are off pretty easy, Lane.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Perhaps, But if we prosecute well, publicity and all, I
think Mary's gone through enough, can I say all? I'm
interested in seeing that he doesn't bother her anymore. Call
me about five and let me know what progress you made.
Good day, mister Diamond, and good luck. And that was that.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Go find a blackmailer, Diamond, so your clan could beat
him up. It's cruelly, you bet, but the hundred dollars
check in my pocket made up from my own feelings
on the case, and I set out to find him
one Lewis Dixon blackmailer.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Laine seemed to think.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Dixon would have a record, and if he was right,
Lieutenant Walt Lemonson could give me a lead. It was
almost noon when I parked in front of the Fifth
Precinct walked into the Waalt's office.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Wow, oh, Reckodby, pull up a chat just time and
watch me finish my lunch.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Oh you are so generous, Walter. No thanks, no thanks, want,
no thanks. I won't have a bias of your pie.
What's wrong with this pie? My wife made it. That's
what's wrong any way. My wife's bad cook, of course not.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
She just makes fattening pies too doey. How do you
know it's too dowe before you taste it? You can
tell me looking at it.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
That's ridiculous here, and I want to cut this piece too.
Try Oh try it? Well?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Yeah? Is it dowey?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Not in the least.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
I guess that proves you.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Wait a minute, something wrong, Fatty.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
You've eaten my wife's pies at the house before you
never thought they were dope.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Put me some coffee, please, Lieutenant.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
You know I should book you for swiddling. What do
you want down here anyway?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh, just a little peek at your files? Who is
it you're looking for this time? I have the name
of Lewis Dixon. Have you hear of him? Dixon?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Ralph Dixon, the pickpocket, Herbie Dixon, a con man. I
can't play so Louis Dixon?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Off hand?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
What's the racking blackmail lately?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Oh? Charming?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Why haven't we been called in on the case.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
My client doesn't want publicity.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Besides, he just wants to poke the guy in the
snoop a few times and tell him he's been a
bad boy.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, yeah, ye, I'm not trying. Uh finish what's left
to your pile? When I go through the files and uh, waltah,
have your wife baked lemon merangue next time? Huh?
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:24):
I checked the files.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
There was nothing on Lewis Dixon. I thanked Walt, went
to my car and drove across town to a little
bar called the Bat's Cave. The Bat's Cave was as
dingy as the name implied, but I didn't go there
for entertainment. I was looking for Rabbit Jones, a guy
who knew more about the underworld than Rudolph Halley. Like
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most informers, Rabbit Jones was a mean, whining character, and
he didn't like me anymore than I liked him. But
he did like my money and I liked his information.
It was always a fair trade. I found him in
the last booth, nursing a half filled glass a beer.
A hello, rabbit.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Oh, now that's a cheerful greeting.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You asked one of horse race today or once? You're
running a big joke?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Ha ha beauty, oh rabbit, You spread sunshine wherever you go,
don't you?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Who ask you to sit down?
Speaker 9 (08:21):
I mean, I get sick of your private dis you'll
bother someone else.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Drop the small talk, Rabbit. I won't pay over the
usual price, so they'll make your information hardly.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Yet maybe I got none to sound well.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
The day you stop selling information, I start knitting our guiles.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Okay, okay, who is it?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Lewis Dixon?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Where's it?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
You know?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I always pay well.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
This ain't my week for trusting people.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Talk it?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Search yourself now about Lewis Dixon?
Speaker 7 (08:52):
I never heard of it.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Let go get.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Smart, rabbit, I pay for talk straight.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
Okay, okay, tiens off of me. Yeah, your rough boy's
gotta show your muscles.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Oh, shut up. You don't get my money unless you
earned it, rabbit, So start earning.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
Like I say, I never heard of a guy named
Lewis Dixon. Let you know what my contacts and find
out about him.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
So drop the rough step how I want to take
it all appears. What's this Dixon?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Guys learn blackmail. There's a chance he might have been
mixed up in some other rackets the past few years.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Give me two hours. If he's been around lately, I'll
find out.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I'll make it one hour. I'll meet you back here.
Speaker 9 (09:34):
Yeah, okay, a diamond. Yeah, I wish I had more nerve.
If I had more nerve, slip.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
A shive in you some night.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Oh, I wish you had more nerve to a rabbit,
I'd enjoy beating you to pieces for trying it on
your way. Pump Rabbit shuffled out of the bat's cave
with a slow, heavy step, like a man reluctant to
step out in the sunlight.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I spent the next hour checking contacts of my arm,
then returned to the bat's cave and waited for a rabbit.
He came in a half an hour late, took the
stool beside me and ordered a beer before he turned
to me.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
You picked some tough guys to get a line on down.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I had a bad time stop singing the blues rabbit, and.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
If the guy has worked the rackets, he's been quiet
about it.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I couldn't find one guy or you sure that rabbit? Sure? Sure.
I did find a few guys who'd heard of him, though,
keep talking.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
Two different guys were Squeaky Horners floating crap game the
other night, and they say a guy named.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Lewis Dixon was there.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
How did they know it was Dixon?
Speaker 5 (10:43):
We was flashing door on telling everyone with a big
shutting round.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
But they don't know where he is now?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Well they did. Maybe Squeaky Horner.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Knows he ran the game, or worse, Squeaky out.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
When the game folds for a few days, Squeaky hangs
out around a penny arcade at Third and Chestnut. I
know the place, well, I'm going to talk to him
and ned me drink my beer piece.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I passed a few more insults with a rabbit as
I paid a check, then drove to the penny arcade
third and Chestnut.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Squeaky Horner was hunched over a pen ball machine, and
when he saw me his eyes lit up like to tilt.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Sign Ricky down? Hey, are you beer?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Rick?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
No, not bad, Squeaky?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
You eh great? Great? Hey, look at that score? Good nickel?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Oh sure yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Next? What brings you down here, Ricky? I understand a
guy named Lewis Dixon was that's your game? Too nice
at all? Eh Rick. There's a lot of boys dropped
him from time to time. It's hot. Did you say Dixon?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
That's right?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Yeah? I remember him a blowhod every time.
Speaker 9 (11:47):
He roll the dice and said Lewis Dixon's the best
crap shooter in town.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Prove it, dice, That's what he said. You ever seen
him before, Squeaky, Let's see, he was a stranger. I
got a good memory for faces. This boy I've never
seen before.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
No, drave Was he with anyone?
Speaker 6 (12:03):
You might know?
Speaker 5 (12:04):
I'm afraid not Ricky from alone? Left alone? Wish I
could help you know?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Thanks anyway, thank you for the nipple.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Hey, look at that stone, go up.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Squeaky's score was running very high, but mine was still zero.
So far not one definite lead as to the whereabouts
of Leis Dixon. I spent another half hour calling the
known and farmers, but to no avail. Little left to five.
I went to a phone booth and called my client
Fred Lane. Hello, mister Lane, Richard Diamond Wald, what are
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you doing there?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
No, Red Lane, your client Rick, Yeah, mate, get over
here right away.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You were now unemployed Lane.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
That's right?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Lit it.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
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Speaker 7 (13:13):
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Speaker 2 (13:53):
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Speaker 7 (14:00):
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Speaker 1 (14:02):
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Speaker 5 (14:05):
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small camels and see.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And now back to Richard tim and Private Detective starring
Dick Powell.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Fred Lane's body lay on the floor of his den.
There was a letter opener lying beside the body, and
it fit the hole in his back. Tomorrow morning's paper
would carry Fred Lane's obituary. It would tell where he
was born, what he did with his life, and when
he died, but.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
It wouldn't tell who killed him. And that's what I
wanted to find out.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Looks like you really put up a fight, Eric, Yeah,
the room's thrown up a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Who did it?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Well, Lewis Dixon, the guy you've been out looking for,
you have him. Missus Lane gave us the information. Dixon
came into the house, but two hours ago he one
more dough for missus Lane. Pretty nervy to come right here. Yeah,
I guess she figured Lane might be out anyway. Missus
Lane called her husband. Fred came in, invited Dixon to
the den for a talk, and sent missus Lane upstairs.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Unfets, Lane starts beating up Dixon. Dixon grabs a letter
open her and kills Lane.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
The sweat figures.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Missus Lane said she had the struggle, but her husband
had told her to stay in her room, and then
she heard Dixon run out, so she came down and
found the.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Body and called it you get the Prince off a letter?
Open it.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Nope, miss Lane said.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Dixon was wearing a pair of gloves what he came in,
so I never took a bok.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Hmm.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
That's great, well, Fatty, I hope you have more luck
picking up Dixon than I had. Nobody around town season
on Well, miss Lane.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Gave us a good description.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I put out an ap B. What about you? You're
still in the case.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I was about to give it up when I phoned,
but I can keep going as long as my leg's
hold up good.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
I'd like to nab this Dixon guy as quick as possible.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Me too, was I don't like people to go around
killing my clients. This isn't good for business.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
The boys were taking your body down to the Morgas
I left, it looked like a hard day for my
shoe lader. The only thing I could do was keep
pounding the pavement in search of someone who knew or
I had known Lloyd's Dixon. Cigarette stands, boogie joints, cheap
boarding houses.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Nothing.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Down to the Bowery Mission, small bars, guys on the
corners Owish Dixon.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Yeah, I never heard of them.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And so it went.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I headed back to my office and the comfort that
comes when you set the chair with your feet on
the desk. But when I reached the entrance of the
office building, Squeaky Horner was standing there waiting for me.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Hi, Wrecky, wait up, Ben, I don't waiting here a
long time? Almost No?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Oh, what's on your mind? Squiggy?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
You're still looking for Lloyd Dixon.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
That's a silly question.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Why because I've seen them borrowing on half ago. You sure,
jam sure? I got a good memory for faces. After
I leave the arcade, I'm walking up Fight and I
see him, the biggest life.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Where is he now?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
I tell him? See he goes into Henry's flophouse. He's
staying in one of Henry's rooms and not in the
hall like most of the guys. He's under another name.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
What name, Squeeky Jack?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Lighton you one? I should take it to the place.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Rocky, Yeah, Squeaky, I want this. You should.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Here's the room, rookie, you one?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I should not never mind?
Speaker 5 (17:36):
What just told it?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Right there? Layton? Or is it Dixon?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
What are you talking? About. What's the idea busting in
here like this?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
What about it? Squeaky? Is he the guy?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
No daughter?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
But Rookie is the same guy? Was at the game
a few nights ago. What game are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I've never seen you before in my life.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
All right, Squeaky, I can take it from here.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Thanks a lot any time. Ricky, Hey, Hey, what gives anyway?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Bud? Suppose you tell me Dixon?
Speaker 5 (18:02):
What do you keep calling me Dixon?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
The name's Jack Layton.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Well, we'll see about that. There's one person who should
be able to identify you for sure, Fred Lane's widow.
Get your hat pow. Well it looked like the end
of a hard day. I forced Layton or Dixon outside
and into my car. Then we drove to the Lane
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house on Riverside. The police had left and Missus Lane
was alone. I took my man inside and Missus Lane
looked at him closely. I knew it would be just
like the movies. She'd point and say, that's him, that's
the man, mister Diamond.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
I'm sorry, mister dunnon one. I've never seen this man
before in my life.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
This, dear children, is the story of why a detective
gets ulcers. But as I was driving Leyton back toward town,
I began thinking, Squeaky Horner had never been wrong about
a man before, and why had been so hard to locate?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I hadn't been able to turn up one man who
knew him.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
So instead of driving Leyton back to his room, I
drove to the Brewster Hotel, where Lane said Dixon had
been registered for a week. There it was a different story.
The desk clerk positively identified Jack Layton as the man
who had registered as Louis Dixon. At last, things began
to shape up.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Why did you bring me here to your office? I
want to get back to my room.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
You heard what the desk clerk said, you registered as
Louis Dixon.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Why?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Oh, that desk clerk was loney. He made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
You heard what missus Lane said.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
She never saw me before, so she said, But I
think differently. Layton up here all along. We can have
a nice little chat. You're going to tell me all
about it.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I got nothing to say.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
No, And then suppose I opened the conversation. That was
the first sentence, Layton, How do I start on a paragraph?
Or will you talk instead?
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I don't know a sain.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Okay, stupid, we'll do it the hard way.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Yes, oh, mister Diamond.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Hello, missus Lane, matter if I come in?
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Of course not please do.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Suppose to be going to the den. I'd like to
have a little talk with you, missus Lane.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
And I'm sorry I'm not feeling too well mister Diamond.
The shot all Oh, yes.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Yes, of course it must have been trying my bringing
that Layton man here for you to identify.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Well, yes it was.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
If you could come back tomorrow perhaps.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Oh I'm afraid not, honey, now we will.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
I'm sorry you picked up the wrong man, mister Diamond.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Oh sure, yes, it's funny. Two other people swore he
was the man on his low's addiction.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Well it's hard to by someone accurately, I imagine, but
I was certain he wasn't Dixon.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Wow, well you've tied it up the den quite a bit.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Just what is it you wanted to talk to me about,
miss Dimmond.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Well, there's no hurry, no hurry. Say this is a
handsome room, nice house too, and all yours, along with
everything else your husband owned.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
It's rather a cruel thing to say.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Oh, come off it, Mary. It was a wild scheme
what do you mean.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
I mean that you invented a phony character a Leis Dixon,
set up a murder with every clue pointing to a
man who never existed.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Crazy.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
No, No, Mary, you were crazy to think a stunt
like this would ever work. You hired a bum named
Jack Layton, gave him money, had him register at the
Brewster Hotels Lewis Dixon. Then you had him hit some
of the gambling joints and make sure people heard his
name as Lewis Dixon.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Then he was to disappear.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
I won't stay here and be insulted.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
No, soon, I'll take it down to headquarters. You can
be insulted there.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
And I hope you have proofs to Diamond. You'll need it.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Well, Layton was reluctant at first, but let's say I
persuaded him to talk. I dropped him by the fifth
Precinct on my.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Way over here.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
How much do you make as a private detective, mister Diamond?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Oh Mary, Mary, don't talk like that. First chance you got,
you just take a knife in my back too.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
It was just a suggestion, after all.
Speaker 9 (22:25):
No.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Now, first a letter opener on your husband, and now
you drive up being me with a paperweight.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Honey, you're just not safeer on a desk, are you.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Wick? Yes, Helen dear, I've been thinking show off.
Speaker 10 (22:59):
No, really, I think you should put your business on
a more dignified level, don't.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
You should try and attract a higher type clientele.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh I don't know. This lame fellow I worked for
today was no slot.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
But what happened to him? He got killed. That's the
trouble with your cases. They're two dangerous. You don't get
into trouble your clients, do.
Speaker 10 (23:19):
You should concentrate on more simple cases for wealthy clients,
like divorce cases, inheritance claim.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Oh great, maybe I should even carry a potter puff
on my shoulder holsters all right, so.
Speaker 10 (23:30):
It wouldn't be as exciting get the same fiend, You
wouldn't get so many black eyes.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
But I couldn't come here to you for sympathy. There,
I'm serious, Okay, okay, just not telling me? Just how
do I go about attracting a higher type clientele?
Speaker 10 (23:44):
As you put it, Well, you start off by putting
on a more pretentious front, meaning I eat more, meaning
you act a little more dignified.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Well do go on?
Speaker 7 (23:55):
You should also have someone at the office to answer
the phone for you.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Oh, helen, it only rings once or twice. I think
I have enough strength to pick up the receiver. That often?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
What strictly for appearances?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh, I say, anyone in mind for the job?
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Well, I have a lot of free time.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
We'll find it fine. I'm glad it's free. I should
be able to afford that.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
And then after we build up the business, do go
uick are you listening?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Oh sure, sure, baby, sure you are not.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
You're just waiting for me to take a pause so
you can sneak in a song.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Oh honey, how can you be so suspicious? But since
you did bring.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
Up the better I should have known better.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Oh, live and learned, Live and learn.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
If they ask me, I could write a book about
the way you walk and whisper.
Speaker 11 (24:55):
And look, I could ride a preface on how we met,
so the world would never forgave. And the simple secrets
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of the plot is just to tell him that I
love you.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Loud.
Speaker 12 (25:35):
Then the world discovers as my books how to Me
to lovers of friends. Then the world discovers as my booking.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
To Me too lovers all friend.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Oh very nice, well, thank.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
You see only now let's get back to your business.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Who wants to talk about business now?
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Rick?
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Stop it?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Rick?
Speaker 7 (26:43):
I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Oh now now?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Then you were saying I shouldn't get on a more
dignified level. I was, Oh, that's what I like. The
girl with the dragon mind.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
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Speaker 12 (27:44):
How mild?
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Speaker 5 (27:51):
Can you see small camels?
Speaker 11 (27:54):
See?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Here's Dick Powell with a special message, thank you, ladies
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Speaker 4 (27:59):
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Speaker 1 (28:42):
Tonight's adventure of Richard Diamond was written by Dick Carr,
with music by Frank Worth. Virginia Gregg was heard as
Hellam Asher and Alan Reed as Lieutenant Bought Levinson. Others
in the cast were Benny Ruben, Mary Jane Croft, Howard mcneer,
and Peter Leeds. Richard Diamond, Private Detective is transcribed in
Hollywood by Himy Delbaye. Be sure to listen to another
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Richard Diamond starring Dick Powell. Now stay tuned for This
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The makers of Camel Cigarettes present Dick Powell as Richard
Diamond Private Detective. Here's a question that was asked of
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one hundred thirteen thousand, five hundred and ninety seven doctors
in a nationwide survey a.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Few years ago.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
What cigarette do you smoke? Doctor? The brand name most
was Camel. Again and again. Since then, a cross section
of America's doctors has been asked that same question, and
again and again. Every time, the brand name most has
been Camel.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
According to repeated surveys, more doctors smoke Camels than any
other cigarette. Now, wait, bring you another transcribed adventure with
Richard Diamond Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Diamond Detective Agency, R fee deductible on next year's and
come tags.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Richard Diamond Private Deduction speaking.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I beg your pardon, sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It's much too worthy to go over again.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Yes, uh, mister Diamond, this is Fred Lane speaking. You
once did a job for a friend of mine.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Well, if your friend wants his money bag, tell him
I've already spent it.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Oh no, nothing like that, he recommended you.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, well, wonders never cease.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
I'd like to hire you, mister Diamond. May I inquire as.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
To your feet.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
You may one hundred dollars a day and expenses.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Oh, let us run steep, But I think I can.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Manage, spoken like a true millionaire, mister Lane, I live
at fourteen eighty two Riverside.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Please get here as soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, I'm pretty busy, but I'll try to please do,
mister Diamond.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
I'll have a check waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
M mister Lane, go to your front door. I'm there.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
People who promise to have checks waiting are people for
whom Diamond loves to work. I went downstairs, picked up
my car, and drove to the address on Riverside. Rang
the doorbell. The door opened, Then my blood pressure started
doing pushups. She was tall, blonde, and more addressed than
would have even been banned on television.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
You must be, mister Diamond.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well how can you tell? Don't other men?
Speaker 7 (02:53):
Drew come in? Please?
Speaker 8 (02:54):
Fred's expecting you, friend, mister Lane, my husband, Oh, this way, please,
Fred's in the den. I do hope you'll be able
to help us, mister Diamond.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, so do why missus Lane? What seems to be
the trouble.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
I'll let Fred explain to you this whole business has
got me rather upset. I it's in here, Fred, Yes,
mister Diamond's here.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Oh good, come in, Diamond, come in.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
I'll be upstairs, Fred, of course, deir.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
So now, mister Diamond, thank you. You got here in
a hurry. It's certainly true to your word, sir.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I all of my boy scout training.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Well here as I promised. Check good, good.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Now that we're both men of our word, let's met
with some more words. Why do you want to hire me,
mister Lane.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
It's about my wife Mary. She's being blackmailed, mister Diamond.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I see.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
It's been going on for a month now. Finally last
night she broke down and told me all about it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
All about what, mister Lane, Why is she being blackmailed?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
She made a few mistakes before I met her. No
reason to go into that now. But the blackmailer knows
all about those mistakes.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You speak as if you knew who the blackmail was,
mister Lane. I do.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Perhaps I should clarify that a bit. However, I don't
know the man personally, but Mary tells me he was
a classmate of hers during her college years. She told
me his name is Lewis Dixon, that he was staying
at the Bruster Hotel on thirty fifth. I went there
this morning to have it out with him, and he
checked out last night.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Huh, mister Lane, I still don't see why you hired me.
Now that your wife's told you about the blackmail, you
could just report it to the police next time this
Dixon guy calls, they had nabbed him.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I'm not interested in turning him over to the police,
mister Diamond.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I don't quite follow you.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I'm only interested in seeing that he doesn't bother Mary anymore.
When you locate Dixon, let me know I intend to
give him a thrashing. He'll never forget.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That's letting a blackmail are off pretty easy, Lane.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Perhaps, But if we prosecute well, publicity and all, I
think Mary's gone through enough, can I say all? I'm
interested in seeing that he doesn't bother her anymore. Call
me about five and let me know what progress you made.
Good day, mister Diamond, and good luck. And that was that.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Go find a blackmailer, Diamond, so your clan could beat
him up. It's cruelly, you bet, but the hundred dollars
check in my pocket made up from my own feelings
on the case, and I set out to find him
one Lewis Dixon blackmailer.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Laine seemed to think.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Dixon would have a record, and if he was right,
Lieutenant Walt Lemonson could give me a lead. It was
almost noon when I parked in front of the Fifth
Precinct walked into the Waalt's office.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Wow, oh, Reckodby, pull up a chat just time and
watch me finish my lunch.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Oh you are so generous, Walter. No thanks, no thanks, want,
no thanks. I won't have a bias of your pie.
What's wrong with this pie? My wife made it. That's
what's wrong any way. My wife's bad cook, of course not.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
She just makes fattening pies too doey. How do you
know it's too dowe before you taste it? You can
tell me looking at it.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
That's ridiculous here, and I want to cut this piece too.
Try Oh try it? Well?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Yeah? Is it dowey?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Not in the least.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
I guess that proves you.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Wait a minute, something wrong, Fatty.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
You've eaten my wife's pies at the house before you
never thought they were dope.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Put me some coffee, please, Lieutenant.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
You know I should book you for swiddling. What do
you want down here anyway?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh, just a little peek at your files? Who is
it you're looking for this time? I have the name
of Lewis Dixon. Have you hear of him? Dixon?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Ralph Dixon, the pickpocket, Herbie Dixon, a con man. I
can't play so Louis Dixon?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Off hand?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
What's the racking blackmail lately?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Oh? Charming?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Why haven't we been called in on the case.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
My client doesn't want publicity.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Besides, he just wants to poke the guy in the
snoop a few times and tell him he's been a
bad boy.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, yeah, ye, I'm not trying. Uh finish what's left
to your pile? When I go through the files and uh, waltah,
have your wife baked lemon merangue next time? Huh?
Speaker 8 (07:19):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:24):
I checked the files.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
There was nothing on Lewis Dixon. I thanked Walt, went
to my car and drove across town to a little
bar called the Bat's Cave. The Bat's Cave was as
dingy as the name implied, but I didn't go there
for entertainment. I was looking for Rabbit Jones, a guy
who knew more about the underworld than Rudolph Halley. Like
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most informers, Rabbit Jones was a mean, whining character, and
he didn't like me anymore than I liked him. But
he did like my money and I liked his information.
It was always a fair trade. I found him in
the last booth, nursing a half filled glass a beer.
A hello, rabbit.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Oh, now that's a cheerful greeting.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You asked one of horse race today or once? You're
running a big joke?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Ha ha beauty, oh rabbit, You spread sunshine wherever you go,
don't you?
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Who ask you to sit down?
Speaker 9 (08:21):
I mean, I get sick of your private dis you'll
bother someone else.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Drop the small talk, Rabbit. I won't pay over the
usual price, so they'll make your information hardly.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Yet maybe I got none to sound well.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
The day you stop selling information, I start knitting our guiles.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Okay, okay, who is it?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Lewis Dixon?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Where's it?
Speaker 6 (08:41):
You know?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I always pay well.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
This ain't my week for trusting people.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Talk it?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Search yourself now about Lewis Dixon?
Speaker 7 (08:52):
I never heard of it.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Let go get.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Smart, rabbit, I pay for talk straight.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
Okay, okay, tiens off of me. Yeah, your rough boy's
gotta show your muscles.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Oh, shut up. You don't get my money unless you
earned it, rabbit, So start earning.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
Like I say, I never heard of a guy named
Lewis Dixon. Let you know what my contacts and find
out about him.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
So drop the rough step how I want to take
it all appears. What's this Dixon?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Guys learn blackmail. There's a chance he might have been
mixed up in some other rackets the past few years.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Give me two hours. If he's been around lately, I'll
find out.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I'll make it one hour. I'll meet you back here.
Speaker 9 (09:34):
Yeah, okay, a diamond. Yeah, I wish I had more nerve.
If I had more nerve, slip.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
A shive in you some night.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Oh, I wish you had more nerve to a rabbit,
I'd enjoy beating you to pieces for trying it on
your way. Pump Rabbit shuffled out of the bat's cave
with a slow, heavy step, like a man reluctant to
step out in the sunlight.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I spent the next hour checking contacts of my arm,
then returned to the bat's cave and waited for a rabbit.
He came in a half an hour late, took the
stool beside me and ordered a beer before he turned
to me.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
You picked some tough guys to get a line on down.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I had a bad time stop singing the blues rabbit, and.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
If the guy has worked the rackets, he's been quiet
about it.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I couldn't find one guy or you sure that rabbit? Sure? Sure.
I did find a few guys who'd heard of him, though,
keep talking.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
Two different guys were Squeaky Horners floating crap game the
other night, and they say a guy named.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Lewis Dixon was there.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
How did they know it was Dixon?
Speaker 5 (10:43):
We was flashing door on telling everyone with a big
shutting round.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
But they don't know where he is now?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Well they did. Maybe Squeaky Horner.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Knows he ran the game, or worse, Squeaky out.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
When the game folds for a few days, Squeaky hangs
out around a penny arcade at Third and Chestnut. I
know the place, well, I'm going to talk to him
and ned me drink my beer piece.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I passed a few more insults with a rabbit as
I paid a check, then drove to the penny arcade
third and Chestnut.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Squeaky Horner was hunched over a pen ball machine, and
when he saw me his eyes lit up like to tilt.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Sign Ricky down? Hey, are you beer?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Rick?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
No, not bad, Squeaky?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
You eh great? Great? Hey, look at that score? Good nickel?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Oh sure yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Next? What brings you down here, Ricky? I understand a
guy named Lewis Dixon was that's your game? Too nice
at all? Eh Rick. There's a lot of boys dropped
him from time to time. It's hot. Did you say Dixon?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
That's right?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Yeah? I remember him a blowhod every time.
Speaker 9 (11:47):
He roll the dice and said Lewis Dixon's the best
crap shooter in town.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Prove it, dice, That's what he said. You ever seen
him before, Squeaky, Let's see, he was a stranger. I
got a good memory for faces. This boy I've never
seen before.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
No, drave Was he with anyone?
Speaker 6 (12:03):
You might know?
Speaker 5 (12:04):
I'm afraid not Ricky from alone? Left alone? Wish I
could help you know?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Thanks anyway, thank you for the nipple.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Hey, look at that stone, go up.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Squeaky's score was running very high, but mine was still zero.
So far not one definite lead as to the whereabouts
of Leis Dixon. I spent another half hour calling the
known and farmers, but to no avail. Little left to five.
I went to a phone booth and called my client
Fred Lane. Hello, mister Lane, Richard Diamond Wald, what are
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you doing there?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
No, Red Lane, your client Rick, Yeah, mate, get over
here right away.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
You were now unemployed Lane.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
That's right?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Lit it.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Before we continue with Richard Diamond, here is an important question.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Oh mild, my harma?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Can a cigarette be? How mild can a cigarette be?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
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Speaker 1 (13:23):
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Speaker 2 (13:53):
Buy billions of cigarettes per.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
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Speaker 7 (14:00):
Mile how mile?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
How can a cigarette be?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
It makes the camel thirty day test? Can you see
small camels and see.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And now back to Richard tim and Private Detective starring
Dick Powell.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Fred Lane's body lay on the floor of his den.
There was a letter opener lying beside the body, and
it fit the hole in his back. Tomorrow morning's paper
would carry Fred Lane's obituary. It would tell where he
was born, what he did with his life, and when
he died, but.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
It wouldn't tell who killed him. And that's what I
wanted to find out.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Looks like you really put up a fight, Eric, Yeah,
the room's thrown up a lot.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Who did it?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Well, Lewis Dixon, the guy you've been out looking for,
you have him. Missus Lane gave us the information. Dixon
came into the house, but two hours ago he one
more dough for missus Lane. Pretty nervy to come right here. Yeah,
I guess she figured Lane might be out anyway. Missus
Lane called her husband. Fred came in, invited Dixon to
the den for a talk, and sent missus Lane upstairs.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Unfets, Lane starts beating up Dixon. Dixon grabs a letter
open her and kills Lane.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
The sweat figures.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Missus Lane said she had the struggle, but her husband
had told her to stay in her room, and then
she heard Dixon run out, so she came down and
found the.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Body and called it you get the Prince off a letter?
Open it.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Nope, miss Lane said.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Dixon was wearing a pair of gloves what he came in,
so I never took a bok.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Hmm.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
That's great, well, Fatty, I hope you have more luck
picking up Dixon than I had. Nobody around town season
on Well, miss Lane.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Gave us a good description.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I put out an ap B. What about you? You're
still in the case.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I was about to give it up when I phoned,
but I can keep going as long as my leg's
hold up good.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
I'd like to nab this Dixon guy as quick as possible.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Me too, was I don't like people to go around
killing my clients. This isn't good for business.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
The boys were taking your body down to the Morgas
I left, it looked like a hard day for my
shoe lader. The only thing I could do was keep
pounding the pavement in search of someone who knew or
I had known Lloyd's Dixon. Cigarette stands, boogie joints, cheap
boarding houses.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Nothing.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Down to the Bowery Mission, small bars, guys on the
corners Owish Dixon.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Yeah, I never heard of them.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And so it went.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I headed back to my office and the comfort that
comes when you set the chair with your feet on
the desk. But when I reached the entrance of the
office building, Squeaky Horner was standing there waiting for me.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Hi, Wrecky, wait up, Ben, I don't waiting here a
long time? Almost No?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Oh, what's on your mind? Squiggy?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
You're still looking for Lloyd Dixon.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
That's a silly question.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Why because I've seen them borrowing on half ago. You sure,
jam sure? I got a good memory for faces. After
I leave the arcade, I'm walking up Fight and I
see him, the biggest life.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Where is he now?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
I tell him? See he goes into Henry's flophouse. He's
staying in one of Henry's rooms and not in the
hall like most of the guys. He's under another name.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
What name, Squeeky Jack?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Lighton you one? I should take it to the place.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Rocky, Yeah, Squeaky, I want this. You should.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Here's the room, rookie, you one?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I should not never mind?
Speaker 5 (17:36):
What just told it?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Right there? Layton? Or is it Dixon?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
What are you talking? About. What's the idea busting in
here like this?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
What about it? Squeaky? Is he the guy?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
No daughter?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
But Rookie is the same guy? Was at the game
a few nights ago. What game are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I've never seen you before in my life.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
All right, Squeaky, I can take it from here.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Thanks a lot any time. Ricky, Hey, Hey, what gives anyway?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Bud? Suppose you tell me Dixon?
Speaker 5 (18:02):
What do you keep calling me Dixon?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
The name's Jack Layton.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Well, we'll see about that. There's one person who should
be able to identify you for sure, Fred Lane's widow.
Get your hat pow. Well it looked like the end
of a hard day. I forced Layton or Dixon outside
and into my car. Then we drove to the Lane
(18:25):
house on Riverside. The police had left and Missus Lane
was alone. I took my man inside and Missus Lane
looked at him closely. I knew it would be just
like the movies. She'd point and say, that's him, that's
the man, mister Diamond.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
I'm sorry, mister dunnon one. I've never seen this man
before in my life.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
This, dear children, is the story of why a detective
gets ulcers. But as I was driving Leyton back toward town,
I began thinking, Squeaky Horner had never been wrong about
a man before, and why had been so hard to locate?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I hadn't been able to turn up one man who
knew him.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
So instead of driving Leyton back to his room, I
drove to the Brewster Hotel, where Lane said Dixon had
been registered for a week. There it was a different story.
The desk clerk positively identified Jack Layton as the man
who had registered as Louis Dixon. At last, things began
to shape up.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Why did you bring me here to your office? I
want to get back to my room.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
You heard what the desk clerk said, you registered as
Louis Dixon.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Why?
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Oh, that desk clerk was loney. He made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
You heard what missus Lane said.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
She never saw me before, so she said, But I
think differently. Layton up here all along. We can have
a nice little chat. You're going to tell me all
about it.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I got nothing to say.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
No, And then suppose I opened the conversation. That was
the first sentence, Layton, How do I start on a paragraph?
Or will you talk instead?
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I don't know a sain.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Okay, stupid, we'll do it the hard way.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Yes, oh, mister Diamond.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Hello, missus Lane, matter if I come in?
Speaker 7 (20:23):
Of course not please do.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Suppose to be going to the den. I'd like to
have a little talk with you, missus Lane.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
And I'm sorry I'm not feeling too well mister Diamond.
The shot all Oh, yes.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Yes, of course it must have been trying my bringing
that Layton man here for you to identify.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Well, yes it was.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
If you could come back tomorrow perhaps.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Oh I'm afraid not, honey, now we will.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
I'm sorry you picked up the wrong man, mister Diamond.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Oh sure, yes, it's funny. Two other people swore he
was the man on his low's addiction.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Well it's hard to by someone accurately, I imagine, but
I was certain he wasn't Dixon.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Wow, well you've tied it up the den quite a bit.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Just what is it you wanted to talk to me about,
miss Dimmond.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Well, there's no hurry, no hurry. Say this is a
handsome room, nice house too, and all yours, along with
everything else your husband owned.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
It's rather a cruel thing to say.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Oh, come off it, Mary. It was a wild scheme
what do you mean.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
I mean that you invented a phony character a Leis Dixon,
set up a murder with every clue pointing to a
man who never existed.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Crazy.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
No, No, Mary, you were crazy to think a stunt
like this would ever work. You hired a bum named
Jack Layton, gave him money, had him register at the
Brewster Hotels Lewis Dixon. Then you had him hit some
of the gambling joints and make sure people heard his
name as Lewis Dixon.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Then he was to disappear.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
I won't stay here and be insulted.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
No, soon, I'll take it down to headquarters. You can
be insulted there.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
And I hope you have proofs to Diamond. You'll need it.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Well, Layton was reluctant at first, but let's say I
persuaded him to talk. I dropped him by the fifth
Precinct on my.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Way over here.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
How much do you make as a private detective, mister Diamond?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Oh Mary, Mary, don't talk like that. First chance you got,
you just take a knife in my back too.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
It was just a suggestion, after all.
Speaker 9 (22:25):
No.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Now, first a letter opener on your husband, and now
you drive up being me with a paperweight.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Honey, you're just not safeer on a desk, are you.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Wick? Yes, Helen dear, I've been thinking show off.
Speaker 10 (22:59):
No, really, I think you should put your business on
a more dignified level, don't.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
You should try and attract a higher type clientele.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh I don't know. This lame fellow I worked for
today was no slot.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
But what happened to him? He got killed. That's the
trouble with your cases. They're two dangerous. You don't get
into trouble your clients, do.
Speaker 10 (23:19):
You should concentrate on more simple cases for wealthy clients,
like divorce cases, inheritance claim.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Oh great, maybe I should even carry a potter puff
on my shoulder holsters all right, so.
Speaker 10 (23:30):
It wouldn't be as exciting get the same fiend, You
wouldn't get so many black eyes.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
But I couldn't come here to you for sympathy. There,
I'm serious, Okay, okay, just not telling me? Just how
do I go about attracting a higher type clientele?
Speaker 10 (23:44):
As you put it, Well, you start off by putting
on a more pretentious front, meaning I eat more, meaning
you act a little more dignified.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Well do go on?
Speaker 7 (23:55):
You should also have someone at the office to answer
the phone for you.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Oh, helen, it only rings once or twice. I think
I have enough strength to pick up the receiver. That often?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
What strictly for appearances?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh, I say, anyone in mind for the job?
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Well, I have a lot of free time.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
We'll find it fine. I'm glad it's free. I should
be able to afford that.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
And then after we build up the business, do go
uick are you listening?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Oh sure, sure, baby, sure you are not.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
You're just waiting for me to take a pause so
you can sneak in a song.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Oh honey, how can you be so suspicious? But since
you did bring.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
Up the better I should have known better.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Oh, live and learned, Live and learn.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
If they ask me, I could write a book about
the way you walk and whisper.
Speaker 11 (24:55):
And look, I could ride a preface on how we met,
so the world would never forgave. And the simple secrets
(25:23):
of the plot is just to tell him that I
love you.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Loud.
Speaker 12 (25:35):
Then the world discovers as my books how to Me
to lovers of friends. Then the world discovers as my booking.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
To Me too lovers all friend.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Oh very nice, well, thank.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
You see only now let's get back to your business.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Who wants to talk about business now?
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Rick?
Speaker 7 (26:42):
Stop it?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Rick?
Speaker 7 (26:43):
I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Oh now now?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Then you were saying I shouldn't get on a more
dignified level. I was, Oh, that's what I like. The
girl with the dragon mind.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Dick Powell will return in just a moment. What's America's
most popular cigarette? Camel is in the lead by billions
of cigarettes per year. One reason is that America's smokers
have found out how rich, how flavorful camels are pack
after pack. Another reason is that America's smokers have discovered
(27:30):
how well camels agree with their throats week after week.
Are you smoking the cigarette America enjoys most? If not,
start smoking mild flavorful camels tonight? Oh milder?
Speaker 12 (27:44):
How mild?
Speaker 5 (27:46):
How old can a cigarette be?
Speaker 8 (27:48):
You make the camel thirty eight test?
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Can you see small camels?
Speaker 11 (27:54):
See?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Here's Dick Powell with a special message, thank you, ladies
and gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Is it Tolkien of friendship? And to help show hospitalized
veterans and service personnel that America remembers them. The makers
of Camels send thousands of packs of Camels to service
and veterans hospitals, every week. This week to give camels
are going to Veterans Hospitals Minneapolis, Minnesota and Bay Pines, Florida.
US Naval Hospital Memphis, Tennessee, to all hospitals operated by
(28:24):
the Alaskan Air Command. Now until next week, enjoy camels
I always do.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Tonight's adventure of Richard Diamond was written by Dick Carr,
with music by Frank Worth. Virginia Gregg was heard as
Hellam Asher and Alan Reed as Lieutenant Bought Levinson. Others
in the cast were Benny Ruben, Mary Jane Croft, Howard mcneer,
and Peter Leeds. Richard Diamond, Private Detective is transcribed in
Hollywood by Himy Delbaye. Be sure to listen to another
(29:07):
great Camel show Von Munroe and the Camel Caravan every
Saturday night. Listen next week for another exciting adventure of
Richard Diamond starring Dick Powell. Now stay tuned for This
is Your FBI, followed immediately by Ozzie and Harriet over
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