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Speaker 1 (00:08):
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Small camels and see Now we bring you another transcribed
adventure with Richard Diamond, Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Diamond Detective Agency. A pleasant smile, A cheerful rhyme, we'll
keep you from doing time? Oh hi Helen, Hi Rick.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
When you get that cheerful rhyme.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Bit you didn't think so? I didn't think so, kill joy.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Why can't you enter the phone like other people who
just say hello?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You know, I never thought of that.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
You should try some your perspective. Clients might think they
were dealing with the sane, normal person.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
You think it's fair to mislead them?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Oh, Rick, are you busy?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Sully girl? Busy detectives make money. I just said, at
my desk, you make conversation with a beautiful redhead.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Well, why don't you leave your desk and come make
conversation with said redhead in person.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
That's not a bad idea.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I'm all alone.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
The idea is getting better.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
It's not even noon yet. We can go for a
long walk. Oh you don't sound very enthusiastic. What's wrong
with taking.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
A walk, honey? In my business, I do more legwork
than a pair of nylons. Walking just isn't my idea
of a ripping good time?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Have you a better suggestion?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You can know me for five years and ask questions
like that. Oh no, dear, let's just skip it. I
am not alone. C it mm hmmm. Shrimp Martin, I
don't think I know him. Well, that's something to be
proud of. Calculated here, Bye bye, hell Darmond. Never mind
shaking hands, Shrimp. I want to keep my cufflinks.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Ah, you know me, Rick too?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Well? What brings you here? Small man?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Strictly business?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Oh, come off at Shrimp. You don't have enough to
hire a bathtub, let alone a detective.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
On the level wreck. I'm here to make you some.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Dough, just the big hearted guy. Huh. Okay, spell it,
you hurd of Hank Burton. I read the papers, and
you read how Hank.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Lifted fifty g's worth of rocks a few months back.
So they're offering an even grand reward for whoever brings
Hank in.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
What are you getting at?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Just that even thousand is your fee if you'll do
the little job right. Oh, Hank Burton, he's the one
who sent me. He says, he'll let you turn him
in and collect the ground.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Well, well, another big heided guy, make yourself clear, shrimp
and fast.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Burton wants to see you. He wants you to do
a legit job for him. He'll pay you for hard
by letting you turn him in.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Doesn't make sense, your does.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Hank's a sick boy, bad heart condition. If he don't
get some hospital care soon, he's a goner. Only as
soon as he shows up for the hospital. The copse
on abbam, So he might as well give himself.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Up and he'll let me be the one to collect
the reward for it. Huh. You got it right.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
That's his way. You're paying you for the job he
wants done.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Just what's the job?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Sorry, is as much as I know, accept the job
strictly on the up and up. The rest you can
hear from Hank himself.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Where do I find it?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I take you to them if you're interested in taking
the job.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Shrimp, I'm interested in almost anything that involves a thousand bucks.
Only if this deal isn't on the level, I'll ram
those buck teeth of yours down your throat. I tell
the truth, I swear, don't bother to cross your heart.
I doubt you'd be able to find it. Let's go
see Burton. I didn't have any faith in Shrimp Martin,
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but the thought of a thousand green pieces of paper
did wonders for my bankrupt morale. We took my car
and Shrimp directed me to the warehouse section on Front Street.
We parked beside a deserted looking warehouse, and Shrimp led
me inside through a rear door.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I should be here by now, Hank. Over here, Shrimp,
or behind those boxes over there, Diamond.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I heard him, Hello, Hank, Shrimp tells me you have
a deal to make.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Yes, right, Shrimp, go outside, see me, ain't interrupted?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (05:19):
See no one in them boxes? Time and I get
a lot to say.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I'll stand.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
It's up to you.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
You look bad, Hank? Never mind?
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Did Shrimp explained the setup.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I'll accept the job you expect and return banning you over.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Okay, I want you to find a girl diamonds.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
That could be enough. Who's the girl?
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Her name is Lee th up, you find out where
she's located. Now, I'll let you turn me in.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Uh huh. Why is it so important you know whether
this leethorpe is Hank?
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Because if I have to take the rap on the
jewelry ice, she takes it with me.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Keep talking. I met her about.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Four months ago, felt pretty hard.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
She seemed to go for me too. We made plans,
big plans, and my ticket went bad. She suggested we
go to Mexico where I could be taken care of.
But that took door.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
So you pulled the jewelry store.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Yeah, it was her idea.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
She said, you know a fence where she could change
the rocks and the door be out of country within
a month.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
But the deal fell true.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Yeah, I was spotted during the job. I had to
hide out, but the center of the rocks. She said
to give her a week.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I think I can guess what happened.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Hard when I contact her a week later that I
found out she moved disappeared.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
What a sap?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I was?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
What were a sap to steal the stones in the
first place? Hank?
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Okay, okay, no speeches.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
All I want you to do is locate this name
so the bulls can nab hurt too.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Oh why not go to the police right away, Hank,
tell them the story and let him pick her up. No, No,
she's smart.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
As the word gets out of and picked up, she'll
figure squealing it'll be hard to find it.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That won't be so easy, now, any idea where she
might be?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
If I know, i'd find out myself. You know the gums.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
She'll get to work. A thousand bucks. Ain't bad pay,
you know? No, No, it's not bad at all. Only
how do I know he'll keep the bargain? Look at me?
Will you a dying man?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Unless I get help? Don't worry. I'll let you turn
me in after you find the girl.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
All right, Burton, I'll take a chance. Where do I
get in touch with you?
Speaker 6 (07:34):
You know I'll call it your office?
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Around six, work fast, Diamond, Fine, as soon as he can.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Guy, as soon as I can. Hank Burton was in
a bad way, and if he wouldn't give himself up
until Lee Thorpe was located, then it was true. She'd
have to be found quickly. Hank didn't have much time.
I'm left. We left the warehouse together. He and Shrimp
Barton disappeared down Front Street, and I drove back up town.
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At the fifth Precinct, I found that Lieutenant Walt Levinson
was out to lunch. But in the meantime the sergeant
let me look through the files.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
Where make yourself right at home, mister Diamond, Oh, thank you,
littlet I have I wonder you're not sitting behind my desk.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I'm sure you'd be more comfortable. Well, no, I might
just take you up on that when I get tired.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Fine, fine, maybe you'd even like one of my uniforms
to wear.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Now, Walt, let's not carry the joke too far. When
I was on the force, I tried to get into
one of your uniforms that looked like Bonnie Prince Charlie
in a raccoon coat.
Speaker 8 (08:41):
Just when I need after a nice lunch, you were
around to give me indigestion.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
What are you looking for? Anyway? I found it file
on a girl named Lee Thorpe Thorp.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Yeah, yeah, I remember I used to be married to
Davy Thorpe used to be Yeah, it's all there in
the folder. She split up with Vo maybe three years
ago when he was sent up. Davy's still in prison
out about a year ago. What do you want this, league,
Gale for?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Sorry? What confidential? Oh great, I asked a question. You
tell me it's confidential.
Speaker 8 (09:12):
But you think you're gonna walk in here and poke
through our files?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
All you? Please? Cheer up, Patty. I'll tell you all
about it after I find Leethorpe. Well, no, that's mighty big,
mister Damon. Well think nothing of it, Lieutenant. I don't
find anything in the folder. Not much. She's been picked
up on a few minor offenses, that's all. What about Davy,
her ex husband.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Well he seems pretty legitimate these days. Run a pool
room over on third Listed in the book is Davy's
billiard Parlor.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
That's an original name. Well, I guess I'll go see Davy.
Maybe he's seen his ex wife lately. Oh, don't rush off, right, eyes?
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Things are so dull around here when you're not poking
your nose into wild business.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I know, but don't feel bad.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Wall.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I'd be back. Well, goody goodye gun drop. I'll have
our best sell waiting. You're such a wonderful hosts. See
you later. Davy's pool room turned out to be a
dingy joint. There were no customers this early in the afternoon,
but Davy must not have liked his tables to go
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to waste. He was playing at a front table all
by himself. I walked over to him. Oh, nice shot, Davy.
Speaker 9 (10:25):
Ah when a game Max, I'd rather talk. This is
a pool room, not a conversation.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
But it's about your wife, Davy.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
I got no wife. You did have had measles once too,
but that don't mean I'm still scratching.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Have you seen Lee recently?
Speaker 9 (10:41):
Well it depends on how recent you.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Call recently, Oh, the last month or so?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
M h.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
You know when I face got out close to a
year ago. She wants to pick up where we left off,
and they don't know where to get off. You beat
these names. I get sent up out of circulation for
a while, wants to be free, then I'm out. She
wants to get all chimney again.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Maybe know where she might hang around, David, Yeah, maybe
you a pop private?
Speaker 9 (11:12):
Well, well what I'm a businessman, pal, I don't shoot
off my mouth at the front of it.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Will ten bucks take the fun out of it?
Speaker 9 (11:21):
You don't see me laughing? Do you put the money
on the table?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Okay, there you are, but you're obliged.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
Yeah. I might know where he hangs out, not saying
it for sure, mind you. In almost the years since
they've seen it, keep talking. She always likes bies lights people.
She used to drag me to a bar all the time,
any particular.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Bar, mm hmm.
Speaker 9 (11:46):
The Blue Boyd Club over on fortieth. In fact, that's
where I face met her. I get, excuse me, are sick,
and take a few shots while I answered it. Oh well,
David's eh, I don't Oh yeah, yeah, maybe it's hollow.
Hey ya, Samus, your name Richard Diamond.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
That's right, that's for you.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
If you want more out of me, I'll be over
in the office.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Thanks, hello, old Rick. I took a chance. Figure it
still be there? What's up? Funny? But right after you
were here, we got a call about leaf th Pick
her up right away, good boy. I'll be right down
you at the precinct. I'm at the Morgue.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
Fine, and don't bother the hurry, Rick, This gale won't
be going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Not now.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
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Speaker 1 (12:52):
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Speaker 3 (13:41):
Tonight? Oh my, how a cigarette?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
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And now back to Richard Diamond, Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
At the City Morgue. I looked down on the girl
who was once called Lee Thorpe and had now become
a number. It wasn't a pretty side and I wasn't
glad to be seeing it. Okay, Charlie, thanks, I'm on Rick,
how did you find her? Walt?
Speaker 8 (14:25):
One of the beat men came across from an alley
over by sixth Street.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Find the murder weapon?
Speaker 8 (14:30):
No, the knife wasn't around, only the holes it made. Yeah,
we can sit down and hear yus him talking to
do Rick more of this confidential? Ricamarole.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Okay, Wald, you asked the questions and I'll answers best
you can. Number one, why were you looking for the day?
Client hired me to find it? Who's the client? You know,
Walter is gonna sound scraws, cuck the build up. Just
make with the answer. Okay, okay, the client is Hank Burton. Well,
at least we what hacked Burton. That's right now, Sit
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on Fatty and wipe that shocked expression off your face.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Rick, boy, do you happen to know who hack Burton is?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
That we would have him for two months? I know,
I know if things had gone as I plan, you'd
have had him in the cell by tomorrow. I uh,
I guess i'd better explain, Wald, Yeah, I think you'd
better make it good, Rick plenty good. I told Wald
about Burton, about the thousand dollar fee in Burton's illness.
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He wasn't happy about the whole thing, but at least
he now knew as much about the case as I did,
which wasn't much for either of us to know. So
Burton figured the girl gave him the double crossing. Yeah,
I guess that's it. He wanted me to find her, Joe,
so he could turn her in when he gives himself up.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Maybe and maybe not. Maybe he found her before you did.
Maybe he's the one to put those knife hones in
her back.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I doubted Wald, if you'd had any idea where she was,
he wouldn't have bothered to hire me. Then why was
she killed? Oh? She must have known where. Fifty thousand
dollars worth of jewelry was good enough reason. Yeah? Well,
what now?
Speaker 8 (16:04):
I think Benton still turn himself in after here's the
girl's dead?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I think so he's pretty sick, hasn't got a chance
on his own. Hum, well, I'm going back over the
Neighborhoodhere we found the girl's body. We figured she lived
around there, and we can find out where to start anyway, good,
I'll wait for Hank Burton to contact me.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Okay, and Rick, if you turn up anything, let me
in on at this time.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I waited until six o'clock in my office, and then
Burton called. I didn't tell him about the girl over
the phone. Instead, I made a date to meet him
an hour later on the Christopher Street Ferry. The fairry
was in when I arrived at the slip, so I
went aboard. I agreed to meet Burton on the lower
level port side. I went there, sat down on one
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of the benches, but five minutes later the faery pulled
out and there was still no sign of Hank Burton.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Diamond, Huh, it's me, trimp.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Oh that's quite a professional way. You have a sneaking
up on people. Friend.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Yeah, enjoy the ride, Diamond. We go over to Jersey,
then we come back, and then we get off.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Where's Burton?
Speaker 5 (17:22):
He couldn't make it? Want you to meet him back
at the warehouse. We met him this morning?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Oh, Grave, why didn't you get here before we pulled out?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
I try not as fast as I used to be.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Uh huh, now, uh tell me, Shrimp, just why I
couldn't Hank make it here. It's as safe as that warehouse.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Oh, well, he's sick. He's feeling bad, felt bad all day.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Oh it didn't sound so bad when I talked to
him on the phone.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Well, he he was sick.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
He was real pain.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
He could never make it down here. Uh, let's enjoy
the ride.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Let's talk some more. First, if Burton knew he was
too sick to meet me here, why did he suggest
it in the first place?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Or should I know? Hank says, we come to the warehouse.
We go to the warehouse. Don't ask him any questions.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Oh, I just have an inquisitive nature.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
I like answers, Shrimp, Okay, I was just for an answer.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Wow, little man with a big gun.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
That's right. And the gun says, we go to the warehouse.
I'll settle back and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
It was the most uncomfortable boat ride I had taken
in years. Shrimp put the gun back in his pocket,
but kept it pointed toward me. The very finally returned
to the New York side and we got off. Then
we drove back to Front Street and popped beside the warehouse.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Diamond in the back door.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Stop waving the gun back and forth. Shrimp, you'll wear yourself.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Out now, Cracks gone open the door?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Where's Burton?
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Same place over behind those boxes?
Speaker 8 (19:17):
Move.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I still don't get it, Shrimp. Why wouldn't Hank come
to the ferry? And why they artillery to make sure
I came here?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
That's far enough. I'll light this candle, Diamond, maybe you'll
get your answers in.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Well, that's better at least.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Oh see what I mean, shremers.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, Shrimp, i't see what you mean. Hank Burton wasn't
bothered by his heart anymore. He lay there on the
floor with a stupid expression on his face that the
sudden dead often wear. His eyes were open and the
bewildered stare, and his teeth were clenched tight. Hank Burton
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had died quickly, without warning, and it looked like I
was next in line. Surprise, Diamond, You didn't bring me
here for a reaction, Shrimp.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Yeah, huh, I just get a kick out of sea
in your face.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Yeah, good old Shrimp, the loyal friend. Hank trusted you.
That was a big mistake.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Hank was a sap. I stuck with him because I
thought he'd get his hands on them rocks again and
I can get a split.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I mean, Hank didn't want the stuff back. He was
gonna let me turn him in, and that left you
out in the coal.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
You got it right when I knew he was sicking
you on to the dame. I went to the guy
who already has the stones.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, I figured there was someone else in this. You're
not brave enough to try something like murder alone. He
does very well at it, Diamond, Believe me, whoa pool
haul thorpe, Little Davy, You're a long way from your
pool room pal.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
More profitable things than poor arms, Diamond.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I though it would say, like handling stolen jewelry.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
Uh huh? You sure no one followed you?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Swim positive good.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
I'm sorry about this, Diamond, but you'll have to join
Hank before long.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yeah, I bet you're sorry. You were sorry when you
killed your ex wife too, A real sweet guy. She
brings you to the stones.
Speaker 10 (21:24):
And you pay her back with a knife, And what
could I do? Shrimp tells me there's a detective looking
for her. He was a good kid, but she didn't
have much knife. She'd talk her head off if you'd
done it.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Oh, I see, But why Hank and now me.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Well, look at it. This one. We finish you the
same knife that kill Lee. Then we put the knife
in Hank's hand and a gun that killed me yours.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Oh that's really great, Davy. I'm afraid you've been reading
pulp fiction. Sarah. The cops get away. Sooner or later.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
It will still give us time to get fire way. Shrimp,
you get the knife.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Okay, you stole long enough shrimp by candlelight, yet fellas us.
It's a really romantic Yeah, it's all only not quite enough.
It's even more romantic with a candle shrimp. Shrimp. He's
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taking a little nap, Davy, and I've got his gun.
It's too bad, Davy. You should have stuck to your
pool room. Okay, Shrimp, get to your feet. Oh shut up,
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Come on, Trimp, I made you a promise this morning.
I said either this deal with Hank was on the level,
or your buck teeth were going down your throat. No, look,
go shut up. You know the old saying, shrimp, see
you're dentist twice a year. Huh, Well you won't have
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to worry about that now, friend, Rick. Yes, Helen, there,
it's nice outside. If you're wearing a fur coat.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
It is it's not really cold. Besides, you have a heavy.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Coat, Helen, Are you hinting that I should leave?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Uh huh with me? I'd still like to go for
that walk.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Oh no, well why not?
Speaker 4 (23:52):
The only time I see you is after a case
and you just drop in, seat yourself at the piano
and take it easy.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Honey, I'm tired.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Well I'm not.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
I've been in all day and I could use the exercise.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Exercise huh No, I got a good idea. I'll chase
you around the piano.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
It's your idea of exercise.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
No open. Just think of the fun we could have
after I caught.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
You, Rick, I'm serious.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Just look out that window. Oh stop shivering.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Look at that moonlight. Isn't it romantic?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
What chances to give the Dodgers this year long walk?
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Just you and me?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
The Giants. Now there's a hot ball team.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Maybe over to Central.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Park and the Arkansas ooh, they'll be fighting all the
way hand in hand.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Arkansas aggy M, my old home team. Richard Diamond, you
are the most unromantic man in town.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Tell him? How can you say that? Don't I build
a nice fire in the fireplace.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
I could get a boy scout to do that.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Here we are a fire, lights down low, a nice
romantic song, and your idea of romance is a walk.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Well, after all, hey, where does that nice romantic song
come in?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Right about now?
Speaker 5 (25:05):
What can you sing while we walk?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Oh? Sorry, honey, Throw another log on the fire. Keep
my Golden Maid Moor's aglore. I don't see the face
of my loved wale when the logs are burning.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Long.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Throw of the log on the fire. Bring back all
the sweetest days I've known, when our hearts were young
in the spring time and her love was mine.
Speaker 11 (25:57):
All Now there's nothing left but the embers. Springtime seems
so long ago.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Of the log on the fire cheap by Golden Maid
memery circle.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
That is very nice, but I still didn't like it.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
That's a Britian's statement.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
I still want to go for a walk.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Millions of girls in New York and I had to
pick a nature lover.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
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Speaker 3 (27:12):
Well? I smoke camels regularly because I like their taste.
They're mild, and they agree with my throat. That's quite
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Speaker 5 (27:25):
Oh?
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Mild, mild, wild, mild, almas.
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Can a cigarette?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Me make the caws? A test man?
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Speaker 1 (28:35):
Tonight's adventure of Richard Diamond was written by Dick Carr
with music by Frank Wirth. Virginia Gregg was heard as
Helen Asher and Alan Reid as Lieutenant Walt Levinson. Others
in the cast were Junius Matthews, Tony Barrett, and Ted Decorcia.
Richard Diamond, Private Detective is transcribed in Hollywood by I'my Delbayer.
(29:06):
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Small camels and see Now we bring you another transcribed
adventure with Richard Diamond, Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Diamond Detective Agency. A pleasant smile, A cheerful rhyme, we'll
keep you from doing time? Oh hi Helen, Hi Rick.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
When you get that cheerful rhyme.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Bit you didn't think so? I didn't think so, kill joy.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Why can't you enter the phone like other people who
just say hello?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You know, I never thought of that.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
You should try some your perspective. Clients might think they
were dealing with the sane, normal person.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
You think it's fair to mislead them?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Oh, Rick, are you busy?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Sully girl? Busy detectives make money. I just said, at
my desk, you make conversation with a beautiful redhead.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Well, why don't you leave your desk and come make
conversation with said redhead in person.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
That's not a bad idea.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I'm all alone.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
The idea is getting better.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
It's not even noon yet. We can go for a
long walk. Oh you don't sound very enthusiastic. What's wrong
with taking.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
A walk, honey? In my business, I do more legwork
than a pair of nylons. Walking just isn't my idea
of a ripping good time?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Have you a better suggestion?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You can know me for five years and ask questions
like that. Oh no, dear, let's just skip it. I
am not alone. C it mm hmmm. Shrimp Martin, I
don't think I know him. Well, that's something to be
proud of. Calculated here, Bye bye, hell Darmond. Never mind
shaking hands, Shrimp. I want to keep my cufflinks.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Ah, you know me, Rick too?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Well? What brings you here? Small man?
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Strictly business?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Oh, come off at Shrimp. You don't have enough to
hire a bathtub, let alone a detective.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
On the level wreck. I'm here to make you some.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Dough, just the big hearted guy. Huh. Okay, spell it,
you hurd of Hank Burton. I read the papers, and
you read how Hank.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Lifted fifty g's worth of rocks a few months back.
So they're offering an even grand reward for whoever brings
Hank in.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
What are you getting at?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Just that even thousand is your fee if you'll do
the little job right. Oh, Hank Burton, he's the one
who sent me. He says, he'll let you turn him
in and collect the ground.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Well, well, another big heided guy, make yourself clear, shrimp
and fast.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Burton wants to see you. He wants you to do
a legit job for him. He'll pay you for hard
by letting you turn him in.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Doesn't make sense, your does.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Hank's a sick boy, bad heart condition. If he don't
get some hospital care soon, he's a goner. Only as
soon as he shows up for the hospital. The copse
on abbam, So he might as well give himself.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Up and he'll let me be the one to collect
the reward for it. Huh. You got it right.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
That's his way. You're paying you for the job he
wants done.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Just what's the job?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Sorry, is as much as I know, accept the job
strictly on the up and up. The rest you can
hear from Hank himself.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Where do I find it?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I take you to them if you're interested in taking
the job.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Shrimp, I'm interested in almost anything that involves a thousand bucks.
Only if this deal isn't on the level, I'll ram
those buck teeth of yours down your throat. I tell
the truth, I swear, don't bother to cross your heart.
I doubt you'd be able to find it. Let's go
see Burton. I didn't have any faith in Shrimp Martin,
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but the thought of a thousand green pieces of paper
did wonders for my bankrupt morale. We took my car
and Shrimp directed me to the warehouse section on Front Street.
We parked beside a deserted looking warehouse, and Shrimp led
me inside through a rear door.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I should be here by now, Hank. Over here, Shrimp,
or behind those boxes over there, Diamond.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I heard him, Hello, Hank, Shrimp tells me you have
a deal to make.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Yes, right, Shrimp, go outside, see me, ain't interrupted?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (05:19):
See no one in them boxes? Time and I get
a lot to say.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I'll stand.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
It's up to you.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
You look bad, Hank? Never mind?
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Did Shrimp explained the setup.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I'll accept the job you expect and return banning you over.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Okay, I want you to find a girl diamonds.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
That could be enough. Who's the girl?
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Her name is Lee th up, you find out where
she's located. Now, I'll let you turn me in.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Uh huh. Why is it so important you know whether
this leethorpe is Hank?
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Because if I have to take the rap on the
jewelry ice, she takes it with me.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Keep talking. I met her about.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Four months ago, felt pretty hard.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
She seemed to go for me too. We made plans,
big plans, and my ticket went bad. She suggested we
go to Mexico where I could be taken care of.
But that took door.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
So you pulled the jewelry store.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Yeah, it was her idea.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
She said, you know a fence where she could change
the rocks and the door be out of country within
a month.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
But the deal fell true.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Yeah, I was spotted during the job. I had to
hide out, but the center of the rocks. She said
to give her a week.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I think I can guess what happened.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Hard when I contact her a week later that I
found out she moved disappeared.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
What a sap?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I was?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
What were a sap to steal the stones in the
first place? Hank?
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Okay, okay, no speeches.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
All I want you to do is locate this name
so the bulls can nab hurt too.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Oh why not go to the police right away, Hank,
tell them the story and let him pick her up. No, No,
she's smart.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
As the word gets out of and picked up, she'll
figure squealing it'll be hard to find it.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That won't be so easy, now, any idea where she
might be?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
If I know, i'd find out myself. You know the gums.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
She'll get to work. A thousand bucks. Ain't bad pay,
you know? No, No, it's not bad at all. Only
how do I know he'll keep the bargain? Look at me?
Will you a dying man?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Unless I get help? Don't worry. I'll let you turn
me in after you find the girl.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
All right, Burton, I'll take a chance. Where do I
get in touch with you?
Speaker 6 (07:34):
You know I'll call it your office?
Speaker 7 (07:37):
Around six, work fast, Diamond, Fine, as soon as he can.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Guy, as soon as I can. Hank Burton was in
a bad way, and if he wouldn't give himself up
until Lee Thorpe was located, then it was true. She'd
have to be found quickly. Hank didn't have much time.
I'm left. We left the warehouse together. He and Shrimp
Barton disappeared down Front Street, and I drove back up town.
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At the fifth Precinct, I found that Lieutenant Walt Levinson
was out to lunch. But in the meantime the sergeant
let me look through the files.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
Where make yourself right at home, mister Diamond, Oh, thank you,
littlet I have I wonder you're not sitting behind my desk.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I'm sure you'd be more comfortable. Well, no, I might
just take you up on that when I get tired.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Fine, fine, maybe you'd even like one of my uniforms
to wear.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Now, Walt, let's not carry the joke too far. When
I was on the force, I tried to get into
one of your uniforms that looked like Bonnie Prince Charlie
in a raccoon coat.
Speaker 8 (08:41):
Just when I need after a nice lunch, you were
around to give me indigestion.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
What are you looking for? Anyway? I found it file
on a girl named Lee Thorpe Thorp.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Yeah, yeah, I remember I used to be married to
Davy Thorpe used to be Yeah, it's all there in
the folder. She split up with Vo maybe three years
ago when he was sent up. Davy's still in prison
out about a year ago. What do you want this, league,
Gale for?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Sorry? What confidential? Oh great, I asked a question. You
tell me it's confidential.
Speaker 8 (09:12):
But you think you're gonna walk in here and poke
through our files?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
All you? Please? Cheer up, Patty. I'll tell you all
about it after I find Leethorpe. Well, no, that's mighty big,
mister Damon. Well think nothing of it, Lieutenant. I don't
find anything in the folder. Not much. She's been picked
up on a few minor offenses, that's all. What about Davy,
her ex husband.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Well he seems pretty legitimate these days. Run a pool
room over on third Listed in the book is Davy's
billiard Parlor.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
That's an original name. Well, I guess I'll go see Davy.
Maybe he's seen his ex wife lately. Oh, don't rush off, right, eyes?
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Things are so dull around here when you're not poking
your nose into wild business.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I know, but don't feel bad.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Wall.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I'd be back. Well, goody goodye gun drop. I'll have
our best sell waiting. You're such a wonderful hosts. See
you later. Davy's pool room turned out to be a
dingy joint. There were no customers this early in the afternoon,
but Davy must not have liked his tables to go
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to waste. He was playing at a front table all
by himself. I walked over to him. Oh, nice shot, Davy.
Speaker 9 (10:25):
Ah when a game Max, I'd rather talk. This is
a pool room, not a conversation.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
But it's about your wife, Davy.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
I got no wife. You did have had measles once too,
but that don't mean I'm still scratching.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Have you seen Lee recently?
Speaker 9 (10:41):
Well it depends on how recent you.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Call recently, Oh, the last month or so?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
M h.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
You know when I face got out close to a
year ago. She wants to pick up where we left off,
and they don't know where to get off. You beat
these names. I get sent up out of circulation for
a while, wants to be free, then I'm out. She
wants to get all chimney again.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Maybe know where she might hang around, David, Yeah, maybe
you a pop private?
Speaker 9 (11:12):
Well, well what I'm a businessman, pal, I don't shoot
off my mouth at the front of it.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Will ten bucks take the fun out of it?
Speaker 9 (11:21):
You don't see me laughing? Do you put the money
on the table?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Okay, there you are, but you're obliged.
Speaker 9 (11:31):
Yeah. I might know where he hangs out, not saying
it for sure, mind you. In almost the years since
they've seen it, keep talking. She always likes bies lights people.
She used to drag me to a bar all the time,
any particular.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Bar, mm hmm.
Speaker 9 (11:46):
The Blue Boyd Club over on fortieth. In fact, that's
where I face met her. I get, excuse me, are sick,
and take a few shots while I answered it. Oh well,
David's eh, I don't Oh yeah, yeah, maybe it's hollow.
Hey ya, Samus, your name Richard Diamond.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
That's right, that's for you.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
If you want more out of me, I'll be over
in the office.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Thanks, hello, old Rick. I took a chance. Figure it
still be there? What's up? Funny? But right after you
were here, we got a call about leaf th Pick
her up right away, good boy. I'll be right down
you at the precinct. I'm at the Morgue.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
Fine, and don't bother the hurry, Rick, This gale won't
be going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Not now.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
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Speaker 1 (12:52):
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Speaker 2 (13:02):
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Speaker 3 (13:11):
What cigarette do you smoke? Doctor?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
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Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
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other cigarette. Why don't you start smoking the cigarette so
many doctors enjoy? Start smoking mild flavorful camels?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Tonight? Oh my, how a cigarette?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
The sake the can.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
Test you see smoke ks.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
And now back to Richard Diamond, Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
At the City Morgue. I looked down on the girl
who was once called Lee Thorpe and had now become
a number. It wasn't a pretty side and I wasn't
glad to be seeing it. Okay, Charlie, thanks, I'm on Rick,
how did you find her? Walt?
Speaker 8 (14:25):
One of the beat men came across from an alley
over by sixth Street.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Find the murder weapon?
Speaker 8 (14:30):
No, the knife wasn't around, only the holes it made. Yeah,
we can sit down and hear yus him talking to
do Rick more of this confidential? Ricamarole.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Okay, Wald, you asked the questions and I'll answers best
you can. Number one, why were you looking for the day?
Client hired me to find it? Who's the client? You know,
Walter is gonna sound scraws, cuck the build up. Just
make with the answer. Okay, okay, the client is Hank Burton. Well,
at least we what hacked Burton. That's right now, Sit
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on Fatty and wipe that shocked expression off your face.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Rick, boy, do you happen to know who hack Burton is?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
That we would have him for two months? I know,
I know if things had gone as I plan, you'd
have had him in the cell by tomorrow. I uh,
I guess i'd better explain, Wald, Yeah, I think you'd
better make it good, Rick plenty good. I told Wald
about Burton, about the thousand dollar fee in Burton's illness.
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He wasn't happy about the whole thing, but at least
he now knew as much about the case as I did,
which wasn't much for either of us to know. So
Burton figured the girl gave him the double crossing. Yeah,
I guess that's it. He wanted me to find her, Joe,
so he could turn her in when he gives himself up.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Maybe and maybe not. Maybe he found her before you did.
Maybe he's the one to put those knife hones in
her back.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I doubted Wald, if you'd had any idea where she was,
he wouldn't have bothered to hire me. Then why was
she killed? Oh? She must have known where. Fifty thousand
dollars worth of jewelry was good enough reason. Yeah? Well,
what now?
Speaker 8 (16:04):
I think Benton still turn himself in after here's the
girl's dead?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I think so he's pretty sick, hasn't got a chance
on his own. Hum, well, I'm going back over the
Neighborhoodhere we found the girl's body. We figured she lived
around there, and we can find out where to start anyway, good,
I'll wait for Hank Burton to contact me.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
Okay, and Rick, if you turn up anything, let me
in on at this time.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I waited until six o'clock in my office, and then
Burton called. I didn't tell him about the girl over
the phone. Instead, I made a date to meet him
an hour later on the Christopher Street Ferry. The fairry
was in when I arrived at the slip, so I
went aboard. I agreed to meet Burton on the lower
level port side. I went there, sat down on one
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of the benches, but five minutes later the faery pulled
out and there was still no sign of Hank Burton.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Diamond, Huh, it's me, trimp.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Oh that's quite a professional way. You have a sneaking
up on people. Friend.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Yeah, enjoy the ride, Diamond. We go over to Jersey,
then we come back, and then we get off.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Where's Burton?
Speaker 5 (17:22):
He couldn't make it? Want you to meet him back
at the warehouse. We met him this morning?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Oh, Grave, why didn't you get here before we pulled out?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
I try not as fast as I used to be.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Uh huh, now, uh tell me, Shrimp, just why I
couldn't Hank make it here. It's as safe as that warehouse.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Oh, well, he's sick. He's feeling bad, felt bad all day.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Oh it didn't sound so bad when I talked to
him on the phone.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Well, he he was sick.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
He was real pain.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
He could never make it down here. Uh, let's enjoy
the ride.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Let's talk some more. First, if Burton knew he was
too sick to meet me here, why did he suggest
it in the first place?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Or should I know? Hank says, we come to the warehouse.
We go to the warehouse. Don't ask him any questions.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Oh, I just have an inquisitive nature.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
I like answers, Shrimp, Okay, I was just for an answer.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Wow, little man with a big gun.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
That's right. And the gun says, we go to the warehouse.
I'll settle back and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
It was the most uncomfortable boat ride I had taken
in years. Shrimp put the gun back in his pocket,
but kept it pointed toward me. The very finally returned
to the New York side and we got off. Then
we drove back to Front Street and popped beside the warehouse.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Diamond in the back door.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Stop waving the gun back and forth. Shrimp, you'll wear yourself.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Out now, Cracks gone open the door?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Where's Burton?
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Same place over behind those boxes?
Speaker 8 (19:17):
Move.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I still don't get it, Shrimp. Why wouldn't Hank come
to the ferry? And why they artillery to make sure
I came here?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
That's far enough. I'll light this candle, Diamond, maybe you'll
get your answers in.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Well, that's better at least.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Oh see what I mean, shremers.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, Shrimp, i't see what you mean. Hank Burton wasn't
bothered by his heart anymore. He lay there on the
floor with a stupid expression on his face that the
sudden dead often wear. His eyes were open and the
bewildered stare, and his teeth were clenched tight. Hank Burton
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had died quickly, without warning, and it looked like I
was next in line. Surprise, Diamond, You didn't bring me
here for a reaction, Shrimp.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Yeah, huh, I just get a kick out of sea
in your face.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Yeah, good old Shrimp, the loyal friend. Hank trusted you.
That was a big mistake.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Hank was a sap. I stuck with him because I
thought he'd get his hands on them rocks again and
I can get a split.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I mean, Hank didn't want the stuff back. He was
gonna let me turn him in, and that left you
out in the coal.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
You got it right when I knew he was sicking
you on to the dame. I went to the guy
who already has the stones.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, I figured there was someone else in this. You're
not brave enough to try something like murder alone. He
does very well at it, Diamond, Believe me, whoa pool
haul thorpe, Little Davy, You're a long way from your
pool room pal.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
More profitable things than poor arms, Diamond.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I though it would say, like handling stolen jewelry.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
Uh huh? You sure no one followed you?
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Swim positive good.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
I'm sorry about this, Diamond, but you'll have to join
Hank before long.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yeah, I bet you're sorry. You were sorry when you
killed your ex wife too, A real sweet guy. She
brings you to the stones.
Speaker 10 (21:24):
And you pay her back with a knife, And what
could I do? Shrimp tells me there's a detective looking
for her. He was a good kid, but she didn't
have much knife. She'd talk her head off if you'd
done it.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Oh, I see, But why Hank and now me.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Well, look at it. This one. We finish you the
same knife that kill Lee. Then we put the knife
in Hank's hand and a gun that killed me yours.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Oh that's really great, Davy. I'm afraid you've been reading
pulp fiction. Sarah. The cops get away. Sooner or later.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
It will still give us time to get fire way. Shrimp,
you get the knife.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Okay, you stole long enough shrimp by candlelight, yet fellas us.
It's a really romantic Yeah, it's all only not quite enough.
It's even more romantic with a candle shrimp. Shrimp. He's
(22:30):
taking a little nap, Davy, and I've got his gun.
It's too bad, Davy. You should have stuck to your
pool room. Okay, Shrimp, get to your feet. Oh shut up,
(22:53):
Come on, Trimp, I made you a promise this morning.
I said either this deal with Hank was on the level,
or your buck teeth were going down your throat. No, look,
go shut up. You know the old saying, shrimp, see
you're dentist twice a year. Huh, Well you won't have
(23:15):
to worry about that now, friend, Rick. Yes, Helen, there,
it's nice outside. If you're wearing a fur coat.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
It is it's not really cold. Besides, you have a heavy.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Coat, Helen, Are you hinting that I should leave?
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Uh huh with me? I'd still like to go for
that walk.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Oh no, well why not?
Speaker 4 (23:52):
The only time I see you is after a case
and you just drop in, seat yourself at the piano
and take it easy.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Honey, I'm tired.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Well I'm not.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
I've been in all day and I could use the exercise.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Exercise huh No, I got a good idea. I'll chase
you around the piano.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
It's your idea of exercise.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
No open. Just think of the fun we could have
after I caught.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
You, Rick, I'm serious.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Just look out that window. Oh stop shivering.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Look at that moonlight. Isn't it romantic?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
What chances to give the Dodgers this year long walk?
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Just you and me?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
The Giants. Now there's a hot ball team.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Maybe over to Central.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Park and the Arkansas ooh, they'll be fighting all the
way hand in hand.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Arkansas aggy M, my old home team. Richard Diamond, you
are the most unromantic man in town.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Tell him? How can you say that? Don't I build
a nice fire in the fireplace.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
I could get a boy scout to do that.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Here we are a fire, lights down low, a nice
romantic song, and your idea of romance is a walk.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Well, after all, hey, where does that nice romantic song
come in?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Right about now?
Speaker 5 (25:05):
What can you sing while we walk?
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Oh? Sorry, honey, Throw another log on the fire. Keep
my Golden Maid Moor's aglore. I don't see the face
of my loved wale when the logs are burning.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Long.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Throw of the log on the fire. Bring back all
the sweetest days I've known, when our hearts were young
in the spring time and her love was mine.
Speaker 11 (25:57):
All Now there's nothing left but the embers. Springtime seems
so long ago.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Of the log on the fire cheap by Golden Maid
memery circle.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
That is very nice, but I still didn't like it.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
That's a Britian's statement.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
I still want to go for a walk.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Millions of girls in New York and I had to
pick a nature lover.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Dick Powell will return in just a moment. Camel leads
all other brands in popularity by billions of cigarettes per year. Yes,
more people smoke camels than any other cigarette, and among
them are many people whose throats are important to their careers.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
For instance, our own Dick Powell. Dick, why do you
smoke camels?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Well? I smoke camels regularly because I like their taste.
They're mild, and they agree with my throat. That's quite
important when you use your voice as much as I do.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Friends, Why don't you find out how well camels will
agree with your throat?
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Mild, mild, wild, mild, almas.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Can a cigarette?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Me make the caws? A test man?
Speaker 6 (27:34):
You see smoke camels.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Here's Dick Powell with a special message. Thank you, ladies
and gentlemen. The makers of Camels have now sent more
than two hundred million Camels cigarettes to service men and
veterans this week, as every week, gift camels are being
sent to hospitalized veterans. They're on their way to veterans
hospitals Phoenix, Arizona and Des Moines, Iowa. US Army Station Hospital,
(28:03):
Fort Benning, Georgia, US Naval Hospital Ship Haven. Now until
next week. Enjoy Camels, I always do.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Tonight's adventure of Richard Diamond was written by Dick Carr
with music by Frank Wirth. Virginia Gregg was heard as
Helen Asher and Alan Reid as Lieutenant Walt Levinson. Others
in the cast were Junius Matthews, Tony Barrett, and Ted Decorcia.
Richard Diamond, Private Detective is transcribed in Hollywood by I'my Delbayer.
(29:06):
Be sure to listen to another great Camel show, Vonon
Monroe 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
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