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Speaker 2 (01:39):
Private Detective starring Dick Paul.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Detective Agency.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
What does his sign say on the door?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Detective Agency?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Now read the second line.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Please recommended by good.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Housekeeping, and the last line, please.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Homicides delivered at the rear.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
That's fine, twenty twenty vision and I could just hop
around on one foot while I classify you in one ale.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
See that you're on the next boat to the Illusians.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Are you Diamond?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Are you a prospective client as I'm Diamond. I tried
one hundred to day in expenses.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You ever leave town, mister Diamond?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Occasionally? But I can never get used to the tarn feathers.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I'd like you to go to California with me.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Oh, just loansome or had you got a problem?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I represent a very wealthy man in Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
He has a problem, A very wealthy man.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Huh millions.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I'd love to meet him.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I'll arrange it. When can you leave?
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, now that's a bit of a problem.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
See close the office, do some packing, take care of
a few engagements.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
It'll take me at least thirteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Four o'clock. Now we can leave La Guardian by five.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
You have the tickets already.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
No tickets are necessary, mister diamond.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Mister Harvey's private plane and the pilot are standing by.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
The gentleman's name turned out to be Caane Fred Kane
from Beverly Hills, California, obviously representing a client with more
than a cozy income, private plane, private pilot, and worth millions.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
How cozy can you get?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I call Helen, told her I'd send her a starlet
swimming pool or something, and by five point thirty I
was riding with Fred Kane and mister Harvey's private plane
headed for sunny California.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Comfortable.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Ah, I haven't seen furnishings like this since I got
lost in the men's lounge of.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
The Waldorf drank Later, the time has come, the Wallers said,
to talk of anything, all right. I represent mister George L.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Harvey, the Thig motion picture producer.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, he's being blackmailed.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I come all the way to New York for me.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
You've got some pretty good boys in California, Spade Novak.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Of course they haven't got my blue eyes.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Yelle didn't want any local talent in on this case.
You're quite well known even in California.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Oh well, I can understand that.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Gl thought it'd be a good idea, have an outsider
helping him, someone who wouldn't be recognized.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Okay, bless old gl and all his little millions. Now,
who's blackmailing him?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Gel?
Speaker 6 (04:18):
We'll tell you everything himself when we get to California.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Fred Kane and I played Jen for the next couple
of hours, and we didn't talk anymore about gl Hype
and his blackmail troubles.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
By eight thirty, we.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Were somewhere over Kansas, and I was getting sleepy, so
I turned them around six.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
The next morning, we landed in Burbank.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I stepped out to get my first look at beautiful, wonderful,
sunny California.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And we'll have to run for it. Gl. We'll have
a car.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Waiting, a car. I'm surprised at GL.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
I thought sure he'd meet us with his private lifecraft.
The car was waiting all right, complete the chauffeur, footmen,
and dinghy. We plod our way through six inches of
early morning dew and headed for the Beverly Hills Hotel,
where I was supposed to stay. We arrived around seven,
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got me settled in my room, A tiny little affair
that reminded me of a well decorated roundhouse then we
had breakfast, and by ten o'clock I was standing in
the offices of George L. Hyvey, Hollywood producer. Glad you're here, Diamond,
have a seat, thank you. You haven't got an old
ringer around here?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Have you nasty with her? Isn't it? It'll clear up?
Got to can't stay in a cover set all week.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Schedules too tight cover set gear shooting a new picture.
If the company has some unexpected bad weather and they're
shooting exteriors, they have a cover set and they can
move into and shoot some interior seats.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Oh you interested in motion pictures, Diamond, Well I.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
See a few right now. I'm more interested in blackmailing.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yes, well, here's the setup.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
Fred here introduced me to a girl about a month ago, Mary.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Conrad, And now she's got you on the hook, very much.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
On the hook, pretty girl, No more than that beautiful
brunette about five six. Well, she's beautiful. We became very
well friendly. Yes, I'm married, mister Diamond. My wife doesn't
know anything.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
About this unless Mary Conrad tells her. Yes, and she's
threatened to do just that. Unless you kick through with something, yes, money, yes,
one hundred thousand, Oh that's a nice round sum. Fred
should be more careful about the girls he.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Introduces you to.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
I had no way of knowing Diamond. I met the
girl in Las Vegas. Two weeks later. I met her
at a party down here, just.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
As much my fault. I saw her with Fred and
wanted an introduction, and you got it one hundred thousand dollars.
How do you do? Yes?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
You want me to get something on her or to
get the evidence back? Well, yes, so one of you
don't get into more troubles. Yell, you just don't know
how to say no. It was pretty obvious that I'd
have to meet the blackmailer, so a party was arranged
by Fred Kine at Gl's beach house and without Gl's presence,
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so I could get acquainted with the beautiful Mary Conrad
g L gave me a two hundred dollars retainer and
blushed a little when I kissed him on both cheeks.
Then Fred Kane sailed me back to the Beverly Hills,
where he rented a car for me and told me how.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
To get to the beach home. By eight o'clock that evening,
I was driving down the Coast Highway on the way
to Malibu. I couldn't get over it. The rain had stopped.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
There was a big yellow moon sitting up in a
cloudless sky, and a warm breeze was blowing in off
the Pacific. I even put the top down, Hello Diamond,
to say, what's it this weather?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
One minute it's pouring and the next time it comes
out like a travel folder.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
We're just getting into the rainy season. It'll probably stay
clear like this for at least a week.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
All give me your hat and I'll take care. I
can introduce you to the guests.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Oh, that's what a New York gumshoe out looking for
a blackmailer.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
That's right, you're an agent, asient.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I don't know anything about agents.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You like money, don't you.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
That's my name Swell backwards, and you're an agent.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
It was a small little party, that is, of course,
he could compare it to ebbittts Field during a World series.
G L's house is in the middle of what was
known as Malibu Colony. That's a bunch of houses built
right out on the sand and surrounded by money. Fred
took me around and introduced me as an agent from
New York and.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
An old friend. I met everything from producers, writers and
directors to several well known motion picture stars, one of
which had her French poodle with her.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
And this is Michelle, mister Diamond, stay ol lo to
mister Diamond.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Michelle oo oop, sorry, great Dame, and on and on
until finally we got around to.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
My objective for the evening.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
And we believe I'd enlist three times a week just
to go after that kind of an objective.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Brunette about five six.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
When she looked up at me, I felt as nervous
as a cat in a ukulele factory.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
This is Mary Conrad, mister Damond marh Hello.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Would be nice to him.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
He's a big New York agent. I've see some other
guests now I want to.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
Take care of Mary.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Looks like Fred is paired as all.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Well, you know it's a good combination when he sees it.
Two best looking people at the party. Of course, I'm
prettier than you are.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
How long have you known Fred?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Fred? Oh? Years and years. We used to play stickball
together over in Canarsie.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I thought Fred was a native Californian.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Well, oh, yes, well he is.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
He used to come all the way to New York
just for the stickball.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
We had quite a team.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I'll bet you did.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
What position did you play?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
I played left gutter, that's the dirty side of the street. Oh,
how about a drink?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Uh. She showed me where the bar I was and
we sat out and got acquainted.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Then she showed me where the ocean was, and we
took off our shoes and walked out on the sand.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Then we sat down and really got acquainted.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
It's nicer out here, and I don't like parties much.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Oh I like this one compliment naturally.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Thank you. How long are you going to be in California?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
It depends business.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, you're not having much fun, are you?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Oh? Sure, I'm having a ball. You're lonesome, aren't you?
Like fifty miles of dirt road.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Let's leave the party, all right?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Where two?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Well, my car's here, and it wouldn't be good to
be seen leaving together. I'll go first and you follow.
In about five minutes, you can pick me up at
my house.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Score for diamond. She gave me her dress and told
me how to get there. Then we walked back to
the party and she left. I gave the high signed
cane and in five minutes I followed. Mary Conrad's house
was on the outskirts of Beverly Hills, south of Peacole.
There was a long, low black sedan the typer schauffeur
usually drives, parked in front of the house, the same
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car that had picked me up at the airport that morning,
and it belonged to G. L.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Harvey.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Before I could get packed, the door of the little
house flew open, and old g L.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Himself came barreling out like a squirrel. This tail on fire.
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Speaker 4 (13:04):
Hey, what the hello there, mister Harvey.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I'm in?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Did you get into the studio?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
I went to your home first. My home, you didn't
talk to anyone. The car wasn't around, so I tried
the studio. The cop of the gate wouldn't let me in,
so I climbed a fence.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Climbed a fence. I was better than having him call you.
You might have wanted to see me. I'd wanted to
see you. Don't be foolish. Why not see you? You
often come to your offices late at night.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Look, Damond, I saw you when you yelled at me
in front of Mary Conrad's house.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Why didn't you stop?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
I was too frightened. I was scared stiff. I suppose
you found her. Ah, it was terrible, awful, just awful,
how bet it was. I thought about going home. I
thought about a lot of places. I ended up here.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Did you kill her?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
No?
Speaker 8 (13:46):
No, of course I didn't kill her. She called me
from Malibu, told me to meet her at her house.
I got there before she did. She drove up and
we went in. It was just awful.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
You were in then? What you're in? A living room?
Light on and there was a shot.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
She looked kind of surprised, and I was too stunned
for a minute to really know what had happened. Then
she just kind of looked at me like she wanted
me to help. It was then I really got it.
I knew she'd been shot. She fell and I rushed
over to her. She died right there, lying on the floor,
looking up at me like I I I don't.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Know there was a gun beside her? Was there? I
didn't see it?
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Well, here it is. Take a look at it. Forty
five one shot fired? Ever seen it before?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
No?
Speaker 5 (14:33):
You know, I could get in a lot of trouble
taking this gun from the scene of murder, but I
had a hunch that was worth it. I thought maybe
it might be your gun. If it isn't, I'll get
it back to the cops and take my chances.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
I don't know whether it is or not your own
of forty five Yes, I keep it at the beach house.
But even if that turns out to be my gun,
mister Diamond, I didn't kill Mary Conrad.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I don't think it did either.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
You might have wanted to kill her because of the blackmail,
but that would be premeditated.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
You'd plan.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
A man who commits a planned killing doesn't leave the
murder weapon around, especially if it happens to belong to him.
But if you were in love, were there, I wasn't. Well,
I'm taking that chance. A jealous lover might do a
lot of silly things. I have a wife and family.
I had thought about that too, and I'm not sure
the police would pay much attention if the blackmail got out.
You to have a motive if this gun turns out
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to be yours, as your fingerprints on it not, But
sent you what about the police?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I call them and got out. You know where the
shot came from? I didn't even take time to think
about it. I just ran. There was a heavy smell
of cordee. On the other side of the room. Near
the bedroom. Bedroom door was ajar bedroom wind. It was open.
Killer probably shot her from the bedroom. You ran. He
threw the gun in beside the body. What are we
going to do?
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Well, there's one thing that makes me wonder a little.
Mary Conrad asked me to come over to her house too.
What do you suppose she wanted with both of us there?
I can't imagine, neither can I. It's certainly worth looking
in to. Thanks Damond. You know, I've had some pretty
fair experiences with murder g L. But like everybody else,
I make mistakes. I hope this is not going to
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be one of them.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I gave g L.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Harvey two instructions. First, find out if he was missing
a forty five automatic. Second, go on about his business
like nothing had happened, and forget that he'd known Mary
Conrad other than casually. I knew I was taking a
big chance being an accessory after the fact, could land
being a lot of hot water. But g L just
didn't figures the killer, and if I was right, someone
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was trying to fit him for a king sized frame.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Why who? What was the motive?
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Those were things I was going to have to find out,
and find them out in a hurry. So, while the
police were undoubtedly still busy with an identification on Mary Conrad,
I got back in my rented car and took off
from Alibuh.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
That so soon no laughs, you find out anything?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Where can we talk?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
You look like something's wrong.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
You should see how Mary Conrad looks. Fred Kane took
me in the den and we locked out the rest
of the party.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
I told him just what had happened, and he poured
himself a long drink.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah you think Gi'll really did it.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
I want to do some checking on Mary Conrad before
I start making any guesses. Now, you said you met
her in Las Vegas, didn't you? And then tell me
everything you know about her. And he didn't know much.
He'd met Mary at the Serena Hotel, just ran into
her to party. He had seen her several times in
the following a few days, and she had mentioned she
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was coming down to La so he'd ask her to
look him up.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
She had and that was the extent of it.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
When I tell the police, they will certainly find out
who she's been saying.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
It will take him a while to check. Did she
have any other friends?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
She never mentioned any.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
You met her at the Serena. Was was she with anyone?
Speaker 7 (17:56):
I don't remember his name? You remember the date a
month ago, the last few days I was there.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Oh well, okay, I'm going to take a trip to
Vegas and see if I can find out anything more.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
You must really think gl was innocent, don't you. Yes,
but he certainly had a motive.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
I don't think gl would kill anyone for one hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
The thing I can't figure is why anyone would want
to frame him.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
What could they gain by it. I drove back to Burbank,
grabbed the late plane for Las Vegas. About an hour
and a half later, I was checking with the desk
clerk at the Serrena. We went through the lists of
guests during the time fred Kine's last visit. Caine had
checked out on the eighth of October. He said he'd
met Mary Conrad several days before. I gave the desk
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clerk a description, but he didn't remember, and she hadn't
been registered at the Serrena. So I started checking every
hotel and motor court in Vegas.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Mary Conrad. Ehah, about five six brunette blue eyes, Mary Conrad. Oh,
she didn't register here. Take a look for yourself.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
I kept going one hotel after another, and no Mery
Conrad registered at any of them. But she had to
live someplace if she stayed in Las Vegas. H but
tend to give me a scotch of mother.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Okay, may you look a little beat?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Friend? Can I buy you a drink? I just bought one.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Hey, I understand you're trying to find Mary Conrad.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
You know her? Yeah? Well, friend, I'd like to ask
you some questions.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
What did work?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Depends on how much you know? I know plenty. I
will see what's your name?
Speaker 7 (19:42):
Not here?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I can get a card side to take a ride.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Okay, information? Please slid off.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
The stool led the way out of the hotel, out
across the parking lot. This guy I knew I was
looking for Mery Conrad. How had to be tipped off
or he'd been tailing me When he walked in front
of me, the little old gun and his hip pocket
showed up like a bathing beauty on the gorilla farm.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
I uh wait a minute, it's a man at where's
the car? Huh? Oh right, they were there, the one
with the fat guy behind the wheel. Just a friend.
Oh sure, sure, I think we talk right here.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
He thought about it for a second, glanced over at
his fat friend sitting.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
In the car, and then back at me here, right here. Okay,
he made up his mind, all right. He grabbed his
right hip pocket and that big gun. But that was
as far as he got, because I second guess. His
friend took off, staying behind a line of park cars.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Until he was clear of the parking lot and far
enough away so I couldn't get in a good shot.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I leaned down over the man who had wanted to
kill me. He was very dead. Well. I'd held out.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Police evidence in Los Angeles and killed a man in
Las Vegas.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I was in a spot and only one lead left,
the big fat driver who'd taken off in the car.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
I went through the dead man's pocket and came up
with one thing, one hundred dollars gambling chip from the
ace of club's casino.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Oh uh, how about using that car of yours?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Don't turn around now, you'll get mixed up with a
lot of bullets.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
How do you want or talk? Keep looking straight ahead
like nothing was happening. I'll kill you if you try anything.
I'll promise you that what is this?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Who are you?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
I'd just shot a friend of yours in the Serena
parking lot. I've been in my office all night. I'm
sure I'll start walking for the door. You will never
get away with this, Diamond.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I thought you didn't know me. Start walking. I own
this place, Diamond, my voice, well over the.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Joint twelve Yellow Farm once and can have a dirty
old hole in your pretty coat.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Look, you and me can discuss us without getting wrought
out the door and smile. Now, where's the car? Across
the streets?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Hey, wait a minute, A couple of boys are following us.
Do a little worried about me? Tell them how happy
you are? Gone?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Okay, okay, alax.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Voice, it's okay.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Me and my friend are just talking some business.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
All right across the street. They're gonna take a little
drive outside of town where we can have.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Some peace and quiet, just you and me in the desert.
It's good enough. Pull off the road, look, Diamond, pull
off the road. You know the CoP's gonna be out
looking for you. That's why I need some manches in
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a hurry. Why did your boy I try to kill
me tonight? I don't know what you're talking about. Get
out of the car.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
I'll look I set out what's.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Just gonna prove?
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Damon, you're gonna start walking straight out into that desert
at the end of a hundred paces if you haven't
told me what I.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Want to know, You're gonna get it. Ride in your big,
ugly face. You'll never get away with it. Walk Now,
that's the trouble with you. Big tough guys.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Get a fellow in a spot you never figure you
might just be desperate enough to shoot his way out
of it.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Why did your boy try to knock me off tonight?
Speaker 7 (23:30):
And I've got a lot of dot diamond I can
get you out of the state and make it rich.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I'll swear you till my boy in self defense. How
well you know Mary Conrad? We'll never heard of her.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
I've held out police evidence in California, and I've shot
a man in Avada.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
I'm in a tough spot. I'll just about doing anything.
You kill me, and you'll ever find out anything.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
I'll keep looking. Who else is mixed up in this.
How do you know who I was? I found out
and you're nearly there. You're bluffing. They got fifteen paces
to go. You'll never get out of town. You kill
me in every cop in the state will be after you.
You're a big man. Huh, I swing a lot of weight. Well,
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I don't like your kind of big men. Stop here,
How about it? Gonna tell me how you were mixed
up in this?
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Now, wait a minute, this is getting a ridiculous a.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Matter of opinion. You're gonna tell me? Wait?
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Wait, you must be nuts. Suppose I did know something
I tell you, you tell the cops. Maybe I knocked
off somebody.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I get the gas.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Chamber and it shouldn't make any difference to you. It's
gonna be a lot quicker. What do you want to know?
Who's Mary Conrad? My girl? Her real name's Mary Langley?
Who killed her?
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Fred Kane, the guy who works for Jail Harvey. Why
Kane owed me a lot of dough couldn't pay it?
Jail Harvey was to go to the gas chamber for
killing someone. Caine had become head of the Harvey productions.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Why wouldn't Harvey's wife take over? She'd own it, but
Jill's will states that Cain would run it. How do
you fit?
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Kane promised me a fifty to fifty split if I'd
lay off about the debt. I talked Mary into it,
and Kane introduced her to Harvey. The old Boy went
for a hook, lane and sinker, and she shot at Blackmadium.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
So you'd have a motive for murder? Yeah, she never
figured she was going to get killed.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Oh, she just thought we were going to milk the
old boy for the hundred thousand and pull out. How
did I fit in Harvey's idea? When Cain told me
about it? I I figured it wouldn't be bad. You
could catch Harvey after the murder.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Why don't you make a date with me then call Harvey.
We told her.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
To told you were a private eye working for Harvey's wife.
We said that you could be bought and it would
be a good idea to catch her with Harvey.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
So you waited in the bedroom until Gel came in,
and you shot her through the gun in beside her.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Hey, wait a minute, I didn't shoot her. Kine shot her. Oh.
Kan took Jail's gun from the Malibu house. That's right. Oh,
you lame brain.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
I left Kane at the Malibu house when I went
to see Mary. He was there when I got back.
Witnesses will swear he was around the whole time. You
killed the girl and hopped the plane back here for Vegas.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
No, no, I didn't kill her. Go over by that rock.
I take an easy diamond. Gone.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Okay, okay, I shut her. I hid in the bedroom
and shut her. But you won't be around to talk about.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Come on, get up, get up.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Oh, for peachs sake, Now I have to carry him
back to the car.
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Speaker 3 (01:56):
Detective Agency.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
What does his sign say on the door?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Detective Agency?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Now read the second line.
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Speaker 4 (02:04):
Housekeeping, and the last line, please.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Homicides delivered at the rear.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
That's fine, twenty twenty vision and I could just hop
around on one foot while I classify you in one ale.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
See that you're on the next boat to the Illusians.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Are you Diamond?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Are you a prospective client as I'm Diamond. I tried
one hundred to day in expenses.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You ever leave town, mister Diamond?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Occasionally? But I can never get used to the tarn feathers.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
I'd like you to go to California with me.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Oh, just loansome or had you got a problem?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I represent a very wealthy man in Hollywood.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
He has a problem, A very wealthy man.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Huh millions.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I'd love to meet him.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I'll arrange it. When can you leave?
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, now that's a bit of a problem.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
See close the office, do some packing, take care of
a few engagements.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
It'll take me at least thirteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Four o'clock. Now we can leave La Guardian by five.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
You have the tickets already.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
No tickets are necessary, mister diamond.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Mister Harvey's private plane and the pilot are standing by.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
The gentleman's name turned out to be Caane Fred Kane
from Beverly Hills, California, obviously representing a client with more
than a cozy income, private plane, private pilot, and worth millions.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
How cozy can you get?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I call Helen, told her I'd send her a starlet
swimming pool or something, and by five point thirty I
was riding with Fred Kane and mister Harvey's private plane
headed for sunny California.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Comfortable.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Ah, I haven't seen furnishings like this since I got
lost in the men's lounge of.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
The Waldorf drank Later, the time has come, the Wallers said,
to talk of anything, all right. I represent mister George L.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Harvey, the Thig motion picture producer.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, he's being blackmailed.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I come all the way to New York for me.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
You've got some pretty good boys in California, Spade Novak.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Of course they haven't got my blue eyes.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Yelle didn't want any local talent in on this case.
You're quite well known even in California.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Oh well, I can understand that.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Gl thought it'd be a good idea, have an outsider
helping him, someone who wouldn't be recognized.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Okay, bless old gl and all his little millions. Now,
who's blackmailing him?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Gel?
Speaker 6 (04:18):
We'll tell you everything himself when we get to California.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Fred Kane and I played Jen for the next couple
of hours, and we didn't talk anymore about gl Hype
and his blackmail troubles.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
By eight thirty, we.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Were somewhere over Kansas, and I was getting sleepy, so
I turned them around six.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
The next morning, we landed in Burbank.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I stepped out to get my first look at beautiful, wonderful,
sunny California.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And we'll have to run for it. Gl. We'll have
a car.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Waiting, a car. I'm surprised at GL.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
I thought sure he'd meet us with his private lifecraft.
The car was waiting all right, complete the chauffeur, footmen,
and dinghy. We plod our way through six inches of
early morning dew and headed for the Beverly Hills Hotel,
where I was supposed to stay. We arrived around seven,
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got me settled in my room, A tiny little affair
that reminded me of a well decorated roundhouse then we
had breakfast, and by ten o'clock I was standing in
the offices of George L. Hyvey, Hollywood producer. Glad you're here, Diamond,
have a seat, thank you. You haven't got an old
ringer around here?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Have you nasty with her? Isn't it? It'll clear up?
Got to can't stay in a cover set all week.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Schedules too tight cover set gear shooting a new picture.
If the company has some unexpected bad weather and they're
shooting exteriors, they have a cover set and they can
move into and shoot some interior seats.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Oh you interested in motion pictures, Diamond, Well I.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
See a few right now. I'm more interested in blackmailing.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yes, well, here's the setup.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
Fred here introduced me to a girl about a month ago, Mary.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Conrad, And now she's got you on the hook, very much.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
On the hook, pretty girl, No more than that beautiful
brunette about five six. Well, she's beautiful. We became very
well friendly. Yes, I'm married, mister Diamond. My wife doesn't
know anything.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
About this unless Mary Conrad tells her. Yes, and she's
threatened to do just that. Unless you kick through with something, yes, money, yes,
one hundred thousand, Oh that's a nice round sum. Fred
should be more careful about the girls he.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Introduces you to.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
I had no way of knowing Diamond. I met the
girl in Las Vegas. Two weeks later. I met her
at a party down here, just.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
As much my fault. I saw her with Fred and
wanted an introduction, and you got it one hundred thousand dollars.
How do you do? Yes?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
You want me to get something on her or to
get the evidence back? Well, yes, so one of you
don't get into more troubles. Yell, you just don't know
how to say no. It was pretty obvious that I'd
have to meet the blackmailer, so a party was arranged
by Fred Kine at Gl's beach house and without Gl's presence,
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so I could get acquainted with the beautiful Mary Conrad
g L gave me a two hundred dollars retainer and
blushed a little when I kissed him on both cheeks.
Then Fred Kane sailed me back to the Beverly Hills,
where he rented a car for me and told me how.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
To get to the beach home. By eight o'clock that evening,
I was driving down the Coast Highway on the way
to Malibu. I couldn't get over it. The rain had stopped.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
There was a big yellow moon sitting up in a
cloudless sky, and a warm breeze was blowing in off
the Pacific. I even put the top down, Hello Diamond,
to say, what's it this weather?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
One minute it's pouring and the next time it comes
out like a travel folder.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
We're just getting into the rainy season. It'll probably stay
clear like this for at least a week.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
All give me your hat and I'll take care. I
can introduce you to the guests.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Oh, that's what a New York gumshoe out looking for
a blackmailer.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
That's right, you're an agent, asient.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I don't know anything about agents.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You like money, don't you.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
That's my name Swell backwards, and you're an agent.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
It was a small little party, that is, of course,
he could compare it to ebbittts Field during a World series.
G L's house is in the middle of what was
known as Malibu Colony. That's a bunch of houses built
right out on the sand and surrounded by money. Fred
took me around and introduced me as an agent from
New York and.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
An old friend. I met everything from producers, writers and
directors to several well known motion picture stars, one of
which had her French poodle with her.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
And this is Michelle, mister Diamond, stay ol lo to
mister Diamond.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Michelle oo oop, sorry, great Dame, and on and on
until finally we got around to.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
My objective for the evening.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
And we believe I'd enlist three times a week just
to go after that kind of an objective.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Brunette about five six.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
When she looked up at me, I felt as nervous
as a cat in a ukulele factory.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
This is Mary Conrad, mister Damond marh Hello.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Would be nice to him.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
He's a big New York agent. I've see some other
guests now I want to.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
Take care of Mary.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Looks like Fred is paired as all.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Well, you know it's a good combination when he sees it.
Two best looking people at the party. Of course, I'm
prettier than you are.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
How long have you known Fred?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Fred? Oh? Years and years. We used to play stickball
together over in Canarsie.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I thought Fred was a native Californian.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Well, oh, yes, well he is.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
He used to come all the way to New York
just for the stickball.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
We had quite a team.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I'll bet you did.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
What position did you play?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
I played left gutter, that's the dirty side of the street. Oh,
how about a drink?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Uh. She showed me where the bar I was and
we sat out and got acquainted.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Then she showed me where the ocean was, and we
took off our shoes and walked out on the sand.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Then we sat down and really got acquainted.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
It's nicer out here, and I don't like parties much.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Oh I like this one compliment naturally.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Thank you. How long are you going to be in California?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Oh? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
It depends business.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, you're not having much fun, are you?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Oh? Sure, I'm having a ball. You're lonesome, aren't you?
Like fifty miles of dirt road.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Let's leave the party, all right?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Where two?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Well, my car's here, and it wouldn't be good to
be seen leaving together. I'll go first and you follow.
In about five minutes, you can pick me up at
my house.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Score for diamond. She gave me her dress and told
me how to get there. Then we walked back to
the party and she left. I gave the high signed
cane and in five minutes I followed. Mary Conrad's house
was on the outskirts of Beverly Hills, south of Peacole.
There was a long, low black sedan the typer schauffeur
usually drives, parked in front of the house, the same
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car that had picked me up at the airport that morning,
and it belonged to G. L.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Harvey.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Before I could get packed, the door of the little
house flew open, and old g L.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Himself came barreling out like a squirrel. This tail on fire.
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Speaker 4 (13:04):
Hey, what the hello there, mister Harvey.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I'm in?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Did you get into the studio?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
I went to your home first. My home, you didn't
talk to anyone. The car wasn't around, so I tried
the studio. The cop of the gate wouldn't let me in,
so I climbed a fence.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Climbed a fence. I was better than having him call you.
You might have wanted to see me. I'd wanted to
see you. Don't be foolish. Why not see you? You
often come to your offices late at night.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Look, Damond, I saw you when you yelled at me
in front of Mary Conrad's house.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Why didn't you stop?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
I was too frightened. I was scared stiff. I suppose
you found her. Ah, it was terrible, awful, just awful,
how bet it was. I thought about going home. I
thought about a lot of places. I ended up here.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Did you kill her?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
No?
Speaker 8 (13:46):
No, of course I didn't kill her. She called me
from Malibu, told me to meet her at her house.
I got there before she did. She drove up and
we went in. It was just awful.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
You were in then? What you're in? A living room?
Light on and there was a shot.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
She looked kind of surprised, and I was too stunned
for a minute to really know what had happened. Then
she just kind of looked at me like she wanted
me to help. It was then I really got it.
I knew she'd been shot. She fell and I rushed
over to her. She died right there, lying on the floor,
looking up at me like I I I don't.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Know there was a gun beside her? Was there? I
didn't see it?
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Well, here it is. Take a look at it. Forty
five one shot fired? Ever seen it before?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
No?
Speaker 5 (14:33):
You know, I could get in a lot of trouble
taking this gun from the scene of murder, but I
had a hunch that was worth it. I thought maybe
it might be your gun. If it isn't, I'll get
it back to the cops and take my chances.
Speaker 8 (14:43):
I don't know whether it is or not your own
of forty five Yes, I keep it at the beach house.
But even if that turns out to be my gun,
mister Diamond, I didn't kill Mary Conrad.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
I don't think it did either.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
You might have wanted to kill her because of the blackmail,
but that would be premeditated.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
You'd plan.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
A man who commits a planned killing doesn't leave the
murder weapon around, especially if it happens to belong to him.
But if you were in love, were there, I wasn't. Well,
I'm taking that chance. A jealous lover might do a
lot of silly things. I have a wife and family.
I had thought about that too, and I'm not sure
the police would pay much attention if the blackmail got out.
You to have a motive if this gun turns out
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to be yours, as your fingerprints on it not, But
sent you what about the police?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I call them and got out. You know where the
shot came from? I didn't even take time to think
about it. I just ran. There was a heavy smell
of cordee. On the other side of the room. Near
the bedroom. Bedroom door was ajar bedroom wind. It was open.
Killer probably shot her from the bedroom. You ran. He
threw the gun in beside the body. What are we
going to do?
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Well, there's one thing that makes me wonder a little.
Mary Conrad asked me to come over to her house too.
What do you suppose she wanted with both of us there?
I can't imagine, neither can I. It's certainly worth looking
in to. Thanks Damond. You know, I've had some pretty
fair experiences with murder g L. But like everybody else,
I make mistakes. I hope this is not going to
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be one of them.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I gave g L.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Harvey two instructions. First, find out if he was missing
a forty five automatic. Second, go on about his business
like nothing had happened, and forget that he'd known Mary
Conrad other than casually. I knew I was taking a
big chance being an accessory after the fact, could land
being a lot of hot water. But g L just
didn't figures the killer, and if I was right, someone
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was trying to fit him for a king sized frame.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Why who? What was the motive?
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Those were things I was going to have to find out,
and find them out in a hurry. So, while the
police were undoubtedly still busy with an identification on Mary Conrad,
I got back in my rented car and took off
from Alibuh.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
That so soon no laughs, you find out anything?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Where can we talk?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
You look like something's wrong.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
You should see how Mary Conrad looks. Fred Kane took
me in the den and we locked out the rest
of the party.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
I told him just what had happened, and he poured
himself a long drink.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah you think Gi'll really did it.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
I want to do some checking on Mary Conrad before
I start making any guesses. Now, you said you met
her in Las Vegas, didn't you? And then tell me
everything you know about her. And he didn't know much.
He'd met Mary at the Serena Hotel, just ran into
her to party. He had seen her several times in
the following a few days, and she had mentioned she
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was coming down to La so he'd ask her to
look him up.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
She had and that was the extent of it.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
When I tell the police, they will certainly find out
who she's been saying.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
It will take him a while to check. Did she
have any other friends?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
She never mentioned any.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
You met her at the Serena. Was was she with anyone?
Speaker 7 (17:56):
I don't remember his name? You remember the date a
month ago, the last few days I was there.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Oh well, okay, I'm going to take a trip to
Vegas and see if I can find out anything more.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
You must really think gl was innocent, don't you. Yes,
but he certainly had a motive.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
I don't think gl would kill anyone for one hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
The thing I can't figure is why anyone would want
to frame him.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
What could they gain by it. I drove back to Burbank,
grabbed the late plane for Las Vegas. About an hour
and a half later, I was checking with the desk
clerk at the Serrena. We went through the lists of
guests during the time fred Kine's last visit. Caine had
checked out on the eighth of October. He said he'd
met Mary Conrad several days before. I gave the desk
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clerk a description, but he didn't remember, and she hadn't
been registered at the Serrena. So I started checking every
hotel and motor court in Vegas.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Mary Conrad. Ehah, about five six brunette blue eyes, Mary Conrad. Oh,
she didn't register here. Take a look for yourself.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
I kept going one hotel after another, and no Mery
Conrad registered at any of them. But she had to
live someplace if she stayed in Las Vegas. H but
tend to give me a scotch of mother.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Okay, may you look a little beat?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Friend? Can I buy you a drink? I just bought one.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Hey, I understand you're trying to find Mary Conrad.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
You know her? Yeah? Well, friend, I'd like to ask
you some questions.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
What did work?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Depends on how much you know? I know plenty. I
will see what's your name?
Speaker 7 (19:42):
Not here?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I can get a card side to take a ride.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Okay, information? Please slid off.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
The stool led the way out of the hotel, out
across the parking lot. This guy I knew I was
looking for Mery Conrad. How had to be tipped off
or he'd been tailing me When he walked in front
of me, the little old gun and his hip pocket
showed up like a bathing beauty on the gorilla farm.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
I uh wait a minute, it's a man at where's
the car? Huh? Oh right, they were there, the one
with the fat guy behind the wheel. Just a friend.
Oh sure, sure, I think we talk right here.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
He thought about it for a second, glanced over at
his fat friend sitting.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
In the car, and then back at me here, right here. Okay,
he made up his mind, all right. He grabbed his
right hip pocket and that big gun. But that was
as far as he got, because I second guess. His
friend took off, staying behind a line of park cars.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Until he was clear of the parking lot and far
enough away so I couldn't get in a good shot.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I leaned down over the man who had wanted to
kill me. He was very dead. Well. I'd held out.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Police evidence in Los Angeles and killed a man in
Las Vegas.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I was in a spot and only one lead left,
the big fat driver who'd taken off in the car.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
I went through the dead man's pocket and came up
with one thing, one hundred dollars gambling chip from the
ace of club's casino.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Oh uh, how about using that car of yours?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Don't turn around now, you'll get mixed up with a
lot of bullets.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
How do you want or talk? Keep looking straight ahead
like nothing was happening. I'll kill you if you try anything.
I'll promise you that what is this?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Who are you?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
I'd just shot a friend of yours in the Serena
parking lot. I've been in my office all night. I'm
sure I'll start walking for the door. You will never
get away with this, Diamond.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I thought you didn't know me. Start walking. I own
this place, Diamond, my voice, well over the.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Joint twelve Yellow Farm once and can have a dirty
old hole in your pretty coat.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Look, you and me can discuss us without getting wrought
out the door and smile. Now, where's the car? Across
the streets?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Hey, wait a minute, A couple of boys are following us.
Do a little worried about me? Tell them how happy
you are? Gone?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Okay, okay, alax.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Voice, it's okay.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Me and my friend are just talking some business.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
All right across the street. They're gonna take a little
drive outside of town where we can have.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Some peace and quiet, just you and me in the desert.
It's good enough. Pull off the road, look, Diamond, pull
off the road. You know the CoP's gonna be out
looking for you. That's why I need some manches in
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a hurry. Why did your boy I try to kill
me tonight? I don't know what you're talking about. Get
out of the car.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
I'll look I set out what's.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Just gonna prove?
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Damon, you're gonna start walking straight out into that desert
at the end of a hundred paces if you haven't
told me what I.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Want to know, You're gonna get it. Ride in your big,
ugly face. You'll never get away with it. Walk Now,
that's the trouble with you. Big tough guys.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Get a fellow in a spot you never figure you
might just be desperate enough to shoot his way out
of it.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Why did your boy try to knock me off tonight?
Speaker 7 (23:30):
And I've got a lot of dot diamond I can
get you out of the state and make it rich.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I'll swear you till my boy in self defense. How
well you know Mary Conrad? We'll never heard of her.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
I've held out police evidence in California, and I've shot
a man in Avada.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
I'm in a tough spot. I'll just about doing anything.
You kill me, and you'll ever find out anything.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
I'll keep looking. Who else is mixed up in this.
How do you know who I was? I found out
and you're nearly there. You're bluffing. They got fifteen paces
to go. You'll never get out of town. You kill
me in every cop in the state will be after you.
You're a big man. Huh, I swing a lot of weight. Well,
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I don't like your kind of big men. Stop here,
How about it? Gonna tell me how you were mixed
up in this?
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Now, wait a minute, this is getting a ridiculous a.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Matter of opinion. You're gonna tell me? Wait?
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Wait, you must be nuts. Suppose I did know something
I tell you, you tell the cops. Maybe I knocked
off somebody.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I get the gas.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Chamber and it shouldn't make any difference to you. It's
gonna be a lot quicker. What do you want to know?
Who's Mary Conrad? My girl? Her real name's Mary Langley?
Who killed her?
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Fred Kane, the guy who works for Jail Harvey. Why
Kane owed me a lot of dough couldn't pay it?
Jail Harvey was to go to the gas chamber for
killing someone. Caine had become head of the Harvey productions.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Why wouldn't Harvey's wife take over? She'd own it, but
Jill's will states that Cain would run it. How do
you fit?
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Kane promised me a fifty to fifty split if I'd
lay off about the debt. I talked Mary into it,
and Kane introduced her to Harvey. The old Boy went
for a hook, lane and sinker, and she shot at Blackmadium.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
So you'd have a motive for murder? Yeah, she never
figured she was going to get killed.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Oh, she just thought we were going to milk the
old boy for the hundred thousand and pull out. How
did I fit in Harvey's idea? When Cain told me
about it? I I figured it wouldn't be bad. You
could catch Harvey after the murder.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Why don't you make a date with me then call Harvey.
We told her.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
To told you were a private eye working for Harvey's wife.
We said that you could be bought and it would
be a good idea to catch her with Harvey.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
So you waited in the bedroom until Gel came in,
and you shot her through the gun in beside her.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Hey, wait a minute, I didn't shoot her. Kine shot her. Oh.
Kan took Jail's gun from the Malibu house. That's right. Oh,
you lame brain.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
I left Kane at the Malibu house when I went
to see Mary. He was there when I got back.
Witnesses will swear he was around the whole time. You
killed the girl and hopped the plane back here for Vegas.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
No, no, I didn't kill her. Go over by that rock.
I take an easy diamond. Gone.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Okay, okay, I shut her. I hid in the bedroom
and shut her. But you won't be around to talk about.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Come on, get up, get up.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Oh, for peachs sake, Now I have to carry him
back to the car.
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