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Richard Diamond Private Detective, starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Detective Agency, Diamond Detective Agency.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Well Hill, where's the slogan?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Diamond Detective Agency? Is enough? This week?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I've decided to conduct my business on more of a
refined level. Why I need the change. I'm getting tired
of defending myself.
Speaker 7 (01:44):
You haven't defended yourself since kindergarten?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Are you forgetting the other night in your study? I
don't give me that sweet innocence. I should have been
decorated for that campaign.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Weren't you.
Speaker 8 (01:56):
Now you hang up and I'm going to call you
right back.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Hang out, and when you answer, you're the old Richard
diamond slogan and all yes, miss.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Asher bye women women slogan, uh slogan. Let's see.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
The Diamond Detective Agency, gum shoes, re soul while you wait?
Speaker 7 (02:16):
What's married with your boys?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
This is the old Richard Diamond. Oh Rick, We'll make
up your mind.
Speaker 9 (02:22):
Mister Diamonds.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Hold it, Helen. Something I can do for you me?
Speaker 9 (02:26):
No, yes, if you're a mister Diamond.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Client, I think so, Dear, I haven't seen the subpoena yet.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
Well, I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 9 (02:33):
Good luck, bye bye.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
We'll get it over with. Hire me or serve me.
I beg your pardon, just trying to second guess you
have a seat.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (02:44):
My name is Stevens, Arthur Stephens. What can I do
for you, mister Stevens, A great deal? I charge a
great deal for a great deal. I'm prepared to pay
you handsomely, handsomely and for what five hundred dollars for
a quick trip to Florida?
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (02:58):
That's easy. What's going to make it tough?
Speaker 9 (03:01):
Lucius Timpkin?
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Is that a man?
Speaker 9 (03:04):
Yes, he'll try and stop you, how kill you if necessary?
Speaker 6 (03:11):
That statement just cost you another two.
Speaker 10 (03:13):
Fifty I anticipated that seven fifty, then what do I
have to do? Pick up something for me?
Speaker 6 (03:19):
How old is she?
Speaker 11 (03:20):
No?
Speaker 9 (03:20):
This is an object, a very rare object.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Blonde and brunette.
Speaker 9 (03:25):
This is an antique.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
You're turning into a good straight man.
Speaker 10 (03:28):
It's a rare European art object worth a considerable fortune.
Anything else you'd like to know? The seven fifty should
compensate for your inquisitiveness.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Why can't you just go get it?
Speaker 9 (03:38):
Lucius Timkin? He anticipates my arrival.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Why did you pick me?
Speaker 9 (03:43):
Reputation? I've heard? I can trust you, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Mister Stevens. How much of a down payment will keep
you trusting me until I get back? Let's say two fifty,
Let's say three point.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Fifty, and we can trust each other. It's a bargain
only if I live long enough to spend it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Stevens gave me some instructions, handed him to the cash,
and I agreed to meet him into my office early
in the morning. After I had returned with the item,
he gave me a round trip ticket to Miam of Florida,
a wet handshake, and a smile that reminded me of
a man who had swallowed a mouthful of sour milk. Now,
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in my business I expect trouble. I can usually spot
it quicker than a lonesome blonde. And as I watched
the door close behind Stephens, I spotted it. Trouble all
over the place and Richard Diamond up to his shoulder
holster in it. I called Helen, told the rod Shepherd
back some oranges, went home and packed, and by two
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in the afternoon was on the plane heading for Miami.
Stevens had instructed me to register at the plaza and
wait for a man named Shelton who was supposed to
be my contact and deliver the item. I arrived in Miami,
took a cab to the hotel, registered and went up
to my room to take a shower and loose some
of the stiffness. A half hour later, I went down
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to the bar to see if I could get some
of the stiffness back.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
This sea taken not a bed climb up. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Nice and cooling here.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Yeah, Can I buy you something to go with it?
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Martini atender a Martinia for the lady. Do you live
here at the hotel?
Speaker 12 (05:32):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Do you just moved in?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
My name's Albright, Mary Albright Richard Diamond.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Hello, Wow, staying in Miami long depends on the weather.
You're a martini?
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Oh yes, cheers to the weather. Oh what kind of
weather we drinking to? Anyway?
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Sun ray kind of weather as lung as there's something
to do.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Then let's drink to something to do.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
What do you do, mister dald Oh start by asking
attractive blondes to call me Rick?
Speaker 7 (06:11):
All right, Rick, what do you do?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I'll make a few bucks work when I have to
enjoy a cool drink and a buy with a girl
named Mary, Mary, not a bit? Have you made the
trip yet?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Once?
Speaker 7 (06:28):
I didn't like the weather? Why don't you buy me dinner? Rick?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Oh? Sorry you said that?
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Another date?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Business? Then I've got to get right back to New York.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Well it was a nice idea, the nicest. Well, I
gotta be going nice meeting you, Rick?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Good bye Mary? Rick.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Yeah, what's the weather like in New York?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Cold? When I left? If you ever fly up, give
me a call.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
I'll do that. Maybe we can knelt some snow.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
She could have melted an ice floe in the eydic.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I left her sitting at the bar, looking lonesome, and
went back up to my room and enjoyed myself by
running into the walls until I got tired and laid
down the rest. I must have dozed, because when I
came out of it and looked at my watch, it
was nearly eight.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
My contact was overdue. So I sat up, smoked the camel,
and by eight I called the desk. Hello this mister diamond.
Has anybody been asking for me?
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Are you sure? Okay? Oh, it's about time.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Close the door?
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Hey, close it. Look look, friend, you better listen. Go
to logron. Look your hurt log room up?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Hey? Oh why does everybody picked my room to die in?
He was lying on his back with his eyes open
and staring up at the ceiling.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I rolled him over and wondered how far he'd travel
with a bullet hole on his back. He was heavy set,
wearing an AVP jacket and dungarees. The identification in his
wallet showed him to be my contact, George Shelton, and
his ship was the real Queen. I searched him for
something that looked like a rare antique, but the sailor
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was bear, so I sat down and made up my mind.
He'd said something before he died La Granada. I thought
about the rest of the money. I was going to
be out if I didn't bring the antique back to
Stevens and called the police.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
In ten minutes.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Lieutenant Breake of Miyamahamicide was looking my license, Richard Damnon
one hundred and eighty license in the state of New York.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Brown hair and the loveliest blue eye I can read.
But that description doesn't do me justice. You're a pretty
fresh guy. I was influenced by the Florida propaganda. Well,
you're out of your territory. You don't carry any weight
down here. Maybe if I hit a big dinner.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
I think you should know. I don't like private cops.
I'm glad I have your confidence.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
You see just stagging in here. That's right.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Ever seen him before? No, you weren't expecting him. No,
you called the desk and wanted to know if anybody
had asked for you. I always do that to get lonesome.
What are you doing in Miami, Spye? I was hired
by California orange grower. You know something, occasionally I feel
like slapping you around. Don't decide on it. I get nasty.
You're in trouble here. I'll call Walt Levinson, Fifth Precinct
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Police in New York. He'll give your references. I'll do that,
but I still want to know why this guy picked
your room to die. All right, all right, I'll tell you.
I flew all the way from New York just to
confuse you.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, I haven't killed a man in a hotel room
in years on the compulsive type.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
I just couldn't help it. I think i'll lock you up.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
I'll do that and I'll be out in an hour,
and I'll sue you for so much false arrest. You'll
be pounding a beet so far they'll have to pipe
orange juice into you. Look, there's been a murder. Well,
I didn't do it.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
The victim died in your room. You'll have to stick
around for question it. Don't question me.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
There's plenty of time. You look like the type that
breeds trouble.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
I took it up after I lost my mink business.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I'm gonna let you run around for a while if
you're mixed up in this kit, and I'll find out
about it.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
I'll let you know when you do. You'll be the
first to hear about it.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I watched Swallow cleanup Boys haul away my dead contact.
Then I promised Lieutenant Break i'd meet him at the
miam A Homicide Division at eight o'clock the next morning.
They left, and I waited until I was sure they
were clear of the hotel, then went out to find
something or someone called La Granada Out on the street.
I decided a cab driver was my best bet. I
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spotted one about halfway down the block and started for it.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
I never made it. Hold it right there.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Oh, give me one good reason this god in your back.
I'm glad you said that I was gonna be brave.
Don't who'd know you were brave if you did? Oh?
What do I have to do to stay alive?
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Just be good?
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Get into that car?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Okay, where are we going?
Speaker 9 (11:21):
What difference does this me?
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Well?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
I might like to look at the scenery.
Speaker 13 (11:26):
I hate to disappoint you. See, mister Damon doesn't make
any difference, now, does it?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Before we continue with Richard Diamond, here's an important question.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
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Speaker 2 (11:57):
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Speaker 1 (12:41):
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Speaker 14 (12:48):
Oh my.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
My, lama, can cigarette me make the camel thirty day test?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Man?
Speaker 14 (12:57):
You see small camels?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And now back to Richard Diamond Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
He'd sat me.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Behind the ear with a barrel of his big gun,
and I went down like a block of cement. No, well,
I don't know how long I stayed on the floor
of the car, But when I finally poured myself out
of it and shook the cotton out of my head,
I found I was in a room, sitting in a
chair looking up at the biggest stomach I'd ever seen.
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Suddenly over the stomach, a large, round, red face appeared.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
It smiled, and.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I tried to return the courtesy eting better Missus Jamon,
I haven't felt well. Yes, mister Tikets, you get Missus
Jamon to drink right away. Mister ticks now, let me
find my head first.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I wouldn't know where to pour it.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I don't generally resort to violence, but this time you
had an exception. It was necessary. I shouldn't want you
to find this place again. I shouldn't want to what
happens when I leave? That depends on how much you
care to tell me why you're here.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
As your drink? Thanks?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
What happened to that big gun?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Sonny?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Would you like to see it? Not especially? Oh?
Speaker 6 (14:22):
How long did it take you to water this thing?
I'm sorry?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
I didn't know you were a heavy drinker, Not heavy,
just determined. You know. If liberty is let's get down
to business, mister Diamond.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
What kind of business? Mister tempkin?
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Do you know who I am?
Speaker 6 (14:36):
I was warned and we understand each other. Where is it?
Speaker 8 (14:40):
What?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Don't be absurd?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
The white cow? If you tried the start yards you
insist in this humor only if it gets a lab
It's the diamond. I intend having the white cow. Why
his butter gone up again? I know mister Shelton came
to your hotel room earlier this evening. Yeah, he brought
a bullet along with him. We were able to to
catch him just after he landed, but he eluded us,
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and Sonny tried to slow him up with this forty five.
Shall we say he met with an unfortunate accident. Somewhere
between this accident and your hotel room, he deposited the
white cow where, mister Diamond, he didn't mention it. I'll
give you one thousand dollars for the information. I'd love it,
but I don't know what you're talking about. Come come,
Martin followed you all the way from New York. Good
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for my You should have been a boy ranger. Plenty
of time for your talents. Two thousand, mister Daymond for
two thousand. I decided my grandmother's bridge work. But I
don't know what you're talking about, Martin. Yes, mister Tickt
go turn on the radio, get some music. Yes, mister Tih,
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I really don't feel like dancing. I'm still a little
dizzy three thousand last offer timing. But I'm at a loss, indeed,
you are my hen, Yes, Sonny gonna get rough? Where
is the white out?
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Sorry?
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Change his mind, Mary, certainly. Now look, I the fight cow,
mister Diamond. I tell you, I don't know what the
fight cow, Mister Diamond. I don't know what is it?
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Funny man, you you can go where?
Speaker 5 (16:19):
No where, really, mister Diamond, is it worth it?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
No? I wish you thought so.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Just tell me where it is.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
I don't know. Oh right, Mary, Oh, look, maybe he's
telling the truth.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Maybe Shelton didn't tell him where he put it, and
then he's of no use to us. And then again,
maybe mister Shelton did tell him. Demon. Ah, he's an
abstinate young man. Oh I'll change. No, you might kill
him if he does know he can still lead us,
put him to sleep and deposit him in some eddie. Yes, sir.
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It was like taking a ride on a loose rocket.
There was a burst of fireworks, and everything seemed to
drop out from underneath. This time I went up, turning
around and round and trying to hang on. Then the
lights were gone and I was sailing through the darkness,
wishing I was someone else. Finally, the rocket slowed down
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and started to fall, and I slipped and.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Went off on my own, just a poor, tired, beaten
up a little private detective looked for someplace to land.
When I came out of it, I found myself sitting
in an alley. I thought about all my aches and
the money attempting had offered me. I pulled myself up
and thought about the miserable seven point fifty I was
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getting from Stevens. Then I staggered out in the street,
thought about going to some quiet rest home and turning
myself in for an idiot.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
I spotted a cab and hailed it. Uh, take me
to the.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
H on good evening, Miss Albright. You don't have an
old quite plasma on you, do you?
Speaker 7 (18:18):
The world happened?
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Nothing in the world. I would jump by three saucers.
Speaker 14 (18:23):
Let me help you in.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I'm afraid you'll have to.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
I was just on my way to the hotel. Go ahead, driver,
Oh convenience. I had to drive a pull over when
I saw you. What woman's name happened?
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Oh? It was just washing dishes, honest, honest, I was
It's those those new garbage disposals. If you don't want
to tell me, let's take the swelling out of my
head first.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
I'll get you right up to your room.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
No, no, let's use your room. I don't want to
explain this to Lieutenant Break.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Lieutenant Break, narrow minded cop, but never believe the story
about the disposal.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Put your head on my shoulder, which this one?
Speaker 6 (19:01):
I mean which head?
Speaker 7 (19:17):
This will sting a little?
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Put it on the numb spots and.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
I'll be right home.
Speaker 10 (19:25):
Mom.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Oh, you're not hurt that badly?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Would you be satisfied with the shall we say a corpse?
Speaker 7 (19:30):
You're going to be all right?
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Oh yeah, I'm gonna need nursing.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I love it exactly the way I feel.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
You're gonna tell me about it. I can't secret. Just
what kind of work do you do?
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Whatever it is, I'm underpaid, must.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Make a lot of enemies. I try that you're going
back to New York tonight.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I really did in a crate.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Hey, what's the matter? Have you ever heard of La
Granada Granada in New York?
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
No, here in Miami?
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I think?
Speaker 7 (20:11):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
I don't know, but I've got to find it. You
asked anyone I've been too occupied. How about the phone book?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Now?
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Isn't that just like a woman always being practical? It's
just a suggestion, one that might make me look even
more stupid than I am.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Did you get a book?
Speaker 7 (20:27):
I'll get it. Granada, Granada, Granada?
Speaker 14 (20:37):
There are two of them.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
What are they?
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Restaurant and open in a hardware shop on James.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Well, it's uh, it's eleven thirty. I'll try the restaurant
first and there I go. Sorry, no, no, you've got
to stick around with the iodine. I might be back
front nightcap. The two granadas in the phone book didn't
seem like a place to dear mister Shelton would leave
an antique. But I'm up to my room, put on
a clean shirt and went downstairs to grab a cabin.
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As I started to crawl in, a large arm shoved
its way in front of me.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Lieutenant Brick was on the other end.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
You've been busy, idle hands, you know the old saying, Lieutenant,
we're too now to blow up the city Hall when
I come along and hold the bomb. Look, Diamond, I'm
keeping score. I've been checking on the guy or died
in your room. He got off the real queeno, right,
but not when he ducked. Some guy named Sampson picked
him up in the small boat about five miles out.
Evidently he didn't like customs. Evidently it's an old habit
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of his. I found that too, previous arrests with smuggling.
What does Samson have to say about it? Nothing, he's
too dead to say anything.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Well, it's nice talking to you informally like this, Lieutenant.
I'll give me a parking ticket and let me get
in the cab. Got a date out. You had to
check up on the people you've been keeping company with,
another beaten like that, and we would have to put
you in.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Brian, Yeah, I think how horrible I'd look. Then you
could tell everybody I was your twin.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I got out of the cab a half block from
the Lagra and not a restaurant, and did everything but
walked backwards. It looked like I wasn't going there. I
looked the place over and went in. It was just closing.
A little balding man with an accent walked over to me.
Speaker 14 (22:17):
I'm sorry, but the kitchen is close, and that's all right.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I'm looking for the white cow. The white cow. I
don't believe a man named Shelton left it here for me.
Speaker 14 (22:28):
Shelton, white cow.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Shelton's a seaman off the real Queen, Real Queen. Yeah,
he told me he left the white cow here.
Speaker 14 (22:39):
Well, senor, you can look around, but you can bet.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Me we got no white cow. It's an antique. Okay,
what what the white cow? Very rare antique.
Speaker 14 (22:48):
You are being in a fight. Yeah, now, now you
got hit on the head pretty hard.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
You haven't got it?
Speaker 14 (22:56):
You have sure? We got a white cow and it
broke right out of the kitchen. We're going to have
both at them for breakfast, Okay, only I don't think
I could show them to you.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
They don't like a strangers, So that took care of
the first bed. As I walked out of the restaurant,
I made up my mind.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
If the hardware shop didn't pay off, I was going
to get back to New York got a hibernate for
the winter. The Log Granada hardware shop was all the
way on the other side of Miami, on a dark
street that looked like the inside of a coffin. Evidently,
nobody was interested in buying any hardeware at midnight, because
it was closed I banged on the front door for
about ten minutes, and then as I was just about
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to give up, I saw a light and the door opened.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
The crack. Yeah, Shelton sent me beat it. Hey, what
do you think you'll do? Listen? Listen.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
A guy named Stevens sent me to meet a guy
named Shelton. Shelton was supposed to give me something called
the White Cow. But Shelton died. What Yeah, And while
he was doing it, he said, Logranada. Now if this
is the say so, I'm running out of nerves.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Bill's dead.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Oh you know him, he's my brother. Shut the door.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
You got the white Cow? What's your name, Diamond? Yeah?
Bill said you'd be by.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
He led me to the back of the shop and
I watched while he reached into a bend of tenpenny
nails and he fished around and pulled out a small,
square shaped object wrapped an oil skin.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
As he turned the hand it to me, he froze,
who's this guy. Oh, his name's Martin. He likes to
beat guys up.
Speaker 14 (24:36):
I'm not gonna beat you up this time, Diamond.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
But you shouldn't have lied to mister Timpkin. You're gonna
have to kill you for it.
Speaker 12 (24:43):
This is probably the guy who killed your brother. Yeah,
give me the package. Shoot, stay right there, you kill Bill. Eh,
you didn't tell him enough about me, Diamonds. Ah, you're
gonna get yours, funny man.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Oh well it's all right, you do everything, well, don't you.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
I try pick the package over here, Rick.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Mister diamond Oh, now you're mad.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
You don't resent it? Do you?
Speaker 5 (25:18):
No?
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Pick it over here?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Thanks?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Oh no, I see pick me up in the bar.
Wait outside that alley. And if you knew I was
in that alley, you must know the people who.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Put me there.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Tim Kin and I ow friends.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
He's not going to like you.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
Killing Sonny won't make a bit of difference to him.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Oh you kill him too.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Yes, this package is worth about a half a million
dollars an antique. That's what's in the antique. You buy
it in China for about a thousand dollars. You refine
it here and sell it for five hundred times that much.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
The federal government won't like it.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Was to tell them, certainly not Stevens. He contracted the
smuggler stuff in everybody else is but me?
Speaker 14 (26:02):
Sorry about that.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
It was beginning to like.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
You oh, but not a half million dollars worth.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Drop it, lady, don't it looks like Grand Central.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I'm glad nobody locks doors around here? How did you
find me too? Joe was keeping school. We're about to
get an ambulance. Lieutenant wish she hadn't tried to shoot? Yeah,
lean on me there, so least I can do. The
gun would probably be the one that killed this timken gun.
Get the ambulance.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Well there, yeah, Rick, Yeah, looks like nobody gets anything.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
I got three fifty in the beating. I guess I
come out on top.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Sorry, be able to come to New York?
Speaker 5 (26:50):
So am I marry? There's gonna be a lot of
snow this year.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Dick Powell will return in just a minute.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
A few years ago, one hundred thirteen thousand, five hundred
and ninety seven doctors were asked what cigarette they smoked.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
The brand name most was camel.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Again and again, a cross section of America's men of
medicine were asked the same question every time, the brand
name most was camel. Yes. According to these repeated surveys,
more doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette.
Speaker 8 (27:32):
Oh my.
Speaker 14 (27:35):
My ca cigarette.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
Me smoke camels.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
See here's Dick Powell with a special message. Thank you,
ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Nobody deserves our appreciation as much as the hospitalized men
and women of our armed forces. As a token of appreciation,
the makers of camels send them gift cigarettes every week
of the year. This week's camels go to veterans hospitals
Fort Mead, South Dakota and Washington, d C. US Army
Station Hospital, Fort Hood, Texas, US Naval Hospital, Yokosuka, Japan.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Down until next week. Enjoy camels I always do.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Tonight's transcribed adventure of Richard Diamond was written and directed
by Blake Edwards, with music by Frank Worth.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Virginia Gregg played the part of Helenasher.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Others in the cast were Sidney Miller, Ted de Corcia,
Tony Barrett, Alan Reid, Herb Butterfield.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
And Tony Michaels.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Be sure to listen to another great Camel show, vonn
Monroe and the Camel Caravan every Saturday night. Men, pack
your pipes with Prince Albert, America's largest selling smoking tobacco,
PA's Choice tobacco is crimp cut for smooth even burning
and specially treated to insure against tongue bite. The bites
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are and the pleasures in.
Speaker 8 (29:01):
The bite is on, and the pleasures in When you
the small prince out especially treated on to bite your tongue,
the mind is on and the pleasures in.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Listen next week for another exciting adventure of Richard Diamond
starring Dick Paul
The makers of Camel's Cigarettes present Dick Powell as Richard
Diamond Private Detective. The proof of cigarette mildness is in
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the smoking, steady smoking.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Make your own thirty day Camel test, the thorough test
of mildness. Smoke only Camels for thirty days. Enjoy Camel's
rich full flavor. See how mild camels are, How well
they agree with your throat? Pack after pack, week after week.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You'll soon see why. After all the wildness tests, Camel
is by far America's most popular cigarette. Here transcribed is
Richard Diamond Private Detective, starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Detective Agency, Diamond Detective Agency.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Well Hill, where's the slogan?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Diamond Detective Agency? Is enough? This week?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I've decided to conduct my business on more of a
refined level. Why I need the change. I'm getting tired
of defending myself.
Speaker 7 (01:44):
You haven't defended yourself since kindergarten?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Are you forgetting the other night in your study? I
don't give me that sweet innocence. I should have been
decorated for that campaign.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Weren't you.
Speaker 8 (01:56):
Now you hang up and I'm going to call you
right back.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Hang out, and when you answer, you're the old Richard
diamond slogan and all yes, miss.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Asher bye women women slogan, uh slogan. Let's see.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
The Diamond Detective Agency, gum shoes, re soul while you wait?
Speaker 7 (02:16):
What's married with your boys?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
This is the old Richard Diamond. Oh Rick, We'll make
up your mind.
Speaker 9 (02:22):
Mister Diamonds.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Hold it, Helen. Something I can do for you me?
Speaker 9 (02:26):
No, yes, if you're a mister Diamond.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Client, I think so, Dear, I haven't seen the subpoena yet.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
Well, I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 9 (02:33):
Good luck, bye bye.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
We'll get it over with. Hire me or serve me.
I beg your pardon, just trying to second guess you
have a seat.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (02:44):
My name is Stevens, Arthur Stephens. What can I do
for you, mister Stevens, A great deal? I charge a
great deal for a great deal. I'm prepared to pay
you handsomely, handsomely and for what five hundred dollars for
a quick trip to Florida?
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (02:58):
That's easy. What's going to make it tough?
Speaker 9 (03:01):
Lucius Timpkin?
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Is that a man?
Speaker 9 (03:04):
Yes, he'll try and stop you, how kill you if necessary?
Speaker 6 (03:11):
That statement just cost you another two.
Speaker 10 (03:13):
Fifty I anticipated that seven fifty, then what do I
have to do? Pick up something for me?
Speaker 6 (03:19):
How old is she?
Speaker 11 (03:20):
No?
Speaker 9 (03:20):
This is an object, a very rare object.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Blonde and brunette.
Speaker 9 (03:25):
This is an antique.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
You're turning into a good straight man.
Speaker 10 (03:28):
It's a rare European art object worth a considerable fortune.
Anything else you'd like to know? The seven fifty should
compensate for your inquisitiveness.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Why can't you just go get it?
Speaker 9 (03:38):
Lucius Timkin? He anticipates my arrival.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Why did you pick me?
Speaker 9 (03:43):
Reputation? I've heard? I can trust you, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Mister Stevens. How much of a down payment will keep
you trusting me until I get back? Let's say two fifty,
Let's say three point.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Fifty, and we can trust each other. It's a bargain
only if I live long enough to spend it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Stevens gave me some instructions, handed him to the cash,
and I agreed to meet him into my office early
in the morning. After I had returned with the item,
he gave me a round trip ticket to Miam of Florida,
a wet handshake, and a smile that reminded me of
a man who had swallowed a mouthful of sour milk. Now,
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in my business I expect trouble. I can usually spot
it quicker than a lonesome blonde. And as I watched
the door close behind Stephens, I spotted it. Trouble all
over the place and Richard Diamond up to his shoulder
holster in it. I called Helen, told the rod Shepherd
back some oranges, went home and packed, and by two
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in the afternoon was on the plane heading for Miami.
Stevens had instructed me to register at the plaza and
wait for a man named Shelton who was supposed to
be my contact and deliver the item. I arrived in Miami,
took a cab to the hotel, registered and went up
to my room to take a shower and loose some
of the stiffness. A half hour later, I went down
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to the bar to see if I could get some
of the stiffness back.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
This sea taken not a bed climb up. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Nice and cooling here.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Yeah, Can I buy you something to go with it?
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Martini atender a Martinia for the lady. Do you live
here at the hotel?
Speaker 12 (05:32):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Do you just moved in?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
My name's Albright, Mary Albright Richard Diamond.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Hello, Wow, staying in Miami long depends on the weather.
You're a martini?
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Oh yes, cheers to the weather. Oh what kind of
weather we drinking to? Anyway?
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Sun ray kind of weather as lung as there's something
to do.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Then let's drink to something to do.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
What do you do, mister dald Oh start by asking
attractive blondes to call me Rick?
Speaker 7 (06:11):
All right, Rick, what do you do?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I'll make a few bucks work when I have to
enjoy a cool drink and a buy with a girl
named Mary, Mary, not a bit? Have you made the
trip yet?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Once?
Speaker 7 (06:28):
I didn't like the weather? Why don't you buy me dinner? Rick?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Oh? Sorry you said that?
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Another date?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Business? Then I've got to get right back to New York.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Well it was a nice idea, the nicest. Well, I
gotta be going nice meeting you, Rick?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Good bye Mary? Rick.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Yeah, what's the weather like in New York?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Cold? When I left? If you ever fly up, give
me a call.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
I'll do that. Maybe we can knelt some snow.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
She could have melted an ice floe in the eydic.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I left her sitting at the bar, looking lonesome, and
went back up to my room and enjoyed myself by
running into the walls until I got tired and laid
down the rest. I must have dozed, because when I
came out of it and looked at my watch, it
was nearly eight.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
My contact was overdue. So I sat up, smoked the camel,
and by eight I called the desk. Hello this mister diamond.
Has anybody been asking for me?
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Are you sure? Okay? Oh, it's about time.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Close the door?
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Hey, close it. Look look, friend, you better listen. Go
to logron. Look your hurt log room up?
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Hey? Oh why does everybody picked my room to die in?
He was lying on his back with his eyes open
and staring up at the ceiling.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I rolled him over and wondered how far he'd travel
with a bullet hole on his back. He was heavy set,
wearing an AVP jacket and dungarees. The identification in his
wallet showed him to be my contact, George Shelton, and
his ship was the real Queen. I searched him for
something that looked like a rare antique, but the sailor
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was bear, so I sat down and made up my mind.
He'd said something before he died La Granada. I thought
about the rest of the money. I was going to
be out if I didn't bring the antique back to
Stevens and called the police.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
In ten minutes.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Lieutenant Breake of Miyamahamicide was looking my license, Richard Damnon
one hundred and eighty license in the state of New York.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Brown hair and the loveliest blue eye I can read.
But that description doesn't do me justice. You're a pretty
fresh guy. I was influenced by the Florida propaganda. Well,
you're out of your territory. You don't carry any weight
down here. Maybe if I hit a big dinner.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
I think you should know. I don't like private cops.
I'm glad I have your confidence.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
You see just stagging in here. That's right.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Ever seen him before? No, you weren't expecting him. No,
you called the desk and wanted to know if anybody
had asked for you. I always do that to get lonesome.
What are you doing in Miami, Spye? I was hired
by California orange grower. You know something, occasionally I feel
like slapping you around. Don't decide on it. I get nasty.
You're in trouble here. I'll call Walt Levinson, Fifth Precinct
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Police in New York. He'll give your references. I'll do that,
but I still want to know why this guy picked
your room to die. All right, all right, I'll tell you.
I flew all the way from New York just to
confuse you.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, I haven't killed a man in a hotel room
in years on the compulsive type.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
I just couldn't help it. I think i'll lock you up.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
I'll do that and I'll be out in an hour,
and I'll sue you for so much false arrest. You'll
be pounding a beet so far they'll have to pipe
orange juice into you. Look, there's been a murder. Well,
I didn't do it.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
The victim died in your room. You'll have to stick
around for question it. Don't question me.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
There's plenty of time. You look like the type that
breeds trouble.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
I took it up after I lost my mink business.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I'm gonna let you run around for a while if
you're mixed up in this kit, and I'll find out
about it.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
I'll let you know when you do. You'll be the
first to hear about it.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I watched Swallow cleanup Boys haul away my dead contact.
Then I promised Lieutenant Break i'd meet him at the
miam A Homicide Division at eight o'clock the next morning.
They left, and I waited until I was sure they
were clear of the hotel, then went out to find
something or someone called La Granada Out on the street.
I decided a cab driver was my best bet. I
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spotted one about halfway down the block and started for it.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
I never made it. Hold it right there.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Oh, give me one good reason this god in your back.
I'm glad you said that I was gonna be brave.
Don't who'd know you were brave if you did? Oh?
What do I have to do to stay alive?
Speaker 6 (11:16):
Just be good?
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Get into that car?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Okay, where are we going?
Speaker 9 (11:21):
What difference does this me?
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Well?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
I might like to look at the scenery.
Speaker 13 (11:26):
I hate to disappoint you. See, mister Damon doesn't make
any difference, now, does it?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Before we continue with Richard Diamond, here's an important question.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Will camels agree with your throat?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Here's what noted throats specialists reported and a famous coast
to coast thirty day camel test hundreds of men and women,
people in different climates, people with normal throats smoked only
camels for thirty days. The specialists made weekly examinations of
their throats two thousand, four hundred and seventy examinations in all,
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and reported not one single case of throat irritation due
to smoking camels. Will camels agree with your throat? Make
your own thirty day camel test the sensible thorough cigarette test.
Enjoy camel's rich, full flavor for thirty days. See how
mild camels are pack after pack, How well they agree
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with your throat, weak in and weak out.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
You'll make camels your steady smoke for mildness, for flavor,
for constant smoking enjoyment.
Speaker 14 (12:48):
Oh my.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
My, lama, can cigarette me make the camel thirty day test?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Man?
Speaker 14 (12:57):
You see small camels?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And now back to Richard Diamond Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
He'd sat me.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Behind the ear with a barrel of his big gun,
and I went down like a block of cement. No, well,
I don't know how long I stayed on the floor
of the car, But when I finally poured myself out
of it and shook the cotton out of my head,
I found I was in a room, sitting in a
chair looking up at the biggest stomach I'd ever seen.
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Suddenly over the stomach, a large, round, red face appeared.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
It smiled, and.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I tried to return the courtesy eting better Missus Jamon,
I haven't felt well. Yes, mister Tikets, you get Missus
Jamon to drink right away. Mister ticks now, let me
find my head first.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I wouldn't know where to pour it.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I don't generally resort to violence, but this time you
had an exception. It was necessary. I shouldn't want you
to find this place again. I shouldn't want to what
happens when I leave? That depends on how much you
care to tell me why you're here.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
As your drink? Thanks?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
What happened to that big gun?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Sonny?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Would you like to see it? Not especially? Oh?
Speaker 6 (14:22):
How long did it take you to water this thing?
I'm sorry?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
I didn't know you were a heavy drinker, Not heavy,
just determined. You know. If liberty is let's get down
to business, mister Diamond.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
What kind of business? Mister tempkin?
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Do you know who I am?
Speaker 6 (14:36):
I was warned and we understand each other. Where is it?
Speaker 8 (14:40):
What?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Don't be absurd?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
The white cow? If you tried the start yards you
insist in this humor only if it gets a lab
It's the diamond. I intend having the white cow. Why
his butter gone up again? I know mister Shelton came
to your hotel room earlier this evening. Yeah, he brought
a bullet along with him. We were able to to
catch him just after he landed, but he eluded us,
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and Sonny tried to slow him up with this forty five.
Shall we say he met with an unfortunate accident. Somewhere
between this accident and your hotel room, he deposited the
white cow where, mister Diamond, he didn't mention it. I'll
give you one thousand dollars for the information. I'd love it,
but I don't know what you're talking about. Come come,
Martin followed you all the way from New York. Good
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for my You should have been a boy ranger. Plenty
of time for your talents. Two thousand, mister Daymond for
two thousand. I decided my grandmother's bridge work. But I
don't know what you're talking about, Martin. Yes, mister Tickt
go turn on the radio, get some music. Yes, mister Tih,
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I really don't feel like dancing. I'm still a little
dizzy three thousand last offer timing. But I'm at a loss, indeed,
you are my hen, Yes, Sonny gonna get rough? Where
is the white out?
Speaker 6 (16:01):
Sorry?
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Change his mind, Mary, certainly. Now look, I the fight cow,
mister Diamond. I tell you, I don't know what the
fight cow, Mister Diamond. I don't know what is it?
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Funny man, you you can go where?
Speaker 5 (16:19):
No where, really, mister Diamond, is it worth it?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
No? I wish you thought so.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Just tell me where it is.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
I don't know. Oh right, Mary, Oh, look, maybe he's
telling the truth.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Maybe Shelton didn't tell him where he put it, and
then he's of no use to us. And then again,
maybe mister Shelton did tell him. Demon. Ah, he's an
abstinate young man. Oh I'll change. No, you might kill
him if he does know he can still lead us,
put him to sleep and deposit him in some eddie. Yes, sir.
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It was like taking a ride on a loose rocket.
There was a burst of fireworks, and everything seemed to
drop out from underneath. This time I went up, turning
around and round and trying to hang on. Then the
lights were gone and I was sailing through the darkness,
wishing I was someone else. Finally, the rocket slowed down
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and started to fall, and I slipped and.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Went off on my own, just a poor, tired, beaten
up a little private detective looked for someplace to land.
When I came out of it, I found myself sitting
in an alley. I thought about all my aches and
the money attempting had offered me. I pulled myself up
and thought about the miserable seven point fifty I was
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getting from Stevens. Then I staggered out in the street,
thought about going to some quiet rest home and turning
myself in for an idiot.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
I spotted a cab and hailed it. Uh, take me
to the.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
H on good evening, Miss Albright. You don't have an
old quite plasma on you, do you?
Speaker 7 (18:18):
The world happened?
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Nothing in the world. I would jump by three saucers.
Speaker 14 (18:23):
Let me help you in.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I'm afraid you'll have to.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
I was just on my way to the hotel. Go ahead, driver,
Oh convenience. I had to drive a pull over when
I saw you. What woman's name happened?
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Oh? It was just washing dishes, honest, honest, I was
It's those those new garbage disposals. If you don't want
to tell me, let's take the swelling out of my
head first.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
I'll get you right up to your room.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
No, no, let's use your room. I don't want to
explain this to Lieutenant Break.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Lieutenant Break, narrow minded cop, but never believe the story
about the disposal.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Put your head on my shoulder, which this one?
Speaker 6 (19:01):
I mean which head?
Speaker 7 (19:17):
This will sting a little?
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Put it on the numb spots and.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
I'll be right home.
Speaker 10 (19:25):
Mom.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Oh, you're not hurt that badly?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Would you be satisfied with the shall we say a corpse?
Speaker 7 (19:30):
You're going to be all right?
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Oh yeah, I'm gonna need nursing.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I love it exactly the way I feel.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
You're gonna tell me about it. I can't secret. Just
what kind of work do you do?
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Whatever it is, I'm underpaid, must.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Make a lot of enemies. I try that you're going
back to New York tonight.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I really did in a crate.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Hey, what's the matter? Have you ever heard of La
Granada Granada in New York?
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
No, here in Miami?
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I think?
Speaker 7 (20:11):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
I don't know, but I've got to find it. You
asked anyone I've been too occupied. How about the phone book?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Now?
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Isn't that just like a woman always being practical? It's
just a suggestion, one that might make me look even
more stupid than I am.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Did you get a book?
Speaker 7 (20:27):
I'll get it. Granada, Granada, Granada?
Speaker 14 (20:37):
There are two of them.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
What are they?
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Restaurant and open in a hardware shop on James.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Well, it's uh, it's eleven thirty. I'll try the restaurant
first and there I go. Sorry, no, no, you've got
to stick around with the iodine. I might be back
front nightcap. The two granadas in the phone book didn't
seem like a place to dear mister Shelton would leave
an antique. But I'm up to my room, put on
a clean shirt and went downstairs to grab a cabin.
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As I started to crawl in, a large arm shoved
its way in front of me.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Lieutenant Brick was on the other end.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
You've been busy, idle hands, you know the old saying, Lieutenant,
we're too now to blow up the city Hall when
I come along and hold the bomb. Look, Diamond, I'm
keeping score. I've been checking on the guy or died
in your room. He got off the real queeno, right,
but not when he ducked. Some guy named Sampson picked
him up in the small boat about five miles out.
Evidently he didn't like customs. Evidently it's an old habit
(21:32):
of his. I found that too, previous arrests with smuggling.
What does Samson have to say about it? Nothing, he's
too dead to say anything.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Well, it's nice talking to you informally like this, Lieutenant.
I'll give me a parking ticket and let me get
in the cab. Got a date out. You had to
check up on the people you've been keeping company with,
another beaten like that, and we would have to put
you in.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Brian, Yeah, I think how horrible I'd look. Then you
could tell everybody I was your twin.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I got out of the cab a half block from
the Lagra and not a restaurant, and did everything but
walked backwards. It looked like I wasn't going there. I
looked the place over and went in. It was just closing.
A little balding man with an accent walked over to me.
Speaker 14 (22:17):
I'm sorry, but the kitchen is close, and that's all right.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I'm looking for the white cow. The white cow. I
don't believe a man named Shelton left it here for me.
Speaker 14 (22:28):
Shelton, white cow.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Shelton's a seaman off the real Queen, Real Queen. Yeah,
he told me he left the white cow here.
Speaker 14 (22:39):
Well, senor, you can look around, but you can bet.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Me we got no white cow. It's an antique. Okay,
what what the white cow? Very rare antique.
Speaker 14 (22:48):
You are being in a fight. Yeah, now, now you
got hit on the head pretty hard.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
You haven't got it?
Speaker 14 (22:56):
You have sure? We got a white cow and it
broke right out of the kitchen. We're going to have
both at them for breakfast, Okay, only I don't think
I could show them to you.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
They don't like a strangers, So that took care of
the first bed. As I walked out of the restaurant,
I made up my mind.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
If the hardware shop didn't pay off, I was going
to get back to New York got a hibernate for
the winter. The Log Granada hardware shop was all the
way on the other side of Miami, on a dark
street that looked like the inside of a coffin. Evidently,
nobody was interested in buying any hardeware at midnight, because
it was closed I banged on the front door for
about ten minutes, and then as I was just about
(23:38):
to give up, I saw a light and the door opened.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
The crack. Yeah, Shelton sent me beat it. Hey, what
do you think you'll do? Listen? Listen.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
A guy named Stevens sent me to meet a guy
named Shelton. Shelton was supposed to give me something called
the White Cow. But Shelton died. What Yeah, And while
he was doing it, he said, Logranada. Now if this
is the say so, I'm running out of nerves.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Bill's dead.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Oh you know him, he's my brother. Shut the door.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
You got the white Cow? What's your name, Diamond? Yeah?
Bill said you'd be by.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
He led me to the back of the shop and
I watched while he reached into a bend of tenpenny
nails and he fished around and pulled out a small,
square shaped object wrapped an oil skin.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
As he turned the hand it to me, he froze,
who's this guy. Oh, his name's Martin. He likes to
beat guys up.
Speaker 14 (24:36):
I'm not gonna beat you up this time, Diamond.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
But you shouldn't have lied to mister Timpkin. You're gonna
have to kill you for it.
Speaker 12 (24:43):
This is probably the guy who killed your brother. Yeah,
give me the package. Shoot, stay right there, you kill Bill. Eh,
you didn't tell him enough about me, Diamonds. Ah, you're
gonna get yours, funny man.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Oh well it's all right, you do everything, well, don't you.
Speaker 7 (25:10):
I try pick the package over here, Rick.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Mister diamond Oh, now you're mad.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
You don't resent it? Do you?
Speaker 5 (25:18):
No?
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Pick it over here?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Thanks?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Oh no, I see pick me up in the bar.
Wait outside that alley. And if you knew I was
in that alley, you must know the people who.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Put me there.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Tim Kin and I ow friends.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
He's not going to like you.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
Killing Sonny won't make a bit of difference to him.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Oh you kill him too.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Yes, this package is worth about a half a million
dollars an antique. That's what's in the antique. You buy
it in China for about a thousand dollars. You refine
it here and sell it for five hundred times that much.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
The federal government won't like it.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Was to tell them, certainly not Stevens. He contracted the
smuggler stuff in everybody else is but me?
Speaker 14 (26:02):
Sorry about that.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
It was beginning to like.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
You oh, but not a half million dollars worth.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
Drop it, lady, don't it looks like Grand Central.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I'm glad nobody locks doors around here? How did you
find me too? Joe was keeping school. We're about to
get an ambulance. Lieutenant wish she hadn't tried to shoot? Yeah,
lean on me there, so least I can do. The
gun would probably be the one that killed this timken gun.
Get the ambulance.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Well there, yeah, Rick, Yeah, looks like nobody gets anything.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
I got three fifty in the beating. I guess I
come out on top.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Sorry, be able to come to New York?
Speaker 5 (26:50):
So am I marry? There's gonna be a lot of
snow this year.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Dick Powell will return in just a minute.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
A few years ago, one hundred thirteen thousand, five hundred
and ninety seven doctors were asked what cigarette they smoked.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
The brand name most was camel.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Again and again, a cross section of America's men of
medicine were asked the same question every time, the brand
name most was camel. Yes. According to these repeated surveys,
more doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette.
Speaker 8 (27:32):
Oh my.
Speaker 14 (27:35):
My ca cigarette.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
Me smoke camels.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
See here's Dick Powell with a special message. Thank you,
ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Nobody deserves our appreciation as much as the hospitalized men
and women of our armed forces. As a token of appreciation,
the makers of camels send them gift cigarettes every week
of the year. This week's camels go to veterans hospitals
Fort Mead, South Dakota and Washington, d C. US Army
Station Hospital, Fort Hood, Texas, US Naval Hospital, Yokosuka, Japan.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Down until next week. Enjoy camels I always do.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Tonight's transcribed adventure of Richard Diamond was written and directed
by Blake Edwards, with music by Frank Worth.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Virginia Gregg played the part of Helenasher.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Others in the cast were Sidney Miller, Ted de Corcia,
Tony Barrett, Alan Reid, Herb Butterfield.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
And Tony Michaels.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Be sure to listen to another great Camel show, vonn
Monroe and the Camel Caravan every Saturday night. Men, pack
your pipes with Prince Albert, America's largest selling smoking tobacco,
PA's Choice tobacco is crimp cut for smooth even burning
and specially treated to insure against tongue bite. The bites
(28:59):
are and the pleasures in.
Speaker 8 (29:01):
The bite is on, and the pleasures in When you
the small prince out especially treated on to bite your tongue,
the mind is on and the pleasures in.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Listen next week for another exciting adventure of Richard Diamond
starring Dick Paul
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