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March 17, 2025 36 mins
Today's Mystery: A star with a reputation for paying tough guys wants to hire The Falcon to investigate phony threats on his life in order to gain publicity to bolster his troubled career.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 18, 1952

Originating from New York

Starring: Les Damon as The Falco; Chuck Webster as Sergeant Corbett; Ken Lynch; Ralph Bell; Bill Zuckert

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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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(01:11):
Detectives dot net. Now. From May eighteenth, nineteen fifty two,
here is the case of the Falling Store.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Hello. Yes, this is the Falcon speaking. Oh DRIs, Now
I have to include me out tonight. I've got to
discuss an idea for a movie. Uhh no, I can't
make it, Angel and I can't miss this. These characters
have dreamed up the perfect switch. Instead of shooting pictures,
they plan to shoot people. Once again, The National Broadcasting

(01:52):
Company brings you the transcribed Adventures of the Falcon, starring
Les Damon The Adventures of the Falcon dedicated to private
investigators everywhere, those hard hitting detectives who like Mike Wearing,
risk their lives to aid law enforcement agencies. So join
him now when the Falcon solves the case of the

(02:13):
Falling Star. It's Sunday afternoon in New York, and in
his hotel suite, Ken Marlowe, who smashed his way to
movie stardom by portraying a two fisted drinking man, is
giving a sample of the performance that made him famous.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Only this time Ken isn't acting.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
I'll fix them, awe when I get throwing those Crumbshell,
no better than the horse.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, that's about time, fellow.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
That's what I thought too. Huh, how are you kin,
Shackie Howard? I'm sorry, I was expecting somebody else.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
I bet she's a lot prettier.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Nothing like that. I'm here with a wife. It's funny thing.
I didn't even know you were in town. I thought
I left you on the West coast.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
Haven't you heard trailways runs all over the country.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
What they got to do is bad ticket.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Look, Jackie, I know what you want. I intended it.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
I intended to clean up that fifteen grand, I owe
you before I left.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
It's nineteen fifteen nineteen.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
What's the difference. I'm good for it.

Speaker 6 (03:26):
I am.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Someone told me you washed up at National Pictures.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
They're crazy. I'm in like Flynn.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
I'm glad to hear it.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
Of course, if they don't pick up your option, you
see my position. As I said, you're into me for
nineteen grand, and as I said, I'm good for it.
I can write my own ticket at any studio. Who
is the number one box office draw on forty nine?

Speaker 1 (03:46):
You?

Speaker 5 (03:47):
Well, they are no there you were? That was forty nine. Ken,
three years is like three hundred in Hollywood.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
I tell you you got nothing to worry about it.
National will pick up my option on the twenty third.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
And when can I expect you to pick up these
IOUs Jackie?

Speaker 4 (04:07):
If you're going to take that attitude, you can whistle
for your dough. Nobody pushes me around.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Oh that's right, I forgot. You're a pretty tough Boyant Pictures.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
Luckily I never go to the movies. Let's see it,
let's understand each other. Ken, you owe me nineteen grand.
I expect to heaven on the twenty third.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
If Darling, just say I'm busy, Laura, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Oh, there's no need to apologize, missus Marlowe. I'm Jackie Howard.
How do you do? I've heard so much about you,
and I wish I could say it wasn't true. Well,
I'm sure I'm in the way, so if you excuse
Oh no, don't bother. I was just leaving. Well what
do you say?

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Ken?

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Shall we make it for a week from Friday?

Speaker 5 (04:56):
I'll tell my best, that's all I ask. Well, this
has been a real pleasure miss my mom. Maybe we'll
love me to get I hope so.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Good.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Jerdy Bob, what's he doing here? You have business?

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Darling. I don't want to make a noise like a wife.
But if you owe.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Jackie Howard, is that it's not of your business.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Don't you understand I'm only thinking of you if you're
in a gym.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
I stop bagging. All I want to All you want
to do is drive me race.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
There's my coat.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
I'm gonna find a place where a man can have
a drink and past.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh hi, Steve, can I help you?

Speaker 6 (05:48):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (05:49):
Mster Mallow, don't mind I see him?

Speaker 6 (05:54):
Hello, Ken, I've been looking for you, how do you
watch Steve? Just saw Laura. You're really living your part,
aren't you? Boy?

Speaker 7 (06:03):
I have the two fisted he man. That's a beautiful
shine as she's sporting. Somebody asks no, but I hate
to see you.

Speaker 6 (06:09):
Love her up. She's one in a million because she's
stuck by you. When you've gotten that mess out in
Beverly Hill.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Why don't you mind your own business?

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Steve?

Speaker 6 (06:16):
I tried to.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
You're not very good at it. I pay you two
hundred bucks a week to take care of my publicity.
I haven't seen my name in print for months.

Speaker 7 (06:23):
Sometimes a publicity man does a job by keeping his
client's name out.

Speaker 6 (06:27):
Of the papers.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
What kind of a crack is that?

Speaker 7 (06:29):
Who squared that beef with that girl in Santa Monica
and that little chicken and seen it?

Speaker 2 (06:34):
That's Steve.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
If you don't like it, you know what you can do.

Speaker 7 (06:37):
You know, I was just thinking, if National doesn't pick
up your eruption, you're going to be in trouble.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Who says so I could go to a Metro or fall.

Speaker 6 (06:44):
I got a scoop for you, boy. They wouldn't let
you through the main gate. Your only chance is National.

Speaker 7 (06:49):
Now you gotta behave yourself until they make up their minds.

Speaker 6 (06:52):
Kind of a jam. Did you get yourself into with
Jackie Howard? Oh, so Laura has been She hasn't been.

Speaker 7 (06:57):
Doing anything of the kind. I saw Jackie in the lobby.
I put two and two together.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
Let's get stop adding and pay more attention to business.
We'd all be better off. Why don't you get me
some publicis? Okay, maybe you could stop a runaway horse.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
I'll be funny.

Speaker 6 (07:09):
I was just pointing out.

Speaker 7 (07:10):
That putting three quarts of boos away isn't considered front
page stuff anymore.

Speaker 6 (07:14):
You see, editors are funny.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
They wait a minute, Wait a minute. I got an idea.
Suppose my life was threatened forgetting why? It sounds pretty
good to me. Now if we went to the con
In case you.

Speaker 7 (07:27):
Haven't heard Ken horsing around with the laws of pretty
serious matter.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Okay, isn't Mike wearing a buddy of yours? Oh, a
private dick they.

Speaker 6 (07:36):
Call a falcon? What about him they keep playball? No, No,
Mike wouldn't touch anything. It's funny.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Why would he have to know? I suppose we cooked
up some anonymous.

Speaker 6 (07:45):
Far it's out Why?

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Because I thought of it, Ken, don't be ridicted. We're
gonna handle it my way.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
We'll hire the Falcon to be my bodyguard, and you
leak it to the papers. I want to be worth
a couple of column I don't like it, Kitty, Well,
I don't like paying your salary while I dream up
the ideas.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Now, go call Wearing set up a date.

Speaker 6 (08:10):
Well that's the story, Mike.

Speaker 7 (08:12):
After the third phone call, Ken thought we ought to
do something about it.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
I assume not that I was worried. You understand I
can take care of myself, but I had to think
of Laura, my wife. You know how a gal worries.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Tell me some more about these phone calls more alone.
Do you recognize the voice? No, I thought it was
a gag at first. What convinced you otherwise?

Speaker 4 (08:34):
Well, this morning someone took a pot shot at me
when I was playing golf with Steve.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Do you report it to the police.

Speaker 6 (08:39):
He didn't want to, Mike, but I insisted.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
What did they say?

Speaker 6 (08:42):
They thought it was a publicity stunt? Is this no?

Speaker 2 (08:46):
You sure, Steve?

Speaker 6 (08:47):
I'll look, Mike. You've known me for how many years? Ten? Twelve?
I think I've always leveled with you.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
I'm sorry, but you can't blame me for being suspicious.
What did you talk with headquarters? A sergeant claw? But
now there's a phony I've ever met one. He happens
to be a friend of mine.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Offense, old man, I know manyipp.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Have you any idea who might be after you? No,
you're indulging in any extracurricular activities. You mean women.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
You take me for an idiot. I'm married to the
greatest little gal in the world.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
You owe anybody any money? No, I'm the kind of
pays his bills. I'm always on the dot. You sound
too good to be true. Ah. The more I hear
of this, the more I'm convinced Corbett was right. Come again,
Well you tell it. You're the most popular man in
the class.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
Okay, if that's the way you feel, we'll get somebody else.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
There are other private detectives in New York and better too,
my Steve. I'm sorry, Michel, forget it's not your fault.
Just say it's a clash of personalities. You're coming, Steve.

Speaker 6 (09:42):
Yeah, it's a long pall. I'll be seeing you, bet.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Give me a call before you leave town.

Speaker 6 (09:46):
I will.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Well.

Speaker 6 (09:49):
I hope you're satisfied.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
I am.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
I think wearing is gonna work out fine, so.

Speaker 6 (09:54):
Help me your nuts. Didn't you hear it?

Speaker 4 (09:56):
I know what he said. He thinks this is a
publicity stunt. All he caught with the prologue. He'll play
ball after the first actor.

Speaker 6 (10:04):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Let's find a phone. I got to cast a show
and I know just the boy to play the lead.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Yeah, is text Riley around the wolves?

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Don't know?

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Tell him it's Ken Marlow?

Speaker 6 (10:34):
Why you know? Good lous? How can you have the names.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
If your shirt on text?

Speaker 4 (10:38):
But you thought I forgot about that hundred bucks you
loaned me before I went to Hollywood?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well didn't you?

Speaker 4 (10:43):
No, this is my first trip to New York in
six years.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
You could have mailed it.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
That's too impersonal. I wanted to give it to you
myself with a little bonus. How would you like to
pick up an additional five hundred?

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Don't sound like a Ken Marlow? I know him?

Speaker 6 (10:56):
Hate?

Speaker 2 (10:58):
What do I have to do?

Speaker 6 (10:59):
Well?

Speaker 4 (10:59):
Left, I got a little part i'd like you to
try out for in a picture. It's a play I'm
gonna produce on my own. First, I'd like to see
a dress rehearsal.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
I don't get it.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Well, my wife.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
Doesn't know anything about this, and I'd like to test
a reaction. If you meet me in the crighton lobby
in twenty minutes, we'll run over the script.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
Hey, Laura, you better order some more rice.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
I'm running a low. Oh, I can't why you expecting someone?

Speaker 4 (11:35):
Oh, Steve Nichols said he might drop around answer the door.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
That's the dagon. Well, how are you a sugar? I
beg your pardon, I beg yours is Hollywood hot shot in?

Speaker 4 (11:51):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (11:51):
Is it, Laura?

Speaker 2 (11:53):
What mine? I'll announce myself. Hi am all over with
the devil? Or just an order found? Get out? I'll
wind I putting my pencil. I had it right here. Hey,
look at what I found. That's the idea that gun.
Or you can't say you weren't warn Marlow.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
You're a friend of mine.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Some dough he told you to get it up, since
you didn't. No, you can't get out of my waist.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
No, will you stop wedding in.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
I'm not afraid you don't know what you're doing. Yes,
I do. Look, lady, I got nothing against you.

Speaker 6 (12:22):
I get out of the way.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
See what a hero he is? Ken he's afraid of
a woman half his sun.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
I'm warning you, baby, if you don't get out of
the way.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Out about you haske on. Oh it's me, sergeant. Well,
if it ain't that high flying bird the fault. Welcome
to our little nest. Right, your material fell out in California.

(12:50):
He worked real cheap, he should. So it was Ken
Marlow around to see you this morning. Yeah, I spotted
it for a publicity stunt. That's what I thought at
first too, but changed my mind. Someone tried a gun
him an hour ago. Obviously they didn't make it. How
do you know, Well, I already talked to you, mister Marlon.
Here's the jacket of the buller we found in the room.
What do you make of it? It's a blank, that's right,

(13:13):
mister Wearing. It's a blank. Marlow was in no danger
at all. Well, I guess that makes me the chump
of the year. I guess it does. Well. I had
a little help, Okay, Sage'll be seeing you. I got
to thank the man who thought me so deserving.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
At you, Laura.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Sorry to disappoint you, marlone Ah you're wearing, I said,
I have no thanks. I just dropped by the congratulates.
You want a magnificent performance.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
It's eating you.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
It was a beautiful job of sucking me in. You
were hired. Whoever took that shot at you? You are nuts?
But I can't figure out is how your wife got
in the act. What happens? She had little part for herself. Hi,
I don't think she knew the bullet was a blank.
You don't rate a gual like that. You've got your nerve?

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Get out?

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Does that mean I'm fired?

Speaker 3 (14:07):
What do you think good?

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Because I hate to hit a client. Come on, Marlow,
we can't end the scene with you on the floor.
Your public would never stand for it. Now get up
and make like a hero?

Speaker 6 (14:30):
Are you Mike?

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Oh? I just not an expect to see you again today.
You know me always do the unexpected. But you have
to see Ken Marlow? Yeah, what happened? Nothing worth talking about?

Speaker 5 (14:41):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (14:42):
You're too modest? All right? So I slapped him a
couple of times. He had it coming, maybe the slaps,
but not the rest. What are you talking about? He's dead, Mike,
He's what he's out for all time. Were you wearing
brass nuts? You're crazy? I wish I were to get
your coach, fellow, I'll get a long ride ahead. What

(15:14):
do you and your family do on a weekend? If
you're average Americans on a Saturday or Sunday, you enjoy
your car, You take a short drive. We're a long trip.
If you use your automobile a lot on weekends, you
have a good idea. How many millions of cars pour
out onto the highways on Saturdays and Sundays. That's one
reason why the traffic death toll is so high and

(15:35):
why the utmost caution is needed in weekend driving more
than any other time. So remember to drive as though
your life depends on it. It does. Now back to
the Adventures of the Falcon. An hour has passed since

(16:00):
Mike Wearing was informed Ken Marlowe was dead, and now
at the scene of the crime, Sergeant Corbett gives our
hero some fatherly advice. Lessen, Mike, I got it all
figured out. I'm sure you'll be able to cop a plea.
What are you babbling about? Well, it was self defense,
wasn't it. You didn't mean to kill.

Speaker 6 (16:16):
Him, and I didn't.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
When I left here, he was at the other end
of the room with the back of his head caved in. Well,
let's just hit corp. But how did it get that way?
I didn't slug him from behind, and he must have
hit it when he fell against what That sofa wouldn't
hurt a fly. How about the fireplace, No, he wasn't
anywhere near it. It'd be blood stains if he were.
There must be something around that caused the damage. The

(16:37):
familiar blunt instrument. Yeah, let's see those fire times clean?
You know? How about those book ends?

Speaker 6 (16:47):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Not a stain on him? Listen, Mike, maybe the killer
took the weapon with him. Does that mean you're absolving me?
If we can come up with some evidence you think
the murderer might have walked off with it? I doubt it.
A lot of blood fly. I can't see anyone taking
a chance on staining his clothes. Well, he didn't leave
it around for us to find. Hey, wait a minute,
there's something missing in this room. But it's just the trouble.

(17:11):
I can't I got it. Liquor? What are you talking about?
Marlow was a drinker. A boy like him would have
at least one bottle around.

Speaker 6 (17:19):
You're right.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Where's the trash basket? Probably in the pantry. Well, let's
get it. The killer might gamble. The next time the
chamber Maide came through. She dumped it without a second plan.
Quite a collection. Eh, there's a baby, don't touch it.
I won't. But mine are probably the only finger prints
that aren't on it. Everyone else who was up here

(17:40):
must have been invited to help himself. Yeah, you're probably right,
at Haskell, take this down to the lab. Well, now
you're convinced I had nothing to do with this murder. Yeah,
but if you didn't kill Marlow, who did? That's what
I intend to find out. Why don't you stay out
of this mine? Oh? No where but tailored this frame
did a lovely job. It's just lucky. I didn't fit
the picture. He can't blame me if I want to

(18:02):
get my hands on the artist. I tell you, Mike,
I don't know anything about it.

Speaker 7 (18:15):
First I heard of it was when the cops phoned
me they found Ken's body.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Whose bright idea was his publicity stuck in the first place,
Steve Ken's.

Speaker 6 (18:23):
I didn't want any part of it.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
And why did you bring him to me?

Speaker 6 (18:25):
I couldn't help myself, Mike. I was working for the man.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
That's another thing I don't understand. How come you tied
up with a heel like marlow The dough was good?
When did you last get it? According to what I
hear now, he was strictly no pay. When did you
get your last salary check? Come on, Steve, it'll be
easy enough to find out.

Speaker 6 (18:44):
Three months ago.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Then why did you stick? He was on the skin?

Speaker 6 (18:47):
No, he wasn't. National had till Friday to pick up
his option.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
You think they would have?

Speaker 6 (18:51):
There is no telling. It was an't even money bet?

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Who had it in for him?

Speaker 6 (18:55):
No one?

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Look, Steve, we're no longer playing games, you o JUDOEI
must vote others.

Speaker 6 (19:01):
Jackie Howard?

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Who's Jackie Howard?

Speaker 6 (19:03):
He owns a gambling joint or the strip? Ken was
into him for around twenty grand.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
This is howard character in time?

Speaker 6 (19:09):
Yeah, staying at the Brighton.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Okay, we got one suspect, let's try for two. What
about missus Marlowe, don't talk.

Speaker 6 (19:15):
Like a chump. She was in love with the guy,
and he certainly.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Didn't raid a wife like that.

Speaker 6 (19:20):
Nobody does.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Oh sounds like you go for yourself.

Speaker 6 (19:24):
Oh, don't be silly. You know I'm married.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
I suppose you feel like a big brother to her.

Speaker 6 (19:30):
That's exactly how I feel.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
You know something, Steve, I believe you. Thanks, No, I
mean it. I think Laura explains why you continued working
for Marlon. Maybe that's why you knocked yourself out suppresing
those items that would have ruined him. You didn't want
her hurt, right, Yeah, why Steve, it won't make any
sense to you, like, Oh, try me. First day I
met her, she reminded me of beat It, beat It,

(19:52):
my kid's sister.

Speaker 6 (19:54):
She was married to a boy like Ken, and what
happened to her? She's dead?

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (19:58):
Sorry, maybe she's better?

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Or so? Are you transferred to your feeling to Laura?

Speaker 6 (20:02):
Anything wrong with that?

Speaker 7 (20:03):
No?

Speaker 2 (20:03):
I think it's very commendable. So I wonder how Laura
feels about it? Huh? Yeah, why don't I find out how?

Speaker 7 (20:09):
Look, Mike, you're not to bother her. She knows nothing
about Ken's murder.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Well, I want to got your word for it, Steve.
Not that I don't believe you understand, but I'd like
to check these things for myself. I'll be seeing you fellon.
Who is it? I like to say, Laura Marlow, there's
no one here by that name.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
I know there is, Mike.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
We please go a boy, I'd have to talk to you.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Leave me.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
I wouldn't disturb you, but it's important.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
Come in.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Thanks. How do you know I was here? Sergeant Corbett
told me I just saw Steve Nichols, and Steve sent
you here. No, as a matter of fact, he insisted,
I leave you alone. Where'd you come? Because I want
to saw your husband's murder. Ken meant nothing to you.
He was a client. He tricked you. I still took

(21:06):
his money. It's that whoever killed him involved me. I
don't forget things like that. I'll tell me what sort
of a man was your husband? You must have some idea, yes,
but I like the woman's viewpoints.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
It was wonderful.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Oh, come now, angel, You can't expect me to buy that.
I don't care what you heard.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
Sorry.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Took a drink once in a while, Is or anything
wrong with it? What about slapping you around?

Speaker 4 (21:30):
He never did.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
You can't blame me for jumping to conclusions. I'll take
a blind man not to notice those bruises on your
face and arm. How did you get him?

Speaker 6 (21:40):
I felt?

Speaker 2 (21:41):
The question is did Ken push you?

Speaker 3 (21:43):
How dare you look?

Speaker 2 (21:44):
Missus morlow? I don't mean to be obnoxious. But we've
been a murder to solve. Did your husband play around
on the outside? No, what about those stories?

Speaker 4 (21:52):
Why is every one of them?

Speaker 2 (21:54):
It was started by his enemies? Oh, so he was
just a misunderstood kid. I understood him. That's all it counted,
All right, missus Marlowe, I think you're telling the truth.

Speaker 6 (22:06):
I'm overwhelmed.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
You should be, because if Jackie Howard doesn't turn out
to be a liar, I won't know what to do.
Take care of yourself, angel and I got to run along.

Speaker 6 (22:28):
I'd see please dog Graham.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Jackie Howard right here by him. Hello, Jackie, my name
is Mike Waring. What's the idea? Well, this is the
only way I can think of to get acquainted. I'd
like to talk to you about Ken Marlowe. You're a partter,
no private detective? Who are representing myself? I understand Marlow
wasn't huck to you. Well, I understand that you might

(22:53):
holding that match. Thanks. Who told you Marlow was into me?
Steve Nichols, Well.

Speaker 5 (23:01):
I got a flash for Steve. Marlow took care of
those I use this morning. I don't see how he
owed your nineteen grand According to the police. He had
only eight hundred bucks in the checking accout. He paid
me in cash, got it out of his mattress. I suppose, well,
now that you mention it, I believe he did.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
You know, Jackie, are a welcome change from everybody else
in this case, am I?

Speaker 6 (23:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (23:22):
They were telling the truth. Suppose I showed you the
money or you probably could. Boy like you always travels
well healed. But can you prove it came from Marlowe? Well,
let's look at it another way. Can you prove it didn't.
If I can, it'll make you a choice. Suspect, You're
no worrying. There's one thing I don't like about New York.
There must be something in the air that makes everybody

(23:44):
run over the louth.

Speaker 5 (23:45):
No, I suppose it's different on the coast, while we
have a special treatment for those who do.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
I'd like to see it.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
I'll have to discuss it first with a fellow Californian.
But uh, don't be discouraged. I'll get back to you. Yes,

(24:13):
I lost stan Oh, Hi you, Jackie.

Speaker 6 (24:16):
I thought by now you would be on your way
back to the coast.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
You thought wrong. Same You got yourself a nice little spot.

Speaker 6 (24:25):
Look Jackie. I don't want to seem rude, but I
was just on my way out.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Relax.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
I want to stay long. Too bad about Canada? And yeah,
what do you think killed him? I have no idea.
Oh you must have, Steve. You're a bright boy. Have
you a ride now? I had you pegged as a
kind who kept his nose clean. And don't I not
my boog? Why don't you tell Mike Wearing that Marlow

(24:51):
owed me money?

Speaker 6 (24:53):
He asked me.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
You're the real helpful type, aren't you.

Speaker 6 (24:56):
I do my best.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Yeah, sometimes it doesn't pain. People don't appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
Who turty, what's the matter of Why can't you catch
your bread dirty?

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Maybe that's a good thing.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
You talk too much anyway, little of Zach Howard's treatment
may break the habit. Oh, hostelsy, I'm afraid this is
gonna hurt you.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Unbelievable as it may sound, accidents on the nation's highways
in the last ten years have killed more than three
hundred thousand Americans like you and me. What's more, they
have injured no fewer than eleven million men, women, and children,
crippling several million of these victims for life. To get
the significance of those figures. Try to visualize a great
fleet of automobiles, trucks, buses, and other vehicles moving into

(25:58):
the city of Jacksonville, Fla, Florida and killing every person
there in a decade. Help to protect your own life
and the lives of your family by driving safely. Work
for greater highway safety for yourself and for your family
and your own community and state. And whenever you take
the wheel of your own car, drive as though your
life depends on it. It does. Now back to the

(26:24):
Adventures of the Falcon. Two hours have passed since Steve
Nichols received a little of Jackie Howard's specialized treatment, and
now in Steve's hotel room, we find him recuperating from
the visit. Where's the doctor? You sure you gave him
the right room number. Take it easier, Laura, He'll be
here all right, Steve, try some of this. Come on,

(26:46):
good for what ailed you?

Speaker 6 (26:47):
Mike?

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Don't talk, Just drink it down.

Speaker 6 (26:50):
I'm all right. How did you find me?

Speaker 2 (26:54):
She called me? How do you feel?

Speaker 6 (26:56):
Laura here?

Speaker 2 (26:58):
Raise your head up, fix the pill.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
You're a duh?

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Who did it? Steve? Who gave you the shlacking?

Speaker 6 (27:05):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Come on, Steve, you can't hold out.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Must you question him now?

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yes, I'm afraid I must. This is all tied up
with your husband's murder. But Jackie Howard, wasn't it? Yes?
Why did he do it? I have no idea you
know anything that would definitely mark him as Marlow's killer? No,
you sure, Steve, anything at all? You got to It's
our only chance of making this come out the way
we want. I don't understand. Well, Jackie must have felt

(27:31):
he had good reason to give Steve that beating. What
do you mean, well, you don't feel Laura killed her husband?

Speaker 6 (27:37):
Who?

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Now?

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Look, Mike, I told I take it you don't. So
that brings us back to Jackie again. Now, what would
be his motive in killing Marlow?

Speaker 4 (27:44):
Well?

Speaker 6 (27:45):
Ken hold him money?

Speaker 2 (27:47):
How could he be sure Marlo wouldn't raise it? Ken couldn't.
We were broke, But you would have been on easy
street if national picked up his option. I don't think
they would still were. There's life this hope. You told
me they had till at twenty third. Today is the eighteenth,
So so Jackie would be sucking not to wait it out.
What are you getting at? Well? If neither you nor
Jackie killed your husband. Who does that leave? I don't know, Yes,

(28:10):
you do, it's Steve. No, yes, that's why Howard gave
him that tasting he felt Steve cost hi nineteen grand.
I don't believe it. You didn't do it, Stee, tell me,
tell me. I gotta know.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
He's right, Laura?

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Why why I can never hurt you?

Speaker 6 (28:35):
No, but he hurt you.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
He was the only man I ever loved, and you
killed him.

Speaker 6 (28:40):
Don't you see, honey? I was.

Speaker 7 (28:43):
Thank you, Laura.

Speaker 6 (28:47):
Mike explains it.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
I can't.

Speaker 6 (28:50):
He was no good and.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
She loved him. I'm sorry, Steve. I'm gotta call the police.

(29:12):
What do you say, Mike? Some more coffee? No thanks, suh,
I'll come on, come on, cheer it up. What are
you dragging for? You must have some idea. Steve Nichols
was my friend and he committed a murder. There's no
question about that. Tell me something. Was he in love
with Laura? If he was, he was able to kid
himself in the believing in the strictly platonic he thought

(29:34):
Marlow was hard timing her on he was right now
he wasn't you mean? There was nothing to those stories
about Marlowe playing around. Oh, they were true enough, but
I didn't mean a thing to Laura. She was in
love with him and that's all that counted. Just goes
to prove it's awful, dangerous to play god. You never
know what's best for other people. The Case of the

(30:08):
Happy Hoodlum. The Case of the Happy Hoodlum, that's the
title of next week's Adventure of the Falcon, when Mike
Waring learns that you don't need a gun to commit murder.
Sometimes you can kill him with kindness. The Adventures of
the Falcon are based on the famous character created by
Brexel Drake, produced and transcribed by Bernard el Schubert, written

(30:29):
today by Eugene Wang, and directed by Richard Lewis. Les
Damon was starred as the Falcon with Chuck Webster as
Sergeant Corbett. His program came from New York, Brad Collins.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Speaking, welcome back, a really good episode. I do believe

(31:04):
that Ken Lynch played the role of the actor in
this story. It had been a year since he had
left as Sergeant Corbett, and he was still doing the
TV program The Playing Clothesmen. But many actors would supplement

(31:24):
their income with an occasional guest spot on radio, And
there's a big difference between making an appearance every now
and again and an ongoing commitment to a role in
a series. The plot of today's episode, like so many
of these nineteen fifty two Falcon stories, feels a lot

(31:46):
more grounded and raises some issues that are just as
sensitive today as they were seventy three years ago. And
I think you do feel some sympathy for the killer
and his motivation. But Mike is also write about the
danger of playing god. There's a really good case to

(32:06):
be made that she should have left him, but that
was her decision to make and her actions to take.
And Steve might have been supportive in that decision and
been helpful to her if she wanted out, but he
took that decision away. It may have been cathartic for
Steve after what had happened to his own sister, but

(32:29):
it did absolutely nothing.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
For her in the long run.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Well, now he turned to listener comments and feedback, and
we have some comments regarding the case of the Weeping
Willow over on YouTube. Ryans writes, I knew Reynolds was
a crooked cop as soon as he wasn't excited about
stopping a narcotics dealer and mechanics six' six 't eighty
two Riots wearing should have been suspicious That reynolds told

(32:55):
the guy to go home and never asked his. Address
also Writes Ken lynch Is corbett as far As i'm,
concerned just Like Francis robinson Is Brookie cy And Loreene
tuttle as E fie And Bob bailey Is George. Valentine
there are some Roles i'm fine with different actors. Playing
Johnny dowler is a perfect. Example Bob bailey is my,

(33:18):
favorite But i'm not disappointed to Hear John lyne Or emon.
O'Brien AND i know that everyone agrees That Basil rathbone
Is Sherlock, holmes with the exception Of Jeremy brett for
THE tv. Version, WELL i think these stance That lynch
is the Definitive corbett is fair, enough AND i think
everybody has actors where the recast doesn't. Work Allen soulet

(33:44):
As George valentine doesn't do a whole lot for. Me
one other one THAT i have on my list is
that From mystery Is My, hobby, which strangely, enough we
finished that series about two and a half years, ago
and HERE i am talking about it on consecutive, days
but On mystery as my. Hobby Norman fields was the

(34:07):
original actor to Play Noah danton AND i love him
in that, role and they recasted it With Ken christy
and it's it's not the same at. All SO i
think everyone has those particular roles that they have that feeling,
about and Certainly Ken lynch As Sergeant corbett is a

(34:29):
good one to go. With then we have a comment
From Cam downey regarding The passage To tangiers episode Of Matthew.
Slay one of The sydney Green Street easter eggs was
the name of the character Mister, peters which was the
name of the character Green street played in the nineteen

(34:52):
forty four Film The mask Of, demetros a fine film
based On Eric ambler's NOVEL A coughin For, demetros although
Having Peter lourie in the lead role gives it a
rather different field than the. Novel Thanks adam for bringing
these old shows back to life for new generations of. Listeners,
well thanks so. MUCH i appreciate That easter. EGG i missed,

(35:16):
it even THOUGH i enjoyed the mask Of demetros because
the name Mister peters just didn't stick with. ME i
just thought of it as The Sydney Green street, character
and that's not one of the more Famous Sidney Green street.
Movies so you really do get the feel that the
writers on that episode were going for the really obscure easter.

(35:40):
Eggs but it's a good, film and they actually made
a radio adaptation which we played quite a few years.
Back all, right, well now it's time to think Our
patreon supporter of the, day AND i want to go
ahead and Think Jack, jacksonen one of Our patreon supporters
Since november twenty, nineteen current supporting the podcast at The

(36:02):
Detective sergeant level of seven dollars and fourteen cents or
more per. Month thanks so much for your, Support, jack
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(36:43):
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