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June 30, 2025 • 35 mins
Today's Mystery:Mike goes to Lisbon on a tip that a woman working at the US embassy is a spy.

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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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as two dollars per month now from August twenty fourth,
nineteen fifty two. Here is the Case of the Silent Butler.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Hello.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yes, this is the Falcon speaking. Oh Margo, you'll have
to cancel me out tonight, Angel, I mean intelligence iss
fying me to Lisbon, Portugal. Yeah, seems some little girl
there is playing fast and loose with Uncle Sammy's secrets
and I got to run it down if it kills me.

(01:44):
Once again, the National Broadcasting Company brings you the transcribed
Adventures of the Falcon, starring Less 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 agency. So join him now when the falcon

(02:05):
salves the case of the Silent Butler. I guess the
boy who first gave out with good things coming small
packages must have had Maria Custer in mine. Maria is
the luscious looking grenette walking down one of the steep

(02:26):
winding alleys and Alfama, the old section of Lisbon. She's
so pretty even the beggar stopped their panhandling. The watcher
go by, and fifteen feet behind her is a man
in a white suit and a white panama hat who
obviously feels he's worth more than a second glance. He
must've been following her for days.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
All right, seniors, what is the meaning of this? You
talking to me? L Yes, what can I do for you?
You can stop following me, following you? I saw you
at the Castello de Saint Georges.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
You mean that Moorish portress upon the hill. Yes, oh
not me, she'd make that climb for anything.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
I know it was you, and yesterday you on the
Rue Audia.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
But that's a section where the goldsmiths have their shop.
Show mistaken. I aim to cover that tomorrow you are
light not me, No, ma'am. You ask anybody, they'll tell you.
Dixon Harris ain't told a license he was knee high
to a grasshopper, now, ma'am, it must have been some
other tourist in a white suit.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Well, in the future, you will be so good as
to leave me alone.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Why sure, Maria, anything you've said?

Speaker 4 (03:26):
How did you know my name is Maria? Did I
call you the yes?

Speaker 5 (03:31):
Now?

Speaker 6 (03:31):
What do you know?

Speaker 3 (03:32):
I guess there must be something in that mental toll?
Let the business after all?

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Height to minight? Know why you are following me?

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Well I told you, honey, I'm just doing little sight
seeing and you're the prettiest sight I've seen in all
the Portugal. And you can't blame a feller if he
comes back for a second lun can't even.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
I'll be seen, you.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Should be.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
And I help this great?

Speaker 7 (04:06):
Please?

Speaker 4 (04:07):
My name is Maria Costa.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh yes, saying your brother is expecting you just follow me?

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Has he been waiting long?

Speaker 5 (04:16):
Or perhaps a half hour? Maria?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Hello, Stephen beginning a word?

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Thank you darling.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
We'll be saying your care to order more?

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yes? I think so? What would you like?

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Maria?

Speaker 7 (04:28):
Wait?

Speaker 8 (04:29):
Double smear nothing orange juice double. I developed a great
fondness for vodkas.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
All right, they all have the same.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
Very good send your Stephen. It is so good to
see you. I cannot tell you how glad I am.
Ever since you called this morning, I felt like a bird.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
All right, Maria? What's up?

Speaker 4 (04:48):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Why you're so nervous? Has my wife's been bothering you again?

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Oh? Stephen? Honest?

Speaker 3 (04:53):
And what happened?

Speaker 4 (04:55):
Nothing? Sweetheart?

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Don't tell me that you're trembling all over? What happened?

Speaker 4 (04:59):
I do not wish to wor why are you? Stephen?

Speaker 5 (05:00):
You?

Speaker 4 (05:01):
You have enough trouble at home with Anne jim On Marie.

Speaker 8 (05:03):
I want to know, well, well, some man has been
following me ever since Thursday.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
I think his name is Dixie Harris.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Dixie Harris. Was he in American?

Speaker 6 (05:16):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (05:17):
What does he look like?

Speaker 4 (05:19):
Perhaps as tall as you, but much heavier.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Was he wearing a white suit and a white panamoa head?

Speaker 4 (05:24):
You know?

Speaker 3 (05:25):
I saw him in black Horse Square on Monday and on.

Speaker 5 (05:28):
The day beside half your rod?

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Thank you?

Speaker 5 (05:32):
Will there be anything else?

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Not?

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Just now?

Speaker 9 (05:35):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Gors you? What does it mean? Stephen? Why is this
man following us.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
I don't know, honey, but I sure intend to find Anne.
I'll drink up and I'll get with it.

Speaker 6 (05:57):
Or to to one?

Speaker 10 (06:02):
Mm?

Speaker 3 (06:05):
No have I din are talking about distinguished gentleman known
far and wide as a Falcone?

Speaker 4 (06:12):
How the world did you know?

Speaker 6 (06:13):
Was me?

Speaker 11 (06:13):
I recognize you buy a white suit? How are we going?

Speaker 3 (06:16):
I'm not so hot? My Maria spotted me this morning
in our famer tough. I'm sorry, paw, but it couldn't
be helped, though I managed to tell her to the
Cafe Europa West.

Speaker 7 (06:27):
Your heisted a couple with Steve Butler.

Speaker 11 (06:29):
Always Steve Butler, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Uh huh?

Speaker 11 (06:32):
You let anything else?

Speaker 3 (06:33):
No, not a single blessed thing if you ask me. Friend,
we got a bum stair. That gal's no spy.

Speaker 11 (06:39):
And what about those confidential reports in the embassy we
found in her apartments?

Speaker 3 (06:42):
I'm beginning to think they were planted by whom by
the same little lady who gave us the original tip?

Speaker 11 (06:48):
Are you able to laugh hunder her again?

Speaker 5 (06:49):
Nope?

Speaker 3 (06:50):
That name she used was a phony. I don't get
it me neither by a lady six too, And even
somebody's trying to frame Maria. What gets me is why.

Speaker 12 (07:00):
That's a very good question, dick. See, I'll get Billy
on the answer right away. Keep in touch, fellow, I
may have.

Speaker 11 (07:05):
Nos for you.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
So, yes, you, Stephen Butler, that's right. My name is
Mike Wearing. Oh, of course I'm the intelligence and formed
that she'll be dropping by. You probably want to see
the ambassador. I don't need to bother him. You are

(07:27):
his aid, aren't you?

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Or I think you can give me all the information
I need.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Sit down, won't you? Thanks? See right? Yeah? Please? You
will see much of Maria Costa these days.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Maria Costa, the girl who works in the coding department. Well,
working together in the embassy. Naturally I run intowhere every
once in a while, Yeah, naturally. But how about on
the outside? Why should I no good reason? I suppose
I told you she was a spy. That's ridiculous. Confidential
material in her apartment. I don't believe it. Yeah, that's

(08:03):
your privilege. Do you ever try to pump you? And
of course not. You're a married man, aren't you, butter?
Oh what's that got to do with it?

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Nothing? Nothing?

Speaker 3 (08:14):
What does your wife look like?

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Why?

Speaker 3 (08:16):
I'm just curious you got our tip about Maria from
a tall statuesque blonde. A blonde, yeah, blue eyes, fair complexion,
little birthmark on the right cheek.

Speaker 5 (08:27):
You know?

Speaker 2 (08:28):
No? You sure?

Speaker 3 (08:29):
And are you calling me a liar? I haven't forbid.
I was just wondering why she would try to frame
mis Coustas.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
I have no idea.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Well, if through some accident you find out, give me
a jingle. I'm staying at the Prince Joint. I'll bear
that in mind, Wearing, But I can't make you any promises.
If I learn anything, you can trust me to do
the right thing.

Speaker 10 (08:58):
Hello Anne, Oh Steve, you startled me. I didn't think
you'd be home.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, it is kind of early for me.

Speaker 10 (09:07):
I'm going to get off my feet. I had a
most miserable day.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Oh, I had a pretty lasy one myself. A fellow
named Mike Wearing dropped in to see me. Hu, Mike Wearing,
he's with Army intelligence. Seems they got a tip that
Marie Acosta was a spy. Really really, According to Wearing,
his informant was how did he put it? Oh? Yes,

(09:32):
a tall statuesque blonde with a birthmark on her right cheek.

Speaker 13 (09:38):
Darling, you're not suggesting I am. It'd be an absurd
Why should.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
I because you're out of your mind?

Speaker 13 (09:45):
All right, mister Butler, I did it. Sure, I sticked
Army intelligence on your precious Marie. Why don't you ask
me why?

Speaker 2 (09:51):
I don't have to know?

Speaker 10 (09:53):
Do you think I was blind?

Speaker 4 (09:54):
I know you're in love with her.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
You know it's a funny thing.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
And I bet I've heard you say that a thousand
times in the last seven years, and for once in
your life, you're right now.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yes, this time, you put the nail right on my head.

Speaker 10 (10:04):
David, you don't mean that. You couldn't. You're just trying
to hurt me.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
I don't have to order kind of hurt yourself.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Steve, please listen to me.

Speaker 13 (10:10):
I know I was wrong, but I love you so much, Darling.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Every time you look at the one and I go crazy.
I know you gotta understand. I just do these awful
things because I'm so afraid of losing you what you have.
You love me, you know you do.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
It's all over. Then I'm gonna marry Marie.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
No, I couldn't live without you.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
You better get used to the idea. I'm moving out now.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
Don't let you go. Stop it, don't kill her, so
help me. If you move out of here, all killer,
you're insane.

Speaker 13 (10:34):
Even don't go, I promise you doing Stevey.

Speaker 9 (10:39):
Hey Continental Hotel, your order.

Speaker 14 (10:57):
Please, This is Louise Butler for nineteen.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
Yesora, what's the house detective's name? The house detective with
my shadow?

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Are you having difficulty, Senora?

Speaker 5 (11:08):
No?

Speaker 14 (11:09):
No, I just would like to see Senora shadow.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
Not just now, Senora.

Speaker 14 (11:15):
Well, the moment it comes in, will you please send
them up to my room. It's very important, you might
even say it's a matter of life and death, soul.

Speaker 5 (11:38):
You are a butler.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yeah, I am Louise Machado.

Speaker 10 (11:42):
Oh yeah, come on in.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
Oh for god?

Speaker 10 (11:47):
Uh, suppose we sit right here?

Speaker 5 (11:51):
Oh the telephone operator said.

Speaker 10 (11:54):
I know, But wouldn't you care for something to drink?

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Oh? You are?

Speaker 5 (12:01):
I am on duty.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
If the management expects me to do.

Speaker 10 (12:04):
What the management doesn't know, won't hurt.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Them with it?

Speaker 5 (12:11):
See how true.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
We are?

Speaker 3 (12:16):
Senior is most kind.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
If there is any way I can reciprocate it, there
is you have but to command, Louis Machado.

Speaker 13 (12:25):
How would you like to make yourself five hundred dollars American?

Speaker 2 (12:32):
I would like you very much.

Speaker 10 (12:34):
You must know all sorts of dangerous criminals.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Unfortunately, yes, it is unavoidable than my calling.

Speaker 13 (12:41):
You know, a professional killer, a man who would commit
murder for a price, Senor, a partner pay him five
thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
You are justling.

Speaker 13 (12:54):
No, five thousand dollars cash and five hundred for you.
I got the money right here, my purse.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
It's pleases the Senor to make fun of Luis ma charo.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
You don't believe me, naturally, not.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
If I did, it would be my sacred duty to
inform the police.

Speaker 10 (13:14):
You're right, Senor, I was just pulling your leg. It
was just a bad joke.

Speaker 5 (13:22):
Are you relieve?

Speaker 4 (13:23):
For a moment I thought I really meant it.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
Huh?

Speaker 13 (13:26):
What would I want with a hired killer? After all,
if you want a job done right, there's nothing like
doing it yourself. Huh.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
I do not understand.

Speaker 10 (13:36):
It's not important, Senor.

Speaker 13 (13:38):
I hate to rush you, but would you mind finishing
your drink?

Speaker 10 (13:43):
I just remembered I got something to do.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
We've been asked to pass a warning along to you,
but it really shouldn't be necessary. Almost every issue of
your daily newspaper gives you this warning over and over.
It's the warning to drive carefully and safely. Just read
the stories that tell of death and accidents on the
highway and then think about it for a minute. Those
warnings right from the news are more dramatic warnings of

(14:18):
danger than any that we could make up. They can
and may happen to you. You can't keep everyone else
from driving recklessly, but you can check on yourself. Highways
are extra crowded now, so be extra careful. The life
you save may be your own. Now back to the

(14:41):
adventures of the Falcon. Now, there's one nice thing you
can say about being married to a girl like Anne
Butler makes life kind of interesting. You never know what
she's going to cook up next. While Missus Butler was
comparing rests with Louise Michato, the Obliging Hotel detect too,

(15:04):
Nixie Harris and I were cruising on the Avonita de
Lebadade past the Obelisk, which commemorates the liberation of Portugal
from Spanish rule. But Dixie never even noticed it. Apparently
he thought I was a more interesting sight.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
What seat and you, Mike, you look unhappy?

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, that's me, old transparent face wearing.

Speaker 7 (15:21):
You weren't about that Maria Couse.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Uh huh.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Ain't you convinced yet?

Speaker 6 (15:24):
She was framed.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
She's no spy.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
That's what bothers me, Dixie.

Speaker 6 (15:28):
I don't get you want it?

Speaker 3 (15:31):
You almost got that pedestrian shuck, And I.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Thought I had him for sure.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
What'd you make the Steve Butler strictly the Landelin plus
type of real smoothie. That's where I had him peg too,
But I think he's real gone on Maria. Yeah, which
forces us to the unhappy conclusion that the frame for
Maria was staged by his wife.

Speaker 5 (15:48):
Hey, you think that's who are blonde tipster was?

Speaker 2 (15:50):
But the.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Lady she finds out a little stunt fell flat.

Speaker 6 (15:54):
On its face. She's gonna be real annoyed.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
And a guy like Anne Butler believes in the old sore.
If you don't succeeded, first, try and try again.

Speaker 6 (16:01):
What do you think she'll try next?

Speaker 3 (16:03):
No telling, man, I guess you're right.

Speaker 5 (16:07):
I alway wasn't knew a dollar like that.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
Back in Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
She was real crazy about her press of mine and
real jealous too.

Speaker 5 (16:13):
Man.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Every time she blew her cart, you'd have to make
for the hills because that's gal was murder. She was
one murder.

Speaker 15 (16:19):
Yeah, that's what I thought.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
You said.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
What does Maria Costa live?

Speaker 6 (16:23):
Her right off the road to Princeville.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
We'll turn this heeaper on.

Speaker 5 (16:25):
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
Hey, you don't think this Bucky.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
I think she is exactly the same type of that
girl you knew in Atlanta. Step on it, boy, we
got to make like the Marines. She senuation, Let's get

(16:48):
out of here, Mike, just same moment. Please. You are
looking for someone, Yeah, but I don't think we'll find
her in is this Maria Costa's apartment?

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Eight days? That's what I was afraid of.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Excuse me, Oh, I don't mind him, Lieutenant. He always
acts like this when he sees a man in the
blue uniform. He's from the South. He keeps forgetting the
Civil War is over, and hat is most amusing. May
I inquire as to your names? Sure, I'm Mike Wearing,
and this is Dixie Harris. We're attached to American intelligence.
I see, be so good as to enter. Where is

(17:21):
she in the bedroom? Then she was shot twice. Obviously
this does not come as a surprised to you, Senor Harlen.
I would be most interested to hear. Why can we
see her first?

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Of course?

Speaker 3 (17:39):
Over here, Senoris, can we take a peek? You would
like me to remove the blanket as please?

Speaker 4 (17:48):
Holy smoked Maria Costa.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
No, you are surprised. That's the understatement of the week.
You do not know this lady of judging from the
blonde hair on a birthmark on her right cheek, i'd
say she was saying. Butler, you are absolutely correct.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Where's Maria Costa?

Speaker 3 (18:04):
Senorita Costa has momentarily disappeared, but it is of no
import We have already apprehended the assassin. Who is it
the victim's husband.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Steve Butler, I don't believe it.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yes, even obliged us with a confession. Where is he
in the Palace of Justice? Can I see him? It
will be my pleasure these ways in your who's there?

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Hello, Steve?

Speaker 3 (18:39):
And so it is the embassy sent you over now.
I'm here strictly on my own.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
Why.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
Maybe it's because you're a fellow American and a GM,
or maybe I'm just playing nosey cigarette.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Thanks? Well, how are they treating you? I can't complain.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
They tell me you signed a confession? Why did you
kill her? The usual reason we didn't get along. From
what I hear, you haven't been getting along for years.
And when she tried to frame a Reacosta for espionage,
that was a straw that broke the camel's back. So
you picked up a gun and shut her twice. It

(19:19):
makes sense. Thanks, But why did you pick Marie's apartment
to do the job. Well, it seemed like the best spot.
How did it occur to you? It might be embarrassing
for Maria? And I guess I wasn't thinking too clearly.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
It's funny.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
You impressed me as a boy who always knows what
he's doing. Where's Maria?

Speaker 5 (19:35):
Now?

Speaker 3 (19:37):
I have no idea you wouldn't have made that confession
to shield him, to shield her. Don't tell me. I
impress you as the noble time. No, strangely enough, you do.
You're out of your mind. Well we'll find out when
we latch on the Miss Cousta look wearing you mind

(20:00):
your own business. This is my business. You're an employee
of the American Embassy, so is Maria. I don't want
you bothering her. You understand she had nothing to do
with this. You're in love with her. I was not
in love with her. It was just a looking extracurricular activity.
I killed Anne and that's all the risk to it.

(20:22):
You ought to know best, but I like to keep
an open mind. I'll be seeing this, Steve.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Can I assist you, Senor? Now you kind of her
the house detective m I am Sor.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
But how did you know? You're wearing a derbeam? And
my name is Michael Wearing.

Speaker 5 (20:46):
We were wearing.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
No, that's close enough, and I am Luise Machado.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
I'm glad to know you.

Speaker 5 (20:51):
Louise.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
I suppose you take a look at this. You are
with the American Derges, and there is some way I
can be of aid, so I think, so, Oh, come
and me send yours you.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
You heard about the Senora Anne Butler.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Oh, yes, it is most sad. She and her husband
were guests of the establishment. Yes I know, the switchboard
operator tells me. A couple of hours before she was murdered,
she asked that you.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Come up to her room. Oh yes, it was most puzzling.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Oh what did she want?

Speaker 5 (21:26):
Well, knowing of.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
My profession, she wished to know if I was acquainted
with someone who might commit the murder? How much was
she willing to pay.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
Huh, Well, naturally she didn't expect him to work for free.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Oh no, no, she said she would compensate him in
the amount of five thousand dollars American. Understandably, I was horrified,
didn't she explained it was all a joke. Did you
believe her? She was an American and they'll.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Do anything for a laugh. Well what happened after that?

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Well, as I took my departure, she's said something. Let
me see if I can remember if you we shaped
disk ware done?

Speaker 3 (22:08):
Do it yourself exactly, explains Actually wound up at Maria
Costa's apartment. She went there to kill her.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
It does not seem corregible, and I'll take my word
for it.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
That's how it happens. All right, Thanks a lot, Louis.

Speaker 5 (22:21):
I have been of some aid.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
Indeed you have. Maybe I can make it up to
you real soon.

Speaker 5 (22:43):
Hell let your shame?

Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yeah, like worry.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
Oh what's a good wife, pappy?

Speaker 11 (22:48):
Look him at the Continental? I just got through at
the hotel deck.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Was any Hell?

Speaker 6 (22:52):
Not much?

Speaker 11 (22:53):
How did you make out?

Speaker 2 (22:54):
I didn't?

Speaker 11 (22:55):
Did you find out who identified Anne Bumper for the police.

Speaker 6 (22:57):
Oh, they didn't need anybody.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
They found the purse right next to the body was
the right No, everything else but passport, driver's license, twelve dollars.

Speaker 6 (23:07):
Change and her keys to the hotel.

Speaker 11 (23:09):
Maria Costa.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
Oh she wasn't in there either.

Speaker 11 (23:12):
I mean I've been able to locate her. Huh, I'm
not you and I look, we got to find a Dixie.
Go to our application of the embassy. She must have
given the name of her close relatives. Maybe she's hold
up with one of them.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
Oh, I'll get right on it.

Speaker 12 (23:24):
Good boy, I'm going back to my hotel. If you
learn anything, lift the phone.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
Come in so you're waiting. Huh, you will be so
good as to close the door.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Oh yes, of course. You know you can't beat these
Portuguese hotels.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
If I knew my room came equipped with something like you,
we'll stop right there.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Say, isn't it an awfully big gun for little girl?

Speaker 4 (23:53):
I can manage? Please sit down?

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Oh never, while the lady is standing, I in ceased.
I just wanted to show you. Never forget my manners.
You're Maria Costa, don't you. Yes, you've been giving us
a lot of trouble, Maria, and we've been looking all
over Lisbon for you.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
Obviously it did not look in the right place.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Obviously you know Steve Butler confessed to his wife's murder.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
That does not surprise me.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
But we both know he didn't do it, don't we?

Speaker 7 (24:22):
Then?

Speaker 4 (24:22):
Who did you?

Speaker 3 (24:24):
You're showing up here with a gun? Cruise it.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
You are absolutely correct.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Well, I always say if two people share a secret,
it ain't no secrets.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
Is that what you always say?

Speaker 8 (24:35):
Well, I think the problem is easily resolved. If I
should kill you, that would leave only one.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
Now, wait a minute.

Speaker 16 (24:42):
If there is a fallacy in my logic, Senor, I
will be happy for you to point it out. I'll
give you exactly one minute to try.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Summer is the time for carefree holidays and vacations, but
don't be carefree on the highway with roads jammed with traffic.
This is the time to be extra careful when driving.
When you plan a trip, be sure to allow plenty
of time so that you won't be forced to drive
too fast or too long. When you get tired at
the wheel, you lose your skill and your judgment. You

(25:22):
can drive better when your mind is at ease, and
when you know that your car is in good running order,
and when you start that trip, resolve that you're going
to obey traffic laws and regulations. Don't gamble with safety.
Remember the life you save may be your own. And

(25:45):
now back to the adventures of the falcon. I don't
know if you've ever been alone in a hotel room
and the beautiful girl, but take my word for it,
especially if she's chaperoned by a gun. Still, I was
awfully pleased that Maria gave me a full minute to

(26:06):
dig up a reason why she shouldn't use it. In
this day and age, most girls wouldn't have been that patient.

Speaker 8 (26:11):
Well, Senor, have you any final request.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
And like to see Brooklyn again? Look, Maria, and killing
me won't solve anything.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
I believe it will.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
It doesn't bother you. They'll hang Steve Butler for his
wife's murder, and not at all you were in love
with him.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
You're being very childish.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
You know he confessed to Anne's murder just to shield you.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
And you feel I should do as much in return.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
That's what I would have expected. Yes, seems to me.

Speaker 8 (26:39):
It seems to me, Senor, you have exhausted your allotted time,
So if you will forgive.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Me what happened, as will the gun to fire. Don't
be silly, No you don't. We only allow one chance
to a customer.

Speaker 5 (26:52):
Came on, drop.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
It all right, not sit over their wife phone.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Ask him in you behave yourselves.

Speaker 5 (26:59):
This is your worring.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Ah if it isn't, Louise Michadow. Yeah, come on in, Louise.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
My visit is not inopportune.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
No, as a matter of fact, your timing couldn't have
been better. Oh but the lady, naturally is a hotel detective.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
You think of that.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
This is Maria Costa, Maria Acosta. Yeah, she just tried
to kill me.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
I wouldn't succeed yet, I.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Wouldn't make book on an angel, certainly not put this
gun firing. Pin has gone. What am I right, Louise?

Speaker 5 (27:27):
Let me see.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Oh but yes, someone has filed off. It would require
a miracle for her to harm you with ease, well
strictly between us. I don't think she was really trying.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
You're insane, clearly, Senor wh't you get at, Louise. She's
in love with Steve Butler, so so he confessed to
shield her. Now, if she had just walked in here
and did the same, what would have been my reaction?
Where she would have thought that she was trying to
protect him. That's right, I would have patted her show

(28:00):
learn told her to go home like a good girl.
So she decided to incriminate herself, and taking a shot
at me seemed like the best way to handle it. No, no, yes, yes,
And being the type girl you are, you wouldn't want
to see me hurt, so you filed off the firing pin,
hoping it would go unnoticed in the excite kill you
You are wrong, just relaxed, angel I.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Do not understand if she did not kill the signor
a butler who did.

Speaker 7 (28:26):
Well.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
I'm glad you asked me that, Machad, because I just
happened to be prepared with an answer. Now, who knew
that Anne Butler had five thousand dollars on her to
pay a gunman who alone had the opportunity to follow
her over to Maria's apartment and kill her there for
the bundle? Who you really, sangul?

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Now, don't be unhappy, Louise.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
You couldn't use that money anyway. It's not inflammable where
you're going, you'll need money to burn. Well, Dixie, it

(29:13):
looks like my planes are warmed up in Madrid.

Speaker 5 (29:15):
I'm on my way.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
I'll hold its happy or you don't want me to
miss it.

Speaker 7 (29:20):
You'll not leave in LISB until you answer one question.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
I can see how you.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
Figured Maria didn't kill Anne, But what made you so
sure Steve Butler didn't do it? That wouldn't have been ethical?

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (29:34):
Or what may happen in detective stories and radio programs,
don't you know in real life the Butler never does it?

Speaker 7 (29:42):
So long, Dixie.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
The Case of the Careless Corpse. The Case of the
Careless Corpse. That's the title of next week's Adventure of
the Falcon, when Mike Waring learns that what some people
will do for money is nothing short of murder. The

(30:31):
Adventures of the Falcon are based on the famous character
created by Drexel Drake, produced and transcribed by Bernard L. Schubert,
written by Eugene Wang, and directed by Richard Lewis. Less
Damon was starred as the Falcon with Briana Rayburn as Maria.
This program came to You from New York, Fred Collins speaking.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Welcome Back. That last pun was one to leave the
country on, although it was really at the core of
this episode. Given the title, I really began to suspect
the house detective as soon as they mentioned the amount
of money they found on missus Butler. It's one of
those solutions we've heard before, although it has to be said,

(31:36):
if she decided to do it yourself murder, there was
no reason for her to take five thousand dollars in
her purse with her. I did enjoy the episode. I
particularly liked Dixie. The same actor played a scummy private
detective back in the New York Bound episodes, and I

(31:56):
really do like the way that he and Wearing playoff
each other. It's a shame that he was never a
regular cast member. I should let you know that we're
actually nearing the end of Les Demon's run on the series.
We only have three more episodes left until that we
get into the short run of George Petrie episodes that

(32:18):
we have available now. It's going to be five weeks
because we're taking our summer recording break. I should note
that this week is actually the last week that we
will be bringing you six detective programs per week. At
least new podcast episodes. Next week will have on course,

(32:41):
and then we will be going down to five detective
programs per week. As we bring you the great Adventurers
of Old Time Radio, and we will have more details
on that when we go ahead and launch that series
on July thirteenth. But this is a big week as
after twelve and a half years, starting in January twenty thirteen,

(33:05):
we're going back down to five detective programs from six,
but we'll be.

Speaker 11 (33:12):
Providing more overall old.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Time radio for those of you who also enjoy adventure. Again,
more details to come on that, But now it's time
to think our Patreon supporter of the day, and I
want to go ahead and think Jacqueline, Patreon supporter since
August twenty eighteen, currently supporting the podcast at the Shawmus

(33:35):
level of four dollars or more per month. Thanks so
much for your support, Jacqueline, and that will do it
for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us
using your favorite podcast software. We will be back two
weeks from today with another episode of the Falcon, but
join us back here tomorrow for Charlie Chan, where.

Speaker 15 (34:00):
I believe you wanted to see me Chan and to
me too, mister mister Wady said her.

Speaker 5 (34:05):
You wish to hold your conference with.

Speaker 15 (34:07):
Us quite so be you seated, Please I, for one,
prefer to stand very well, mister Rider. Mister Rider, will
you look at forty five on death? Tell me? Have
you ever seen a gun like it? You too, mister Romano,
I've seen lots of forty five's like it. You own one?

Speaker 11 (34:26):
Yes, I do?

Speaker 15 (34:26):
Where is it? Please?

Speaker 11 (34:28):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (34:29):
I'm not certain.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
I suppose it's at home?

Speaker 15 (34:32):
Is Sheriff? You will instruct police to search mister Ryder's
home for forty five? You bat inspector of all the
infinal impudence? Why that is all, mister Rider, unless you
have considered more fully the question of that letter, that
destroyed letter written by Madame Landini and addressed to you.
I've said all I am going to say about that

(34:53):
letter now or ever. Perhaps, mister Rider, perhaps the United
States courts have a most respective method of compelling unwilling
witnesses to testify.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,
send your comments to Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net,
follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us
out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives from
Boise Idahol. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.
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