July 14, 2025 • 31 mins
Today's Mystery: Waring is sent to Berlin to recruit a scientist to the American cause but Communist Agents send an imposter to kidnap the scientist.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 31, 1952
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Starred: Les Damon as the Falcon, Lesley Woods
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: August 31, 1952
Originating from New York
Starred: Les Damon as the Falcon, Lesley Woods
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Patreon Supporter of the Day: Christine, Patreon supporter since November 2018
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from
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dot Great Detectives dot net. Now from August twenty eighth,
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nineteen fifty two, here is the case of the Careless Corpse.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Hello. Yes, this is the Falcon speaking, Oh Virginia. I'm
glad you called. Now you have to cancel me out tonight,
Angel I mean intelligence is flying me to Berlin. Yeah.
It seems some boy there set up a murder that
is pretty as a picture and they figure out look
good in the frame.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
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 Paul consolves the case of the careless corpse.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
There's one nice thing you can say about working for
Army intelligence. You certainly get around. How else would a
guy like me get to see such wonderful places like Berlin?
I meet such interesting people like Maxel Oppenheimer. And just
in case you're curious, Maxel is a cute looking character
and a tight fitting green suit and the gray gloves,
surveying the crowd at the Europa, a sidewalk cafe near
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the Willem Strausser. So look at him. You think he
didn't have a care in the world, and you'd be right. Maxell.
Lets the next man do the worrying by her.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Christopher, imagine finding you here.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Lt. Maxwell.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
He could not help myself. I received your message at
five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
No none, Schnoebel told me. I spoke to you at noon.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I never can hide things from you, can I? Christopher?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So term Mack Schnoebel tell you about your assernant.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
He started to bed to get my instructions first hand.
This way, there's no chance have a misunderstanding.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
An American intelligence officer named Michael Waring arrives from Madrid
this evening. He has an appointment tomorrow morning with Professor
Heinrich Schiller's the expert on rockiness. Yes, would be in
the best interests of the Communist Party. Of that appointment
I never kept.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I think it can be arranged. Where does the hair
Pafessa live at fourteen le pol Strausser with his wife
Margot Margot, She's an American. What an amazing coincidence here,
Professor Schiller at Chairman is married to an American, and you,
an American, are married to a Cherman.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I suppose we leave my personal life out of this. Yes,
of course you are to introduce yourself to Schiller as
an agent of American intelligence. You find all the necessary
credentials in this smalloty tell him Wearing sent you around
to pick him up.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
We have would you like to have him delivered to.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
The bakery and life's extress. I'll try to make arrangements
to smuggle them into East Villin on Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I'll be only too happy to look after him till then.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I don't want to hurt Maxo.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Why Christopher had never once entered my mind?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I mean it, Professor Schiller can be very useful to
the party.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I wouldn't touch a hair on his head unless, of course,
it was absolutely necessary.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I'm warning you, MAXI.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I only meant I would resort to violence purely as
an asked resort you and I'm always ready to sacrifice
my desires for the party. I hope the hair professor
will be as cooperative. Yes, excuse me, but I would
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like very much to see her professor Haina Schilla.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Of course, I'm fraill. Won't you come in?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Don't get You're very kind?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Whom shall I say? Is calling?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Per meet me?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Maxel Oppenheimer, United States Army Intelligence? What do you want
with my husband?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Naturally? We are very interested in his experiments with archids?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Naturally, But when he was in a concentration camp, who
cared you.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Say that with a great deal of bitterness?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Why can't you leave us alone? Everybody wants to use him.
There's the Nazis, now you people and the communists. Hasn't
he suffered enough? And don't you stop bothering him?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I'm sure the hair professor does not feel this way.
If I could have a word with.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Him, he is not home.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
It's very strange. I spoke to Manza tailor.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
For not more than yes?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Is there someone to see me now? My hair professor?
Shall I believe?
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I'm Axel Oppenheimer. Your lovely wife told me you were out.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Why, Margot, Because they're all the same, they're all trying
to use you. I just want to pick your brains.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
And oh, please live and what will all get?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I don't care what he thinks.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
I must apologize for my wife, Hair Oppenheimer. But ever
since I was released from dakh how she's most concerned
for me.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
It's very understandable. Real hair wearing is waiting for us.
Shall we go?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
No, no, I won't let you. You're going to stay
out of this, Heimrich. This is none of your concerned.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Now lips, you are upsetting yourself.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
I want you if you go with him, don't expect
to find me here when you come back.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You are talking like a child.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
I mean you'll never see me again, never.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
All right, Hair Oppenheimer, If you are ready by your means, oh.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
I believe this is the one. Yes, if you'll wait
till I turn angelides, Ah, there we are, it'd be
so good as to enter. Thank you. I know it
isn't much, but please try to make yourself comfortable.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
I find this very strange, Hair Oppenheimer, you don't like
my room, Professor, Well, it is hardly what I expected.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
You mean the baker in front. Yes, we think it's
very dramatic. Who would ever suspect such a politarian establishment?
Speaker 8 (07:36):
But where is hair wearing? Are the gentleman I was
supposed to me? Oh, yes, he'll be here in a
few minutes. In the meantime, perhaps a little schnaps.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
No, thank you, Hair Oppenheimer.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
My friends call me Max. May I see your credit
and roots? Isn't this rather late? May I see them?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Please?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I suppose they do not meet with your approval. That
would complicate matters. If hair wedding arrives, you just tell
Professor you are not thinking of leaving. Yes, if I've
offended you in any way.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
Will you'll be good enough to open this door?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I wish you didn't feel like this, because you leave
me no choice.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Put away that gun.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
Doesn't it frighten you? No, not even a little bit.
Are you going to open this door? You're no Professor.
I admire a man of spirit. They offer a challenge.
I can never resist.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Never. How do you feel, Professor, Oh, I'm so sorry.
I guess it proves there must be something to feminine intuition.
I remember your wife said if you left with me,
you'd never see you again. She was absolutely right.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Hello, I'm looking for Mike Wearing.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Well, you picked the best possible place.
Speaker 11 (09:20):
Come in.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Thank you? Is he angry with me?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
He's who angry with you?
Speaker 5 (09:25):
My husband? He should have known. I never meant what
I said.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Uh, your mind. If we take this from the top
of the page, I'm a little confused.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Oh, I'm sorry. I should have introduced myself. I'm Margot Schiller.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Margot, wait a minute, and not Professor Heinrich Schiller's wife.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Yes, well what do you know?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So down?
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I knew he was married, but I assumed it was
to a German.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Didn't you, assistant?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Tell you, my assistant, the.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Little man you sent to pick up Heinrich, the one
in the green suit?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
When was this?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
You did send someone?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I love missus Schiller?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Well didn't you?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
No, I just got in the building an hour ago.
Your life.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
You're hidden him somewhere. But then what happened to him?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
He was supposed to meet you till tomorrow? He was
kidnapped yes, I'm afraid. So now this man who came
from They won't they wouldn't, dare Why are.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
You going to stop them? Oh? Why couldn't you leave
us alone?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Look, missus Schuler, I know you're upset. Let me take
your home, please, and I promise you we'll get your
husband back.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
You promise me.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I know how you feel, but give us a chance. Anyway.
I'll let me drive you home.
Speaker 11 (10:29):
I'll get to work on it right Awaybody.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Who is it just a moment? No, Christopher, Professor, Oh,
in the bedroom.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
It's all right.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
But of course we spent a very enjoyable evening.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We've got to get him into the Soviet zone immediately.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I thought you said we'd move him wednesday.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I can't wait. American intelligence has ordered the house to help.
That's the matter with him. Nothing, he's covered with blood. Oh,
I can explain that, Christopher. He had a lil accident.
He tripped over that table. It was very dubilla. I
think he's asleep, you stupid plundering fool. He's dead.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
You must be mistaken, Christopher her professor.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
You killed him?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
No, no, I give you my word.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I told you not to touch it.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Shouldn't have done that, Christopher, But I forgive you.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
You forgive me.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
What do you think Moscow will say about this? You
wouldn't report me, wouldn't please Christopher. I know I've been
a terrible disappointment to you, but if you give me
another chance, I may surprise you yet.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
So, like they say in Time magazine, death came for
her professor Schiller at the ripe old age of forty two.
But the first I knew of it was some six
hours later, when I received a call from the West
Berlin Police. It fished a body out of the spree,
and they thought I might be interested. I was, And
I remember the promise I made to Margo Schiller, and
I thought if I couldn't return her husband sound of
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wind and limb, the least I could do to show myself.
I figured to be a mighty poor substitute.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Oh, mister Werry, may I come in? You find him?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Where is he?
Speaker 9 (13:03):
You said?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
The minute you did? You bring him home?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I know.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
He isn't dead, Yes he is.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
I knew it. I knew it had to end this way.
Oh why couldn't you leave us alone? You don't understand
I understand that my husband's dead. Isn't that enough?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
And you feel very responsible?
Speaker 9 (13:23):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
He was a scientist. You had no right to involve
him in cheap politics.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
This isn't cheap politics, Missus Schiller, or fighting people to
whom decency means nothing. Your husband's murder proves that he
was killed by common form agents. Well, I promise you.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
You promised me that you'd bring him back safe and sound.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I know, but he was dead when I said that. Now,
this man who claimed to be my assistant, what name
did he use?
Speaker 5 (13:45):
I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Well, what did he look like?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
I can't remember that either.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I don't think you're trying.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
You're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Don't you want to see your husband's murderer?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Then it will be mister Waring. But I intend to
take care of it myself. And now, if you'll forgive me,
I think I would like to be alone for a while.
Speaker 12 (14:14):
Yes, I would like very much to speak with Framaco Schuler.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
Please, this is she.
Speaker 12 (14:20):
Forgive me for disturbing you at a time like this, frustular,
but I have just read of the unfortunate death of
your husband. Permit me to extend my condolences.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
But who is this?
Speaker 12 (14:31):
You do not know me? But I feel I can
be of some service. Would you be interested in knowing
the man responsible for the hair professor's murder?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
What?
Speaker 12 (14:42):
Please? Do not think me a crank. I'm really well informed.
Your husband was kidnapped by a little man named Maxel Oppenheimer.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
How do you know that?
Speaker 12 (14:53):
Are you convinced I'm not a krank?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (14:56):
Well, the murder was ordered by an American named Vincent
Christopher Christopher. Yes, and from what I've heard of your
affection for your husband, I am sure you will put
this information to excellent use. Good hunting.
Speaker 13 (15:13):
Fauchiller operator operator your order please, I gave my order
twenty minutes ago. This is mister Christopher's sweet fore asked
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you to get me granted deer pour one three. I
wish to speak to Maxil Oppenheimer.
Speaker 12 (15:42):
I'm sorry, mister Christopher, but now what does not answer?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That's impossible? Try it again?
Speaker 12 (15:47):
Shall I bring you back?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
No?
Speaker 6 (15:48):
I'll hang on.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Is that your Gabrielle? Where have you been?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I told you, I told.
Speaker 12 (15:58):
You, Christopher's there's something wrong you.
Speaker 14 (16:01):
Christopher Lomsa shall learn?
Speaker 5 (16:13):
You know this is getting to be ridiculous. Mister ware.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I'm sorry, but it can't be helped. Can you spend
me a couple of minutes.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
What's the point I've already told you everything I know.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Well, maybe this time I can tell you something.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
All right, come in, sit down.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Thank you. Did you ever hear of a man named
Vincent Christopher?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Should I?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I hope not? He was shot to death an hour
ago at the Kiser Wilhelm. In going through his room,
the police found these papers. Would you care to look
at them? Not particularly, but I definitely established a Christopher
with a number one man in the communist apparatus in
West Berlin. So so there's no doubt he was responsible
for your husband's kidnapping, if not his death.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
I see your point. And now with mister Christopher's murder,
I become the most obvious suspect. Yes, but this assumes
that I knew who Christopher was.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Someone might have tipped you off who for example. That's
what I intend to find out.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Well, I wish you luck, but there's one thing that
puzzles me. Just what side do you want? According to you,
Christopher was a communist.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
That doesn't justify as murder. That's one of the differences
between the Reds and ourselves.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
So you intend to find his killer.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yes, I do well.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Far be it for me to keep you from your
self appointed task. Good day, mister Waring. I hope never
to hear from you again.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
Who is it? Who is it?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Hello? Gabrielle, What are you doing here?
Speaker 9 (17:48):
Maxo?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
He just heard about poor Christopher and me. Actually I
came immediately.
Speaker 9 (17:53):
That was very foolish.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
He was my friend. I wouldn't feel right if I
failed to pay my respects to his widow. I'm sure
he would have been happy to do as much for me.
Would you happen to have a cigarette?
Speaker 9 (18:07):
You find some in that container?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Ah, Christopher's favorite brand. He was so fond of them.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
You had better leave, Maxwell. The police were here all afternoon.
Let me return.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
But I have nothing to hide. I wonder if you
can say as much.
Speaker 12 (18:25):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I have a feeling you are not overly fond of
your husband.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
You aren't seen.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Please don't misunderstand me, gabriel I don't blame you in
the least. Vincent was very difficult. I remember one night
at the theater when he struck you for forgetting the tickets.
My heart went out to you. It's true and very
fund of you, gabriel I feel I owe you a
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great deal. You might just as easily have told for Uschilla,
I was responsible for her husband's death. What you're talking
about the idea friend of mine uperates a switchboard in
the hotel here. I'm afraid she was guilty of eve stopping. Yes,
she heard you telephone, far Silla.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
That's all you have to say?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Oh no, I have lots more.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
Well, I'm not interested in hearing it.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I wish you wouldn't take that attitude, Gabriel. We should
be kind to one another. As Christopher's widow, you have
so much and I have so little? Are you attempting
to blackmail me? What isn't as? I wanted a great
deal fifty thousand marks, which suit me. Fine?
Speaker 9 (19:36):
Get out.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I think I'm being very reasonable.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
I said, get.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
You know it's a funny thing. But your husband did
that to me. Then the poor fellow was killed. I
do hope you will have better luck, aveda say and.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Lips Intelligence Major Thornhil speaking.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Would it be possible for me to talk with hair
Michael Wearing?
Speaker 6 (20:19):
I don't see why not? Hey, Mike, Yeah, do you?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Who was it?
Speaker 6 (20:25):
He didn't say.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Hello, Hair Wearing? That's right?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Who's this?
Speaker 15 (20:31):
I don't believe my name would mean anything to you.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Try me, I would ask or not, you wouldn't be
maxel Oppenheimer.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Maxel Oppenheimer, I never heard of a gentleman.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
You don't know what you're missing. I've just been going
through Vincent Christopher's diary, who he thought very highly of
your talents. He liked me, but everybody does. Did you
kill him?
Speaker 15 (20:55):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Not go into Christopher, you didn't. He was mistake all
bet let me Jim, Yeah? And did comrade Maxwell in
the wire trying to run it down? Will do? Yeah?
Speaker 15 (21:06):
I hope you're not being so childish as to attempt
to trace this call.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Oh number once ended my mind.
Speaker 15 (21:11):
There's a call on extent? Right?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
What can I do for your Maxillon?
Speaker 15 (21:15):
But I would like to do something for you?
Speaker 14 (21:18):
Why it's my nature?
Speaker 15 (21:20):
Would you be interested in the name of the party
who informed marco'schiller was that Christopher was responsible for her
husband's day?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Definitely it was Christopher's wife. Ye're crazy? Why should you
do that?
Speaker 15 (21:35):
Can you think of a better way to get rid
of an unwanted.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
You might have a point there.
Speaker 15 (21:39):
If I've been a vendory service, I'm delighted.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Hello Maxell Maxwell, you hang up? Yeah, were able to
run it down? No, that's tough. Well, if anyone else calls,
tell him I've gone over to see Frau Christopher. I
hate to stick my neck out, and I'll lay you
six to five. This is in the bag. Yes, for
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our Christopher.
Speaker 9 (22:13):
That is correct.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Glad to know you. I'm Mike wearing Mike, so I'm
investigating your husband's murder for the American authorities.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
Oh won't you come in?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Thank you?
Speaker 9 (22:24):
Please make yourself comfortable.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I don't mind if I do, and I offer you
what doing well? Being irish, I'll take some jamisons if
you have it, I have it. You feel up to
answering a few questions, of course? Thanks? Were you aware
of her Christopher's political activities?
Speaker 9 (22:45):
Political activities? He was a writer?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Well that was just a blind Actually he was head
man in the communist cell in West Berlin. Seems incredible
you didn't confide much in your didding.
Speaker 16 (22:59):
No, tell me something, Harrying.
Speaker 12 (23:02):
If Vincent was, as you say, a communist, he was,
then it was your enemy.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
Why are you so determined to solve his mood?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I know it sounds ironic, but that's how we do
things in a democracy. Anyway, I've got a picture of
a theory i'd like to try on you for size. Well,
I suppose someone who hated your husband figured Professor Shiller's
death was a heaven sent opportunity.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
I do not see how.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Well all this party would have to do is inform
Margot Schiller that your husband was responsible for her husband's death.
Speaker 9 (23:35):
But who would do such a horrible thing?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
What's your guess, Maxer Oppenheimer.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
It certainly is a small world.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
He thought of him too.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
No, Maxwell thought of you.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
I do not understand.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I am sure you're doing whom You were the one
who tipped off Margot Schiller, but you couldn't depend on
her to do anything about it. So, as the saying goes,
you took matters into your own hands.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
Do you think I kill Vincent?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Well? I didn't think it was that funny, but it is.
Speaker 16 (24:07):
However, I would not tell it to the brilliant police.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Oh why not?
Speaker 16 (24:12):
Well, at four o'clock, con Vincent was shot. I was
at the Chancellory being interviewed by an officer named Hans Gerhart.
I wish to renew my driver's permit, but if you were.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
At the chancellory.
Speaker 16 (24:24):
Obviously I could not be here at a hotel murdering
my husband. Still, it was the most ingenious deery her
wearing drop by again, if you ever think of another.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
So for nine hundred and ninety ninth time, I learned
what it means to fall flat on your face. And
after Gabrielle Christopher pulled a rug from under me, I
picked myself up and took a stroll on unter den Lindenen.
When I didn't find inspiration there, I made for the
nearest phone booth and dialed American Intelligence. Unlike Shakespeare, and
I hope there was something in.
Speaker 12 (25:10):
A name.
Speaker 15 (25:16):
Intelligence, Major Tonail speaking.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Oh, thorny, this is Mike Wearing, Well the devil. Have
you've been out communing with nature?
Speaker 15 (25:23):
Well, hustle back here as fast as you can. We
just picked up Max Lappenheimer.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Wonderful, not so wonderful.
Speaker 15 (25:28):
He refuses to talk.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Maybe he needs lessons. Suppose we confront him with Margo Schillan.
If she identifies him as the man who kidnapped her husband,
that might do the trick. Say it might at that,
and we'll keep your fingers crossed. Sold him I'll make
it as fast as I can.
Speaker 17 (25:54):
Let's see if I understand you, mister Wearing, you think
if I identify this max O Oppenheimer induce him to confess,
it might Well you don't seem too confident.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Well, I was originally, but now I'm beset by doubts.
I can see Maxim admitting to your husband's murder, but
not to Christopher's. Why not for the obvious reason he
didn't do it?
Speaker 5 (26:16):
But then who did?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Well, that's the question of the hour. You know, we
discovered who tipped you off that Christopher was the man
responsible for your husband's kidnapping? Who his wife? Gabrielle?
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Well, that doesn't make sense, sure does.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
She wanted to get rid of him, and she figured
if you knew his name, you'd take care of it
for him.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
But she must be insane.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
No, as a matter of fact, she's pretty clever, because
that's exactly what did happen.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Are you suggested?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yes, I am. Why didn't you let her do her
own dirty work? Margoone? That weight would have been easier
on all of us? All right, Angel, let's go.
Speaker 18 (27:08):
Well, they just called for Paris Express passengers.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Mike, I guess it means me major.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Yeah, I guess it does.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I'll bet you're happy to see me go.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Well.
Speaker 18 (27:20):
I would have been happy if you never stopped buying
the first place. Did you have to nail Margo Schiller
for Christopher's murder?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
It was my job, Tony.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
I couldn't it have been one of the others.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I wish it had been too, but that's life for you.
Maybe once in a while, the only decent actor in
the cast has to be it. Believe me, I'm as
sorry as you are that this was one of them.
So long may Jim.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Welcome back. A good mystery overall, and it keeps with
the falcons general approach of not always giving us the
perpetrator we want, and everyone would have rather another perpetrator,
but sometimes the solution is what it is, and Wearing
gave it his best effort to get around who was
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the obvious suspect, although it would be nice if, at
some point if he learned not to accuse people before
finding out if they had an alibi. I did like
the actor who played Oppenheimer, very evocative of Peter Lourie,
particularly in one of those more creepy and slazy sort
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of roles, and if you recognize the voice of the
actors who played the wife, it was Leslie Woods, who
we just heard as Anne Williams on Casey Crime Photographer.
All right, well, now it is time to think our
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The Falcon, but join us back here tomorrow for Charlie chan.
Speaker 19 (29:29):
Where and in and Us sings willingness, almost eagerness to
claim forty five as his, then his almost immediate denials.
Speaker 20 (29:42):
That's the part I don't get at all. Why should
he claim it in the first place because he thought
it was his? I don't think so, not after the
way he has consistently denied all the other things we
charged him with.
Speaker 19 (29:54):
When one hunts the fox, it is well to attempt
to think as the fox. Thin Let us placed ourselves
in situations in which ar Singh found himself. When he
saw forty five lying on top of death.
Speaker 20 (30:09):
Well, he first thought would be, well he found the gun,
and his next thought would be to deny that it
was his gun, not to admit it.
Speaker 19 (30:18):
However, that is what Ar Singh did not do. What
then was his reason? Suppose for a moment, if you please,
that I Singh did not kill Landini, then recognition of
said gun as his would in his eyes in no
way incriminating, as he would be aware of fact that
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his gun had not been used, at least to commit murder.
Speaker 14 (30:44):
Am.
Speaker 20 (30:44):
And he might for a moment think that it had
been discovered that his gun had been used to fire
the misleading shot after Landini's death. But that's impossible, Dad.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
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nineteen fifty two, here is the case of the Careless Corpse.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Hello. Yes, this is the Falcon speaking, Oh Virginia. I'm
glad you called. Now you have to cancel me out tonight,
Angel I mean intelligence is flying me to Berlin. Yeah.
It seems some boy there set up a murder that
is pretty as a picture and they figure out look
good in the frame.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
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 Paul consolves the case of the careless corpse.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
There's one nice thing you can say about working for
Army intelligence. You certainly get around. How else would a
guy like me get to see such wonderful places like Berlin?
I meet such interesting people like Maxel Oppenheimer. And just
in case you're curious, Maxel is a cute looking character
and a tight fitting green suit and the gray gloves,
surveying the crowd at the Europa, a sidewalk cafe near
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the Willem Strausser. So look at him. You think he
didn't have a care in the world, and you'd be right. Maxell.
Lets the next man do the worrying by her.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Christopher, imagine finding you here.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Lt. Maxwell.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
He could not help myself. I received your message at
five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
No none, Schnoebel told me. I spoke to you at noon.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I never can hide things from you, can I? Christopher?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
So term Mack Schnoebel tell you about your assernant.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
He started to bed to get my instructions first hand.
This way, there's no chance have a misunderstanding.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
An American intelligence officer named Michael Waring arrives from Madrid
this evening. He has an appointment tomorrow morning with Professor
Heinrich Schiller's the expert on rockiness. Yes, would be in
the best interests of the Communist Party. Of that appointment
I never kept.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I think it can be arranged. Where does the hair
Pafessa live at fourteen le pol Strausser with his wife
Margot Margot, She's an American. What an amazing coincidence here,
Professor Schiller at Chairman is married to an American, and you,
an American, are married to a Cherman.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I suppose we leave my personal life out of this. Yes,
of course you are to introduce yourself to Schiller as
an agent of American intelligence. You find all the necessary
credentials in this smalloty tell him Wearing sent you around
to pick him up.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
We have would you like to have him delivered to.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
The bakery and life's extress. I'll try to make arrangements
to smuggle them into East Villin on Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I'll be only too happy to look after him till then.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I don't want to hurt Maxo.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Why Christopher had never once entered my mind?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I mean it, Professor Schiller can be very useful to
the party.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I wouldn't touch a hair on his head unless, of course,
it was absolutely necessary.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I'm warning you, MAXI.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I only meant I would resort to violence purely as
an asked resort you and I'm always ready to sacrifice
my desires for the party. I hope the hair professor
will be as cooperative. Yes, excuse me, but I would
(04:52):
like very much to see her professor Haina Schilla.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Of course, I'm fraill. Won't you come in?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Don't get You're very kind?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Whom shall I say? Is calling?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Per meet me?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Maxel Oppenheimer, United States Army Intelligence? What do you want
with my husband?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Naturally? We are very interested in his experiments with archids?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Naturally, But when he was in a concentration camp, who
cared you.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Say that with a great deal of bitterness?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Why can't you leave us alone? Everybody wants to use him.
There's the Nazis, now you people and the communists. Hasn't
he suffered enough? And don't you stop bothering him?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I'm sure the hair professor does not feel this way.
If I could have a word with.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Him, he is not home.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
It's very strange. I spoke to Manza tailor.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
For not more than yes?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Is there someone to see me now? My hair professor?
Shall I believe?
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I'm Axel Oppenheimer. Your lovely wife told me you were out.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Why, Margot, Because they're all the same, they're all trying
to use you. I just want to pick your brains.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
And oh, please live and what will all get?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I don't care what he thinks.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
I must apologize for my wife, Hair Oppenheimer. But ever
since I was released from dakh how she's most concerned
for me.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
It's very understandable. Real hair wearing is waiting for us.
Shall we go?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
No, no, I won't let you. You're going to stay
out of this, Heimrich. This is none of your concerned.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Now lips, you are upsetting yourself.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
I want you if you go with him, don't expect
to find me here when you come back.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You are talking like a child.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
I mean you'll never see me again, never.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
All right, Hair Oppenheimer, If you are ready by your means, oh.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
I believe this is the one. Yes, if you'll wait
till I turn angelides, Ah, there we are, it'd be
so good as to enter. Thank you. I know it
isn't much, but please try to make yourself comfortable.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
I find this very strange, Hair Oppenheimer, you don't like
my room, Professor, Well, it is hardly what I expected.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
You mean the baker in front. Yes, we think it's
very dramatic. Who would ever suspect such a politarian establishment?
Speaker 8 (07:36):
But where is hair wearing? Are the gentleman I was
supposed to me? Oh, yes, he'll be here in a
few minutes. In the meantime, perhaps a little schnaps.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
No, thank you, Hair Oppenheimer.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
My friends call me Max. May I see your credit
and roots? Isn't this rather late? May I see them?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Please?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I suppose they do not meet with your approval. That
would complicate matters. If hair wedding arrives, you just tell
Professor you are not thinking of leaving. Yes, if I've
offended you in any way.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
Will you'll be good enough to open this door?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I wish you didn't feel like this, because you leave
me no choice.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Put away that gun.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
Doesn't it frighten you? No, not even a little bit.
Are you going to open this door? You're no Professor.
I admire a man of spirit. They offer a challenge.
I can never resist.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Never. How do you feel, Professor, Oh, I'm so sorry.
I guess it proves there must be something to feminine intuition.
I remember your wife said if you left with me,
you'd never see you again. She was absolutely right.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Hello, I'm looking for Mike Wearing.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Well, you picked the best possible place.
Speaker 11 (09:20):
Come in.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Thank you? Is he angry with me?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
He's who angry with you?
Speaker 5 (09:25):
My husband? He should have known. I never meant what
I said.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Uh, your mind. If we take this from the top
of the page, I'm a little confused.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Oh, I'm sorry. I should have introduced myself. I'm Margot Schiller.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Margot, wait a minute, and not Professor Heinrich Schiller's wife.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Yes, well what do you know?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So down?
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I knew he was married, but I assumed it was
to a German.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Didn't you, assistant?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Tell you, my assistant, the.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Little man you sent to pick up Heinrich, the one
in the green suit?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
When was this?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
You did send someone?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I love missus Schiller?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Well didn't you?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
No, I just got in the building an hour ago.
Your life.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
You're hidden him somewhere. But then what happened to him?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
He was supposed to meet you till tomorrow? He was
kidnapped yes, I'm afraid. So now this man who came
from They won't they wouldn't, dare Why are.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
You going to stop them? Oh? Why couldn't you leave
us alone?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Look, missus Schuler, I know you're upset. Let me take
your home, please, and I promise you we'll get your
husband back.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
You promise me.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I know how you feel, but give us a chance. Anyway.
I'll let me drive you home.
Speaker 11 (10:29):
I'll get to work on it right Awaybody.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Who is it just a moment? No, Christopher, Professor, Oh,
in the bedroom.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
It's all right.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
But of course we spent a very enjoyable evening.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
We've got to get him into the Soviet zone immediately.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I thought you said we'd move him wednesday.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I can't wait. American intelligence has ordered the house to help.
That's the matter with him. Nothing, he's covered with blood. Oh,
I can explain that, Christopher. He had a lil accident.
He tripped over that table. It was very dubilla. I
think he's asleep, you stupid plundering fool. He's dead.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
You must be mistaken, Christopher her professor.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
You killed him?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
No, no, I give you my word.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I told you not to touch it.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Shouldn't have done that, Christopher, But I forgive you.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
You forgive me.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
What do you think Moscow will say about this? You
wouldn't report me, wouldn't please Christopher. I know I've been
a terrible disappointment to you, but if you give me
another chance, I may surprise you yet.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
So, like they say in Time magazine, death came for
her professor Schiller at the ripe old age of forty two.
But the first I knew of it was some six
hours later, when I received a call from the West
Berlin Police. It fished a body out of the spree,
and they thought I might be interested. I was, And
I remember the promise I made to Margo Schiller, and
I thought if I couldn't return her husband sound of
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wind and limb, the least I could do to show myself.
I figured to be a mighty poor substitute.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Oh, mister Werry, may I come in? You find him?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Where is he?
Speaker 9 (13:03):
You said?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
The minute you did? You bring him home?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I know.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
He isn't dead, Yes he is.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
I knew it. I knew it had to end this way.
Oh why couldn't you leave us alone? You don't understand
I understand that my husband's dead. Isn't that enough?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
And you feel very responsible?
Speaker 9 (13:23):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
He was a scientist. You had no right to involve
him in cheap politics.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
This isn't cheap politics, Missus Schiller, or fighting people to
whom decency means nothing. Your husband's murder proves that he
was killed by common form agents. Well, I promise you.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
You promised me that you'd bring him back safe and sound.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I know, but he was dead when I said that. Now,
this man who claimed to be my assistant, what name
did he use?
Speaker 5 (13:45):
I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Well, what did he look like?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
I can't remember that either.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I don't think you're trying.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
You're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Don't you want to see your husband's murderer?
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Then it will be mister Waring. But I intend to
take care of it myself. And now, if you'll forgive me,
I think I would like to be alone for a while.
Speaker 12 (14:14):
Yes, I would like very much to speak with Framaco Schuler.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
Please, this is she.
Speaker 12 (14:20):
Forgive me for disturbing you at a time like this, frustular,
but I have just read of the unfortunate death of
your husband. Permit me to extend my condolences.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
But who is this?
Speaker 12 (14:31):
You do not know me? But I feel I can
be of some service. Would you be interested in knowing
the man responsible for the hair professor's murder?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
What?
Speaker 12 (14:42):
Please? Do not think me a crank. I'm really well informed.
Your husband was kidnapped by a little man named Maxel Oppenheimer.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
How do you know that?
Speaker 12 (14:53):
Are you convinced I'm not a krank?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Yes?
Speaker 12 (14:56):
Well, the murder was ordered by an American named Vincent
Christopher Christopher. Yes, and from what I've heard of your
affection for your husband, I am sure you will put
this information to excellent use. Good hunting.
Speaker 13 (15:13):
Fauchiller operator operator your order please, I gave my order
twenty minutes ago. This is mister Christopher's sweet fore asked
(15:37):
you to get me granted deer pour one three. I
wish to speak to Maxil Oppenheimer.
Speaker 12 (15:42):
I'm sorry, mister Christopher, but now what does not answer?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That's impossible? Try it again?
Speaker 12 (15:47):
Shall I bring you back?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
No?
Speaker 6 (15:48):
I'll hang on.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Is that your Gabrielle? Where have you been?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I told you, I told.
Speaker 12 (15:58):
You, Christopher's there's something wrong you.
Speaker 14 (16:01):
Christopher Lomsa shall learn?
Speaker 5 (16:13):
You know this is getting to be ridiculous. Mister ware.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I'm sorry, but it can't be helped. Can you spend
me a couple of minutes.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
What's the point I've already told you everything I know.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Well, maybe this time I can tell you something.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
All right, come in, sit down.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Thank you. Did you ever hear of a man named
Vincent Christopher?
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Should I?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I hope not? He was shot to death an hour
ago at the Kiser Wilhelm. In going through his room,
the police found these papers. Would you care to look
at them? Not particularly, but I definitely established a Christopher
with a number one man in the communist apparatus in
West Berlin. So so there's no doubt he was responsible
for your husband's kidnapping, if not his death.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
I see your point. And now with mister Christopher's murder,
I become the most obvious suspect. Yes, but this assumes
that I knew who Christopher was.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Someone might have tipped you off who for example. That's
what I intend to find out.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Well, I wish you luck, but there's one thing that
puzzles me. Just what side do you want? According to you,
Christopher was a communist.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
That doesn't justify as murder. That's one of the differences
between the Reds and ourselves.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
So you intend to find his killer.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yes, I do well.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Far be it for me to keep you from your
self appointed task. Good day, mister Waring. I hope never
to hear from you again.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
Who is it? Who is it?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Hello? Gabrielle, What are you doing here?
Speaker 9 (17:48):
Maxo?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
He just heard about poor Christopher and me. Actually I
came immediately.
Speaker 9 (17:53):
That was very foolish.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
He was my friend. I wouldn't feel right if I
failed to pay my respects to his widow. I'm sure
he would have been happy to do as much for me.
Would you happen to have a cigarette?
Speaker 9 (18:07):
You find some in that container?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Ah, Christopher's favorite brand. He was so fond of them.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
You had better leave, Maxwell. The police were here all afternoon.
Let me return.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
But I have nothing to hide. I wonder if you
can say as much.
Speaker 12 (18:25):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I have a feeling you are not overly fond of
your husband.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
You aren't seen.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Please don't misunderstand me, gabriel I don't blame you in
the least. Vincent was very difficult. I remember one night
at the theater when he struck you for forgetting the tickets.
My heart went out to you. It's true and very
fund of you, gabriel I feel I owe you a
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great deal. You might just as easily have told for Uschilla,
I was responsible for her husband's death. What you're talking
about the idea friend of mine uperates a switchboard in
the hotel here. I'm afraid she was guilty of eve stopping. Yes,
she heard you telephone, far Silla.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
That's all you have to say?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Oh no, I have lots more.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
Well, I'm not interested in hearing it.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I wish you wouldn't take that attitude, Gabriel. We should
be kind to one another. As Christopher's widow, you have
so much and I have so little? Are you attempting
to blackmail me? What isn't as? I wanted a great
deal fifty thousand marks, which suit me. Fine?
Speaker 9 (19:36):
Get out.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
I think I'm being very reasonable.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
I said, get.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
You know it's a funny thing. But your husband did
that to me. Then the poor fellow was killed. I
do hope you will have better luck, aveda say and.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Lips Intelligence Major Thornhil speaking.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Would it be possible for me to talk with hair
Michael Wearing?
Speaker 6 (20:19):
I don't see why not? Hey, Mike, Yeah, do you?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Who was it?
Speaker 6 (20:25):
He didn't say.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Hello, Hair Wearing? That's right?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Who's this?
Speaker 15 (20:31):
I don't believe my name would mean anything to you.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Try me, I would ask or not, you wouldn't be
maxel Oppenheimer.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Maxel Oppenheimer, I never heard of a gentleman.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
You don't know what you're missing. I've just been going
through Vincent Christopher's diary, who he thought very highly of
your talents. He liked me, but everybody does. Did you
kill him?
Speaker 15 (20:55):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Not go into Christopher, you didn't. He was mistake all
bet let me Jim, Yeah? And did comrade Maxwell in
the wire trying to run it down? Will do? Yeah?
Speaker 15 (21:06):
I hope you're not being so childish as to attempt
to trace this call.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Oh number once ended my mind.
Speaker 15 (21:11):
There's a call on extent? Right?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
What can I do for your Maxillon?
Speaker 15 (21:15):
But I would like to do something for you?
Speaker 14 (21:18):
Why it's my nature?
Speaker 15 (21:20):
Would you be interested in the name of the party
who informed marco'schiller was that Christopher was responsible for her
husband's day?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Definitely it was Christopher's wife. Ye're crazy? Why should you
do that?
Speaker 15 (21:35):
Can you think of a better way to get rid
of an unwanted.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
You might have a point there.
Speaker 15 (21:39):
If I've been a vendory service, I'm delighted.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Hello Maxell Maxwell, you hang up? Yeah, were able to
run it down? No, that's tough. Well, if anyone else calls,
tell him I've gone over to see Frau Christopher. I
hate to stick my neck out, and I'll lay you
six to five. This is in the bag. Yes, for
(22:12):
our Christopher.
Speaker 9 (22:13):
That is correct.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Glad to know you. I'm Mike wearing Mike, so I'm
investigating your husband's murder for the American authorities.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
Oh won't you come in?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Thank you?
Speaker 9 (22:24):
Please make yourself comfortable.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I don't mind if I do, and I offer you
what doing well? Being irish, I'll take some jamisons if
you have it, I have it. You feel up to
answering a few questions, of course? Thanks? Were you aware
of her Christopher's political activities?
Speaker 9 (22:45):
Political activities? He was a writer?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Well that was just a blind Actually he was head
man in the communist cell in West Berlin. Seems incredible
you didn't confide much in your didding.
Speaker 16 (22:59):
No, tell me something, Harrying.
Speaker 12 (23:02):
If Vincent was, as you say, a communist, he was,
then it was your enemy.
Speaker 9 (23:09):
Why are you so determined to solve his mood?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I know it sounds ironic, but that's how we do
things in a democracy. Anyway, I've got a picture of
a theory i'd like to try on you for size. Well,
I suppose someone who hated your husband figured Professor Shiller's
death was a heaven sent opportunity.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
I do not see how.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Well all this party would have to do is inform
Margot Schiller that your husband was responsible for her husband's death.
Speaker 9 (23:35):
But who would do such a horrible thing?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
What's your guess, Maxer Oppenheimer.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
It certainly is a small world.
Speaker 9 (23:45):
He thought of him too.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
No, Maxwell thought of you.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
I do not understand.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I am sure you're doing whom You were the one
who tipped off Margot Schiller, but you couldn't depend on
her to do anything about it. So, as the saying goes,
you took matters into your own hands.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
Do you think I kill Vincent?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Well? I didn't think it was that funny, but it is.
Speaker 16 (24:07):
However, I would not tell it to the brilliant police.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Oh why not?
Speaker 16 (24:12):
Well, at four o'clock, con Vincent was shot. I was
at the Chancellory being interviewed by an officer named Hans Gerhart.
I wish to renew my driver's permit, but if you were.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
At the chancellory.
Speaker 16 (24:24):
Obviously I could not be here at a hotel murdering
my husband. Still, it was the most ingenious deery her
wearing drop by again, if you ever think of another.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
So for nine hundred and ninety ninth time, I learned
what it means to fall flat on your face. And
after Gabrielle Christopher pulled a rug from under me, I
picked myself up and took a stroll on unter den Lindenen.
When I didn't find inspiration there, I made for the
nearest phone booth and dialed American Intelligence. Unlike Shakespeare, and
I hope there was something in.
Speaker 12 (25:10):
A name.
Speaker 15 (25:16):
Intelligence, Major Tonail speaking.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Oh, thorny, this is Mike Wearing, Well the devil. Have
you've been out communing with nature?
Speaker 15 (25:23):
Well, hustle back here as fast as you can. We
just picked up Max Lappenheimer.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Wonderful, not so wonderful.
Speaker 15 (25:28):
He refuses to talk.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Maybe he needs lessons. Suppose we confront him with Margo Schillan.
If she identifies him as the man who kidnapped her husband,
that might do the trick. Say it might at that,
and we'll keep your fingers crossed. Sold him I'll make
it as fast as I can.
Speaker 17 (25:54):
Let's see if I understand you, mister Wearing, you think
if I identify this max O Oppenheimer induce him to confess,
it might Well you don't seem too confident.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Well, I was originally, but now I'm beset by doubts.
I can see Maxim admitting to your husband's murder, but
not to Christopher's. Why not for the obvious reason he
didn't do it?
Speaker 5 (26:16):
But then who did?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Well, that's the question of the hour. You know, we
discovered who tipped you off that Christopher was the man
responsible for your husband's kidnapping? Who his wife? Gabrielle?
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Well, that doesn't make sense, sure does.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
She wanted to get rid of him, and she figured
if you knew his name, you'd take care of it
for him.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
But she must be insane.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
No, as a matter of fact, she's pretty clever, because
that's exactly what did happen.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Are you suggested?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yes, I am. Why didn't you let her do her
own dirty work? Margoone? That weight would have been easier
on all of us? All right, Angel, let's go.
Speaker 18 (27:08):
Well, they just called for Paris Express passengers.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Mike, I guess it means me major.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Yeah, I guess it does.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I'll bet you're happy to see me go.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Well.
Speaker 18 (27:20):
I would have been happy if you never stopped buying
the first place. Did you have to nail Margo Schiller
for Christopher's murder?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
It was my job, Tony.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
I couldn't it have been one of the others.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I wish it had been too, but that's life for you.
Maybe once in a while, the only decent actor in
the cast has to be it. Believe me, I'm as
sorry as you are that this was one of them.
So long may Jim.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Welcome back. A good mystery overall, and it keeps with
the falcons general approach of not always giving us the
perpetrator we want, and everyone would have rather another perpetrator,
but sometimes the solution is what it is, and Wearing
gave it his best effort to get around who was
(28:24):
the obvious suspect, although it would be nice if, at
some point if he learned not to accuse people before
finding out if they had an alibi. I did like
the actor who played Oppenheimer, very evocative of Peter Lourie,
particularly in one of those more creepy and slazy sort
(28:45):
of roles, and if you recognize the voice of the
actors who played the wife, it was Leslie Woods, who
we just heard as Anne Williams on Casey Crime Photographer.
All right, well, now it is time to think our
Patreon support of the I want to thank Christine, Patreon
supporter since November twenty eighteen, currently supporting the podcast at
(29:06):
the shawmut level of four dollars or more per month.
Thanks so much for your support, Christine, And that will
do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please
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We will be back next Monday with another episode of
The Falcon, but join us back here tomorrow for Charlie chan.
Speaker 19 (29:29):
Where and in and Us sings willingness, almost eagerness to
claim forty five as his, then his almost immediate denials.
Speaker 20 (29:42):
That's the part I don't get at all. Why should
he claim it in the first place because he thought
it was his? I don't think so, not after the
way he has consistently denied all the other things we
charged him with.
Speaker 19 (29:54):
When one hunts the fox, it is well to attempt
to think as the fox. Thin Let us placed ourselves
in situations in which ar Singh found himself. When he
saw forty five lying on top of death.
Speaker 20 (30:09):
Well, he first thought would be, well he found the gun,
and his next thought would be to deny that it
was his gun, not to admit it.
Speaker 19 (30:18):
However, that is what Ar Singh did not do. What
then was his reason? Suppose for a moment, if you please,
that I Singh did not kill Landini, then recognition of
said gun as his would in his eyes in no
way incriminating, as he would be aware of fact that
(30:40):
his gun had not been used, at least to commit murder.
Speaker 14 (30:44):
Am.
Speaker 20 (30:44):
And he might for a moment think that it had
been discovered that his gun had been used to fire
the misleading shot after Landini's death. But that's impossible, Dad.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.
Send your comments to Box fourteen at the Wordetectives dot net,
follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us
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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.
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